Is it safe to go to Lijiang alone? What are Lijiang’s specialties?

In the past few years, the disfigurement of tourists in Lijiang has always been an obsession. Many people are reluctant to travel to Lijiang because of this, so many friends are worried about the safety of traveling to Lijiang. So is it really safe to travel to Lijiang?

Is it safe?

The public security in Lijiang Old Town is better than the national average. It can be seen from the following aspects:

1. Municipal surveillance covers the entire ancient city of Lijiang.

2. Every street in Lijiang is a police room and has a police station. Each police station has about 15 staff members, who are on duty 24 hours a day.

3. There are often small groups of police patrolling the streets of Lijiang.

4. Every inn and hotel in Lijiang is monitored.

5. The Ancient City Administration Bureau has service stations on the main streets. There is also free water, maps, directions, etc.

Eat

The famous snack in Lijiang is cross-bridge rice noodles, but in addition to these, there are also chicken jelly, Lijiang dada, Naxi grilled fish, and chicken rice noodles. The specialty of Lijiang must be various wild mushrooms, such as matsutake, chicken fir, morel, porcini, etc. In addition to these, there are also pork ribs, black goat hot pot and so on.

There are many hotels in the ancient city, many of which offer group purchases. There are also hotels on the new road along the ancient city, and the prices will be more affordable. There are two streets in New Town where hotels are concentrated, namely Jinkai Plaza and Mahua Street.

If you want to buy fruits in the ancient city, go to Zhongyi Market. This is a very large market where many locals in the ancient city buy things. The market mainly sells fruits, vegetables, meat and the like, and the prices are relatively cheap.

Lijiang Specialties

Silver: all kinds of silverware.

Wild mushrooms: especially dried morels and matsutake mushrooms, but they are relatively expensive. The general price of beautiful scenery is 1,000 yuan, and the best ones will be more expensive. If the price is lower than this, don't buy it.

Medical materials: Panax notoginseng and Gastrodia elata.

Tea: Actually, this is not a specialty of Lijiang. It’s just Pu’er tea, a specialty of Yunnan, so Lijiang also has a lot of it. The price ranges from tens to thousands of yuan. Friends who don’t understand tea should not buy blindly.