Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Lijiang

  Day 1 Arrive in Kunming, and tour around Kunming city if time allows.

  Day 2 Visit the Stone Forest, which is about 2 hrs drive from Kunming

city. Then can enjoy the amazing Ethnique Performance called Dynamic

Yunnan in the Grand Yunnann Theatre, at 8-9:30pm.

  Day 3 Fly to Dali. Then Dali Old Town, hike to the Tea Plantation on

Cangshan Mt., then bike along part of the Erhai Lake if interested.

  Day 4 Visit Xizhou morning market, then drive 2 hrs to Shaxi, and

visit the Hnaging Temple and grotos in the Shibao Mt., Shaxi old town

in the evening.

  Day 5 Drive 1.5-2 hrs from Shaxi to Lijiang. Can check out the horse

riding and boating activities around Lashi Lake if interested. Then

visit Lijiang old town and Black Dragon Pool Park.

  Day 6 Explore the interesting villages around Lijiang. Visit a hidden

village where has the best view over Lijiang Basin, with cows and goats

wondering around. Can also visit a local Naxi family here if

interested. Then Baisha Village and Shuhe old town.

  Day 7 Visit Jade Dragon Snow Mt., take cable car up to the Spruce

Meadow, where has the best view of the main peaks of the snow mountain,

and you can take beautiful walks through the forest to the meadow,

where has horses and sheep around. Then Blue Moon Valley where the

glacier water is naturally blue and green. Can also enjoy the show at

the foot of the snow mountain, called Impression Lijiang.

  Day 8 Drive 1.5 hrs to Tiger Leaping Gorge, visit the upper gorge

where most tourists go but also very grand and beautiful. Then hire a

local mini van up to somewhere near Tea Horse G.H., and hike about 1.5

-2 hrs to Halfway G.H., then take the minivan down to visit the tourist

part of the Upper Tiger Gorge, if interested. Then 2 hrs further up to

Shangrila, with a stop for beautiful mountain views.

  Day 9 Visit the interesting villages and temples around Shangrila.

First drive to Dabaoji Palace Temple, where local people still go and

pray even it is a quite small and hidden temple. We can also pay a

visit to some local Tibetan family around here. Then the famous

Songzanlin Lamasery. Then Napa Lake area where has lots of yaks,,

horse, piggs wondering, with lovely Tibetan villages around.

  Day 10 Departure flight from Shangrila (Diqing Airport).

June 29,  Arrive dali and visit xizhou morning market, bai traditional courtyards and cormorant fishing on Erhai lake, Enjoy view of 3 pagoda from outside of the 3 pagoda park , visit dali old town and the famous foreiner’s street.  Stay over night at Dali Jade Emu International Guesthous.

June 30,  visit zhoucheng morning market, Drive to shibaoshan mountain, visit 1000 year old buddhism temple and the monkey forest if you are lucky, you can see many wild monkey in the forest.  visit shaxi old town, over night at shaxi old town

July 1, Visit the ancient Theater stage and the square market,  shaxi to lijiang,visit black dragon pool park,  Mu’s palace and lijiang old town  over night at Lijiang old town.

July 2,watch impression lijiang show,go to spruce meadow by cable car,visit blue moon vally and baisha village . Over night at  Lijiang old town.

July 3, lijiang to tiger leaping gorge then to shangrila, Visit the deepest gorge in the world at a deepth of 3900m.
Optional tour: visit Lashi lake on the way . You can ride Yunnan horse on the lashi wetland.

July 4, visit Songzanlin monastery and Tibetan village and family, you can try the Yak butter Tea at Tibetan family, visit the biggest prayer wheel in the world and drive back to lijiang, catch night train to kunming.