More Lijiang

So the next day we went to the other old town which actually looks really modern because a couple of years ago there was an earthquake. Lijiang is a fault line. This earthquake destroyed half of the authentic old city. So the city officials hurried to rebuild the city because that is the second biggest tourist attraction in the area. (Snow mountain is the first). I personally did not see much difference between the two old cities in town. Both places had tons of little shops all selling the same stuff.
Lijiang is home to the Naxi people. And that is all I was able to find out about them. I know that they use the Yak for all there needs where as other tribes used water buffalo, cows, goats, etc. So the Yak shops were always full of people.
The next tourist trap that we hit up was the Tea Trail which was around a lake. Now this is at an elevation of 3000 meters, so I don’t know how authentic this trail is. We were told that it connects all the way to Pakistan.  From the map that we looked at (Sorry, I didn’t take a picture of it) it just looked like a path that circles around a mountain. Now there are these horse tours that you can take to travel along the different trails, but you are only allowed to take the horse. You are not allowed to walk on the paths though. You were only allowed to ride a horse. Needless to say, I did not take the tourist trap bait. There were about 30 horse rental places around the lake.