6 Nights & 7 Days Yunnan Tour

Tour Code: Tour C
Length: 6 nights & 7 days
Sightseeing:

 

Day 1:
Upon your arrival at Kunming, "the Spring and Flower City", our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure.

 

Day 2:
Today, you will enjoy a full day trip to the Stone Forest, which is about 90km to the south of Kunming.

* Stone Forest (Shilin): a 270-million-year-old limestone karst formation of tightly bundled gray

rocky outcrops, a natural wonder acknowledged as "World Karst Landscape Museum", the Stone Forest shows a variety of unique shapes such as sword, mushrooms, tower, pillar, castle representing the greatest miracle that the nature can present to human beings.

 

Day 3:
After breakfast, take the morning flight to Dali. Upon your arrival, be met and transferred to the city by our local guide. The visit today in this lovely city includes cruise on Erhai, Xizhou Bai Minority Village, Three Pagodas and the Dali Ancient Town.

* Dali: located on the side of the Cang Mountain 400 kilometres to the west of Kunming, with 1900-meter altitude, it is a historical and cultural city inhabited by Bai people, most of whom live in the houses consisting of three rooms and a screen wall.

* Erhai: in the shape of an ear, covering 250 square kilometres, with its vast pool of water shining under the sun like a sheet of vivid green and the snow mantles of the Cang Mountain reflecting quiveringly in it, it is known poetically as "Silver Cang Mountain and Jade-like Erhar".

* Xizhou Bai Minority Village: a photogenic village 20km north of Dali, where Bai minority people are living and where you will can get some ideas of the Bais' flair for architecture and elegant living.

* Three Pagodas: at the foot of the ZhonghePeak of the CangMountain, part of Chongshen Monastery, they are an emblem of the city's venerated history. The tallest of the trio, which is 69.13 metres tall, was built in 836 AD, while two smaller ones were built during a later period. No visit to Dali is complete with a call at these three pagodas.

* Dali Ancient Town: first established in 1382 AD, with a moat surrounding, this old town has a typical layout like a chessboard, old-timey roofed buildings with dark blue tiles and the white and gray tall walls.

 

Day 4:
In the morning, drive to Lijiang (3-hour drive), along the way, you will stop by the HeqingCounty, pay a visit to HeqingVillages & XinhuaVillage. Upon your arrival at LijiangCounty, you will have an excursion to the AncientTown and the Lion Hill. Overnight at LijiangCounty.

* Heqing County: heqing means celebration of cranes, because the legend goes that when the county was established on a lucky day, many cranes got together to celebrate this happy moment. Now HeqingCounty is a county with multi-minorities such as Bai, Yi, Miao, Dai peoples, etc.

* Heqing Village & Xinhua Village: famous for its handicraft craftsmanship of long history, where you can visit gold-making, silver-making workshops, etc. and do some shopping of them if you feel like.

* Lijiang County: located in the northwest of YunnanProvince, 544 km away from Kunming, perched at bottom of the Himalayas and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it is one of the National Scenic Areas and famed for its Ancient Town of Dayan, the JadeDragonSnowMountain, rich culture of different ethnic minorities and so many more.

* Lijiang Ancient Town: also called DayanTown, built in the late song dynasty and the early Yuan dynasty with a history of more than 800 years, this ancient town consists of clean streams flowing freely through the raod network, the colorful cobbled streets, age-old swaying willow trees, age-old buildings and stone bridges. There are over 22 different ethnic minorities making Lijiang their home, now and then you may see local folks in their own tradtional dress. Strolling around this charming ancient town, you will be attracted by the unique atmosphere and surprised by its ancient yet simple sense of "Harmony of Heaven and Man."

* Lion Hill: the name is derived from its resemblance of a lion playing a ball, the mountain is best known for its vast and green pines and cypresses planted mostly in Ming Dynasty with over 500 years old, from the Tower of Eternity (Wangoulou) on the top of the mountain, you can enjoy a bird's eye view of the ancient town and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain far away.

 

Day 5:
Today, you will enjoy a full day trip to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and the Baisha Mural Paintings, the BlackDragonPoolPark and Museum of Naxi Dongba Culture inside the park.

* Jade Dragon Snow Mountain: it is so called because it looks like a flying jade dragon from afar. The mountain consists of 13 peaks and sprawls 35 km from north to south, its glacier is the modern oceanic glacier closest to the equator in the Northern Hemisphere. By taking the cable car up to certain height, you can enjoy the expansive mountains views and snowy scenery.

* Baisha Mural Paintings: located in BaishaTownship, 8km north of Lijiang, there are altogether 53 groups of mural paintings in different temples with fine and smooth lines, bright colors, vivid pattern and harmonious composition. Painted from the early days of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) to the early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911),these mural paintings are an artistic representation of the different religious cultures such as Buddhism, Lamaism, Daoism and the Naxi Dongba religion.

* Black Dragon Pool Park: where you can see the JadeDragonSnowMountain from afar and the reflection of the mountain in the pool in a clear day, this park is the source of the water system of the OldLijiangTown as the clean spring from JadeDragonSnowMountain gathers here.

* Museum of Naxi Dongba Culture: where you will see the exhibitions of Naxi culture and dress, Dongba script, information on Lijiang's old town and so on.

 

Day 6:
After breakfast, be transferred to the airport and take the morning flight back to Kunming. Upon your arrival, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The tour in the afternoon will bring you to the West Hill and Dragon Gate, and the bird and flower market.

* West Hill and Dragon Gate: located by the Dian Lake, known as "Sleeping Beauty," it is a natural forest park in Kunming with a series of winding steps, tunnels, and statue-filled grottoes leading to the top, along the way, you can stop now and then to enjoy the beauty of the scenery: blue skies, green water with slow sailing fishing boats and so on.

* Bird and flower market: located in the old section of the city, it is a bustling market not just selling birds, flowers, but also jade, so-called "antiques", handicrafts and so on together with lots of food stands serving local specialities.

 

Day 7:
Free in the day until our local guide escorts you to the airport for your flight to your next destination.