Lijiang, The Forgotten Kingdom (Yunnan: The China You Never Knew, episode 11)

[@BryanTodd71]

Terrific video, thank you! I'm a Nebraska boy, but Lijiang was my home from 2000 to 2004. So much there to see and love.

[@DestinationChina]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sidjones-u3y]

It was still really nice in those days..

[@hongyinli9681]

As a Lijianger pursuing further education in the US, I felt happy and sad at the same time when I was watching this great video. Is this feeling homesickness? I've lived in the old town for 6 years. It was my 4th to 9th grade school time. I took my backpack walked through all the tourists and commercial stores almost everyday during that time. I could wander around those big and small allies with my friends all day long, not because it is a tourist attraction or a good place to hang out, but because there were my friends with me. The young boy would never think that one day in the future he wanna go back to that stone road so bad, like exactly what I'm thinking right now. I've already lost touch with most of them, but here I wish them all the best.

[@BryanTodd71]

Where in the US are you? I'm from Nebraska but I lived in Lijiang 2000-2004.

[@niamhmacn4210]

beautiful

[@DestinationChina]

We were just there again last week. There's still a lot of places that see very little tourists, such as Baisha. Home sickness is understandable!

[@hongyinli9681]

@@BryanTodd71 Dallas. I don't see much foreign tourists in early 2000s, let alone you lived there for 4 years.

[@Shannon.Hazleton]

I lived in LJ for a year… one of the best year of my life. I studied at the school there and walked to the Old Town every day. That was in 2002… I hear it is a bit more modern with even a Starbucks now, which makes me sad.

[@Air_Devil_Leader_One]

Thnk you for the beautiful memories for me. I loved my visit to Yunan. I have friends there for decades now, Butterfly Spring, Rock Forest, Dali, Lake Erhi, Lijiang, Old Town LiJiang, Snow Dragon Mt, the Ski Lift up the Mountain to walk on the top in LiJiang, Naxi People. What an experience for me. I was on tour with Friends from Nanchang City and took the train to Kunming through the Karst Mountains on an old slow train all the way to Kunming. GOD made this place beautiful friend! The history of how the landscape around Lake Erhi provided safety making an attack very difficult is amazing in its story as well! I will marry as soon as I get back to Xi'An to my sweetheart there and visit this place again so my prayer lamp I placed in the river here will come true in my wish for a lovely Chinese woman. I shall never forget this great place. The only history & place comparable to this was Xi'An, the Terra Cotta Mauseleums, and my Anna I met there in 2018!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Ray C. Florida

[@gracielazubasti2371]

Lijiang is the most beautiful small town in China. Thank you for the splendid video.

[@YerethJansen]

One of the first places I ever visited. If you go, check out the smaller neighouring towns Shuhe, Baisha and Yuhu. Well worth staying a few extra days for!

[@shopkedai]

Thanks for your introduction. Planning to visit Lijiang in December 2024.

[@anitac9429]

Great video. I've just been in Shangri-La, Lijiang and Dali and still enjoyed your video so much! Hope you can reach more people!

[@DestinationChina]

Thank you so much! We hope so as well. We'd love to show these beautiful places to more friends

[@gohcheesin7626]

outstanding little documentary, Thank you.

[@DestinationChina]

Thank you very much!

[@sophiafullerton]

I'm curious about the history of Yunnan in the 1920s and 30s. My great-grandparents were missionaries there in Kunming. I am looking for anything about what the region was like during that time so I can try and visualize their experience and the experience of the people they interacted with.

[@DestinationChina]

That’s interesting. There are some stories and historical photos on the website www.gokunming.com You can have a look through the article archives. Hope that helps!

[@aikhunlungshangbunboruah1a269]

I feel my heart soul of my native morher land from North East India

[@zweibo]

High quality documentary! Great job

[@DestinationChina]

Thank you so much!

[@roger2512]

Very beautiful city

[@DestinationChina]

It really is!

[@abhigyankonwar2504]

My family and ancestors were from there. But my parents and I have never went there. Hope one day I could go to Yunnan.

[@DestinationChina]

Definitely worth visiting, especially when roots are there.

[@卢爱红]

I travelled to LiJiang this September. Your video is very good .following and expect new things

[@DestinationChina]

Thank you! We just uploaded a new video: a short documentary about Sani people embroidery tradition in the Stone Forest area of rural southwest China. Hope you'll enjoy it!

[@yanablumka_onice]

Beautiful!

[@DestinationChina]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Air_Devil_Leader_One]

I made on error on that trip itenerary Rock Forest????? Stone Forest, what was I thinking. We had a delicious lunch in Anning and went to that Stone Forest, I am told the chances of anything like that happening again would be on the next planet like earth that forms POSSIBLY. That place is extremely RARE!! China is so beautiful with incredible places. I will return there to Yunan again one day for SURE!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless you, country, & people! Ray C USA for now. I am looking for a home, land, or a place to live near my great 'sister' in Yunyang. I love that small city as it is so beautiful with the Great Yangtze and its parks. Ray C

[@michelle.verissimo]

Stunning place ! S2

[@DestinationChina]

It still is! Especially in this time a year.

[@jocelyngovideo]

I cannot understand why u don't have more views or subscribers..

[@DestinationChina]

Hopefully more people will notice us soon :)

[@Nuelzhng]

I hope ,i can go there in China🥺

[@tamsalingnetworknepal2705]

I am from nepal himalaya south of tibet . indigenous tibeto burman speaker of nepal .we found some dna percentage matching with naxi people migrating through tibet and myanmar(burma) to nepal and admixed

[@DestinationChina]

That's really interesting. I can imagine people in the greater area are likely to be somewhat related.

[@РозаВетров-щ8э]

What month of the year is it better to visit Yunnan?

[@DestinationChina]

We recommend going in spring or autumn. Winter is sunny but cold at night, and summer time is the rainy season.

[@hlanbarjar]

Does Lijiang snow? Or it just has some mountains covered with snow?

[@DestinationChina]

It does snow in winter in Lijiang, especially at the mountain.

[@hlanbarjar]

@@DestinationChina Thanks!

[@maalex9628]

I just come back one week ago .just has some mountains with snow

[@DestinationChina]

@@maalex9628 You'll only really see snow and heavier snow capped mountains in winter. Good reason to come back ;)

[@BryanTodd71]

In the city you'll typically get a dusting of snow just one day a year, usually in January, and it melts by early afternoon.