8 Days Malaysia-Yunnan Tour from Kuala Luampur to Lijiang

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Embrace this 8 Days Kunming Dali Lijiang Shangri-La High Speed Train Tour, which you will discover the highlights of each destination. The tour also offers a special chance to...

Code of Tour: YET0000066069

Length of Travel: 8 Day

Destinations of Tour: Lijiang-Dali-Shaxi-Shangri La-Lijiang

Departure City: Kuala Lumpur

Price of Tour: Request

Type of Tour:

Features of Tour: Ethnic culture tours Nature scenery

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Embrace this 8 Days Kunming Dali Lijiang Shangri-La High Speed Train Tour, which you will discover the highlights of each destination. The tour also offers a special chance to looking for the abundant diversity of local ethnic minorities including Yis, Bais, Naxis and Tibetan. Moreover, the Tiger Leaping Gorge will be the most breathtaking experience in your tour, you will be awared bythe by the ruggedness and magnificence of Tiger Leaping Gorge and the mountains around when you are there. This astonishing destination is one you won’t want to miss.

Highlights:

Brief Itinerary

• Day 1: Lijiang Arrival
• Day 2: Lijiang
• Day 3: Lijiang-Dali
• Day 4: Dali
• Day 5: Lijiang-Shaxi-Shangri La
• Day 6: Shangri-La
• Day 7: Shangri-La-Lijiang
• Day 8: Lijiang Departure

Detailed Itinerary

In the morning, move towards Xizhou Town to fully appreciate Bai-style traditional architectural courtyards, taste their fragrant Three-Course Tea and explore their distinctive culture.

Then direct yourself towards to visit Zhoucheng Village and the Bai people’s Tie-dying cloth workshop where you can take some special souvenir with the Bai ethnic style.

After lunch, drive to Lijiang. You will be calm down around Lijiang Old Town, a well-preserved old city of ethnic minorities with brilliant culture, is a central town of the Lijiang Autonomous County of the Naxi Ethnic Minority in Yunnan Province. Located on the plateau which is 2,400 meters above the sea level and embraced by the tree-covered Lion Mountain in the west, Elephant and Golden Row Mountains in the north, vast fertile fields in the southeast and crystal clear water running through, the old town looks like a big jade ink slab, therefore got the alias the Town of Big Ink Slab (Dayanzhen).

Drive approximately 30KM to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Scenic Area. Your first stop will be  Ganhaizi Meadow(3100M). After that you will board the sightseeig bus for a short tour along the Baishuihe River. Then take cable car to Spruce Meadow and hike around 30 minutes in the forest. Then take a battery cart to Blue Moon Valley.

After lunch, you will enjoy the Impression Lijiang Ethnic Show directed by Zhang Yimou. It is held in Ganhaizi Meadow about 3100M above the sea level.

And finally, you can stroll through Baisha Old Town, where is an enchanting traditional Naxi style old town.  Visit the Baisha Murals about 600 years old, which is one part of the World Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO 1997.

You will drive around 60 km from Lijiang to the First Bend of the Yangtze River with imposing gorge scenery, visit the Iron Chain Bridge ,the Red Army’s Long March Memorial Monument in the Shigu Old Town. The town of Stone Drum got its name from a large, cylindrical, marble tablet shaped like a drum. The scenery is magnificent as the road running through the Lijiang valley which is filled with wheat fields and drying haystacks.

Visit the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the deepest gorge in the world. With 34 rapids of the Yangtze River, it is called the Jinsha in this area because you can find gold in the river.

Then you will enter the Tibetan cultural area and a landscape of barley fields and yaks scattered in the valleys. Walk around Dukezong Ancient Town, an important town of the Ancient Tea-horse Trade Caravan from Yunnan to Tibet and India. Walk up to the top of Guishan Hill or Tortoise Hill, you will see the largest Prayer Wheel of the world and have a panoramic view of shangrila county and Dukezong Ancient Town.

Today, visit the Songzanlin Monastery, the largest Tibetan monastery in Yunnan. Songzanlin Monastery has another alias – ‘the little Potala Palace ‘, so named because the whole monastery is in the traditional style with mysterious atmosphere.

After that, pay a visit to a Tibetan Family and have Yak Butter lunch in the family.

And afterwards you’ll visit the tranquil Shudu Lake in Pudacuo National Park. Pudacuo National Park is located in one of the most biologically-diverse regions of the world. While the region comprises only 0.7 percent of China’s land area, it contains more than 20 percent of the country’s plant species, about one-third of its mammal and bird species and almost 100 endangered species.

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Service Included:

• Admission fees for all of the sightseeing spots listed in the itinerary;
• Meals as listed in the itinerary;
• Hotels as listed in the itinerary;
• Private English-speaking tour guide;
• Private vehicle for transfers & sightseeing with skilled driver;
• Service charge & government taxes;
• Luggage transfers between airports and hotels;
• High speed train tickets from Kunming to Dali (2nd class seats).

Service Excluded:

• Any arrival and departure international airfares or train tickets;
• Chinese visa fees;
• Excess baggage charged by Airlines;
• Single room supplement;
• Tips to guides and drivers;
• Personal expenses and gratuities to service staff;
• Personal travel accident insurance;
• All optional programs.