Come to experience the classic tourism routes of Yunnan and experience the most valuable Yunnan tour
Lijiang Airport
Dali Airport
3 Hours Before Flight Time
Take a flight driect to Lijiang, get picked up by your MoreFunAsia tour guide and driver and transfer to your hotel. Rest of the day is for your free discovery.
Drive about 1.5 hours from Lijiang to Qiaotou, which means heads of the bridge. From here your trek starts. The trail rises alternating between forest and cultivated farmland.After 2 hours, arrive in Naxi Family Guesthouse where is the place for a short rest and your lunch.After lunch, you will meet up the most challenging part of the trek as the trail rises steeply with “28 bends” to the top of the ride. From here on, you hike high up the valley along the gorge with the gushing river deep below.The view of the gorge and the Jade Dragon Mountain is stupendous from here on. Arrive at Old Tea Horse Guesthouse, your accommodation for the night.
Our morning drive takes us from Swiss lakes to Swiss Army. At the once-secret Swiss army bunker at Fortress Fürigen, we’ll Continue along the gorge enjoying more beautiful for another 2 hours until Half-way Guesthouse. Start your descent through lovely cultivation and villages for another 2 hours to Tina’s Guesthouse.
After lunch, continue to drive to Shangri-la, have a short stop at Xiaozhongdian and take some photos, enjoy the high-altitude grassland scenery
Buffet breakfast at hotel. Visit Ganden Songzanlin Monastery in the morning. Songzanlin Monastery, the biggest monastery in Shangri-la, is built on a hill immitating the Potala Palace in Lhasa. More than 500 lamas live and study here. Then visit a Tibetan family where the Tibetan builds their houses by wood with big sitting room and Buddhism hall, try the home-made buttered tea and yak cheese.After lunch,drive to paint Thangka then drive to visit Napa Lake, Napa Wetlands, or Lake Napa Nature Reserve (aka Lake Napa), lying in the valley of a high mountain plateau situated about 3270 m above sea level. Lake Napa is a so-called Ramsar site under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Most of the area is marshy wetland that becomes dry from late fall through winter, but from spring through summer, the area again becomes an expansive wetland that attracts countless flocks of birds, such as the bar-headed goose as well as a number of other species of geese the common mallard, the Himalayan griffon, the egret and the white-tailed eagle.Then drive to Du Ke Zong Romantic Village
After breakfast drive to Deqin,halfway visit Benzilan Tibetan village then continue visit Big Bend of Golden Sand River, then visit Dongzhulin Lama’s tempel arrived Deqin. Transfer to the hotel.
Enjoy the beautiful sunrise in the early morning in Feilai temple. And then back to the hotel for the breakfast.Overland drives to visit the Mingyong Glacier. After lunch, drives back to Shangri-la and go to hotel for checking in.
Start your tour on 8:30 am, overland drive of 180 kilometers, or 3-4 hours to Lijiang . Then visit a local Naxi family and learn to cook some dishes and enjoy a home-made lunch in the family Then visit Zhongyi Local market of Lijiang and Black Dragon Pond with Dongba Museum(closed on Monday in the first week and Monday in the third week of each month). A gathering place of rugged mountain people with the Naxi forming the majority, Lijiang is a small mountain town of stone and tile, laced with swift canals, which was enlisted as an UNESCO World Cultural Heritage in 1999.
Start your tour on 8:30am, transfer to Dali to visit Zhoucheng village and learn to make the local famous Tie-dye cloth.then we will take a cable car up to Cangshan Mountain,then have a vegaterain lunch in Jizhaoan Monestery. It is very famous for its gardening and vegeterain food then trekking on Yudai Road for two hours. Then drive to visit the old town of Dali, weathered gray granite stands at 2,100 meters on a long, narrow rice plain between the Cangshan Mountains and the Erhai Lake, a natural configuration that seems specially designed for a good, bountiful life. Format of the old town is like a chessboard with four gates guarding in the directions of east, south, west and north, a design that was adopted by most towns in ancient China.
The journey will begin from the Bai village Xizhou and Xizhou morning Market. Then take a horse-cart in Xizhou old Town(half hour for taking photos) 23 kilometers north of Dali, Xizhou village has a more mixed population and cosmopolitan background. It grew and flourished in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) along with the fortunes of Dali’s renowned tea merchants that traded to Tibet. Yan’s Family courtyard is a good example of traditional Bai houses. And each morning, villagers in Bai dresses gather in a small market to buy and sell their produce and daily wares. Enjoy the Bai People’s three tea for songs and dances.
After lunch, Say farewell to the picturesque Yunnan. We will arrange airport transfer according to your flight schedule, wish you have a pleasant journey home!
