Lijiang Lashihai Wetland Park
Highland lake reserve of pine-fringed shoreline horse trails and wintering migratory birds.
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The guide to Lashihai Wetland Park in Lijiang starts with a wooden price board by the shore that for years meant little, as travelers with no Chinese haggled over horseback rides along the old tea and horse road while every village ran its own stable, boats and rules. You'll hear how the county folded those scattered ranches into one cooperative system starting in twenty nineteen, backed by a large line of bank credit, and how villagers from the shoreline were relocated to protect the wetland their horses had been trampling. Watch for the bar-headed geese and black-necked cranes that winter on the lake.
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