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Day 1
Place & Transport Arrive in Kunming
Today's Activities Our guide will meet you at the airport and transfer you to the Hotel. Rest of the day is left for you to relax or explore the city on your own. Kunming is the capital of Yunnan Province, and is one of the China's noted historical and cultural cities. Situated in the center of Yunnan Province, the city is 1894 meters above sea level and is praised as the city of eternal spring.
Meals None
Accommodation Jinjiang Hotel building B or similar(4 Star)
Day 2
Place & Transport Kunming
Today's Activities After a buffet breakfast at hotel, drive to the Stone Forest, which is 75 kilometers from Kunming and is accessible by a bus ride of 70 minutes. Afterwards, back to Kunming, visit a village en route. After back to downtown, visit the famous Bird & Flower Market.
Attractions Stone Forest  Bird-Flower Market  
Meals Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation Jinjiang Hotel building B or similar(4 Star)
Day 3
Place & Transport Kunming-Dali
Today's Activities After a buffet breakfast at hotel, transfer to take the public bus " Yunnan Express" to Dali. It will take about 4.5hours to Dali.Dali is a city located against Mt Cangshan in the west and adjoining Erhai Lake in the east. It was the capital of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdom as early as 1,300 years ago and is the home to Bai minority, and is 2100meters above sea level.
After arriving in Dali, head to visit the Three Pagodas, then stroll in Dali old town with the accompany of your guide. The Three Pagodas were constructed by following the model of the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an and is considered as the landmark of the region for centuries.
Attractions Three Pagodas  Dali Old Town  
Meals Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation Landscape Hotel or Similar Hotel(4 Star)
Day 4
Place & Transport Dali- Lijiang
Today's Activities After having a buffet breakfast at your hotel, drive 180 kilometers for about 3 hours to Lijiang along the new highway.
En route, visit the Bai minority village at Xizhou. Xizhou is 23 kilometers north of Dali with a more mixed population and cosmopolitan background. Here you will see Family Yan's courtyard, a very good example of traditional Bai houses. And each morning, villagers in Bai dresses gather in a small market to buy and sell their produce and daily wares.
Then continue driving to Shaping to visit the Shaping Market, a local market held on every Monday. On this market, the local people from surrounding villages come to exchange their daily wares, farming products, traditional clothes, or simply foods and vegetables.
After arriving in Lijiang, check in at hotel, the rest of the day is left for you to explore the little town on your own.
Lijiang is a small mountain town of stone and tile, laced with swift canals, which was enlisted as an UNESCO World Cultural Heritage in 1999 enjoying a long history of over 800 years. Unlike most of the old towns in China, there is no city walls due to a superstitious belief of the local ruler whose family name is Mu (tree), when encircled by walls, would be Kun (besieged). Wooden structures, mountains, small rivers and lanes integrate harmoniously in this mountain town. Lijiang is about 2500 meters above sea level.
Attractions Lijiang Old Town  Yan’s Compound  
Meals Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation Grand Lijiang Hotel or Similar(4 Star)
Day 5
Place & Transport Lijiang
Today's Activities Your tour today start with a visit to Black Dragon Pond with Dongba Museum. Here you will have the opportunity of taking great pictures of the crystal clear pond with backdrop of snow mountains in a distance. Afterwards, drive out to the Naxi minority villages at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountains. You will visit Yuhu Village, a simple village of Naxi minority where the Former Residence of Dr. Joseph Rock is located. Dr. Rock is an Austro-American botanist and explorer who lived here off and on from 1922-1949, is best remembered for the introduction of innumerable plant species to the West and his rigorous works on Naxi ethnology.
And also visit Baisha village, which is famous for its frescos dating back to Ming and Qing Dynasties. 558 mural paintings on 12 walls that date back to the Ming Dynasty in 1385 are kept in Liulidian Temple and Daobaoji Temple at Baisha Village. Buddhism, Taoism and Lamaism manifest in integration in styles of the Han Chinese, the Tibetan, the Bai and the Naxi people on the murals, a proof of exchange on politics, economy, culture and religion between the mainland and the frontiers of China.
Attractions Baisha Murals  Black Dragon Pool  Dongba Culture Museum  Rock Joseph’s Former Residence  
Meals Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation Grand Lijiang Hotel or Similar(4 Star)
Day 6
Place & Transport Lijiang
Today's Activities Today's excursion will takes you to the famous Tiger Leaping Gorge, and the First Bend of the Yangzi River with Stone Drum Village.
Stone Drum Village is situated at the First Bend of the Yangzi River, about 70 kilometers west of Lijiang. Here at the Stone Drum, you could have a dramatic view of the Yangzi's near-180-degree turn, where the wide, swift waters perform a miraculous about-face. For nearly 20 kilometers the river, first flowing south, then north, runs parallel to itself.
Tiger Leaping Gorge, called Hutiaoxia in Chinese, is the deepest gorge in the world and the Yangzi's best-known gorge after the Three Gorges in Sichuan and Hubei. Wedged tightly between titanic cliffs, the river is so narrow here, as legend tells us, that a hunted tiger made his escape to the other side in a single bound. Here, the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains and the Haba Snow Mountains lean close to each other and a large volume of torrent moving between them cutting deeper and deeper into the bottom of the gorge. In some places there is a drop of 3,000 meters to the water.
Attractions The First Bend of Yangtze River  Tiger Leaping Gorge  
Meals Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation Grand Lijiang Hotel or Similar(4 Star)
Day 7
Place & Transport Departure from Lijiang
Today's Activities A buffet breakfast is provided in the hotel. Then drive to Lijiang airport and see off, service ends.
Meals Breakfast
Accommodation None
 Optional Performances & Local Dishes
Tour Code Duration Twin Occupancy Single Occupancy Status Action
SG040911202009-11-20 to 2010-03-26CNY 3990/USD 585CNY 5070/USD 743Open
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Kind Notices

  

Minimum 2 adults, no maximam limitation Guaranteed departure on every Friday in Kunming from November 2009 to March 2010

Services Inclusions:

1. Accommodation in sharing twin room at specified hotels with daily breakfast;
2. All lunch en tour at local restaurant as mentioned in the program;
3. Sightseeing tour with local English-speaking guide;
4. All entrance fees and sightseeing as indicated;
5. Transport Kunming-Dali with public bus “Yunnan Express”;
6. All transfers in the city and land transportation Dali-Lijiang by air-conditioned private vehicle;

Services Exclusions:

1. Arrival flight to Kunming and airport tax on Day 01;
2. Departure flight from Lijiang and airport tax on Day 07;
3. All dinners, other meals, drinks and personal expenses;
4. Tips to the guide and driver;
5. Any program other than mentioned in our program.

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