Lijiang hotels collection

The Mu, who ruled Lijiang, never wanted a city wall: the character of their name, enclosed in a square, would have made the one that means trapped. The old town stayed open, paved with mottled stone slabs polished by footsteps, and water from the Black Dragon Pool runs through it in channels, at the foot of the wooden houses. At the three-pooled wells, one drinks from the top, washes vegetables in the middle, and does the laundry at the bottom. The Naxi dongba priests still write their rites in pictograms, on a bark paper that insects leave alone.