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?