Lijiang travel suggestions

Five natural scenery: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Laojun Mountain, Tiger Leaping Gorge, the first bay of the Yangtze River, Lugu Lake

Five cultural landscapes: Lijiang Ancient City, Dongba Culture, Naxi Ancient City Music, Baoshan Stone City, Mosuo Style

Suggested plan for seven-day tour of Lijiang:

D1 Start the trip to Lijiang, keywords: First Impression Museum overlooking the ancient city

Assuming you arrive after noon, check into the hotel first:

If you are staying in Xincheng, there are: Dagang Wangbao International Hotel (super five-star), Guanfang Hotel (the tallest building in Lijiang, five-star), Guanfang Hotel Pearl of Western Yunnan (five-star, garden-style Naxi residential villa-style building), Tourist Hotel (four-star), Adange Hotel (four-star), Lijiang International Hotel, Lijiang Shuhe Yuerong Hotel, Grand Big hotel (three stars, Thai management). There are other four-star and three-star hotels, depending on your preferences.

If you want to experience the ancient city of Lijiang in the most authentic way, it is recommended to stay in a hotel in the ancient city. Of course, the price is about twice as expensive as a hotel of the same level in Xincheng District:

1. Ancient City Inn : Located at the entrance of the ancient city, three-star, residential-style building

2. Jiannanchun Wenyuan: Located in the center of the ancient city, four-star, residential-style building

3. Self-operated by Naxi people in the ancient city The inn is run by locals, where you can experience Naxi folk customs. It is equivalent to staying in an ancient city's home, and you can have the most direct understanding of the ancient city culture.

After checking in, if time permits, first take a ten-minute drive to walk through the main streets of Lijiang (Lijiang is very small) to have a general understanding of Lijiang’s direction, and then visit the Lijiang Museum (the first time to learn about Lijiang) history and culture), and then to the Lion Rock between the New Town and the Old Town to overlook the Old Town of Lijiang (these two items can also be arranged in the later itinerary).

D2 travel keywords: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Dongbagu ethnic customs, Ten Thousand Camellias, Shuhe Ancient Town, Naxi ancient music

80 kilometers round trip

Specific itinerary: 8 in the morning :30 Take a bus to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Scenic Area, visit Ganhaizi, take the Yunshanping Cableway, visit Yunshanping where the Naxi couple died in love, experience the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain above the forest, walk through the high-altitude virgin forest, etc.; or take a ride Maoniuping Cableway, go to Maoniuping to see the snow-capped mountains. Maoniuping and Yunshanping both offer views of snow-capped mountains, but the landscapes are slightly different, and you can ride horses or yaks in Maoniuping. Returning to Ganhaizi, you can watch the large-scale live performance "Impression of Lijiang·Snow Mountain" directed by Zhang Yimou (12:00-1:00).

Go down the mountain at noon and have lunch in Dongba Valley. At the same time, you can experience the customs of the six ethnic minorities in Lijiang and stay for about two hours;

In the afternoon, go to Shuhe Ancient Town and visit the tea horses. Visit the Ancient Road Museum, drink Pu'er tea, have dinner in Shuhe, and eat Naxi hotpot.

After dinner, return to the ancient city and enjoy Naxi ancient music by the Xuanke Ancient Band (8:00-9:30);

After the music, you will tour the ancient city at night, drink tea, and return to the inn to rest. .

D3 travel keywords: Tiger Leaping Gorge Shigu Yangtze River First Bend full-day round trip 200KM

At 8:30 in the morning, drive to Tiger Leaping Gorge and visit the market on the 14-kilometer journey Sea, ride a Lijiang horse, take a pig trough boat; 40 kilometers on the way to see the distant view of the Jinsha River; 50 kilometers to visit the first bay of the Yangtze River, tour the first town on the Yangtze River - Shigu Town; 100 kilometers to the Tiger Leaping Gorge, experience the world's grand canyon With great momentum, he returned in the evening.

Enjoy the large-scale song and dance performance "Lishui Sands" in the evening.

D4 Travel Keywords: Lugu Lake Daughter Country, Mosuo Style Walking Marriage, Jinsha River 200 kilometers one way

Take the minibus (fare 60 yuan/person) at 8:00 am. Lugu Lake, see the Jinsha River on the way, and feel the ups and downs of the Hengduan Mountains; arrive at Ninglang County at noon, have lunch; arrive at Lugu Lake at about 4 p.m. (ticket 80 yuan/person), watch the evening view of Lugu Lake, stay at Mosuo Renjia Inn, and have dinner ; Participate in the Mosuo people's dance and listen to the Mosuo people's antiphonal songs. (It is impossible to get married with Mosuo people, unless you live for ten and a half days, and you must be very sincere and courageous. Or with outsiders... haha, it is available all over the world, but be careful of AIDS)

D5 Get up early and watch the morning glow and sunrise on Lugu Lake, and Mosuo people fishing; after breakfast, go to Lige Island, visit Mosuo people, take a pig trough boat tour on the lake, listen to Mosuo folk songs, and climb A small island in the middle of the lake. Return to Lijiang after lunch.

D6 Keywords: Special series of snacks, ancient city residences, Mufu three-eye well souvenirs

Visit the ancient city residences, such as Lijiang Siheyuan, Sanfang Yizhaobi, Sanyanjing, etc., visit Mufu ; Taste snacks such as candied peppers, etc., and buy tourist souvenirs; have lunch at Puxian Temple, taste Naxi snacks (fire-roasted cakes, chickpea jelly, oil tea, etc.); visit Fang Guoyu's former residence, and have bridge rice noodles for dinner.

D7 End the trip to Lijiang and return.

(The above schedule can be adjusted according to time and funds)

If you have enough time, you can add one or two days to D3 to go to Zhongdian County, which is Shangri-La County and Deqin County, feel the Tibetan customs, visit the Songzanlin Monastery, known as the Little Potala Palace, and see the Kawagbo, known as the sacred mountain, which is the sacred mountain that made the Chinese and Japanese mountaineering teams die in heaven.

The above schedule can be adjusted according to actual conditions.

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1. Transportation in Lijiang:

There are two ways to arrive or leave Lijiang: airplane and car (the railway is expected to be opened at the end of this year).

Routes: There are 16 normal flights every day, which will increase to about 30 during the Golden Week. There are direct flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places, but they all need to land in Kunming once. Kunming-Lijiang air time is 40 minutes.

Highway: Lijiang-Kunming, 510 kilometers, 70% of which are expressways, and the rest are first and second-level roads. Buses run for about 7 hours (small limousines take 5 and a half hours). There are luxury buses and sleeper night buses, with an average of about 30 departures per day.

In other directions of the highway, there are sleeper buses from Lijiang to Panzhihua, several buses a day, and from Lijiang to Chengdu, one bus a day. Lijiang-Dali, more than 30 classes every day. Of course, if you want to continue your trip to Yunnan, you can also travel to Dali, Diqing, Baoshan and other places. There are several shuttle buses every day.