China (9 Dali)

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Travel story: China (9 Dali)

Dali
Coming down from the northern hills we reach the fertile alluvial plain around Erhei Lake where the Bai nationality has been established for over three thousand years.

Dali was one of the six small Dai kingdoms that merged to form of the powerful Nanzhao kingdom that enjoyed hegemony over northern Yunnan and Myanmar and controled the east-west trade route to India from the 8th to the 13th centuries.

A short distance north of the South Gate on Fuxing Lu... More