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9-Day China Yunnan Tour

Tour Code:TE-YNP-0901
Start in:Kunming
End in: Kunming
Destinations:Kunming → Xishuangbanna → Dali → Lijiang
Day 1  Arrival in Kunming
Upon your arrival, our guide will pick you up at the airport and transfer to your hotel. Visit the Dragon Gate in Western Hills and the Grand-view Park.
-Western Hills: Located at the west bank of the Dianchi Lake, is set in mountains well covered by evergreen woods and filled with sweet songs by lovely birds, perfect for hiking. Dragon Gate consists of the Sanqing Temple Complex and the Dragon Gate Grotto Complex.
-Grand-view Park: A beautiful lake-side park that was completed in 1690 during the Qing Dynasty, known for its longest antithetical couplet in China.
Breakfast:ExcludedLunch:ExcludedDinner:ExcludedLodging:Kunming
Day 2  Kunming - Stone Forest - Xishuangbanna
After breakfast, drive 90 KM to Lunan county to visit the Stone Forest. Back to Kunming in the afternoon and take flight to Xishuangbanna.
-Stone Forest: The most remarkable natural phenomena. It consists of innumerable bizarre shaped ancient limestone cliffs and peaks created by wind and water erosion some 270 million years ago.
-Xishuangbanna: Xishuangbanna is the only tropical rainforest nature reserve zone in China, famous for its mysterious tropical rainforests and minority customs. The climate is warm and wet here, ideal for nurturing some wonderful plants and flora and home to unusual wildlife. Old trees reach into the skies here, vines twist and gnarl together and in the evening, a thick fog spreads across the region, bringing with it an air of mystery and intrigue.
Breakfast:IncludedLunch:IncludedDinner:ExcludedLodging:Jinghong
Day 3  Jinghong sightseeing
Visit the Morning Ganlanba bazaar, the Manting Park, the Arboretum of Tropical Plants and villages of Dai people.

-Dai people: The Dai ethnic group was the first in history to plant rice and to use a furrow to plough, with a population of about 1.2 million, mainly lives in the Dai Autonomous Region.
-Arboretum of Tropical Plants: Here plants of every description grow luxuriantly in a picturesque surrounding, and myriads of tropical plants vie with each other in splendour. It is a place highly favoured by botanists and people who have a fancy for plants.
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Day 4  Jinghong- Lijiang
Visit the the Jingzhen Octagonal pavilion and the tropical Rain Forest Park, scenic spots of the park including air veranda; nine-dragon village; Aini ethnic villages and waterfall. Take flight to Lijiang.

-Jingzhen Octagonal pavilion: Which was first built in 1701 as a place of Buddhist worship.
Breakfast:IncludedLunch:IncludedDinner:ExcludedLodging:Lijiang
Day 5  Lijiang sightseeing
Visit the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the Baisha Murals, the 600 year old Ten Thousand Blossom Camellia Tree at the Yufeng Lama Temple and villages 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.
-Ten Thousand Blossom Camellia Tree: The tree is as old as over 500 years. Around the day when spring begins, the flowers also begin to vie in beauty and around the day when summer begins, they fade away.
-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.
Breakfast:IncludedLunch:IncludedDinner:ExcludedLodging:Lijiang
Day 6  Lijiang sightseeing
Visit the Black Dragon Pool in Jade Spring Park, Dongba Museum, Shuhe village and Lijiang Ancient Town.
-Black Dragon Pool: As the water is as green and lucid as jade, the pond is also entitled "Yuquan" or Jade Fountain. On the bank of the pond willows hang their withes like silk thread. One can see arbours and pavilions beside the pond, temples hidden in the trees and variegated flowers found everywhere.
-Lijiang Ancient Town: The county town of Lijiang is also called Dayanzhen, famous for its scientific architectural layout. Crisscrossed by crystal-clear rivers and meandering cobbled streets, it has a high research value and is a treasure in the field of urban construction in China.
Breakfast:IncludedLunch:IncludedDinner:ExcludedLodging:Lijiang
Day 7  Lijiang - Dali
Drive 3.5 hours to Dali. Visit Bai people's Tie Dying Cloth with Wax, villages of Bai People with traditional architecture courtyard in Xizhou Township and Xinhua village where the Bai People are famous for making silver articles.
-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.
Breakfast:IncludedLunch:IncludedDinner:ExcludedLodging:Dali
Day 8  Dali - Kunming
A cruise in the Erhai Lake, on the boat, you'll enjoy the unique Three-course-tea of Bai people and their dancing and singing performance. In the afternoon, visit the Three Pagodas in the Chong Sheng Temple and Dali Ancient City. Take flight to Kunming.
-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.
-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".
Breakfast:IncludedLunch:IncludedDinner:ExcludedLodging:Kunming
Day 9  Departure from Kunming
Visit the Golden Temple and the Bamboo Monastery. Transfer to the airport for your departure, end of service.

-Golden Temple: A Daoist temple, the main building of which is cast entirely in bronze weighing about 280 tons.
-Bamboo Monastery: A Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) temple known for its Arhat statues, is the most famous of Kunming's temples. The present Bamboo temple was rebuilt in the Guangxu Era (1833 to 1890).
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Private Tour Prices ( Based on per person and shown in US dollars ) 

Group size
Season
2-4 Travelers 5-9 Travelers 10 Travelers &above Children price Single supplyment
 Mar.2008-Jun.2008 1218 1075 922 -- 204
 Jul.2008-Oct.2008 1230 1085 930 -- 208
 Jul.2008-Feb.2009 1212 1072 915 -- 201
Remark : The above prices will daily float with the USD-RMB exchange rate, all the prices will be confirmed by the exchange rate on the day when you book this tour.
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