2 Nights & 3 Days Extension Tour for Yunnan Highlights Tour

Tour Code:
Length: 2 nights & 3 days
Sightseeing:
* Baimang Snow Mountain Nature Reserve       * Feilai Monastery:
* Meili Snow Mountain                                    * Mingyong Glaciers

 

* If you have more time and you think you are energetic enough, you can have an extension tour to Deqin County to enjoy a marvelous tour.

 

+Day 1:
In the morning, drive 5 to 7 hours to Deqin County(3400m altitude) which is 187km away from Zhongdian through Baimang Snow Mountain Nature Reserve, you will be able to view Baimang Snow Mountain if the weather is clear, pass the toppest part of today at 4292m altitude at 156km. The view along the way is fantastic with different kinds of trees, streams down the valley, prayer flags and stupas, and Tibetan villages.

* Baimang Snow Mountain Nature Reserve: one of four National Nature Reserves and the biggest reserve with the highest altitude in Yunnan. The difference between its highest peak and lowest place is 3380m, thus it features with different climate, animals and vegetations depending on the altitude. With stretching ranges, BaimangSnowMountain is taken as the holy symbol by Tibetans.

 

+Day 2:
Try to get up early in the morning, drive 10km to Feilai Monastery to view the magic sunrise of Meili Snow Mountain. Then drive another 1.5-hour to Mingyong village, where you will walk on the trails for about 4km to the bottom of Mingyong Glaciers, walk another one hour or so, you will get to Tibetan Taizi Monastery-another good spot to view the magnificent Mingyong Glaciers. (You can choose to hire a horse to go up to the glacier on your own expense in order to save your energy.) After the tour, get back to DeqinCounty.

* Feilai Monastery: builit in Ming Dynasty, located 10km away from DeqinCounty, it is one of the best spots to view MeiliSnowMountain.

* Meili Snow Mountain: located on the border of Yunnan and Tibet, one of the eight holy Tibetan Buddhist mountains, legend says that the snow mountain is a god guarding Tibetan Buddhism, every year, thousands upon thousands of pilgrims from Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan and Gansu come here to pay homage to the mountain. MeiliSnowMountain consists of 13 peaks, of which the sharp KawaKarpoPeak is the main peak with an altitude of 6740 meters. In Tibetan language, Kawa Karpo means "white snow mountain". KawaKarpoPeak is the highest peak in Yunnan, and famed as "the most beautiful peak in the world", due to its precipitous cliffs, frequent avalanches, thick fog and cloud, heavy rain and storms, the peak remains a "virgin peak".

* Mingyong Glaciers: one 12km-long glacier of Kawa Karpo Peak snaking from 5500m high down to an altitude of 2700m into the forest in winter, a glacier of this size is rarely seen at such low altitude. For thousands of years, the mountain and glacier has been a pilgrimage site for Tibetan Buddhists.

 

+Day 3:
After breakfast, head back to Zhongdian for your flight to Kunming. Upon your arrival at Kunming, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel.