after li jiang

li jiang

our home for the week. above is the view out of our window of the rest of
the house and courtyard which in the afternoon was bathed in sun light.

the walls and ceiling in our room were covered in pine and the windows are
shown in this image. the light through these in the morning was lovely.

a quieter road in the town. the paths throughout li jiang are supposedly made of 800 year old stone which is cleaned often by firetruck hoses. on entrance each tourist has to pay 80 yuan (roughly 8 ukp) for the maintenance of the town. there are quite a few water mills around like the one in this image. i'm not sure if they produce electricity/something else or are just for show.

from where we ate

the blue bird bar is on the second floor here. there was a similar bar above us. if you expand the image you can see the silhouette of someone playing guitar in the top left room. only he was singing the most awful cantonese pop music. his voice was too punchy and gave one a headache.

art shop by night. i liked the portrait above the guys head bending down. this shop was stuck in between two very loud bars so forgive him if he looks fed up.

the 'temple' at the top of the mountain between old and new li jiang. this was built in 1997 and is an extravagant gift shop. we only saw a couple of other people up here.

at the very top and very center of the building, this dragon looks down.

on the wall of the temple

new

old

there were hundreds, possibly thousands of these wooden tokens hanging along the paths up to the temple. they made a gentle sound much like a wind chime in the breeze.

images of the show we saw in li jiang

these two were symbolically making love as they told us the story of one minority people of li jiang who practice 'visiting marriage' where males sneak into girls rooms to spend the night together and then leave before sunrise.

it is an amazing thing to fly over mountains. this picture doesn't do it justice at all. i wasn't sitting by the window on the way back so couldn't get much of an image.