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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Lijiang, China by TravelPod blogger Grizzly titled “Journey to the West – VIII” Grizzly’s travel blog entry: “Lijiang I arrived at the Express Bus station near Fuhui Lu and left my luggage there to find a place to stay. I was suppoed to meet with a CS host but since he was not available until 10pm, I decided to look for a hostel. I stayed at Dongba Family Hostel, off Wuyi Lane for 20RMB a night. The room had two beds but no one else became my room mate. So, I got my backpack and settled in to explore the labyrinth-like streets of Lijiang. The LP said that one will get lost there, and lost I did get. It is said there is a fairyland beneath the colorful clouds of southern China. A place blessed with fresh air, clear streams, breathtaking snow mountains, and an undisturbed landscape inhabited by a friendly group of people. Life in this fairyland is so peaceful, a fairyland called Lijiang, located in Yunnan, close to Sichuan and Tibet. The earliest recorded history of Lijiang can be traced back to the Warring States Period (476 BC-221 BC) but with the advent of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the local economy reached a peak with the development of the Ancient Tea-Horse Road which made a great contribution to both commercial and cultural communication between Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. To learn a bit about the original Lijiang, I bought Peter Goullart’s “Forgotten Kingdom” at the Tourist Center (25RMB). eter Goullart …
