Dali-Lijiang-Zhongdian

Duration: 20 days.

Fitness level: Pretty high

Best time to come: April, May, June, September, and October.

Dali 3 days: Stay up the mountain in the Higherland Inn (2600m) for two nights, enjoy the view of whole Dali old town and the Erhai Lake, walk on the cloud pass which is paved by stones, winding around the mountain ranges for 18km, it's safe and easy to walk, amazing view of the gorge and forest. Can also do the hike adventure up to the summit, which is 4200m. During spring, there are all kinds of azaleas blossom from different altitude, white, purple, pink, red and Yellow.

Weishan 2days: The famous Taoism Mountain in Yunnan, very peaceful place without many tourists, has the chance to stay in the old Temple with pools and gods.

Shaxi 2days: One of the historical town protected by government, one the old Tea-Horse trail towards Tibet. The village has one old temple; one stage, one square, and many old trading stalls attached with houses along few streets.many big houses of rich horse men's. The valley around the village is beautiful, and more beautiful stages in the nearby villages. Can take day walk to visit all, also the Shibao Shan grotto is very famous too where has the statue of Buddha and the Nanzhao royal life show which is more than one thousand years old.

Lijiang, Tiger Leaping Gorge 5days: Lijiang is a romantic attractive town as all the people know, good to stay one day to enjoy, the TigerLeaping Gorge is stunningly beautiful by the snow peaks in front of you and the Yangzi roaring along the whole trek, it's a place has to see and stay.

Weixi 2days: It's a town of Bai, Lisu and Naxi, Tibetan people, on the side of Meikong River, close to the Cizhong church, which was built by 17 century, French missionary came try to make wine, so there is lots of Grape farms still working until now. On the way to Deqin is the most amazing ride among all your travels, Mekong is running all the way along the road, small and big hills are red, gray or snow capped makes the drops astonishing.

Deqin, Mingyong Glacier and Yubeng 5days: From the north of Deqin, in the clear day, can see the Meili snow Mt range, and the Kawagebo Peak (6740m). The Mingyong Glacier is the monsoon marine glacier, is the lowest altitude and latitude among the modern glacier in the world. It's six square meter and 12 km, from Mingyong village, walk three hours along the stairs on the rocks can see her gray green face and hear the cracks like dynamite. Yubeng is a village on the pilgrimage circle of Meili Mt, it's hidden in the forest, and protected by the holy iced lake and sacred water falls.

Zhongdian 2 days: The center Tibetan town in Yunnan province, close to South of Sichuan Tibetan area and east of Tibet. A town has massive grassland and yak farms outside and massive wooden house inside. There are several lakes near by the hills outside the town, hot spring is also a good relax choice after all the travels, of course the Songzanli Monastery is a has to go spot for experience the Tibetan Buddhism if you have ever seen any Tibetan temple before.

Fly back to Kunming.



Jinghong-Jianshui-Yuanyang-Kunming

Duration: 10 days.
Best time is from December to April.
Fitness level: middle.

Jinghong 3 or 4days-6 hours walk per day: The tropical area in the south of Yunnan, share the border with Laos, Burma and Vietnam. The gate way to China from Southeast Asia by land. It's covered by lash rain forests and Mekong run through. Dai is the main nationality; there are also Miao, Aka, Lahu, Aini, and Yao living here with their own traditions and colorful costumes. Stay here one day for start the trip. Then will walk through different villages hidden inside mountains, home stay will give you more chance to experiment local life. The size of the tree in the jungle and hospitality of people will cheer you up.

Yuanyang 2days--6 hours walk per day: A wonderland of rice terraces cultivated by Hani people for thousand and thousand years. Varies of minorities like Yi, Yao, Miao, Hani, etc are living here hormonally. The red river is running through the Ailao Mountains range, makes the big drops from 2400meters to 400meters. Walk in the terraces from one village to the other, the astonishment of the harmony between human power and nature source comes one after another.

Jianshui 2days-- A town has a history of years, the great Chaoyang gate like Tiananmen was built in1389, the second biggest temple of Confucius was built in 1285, very well preserved. The courtyard of Zhu family covers 20,000 square meter, well arranged yards with pond, stage, plants and furnished room is large and magnificent which is very rare to see now in china. Beautiful teahouse with traditional folk show is open to public every night. Very good place for visiting old buildings and feel ancient arts of living here.

Kunming (1day): leisure sightseeing tour around Kunming, Yuan tong temple and Flower-bird market... Take a day off to rest before the next destination!