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The Friday Photo: Autumn Wildflowers in Tiger Leaping Gorge
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 28 October 2011
Trekking the world’s deepest gorge in mid-October, pushing two miles above sea level, you don’t expect to see wildflowers. But in Tiger Leaping Gorge, in northern Yunnan, China, not far...
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Oh James! I’m Sorry About the Jade!
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 26 October 2011
James is bookish, bespectacled, educated in Kunming and Chiang Mai, a walking encyclopedia of Chinese history and culture. He’s thirty, with a three-year-old son, yet old enough to remember the...
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The Friday Photo: Black Dragon Pool
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 21 October 2011
This is Black Dragon Pool, one of the most tranquil places in beautiful Lijiang, China. It was built as a pleasure garden for the feudal ruler’s wives and on clear...
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The Prettiest Town We’ve Ever Visited
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 19 October 2011
Ever heard of Lijiang? It’s an old town in northern Yunnan, in what was once the Dali Kingdom, the fought-over hinterland between China and Tibet. Curved eave buildings topple up...
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Dr. Ho
Blog: Hello, Pineapple? - 22 July 2010
Dr. Ho is one of the most popular and publicized characters in South West China. He lives in the traditional Naxi town of Bai-sha. From our home base in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, we decided to take a day trip to visit the famous Taoist physician in the hopes of receiving some natural remedies for EZ's knee ailments. Usually to get to Bai-sha the thing to do is depart by bike from Lijiang and cycle through the majestic country side.
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Doubling Back
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 16 April 2010
16th Oct As unfashionable as it is in this age of social networks, where every job application requires buzzwords like outgoing, fun, teamplayer, an era where introspection is held in suspicion, as the mark of a flawed person or worse a perversion, I must admit it that its rare that Ive ever travel with somebody [...]
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Wanderings in the realm of the hungry ghost
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 17 March 2010
Cooing softly from the darken alleyway, Lijiang the beautiful, the seductive, soft and yielding, the painted lady of Yunnan. Lijiang the chinese fairytale, a sinophillic fantasy, Lijiang the city-ornament of the east, Lijiang pretty, beguiling, hollow and empty, the whispered promise of a whores voice. I spend the day wandering the old town, its incredibly [...]
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The sheer unbridled joy of aimless travel
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 8 March 2010
10th Oct I start the day in a very good mood, back on the road and on to adventures anew. Today I decide to take a bus to the western Yunnan city of Lijiang just for the hell of it. I dont know much about it other than its enroute to the famous and feared [...]
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Yunnan folk
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 25 June 2009
Lijiang rooftops at dusk Our last week or so has been spent in China’s Yunnan province, a place consisting of mountains, villages and numerous Chinese ethnic minority groups. We made Lijiang, with its cobbled streets, fresh water streams, red lanterns and hordes of local tourists our base for exploring the more remote parts of the [...]
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Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan, China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 18 June 2009
Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan, China – Images by Jamie McDonald Chengdu Airport, Sichuan Province. Departing rather than arriving, which means I’ve had about a week off from the blog, which in turn means I’ve got rather a bit to catch up on! We left Shangri-La under the guidance of one of Daisy’s (from Sean’s Cafe) friends who had a hostel in Haba village, under the snow capped Haba Snow Mountain. Our journey was quoted to be three hours, but after stopping for every person with a thumb out on the way (and ...
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Lijiang to Shangri-La, Yunnan, China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 8 June 2009
To arrive in Shangri-La we very willingly left Lijiang at 1pm on a bus from the central bus station in the city. Despite the cost being 37 Yuan our smiling western faces could do nothing to obtain the 3 Yuan change from the 40 that we handed over. Alas, 4.5 hours in a bus for AUD$7.30 was nothing to complain about considering the 20 minute tram from Glenelg to Adelaide is $4.50. Nervously handing our packs to the driver to strap them onto the roof I then quickly rushed (Chinese Style) ...
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Lijiang, Yunnan, China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 5 June 2009
Dali was a great town. Given that the author of the old Lonely Planet that we refer to suggests that Lijiang is the must see tourist mecca, and is a better experience than Dali we were obviously keen to make it up to the road to see our new home for the next few days. Lijiang isn’t much chop. The beauty of this old town with its canals, stone bridges and cobble stones is apparent immediately, and the small shops selling ponchos, scarves, stone combs, and bars on the river give ...
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A visit with the Famous Doctor Ho
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 14 February 2009
It was a surreal 30 minutes, that was for sure. Some background on my interview with "The Famous Doctor Ho" of Yunnan may be necessary. In brief: Dr. Ho is a famous Chinese herbalist and physician. His fame is not unlike a perpetually-rolling snowball inside of which lies a frozen dwarf clad in bondage gear. Who put that dwarf in there? Why is he wearing bondage gear? And who started the ball rolling anyway? Who knows?
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