I am now seeing if I can successfully post from an email: there are technical difficulties preventing me from offering the usual 'high-quality' service.
Yesterday I arrived in Lijiang. If I say this place is nice, then you could reasonable describe the sun as 'warm'. There are streams running everywhere throughout the old city, there is traditional dancing every night (in which even I joined), the friendliness of everyone is hard to match and then whole place is so damn lovely that you just don't want to leave. And the weather is sublime.
To get from Dali here, I went via a traditional Bai village and had a look round. So that's temples, mountains, tradition, weather and people all in favour of Dali. I can't remember what I've already told you, but it is indeed great.
And then Lijiang. People described it as just plain better than Dali. At which I pooh-poohed. My wrongness is once again evident. It isn't entirely genuine (most of the city was flattened by an earthquake) but has been rebuilt in traditional style and is basically a tourist trap. But in the best way I've ever seen. I'll post some pictures if (1) this goes up and (2) someone tells me that it has (I can't check). If pictures appear then assume I know or have already acted. Cheers.
Today I went up a mountain. Didn't climb (it was proper high, like) but took the cable car. So high that many people took oxygen. I should have, but instead elected to take the light-headed route. But wow. The southernmost glacier north of the equator. Hope you like the pictures when they come...
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