Dates | Destinations | Itinerary Brief | Meals |
Day1 | Arrive in Lijiang | Arrive in Lijiang | D |
Day2 | Lijiang | Jade Water Village,Lashi Lake | B,L,D |
Day3 | Lijiang-Shigu | The First Bend of Yangtze River | B,L,D |
Day4 | Shigu-Tiger Leaping Gorge | Tiger Leaping Gorge | B,L,D |
Day5 | Tiger Leaping Gorge-Lijiang | Baisha Ancient Town | B,L,D |
Day6 | Departure from Lijiang | Departure from Lijiang | B |
Activities | Arrive in Lijiang |
Meals | Dinner |
Hotels | Lijiang |
Arrive Lijiang ,our guide and driver will pick you up in the airport then transfer to the hotel .
You`ll visit Lijiang Ancient Town.The town has a history going back more than 1,000 years and was once a confluence for trade along the "Old Tea Horse Caravan Trail". The Dayan Old town is famous for its orderly system of waterways and bridges, a system fast becoming but a memory as the underground water table drops, probably due to over-building in the suburban areas.
Activities | Jade Water Village,Lashi Lake |
Meals | Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner |
Hotels | Lijiang |
After breakfast,you will head for Jade Water Village to learn about Naxi Culture.
Jade Water Village---As a national AAAA level scenic area, Jade Water Village (Yushui Zhai) is located 12km away from the ancient city of Lijiang at the north, Situated at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and at an elevation of 2500 meters. Jade Water Village is one of the major sources of Lijiang River. What’s more, it is the heritage sacred of Lijiang Dongba culture and heritage base of Baisha fine music as well as Lebas dance.
Jade Water Village has many landscapes which filling with national characteristics and local characteristics. There are the Dragon Three Cascading Waterfalls, Salmon Farming Ecological Sightseeing, Old Trees , Magic Spring , Dongba wall galleries, Dongba Ancestor Temple, Baisha Fine Music Show, Nakhi (Naxi) Ancient Buildings and Traditional Life Display, Dongba Traditional Ritual Activities, Dongba Dance Show, Nakhi Traditional Waterwheel, etc.
Jade Water Village has also built a Dongba Antiquities Gallery, which are arranged to make an exhibition for visitors of Dongba cultural relics. Jade Water Village scenic has 30 Nakhi performers to show the traditional Nakhi songs and dance for tourists.
Jade Water Village has become an ecological and cultural tourism attraction with natural landscape and cultural landscape interoperability promote. The sentence "Look the legacy to the ancient city of Lijiang, see the scenery to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and appreciate the Nakhi culture to the Jade Water Village " has become the outreach guiding ideology of Lijiang tourism.
In the afternoon,you will transfer to Lashi Lakeside. We will arrange farm work for you with local Naxi resident according to the seasonl farm work. Do farm work near the wetland lake would be a different experience. We arrange the homestay for you in the evening,you could experience the daily life of local Naxi people and learn about theirs Naxi custom when you stay with them. In some families,you could help the host how to feed pigs in the lateafternoon.
What is so special with lakes which make them worthy of a holiday adventure? When one sets eyes on the Lashi Lake Wetlands, this question would not arise. The Lashi Lake Wetlands is such a magnificent place that tourists often find themselves wanting to stay much longer because of the serenity that they feel when they are here.
The Lashi Lake Wetlands is also labeled as the National Wetland Park. It only takes about 30 minutes of driving to be able to get to this place. The elevation is up to 2,500 meters. Because of that, this gives a wonderful view of the province and the climate is also much cooler than other parts of Yunnan, even during the summer months.
Since the Lashi Lake Wetlands is frequented by a lot of tourists all year round, there are numerous activities which can be enjoyed here. Some locals offer boat rides or fishing trips. The offers come with guides. There are also several other things which can be done within the area.
Activities | The First Bend of Yangtze River |
Meals | Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner |
Hotels | Shigu Town |
After breakfast,you will transfer to Labazhi Primary which belongs Shigu Town,Labazhi is a small village where Lisu minority and Yi minority dwells,it far away from noisy city. The road condition is not so good to this mountain area. You could deeply enter and experience what is difficult life for the people from remote countryside. There are some sponsors from Hongkong and Shenzhen help local students to go to school,evern for providing help to go to college. The local people could only live on farm work,there are no other source of income for the local Lisu and Yi people. So many primary student stop schooling after graduating from primary school.
After arriving at the small school,you will communicate with local primary school students,most of them could speak only theirs minority language,expeically for the lower grade students. But they would be quitely generous and hospitality for your coming. Arrange students to have lunch with local primary students at school canteen. After lunch,you will be divided into few groups to do family visiting to local Lisu students' family.
Drive back to Shigu town to stay overnight.
Activities | Tiger Leaping Gorge |
Meals | Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner |
Hotels | Tiger Leaping Gorge |
After breakfast at Shigu Town. You will drive to Tiger Leaping Gorge area,starting the trekking tour from Bendiwan. Trek 2 hours to Half-way guethouse to have lunch,stop to enjoy the amazing veiw of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain at the balcony. After lunch,you will trek down 2 hours to Tina's Guesthouse. It is a challeging day for students who from foreign because the complexed topograph here.
Check in hotel before the dinner.
After dinner,you could do a conclusion for these two days at Tina's balcony. Or enjoy the night view of gorge.
Activities | Baisha Ancient Town |
Meals | Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner |
Hotels | Lijiang |
After breakfast,you will drive to Lijiang.
After arriving at Baisha Ancient Town,your teacher of Dongba hieroglyphic and painting would wait for your at Baisha Embroidery School. You will take a class for 2 hours to learn how to write the hieroglyphic and how to paint the Dongba painting.
In the evening,we arrange a class for learning Dongba Dance-Leba Dance for 2 hours for you. So that you could learn three classic Dongba culture today-Dongba hieroglyphic,Dongba painting and Dongba Dance. It will be a wonderful and Substantial day for your tour to Lijiang.
Activities | Departure from Lijiang |
Meals | Breakfast |
Hotels |
After breakfast at your hotel,you will be dropped to Lijiang Sanyi airport to end the tour to Yunnan.
Service ends.
Group Size | Hostel | Using Economy Hotel ★★★ |
Using Comfortable Hotel ★★★★ |
Using Deluxe Hotel ★★★★★ |
Single Supplement | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Group Size | Hostel | Using Economy Hotel ★★★ |
Using Comfortable Hotel ★★★★ |
Using Deluxe Hotel ★★★★★ |
Single Supplement | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
City | Hotel | Economy Hotel ★★★ |
Comfortable Hotel ★★★★ |
Deluxe Hotel ★★★★★ |
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