Barrier-free travel in Lijiang
Life is like a journey. You don't care about the destination, what you care about is the scenery along the way and the mood of seeing the scenery. Look at the rolling mountains, beaded flat dams, deep valleys, and high-altitude glaciers. These can satisfy our imagination of travel life. Here, the editor has specially prepared a life travel guide for you who want to travel. Enjoy the excitement of adventure while playing, and experience the feeling of being on the road with your bag on your back.
Q: When is the best time to go to Lijiang?
Answer: Go to Lijiang at different times and visit different attractions! If you go to Tiger Leaping Gorge in winter, you won't feel the thrilling momentum because of the lack of water, but it is a good time to go to Meili to see the Rizhao Jinshan Mountain. In mid-May, the shrub azaleas in Xiaozhongdian bloom well, but it takes a month later to see the alpine tree azaleas; in June and July, the sea of ????grass in Lugu Lake will be beautiful, but the rainy season is also here, and the road to Lugu Lake It may not be easy to walk. Lashihai has flowers and grass in spring and summer, which is a good time for horse racing and experiencing the Ancient Tea Horse Road. Autumn and winter are the best times to watch migratory birds. Coupled with the time spent in the ancient city, it is difficult to see the scenery of Lijiang in one go.
Can you tell me some ways to get to Lijiang?
Answer: Lijiang has an airport and buses, but the trains are temporarily closed. Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen have direct flights to Lijiang every day. There are direct flights from Chongqing to Lijiang every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. There are direct flights from Chengdu to Lijiang every Tuesday and Friday. For other cities, you can go to Kunming first, and then take a flight to Lijiang. (Of course local consultation is required. There are no trains in Lijiang. There are day and night buses from Kunming to Lijiang. It takes about 8-10 hours. After arriving at Lijiang New Town Passenger Station, if you take a taxi for about 7 yuan to the gate of the Gucheng Police Station, the inn will usually send a girl Go out to pick up guests with your bag.
Q: Why is it not fun for me to come to Lijiang with a group?
Answer: I can’t feel the charm of the ancient city when staying in a hotel or hotel-style inn in Lijiang. It’s not fun to come to Lijiang with a group of acquaintances, and you won’t be able to experience the Yunnan style when traveling in a group. You would rather visit several places at once and experience the authentic taste of Yunnan. When visiting scenic spots, it is best to contact a trustworthy innkeeper for chartering a car and other matters. Because the inn relies on repeat customers and word-of-mouth to continue operating, it is always better to ask the local innkeeper than the tour guide. The time schedule is too tight. For example, during this period, the snow-capped mountains are often blocked by fog, but they are suitable for horse riding. Then go to Lashihai or Shangri-La first, and spend 400 to 500 yuan to see the fog. It’s still boring. In fact, Lijiang has a lot of natural scenery. It’s fun to choose scenic spots that suit the season.
Q: I took a taxi from the bus station to Lijiang, and some taxi drivers told me about the inn. It’s my own home and it’s very cheap. Is this credible?
Answer: Many guests who take a taxi from the bus station to Lijiang Old Town will encounter taxi drivers who say that such and such an inn is their own home and it’s very cheap. , let the guests stay. However, some people believe this childish lie. It is really a coincidence that I have my own inn and work hard to make a living as a taxi driver. How to ensure the quality? Seriously, how can a hotel like this rely on lies to attract customers? Guests who are deceived by such lies will 100% regret it after seeing the Naxi Pure Land. The first self-guided tour is called Yangtze River Rafting. It’s super boring. The water is too quiet and it’s not nonsense.
Q: I’m not in good health and will suffer from altitude sickness in Lijiang. If you don’t have any reaction in Lijiang, can you go to a scenic spot with a higher altitude?
Answer: Lijiang scenic spot has rich vegetation and altitude sickness will not be very strong, but if you want to go to a high-altitude scenic spot above 3,000 meters, You must also rest for a few days in Lijiang to adapt to altitude sickness. Lijiang itself is 2410 meters above sea level, so some people in the snowy mountains may have altitude sickness, and Meili Snow Mountain may also suffer from altitude sickness.
Q: Choose. What is the main factor in staying in a hotel? Will it be more comfortable and enjoyable to stay in a hotel?
A: It is really a waste of time if you stay in hotels in places like Lijiang Old Town.
As the ancient town of Lijiang is famous in China and even the world, staying in an inn is not only a solution to the problems of accommodation and sleeping, but also a way to experience the unique Naxi cultural customs of the ancient town and integrate yourself into the entire ancient city of Lijiang. There are currently hundreds of inns in Gucheng Inn, and you should be able to find rooms with a price difference of more than ten or twenty yuan. In fact, additional services are standard rooms that measure the price, such as sound insulation, sanitation, quietness, location, etc. If any one of them is ignored by the innkeeper, the indirect loss caused to the guest will be more than ten yuan.
Q: Do I have to pay the Gou Wei fee for Lijiang Old Town?
Answer: The ancient tour fee has been bundled with most of the surrounding attractions, and all tourists coming to Lijiang must pay it. Most tourist units in the ancient city go through the formalities of collecting ancient tour fees. Naxi Jingdi Inn can charge ancient tour fees, and you can visit all the scenic spots with one payment. The ancient city maintenance fee is mainly responsible for the ancient city protection and management committee. After hearings and demonstrations and approval by the provincial and municipal governments, it is mainly used for the construction and repair of the ancient city of Lijiang.
Q: What are the delicious snacks in Lijiang?
Answer: To be honest, there are very few delicious Lijiang snacks recorded in major travel books. Lijiang Baba is a sesame seed cake without any ingredients, and Cross-Bridge Rice Noodles is a bowl of chicken soup, not to mention the others. Even most of the Naxi locals are accustomed to an improved version of Naxi cuisine that is close to Sichuan cuisine. Among the delicious restaurants in Lijiang, Xiangshan Market has pork ribs and potato chicken. The technical level of Shipotian Jianghu Restaurant on Wuyi Street in the ancient city is relatively stable, especially its spiced chicken wings, fish-flavored eggplant, sizzling tofu, spicy chicken, and braised pig's trotters. There are also cured meat shops and pickle shops. You can also try fried potatoes and boiled mushrooms from roadside stalls. As for the yak jerky sold everywhere in Mangu City, you can buy it at the price of ordinary beef jerky, which usually costs more than ten or twenty yuan per pound. More detailed guide to eating, drinking and having fun can be found on the Lijiang Sunflower Collection website. It is worth noting that when you first come to Lijiang, you may not have a good appetite due to acclimatization, but after you adapt to it for a few days, your appetite will greatly increase because the water in Lijiang contains alkali, which helps digestion.
Q: What local cultural performances are there in Lijiang?
Answer: The main artistic performances in Lijiang include Lishui Jinsha, Luban Lurao, and Naxi Ancient Music. Among them, Lishui Jinsha appears in the form of ethnic minority costumes. It contains three sections: Bangbang party, walking marriage, and sacrifice for love, which show the folk customs of more than a dozen ethnic minorities in Yunnan. Personally, I think it is the most worthwhile performance in Lijiang. "Lu Ban Rao" shows the ancient national culture of the Naxi people and is adapted from two thousand-year-old Naxi epics "The Battle of Black and White" and "Lu Ban Rao". It describes a bloody war that took place long ago between blacks and whites. The ancestors of these two tribes predicted that blacks and whites would not marry. By chance, a black princess fell in love with a white prince, and a beautiful love story was born. Naxi ancient music consists of "White Sand Fine Music", "Dong Sutra Music" and Yu Sutra Music (now lost). It is integrated with Taoist ritual music, Confucian ritual music, and even the Ci and Qupai music of the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties, forming its unique charm. It is called the fossil of music and is one of the oldest musics in the world. The above three performances are all performed every night and require reservation one day in advance. Most Gucheng Inns offer a discount of 20 yuan below the face price.
What are some good local songs?
Q: When I go out to play, some fortune tellers or tribal wise men tell fortunes very accurately. Can they buy tokens?
Answer: Common scams in Lijiang include the little monk in the Black Dragon Pond, the unknown drugstore in Shangri-La, the aunt who lets tourists ride on the snowy mountains, deceiving tourists that a certain inn is the driver of its own bus station, and the silver shop in the ancient city. Ordinary bracelets costing more than ten yuan are sold for hundreds of sterling silver bracelets. Because Lijiang's tourism regulations are relatively strict and there will be no forced buying and selling, there are some scams like fortune telling and home visits. Fortune telling is really just psychology. The essence of true religious worship lies in understanding the beauty of life and being grateful, which cannot be achieved by spending a lot of money on tokens or incense candles. Naxi suggested that with so much money, it would be better to donate it to children in impoverished mountainous areas of Yunnan.
Q: How to distinguish between off-season and off-season in Lijiang?
Answer: Lijiang is the only ancient city in China listed as a world cultural heritage. In fact, there will be a lot of people in the off-season, it’s just the peak season. If you don't book in advance, you may not even be able to get a room. As long as it is a public holiday, it is considered a peak season, such as the summer vacation in July and August, the May 11th Golden Week, the Spring Festival is the most expensive, and other seasons are considered off-season. The average house price in the off-season is 60 yuan to 150 yuan, and in the peak season, the average house price is 200 yuan to 380 yuan.
In fact, as long as it is a public holiday, it is the peak season, and other times are the off-season. Compared with other domestic tourist destinations, Lijiang is not in off-peak season, so new tourists will feel that there are still a lot of people. The difference between Lijiang's off-season and off-season is that there are more people in the peak season.
Q: There are actually hundreds of inns in Lijiang Old Town. Don’t you have to rush to book during the off-season?
Answer: It is precisely because there are hundreds of inns in Lijiang Old Town, a mixed bag of good and bad, that it is more important to know more about them before traveling. During the off-season, many inns may have vacancies, but there are not many inns with good service quality. Many good inns have the same number of customers in the off-season as in the peak season, but few have such a good reputation. Don't think that an inn is just a place to stay. Don't think that inns are simply cheap. For the ancient city of Lijiang, inns actually have a lot of content, and to a large extent they represent the inner classics of Naxi courtyard houses. Don’t just look at price, but also look at value for money.
Q: Can you introduce Lashihai?
Answer: This is the first nature reserve named after a wetland in Yunnan Province. La is the translation of Gunasi, La is a barren dam, and the city is new, which means a new barren dam. Currently, there are 57 species of birds in the Lashihai Wetland. About 30,000 birds come here to spend the winter every year, including 9 species of endemic, rare, and endangered birds, including the bar-headed goose unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a national first-level protected bird. Similar to Chinese merganser, black-necked crane, black crane, etc. As long as it doesn't rain all year round, Lashihai is a good season for horseback riding and boating, because Lashihai is the ancient Tea Horse Road used by caravans in the past, and because grasslands and wetlands alternate, it feels different. There are approximately 30,000 migratory birds and 57 species of migratory birds in Hella every year. Therefore, Lashihai is also a paradise for birds, which shows the environmental charm of Lashihai.
Q: Can you introduce Meili Snow Mountain and Yubeng?
Answer: Meili Snow Mountain is also known as the Snow Mountain Prince. The most eye-catching scenery is Rizhao Jinshan. Generally, after watching Mei Li, you don't need to watch Jade Dragon, because it's not on the same level at all. Located about 10 kilometers northeast of Deqin County, Yunnan Province, between the Nujiang River and the Lancang River in the middle section of the Hengduan Mountains, there are 13 peaks with an average altitude of more than 6,000 meters, known as the Prince's Thirteen Peaks. The main peak, Carvahar slope, is as high as 6,740 meters above sea level and is the highest peak in Yunnan. Yubeng is a Tibetan natural village at the foot of the Goddess Peak of Meili Snow Mountain. It feels like paradise on earth. It is the epitome of Shangri-La. Chenyu Waterfall has always been a holy place for Tibetan Buddhist worship. Every year, thousands of believers come from Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu and other places to worship. There are mainly four-day or six-day tours in Merisi
Answer: Lugu Lake is picturesque. Most of the guests who have been there say it is beautiful, but the drive is very long. The one-way trip takes more than 7 hours and has 18 turns. When passing each corner, other drivers were drifting, and they were drifting on the edge of the cliff with excitement. Almost every female guest felt it with her eyes closed. In addition, there are many gravel roads in Lugu Lake, which are not flat roads but rather bumpy. Well, after spending so much words, I am not telling you not to go, but to make you fully mentally prepared to travel.
Q: Do you have any riding and rowing skills in Lashihai?
Answer: Lashihai is an international wetland park. Thousands of migratory birds spend the winter here, but there are some places you need to pay attention to to make you have more fun~ ~First hold the reins with one hand and hold the saddle with the other , learn to control the reins. Pulling to the left means going left, pulling to the right means going right. The purpose of pulling back desperately is to make the horse stop (it's best to bark a few times ~ it means stop in Naxi language) to make it stop. Pull the reins to the left to make the horse go left, pull the reins to the right to make the horse go to the right, and pull the reins back to make the horse stop. When you go to Blue Moon Valley, the first country of Yulong, there will be a racecourse. The groom can organize the racecourse and run it repeatedly several times (if the groom does not let you run, you can contact the baby to complain to them. If your horse does not It's easy to run, you can ask the groom to change the horse to run for fun first, and then change to your own horse when you are really on the road). The feeling is definitely 100 times better than normal riding. When riding a horse, do not carry small items in your pockets. If you fall to the ground, you will scare the horse. Weather changes may occur at any attraction, so please be prepared. Never boat when it’s cold. It is best to ride back or have a horse to ride back. There are many routes on the racecourse, the most important are two. One is the sightseeing route around the lake, covering the most colorful attractions in this season. More suitable for guests who don’t know how to ride horses. While slowly mastering horse riding, you can enjoy sightseeing. One is the horse racing self-guided route, which is more suitable for guests who already know how to ride a horse.
You can ask the racecourse to give you a first-rate horse with a more active temperament and a love of running.
Q: Can you introduce some advantages and disadvantages of Dali Ancient City and Shuhe Ancient City?
Answer: There are only a few streets in Dali Ancient City. Not suitable for many people to play, but suitable for permanent residence. Most people who want to play say it is not as good as Lijiang Ancient Town. Moreover, many scenic spots in Dali are developed together. The fare may be cheap, but the tickets will be more expensive. Only the bars and inns near Jiuding Longtan and Liuyan Lane in Shuhe Ancient Town feel more natural and primitive, and the surrounding extensions are basically built in imitation of Dayan Ancient Town. In addition, due to the lack of competition, commodity prices in Shuhe are relatively higher than in Lijiang.
Q: The Shogunate and Black Dragon Pool (Yuquan Park) are said to be very famous. Are they interesting?
Answer: The Shogunate is a smaller version of the Forbidden City. If you have paid for the ancient tour, it is still worth going, but if you have not paid for the ancient tour, it is not worth it. 100% of people who have been to Black Dragon Pool say that the admission fee is 30 yuan and 60 yuan is not worth it, but you can enter Black Dragon Pool for free by climbing Xiangshan Mountain.
Q: It is said that you can avoid fares by riding horses in the snowy mountains?
Answer: There are some aunties or "Dirty Heart" inns in the ancient city. They will take the initiative to ask you if you want to go to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain or ride horses, and then tell you that you can escape the fare by riding horses in Jade Dragon Snow Mountain from the back mountain. In fact, there is no way to evade fares at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. At most, you can get a discount with a military ID or student ID. You won’t be able to see any classic attractions in the snow-capped mountains by horseback riding. Many people are cheated because the price is cheap and they can enjoy horse riding and snow mountains. Sounds like a good deal. In fact, there is absolutely no way to escape the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain ticket. Riding a horse for more than 4,000 meters will definitely be torture and unrealistic. Don’t be fooled into thinking you can evade fares just because you are looking for a small advantage. What’s more comfortable is