Long reflection. The Black Dragon Pool, in Lijiang. After Shaxi, I went to this Disneyland of a town. Needless to say it was not my favorite. While the old city is beautiful, it’s more a market for tourists than anything else. First, you need to pay 80 Yuan (around 10€) just to buy the right to walk along the narrow street, under maintenance at the time. Second, most of the buildings in there are now turned into djembe (!) or tea resellers, restaurants, or other tourist traps. Finally, it’s way too overcrowded to my taste. Anyway, I walked away from the center, and walked to the Black Dragon Pool. Funnily, this exact viewpoint was on my tourist guide, so this image was kinda iconic of my trip around southern China.
While walking around the temple, I stumbled upon a guy I met in Dali, shortly after the sunset, we went for a beer in the only Irish pub of the city!
For the few wondering, this is a long pause, that turned the water into this slick surface.
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