9th day: at last into the Old Town of Lijiang
August 17: 8:00 am sleep increased, going back to the laundry washing and drying so that they help the shoes back backpack, a taxi came to Zhongdian Station (Zhongdian has been to build a new station, we are Daocheng to the time off from the place where the old station). From the old station to new stations take about 10 - 15 minutes. Zhongdian to Lijiang, the conductor said, is that the bus is only 11:30, the other half-hour intervals all the CMB (29 yuan / person), we decided to sit down at 10:30 Think of this group of CMB.
Soon the city is a gravel road into the mountains to the bus on the road bumps in the mountainside where to go around come around, the engine roar heard an old ox-like nausea. I can not help but worry about them, the driver Daoshi a look of normality, a car who was also a surprising look, it seems that road traffic is one such son. Highways road from time to time there are people who search cars and check the car will not be overloaded at this point in Yunnan Road Administration is still more stringent, but the driver is also very consciously not many manned.
When the tiger jumped over the town, see a lot of tourists come here, jump on a tall, foreign handsome guy, he was a person who brought four backpacks. . . 35 liters of the kind, actually bristle also suspected he was not moved around the house gave a. From the tiger dancing and Britain had more than two hours to get to Lijiang.
Lijiang bus station and get off at the time, I do not believe this is a regular station, the open-air car, Zaqizaba in a lot of cars parked, no signs, as a whole a black station, like Guangzhou, I began to worry about the driver cheated a stop. Lijiang such a well-known tourist city, actually really is such a bus station. Asked how to get to the gate guards the mouth of the ancient city, he actually said: I told you you do not know how to go! Too lazy to reason then that we had, alas, to Lijiang and Lijiang impression greatly reduced. A taxi (6 money) made a big circle around the city have come to the mouth of the mouth in the car from the driver became aware of the ancient city from the station to exit the road recently in a recent road is estimated that the National Day was completed, this is why many drivers unwilling to standard price (6 million) to take us to.
Out of the car, had to face is the legendary Windmill, hastily took one look, we have entered the city, to get better in what we hope kulou youth Inn. From the mouth into the ancient city, that is, a being one of the shiny polished quartzite Road, on both sides of shops, visitors such as the crucian carp, we seem to have entered a village-like culture, the inn is also a lot of experience along the way, because online to see the famous Wang kulou youth Inn, so we all did not ask directly reached the Square Street. Square Street name source is whichever is shaped as an official seal, whichever is meaning in the town of the Quartet, is the ancient city center.
The inn under the guidance of the staff to look kulou by the high stone steps to which the only way to climb this inn, it has not to look kulou only in the Mid-levels, from the reception looked out to see the ancient city of of a roof. Inn of the MM that there is no found our reservation, suddenly I was stupid, and I come up with phone calls asking them to record, I played N a phone call with them to identify and book a room, and then drained away I was originally scheduled to Inn of the room, another to come to the ah, this is not joking Well! MM who are also very sorry, perhaps too much fame, where the rooms are often fully booked, finally she had allegedly arranged for a standard room is reserved for a friend to us (120 a night).
Inn has two floors, our room downstairs, the entire room of about six and a half meters or so, to lay down a bed and a table, the group has no other place, where even put backpacks are not, due to a good house in Lijiang Like all full-wood structure, so every time someone on the second floor when walking, we will hear "bang, bang" and walk sound! And the room at first, meaning that all the people back to the room we would hear. I am very depressed looking at his wife began to regret Why should we set here, another noisy, expensive, and high, while the so-called can see panoramic views of the ancient city of Lijiang is also just middling. . . Fortunately, take comfort in that room does have a separate toilet, both to the security of tomorrow will certainly incumbent, Inn.
After washing, we were walking in the Old Town of Lijiang, the indeed very beautiful, small bridges, flowing water, others, the stone road, Muban Fang, dressed in traditional Naxi costumes older women sitting in a blocks hawking their own stir-melon seeds, strictosidine, peanuts, while they squint, the side of the name of sleepy, there is no kind of utilitarian city hawkers shouting enthusiasm. The drawback here is that many tourists huge, especially the 4 pm start to 21:00 over more than this time, piles of small flags led the influx of tourists to the ancient city, full of people, everywhere camera. . .
Street on both sides of the building filled with antique shops, although doing well, but still gives people a sense of meristem. These shops are two-storey building, the upper mostly a wide range of lattice windows, carved windows, under the eaves colorful laundry fluttering in the breeze. The ancient city where these are generally in the following shops: Craft shop, selling words printed on the ancient Dongba culture of T-shirt shop, silver shop, eateries, coffee shops, these types of stores sub-arranged in the ancient city has every corner, there is thousands of inter-bar, when we first entered the ancient city is still relatively excited, I feel a lot of interesting things to buy here, visiting for more than an hour later, we are a bit fed up. Because, similar shop house selling things that are essentially the same, very occasionally you can find a rather special shop items, but a lot of duplicate content has been produced to make your heart sick (the ancient city where most of the commodities are from Dali Wholesale come, if you travel there are marble, they do not spend too much money here).
A close encounter in the Great Stone Bridge l couple who went to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain today, and asked them did not see snow-capped mountains, A l vague to say: I feel okay. . . I did not ask (sorry 。。。)。 Dashiqiao a large stone bridge near the famous Inn, on-line that they had two rooms near the river, feeling very good, we specialize in to go see it and found that indeed appear to be very comfortable, but the premise is not the way across the creek There are so many pedestrians, because the interval between 3-4 meters also about living in this room, by passing tourists to see non-stop, not like a zoo gorilla it? And in this tourist season, you want to sit down quietly in the stream, it is not possible, because someone came very politely ask you to "Please let us look at pictures all right?"
Wander some less street alley, you will see the door of each couplet has stuck, is its own kind of writing is very talented, so I suspect that each is scholarly family, but also a vision is to see a lot of paste is the funeral home in conjunction with a white paper, the content is very sad. The sight of no fewer than a dozen funeral home is close to the Alliance, we are very surprised, can we say the recent death of so many people here do? Later I asked the proprietress Inn was to know that the family was the death, funeral, is to paste together for three years! Through the door together and the roof, we can also see that every family have raised a lot of very, very beautiful flowers bloom in the courtyard and windows.
Now understand that I come from the ancient city of this road is called "Xinhua Road" along the street there are many very good inn, this street there is a special shop to buy knick-knacks "good words", the boss who is very easy to talk, cheaper than other companies for more than half, if you want to buy mobile phones rope ah, what a small bracelet, you can come to this. For example illustrates that a friend 10 yuan to buy six beautiful grass line, where we use 10 yuan can buy 12 the same.
We ran several inns, moving to prepare for tomorrow, finally decided to live in the "Panda Inn", which is a family-style hotel, old-style wooden structure houses the ancient city, which has a large courtyard, where residents can to sit down and chat, there is a computer with Internet access, absolute leisure, I feel no better than the other side look kulou Color, and the price is 20 yuan a bed, 40 a double room, no separate toilet, but their toilets heat Water is a 24-hour supply. With the boss said that a good price, we also encountered another store for men and women lived in the same bargaining driver chartered to Yulong Snow Mountain, and decided that four individual peers, the driver asking price of 120 a day, because we have to play before the matrix A l data, the last day of Kandao 80.
Everything is arranged, and to find food, legendary Lijiang Baba (a fried multi-layer cake, there are two kinds of salty and sweet is the ancient city famous snacks), and grass jelly beans chicken (chicken peas do Lijiang specialty and can be cold, you can fry, fried, very tasty); stay there you will find here all the eateries offer these types of snacks in a snack shop to try both finished, my opinion is: Lijiang Baba is like Cantonese where the "thin fried meal" that is, flour paste and minced meat or a sweet sauce on a golden pot Jianzhi a cake, it can not be more delicious, the chicken people eat them while grass jelly beans there is a little greasy feeling, anyway my wife and I both feel that this two kinds of snack taste more general, you can try, do not have unrealistic expectations.
Square Street near the bar a lot, if the river sitting on the table, the waiter will tell you need a minimum consumption of 200 yuan, sitting in the shop there is no minimum spending, but the river was filled with people. It seems that every hotel will keep a dog, so the road will encounter a wide variety of cute dogs, if Qubao it, it does not matter, the owner may be unhappy.
Xia Guang night in the ancient city where the late back to the hotel, decided to get up early the next day, taking advantage of the time not so many tourists taking pictures on the way, look kulou LookLook. In the head, "Bang, bang" sound of the walk, we fell asleep drowsily
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