The best route to travel from Harbin to Yunnan

Hello, I just came back from Yunnan. My wife and I spent the Spring Festival in Yunnan this year for ***18 days. I suggest that it is better to go on a self-guided tour. The purpose is to relax while traveling, so It’s better to be free, but it’s too stressful to go with a group. The most important thing is that you are not free. You will regret it, but you have to do your homework in advance and plan the route.

I suggest that you go to Kunming first and then go to Lijiang. Then go to Dali, then to Tengchong, then to Ruili, and then to Xishuangbanna. The specific arrangements are as follows:

★ Day 1 Tour Destination - Kunming After arriving at the hotel, take a rest and then go to Yuantong Temple and Cuihu Park. Wait and see the sights in the city.

★ Day 2 Tour Destination - After breakfast in Dali, a one-day tour to the world's largest wonder, the Stone Forest, including Jianfeng Pool, Wangfeng Pavilion, Two Birds Ferrying, Jixia Passage, Stone Forest Lake, Xiao Stone forests and other wonders, watch the famous karst landforms, and feel the uncanny workmanship of nature. Enjoy Yunnan's famous tea in Colorful Yunnan, visit a jade processing factory, and receive a Yunnan ethnic characteristic foot massage after dinner to relax your tired body. In the evening, take the tourist hard sleeper train to Dali, the hometown of the Five Golden Flowers (between 21:30-23:50).

★ Day 3 Tour Destination - Dali Arrive in Dali early, the tour guide will pick up the group, and after breakfast, take a luxury cruise to visit the Erhai Lake, enjoy Bai nationality singing and dancing (five golden flowers), and taste three-course tea (one bitter and two Sweet Three Aftertastes), visit Little Putuo or Guanyin Pavilion, Nanzhao Customs Island (view the largest white marble Guanyin statue in Yunnan Province, Taihu Stone Group, Bai ethnic minority culture and art square), and overlook the famous Cang'er Lake with "unparalleled scenery in the southwest" "One mountain" - Cangshan. Visit Butterfly Spring Park (the place of love and love for the Bai people), visit the ancient city of Dali, the gateway to the ancient Southern Silk Road, and its unique Foreigner Street, and visit Dali's landmark buildings, Chongsheng Temple and Three Pagodas Park.

★ Day 4 Tour Destination - Lijiang After breakfast, take the BUS (200km) from Dali to Lijiang, and visit Xinhua Ethnic Village (appreciation Traditional gold and silverware handicraft making workshop), after arriving in Lijiang, visit the world cultural heritage - Lijiang Old Town, stroll through Sifang Street with small bridges and flowing water, and experience the leisure time of Lijiang.

★ Day 5 Tour Destination - Shangri-La Lijiang Drive (198km) to Shangri-La, and visit the most majestic canyon in the world - Tiger Leaping Gorge, the first bay of the Yangtze River (the river flows here) Reverse the journey and rush into the Central Plains to see the grand view). Along the way, you can see the confrontation of snowy mountains, vast grasslands, deep river valleys, and the "obsessed scenery" of the Ancient Tea Horse Road. After arriving at Shangri-La, you can enjoy the beautiful Yila grassland scenery along the way and understand the unique Tibetan customs.

★ Day 6 Tour destination - Lijiang After breakfast, visit Pudacuo National Forest Park for a one-day tour (Bitahai, Shudu Lake, Xiagui Ethnic Cultural Village). Mirror-like mountain lakes, pastures with beautiful water and abundant grass, wetlands with blooming flowers, and primeval forests frequented by birds and animals. The two beautiful freshwater lakes, Bitahai and Shudu Lake, are known as the pearls of the plateau. The lakes are rich in schizothorax and heavy lip fish. In autumn and winter, a large number of yellow ducks and other birds play by the lake, which is a natural attraction. Strolling on the pasture in the forest, the jingling bells of the horses and the smoke rising from the distant sheep sheds seem so harmonious with the surrounding natural environment; return to Lijiang by car.

★ Day 7 Tour Destination - Lugu Lake Lijiang Take a car (203km) to Lugu Lake, the daughter country of China. Along the way, you can enjoy the scenery of Jinsha River and Xiaoliang Mountain. You can have a bird's-eye view of Lugu Lake from the viewing pavilion and take a pig ride. Cruise the national scenic spot - Lugu Lake, appreciate the three wonders of the Mosuo people (the boat on the lake, the people on the source boat, and the singing of people), appreciate the rare plateau plant wavy sea cauliflower, and visit Liwubi Island (bird Island), Tusi Tomb, Lama Temple, overlooking the Goddess Gemu Mountain.

★ Day 8 Tour destination - Mosuo family visit to the matriarchal clan in Lijiang. The local area retains the traditional matriarchal social lifestyle and its unique "Azhu" (meaning "friend" or "companion") The custom of walking marriage is rare among all ethnic groups in the country. Visit the local Mosuo people and learn about their customs. Then drive back to Lijiang from Lugu Lake and enjoy the beautiful natural scenery along the way.

★ Day 9 Tour destination - After breakfast in Kunming, visit the national scenic spots - visit Yushui Village, Dongba Sacred Garden, Jade Pillar Qingtian, Dongba Valley, Yufeng Temple, Dongba Valley Ecological Ethnic Village, Lijiang Bus The bus will return to Dali, and Dali will take the train back to Kunming.

★ Day 10 Tour destination - Kunming Arrive in Kunming in the morning and have free time. In the evening, fly from Kunming to Banna including air tickets. Banna tour guide will pick you up and check into the hotel.

★ Day 11 Tour Destination - Banna Xishuangbanna is known as the "Kingdom of Plants" and the "Hometown of Peacocks". It is famous for its wide variety of exotic flowers and grasses and colorful ethnic customs. Visit Menglun Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (80 kilometers one way). There are more than 3,000 kinds of plants in the garden, which are divided into palm garden, bamboo garden, banyan tree garden, orchid garden, ethnic botanical garden, dipterocarp botanical garden, tropical spices and medicinal plants. The Botanical Garden, Southern Yunnan Endangered Plant Ex-situ Reserve and other parts are tourist attractions with unique scenery; in the afternoon, we visited the Olive Dam on the Lancang River. There are more than 60 Dai villages on the dam of more than 50 square kilometers. The locals vividly call it "Peacock Tail Feather" is considered to be the most beautiful place in Xishuangbanna. Enter the Dai Garden to experience the local ethnic carnival - participate in the Dai water-splashing activity.

★ Day 12 Tour Destination - Banna Wild Elephant Valley Scenic Area One-day Tour Attractions (45 kilometers one way): Butterfly Museum, Aviary Garden, Python Garden, and visit to the secret Asian wild elephants in the tropical primeval forest In the activity area, you can take a 2,063-meter-long sightseeing cableway that passes through the tropical rainforest (the cableway fee is at your own expense), stroll through the more than 1,000-meter-long primeval forest elevated sightseeing corridor, view the hotel in the trees, and enjoy the Asian elephant performance (to appreciate the harmonious coexistence of humans and animals). ); check into the hotel late.

★ Day 13 Tour Destination - Kunming

Visit the Primitive Forest Park (13 kilometers one way): visit the Primitive Forest Park, the 100-meter Relief, the Valley Rainforest, and the Aini Mountain Village. Let the peacocks fly; watch ethnic song and dance performances and animal training performances; you can also get up close to nature, hike in primeval forests, and fly back to Kunming in the evening. The whole journey is over!

However, it is difficult to buy round-trip tickets during the Spring Festival. We almost couldn’t return to Kunming from Tengchong. We couldn’t buy tickets within a month. Later, we bought an overtime bus by coincidence. So we must Plan well and be prepared.

Happy play!