It would be a pity not to go to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain when visiting Lijiang (Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Complete Guide)

Have you been to Lijiang? Where do you want to go in Lijiang? What? Don’t you have Jade Dragon Snow Mountain yet? Haha, I don’t know how to get there if I want to, but I don’t know how to get there alone. what do I do? Today I will tell you how to come to Lijiang easily and effortlessly and check in at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain! If you come to Yunnan and want to find a pure play group or a customized small group, you can add me on WeChat: 18082717005 to plan a travel plan that best suits you.

1. Where is Jade Dragon Snow Mountain? Many friends who come to Lijiang think that they can go to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain soon, because Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is very conspicuous in many promotional pictures of Lijiang, and it feels like it is not far from the city. Many people even equate Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Lijiang with self-love. In fact, it is still quite far from Lijiang to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and it is not as convenient as Dayan Ancient Town and Shuhe Ancient Town!

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is not a snow mountain, but 13 connected peaks. The main peak is Fandou, with an altitude of 5596 meters. It is in the northwest of Lijiang, about 15 kilometers away from the city, and the drive takes about 50 minutes.

2. How to get to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain? 1. Rent a car

Currently, there are no buses to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Scenic Area in Lijiang City. You can either rent a car or carpool to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Another way is Didi, but it will be a bit more expensive! If you have enough friends traveling with you, you can charter a car. A four-seater car costs 40-50 yuan for an average person, and the round-trip fare is around 100 yuan/person.

Carpooling

If you are carpooling, you can go to the outskirts of the ancient city to find a minibus dedicated to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. It’s usually 30 yuan/person, but carpooling is a waste of time because the driver usually waits until the car is full of passengers before leaving. If you have already booked a ticket for the big ropeway (the ropeway ticket is divided into time periods and you can only take the cable car at any time), carpooling will delay everyone's time to take the cable car.

3. Report to the delegation

This is the most common way for many tourists to visit the snow-capped mountains. If you are going out with your family, including the elderly or young children, you can also sign up for a group tour. Because the cost of visiting Lijiang Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is basically the same as traveling by yourself, you can choose to sign up for a local tour group, which is convenient and hassle-free!

In Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, a tourist attraction, you can not only take the large cableway to Glacier Park, but also the middle cableway and the small cableway.

The large cableway reaches Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Glacier Park, the middle cableway reaches Yaping, and the small cableway reaches Yunshanping. Therefore, going to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is not just one option. If the big ropeway is out of service due to weather or maintenance reasons, you can also take the middle ropeway or the small ropeway to Maoniuping or Yunshanping!

1.4680m Glacier Park

This is the most worth-seeing attraction in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. It is the sacred mountain in the hearts of the Naxi people in Lijiang, the travel guide to Huangshan, and the most visited attraction.

After arriving at the toll station at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, foreign tourists need to buy a mountain ticket, which costs 100 yuan per person. After arriving at the attraction, the general order of browsing is to go to the ticket collection office to collect tickets. In the off-season, you can take the cable car directly up the mountain without queuing. If there are many people during the peak season, in addition to queuing up to buy tickets, you also have to wait for the people above to go down the mountain before you can go up the mountain. (The number of tickets for Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Glacier Park is fixed every day, and the number of people visiting Glacier Park is also limited.) Then queue up to take the cable car to Glacier Park.

After getting off the cable car, you still need to walk about 300 meters on the wooden plank road until you reach the 4680-meter-high observation deck. Generally, about an hour is enough to visit the glacier. If the altitude is too high, it is not recommended to stay for too long, especially if the weather is bad, it is recommended to return early.

Warm reminder: When it snows heavily in winter, for the safety of tourists, it is generally prohibited to walk halfway through the Glacier Park. But this only happens occasionally. In winter, when the wind is strong, the ropeway will be temporarily out of service. Under normal circumstances, tickets are c

Grassland View. You can go all year round. When you go in the summer, there are green grasslands, snow-capped mountains and herds of yaks. Perfect for little bees who like to take pictures!

When it snows heavily in winter, Maoniuping is the most fun place to have snowball fights and build snowmen. Southern boys who like to play in the snow can go to Maoniuping to play in the snow!

Warm reminder: If you want to go to Maoniuping, you need to take the ropeway, which is usually 60 yuan/person.

3. Yunshanping

Landscape of grass pasture and spruce forest. Yunping is the first choice for many locals to take wedding photos in Lijiang.

After the beginning of spring, when new buds appeared on the grass, they walked on the original spruce plank road. Against the background of the snow-capped mountains, it looked like the small garden in the back mountain in Hayao Miyazaki's cartoons.

Warm reminder: If you want to go to Yunshanping, you need to take a small ropeway, which is usually 40 yuan/person.

4. Xiaojiuzhaigou Blue Moon Valley

Blue Moon Valley is also one of the highlights of visiting Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Blue Moon Valley, known as "Yunnan's Little Jiuzhaigou", is a must-see! Many people will see pictures of Lijiang Blue Moon Valley when searching for guides online, and would like to know where it is, but they cannot find the Blue Moon Valley Scenic Area.

In fact, Blue Moon Valley belongs to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Scenic Area. As long as you enter the scenic spot, you can visit this place. If you are not interested in taking the ropeway, you can only go to Blue Moon Valley.

Warm reminder: Although Blue Moon Valley does not require scenic spot tickets, you still need to spend money to buy mountain gate tickets even if you do not take the cable car. Ticket price is 100 yuan.

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