Lijiang

After 6 enjoyable days in Kuching / Borneo, I left on a plane headed for Macau. I spent less than 1 hour here, as I got straight on the bus which took me to the chinese border. After getting the immigration formalities out of the way I found myself in Zhuhai, in China. From here, I took the bus to Shenzhen (the last one - and it was only 9.30pm) where I arrived at midnight.

I spent the next 2 days in Shenzhen, getting prepared for the journey ahead to Lijiang in the Yunnan province; it would be a long one. On saturday I took off to Guangzhou, where I spent the night before getting on the train the next morning heading for Kunming - the entire train journey would last 25 hours. Don't ask me how I survived it - I slept, I read, I studied, I looked out the window and I drank and ate. I wasn't feeling too bad when I arrived in Kunming, so I decided to get straight on the bus to Lijiang - another 9 hours plus 3 hours of waiting for the bus to get moving.



The bus journey was without major events, though the view was fanstastic. Finally, I arrived in Lijiang on Monday evening. I was surprised about how big, but beautiful the Old Town was. Lots of tourists were about - which kind of destroys a bit of the atmosphere. However, it still is an amazing place to visit. Just check out some of the pictures. Today, I went to the Black Dragon Pool - one of Lijiang's famous sights (on clear days you can see the snow mountain in the background)



I took those pictures some days later ...