Lijiang 9 June

DSCN6437 Early morning at N&A's apartment DSCN6439 Packing for the mid-day departure to Lijiang DSCN6441 Nikki and her morning coffee DSCN6442 Looking happy!
DSCN6443 Getting ready to face the day DSCN6444 Chillin' in the a/c DSCN6445 Soon we start "swimming" to the airport DSCN6446 The Chinese kitchen
20160609 105201 Lunch at the airport noodle shop 20160609 105751 Austin explaining his paper-based organizational system 20160609 151509 During our stop-over in Kunming, lots of flights for giant cities you have never heard of 20160609 152117 A very strange citrus-like fruit in the airport
20160609 174906 Entering the Old Town at Lijiang requires paying a fee 20160609 174911 First glimpses of the architecture 20160609 174920 Trundling our goods toward the B&B 20160609 175012 Our guide from the taxi stand to our acccommodations
20160609 175024 Nicely paved streets 20160609 175143 and evocative entrances 20160609 175148 Crossing one of the canals 20160609 175223 Streamside
20160609 175226 Onward past lacquered building fronts 20160609 175342 past bridges 20160609 175346 alongside the canal 20160609 175440 from one bridge to the next
20160609 175652 until we arrive at the B&B 20160609 175658 Bougainvillea inside the door DSCN6447 Our room I DSCN6448 Our room II
DSCN6449 Our room III DSCN6450 Our room IV DSCN6451 Front door to our room DSCN6452 Roof detail
DSCN6453 Roof detail II DSCN6454 Roof detail III DSCN6455 Christine in the sitting space off the canal DSCN6456 along with Nikki
DSCN6458 and one of the several four-footed friends who lived there with us DSCN6459 Don't fall in the water! DSCN6461 Lovely bush across the canal IMG 20160609 194617 1 We start off by eating something...
IMG 20160609 194620 DSCN6463 Artisanal paper and book store DSCN6464 Food courts DSCN6465 The presentation is attractive
DSCN6466 lots of people hawking their specialities DSCN6467 Very interesting to look at... DSCN6468 even if their nature is not always clear! DSCN6469 We were told to avoid eating here at the "cleanliness" was suspect
DSCN6471 local (Naxi?) weaver DSCN6472 turning out lovely shawls DSCN6473 pastel pops ("cleanliness"?) DSCN6475 Baubbles
DSCN6476 Glittering as we walked by DSCN6478 Evening descends on the World Commercial Heritage City DSCN6484 Still the intrepid tourists push forward DSCN6479 Lots of tourists, all Chinese
DSCN6481 All the souvenirs you could ever want! DSCN6487 We climb a ridge above the Old Town... DSCN6492 and imagine how it was hundreds of years ago DSCN6493 A noisy table in what was otherwise a good restaurant! We commandeered a table upstairs away from the kitchen
DSCN6494 After dinner browsing DSCN6495 Bells, anyone?