The railroad to Lijiang
We had booked a ‘soft sleeper’ compartment for the eight hour train journey north-west to Lijiang. This gave the five of us some privacy and space.
The following pictures are from the first few hours of the trip. The last two hours (between Dali and Lijiang) were in the dusk and then the dark. That’s a pity because this section of the line only opened in 2009 and is a major piece of civil engineering – 61 of the 103 miles of the line are either tunnel or bridges.
The scale of the civil engineering projects being undertaken everywhere we went in China is amazing. Wherever we went we saw new high-rise buildings, city quarters, railways, subways and roads. It feels as if the land is being carved up.
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- The land is often terraced
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- More terracing
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- A bit greener as we meander north
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- The rail line cuts a swathe through this landscape
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- New roads bypass the old (the old might have been built in 1980)
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- Not much traffic yet (but the advertising hoarding is ready)
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- Greenery
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- Mountains are moved
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- Not quite sure what this building is
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- Even on closer inspection
My camera wasn’t really up to documenting all we saw. However, I can assure you that there was some amazing stuff out of that window…
Amazing things just out of shot
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