Dali to Lijiang
We reluctantly left our friendly, good value, and comfortable apartment accomodation (Rainbows Nest Guesthouse) at Dali Old City today to head by bus to Lijiang;- a 3 hour journey north-west of Dali. We thoroughly enjoyed the Bai influenced food at Dali and the availability of all day breakfasts.
We are booked into The International Youth Hostel in Lijiang which seems to have mainly young French travellers in residence. Our lack of Mandarin continues to pose challenges to finding our way around. But...again with a good amount of luck, while being hopelessly lost and heading in the wrong direction after alighting the bus at Lijiang, we were picked up by a taxi driver who rang the hostel, got directions and delivered us safely to it.
Tomorrow we will endeavour to explore Lijiang's Old City in spite of the throngs of tourists we have been warned about.
