From our Guest House dining room we are able to look over the old city of Lijiang. The modern city has KFC, Pizza Hut, Jeans West etc. Lijiang was flattened by an earthquake in 1996 and has been rebuilt in the traditional manner and style. It is now a World Heritage Site so it is very popular with Chinese tourists. They outnumber the westerners!
On the top of the hill we visited a temple where these paving stones were in the courtyard. The Chinese character for bat is like the word for good luck and the circular pattern is the symbol for long life.
In a restaurant we had a cold drink and these girls in traditional costume danced for us.
The weather here has been mild and we are enjoying it. In the distance we can see a mountain with a little snow on top.We have had a lot of problems with our email password since arriving in China and had to ring NZ ihug twice. We hope it doesn't happen again. We can now post on our blog but we cannot read it so please excuse us if we repeat anything as we can't look at what we have already posted.The hostel provides free internet. We are getting better at managing the programmes when all the instructions are in Chinese characters!
