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China travel plan: The Road to Shangri-La (10 days)
Yunnan in ten days – the most culturally diverse route we offer. You start in Kunming, the “city of eternal spring”, travel to Dali on Erhai Lake, the Naxi old town of Lijiang and all the way to Tibetan Shangri-La with Songzanlin Monastery. China's cultural and culinary diversity surprised us most – and it's at its most visible in Yunnan, home to 25 of the country's 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities. This is a high-altitude trip: the glacier on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain sits at around 4,500 m and Shangri-La at over 3,000 m, so a warm jacket comes in handy even in summer.
- 10 daystrip length
- 4 placeson the route
- Kunmingstart
- Departure from KunmingChangshui Airport (KMG)
- Best time to go March–May, October–November (Kunming is mild all year) Kunming is mild all year
See a free sample (PDF) – 2 days from “China's Golden Triangle+”. Every itinerary is planned in the same detail.
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Day-by-day route
A route summary. In the PDF every day is covered in detail: what to see, times, getting there, tickets and addresses in Chinese.
- Day 1Arrival in Kunming
- Day 2Stone Forest
- Day 3Kunming → Dali
- Day 4Dali
- Day 5Dali → Lijiang
- Day 6Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
- Day 7Lijiang → Shangri-La
- Day 8Shangri-La
- Day 9Shangri-La → Kunming
- Day 10Kunming → departure
On this route
- Kunming: the Stone Forest and Dian Lake
- Dali: the old town, the Three Pagodas and Erhai Lake
- Lijiang: the Naxi old town and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
- Shangri-La: Songzanlin Monastery and the Tibetan old town
What's in the PDF plan
- A day-by-day schedule describing each day
- A map of the whole route
- Place names and addresses in Chinese
- Before you go: visa, apps, internet, money, trains and plugs
- Connections between cities
- Booking a train ticket step by step
- Getting around the city
- What and where to eat
- How much it costs on the ground (per person, excluding flights to China)
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