Travel photos and journals from across Asia [1997-2026]
Our last day in Lijiang was spent exploring the parts of the sprawling seven-square-kilometer ancient town that we hadn’t seen yet. We wandered through the relatively quiet morning streets to the Heilong Park, or Black Dragon Pool, for some spectacular views of the lakes, pagodas, and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain backdrop. Locals were hand-feeding squirrels,…
We booked this tour on Trip dot com as it was virtually impossible for foreigners to secure the tickets to the cable car, which is extremely popular. Yulong Snow Mountain, or Jade Dragon Mountain as it is also known, is an imposing set of peaks, the highest at 5,596 meters, overlooking Lijiang. It is a…
We were up early and over to the sprawling Kunming station to take a bullet train north to Lijiang. Trains can be booked online and are very reasonably priced. Our C86 left at 10.30 on the dot and took 3.5 hours; boarding was done by scanning our passports, no tickets required. The weather had turned…