6-day Kunming-Dali-Lijiang Tour
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Itinerary

Day 1: Today we take a morning flight for Kunming. The city is nicknamed "City of the Spring" due to the fact that it is covered all the year round with the rich verdure of trees and plants. After lunch and check-in of a 4-star hotel, we visit the Golden Temple Park, where the ’99 International Horticulture Exposition takes place. Then we head for the Grand View Pavilion, and get a bird’s-eye view of the Dianchi Lake - sparkling pearl imbedded in a highland. In the evening we enjoy a folklore show while appreciating the specialties of Kunming. We go to Dali via train in the evening.

Day 2: In Dali we visit the Three Pagodas of Chongshen Monastery, Butterfly Spring and the old city gate. Thousands of beautiful stories happened here.

Day 3: Lijiang is a largely Naxi settlement first built during the Southern Song Dynasty some eight centuries ago. In 1997 the UNESCO put it on the list of the world’s major cultural heritages. Here we also visit Dongba Culture Research Centre and Baisha Frescoes.

Day 4: Ten miles from Lijiang is Jade Dragon Snow Mountain; its landscape includes one of the southernmost glaciers in the modern world. We will visit it today and we go back to Kunming by train in the evening.

Day 5: Today’s highlight is the Stone Forest, some 100 kilometres from Kunming. It is a world of stone peaks, stalacto-stalagmites, stalagmites, stalactites, subterranean rivers and underground limestone caves. For this topographical turmoil the place is dubbed "Number One Wonder in the World".

Day 6: As the capital of Yunnan province, the colourful ethnic cultures attract us to visit the Folklore Museum, where we find ourselves reluctant to leave away.

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