| Day |
Program |
Stay in |
Meals |
| D1 |
Arrive in Kunming, which is known as Spring City, meet at airport and transfer to your hotel. If have time, you could tour Yunnan Ethnic Village Park and Yunnan Minorities Museum. Welcoming dinner with Crossing Bridge Rice Noodle. |
Kunming |
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| D2 |
Take the morning flight to Lijiang. Visit Shuhe Ancient Town and Baisha Naxi Village where you will see the 500-year-old Baisha Fresco. Then back to Lijiang, visit Lijiang Ancient Town and Mufu (Mu's Mansion). |
Lijiang |
B+L+D |
| D3 |
After breakfast, drive to Jade Dragon Snow Mt., take cable-car up to the glacier (4506 m high), hike in the mountain for about 1 hour to enjoy the breathtaking view of the main peak (5596 m high), then take cable-car down, drive back to Lijiang. On the way, visit Ganhaizi Meadow and Baishui River. |
Lijiang |
B+L+D |
| D4 |
Morning drive to Shangri-la. On the way, Visit Tiger-Leaping Gorge, one of the deepest canyons of world, and First Bend of Yangtze River, when the river reaches Shigu Township of Lijiang County, it makes an abrupt turn and flows northward, forming a great V-shaped bend reputed as First Great Bend of Yangtze River. |
Shangri-la |
B+L+D |
| D5 |
Take the bus from Shangri-la to Deqin (184 km), on the way, Visit Napahai Lake, a provincial nature reserve, which are capped with deep snow during winter and spring. view the great turning of the Jinsha River (upper reach of the Yangtze River), Visit Dong-zhulin Monastery and Baimang Snow Mountain. Watch Meili Snow Mountain in the distance, and put up in Deqin at night. |
2 star hotels of Deqin |
B+L+D |
| D6 |
A bus journey from Deqin to FeiLai Lamasery, visit Feilai Lamasery (watch sacred ceremony) and observe the great sunrise above the highest peaks of Yunnan. Mingyong village horse riding Mingyong glacier. Walk Lianhua Temple relic and ice tower forest, and put up Mingyong village. |
Local Guesthouse of
Mingyong
village |
B+L+D |
| D7 |
Take the bus back to Shangri-la. And visit Songzanlin Lamasery, it is the largest Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Yunnan Province. |
Shangri-la |
B+L+D |
| D8 |
Morning flight to Kunming, and connect with your departure flight. |
|
B |
