Market day in Liming

The Lisu keep a different calender to the rest of China and our visit coincided with their New Year. As a result the market held during the New Year festival had an auspicious significance when important acquisitions are to be made. Local people from all over the area attended, wearing their tribal clothes with pride creating for us bystanders a blur of colour and cultural mix.








An old Naxi lady who is wearing symbols of the seven moons on her back. Later in our journey we were to spend a great deal of time with Naxi folk.

This Yi clothes stall had an abundance of Yi clothing , brightening up the pavement and generating a great deal of interest from passing Yi.

Once India started to put on the Yi clothes people started to gather and we created quite a commotion. There were fascinated by Melissa and India who both brought clothes. We were after all a very unusual sight at this time of year in Liming and it wasn't until we went to Leaping Tiger Gorge did we see any westerners.

Piglets for sale.

The end of the market day and a number of the stall holders made their way home on this groaning truck, still laden with unsold goods and destined for another days trading in the mountains.