After another full day of traveling by plane and bus, we are at Lijiang, Northwest Yunnan. The main attraction here is the Old Town and the colorful dresses of the traditional Naxi residents. I have a rather cynical outlook on what I see here.
The "Old Town" is supposedly hundreds of years old, and has survived a major earthquake here in 1996. But just by looking around, I can see that everything is newly built - just disguised in the "old style" architecture. It's totally just a tourist attraction - much like Disneyland! I confirmed this when talking to a local cab driver, who told me that most of the buildings in the Old Town were added in recent years.
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