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7 Days China Yunnan Travel: Kunming,
Dali, Lijiang
Tour Code: YNT_02
Deatinations: Kunming,
Dali,
Lijiang
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Tour Itinerary
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| Day 01 |
Arrival in Kunming
Upon your arrival, our guide will
pick you up at the airport and transfer to your hotel.
Visit the Bamboo Monastery.
Bamboo
Monastery: The first temple dedicated to Zen Buddhism in Yunnan. It dates back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279). The present structure mostly dates from the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The temple's most outstanding artistic feature is the statues of the life-sized clay figures of 500 Arhats. |
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| Day 02 |
Kunming - Stone Forest - Kunming
(Breakfast
+ Lunch)
After breakfast, drive 90 KM to
Lunan county to visit the Stone Forest. Back to Kunming
in the afternoon.
Stone
Forest: Situated in Lunan County, it is an area of typical karst landform with numerous groups of strange gray-black stone peaks and stone pillars. The Stone Forest covers an area of 400 square kilometers, is about 85 kilometers away from Kunming and requires 1.5 hours' driving.
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| Day 03 |
Kunming - Dali (Breakfast
+ Lunch)
Take flight to Dali. Have a cruise
in the Erhai Lake. Visit Bai people's Tie Dying Cloth
with Wax, villages of Bai People with traditional architecture
courtyard in Xizhou Township. Pay a visit to the Three
Pagodas in the Chong Sheng Temple and Dali Ancient City.
Erhai
Lake: One of the seven biggest fresh water lakes
in China and the largest highland lake next to Dianchi
Lake (in Kunming). So it was called "Plateau Pearl".
The dimension is 41.5 km. by 6.9 km. The total storage
capacity is 3 billion cubic metres and its elevation
1,972 metres.
Bai
people: The Bai people have a long history and well-developed
culture. 80% of the population of 1.39 million live
in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture around the Erhai
Lake with exquisite scenery. The Bai people have their
own spoden language but do not have a written one.
Three
Pagodas: Between Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake,
the Three Pagodas stand like the legs of a huge tripod.
In the time of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms, Chongshengsi
Monastery was the largest monastery in this area and
the Three Pagodas were only a part of it.
Dali
Ancient City: A historically and culturally famous
city of China, is renowned for her historical interest,
and an important pass of the ancient "Silk Route of
the South".
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| Day 04 |
Dali - Lijiang (Breakfast
+ Lunch)
Drive 3.5 hours to Lijiang. Visit Sifang Street in Dayan Ancient Town
Lijiang
Ancient Town: As one of UNESCO's World Heritage sites in China, Lijiang Ancient Town has attracted many tourists from home and abroad. Different with other old towns, it has no city wall. Lijiang features with cobbled streets, crisscrossing canals flowing with water, swaying willow trees and gaily-hued blossoms and many buildings and structures are in styles of Ming and Qing dynasties. The people here are mainly from the Naxi ethnic group and you can still see many older women dressed in their traditional attire. They have an obvious passion for flowers, as almost every courtyard is a garden.
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| Day 05 |
Lijiang (Breakfast
+ Lunch)
Visit the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain,
the Baisha Murals and the Ancient Shuhe Village of Naxi
People.
Jade
Dragon Snow Mountain: The much famed mountain is
situated some 15 km. north of Lijiang County, with thirteen
peaks resembling jade pillars holding the sky, it stands
majestically on the east side of the Jinshajiang River.
The main peak, Mount Fan (Shanzifeng), is 5,596 m. above
sea level, and is annually snowcapped.
Baisha Murals: Lijiang's murals are works of the
Ming Dynasty, chiefly created from the Hongwu to the
Wanli eras. They were originally distributed among the
Juexiansi Temple and twelve others, nine of which fell
to ruins. The remaining four temples have altogether
55 murals, with a total area of 139.22 sq. m.
Naxi
people: Naxi literature is rich in form and content.
Besides works by Naxi scholars and writers, there is
a repository of oral folk literature.
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| Day 06 |
Lijiang (Breakfast
+ Lunch)
Tour to the Tiger Leaping Gorge
and the First bend of the Yangtze River.
Tiger Leaping
Gorge: One of the longest, deepest and narrowest gorges
in the world.
First
bend of the Yangtze River: The upper reaches of the
Yangtze River is named the Jinsha River, which originates
from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The Jinsha River flowed
southward along the Hengduan Mountain ranges and was forced
to the turn to north because of the Alpine movements which
caused changes in the earth's physiognomy. When the river
reaches Shigu Township, it makes an abrupt turn and flows
further northward, forming the rare V-shape bend. |
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| Day 07 |
Lijiang - Kunming - Departure
(Breakfast
+ Lunch)
Take morning flight to Kunming.
Tour to the Dragon Gate in Western Hills, then visit Bird
& Flower market. Transfer to the airport for your
departure, end of service.
Western
Hills: The forest reserve on the west bank of the
Dianchi
Lake consists of the Huating and Taihan mountains.
This is a colossal natural forest reserve in the midst
of a lofty mountain range crisscrossed by babbling brooks
and gurgling streams. Ancient trees are adorned with
thick, lush foliage and birds chirp and flutter in the
green treetops. Near the top of the mountain, is the
Dragon Gate. Hacked from the cliff between 1781 and
1835 by a Taoist monk and co-workers, the Dragon Gate
is a group of grottoes, sculptures, corridors and pavilions.
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Hotels For This Tour
| City |
Luxury |
Standard |
| Kunming |
Green Lake Hotel  |
New Era Hotel  |
| Dali |
Asia
Star Hotel |
Asia
Star Hotel |
| Lijiang |
Guan
Fang Hotel |
Wang
Fu Hotel |
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Tour
Price
Please send us an email and provide
the information below so that we can quote precisely
for the above tour.
1. The number of adults and the number of children
in your party. If there are children under 12 years,
they can enjoy the preferential price.
2. Your approximate travel date.
3. The code of the tour that you are interested in.
Each tour has a code, you can find it above - at the
top of the page where the tour is.
4. Hotel choice for your tour (luxury or standard
or comfortable hotels).
5. If you would like us to tailor make a new tour
for you that is different from the above tour, please
let us know your requests.
Quotation Inclusions For
For The Above Tour:
1. Hotel accommodation
The hotel is based on two persons
sharing one twin or double standard room with private
facilities.
2. Meals
Daily American or Chinese breakfast
at the hotel, Chinese lunch or dinner in local Chinese
restaurant as specified in the itinerary.
3. Private Transport
Private transport between airport
or railway station and hotel and all the sights by
air-conditioned vehicle.
4. Transportation between Cities
The economic class air tickets
of the domestic flight or soft berth/seat train tickets
between cities as specified in the itinerary.
5. Entrance tickets
The main entrance tickets for
the sights mentioned.
6. Guiding service
Excellent tour Guiding. All
normal sightseeing tours in each city with English-speaking
guide and admission fees where applicable. Our guide
will not fly with you from one city to another. Upon
your arrival at each city, a new local guide and driver
will pick you up, be with you for local tour and see
you off after you finish the itinerary of each city.
7. Insurance
China Life Tourist Accident
/ Casualty Insurance. We highly recommend that you
purchase full coverage travel insurance from you country
of origin.
Quotation Exclusions For
The Above Tour:
1. Visa Fees
Charge of obtaining your visa
to enter China.
2. Charge of arrival and departure
The international or domestic
air / train charge of arrival and departure.
3. Single Room Supplement
Should a twin room is needed
by a single guest, supplement of the twin room will
be charged.
What is single
supplement? -
The hotel is based on double occupancy. If the visitor
travels alone or the number of the travelers is odd
(such as 3, 5, 7...), who stays in one single room
has to pay the single room supplement. As the hotel
is on double occupancy.
4. Personal Expenses
Expenses of a personal nature
such as laundry, drinks, fax, telephone call, optional
activities or sightseeing, overweight baggage charges
or meals not indicated, ect.
5. Optional Programs
Optional programs which are
not specified in the above itinerary.
6. Tips to guides and drivers
Tips depending on the service
of your guide and driver, entirely voluntary.
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