Lijiang

The old town of Lijiang is a maze of twisty tiny cobbled streets parts of which turn into ice rinks when it is wet (which is often).

There are hundreds of little shops and for every shop there are hundreds of Chinese tourists, this place gets rammed. Despite that it was bustling, alive and fun to be in. Here are a selection of shots from our stroll round town:

Man with a lot of dead chickens

Automated cake machine for walnut cakes, turned out, as we should probably have known that they have a tiny amount of walnut and a large amount of green tea and red bean....doh!

A spring fed pool where the locals wash their veggies

Some impressive paintings on the outside of buildings

And because there are so many shops a sign reminds you not to impulse buy.....

Lijiang, despite being crowded is one of the few places in China that has really made us smile.