Lugu Lake I spent 3 days at Lugu Lake which is a couple of hundred kilometres north of Lijiang. Look for the purple lines north of Lijiang, in the north. The green line from Lijiang shows my current position, Dali. When we reached Lake Lugu from Lijiang the minibus driver stopped at the lakeside […]
There were numerous critters in Lijiang and surrounding areas. The ones here are only the more unusual or one representative from a group or location. Domestic I’ve never seen a dog sit like that before. The girls all put their heads down when I appeared with my camera. They were all sitting outside a cafe. This one […]
Lijiang After an hour’s delay at Jinghong airport I arrived in Lijang after midnight with the requirement that I call the hostel if I was to arrive after 1am. I then discovered that my Chinese SIM card had run out of credit. I have no independent capacity of knowing its status & I’d thought it was […]
To Market to Market Part 2 STREET MARKET IN MENGHAI Note monk on bike & other bike with bamboo panniers. Note the different dress and the baby carrier. There are several different styles in use in Yunnan. Cutting dough into noodles using a bike seat as a table. Frying dough into one of the many […]
To Market to Market … Part 1 I didn’t find the fat pigs for sale, but I did eventually see one small one being carried off in a cane basket. Unfortunately it happened too fast for me to record it. I visited about half a dozen markets in Jinghong and the surrounding villages. All were […]