This post might have a rather jankety chronology on account of the fact that my image numbering crossed the 9999 threshold and restarted. Oh well. Everything did happen here in this authentic, no-AI, real(whatever)time trip to China.
This batch is of Baisha Old Town on the outskirts of Lijiang we visited and a Naxi hieroglyphic or Dongba calligraphy class we took. Pix include some local building projects, the Naxi home we visited, the calligraphy class itself, and pictures on the wall – including one of Joseph Rock – an Austrian-American botanist, explorer, geographer, linguist, ethnographer and photographer!
Here’s more of the Naxi house, and the Baisha Old Town neighborhood around it…
More Baisha Old Town…
An embroidery shop supported by the government to keep the art form alive…!
Lunch, etc. – thereabouts…
Took the train back to Kunming and went to Green Lake Park, met some kids, and enjoyed the scenery…
More of Green Lake Park…
I reckon this batch is from when our tour arrived in Lijiang – interesting shops, pretty canals, fat blueberries…
More of that (find me with “Evan”!)…
And, yes, yet, more of beautiful Lijiang, including a special visit to a tea shop thanks to our local guide “Evan” and some personal guidance from young police girls to a historic French restaurant, etc…
Wow, that’s a lot, and here you are? Again?
Blessings friend…