Beautiful Lijiang bids farewell to sacred flame

(LIJIANG, June 10) - Beautiful Lijiang concluded its leg of the 2008 Olympic torch relay on Tuesday morning at 11:59 a.m. with the lighting of the flame cauldron at a parking lot in the town of Ganhaizi, 26 kilometers from the city.

In the afternoon, the relay team will launch another leg of the torch relay, this time in the third scheduled stop for the torch relay in Yunnan Province, Shangri-La.