Riding the Red Dragon… towards Lijiang

After we arrive in the Guangzhow international airport, twice as big as the Benito Juarez, and far better organized, we went to document our luggage, and here my friends our real trip started…

For some weird reason our tickets were wrong, nothing different from Europe or the UK, but those guys gave us the ticket at the end of the day and we took our plane and, as it was defined, we arrived to a middle-huge city to change towards Lijiang. Well my friends, I’ve never experienced this kind of coordination before not in the UK or Europe and for sure NOT in gringolandia. When we arrived into this airport, a couple of employees from the airline were waiting for us to give us the new tickets and information related with the link towards Lijiang. I was amused by the kind of help that those guys gave us.

Well, we arrived in Lijiang at 11 or 12 am, I don’t remember we flu for around 3 hours, I think ;P. As we booked a cab, it was already waiting for us. as you may know I’m not a short man, well sort off, and the cab was small, even smaller than a smart or athos. After one hour we arrived into the main city, and after move between some dark streets, the guys told us that the city was divided into the “old city” and the “new city” and indeed, it was divided and the boundaries ar well defined. The guys also told us that is forbidden to drive a car inside of the old city and not even bikes are allowed to circulate in there.

After arrive into the hostel, we were informed that we have to pay a city-tax (around £8). We slept there and amasing place and not too expensive at all. As you may know, China has just one time zone, so when the sun is rising at, let say, 7 am in Shanghai, in Tibet region still dark!!! so we came out around 8 . the place is simply AMASING!!!!!!!

This picture shows our hostel, by the way the guys in there are so helpful, nice and are always keen to help even though their English is so basic as the same as their Spanish ;P.

When we arrive to the main square, I found that the city is on a river or surrounded by a river, but I still thinking that we were on the river…. here a bit of it

The view of the main city is …. rather amasing is impressive

As you may see, there are dragons all over the place, and here is a detail of it..

The minority over this place keep this city (old city) for tourism, mainly domestic, but I found few Dutch people and a couple of British, as the same as me, lost in translation ;P.

Walking ….

We walk all day over the place and in the hostel offer us a trip towards Shangri-La.  Here concludes day two …