Dali – also known as the hippie capital of China!
 When Dali first opened up for international travellers, it was the backpacker hippies that made it first, on the Katmandu-Lasa-Lijiang-Dali-Yangshuo trail aka the pizza trail. Today in Dali there is a mixure of both tourists, long term residents (of whom many artists), backpackers and just experimentalists. A great place to see some of the local scene is Renmin road also known as “hippie street”