City tour if time is available.

 From Lijiang, you'll drive about 60KM to the First Bend on the Yangtze River with imposing gorge scenery, visit the Iron Chain Bridge,the Red Army's Long March Memorial Monument in the Shigu Old Town. The town of Stone Drum got its name from a large, cylindrical, marble tablet shaped like a drum. The scenery is magnificent as the road running through the Lijiang valley which is filled with wheat fields and drying haystacks. 
 
Visit the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the deepest gorge in the world. With 34 rapids of the Yangtze River, it is called the Jinsha in this area because you can find gold in the river. Afternoon, you'll head for Shangri La, the former Zhongdian which is welknown as the paradise destination for every tourist. 

Upon arrival in Shangri La, you will have entered the Tibetan cultural area and a landscape of barley fields and yaks scattered in the valleys. Walk around Dukezong Ancient Town, an important town of the Ancient Tea-horse Trade Caravan from Yunnan to Tibet and India. Walk up to the top of Guishan Hill or tortoise Hill, you will see the largest Prayer Wheel of the world and have a panoramic view of shangrila county and Dukezong Ancient Town. 

Transfer to Baiman Snow Mountain at the altituide of 4700M, National Nature Reserve, observe th Azalea.                              
Overnight in camps.
 

Baiman Snow Mountain Trekking 20km for one day, observing the plants, flowers in the mountains with an altitude of 4100M above the sea level.          
Overnight in camps.

Trekking bout 25Km, down the mountain, observing the  plants and flowers in the mountains with an altitude of 3800M above sea level. You might take views of rare wild  animals  right here.               
Overnight in camps.
 

Trekking about 20km down the mountain, observing the snub-nosed monkeys, other precious animals including lesser pandas, snow panthers, leopards, observing the rare species of fauna and flora, such as taxus chinese, tung tree, spruce, Etc..          
Overnight in camps.
 

Baiman Snow Mountain Trekking, return to the start from the back mountain, observing the multi-altitude climate's plants in the mountains with an altitude of 3800M.                   
Overnight in camps.
 

Baiman Snow Mountain Trekking 25km up to the mountain (4100M), continue to observe the cubic climate.         
Overnight in camps.

Baiman Snow Mountain Trekking 20km, arriving in the entrance of the Baiman Snow Mountain.           
Overnight in camps.
 

Take the coach to return to the Zhongdian.       
Overnight in Kunming.

Departure from Shangrila