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What scenic spots are there in downtown Kunming?

1. Shilin

Shilin is a scenic spot located in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. It has the oldest karst landform evolution history in the world, the widest distribution area, complete types and unique forms, and is known as "the first wonder in the world". The scenic spot is a veritable "forest" composed of rocks, which passes through it, but it is strange to see many rocks, towering abruptly and with different postures.

2. Cuihu Park

Cuihu Park is one of the most beautiful parks in the urban area. It is named after green water all around, green bamboo in all seasons and green willows in spring and summer. Cuihu Park is connected to Biji in the south and Sheshan in the north. The lake is sparkling and weeping willows are swaying. It is known as the "emerald" inlaid in Kunming, "the world of ten acres of lotus fish, and the tower of half the city's Liufo".

3. anning hot spring

Anning hot spring, also known as Jasper Spring, is located in Kunming, Yunnan. Known as "the best soup in the world" by Yang Shen, a scholar in Ming Dynasty, it has become a hot spring resort integrating leisure, health care and treatment.

Arrival & Departure: There is a shuttle bus to anning hot spring at Xiaoximen Suburb Bus Station in Kunming, which runs every hour at 08:00- 18:00, and the journey takes about one hour.

4. Dianchi Lake

Dianchi Lake is the largest freshwater lake in southwest Yunnan Province, and is known as the Pearl of the Plateau. The lakes and mountains of Dianchi Lake have different evaluations, perhaps not as beautiful as Guilin and other places, but it is rare to have such a wide water area on the plateau. Visitors can also take a cruise to Dianchi Lake, where there are Xishan Forest Park, Guanyin Mountain, Daguanlou, Haigeng Park, Yunnan Ethnic Village and other attractions.

5. Ethnic Villages in Yunnan

Yunnan Ethnic Village, located on the bank of Dianchi Lake in the southwest suburb of Kunming, Yunnan Province, is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction and an important window for tourists to reflect and display the social and cultural customs of 26 ethnic groups in Yunnan. It faces Xishan Forest Park, Daguan Park and Zhenghe Park across the sea. The Longmen of Xishan Mountain is connected by a cableway, forming a tourist loop from the ethnic village to Xishan Scenic Area.

6. Xishan

Xishan Park is located in the western suburbs of Kunming, with Dianchi Lake in the east and Changpo in the west. Bijia Mountain, known as Bijia Mountain in ancient times, was rated as a national "AAAA" scenic spot in 2006. Xishan is a scenic spot with cultural relics, scenic spots and forests. Places of interest are distributed in the foothills where birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, including Huating Temple, Taihua Temple, Sanqing Pavilion, Longmen and Nie Er's Tomb, a people's musician. There are Guanyin Mountain, Baiyukou Lake and other tourist resorts in the southern section.

7. Jiuxiang

Jiuxiang Scenic Area is a national 4A-level tourist attraction, which integrates cave landscape, natural scenery outside the cave, human landscape and ethnic customs. With hundreds of large and small caves, it is the largest cave community system with the largest number and the most peculiar cave landscape in China. This is a unique international tourist karst geological park, known as the hometown of caves.

8. World Horticultural Exposition Park

Expo Park is the exhibition base of Kunming World Horticultural Exposition, which brings together horticultural achievements from all over the world. The integration of architectural art and sculpture art in the park, together with all kinds of precious plants and flowers inside and outside the park, makes the Expo Park more colorful, dazzling and perfect, which fully embodies the theme of harmonious development between man and nature.