I woke up early and lay in a bit as the town did not open until 8.30. The Chinese guy got up around 6.40 and busied himself to leave for Dali so I got up and did a few things and showered after he'd left. I finished off the mangoes with some cakes and headed into town before 8. I thought about getting a top up on my mobile and also asking if the tour agency could book me a bus but both were closed. I went into the temple and had a look around and then headed for the waterwheels so that I could get a picture without do many people there but I got a bit lost and lost some time. The waterwheels still had people and I went to the Naxi house arriving at 8.35 although they hadn't fully opened up yet. There wasn't that much to see and I expect most tourists go there for the 3 daily shows they do. I left after seeing all the rooms and went to the memorial hall which I knew opened at 8.30 and the town was empty and looked good in the morning sun,. The hall was in memory of a writer who had lived there and as I'd never heard of him it wasn't very interesting. I headed east and found the Naxi concert hall which was open to have a look around before I went to the Fang Guoya former house which I had considered missing but it was closer based on the way I'd walked. It was quite a large place dedicated to the professor who'd lived there and been a language expert and probably had something to do with the Dongya hieroglyphics. They had a fair bit of information in the leaflet in English about him and also the house and it was not a bad place. I left and went to the nearby snow academy which had a main room where people maybe trained but there was nothing in English and not much to see. I tried to see if the central area which looked nice was open but it was still shut so I went to the Fire brigade station which was locked. So I went to the museum a bit earlier than I expected but they had a few rooms with English translations some was not so interesting like they would show pictures of buildings in town and say a little about them. The place had changed a lot since UNESCO gave the award and the before and after pictures made me realise how much is not genuine original buildings. They had a section on UNESCO as well and the criteria which was boring and then there was a little bit on the Yunnan golden monkey which I'd seen in a train magazine and looks crazy different. I tried the tour agency who didn't know about or book buses and then I tried to buy a mobile top up but after a lot of translating they could only do 100 yuan top up which would be about 6GB, a lot more than I need. I went back to the hostel and packed up and headed to the bus station where someone said there was a bus to Panzihua but I didn't have a ticket yet. I got to the front and asked about Chengdu first and the bus was the next day so I asked for a ticket to Panzihua but that was at 3.30pm quite a while away and it would take 7 hours which would make getting the train to Chengdu difficult. After the troubles I'd had already in China I bought the ticket to Chengdu for 1pm the next day although as I left I thought maybe Kunming would have been better. I went back to the hostel dragging my suitcase again and asked for another night and it was just 19 yuan and I took the same bed which they hadn't made yet which was fine. I thought about going to Tiger Leaping Gorge but it was 11am and I would need to get there and back so instead I decided to climb that hill I'd not been allowed up 2 days before. I left with a repacked bag and saw a unicom mobile phone shop across the road so I wentband asked for a top up and she asked me what region my sum card was from. I said Zhuhai, Guangdong and she said no she couldn't help me or something like that but it was a different reason so maybe it wasn't going to be easy to get the phone working again. I headed through the old town and had a look at Lion hill because the signs pointed to Wangu place but it was past the 50 yuan entrance. Instead I walked around the elevated section of the town. There were some ok views but one place looked better and might have the view of the town with Jade Snow Dragon Mountain in the background so I went inside and to go up for photos was 5 yuan or otherwise I could have tea or something which I didn't want so I paid the 5 yuan and the views were good. I left shortly and went to try to find the temple I'd missed. I asked a girl at the ticket booth and she pointed me round the corner outside of town do I had a look and went up the hill in a couple of places but nothing. I saw a supermarket across the road so went there and got some fruit, what I thought was tofu, some vermicelli and 2 different types of beans I'd not had before. The tofu tasted more like some pastry that might need cooking so I was reluctant to eat too much and I walked to the dragon pool park past Chairman Mao's statue and ate a satsuma and an apple on the way. The park still looked nice and when I went to climb the hill there didn't seem to be anyone there so I walked up. It was a bit of a tougher climb than I expected or maybe I was tired but it took about 20 minutes and I hardly stopped. Then I walked along the top and there was another hill which would require a bit of descent before another climb. I regretted not taking more photos as I'd thought I would go back down the same way but now I was thinking of heading on north so I went back for some photos and saw a kind of maypole with colourful bunting. I got a few good panoramic photos and then stopped for some food at the top. I went along and down and then up the other hill which was a bit higher and had a 2 level pavilion on top so I went up the stairs and 3 girls were in the best corner messing around taking photos of each other of course and not moving. When their friends came up I gave up waiting and took the best photos I could around them before getting a couple a floor down. I went north towards a reservoir along an earth path instead of the stone stepped path I'd been on before. My feet hurt a bit as my shoes were too small which made me slightly slower and then at the bottom I found myself going the wrong way when I checked the map. I went to the reservoir past a wooden wayer wheel and a married couple were gaving photos done although it didn't look as special as the other places I'd seen them done like the lakes in the National park from the day before. I crossed the reservoir and went to a park that turned out not to be a park although there was a monument to the earthquake from around 1997. I walked along to the village of Shuhe also listed in wiki-travel but not liked as much as Baisha but I found the area much larger with wider streets than Lijiang. There was a square and lots of shops and restaurants a lot like Lijiang without the brochure of places to see but it seemed ok. I was planning on heading on when I saw a museum on the map and it was called the tea horse road museum which turned out to be a trade route like the silk road. It was a good museum with lots of English about the road and some other things. They also had a section on cobblers of Shuhe and Lijiang as the Ming emperor had sent them to Yunnan after they offended his empress. It was later than I'd expected when I left and instead of messing around finding out how far the no.6 bus went north I caught it south back to town and stayed on the 1 extra stop. I crossed to the bus stop on the other side and caught the first bus which was a no.1. It went south a bit and then east and I got off when it turned north. I started walking back and stopped at a supermarket where I bought quite a few things for dinner and some for the journey tomorrow. Then I headed back to the hostel and ate a bit. The room was empty except for me and I discovered I gad a massive blister on my right little toe which I burst with a needle and thread. I tried to learn some Chinese with an app and get organised and ahead by planning what to do in Chengdu and Xian but I got tired and I ended up resting at about 9pm and fell asleep and then when I woke I just went to bed afterwards.
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