If there were a Chinese edition of Eat, Pray, Love, Dali would sit high on the itinerary. For many Chinese, the name alone evokes wistful sighs and daydreams of alpine vistas and a slower, romanticized way of life. Yet long before Dali became a fixture on the backtracker trail in the 1980s, this remote mountain town in southwest China had been receiving weary travelers for centuries. Picture a caravan coming into town: Ponies bowed under heavy l…
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