Want to know how the ethnic people in Yunnan do fishing, plant tea, makegoat cheese, plant potatoes, and feed the yaks? Come and see yourself.

  Day 1  Fly to Dali via Chengdu or Kunming or take private car for 5

hrs driving. Visit the Er'hai Park at the bank of  the

beautiful Erhai Lake, where's got lovely view over the Erhai Lake and beaautiful bonzai garden to play..

Then we drive 30 minutes further to Dali Old Town

area. Night in guesthouses or hotels, Dali.

  Day 2 Drive 20 minutes to the tea plantation on the Cangshan Mt.,

where has got beautiful view of Dali area, and nice to walk around.

Then we drive 10 minutes further to Xizhou, visit the daily morning

market there, then walk around the local Bai People's residence, and

take a horse carriage trhough the fileds to the lake area and some

local hidden temple, for Bai people are very religious people and their

worshipping to female gods are quite unique. If you're interested, we

can even watch a birds fishing show on the lake, then visit some local

bamboo weaving family.  Night in Dali

  Day 3 Drive 3.5 hrs further to Shaxi, leisure around Shaxi antient little town, where has got nice playground for kids.. Lovely organic lunch and dinner in local places!  O/N in the sweet No. 58 Yard, Shaxi

  Day 4 visit Shibaoshan with  the Haiyunju Temple,

Baoxiangsi Temple built up on a big roack, with wild monkeys as

residence. Lunch in Haiyunju Temple. Interesting villages to visit local farmer house with lots of goats and donkeys. O/N Shaxi.

  Day 5 From Shaxi drive 3 hrs to Lijiang. Lijiang Old town in the

afternoon. O/N Garden Inn, Lijiang
 
  Day 6 Yuhu Naxi village to Baisha area, Shuhe Old Town,  Lashi Lake for horse riding and boating!  O/N Lijiang

  Day 7 Drive 2.5 hrs to Tiger Leaping Gorge, 2 hrs visiting there,

then another 2 hrs up to Shangrila. Stop in Picturesque Xiaozhongdian get to know the black hairy animals on the highand--Yak! O/N Tibetan Famil Inn, Shangrila.

  Day 8 Visit Songzanlinsi Lama Temple,  then drive to Napa Lake area for beautiful landscape and visit the home of yaks with their babies. Then afternoon flight to Kunming and to your next destination.