Vieille ville de Lijiang, Decorated timber houses

The houses are close and diverse, and the lanes are narrow and meandering. Naxi people pay much attention to the decoration, the commodious and applied houses are mostly timber and tile structure compound with a garden, each has engraved vivid figures of people and animals on doors and windows, beautiful flowers and trees in the garden. The old Town of Lijiang is a city depends on water for existence and water is just like its blood. Houses with small timber bridges over the rivers and canals in the Lijiang Old Town, China.