The cobbled streets and traditional buildings of old Lijiang are charming at any time of the day. But by night, once all the souvenir hawkers and stores blaring music have closed and all the tourists are fast asleep, one can almost imagine what this place was like before it became 'Disneyfied.'

These pictures were all taken within the space of one hour on October 22 2001. Organized into a slide show, simply click 'forward' to view the next image.

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