Comments on: The Prettiest Town We’ve Ever Visited https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/ Postcards from the Edge Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:08:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/#comment-158820 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:08:48 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5544#comment-158820 In reply to Arianne.

I’d love to make it back to Yunnan – and do hope to before it all changes. The Chinese minority picture is always complicated – I love the way that you’ll get Han Chinese dressing up as minorities, for example – but I didn’t realise southern Yunnan was actually unstable..

]]> By: Arianne https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/#comment-158713 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 06:13:06 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5544#comment-158713 I used to live in Heqing (50 km south of Lijiang, on the road to Dali) while working for Teach for China. Lijiang can beautiful – all our Chinese friends back in Beijing were jealous that we got to live in ‘paradise’. But even back in 2010-2011 there was an ugly underside of town – plenty of poverty at the edges, preying on tourists for money, and a decent amount of inter-ethnic discontent (between the native populations of the Lijiang region, the incoming Chinese businessmen, and the Bai locals coming up from Dali to establish small restaurants and shops). If you do ever make it back to Yunnan, the entire stretch from Lijiang to Dali is equally beautiful and serene (through rapidly changing), and southern Yunnan (Simiao, Gengma, Cangyuan) is stunning, if not always so stable.

]]> By: Nuria https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/#comment-157982 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 22:07:33 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5544#comment-157982 anybody knows by any chance the song and artist that plays everywhere you go in Lijiang old town ? I would really like to find it…

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/#comment-15076 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:18:38 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5544#comment-15076 In reply to Nancie.

I think we’re back there in December. Had a Chinese lesson this morning which was slightly alarming as a) I remember more characters than I did but b) my conversational Chinese has fallen down the pan…

]]> By: Nancie https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/#comment-15075 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:07:56 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5544#comment-15075 Stunning! This makes me almost want to go back to China…almost 🙂

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/#comment-15074 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:26:25 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5544#comment-15074 In reply to Waegook Tom.

Conveniently, we’re in Turkey! I’ll have to make steps for Malatya. The Old Town of Byblos in Lebanon (and the ruins there) would certainly make my list now: I’ve visited Harrogate, but only in passing, and never been to Gdansk, so far as I know. I just think of it as being home to Solidarity, which shows my age…

]]> By: Waegook Tom https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/#comment-15073 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:59:28 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5544#comment-15073 Loving these photos! Never heard of Lijiang before and had no idea that this kind of place existed in China. Gorgeous.

The prettiest place I’ve visited would have to be either Malatya in Turkey, Gdansk in Poland, or my hometown of Harrogate in the UK. Love them all 🙂

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/#comment-15072 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:41:21 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5544#comment-15072 In reply to tyrhone.

Thanks, Tyrone. I’m glad you enjoyed it, chocolate boxification notwithstanding. And we loved Tiger Leaping Gorge as well…

]]> By: tyrhone https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/#comment-15071 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 06:14:08 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5544#comment-15071 Hi,

I was in Lijiang about a week ago, and agree with your assessment. It has indeed been disneyfied. But although most of the buildings are selling tat, the externals have been maintained, and the cobblestone streets keep it feeling somewhat real, it is the closest I have found so far to old world China (aside from a small town in the valley we passed on our way out, wrote a post about it if your keen to read).

And of course Tiger Leaping Gorge is on the doorstep!

Your photos are great by the way, really captured the place.

]]> By: Vedette https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/19/the-prettiest-town-weve-ever-visited/#comment-15070 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:40:48 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5544#comment-15070 This would be in my to visit list for sure.

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