Laojun mountain is located in lijiang, JianChuan and orchid county at the junction, it is yuengling main vein, jinsha river left, it is the lancang river around its right, because of its ridge ridge to round into a half ring, like a horseshoe old gentleman named blast furnace, were historians called "the father of yunnan province, the mountains".
In laojun mountain ridge line in the north east 3800 meters mountain depression, there are dozens of the lakes and swamps, along the streams into a string of distribution, known as the "ninety-nine longtan".Pool from melting snow in spring and summer rainfall, clear and cold, good water quality.After the water overflow, summed up the stream, form a waterfall, define a river, through the primeval forest, finally ran to the sands River, lancang river.These glacial lakes, a variety of shapes and depth ninety-nine longtan lake, in the backdrop of the sunshine and flowers and trees present a blue, orange, yellow, green colour.One of the biggest Huang Longtan, unfathomable, pool of red coral tree above the water, flush red wave from time to time.
Legend pool of the dragon QianJu, pedestrians to if the loud noise, pool will roll feculence, coral tree will disappear, then storm plus, thunder and lightning, the jitters.This is a myth, but with the scientific point of view to analyze, laojun mountain towering, the Indian Ocean southwest monsoon climate, the Pacific Ocean southeast monsoon and the qinghai-tibet plateau air mass of staggered, so in addition to the winter and spring a few time, the top of the mountain are thick clouds, caused the basic condition of the thunderstorm, the resulting magical phenomenon, can from the relationship of sound, light, electricity and clouds to think.

Yak meadow in Naxi language is "bangnongguo' means beautiful and mysterious paradise.

Yak meadow locates at the very north side of jade dragon snow mountain scenic area, 45km from lijiang oldtwon.,with a size of 16.6squre km, the highest altitute of yak meadow is 4000m above sea level. 

The landscape of yak meadow is typical alpine meadow landscape, the snowy scenery, forest and meteorological landscape, and rich ethnic customs. Yi  people and Tibetan live there generation by generation.

On the mountain at the First band of the Yangtzi River stands Stone Drum (Shigu) Town. This ancient town is named after a drum-shaped marble plaque. Built during the Jiaqing era (1548-1561) of the Ming Dynasty, the stone drum is a monument commemorating the victory of Lijiang's Naxi ruler over an invading Tibetan army. It is one point five meters (five feet) in diameter and zero point five meters (two feet) in thickness. The stone drum has an obvious vestige of what appears to be a "rip" in it. It is said that the stone drum would rupture prior to any war and then fold when peace returned. Throughout time, Stone Drum Town was always a significant and vitally strategic military area where many famous historical events have been taken place. It was here that Zhuge Liang, the famous and highly acclaimed military strategist of the Three Kingdoms Period, chose to cross the Yangtze River and gain "battle advantage" over his opponents. The first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan, used this place for his expeditionary forces to ferry across the river. In April 1936, the Second Route of the Red Army, led by General He Long and Ren bishi, crossed the river here and continued to march north. There are memorials here honoring the people whose histories are entwined with the Stone Drum Town. Public transprotation or Car renting

The golden monkey national park locates in Weixi county, Diqin prefecture.  It is one of the 3 forest national park in Diqin  prefecture.

The rare animal -Yunnan snub-nosed monkey Living on the mountain, They are protected by chinese government and is as important as The Giant panda.   about 1000 wild golden monkey Living in the  virgin forest on Baimang snow mountain (2800m-3100m) at Dacheng.    Tacheng is 120km from shangrila ,160km from Lijiang. 

The best time to watch wild monkey is 09:00-09:30 in the morning while the staff feed them food,  If you go there in the noon time or afternoon, The monkey is taking a nap and will not be active than morning!

The Clay Forest in Yuanmou County

It takes 3-4 hours to drive from Kunming to Yuanmou. The Clay Forest is formed due to soil erosion, therefore, it is called " a beautiful mistake". You can hardly imagine how splendid the scenery is. When standing among those sky-high clay pillars, you can't help but praise the magic of nature. 

Tip: Since there are few plants survived in the Clay Forest, therefore, the sunlight is scorching. Sun protection is required. 

Nuo Deng Village can be traced back to 2000 years ago. The village was a very important salt mining spot in that time. It remains its traditional extraction method by burning wood to get salt. Today, it lives Bai minority there. In Qing dynasty, there were over 100 students got excellent result in official examination set by the government. 6 of them became officer in the central government. Today, the village remains the old tradition of Bai. Lot of old stone steps, collection of remains from Qing dynasty. The ham preserved with Nuo Deng salt is delicious. Nuo Deng Village is 165KM from Dali city.