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Tour Code: COT-S-011B
Start in: Shanghai
End in: Shanghai
Special Experience: nature scenic view in Lijiang and Jiuzhaidou, Giant Panda Bear in Chengdu
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Romantic China Southwest Natural Tour

          

Trip Highlights

Visit Lijiang Ancient Town. The design of folk houses, "Three element of a screen wall, a quadrangle with five courtyards", speaks for the talent and wisdom of Naxi folks.

Visit Lijiang lion hill,which covers a floor space of 15 hectare.There were about 40 mulberry cypress that about 800 years,and about 90% is covered with forest.

Yulongxueshan ( Jade Gragon Snow Mountain ) is home to half of Yunnan's 13,000 plant species, 400 kinds of trees, dozens of flower types, and one-third of China's known species of medicinal herbs and plants. Have a Tout There!

Visit the Baisha Mural Paintings.There are trigrams, lotus flowers and even Sanskrit inscriptions on the ceiling.

Visit Heilongtan( Black Dragon Pool), where built a musem of Naxi. It is a cultural exhibition hall and five phoenix tower.

Cultivating the mind and character, nourishing purity of spirit, and feeling at one with nature...these thing cannot be achieved in a study, but in the Hutiao Gorges.

Visit the First Bend of the Yangtze River,there is a white marble sculpture of the drum-like rock artifacts,so the town called Shigu Village.

Visit the Shigu Village,you will take a look at a slopeit which is the best place to take shot at the first bend of Yangtze River.

The Stone Forest culture, illustrated by the famous, long narrative poem, Ashima; along with the colorful embroidery of the Sani people; the ancient and mysterious "Torch Festival"; the cheerful songs and dances of the Yi people, and the Yi villages.

Visit West Hill and Dragon Gate, known as the " sleeping beauty of Dianchi Lake".

Come prepared to haggle - negotiating will often result in paying less than 50% of the asking price.

It's best to visit the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base in the morning, feeding is around 9.30am and soon thereafter the pandas return to their other favourite pastime - sleeping. And if you visit in autumn, you will find many baby pandas there. :)

Visit the Du Fu's Thatched Roof Cottage,where where he wrote more than 200 poems. It's actually a park, with lots of walkways, a beautiful pond and a tea garden.

Visit the Chongli tower.It is exquisite and beautiful with a square upturned eave on the two lower storeys and an octagonal eave on the upper two storeys, vermilion columns, glazed tiles and gilt cupola.

Visit the Huanglong Monastery,Located in the Huanglong Valley.It is now a religious place for the local Tibetan,Han, Qiang and Hui people with different religious beliefs. The annual Huanglong Monastery Fair attracts large numbers of people.

As autumn arrives, the plants keep changing their colors. As colorful leaves and forests are mirrored on the lakes around, the stunning color images seem to allure you into a dreamlike world.

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