One must read before traveling to Lijiang
1, Lijiang is located in Yunnan Province, under the jurisdiction of a district and four counties, respectively, the ancient city, Yulong County, Yongsheng County, Huaping County and Nyingchi County. Lijiang Dayan Ancient Town is located in the ancient city, the ancient city is not specifically refers to Dayan Ancient Town, but includes Dayan Ancient Town, Shuhe Ancient Town and Lijiang New Town of the entire Lijiang city.
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Lijiang all year round is the best time to travel, full of flowers in bloom. 7-8 months for the rainy season, but also the peak season, intermittent downpours to catch you by surprise, rainbow after the rainstorm is common, but also may be a double rainbow. It is not recommended to go out and play on a rainy day.
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The popular attractions in Lijiang stepping point 1-2 days can run through, do not recommend rushing ducks like the time schedule is too tight, snow and then go to see the snowy mountains. Lijiang natural scenery is a lot, choose the right seasonal attractions to play will be happy, there is no need to be too forced.
4, Lijiang the most beautiful is the sky, the sky, fire clouds, change unpredictable clouds, all let you fascinated.
2 Lijiang Travel and Transportation Tips
(1) How to get to Lijiang
a. Airplane
At present, direct flights to Lijiang have been opened in many domestic cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guiyang, Kunming, Xishuangbanna and so on. Usually when coming to Lijiang, most passengers choose to fly to Kunming first, and then hitchhike from Kunming to Lijiang, which is a more economical choice.
Lijiang Airport is 30 kilometers away from the old town of Lijiang, and transportation is mainly by civil aviation shuttle buses and cabs.
Taxi: 80-100 RMB to downtown. The entrance to the ancient city is divided into South Gate, Zhongyi Market, Wenchang Palace and Dashui Che. Dashuiche is the main entrance and you usually get off at the north gate parking lot.
civil aviation shuttle bus: once out of the terminal can see the civil aviation shuttle bus, 20 yuan per person, from the airport to the terminal civil aviation ticket office, get off to reach the destination need to call a cab or choose other means of transportation, Lijiang cab starting price of 8 yuan.
b.Train Station
Lijiang Railway Station, Lijiang East Station, Lijiang Railway Station is located in the Dali Railway (Dali - Lijiang) on the line, is the terminal of the Dali Railway, but also the second largest passenger train station in Yunnan Province.
Train station - Lijiang ancient city:
Take bus 16, 18 direct to the ancient city;
There are a lot of blue minivans to the ancient city from the exit of the train station, carpooling for 10-15 yuan per person (but don't be fooled into going to the tourist attractions).
Lijiang Old Town - Train Station:
Take the No.18 bus from Bailong Square directly to the train station;
Taxi is metered at 30+RMB.
c.Car
Take the bus: Lijiang Gaoxu Bus Station;
Address: on Shangri-La Avenue in Lijiang Old Town.
Place to take the bus: Lijiang City Passenger Transportation Center;
Often referred to as the New Passenger Transportation Station, there are shuttles to Qiaotou Town (Tiger Leaping Gorge), Zhongdian, Deqin, Kunming and other surrounding areas.
Address: 25 Kangzhong Road, Lijiang City.
(II) Transportation within Lijiang City and the Old Town
Taxis and buses are the main means of transportation within Lijiang City.
The previous string of scenic spots outside Lijiang City is mainly by chartered buses and coaches.
a. Buses
Lijiang buses usually cost 1 yuan and it is easy to reach some attractions.
Bus routes to major attractions
Route 1: New Street - Lijiang Hotel - Civil Aviation Station - Passenger Terminal - Democracy Road
Route 2: Democracy Road - Passenger Terminal - Zhendong Road
Route 3: South Huan Road - Passenger Terminal - New Street
Route 5: New Street - Changshui Road - Lashangxiang
Route 6: New Street - Beijiao District - Baisha Street
Route 7: New Street - Baisha Mural - Yufeng Temple - Ganhaizi - Yunchengping
b.Taxi
Taxi price: 8 yuan to start
c.Chartered car
If the number of people is large enough to go to the attractions around Lijiang chartered car is still very cost-effective, you can communicate with the driver first, as the play stops. Online some people mentioned in Lijiang chartered car was black, in fact, Lijiang is now very good security, if there are still concerns in this regard, you can consult the front desk of the Lijiang Vanbar Art Inn, leave a message in the microblogging!
d. Bicycle, electric car
The Red Sun Plaza in Lijiang city can provide car rental service, bicycle rental fee 15-30 yuan/day, electric car 40-80 yuan/day ranging.
Also, some youth hostels and inns also have this service provided, rental prices are slightly different, but the ancient city can not ride a bike, only out of the city or to go to a closer place will need to rent a bike.
Four tips for places to visit in Lijiang
Want to know what's fun?
For those who like to have a good time, from Lijiang Old Town Bar Street to Lashihai to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain which is a must-see iconic location in Lijiang.
Like quiet friends, from Baisha Old Town to Yuhu Village and Wenhai, these are not often appear in the strategy of the primitive village.
Top must-see spots in Lijiang:
1. Lijiang Old Town
Photo. Tang Xinrong
This is an ancient city without walls, with smooth and clean narrow stone roads, completely hand-built adobe houses, and ubiquitous small bridges and rivers. It is a small city of humanity, where there are always slow-striding, aged Naxi elders leisurely pacing under the bright sunlight.
2. Shuhe Ancient Town
Shuhe is an important part of Lijiang Ancient Town, which has natural scenery, folk customs, historical relics and multi-cultural landscapes, which are complementary to and an extension of Lijiang Ancient Town. As early as in the Ming Dynasty, it was already an important market town in Lijiang. Shuhe is surrounded by mountains and water, with a patchwork of residential houses. There is a pool of water in the street, called "Jiuding Longtan", also known as "spring".
3. Lugu Lake
Lugu Lake is known as Lugu Cave Hai Zi, surrounded by mountains and steep hills, there are more than three months of snow a year. Lugu Lake is the local Mosuo people as the "mother lake", also known as "Penglai fairyland". Folklore in the world's daughter country, the existence of the present, I am afraid that only the Mosuo people. Mosuo people have been living in Lugu Lake, they still retain the "men do not marry, women do not marry, the combination of voluntary, separated from the free" matrilineal clan marriage system.
4. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
Photo. Wood Chongsheng
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is located in the northwest of Lijiang, the mountain 13 peaks, because of glaciers, so the peaks of the year-round snow, such as a robust Jade Dragon lying on top of the mountain, a leap into the Jinsha River of the momentum, so the name "Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
5. Lijiang Tiger Leaping Gorge
Naxi language called "Fulu A Cang over", known as Silverstone A Cang Gorge. It is located in the Tibetan Plateau, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of the convergence of the Department, but also the northwestern Yunnan Hengduan Mountains and the eastern Yunnan Plateau area of the two geomorphological formations combination of regional junction. Tiger Leaping Gorge is the largest gorge in the world. The whole Acang Tiger Leaping Gorge is divided into the upper tiger jumping, in the tiger jumping, the lower tiger jumping three sections, meandering road 25 kilometers. Each section of the river is strangely narrow, the north bank only allows a one-way mountain road next to the waterfalls, boulders across the river.
6. Lashihai Wetland Park
Lashihai water and grass is fertile, beautiful lake, known as the cradle of life, is the United States of America Nature Conservancy base. Lashihai by the season into a plateau lake that maintains a certain level of water, such as the mirror of the lake reflecting the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, wintering waterfowl peacefully perched, or soaring in the blue sky and white clouds, constituting a plateau wetland unique breath. Lashihai is a classic place for horseback riding and boating.
Lijiang cold tourist attractions recommended
1. A tree
Lijiang beautiful wedding scene place, from the Yuquan Road all the way to the snow mountain direction of the road, is located on the right side of the road. There are no houses on this road, a straight road leading to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, very beautiful!!!
2. Jade Lake Village, Jade Pillar
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the southern foot of the village called "Wuluken", meaning the village at the foot of the snowy mountains, this is the Jade Lake Village, Joseph Rock in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, a live 27 years, most of which lived in the Jade Lake Village. Naxi folk songs often mentioned in the Jade Lake and snow mountain deer farm. Jade Lake, the snow water is clear, swaying grass, blue sky and white clouds against the tall Jade Dragon Snow Peak reflected in the lake, nature seems to be precipitated at the bottom of the lake. This "Jade Lake reflection" is one of the famous "Jade Dragon Twelve Scenes".
3. Baisha Ancient Town, Wenhai
Naxi aborigines still live here, the four sides of the street in front of the Naxi grandmothers often sell wild vegetables, very few stores, this town is quiet and simple stand at the foot of the snowy mountains. Before Lijiang tourists flocked here, this was once the most visited place. In the direction of Baisha Town to Fuguo Temple, Wenhai is a wetland on the plateau.
4. Qingxi Reservoir
The Qingxi Reservoir is just an ordinary reservoir, but the perspective of the snow-capped mountains from here is very beautiful. This photo was taken with my cell phone one morning while I was walking, and it's so beautiful without any filters.
5. Baoshan Stone Town
Photo. Tang Xinrong
Baoshan Stone City is located 110 kilometers north of Lijiang City in the Jinsha River canyon, named for the more than a hundred families living together on top of a separate mushroom-shaped boulder. Inside the city, there are tiled houses and alleyways, which are simple and natural, and the wonders are endless. Lijiang Baoshan stone city on three sides are cliffs, one side of the stone slope straight into the Jinsha River, only the north and south of the two stone gate can be access, is a real danger of the city.
Lijiang good place to take pictures
1. Rose Town
More than 400 ethnic houses, more than 100 3D paintings, 300 acres of rose sea, the town's house consists of nine colors, in the town of a main road to the Lugu Lake and the Yangtze River First Bay as the background of the 3D geoglyphs have been completed. Here, how to shoot how to look good.
Address: Gucheng District, seven rivers in the town of Jinlong Village, the nine colors of the rose town
2. Snow Mountain Rose Manor
Snow Mountain Rose Manor is located at the foot of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, where even the air has a refreshingly fresh taste. The garden has a number of flower sculpture, a door is a giant peacock, hundreds of acres of roses are in full bloom, the garden has a variety of other flowers, simply dazzling, the garden also has a huge 3D picture, there are many places suitable for taking pictures. If you have a morning or an afternoon, it's perfectly fine to have some fun at the Rose Manor!
The most important thing about coming to Lijiang is not the attractions, but to relax yourself
Five Must-eat Cuisines for Lijiang Tourism
Hotpot Must-eat:
Wild Mushroom
Turkey
Salmon
Black Goat
Waxed Spare Ribs
Lijiang cuisine is mainly Naxi flavor, with both Sichuan and Guizhou flavors of Sichuan and Guizhou. From pork chop hot pot, black goat hot pot, wild mushroom hot pot to local chicken hot pot, salmon hot pot, put down the burden of long meat, together with a big mouthful of it.
Snacks recommended:
The East Yunnan plateau is rich in potatoes, Lijiang people commonly known as taro, is what we know as potatoes. I once saw a big sister in the time to leave Lijiang, nothing to take away, go to the market to carry a burlap bag of potatoes. How delicious the potatoes are here, just taste it. The streets are full of colorful potatoes, spicy flavor, spicy flavor, cumin flavor, tomato flavor, for a variety of different eaters to choose from.
Naxi baked bait block, Lijiang people's love for bait block is no principle. Roasted bait, definitely worth tasting, but which taste the flavor is authentic depends on the character.
Of course, basically a lot of food stores have these specialty snacks, in the end which store is more delicious, you can go to the review site to see the user's comments, you can also ask the snack goods front desk of the Van Erba Inn Xiao Cai.
Six Lijiang travel specialty shopping
Flower cake
Flower cake is a pastry made of edible roses, which is unique to Yunnan, and is a representative of classic snacks with Yunnan characteristics. In Lijiang, the flower cakes represented by Jiahua and Panxiangji are worth trying. There is a good flavor opposite the inn.
Dongba Paper
Dongba paper is made from Lijiang mowers, a wild and rare alpine plant unique to the Naxi region. The paper is thick, abrasion-resistant, insect-resistant, smoother, ivory-colored, bronze-colored, and has an antique look and feel, as well as being a very magical thing. The lamps made from Dongba paper are also very beautiful.
Bunun bell
Bunun bell is a kind of pendant shaped like the horse antelope of the horse gang, the goods of the horse gang culture, some of them are handmade, delicate and small bronze bell under the tie with a round piece of wood block, hand-painted with a variety of paintings and words in Dongba language.
In general, there are still a lot of tourist souvenirs, but they are more popular. Like scarves, tambourines, not to mention that you can buy them anywhere. In addition, you can buy a lot of good-looking postcards and travel tags inside a few kiosks on East Street in the Old Town.
Seven Accommodations for Lijiang Travel
Lijiang has thousands of hotels, inns, and B&Bs, a mix of good and bad, from modern decorations to courtyard inns for you to pick from. There are five-star hotels as well as residential homes, you can arrange according to their own itinerary appropriate, if you want to experience the life of the old city, there do not want to be quieter, you can choose to close to the side of the old city of the inn, such as Van Erba Art Inn, close to the main road, a few steps away from the cab. If you want to go to Lashihai, Lugu Lake and other well-known attractions, you can also choose a good reputation in the local inn. In any case, I strongly recommend booking well in advance, Lijiang tourist peak season is usually a room hard to find.
Eight entertainment during Lijiang travel
Bonfire party
In Lijiang, often see the scene above, the steps are simple to integrate into the local and grandmothers dance a bonfire party, is very happy. Shuhe Ancient Town, the four sides of the hearing Square at 8:00 p.m. often.
● Viewing ethnic song and dance performances
Naxi ancient music is the oldest, Lishui Jinsha is the most soft, the impression of Lijiang is the most atmospheric, Lijiang thousands of ancient love the best choreography, the ringing of Yunnan is the most ecological, Lijiang love song is the most shocking.
9 Tips for life during Lijiang trip
About sunscreen:
Yunnan weather is dry and ultraviolet rays are very strong, sunscreen hydration is especially important. Women: sunscreen, sunglasses, hats, sunscreen clothing is a necessary weapon, hydration cosmetics as well as lipstick can be brought; men: feel free.
About Clothing:
Jacket is essential, the temperature difference between morning and evening is big, especially the rain temperature is low;
Recommended white and red or ethnic style, suitable for photographs;
Not wear high heels, with comfortable sneakers and flats, the ancient city are stone road, it will be more difficult to walk.
Daily necessities and medicines:
Toothpaste, toothbrushes, towels can bring their own, clean and hygienic at the same time to meet their daily habits;
Shampoo, hair conditioner, make-up, care solution can be bought early, divided into bottles of several days of the amount.
Other:
Charging treasure, band-aid, wet wipes, ID card, student ID card and so on;
The old and weak should not be strenuous exercise, in order to prevent plateau reaction;
Respect for the life and beliefs of ethnic minorities, and understand each other.
Ten Important Phone Numbers for Lijiang Tourism
Travel Complaints Phone Number
0888-5123432
0888-5121315
0888-5105612
0888-96927
Yunnan Provincial Tourism Complaints Phone Number: 0871- 3537361 3538633
Kunming Tourism Complaints Hotline: 0871-3164995
Dali Tourism Complaints Hotline: 0872-2121246
Banna Tourism Complaints Hotline: 0691-2122323
State Tourism Complaints Hotline: 010-65275315