NickRennic

Yunnan

Posted by NickRennic | 7th December 2008

After two weeks of “off-the-beaten-track” travel on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, I was ready to rejoin the tourist track once more. I wanted western food. I wanted beer. I wanted coffee. I wanted to speak English wherever I went. And most of all, I wanted to lay around all day without a care in the world…Yunnan province, China’s tourist Mecca, seemed the perfect place.

I never saw any of the tourist sights in Lijiang, my first stop in Yunnan, except for one, the famous “old town”. Then again, it was kind of hard not to visit that one, as almost every youth hostel and guesthouse in town was located inside it. Originally built more than 600 years ago, the old town stretches for kilometers in every direction, a twisting maze of cobbled streets, goldfish-filled cannels crossed by quaint little bridges, and more tea shops than one could possible desire. It is indeed a beautiful setting for my daily migration from the hotel room to the convenience store, and despite my intention not to see

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