cool, Anonymous.

or maybe you can open up a guest house, but you need to give yourself time to save up...save up, beg, borrow, and steal... keep the dream ALIVE.

@HF CAMPO

There's a tiny bit of Lijiang creeping into Shaxi (African drum store, Rose Flower Pastry shop, etc) but it's miniscule compared to Lijiang, thank God!

Hi all,

It is snowing in Shaxi now. A local friend in shaxi sent me photos :)

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If you still love Shaxi you can become the curator of the temple in Shaxi.

I was reading about a trend of misusing temples in China, what about Yunnan?

many temples (though not yet most) are run to make money. It's easy to tell which ones, they are the ones charging a large entrance fee and selling incense at extortionate prices. Real monks will never ask you for money.

It looks that all posts of ChrisB from 2009 have been removed from GoKmg. Interesting, isn't it?