Day 1: Arrive in Kunming
Program: Arrive in Kunming, transfer to your hotel in Kunming on your own arrangement. Check in hotel via your name.
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Remark: the airport pick-up is excluded in the tour, no guide and driver service be offered today )
Meals Including: None
Accommodation: Kunming
Warm tips: Please take the shutter bus No.919C from Kunming airport to Kunming Railway station, after taking off at the terminal station , just walking 5m to arrive at Kunming Enjoying International Hotel (address: Yongsheng Road (Nanyao Railway Station), Guandu District, Guandu, Kunming)
Day 2: Whole day to the Stone Forest, Green Lake and The Flowers and Birds Market. Overnight train to Dali.
Program: At 8:30am, Our English speaking guide pick you up at the hotel lobby, then departure from hotel, drive 1.5 hours to visit
the Stone Forest which vividly expresses the deep love of the local people toward this world wonder. The quintessential karst landscape makes every tourist lost in wonder.
After the tour, transfer back to Kunming downtown 1.5hrs. Stroll in
Green Lake and Flowers and Birds Market. Before the evening transfer to railway station to take the Accommodation train to Dali reference train number K9626 (23:30-06:42+1)
Meals Including: Breakfast
Accommodation: on the train ( soft berth -- 4 persons share one compartment )
Day 3: Train station pick-up and one-day Dali city tour to Dali Old Town, the Three Pagodas Temple, Xizhou Old Town, Zhoucheng Village, Erhai Lake Cruise
Program: Early in the morning, arrive at Dali Railway station. After meeting with your local guide at railway station, transfer to hotel to drop off your luggage. (breakfast on your own account)
Remark: If the room available, you can make the free early check in.
Then you visit the
Three Pagodas which is made of three ancient independent pagodas forming a symmetrical triangle. Afterward, you’ll
cruise in Erhai Lake by the small boat in the east Erhai Lake. You will enjoy the green Cangshan Mountain and the Three Pagodas from a far as well as lots of birds and seagulls flying over the lake.
Later, you will head for
Xizhou Town to fully appreciate Bai-style traditional architectural courtyards, taste their fragrant Three-Course Tea and explore their distinctive culture. Visit
Zhoucheng Village and the Bai people's Tie-dying cloth workshop where you can take some special souvenir with the Bai ethnic style.
At last, you will visit the
Ancient Dali Town, walk around the
Foreigner Street and enjoy the relax time with local people.
Meals Including: None
Accommodation: Central Wall Well Hotel in Dali
Day 4: Transfer to Lijiang and visit Lijiang Old Town, Black Dragon Pool, Dongba Culture Museum, and Baisha Village
Program: After breakfast, transfer 2-2.5 hours to Lijiang. (only Chinese speaking driver with this transfer ) with the beautiful farmlands and ethnic villages on the way.
Upon arrival, you’ll head for the scenic
Black Dragon Pool and the Dongba Museum to explore the rich Naxi minority culture. Then explore
Lijiang Old Town. Lijiang Old Town has a history more than 800 years; it was listed as the World Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO 1997. Here you will see the wonderful wooden architecture of Naxi ethnic people. You will explore the
Mu’s Residence, Lion Hill and Wangu Tower in the old town.
Finally move to check in your hotel which located in Baisha Village. After checking , you can make a nice stroll around this village.
Meals Including: Breakfast
Accommodation: Baisha Holiday Resort Lijiang
Day 5: One-day Lijiang city tour to Yuhu Village, the Former Residence of Joseph Rock, Shuhe Old Town
Program: Today you will continue to have a relax tour in Lijang. Firstly stop at
Joseph Rock’s former Residence in Yuhu Village, Joseph is an Austria-American botanist and explorer, lived in Yuhu village and other places of the region from 1922 to 1949. He was both a naturalist and a photographer, and the first foreign scholar to introduce Lijiang ethnic culture to the western world. Then enjoy your relax time in
Shuhe Old Town UNESCO has listed it as an important component of Lijiang as it is a well-preserved example of a town along the ancient tea route and one of the earliest settlements of the ancestors of Naxi people. It is called 'the hometown of springs'.
Meals Including: Breakfast
Accommodation: Baisha Holiday Resort Lijiang
Day 6: Head to Zhongidan(Shangrila), Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking, Dukezong Old Town, Giant Prayer Wheel, Guishan Hill Park
Program: At 07:30am, pick up from your hotel, then you'll drive about 60KM to
the First Bend on the Yangtze River with imposing gorge scenery, visit the
Iron Chain Bridge, the Red Army's Long March Memorial Monument in the Shigu town. The town of Stone Drum got its name from a large, cylindrical, marble tablet shaped like a drum. The scenery is magnificent as the road running through the Lijiang valley which is filled with wheat fields and drying haystacks.
Continue to Visit the
Tiger Leaping Gorge, upon arrival, star your trekking from Tina’s G.H ---- Half way G.H. ( 1.5hrs ) ---14km point ( 2hrs )
After the trekking, continue drive to Shangri-La (2hrs ) Check in hotel. Then stroll around
Dukezong Ancient Town, an important town of the Ancient Tea-horse Trade Caravan from Yunnan to Tibet and India. Walk up to the top of
Guishan Hill or tortoise Hill, you will see the largest Prayer Wheel of the world and have a panoramic view of shangrila county and Dukezong Ancient Town.
Meals Including: Breakfast
Accommodation: Moon City Hotel Shangrila
Day 7: Sightseeing to Songzanlin Monastery, Tibetan Family Visiting, Napahai Lake. After tour, return Lijiang.
Program: Morning starts your tour from
Napahai Lake, eight kilometers northwest of the county town of Shangri-La. Many rare birds inhabit here among which is the well-known black-necked cranes, the first-class animal protected by the state and a lot of birds circle over the water from September to March of next year. It is also the largest grassland of Shangri-La covered with green grass. Continue to visit the
Ganden Songzanlin Monastery, the largest Tibetan monastery in Yunnan. Songzanlin Monastery has another alias - 'the little Potala Palace ', so named because the whole monastery is in the traditional style with mysterious atmosphere. Then have a stop at a
local Tibetan Family to know about their local life.
After the tour, about 15:00 you will transfer 4 hrs with your Chinese speaking driver to Lijiang.
In the evening, Check in Baisha Holiday Resort Lijiang after arrival.
Meals Including: Breakfast
Accommodation: Baisha Holiday Resort Lijiang
Day 8: Departure from Lijiang
Program: After breakfast , you will check out the hotel before 12:00 at noon, then transfer to Lijiang airport or railway station to departure Lijiang on your own arrangement.
Meals Including: Breakfast
(Remark: no any guide or driver service be offered by travel agent today)
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