This is the third attempt to get this uploaded. I told you the internet was flaky!
Here are a few photos from our day in Lijiang. I skipped a day because we didn’t do a lot when we arrived and we both got sick here. I had a nasty sore throat and head cold when we arrived, but as I was getting better Michelle got sick from suspected food poisoning and spent most of the evening in the bathroom being sick.
We still managed to check out a bit of the town. It is a bit more old-worldy than Dali, with narrow winding streets and old buildings, but it is a lot more touristy. There seems to only be about half a dozen different shops and they are repeated everywhere… yak meat shop, scarf shop, shoe shop, bag shop, music shop, rinse, repeat. They all seem to play the same music too, which drove Michelle insane. The tight streets also mean you can’t avoid the tour groups. They move at glacial pace, and being China no one gets out of your way. When Michelle was feeling ill and we had to get back to the hotel in a hurry we were barging and pushing our way through. I don’t know the Chinese word for ‘excuse me’, but apparently it didn’t matter as no one uses it anyway.
