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 DAY
1
Destinations: Arrive in Kunming
Today's Activities:
After your arrival in Kunming, you will be greeted by
your Kunming local guide, who will then take you to
your hotel.
Your local guide will suggest a restaurant option and
shopping destination for the rest of the day.
Meals: No meal
 DAY
2
Destinations: Kunming
Today's Activities: After breakfast, your local guide
will pick you up at the hotel and accompany you to Stone
Forest, which belongs to the typical Karst geomorphology,
which consists of innumerable bizarre-shaped ancient
limestone cliffs and peaks created by wind and water
erosion some 200 million years ago. In China this area
is praised as the First Wonder Under Heaven.
After a Chinese lunch, your local guide will accompany
you to the Bird and Flower Market, which along with
old houses that are well kept in its immediate neighborhood,
are now under Kunming's protection plan, as is the Old
Town Quarter.
Afterwards, return to the hotel. Your local guide will
suggest a restaurant option and shopping destination
for the rest of the day.
Meals: Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
 DAY
3
Destinations: Kunming-Dali
Today's Activities: After your arrival in Dali, your
Dali local guide will pick you up and accompany you
to Xizhou Bai Village, which has a mixed population
and cosmopolitan background..
Next proceed to Zhoucheng Village, which rests below
Yulong Peak and has achieved considerable wealth through
its dynamic agriculture and diversified industries,
the most famous of which is the art of tie-dye.
Standing on the outskirts of Dali's Old Town are the
Three Pagodas, constructed in 850 and 1050 A.D. in the
style of the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an. For centuries
they have been considered a landmark of the region.
For the rest of day you will have free time to discover
the Ancient City of Dali, which was made of weathered
gray granite, stands on a long, narrow rice plain that
lies between Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake.
Afterwards, come back to hotel.
Meals: Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
 DAY
4
Destinations: Dali-Lijiang
Today's Activities: After breakfast, your local guide
will pick you up at the hotel and accompany you to Lijiang.
Visit Shaping Market on the way. Shaping Market is a
local market that takes place every Monday.
Then proceed to the Lijiang Dayan Ancient City. The
center, Si Fang Jie (Square Street), is shaped like
an official ink stone. This is how it got the name Dayan
Town (Ink Stone Town). It enjoys a long history of over
800 years and unlike most of the old towns in China,
there are no city walls due to a superstitious belief
of the local ruler whose family name is Mu, which means
"tree", when encircled by walls, would be
Kun, meaning "besieged". Wood structures,
mountains, and small rivers and lanes integrate harmoniously
in this mountain town.
Return to the hotel. Your local guide will suggest a
restaurant option and shopping destination for the rest
of the day.
Meals: Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
 DAY
5
Destinations: Lijiang
Today's Activities: After breakfast, your local guide
will pick you up and accompany you to the Black Dragon
Pond. The pond provides you the opportunity to take
great pictures of the crystal clear pond with the snowy
mountains as a backdrop.
Then drive to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains.
Next visit Yuhu Village, a simple village of the Naxi
ethnic minority, and see the Former Residence of Dr.
Joseph Rock, an Austro-American botanist and explorer
who lived here off and on from 1922-1949, who is best
remembered for the introduction of innumerable plant
species to the West and his rigorous works on Naxi ethnology.
Proceed to Baisha Village to enjoy the frescos that
date back to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Return to the hotel. Your local guide will suggest a
restaurant option and shopping destination for the rest
of the day.
Meals: Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
 DAY
6
Destinations: Lijiang
Today's Activities: After breakfast, your local tour
guide will pick you up and accompany you to Stone Drum,
which stands at the First Bend of the Yangtze River,
some 70 kilometers west of Lijiang.
Next move to the Tiger Leaping Gorge, or "Hutiaoxia"
in Chinese, is the Yangtze's best-known gorge, after
the Three Gorges in Sichuan and Hubei. Wedged tightly
between titanic cliffs, the river is so narrow here,
as legend tells us, that a hunted tiger made his escape
to the other side in a single bound. Here, the Jade
Dragon Snow Mountain and the Haba Snow Mountain lean
close to each other and large volumes of torrents cut
deeper and deeper into the bottom of the gorge. In some
places there is a drop of 3,000 meters to the water.
Return to the hotel. Your local guide will suggest a
restaurant option and shopping destination for the rest
of the day.
Meals: Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
 DAY
7
Destinations: Departure Lijiang
Today's Activities:
Your local guide will take you to Lijiang airport for
your departure flight.
The memorable tour ends.
Meals: Western Breakfast
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