Activities | Lijiang Old Town |
Meals | No meal |
Hotels |
Arrive in Lijiang.Meet your local guide and driver, transfer to the hotel for checking.
Visit Lijiang Old Town.
Activities | Yulong Snow Mountain,Spruce Meadow, Baisha Village and Murals,Baishui River and Terraces |
Meals | Breakfast,Lunch |
Hotels |
Enjoy the sunrise of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Lijiang Ancient Town in the morning, drive about 30KM to Ganhaizi Meadow(3100M), you will take the sightseeig bus for a short visiting through the Baishuihe River, take the chairlift up to visit Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. The cableway will be arranged according to the condition of the mountain. You will hike around1 hours in the original forest in Spruce Meadow (3200M).
After lunch, you you’ll visit Yuhu Village and the Former Residence of Joseph Rock who was an Austria-American botanist and explorer, lived in Yuhu village and other places in that region from 1922 to 1949. He was also a naturalist and Photographer, and the first foreign scholar to introduce Lijiang ethnic culture to the western world.
Stroll through Baisha Old Town, which is an enchanting traditional Naxi style old town. Visit the Baisha Mural about 600 years old, which is one part of the World Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO 1997.
–Jade Dragon Snow Mountain stretches a length of 35 kilometers (22 miles) and a width of 20 kilometers (13 miles). Looking from Lijiang Old Town in the south which is 15 kilometers (nine miles) away, the snow-covered and fog-enlaced mountain resembles a jade dragon lying in the clouds, hence, the name Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. The highest peak named Fan Peak (Shanzidou in Chinese) which is about 5596 meters above sea level. There are three cablecars in the mountain, the fist to the Glacier Park(4500M),the second to Spruce Meadow(3200M),the third to Yak Meadow(3700M).
Activities | Lijiang-Shigu-Tacheng |
Meals | Breakfast,Lunch |
Hotels |
Transfer to Shigu Old Town,visit the Memerial Hall of the Red Army and the Long March, the Stone Drum,the local Market of Shigu.
Pay a visit to the First Bend of Yangtze River.
Transfer along the upper Yangtze River and arrive at Tacheng in afternoon.
Check in the Tacheng Sbub-nosed Monkey Hotel and enjoy the feeding of the snub-nosed monkey in the park.
Activities | Tacheng-Nixi-Shangrila |
Meals | Breakfast,Lunch |
Hotels |
Enjoy the feeding of the snub-nosed monkey in the park in the morning.
Visit some Lisu ethnic villages and drive to Nixi.
Visit the Nixi Pottery Village and Tibetan families.
Transfer to Shangrila.
Activities | Sogzanlin Monastery, the Bita Lake & Shudu Lake, Dabao Monastery, Napahai Lake and Tibetan Villages |
Meals | Breakfast,Lunch |
Hotels |
In the morning, visit the Ganden Sumtseling 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.
And afterwards you’ll visit the tranquil Bita Lake & Shudu Lake in Pudacuo National Park Pudacuo National Park is located in one of the most biologically-diverse regions of the world. While the region comprises only 0.7 percent of China’s land area, it contains more than 20 percent of the country’s plant species, about one-third of its mammal and bird species and almost 100 endangered species.
Visit Dabao Monastery on the way back from Pudacuo National Park. Drive around Napahai Lake and visit some Tibetan villages and families.
Activities | Tiger Leaping Gorge, Lijiang Old Town |
Meals | Breakfast,Lunch |
Hotels |
From Shangri-La, you’ll drive about 100KM to the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the deepest gorge in the world. With 34 rapids of the Yangtze River, it is called the Jinsha in this area because you can find gold in the river. Afternoon, you’ll head for Shangri La, the former Zhongdian. Upon arrival in Shangri La, you will have entered the Tibetan cultural area and a landscape of barley fields and yaks scattered in the valleys.
After lunch continue the driving to Lijiang.
Activities | Departure from Lijiang |
Meals | Breakfast |
Hotels |
Departure from Lijiang.
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