Dali Ancient Town

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DaliOld Town is the center of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, gathers different ethnic minorities to create a unique background for the ancient town with exquisite historical buildings. Due to its geographical location and pleasant weather, there are many top attractions to see in Dali Old Town. Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake are praised as the city's leading scenic areas. Most attractions lie between the two landmarks, such as the Butterfly Spring and the Three Pagodas.

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Dali Old Town is situated between Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake. You can find many ancient towns sourrounded by Cangshan Mountain, Erhai Lake and more natural sceneries. The Three Pagodas as the landmark of Dali is also included in our Dali Tours. Dali tours normally combine with attractions in Kunming, Lijiang, Shangri-La, etc. The private tour is flexible and customized for you.

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Dali in Yunnan Province of China enjoys a subtropical highland climate with short, mild, dry winters, and warm, rainy summers because of its low latitude and high elevation. In summer, a majority of the days features some rainfall, and daytime temperatures rise to 24 °C (75 °F). In winter, frost may occur but the days generally warm up to 15 °C (59 °F) or more. The rainy season is from June to October. It can get rather windy in autumn and winter.

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Dali Old Town is located at the north of Xiaguan Town, 15 kilometers away. This ancient city is situated between Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake. It has an easy transportation. Travelers can feel free to use our private car taking to Dali Old Town from Dali Airport or Dali Railway Station. If you are independent travelers, you can take bus or go by taxi.

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As the prominent nationality inhabited in Dali region, Bai ethnic minority created brilliant culture and customs, among which the unique traditional festivals of Bai people enjoy good fame and attract tourists home and abroad to visit.

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We’ve offered you some travel tips about Dali Old Town. Hope these information could be useful for you.

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To help you have a better understanding about Dali Old Town, and plan a Dali Old Town tour easily, we have collected some very useful Dali Old Town tourist maps, including Dali Old Town attractions map, map of scenic spots around Dali Old Town, all of which are downloadable and printable.

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Since Dali is a hot destination, hundreds of hotels situate in Dali Old Town. Travelers could choose from international standard hotels or local economic hotels, ranging from 5 star to 3 star. Different styles of hotels are offered from luxury ones to budget ones no matter you want to stay in Dali Old Town or near Erhai Lake. So we choose some hotels are nearby Dali Old Town.

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People who take a tour to Dali Old Town never forget to taste the food in Dali Old Town. As a city having various Chinese ethnic minorities, the local food is different from the one in other places. They are also the top recommended ones to tourists who will be or have been in Dali Old Town.

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Ethnic Groups

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Dali Old Town is the center of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, gathers different ethnic minorities to creat an unique background for the ancient town with exquisite historical buildings. Here are some photos of as Wenxian Building, Chongsheng Temple, Wuhua Tower, Grand Marshal Residence of the President, Caicun Village, Jianggong Temple, Wuhua Buidling, Foreigners' Street, Dali Christian Church, which taken by our tourists.

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The beautiful natural environment has helped the Bai people cultivated a noble and graceful aesthetic taste. They are quick-witted and nimble fingered, good at making traditional and special products with local resources.

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There are not any school in Dali Old Town.

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Dali Old Town is a part of Dali City. There are 10 towns and 1 nationality township under the jurisdiction of Dali City: Xiaguan Town(下关镇), Dali Town(大理镇), Fengyi Town(凤仪镇), Xizhou Town(喜洲镇), Haidong Town(海东镇), Wase Town(挖色镇), Wanqiao Town(湾桥镇), Yinqiao Town(银桥镇), Shuanglang Town(双廊镇), Taiyi Yi Ethnic Township(太邑彝族乡).

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