Lijiang

After recovering from our little hike up the "Hill" I decided to head to Lijiang, yet another beautiful historical city. Unfortunately, so did the rest of the population of our group.
Majority of which I got on with minus the exception of a few. When we arrived in Lijiang, after a senic bus trip, we all had to decided where to rest our heads. This in a democratic society would be easy. We'd all have our input and decided as a majority. But in true communist form one particular male, whom I detest, seem to be making all the decisions. Even when I tried loudly to voice my opinion, he seemed to be deaf. So off they all race across a busy road leaving me behind to try and navigate across the road alone. Soon after they disappeared down an ally way and I thought I was lost for good. Eventually I caught up with them whilst they moaned that I was keeping them back. I really wasn't aware that this was some kind if endurance race. Eventually, Manu, a fluent Chinese speaking French guy, veered us to a nice little guest house.
After some serious haggling on price, along with a few price changes, along came deciding who was sharing with whom. As there was 7 of us and 3 double rooms and 1 dorm, who do you think got the ruff end of the stick. It seemed that I was the third wheel. When Ed did an about face and forgot that we decided to stick together and travel together and shared a room with the Communist leader, I was on my own. Nice really bloody nice! Oh well you trully do know who your friends are! Everyone else pretty much treated me as though I didn't exsit. Oh well. This a least made me next decision easy. I was undecided as to climb the likes of The Tiger Leaping Gorge, killing myself yet again, or to go on to Xi'an to see the Terricotta Worriors early......Since climbing the mountain involved the others...which one do you think won.
That afternoon I left them to hike up a mountain for a view of Lijian to munch down a deccident morsel of Chocolate brownie and ice-cream. I think after all I had to endure I really deserved it!!