My Photo Album
China and Vietnam, April 2004

Part 3: Lijiang and the border to Vietnam
 

 


Lijiang
Lijiang is set on an altitude of 2400 m in a valley near the border of the Chinese Yunnan province to Tibet. The whole Lijiang county is on the UN list of World Heritage Sites.

 

 


The old town of Lijiang is a maze of cobbled streets and wooden buildings in Naxi architecture.
 

 


Many canals make the old town of Lijiang even more beautiful.

 

 


These two women wear the typical dress of the Bai minority.
 

 


Chinese-Vietnamese border
Vietnamese women with their bicycles line up to enter China at the city of Hekou.
 

 


The cities Kunming and Hanoi are linked by a narrow gauge railway (762 km, built 1910 by French), which crosses the border at the Red River between Hekou in China (left side) and Laocai in Vietnam (right side). Since 2003, the train service on the Chinese side has been discontinued (bus service instead) and passenger trains run only the 294 km from Lao Cai to Hanoi.

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