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After we arrived to Li-Jiang airport, there was an impressive small cab waiting for us to move us from that point towards the old-called city. It was quite late and we were so tired, we travelled around 4 hours from Guangzhou to that city. After reaching the hostel we basically drop the luggage and went straight to sleep the next day was just few hour ahead.

Next day… I was quite amassed by two things the first one is that China share a single time-line so at 7 am in Shanghai still dark in the Li-Jiang area and the atmosphere in that part of the city was quite near to my village as you can see in few pics before. Well our trip towards the mountains started around 6.30 am and we walked from our hostel towards the main entrance for bout 10 min carrying lots of things. We arrived to the meeting point and wait for a bit for the guys… I’ve to say that those guys are the best in the field, they know quite well the routes and are quite skilled drivers…

Right, here are a couple of pics of the starting trip…

The above pic starts the trip towards the mountain…

After travelling few hours into the mountain we saw plenty of country and enjoy the time, weather, dialect, among other interesting things ;P

In that city we went to visit a typical Tibetan family and as usual they presented a sort of entertainment for the foreigners, well only me was the foreigner, the other were just from different part of China ;P. the tradition in this minority is that the family is ruled by women, so in here the men are only like another gadget that the family can use…

Next day we moved towards one of the important temples in the region, by the way it was so bloody cold, I reckon we reach -17 C, and dry as hell!!!!

That day we been into several temples as in all the “religions” is just about money. They asked for almost everything, but at the end they were most nice that, let say other sort of ….

April 10, 2010 Posted by | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

   

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