This is Lijiang, a town of the Naxi minority in Yunnan province. Much of the town has been rebuilt having been destroyed by earthquakes, the most recent one in 1996, so many of the bulidings are quite new but they have been rebuilt in their former style and the whole place is really quaint and charming. At first we were not too impressed, having come from Dali, a beautiful old minority town, but after a day or two Lijiang really grew on us. It is a maze of little canals, streams and alleyways and really comes alive at night when all the lanterns are lit.
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This is Lijiang, a town of the Naxi minority in Yunnan province. Much of the town has been rebuilt having been destroyed by earthquakes, the most recent one in 1996, so many of the bulidings are quite new but they have been rebuilt in their former style and the whole place is really quaint and charming. At first we were not too impressed, having come from Dali, a beautiful old minority town, but after a day or two Lijiang really grew on us. It is a maze of little canals, streams and alleyways and really comes alive at night when all the lanterns are lit.
