• Baoshan Stone City 
  
  

  Nearly 130Km northeast of Lijiang lies the remarkable community of Baoshan Shi Gu Cheng (Baoshan Ancient Stone City ) , usually called Baoshan , but not to be confused with the much large Baoshan , the main city of western Yunnan , southwest of Dali . This Baoshan has only 100 families . It occupied a dazzling site , hijh on a ridge overlooking the Upper Yangzi River (jin Sha Jiang ), surrounded by tightly ascending terraced fields . Many of the house are carved from the living rock or have sections made from the red stone . Some even have tables ,stools beds and cupboards cut from the rocky ridge .

  
  
  
  
  

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• Daju Xian 
  
  

  Daju is a collection of isolated Naxi villages on a lagre plain near the north entrance to Tiger Leaping Gorge , on the Upper Yangzi beneath the Jade Snow Range , Ii is a region of stark beauty amidst nature's hugeness . Haba , second tallese mountain of the range and only one on the far side of the yangzi , is across the water where the Tibetan counties of Yunnan begin . Daju is famous and necessary for the ferry crossing that leads to the Tiger leaping Gorge trail .

   

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