Introduction: Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture is located in the west of central Yunnan Province, 2090 meters above sea level, east of Chuxiong Prefecture, south of Pu'er City, Lincang City, west of Baoshan City, Nujiang Prefecture, north of Lijiang City. Dali tour, a day is best to see the Cangshan Erhai, enjoy the wind and snow.

DAY1 Erhai - Butterfly Spring - Xizhou - Chongsheng Temple Three Pagodas - Dali Ancient City

In the morning at the Longshi Pier boat tour of the Erhai Sea, on the boat you can watch the authentic Bai Three Tea Show, taste the true meaning of life, along the way, touring the Erhai Park, the three islands of the Erhai Sea, Nanzhao style island, you can see the Golden Shuttle Island, the small Putuo. At noon, arrive at the Butterfly Spring, tourists can eat in the Butterfly Spring side restaurant, to the Butterfly Spring viewing. Around 13:30 pm, you can tour the Xizhou residential area, then go to Chongsheng Temple Three Pagodas, and finally can reach the ancient city of Dali. Night stay in Dali Ancient City, tourists live in the local houses, enjoy the white folk style.

Dining:

Lunch at the Butterfly Spring side restaurant, and in the evening to the local residential dining.

Erhai

The ancient name of Erhai is ? Ye Yu water? and also known as the Xi'er River. The river is also known as the "Western Er River", the "Er River", and the "Ye Yu River". Er River, Er River, Yeyu River, Yeyu Ze, Mi River, Kunmichuan, Kunming Pond and so on. It is a plateau lake formed by the collapse of the West Er River, the shape of which is like an ear, so it is called Erhai. Although the area is not as large as Dianchi, the water storage capacity is larger than Dianchi due to the deep water level. Cangshan Mountains and Erhai Sea, mountains and water. Erhai originated in eryuan county of pyrenees than the lake, the source from the strike valley mountain, north of mi straight river injection people, southeast of the polo river water, west of the cangshan 18 creek water, the total runoff area of 2,565 square kilometers, an area of about 251 square kilometers, the storage capacity of 3 billion cubic meters, the average depth of about 11.5 meters, the deepest for 20 meters. It is the seventh largest freshwater lake in China.

Butterfly Spring

The Butterfly Spring is located under the Yunlang Peak of Dali Dancang Mountain. It is like a transparent gem, set in the green shade, with its unique wonders, attracting tourists from near and far.

Butterfly Springs from Xiaguan by car, along the Yunnan-Tibet Highway northbound more than 30 kilometers, the car on the left side of an ancient colorful stone workshop into the eyes. On the book of the plaque? Butterfly Spring? Three big words, is Guo Moruo tour of Dali left ink.

From the pagoda to the side of the Butterfly Spring, about a hundred meters, the spring pool two or three square, surrounded by translucent marble built into the expansion of the fence. The spring water is crystal clear, a string of silver-colored water bubbles, from the sandstone gushing out, bubbling out of the water surface, flooding pieces of water. This spring water to Cangshan snow, not only the amount of water is stable, the water quality is also very good.

Since ancient times, there are many scholars and writers, to this investigation tour, and wrote many important poems.

Xizhou

Xizhou has beautiful mountains and rivers, and there are many places of interest. In particular, the town has in China and even the world's architectural history of a unique large number of Ming, Qing, Republic of China to the contemporary period of the distinctive Bai residential complexes for domestic and foreign tourists, with high historical and cultural value, was announced by the State Council as the national key cultural relics protection units.

The Bai residential complex in Xizhou, with its unique style and deep cultural connotations, has y 'attracted historians, tourists, architects, artists, folklorists, economists, and sociologists throughout the ages. Xizhou is the epitome of Bai society, through which we can truly understand and recognize the Bai yesterday and today.

The layout of Xizhou houses is typical of the Bai courtyard pattern, such as "three houses and one wall", "five courtyards in four", "two courtyards in one (six contracts in spring)", and "horseback string of corners", etc. These houses have carved beams and paintings, and are characterized by a variety of architectural features. These dwellings carved beams and painted buildings, overlapping arches, corner flying eaves, doorways, walls, walls of colorful painting decorative art colorful, fully embodies the architectural talent and artistic creativity of the Bai people. With its simple and elegant, generous and practical and known in the world.

With the rise of tourism, Xizhou began in 1992, in line with the publicity of Dali, to domestic and foreign travelers to show the Bai's traditional culture for the purpose of carrying out Xizhou Bai residential folk tourism. In recent years, the town of Xizhou through the improvement of tourism investment environment, standardize the architectural style of Bai folk houses, strengthen the protection and utilization of the ancient town, has now formed a tourism industry as the leading tourism resources development of small towns.

Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple

The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple are the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council, which are the symbols and icons of the famous historical and cultural city and the national excellent tourist city of Dali, and the important humanistic landscapes of the national tourist scenic spots of Dali, as well as one of the oldest and most majestic buildings in southern China. The three towers have harmony in change, unity in opposition, depend on each other, natural, behind the year-round snow Cangshan Mountain, in front of the blue waves of the bait sea, and ? Jade Er Silver Cang? It is a natural and elegant oriental beauty.

Unearthed cultural relics on display in the pavilion in 1978 to 1980, the three towers since Ming Jiajing, the largest scale of a maintenance, maintenance of the Nanzhao, Dali State period of precious artifacts unearthed, there are more than 680, so far found in the Nanzhao Dali State period of cultural relics the richest and most important batch of cultural relics for the Chinese and foreign cultural relics community attention. On display writing scriptures, scrolls, Dharma body relics, three towers of gold models, bronze mirrors, jade and crystal Buddha and so on, bring people into the long river of history, in a flash, will be back a thousand years, see the flourishing economy and splendid culture of the Erhai region during the Sheng Tang Dynasty, for the study of the Nanzhao, Dali Kingdom period of politics, economy, culture, Buddhist art provides extremely valuable physical information.

Dali Ancient City

Dali Ancient City, referred to as Ye Yu, also known as the Purple City, its history can be traced back to the years of Tang Tianbao, Nanzhao King Gelao Feng built the city of Yang Tho Ba (near the three towers of the city's west today), as its new capital. The ancient city was built in Ming Hongwu fifteen years (1382 AD), twelve miles in circumference, the city wall is two feet high and five feet, two feet thick. East and west, north and south, each with a gate, there are towers, there are corner corner towers. At the beginning of the liberation, the walls were demolished. 1982, rebuilt the south gate, the door "Dali" two words are set Guo Moruo calligraphy and become. By the south gate into the city, a straight north gate of the Fuxing Road, became a bustling market, stores along the street and set up, selling marble, tie-dye and other ethnic handicrafts and jewelry and jade. Some of the old houses between the streets and lanes, but also can still find the former style, courtyard flowers and trees, birdsong, outdoor streams and canals murmuring." The scene of "three a well, a few pots of flowers" is still.

The Guiguo Road, which runs east to west in the ancient city, is known as "Foreigner Street". Here, one after another Chinese and Western restaurants, cafes, teahouses and handicraft stores, signboards, advertisements written in foreign languages, attracting blonde "foreigners", linger here, looking for the ancient charm of the Orient, and gradually become a chic landscape.

February 8, 1982, the State Council announced the Dali Ancient City as one of China's first 24 historical and cultural cities.