Thirty years ago, I traveled to Lijiang, an ancient city in the northwest of China’s Yunnan province in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas. Lijiang’s old town is a tangle of intersecting waterways, arched stone bridges, and cobbled streets. Just north of the city—about five hours by road—is Lugu Lake, and the villages of the Mosuo, one of the world’s oldest continuing matriarchal societies.
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Source: Phys.org