7 Days Yunnan Highlights Group Tour

Meals: No meal
Accommodation: Hampton by Hilton Kunming Guandu Hotel / Jinjiang Hotel or similar standard hotel

Upon arriving at Kunming airport, you will meet our local representative at the airport and transfer to hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day. 

Note:
1. The free sharing transfer service from Kunming airport is offered 3 times a day at 11:30, 15:00,18:30
2. If your flight can not meet the free pick-up time, please wait a while in the airport. Should you prefer a private transfer, please inform us in advance to make the arrangement and quote the transfer suppliment to you. 

Green Lake

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Landscape Hotel / Ancient City Courtyard Lirenhua Resort Hotel or similar hotel

After breakfast, meet your tour guide at the hotel at 08:30 a.m. and drive to stroll around the Green Lake. With verdant islets, emerald lakes, and exquisite pavilions, Green Lake Park is an oasis in central Kunming. It is a tranquil land for people to escape from the bustling city, and a winter resort for red-beaked seagulls. 

Then drive about 85km to the Stone Forest. It covers an area of 400 square kilometers and included both large and small forest as well as many other scenic spots. It has been know since the Ming Dynasty as the First Wonder of the World.

In the late afternoon, take a bullet train to Dali. Meet your local guide and driver, then transfer to hotel for overnight.

Stone Forest

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Landscape Hotel / Ancient City Courtyard Lirenhua Resort Hotel or similar hotel

In the morning, transfer to Xizhou Old Town. Walk around this old town to see Bai ethnic traditional archetecture. Taste local three-course tea in Xizhou.  It is the most popular among Bai people which is served for distinguished guests. Then, drive to Zhoucheng Village. Pay a visit to local Tie-Dyeing workshop, where you will learn and make one tie-dye by yourself. 

After lunch, drive to visit Erhai lake along the ecological corridor. Explore Dali Old Town including the Foreigners' Street, the Ancient City Wall of Dali and The Gate Tower. Then transfer back to hotel. 

Dali Tour

Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: E-outfitting Boutique Hotel/ Holiday Inn Express Shangrila or similar hotel

Today, we will drive to Shangri-la. On the way, have a farview of the First Bend of Yangtze River. Then go on driving to vist maginificent Tiger Leaping Gorge, the deepest gorge in the world, and visit Upper Gorge, enjoying the 2.6-kilometer along Jinsha River and the stone trail.

Upon arrival Shangrila, stroll around Dukezong Ancient Town and walk up to the top of Guishan Hill to see the Grand Prayer Wheel and have a panoramic view of Shangri-La city.

Tiger Leaping Gorge

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: E-outfitting Boutique Hotel/ Holiday Inn Express Shangrila or similar hotel

Pick you up at the hotel, and then drive to visit Songzanlin Monastery which is the largest Tibetan monastery in Yunnan, whose castle-like complex is also known as Little Potala Palace. Experience the mystery and traditions of Tibetan Buddhism here.

Then transfer to visit Napahai Lake and pay a visit to a local Tibetan family and experience the highly-praised hospitality of Tibetan people.

Notes: Small deviations in the tour program are sometimes necessary, depending on weather, road conditions, flight schedules and room availability.

Napahai Lake

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Jinfu Hotel/ Duofu Hotel or similar

In the morning, drive about 3 hours to Lijiang. Upon arrival, visit Lijiang Old Town and Black Dragon Pool. As one of the best preserved ancient towns, Lijiang (Dayan) Old Town, along with Shuhe Old Town and Baisha Old Town was listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. Black Dragon Pool (Chinese Name: 黑龙潭) is the landmark of Lijiang. The pool is listed in the Collections of Famous Pools of China because of its exquisite beauty. Its surroundings are all green with grass and shaded by swaying willow trees. Then explore the rich Naxi minority culture in Dongba Culture Museum. Tour ends by driving back to your hotel.

Note: If you choose Route C, you will continue to visit Baisha Old Town and Baisha Murals after your visit in Dongba Culture Museum in this tour. 

Lijiang Ancient Town

Meals: breakfast

Route B: In the morning at 09:00 am, drive to visit Shuhe Old Town.  Shuhe has a long history. It had become the distributing center of Naxi foremen in as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, and it is also an important market town still remained complete on the Ancient Tea-horse Road. 

After that, pay a visit Baisha Old Town and Baisha Murals. Stroll through Baisha Old Town, which is an enchanting traditional Naxi style old town. Visit the Baisha Mural about 600 years old, which is one part of the World Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO 1997. 

Afterwards,follow a trip to Yuhu Naxi Minority Village. After the tour, the group is dismissed and free sharing transfer together to the airport for departure. 
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Route C:  In the morning at 09:00 am, visit Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Drive about 30KM to Ganhaizi Meadow(3100M), you will take the sightseeig bus for a short visiting through the Baishuihe River in Blue Moon Valley, and take the chairlift up to Glacier park (about 4500M).  ( Since Glacier Park is the most popular part of JDSM and the ticket might in shortage. If it is not availabe, we have to switch to Spruce Meadow.)

After lunch, enjoy the Impression Lijiang Show directed by Zhang Yimou. It is held in Ganhaizi Meadow about 3100M above the sea level. You will be transferred to Lijiang Sanyi Airport after the tour, service ends.

Note:
1. The free sharing transfer service to Lijiang airport is arranged together.
2. If your flight can not meet the transfer time and prefer a separate private transfer, please inform us in advance to make the arrangement and quote the transfer suppliment to you. 

Baisha Murals

Service Ends