Upper Mekong, near Deqin, 2002

mekong2, originally uploaded by mutikonka1.

As you head north up the Mekong from Weixi the landscape becomes grander and the population changes from Lisu to predominantly Tibetan - and a few Naxi.

This stretch is somewhere near Cizhong, I think. There are few bridges spaning the river and the most common way to cross is by the wire "flying fox" that most settlements have.