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Baisha and Lijiang - DAY 2

The streams that trickle through Dayan emanate from the Black Dragon Pool, less than a kilometre north. Because the water here is a lucid green colour, it is also known as the Jade Spring and has been a public park since the Ming Dynasty. The Deyue Pavilion...

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30 mars 2006

The Naxi - Les Naxi

The Naxi is an ethny of the Tibeto-Burmese family that migrated out of the highlands of Eastern Tibet into Lijiang. The Naxi culture is influenced both by Hans and Tibetans. Native religion was based around the ritual specialist called the Dongba, a kind...

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29 mars 2006

Lijiang - DAY 1

This is our first day in China. We have arrived to Lijiang, a real gem in Northen Yunnan. Recently declared World Heritage Site by Unesco, the old Naxi city - called Dayan - is a well preserved traditional town with the snow peaks of Jade Dragon Snow...

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28 mars 2006

An introduction to Yunnan / Présentation du Yunnan

Yunnan is the other China, the periphery, the borderlands where civilisations blend, peoples of different origins mix and Chinese influence is attenuated. In all China, no province can boast of as much diversity and attractions - physical, cultural and...

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27 mars 2006

More on China / La Chine, encore

We're now back to Goma. It feels great being home again. Quite another world from where we come from. With all those souvenirs in our minds, we would like to share more with you about this whole experience in the Middle Kingdom. So we've decided to rewrite...

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24 mars 2006

China in numbers - La Chine en chiffres

"When the great China will wake up, the whole world will quiver" These words uttered by Mao Zedong have never been so true. It is no doubt today that China is wide awake and that world powers are quivering. This is happening Chinese style: discreetly,...

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23 mars 2006

Japanese in China

We have to admit it... we are more and more like Japanese... At least like Japanese tourists visiting Paris or New York. More than a thousand (1000!!!) photos... That's what we've taken during our trip in China... in less than 20 days.... Yeah, some are...

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