20080921_4dl_20 Photograph taken with Sigma SA-300N 35mm film, scanned with Epson V700

20080921_4dl_22 SiFangJie Photograph taken with Sigma SA-300N 35mm film, scanned with Epson V700

20080921_5lj_02 Photograph taken with Sigma SA-300N 35mm film, scanned with Epson V700

20080921_5lj_03 Photograph taken with Sigma SA-300N 35mm film, scanned with Epson V700

20080921_5lj_04 Photograph taken with Sigma SA-300N 35mm film, scanned with Epson V700

20080921_5lj_05 Photograph taken with Sigma SA-300N 35mm film, scanned with Epson V700

20080921_5lj_07 Golden trout Photograph taken with Sigma SA-300N 35mm film, scanned with Epson V700

20080926_1797 A street full of hotpot restaurants! We ate at YangRouDaShan (second restaurant on the left).

20080926_1799 A picture of the main attraction, black sheep...

20080926_1800 Lijiang old town.

20080926_1801 LiJiang old town. Nanmen Street, north of NanMen (South Gate).

20080927_1803 Brook and Bridge Inn

20080927_1804 Brook and Bridge Inn

20080927_1805 Qiyi street, in the old town

20080927_1806 Qiyi street.

20080927_1809 Qiyi street. In between the many souvenir shops are also many craft-trade shops (also aimed at tourists). We purchased a few carved tortoises from one such shop. Bargain hard...

20080927_1810 SiFangJie 四方街, Lijiang 丽江.

20080927_1811 SiFangJie 四方街. In the old days, merchants from far and wide used to come here to meet and trade goods.

20080927_1812 SiFangJie.

20080927_1814 Dancing at the SiFangJie (main square, old town Lijiang)

20080927_1815 Xinhua street, old town Lijiang

20080927_1819 XinHua street bars.

20080927_1822 DongDaJie restaurants. The old town had many streets which were full of restaurants aimed at the tourist trade.

20080927_1824 DongDaJie canal fish. Some rainbow trout were swimming in these canals! Sadly, we never saw rainbow trout on a restaurant menu.

20080927_1826 Waterwheel, at the north end of the Lijiang old town.

20080927_1827 Fish in the canals of Lijiang old town. Next to the waterwheel, we saw some-one catch a gold fish with a pot!

20080927_1828 YuHeZouLang. Feeding the fish with corn.

20080927_1830 Black Dragon Pool (HeiLong). Not such a great park, I think. There is a steep entrance fee, which we did not pay.

20080927_1831 Looking at the HeiLong (Black Dragon) pool. Some guidebooks suggest that walking north from the main gate we could avoid the entrance fee by entering through a side again. Unfortunately, the authorities have fenced the park more throughly, including a better gate/toll-station north of the main gate.

20080927_1832 Looking north from the NanMen Qiao (bridge)

20080927_1833 NanMen Qiao 南门桥

20080927_1845 Brook and Bridge Inn. (No other lanterns are visible from the Brook and Bridge Inn at night. Some other hotels in the old town have night-time views of multiple red lanterns....)