Dali at night on the corner of Renmin and Fuxing Streets.

Wuhua Buiding at night.

Wuhua Buiding and shops at night.

Woman gathering water from the stream along Fuxing Strret.

Fancy water features have been added for tourism.

Tourists can dress up (or dress up their children) in Bai costumes.

The main streets of the old town are lined with tourist shops.

Life as usual on a small lane in the old town.

Morning activity on Renmin Street.

Morning vendors on Renmin Street.

Renmin Street at night.

Outside of the walled city you can still find traditional Bai architecture and the simple goings on of daily life.

Wooden shutters. Bai style architecture.

Maize hanging over the doorway of a traditional Bai house.

Maize hung up to dry.

Bai musicians gathered to play in a small pavillion.

Bai musicians gathered to play in a small pavillion.

Bai musicians gathered to play in a small pavillion.

Horsemen.

A Bai farmer resting with a smoke.

Laying out fishing nets.

A cormorant perched on a fishing boat.

A cormorant fisherman approaches his boat full of his birds.

A cormorant fisherman and his cormorants.

A fisherman watches his cormorants searching for fish.

A fisherman pulls the cormorant from the lake with a fresh-caught fish in its mouth.

A fisherman and his cormorant catch a fish.

A fisherman and his cormorant catch a fish.

A cormorant fisherman returns from his fishing trip.

A typical tourist shot at the end of a cormarant fishing tour.