another note: if you don't want to be disappointed in Yunnan, don't join the group.
First stop, Kunming
Kunming is a spring city and a famous tourist city, but after a long time, you really don't think there is anything worth playing here. If you don't have enough time, it is enough to arrange two days:
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The fifth anniversary of Le Tu nomad tribe 27 Tibetan holy land wedding air travel white paper Golden Week travel raiders self-help travel, first arrange delicious accommodation. The consumption level in Kunming is not very high, and the price of food and accommodation is reasonable. However, as a student, it is still based on the principle of saving money. Therefore, after arriving in Kunming, you can arrange accommodation around Yunnan University (Kungong, Yunnan Normal University and Yunnan Nationality are also in this area). Most of the hotels here are for nearby college students who can't return to their dormitories on time, which is very cost-effective.
The specific route is:
1) Kunming Wujiaba Airport:
Method A: Take a taxi to Yunnan University for Nationalities. The fare is around 2 yuan during the day and around 24 yuan at night.
method b: take a bus in front of the airport (Kunming airport is very close to the urban area, which is one of the few airports in China with direct buses) and go to Kunming railway station. The fare is one yuan, and you should bring your own change (the same below). Transfer to No.64 at Kunming Railway Station and get off at Minzu University.
2) Kunming Railway Station
Method A: Take bus No.64 to Minzu University (the boarding station is not at the exit of the railway station, so you need to ask for directions)
Method B: Take bus No.2 to Jianshe Road (the boarding station is at the exit of the railway station, but after getting off, you need to ask for directions and walk to Yunnan University for Nationalities, about 2 stops)
Method C: Take a taxi directly to Yunnan University for Nationalities, about 16-7. (PS: Most local people in Yunnan are also very warm and simple, so you can ask for directions in Yunnan.)
Hotels near here are generally ordinary rooms, regardless of off-season and peak season, and the price is 1-15 yuan per bed.
if it's still early after you settle down, you can eat nearby, because most of the small shops nearby are opened by students, so there is no big phenomenon of cheating customers, just be prepared to buy fruit nearby. After dinner, you can take a walk in Cuihu Park through the campus of Yunnan University (from December to March every year, there are red-billed gulls living here, and the scenery is spectacular). To be on the safe side, you need to be back at the hotel before 24 o'clock.
Official itinerary
Day 1: Expo Park-Jindian
The Expo Park was completed in 1999, and it has been commercialized since the competition. Although it is all artificial, it is still necessary to visit because of its great fame. However, people who are interested in gardens or buildings will still gain something from it.
Tickets: 1 yuan, you can buy half tickets with your student ID card. (When you come to Yunnan, you must bring your student ID card. Almost all major scenic spots can buy half-price student tickets, but the verification is very strict.)
Transportation: ask for directions from the main entrance of Minzu University, walk to Jianshe Road, and take bus No.69 to the destination (the return journey is the same).
It takes half a day to have a cursory look at the Expo Park. If it is still early, you can take the ropeway inside the park (not recommended) or take the bus outside the park to the Golden Temple Scenic Area (tickets for 15 yuan, no student tickets). The Golden Temple was built in Wu Sangui in the early Qing Dynasty, and it is made of pure casting. There is little ornamental value except the Golden Temple in the scenic area. After you get out of the Golden Temple, take the No.1 bus back to the University for Nationalities.
the next day: Shilin
a famous address park, which is world-famous and worth seeing.
The Stone Forest is not in the urban area, and the transportation and accommodation are troublesome. You can quote a one-day tour of Stone Forest according to the advertisement issued in front of the railway station or the Expo Park the day before (quote about 1 yuan, and bargain if it exceeds this price, including scenic spot tickets, Chinese food and fares).
When signing up for a tour, make sure that the scenic spots you visit include the "Oishinohayashi" scenic spot (the picture on the Shilin brand cigarette box)
The quotation for a one-day tour of Shilin is cheap, but no matter whether the reported travel agency gives it to you formally or not, there are many tricks in it, so you need to be extremely careful. Personally recommend Yunnan Everbright Travel Agency and Yunnan International Travel Service.
The tricks of Shilin One-Day Travel Agency:
A: Halfway through the "Colorful Yunnan" shopping spot. "Emerald Jade" shopping spot. Remember: Don't buy anything beautiful. Otherwise, you will regret it.
B: pass through the temple, and never draw lots, tell fortune, burn incense or worship Buddha in it. (The same is true in other places in Yunnan-except Songzanlin Temple in Shangri-La (see below)-it's not that we don't respect the deities and buddhas, but that the deities and buddhas in these small temples have been defiled by those secular monks and Taoists. )
C: never take part in the so-called entertainment project of marrying the ethnic minorities in Shilin scenic area, otherwise the loss will be recorded as 1 yuan.
D: when you travel in the scenic area, you should arrange home visits for ethnic minorities. When you give wine and tea, you can rest assured to drink it. Just remember to hold your wallet tight and never buy it.
7 yuan (student 5 yuan) is the ticket for Shilin Scenic Area, and the quotation from the travel agency is basically unprofitable, so it is understandable to have the above-mentioned problems. Learn about these things yourself, and they can't help you if you don't fall for it. That's it. There's no need to argue with it. If other people in the group look at the rich man, let him fall for it. We are not saviors. After all, the tour guides have to eat. But the stone forest is still very beautiful.
If you really don't want to join the group, take a bus to Kunming Railway Station, ask for directions and take the relevant bus to Shilin County (the one-way fare is about 15 yuan). Second stop Dali
Nanzhao Kingdom and Dali Kingdom in history are both here, the base of kingdom of dali in "Eight Dragons". However, things have changed, and there is not much historical accumulation here, but the three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple are still struggling to bear the history and refuse to retreat. Dali can arrange a day and a half to visit.
Transportation:
A: Flying from Kunming, all tickets to 43 yuan, generally discounted.
B: train going: not counting the extra train in the peak season, there are also four trains from go to dali, Kunming, N982, N986, N992 and N996 every day. Except for N996, all of them are night trains, but almost all of their tickets are booked in advance by travel agencies-despise the China Railway-so ordinary tourists can only buy tickets for 996 times. If they decide not to stay in Kunming for too long,
N996 hard seat 35 yuan (without air conditioning) leaves at 9: 2 am and arrives in Dali at 15: 4.
The other three trains are night trains, all of which arrive in the evening, and the hard seat fare is around 45 yuan, but as mentioned above, there is little hope of purchasing tickets.
PS: There will be extra buses in the peak season. Ask at the train station.
C: Take the express bus in front of Kunming Railway Station, and the fare to Dali is about 11 yuan, but the price/performance ratio is not high, so do what you can.
Dali is a prefecture-level administrative region. The full name is Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, and our destination is its subordinate city of Dali (known locally as Xiaguan), while the tourist attractions are in the ancient city of Dali in the suburbs of Dali.
After arriving at Dali Railway Station (the last stop in the southwest in the national railway map, and the Lijiang Railway is under construction), take bus No.8 directly in front of the station and get off at Eryuan Park, with a fare of one yuan. (Except for the No.8 bus, all the bus tickets in Dali are 5 cents, so get the change ready). When you arrive at Eryuan Park, you are already in the ancient city of Dali.
After getting off the bus, many middle-aged women will ask you if you want to visit Cangshan Erhai Lake. Remember their phone numbers or activity areas, which will be useful tomorrow.
Accommodation:
Accommodation in Dali is cheap, about 4-45 yuan per room in standard rooms and 1 yuan -15 yuan per bed in ordinary rooms. After getting off the bus at Eryuan Park, ask for directions and walk to Dali Cinema. The road in front of the cinema is the busiest street in the ancient city. You can stay at the hotel on the roadside at the above price.
if you leave in the morning, it should be around five o'clock in the evening after you arrange accommodation in Dali. If you are not hungry, hurry to the "Three Towers". Walk to the left facing the main entrance of Dali Cinema, and walk all the way to Zhengyangmen, the south gate of the ancient city. After taking a photo here, take the No.19 bus to the Three Pagodas.
The three pagodas are located in the courtyard of Chongsheng Temple (that is, Tianlong Temple), of which only the three pagodas are historical sites, and the rest buildings are rebuilt. Tickets for 52 yuan (half price for student certificate) and tickets for the peak season of the Forbidden City in Beijing are only 6 yuan, so I personally think that this scenic spot is quite worthless.
It depends on everyone. If you don't want to spend this ticket, you can take the No.19 bus and get off at the Santa Reflection Park, which is a good place to shoot the Santa. Tickets are four yuan (however, in order to force tourists into the scenic spot of the Three Towers, the managers of the Three Towers have bundled the tickets for the Reflection Park, but please tell the ticket seller in the Reflection Park that you can buy a separate ticket of four yuan.
Come out of the reflection park, walk to the front of the Three Pagodas and have a look through the gate.
You can still take the No.19 bus and get off at "Foreigners Street" when you come back from the Three Towers. If there are many people with you, you can also take the carriage in front of the Three Towers. The fare is one yuan per person on average, and you need to bargain. At this time, it's not dark yet, so you can go downhill from the corner of the foreigner's street and have a barbecue or something for dinner after crossing a road.
PS: It's best not to have dinner in restaurants in the ancient city. The owners of the restaurants are very small-scale farmers and have a bad attitude. If you don't talk about the bad food, you will get angry. However, the barbecue price here is relatively reasonable, and grilled fish and shrimp are highly recommended.
After dark, you can stroll around the foreigner street or soak in bars, and then you will feel the significance of coming to Dali.
Return to the hotel before p>24 o'clock, and finish the first day in Dali.
The second day in Dali:
Get up early and have breakfast (it is recommended to have a bowl of rice noodles in the second house in the northeast corner at the intersection with your back to the cinema, which is delicious and tight).
At breakfast, it is estimated that some middle-aged woman mentioned above will ask you if you want to visit Cangshan Erhai Lake, and bargain with her. Generally, you can visit the sea for 2-3 yuan/person, Cangshan cableway for 5 yuan/person, and small cableway for 3 yuan/person (if you want to go to Cangshan Mountain, you'd better take the cableway)
Never go to the gate of the scenic spot to buy tickets yourself, otherwise it will be much more expensive.
Personally, you can take a tour of Erhai Lake, but the cruise ship will stop at two scenic spots on the way, and the tickets are self-care. Among them,
Tianjing Pavilion/Guanyin Pavilion: tickets for 1 yuan, and students are half-price (personally, there is no need to stay)
Jinsuo Island: tickets for 3 yuan. (The island is a small island inhabited by Bai people, all of whom are native to Bai people. You can go up and take a turn to solve your lunch, but you must ask about the price before eating. In addition, the Bai aunt on the island will help you to drink three tea, so you can try it, but if she offers 15 yuan/person, you can make a counter-offer to 3 yuan/person. )
After swimming in Erhai Lake at about noon, you can take bus No.2 from the pier and return to the ancient city at Foreigners Street, and continue to swim Cangshan in the afternoon.
If you still want to go to Lijiang, Cangshan Mountain can be omitted, so you can save time to visit Yanjia Courtyard in Xizhou (take Bus No.2 at the pier and get off at Lida Road intersection-Bus No.2 generally doesn't stop, so you should say hello to the driver in advance-transfer to the bus coming from Shimonoseki to Xizhou, and the ticket is 2 yuan/person)
Yanjia Courtyard: Tickets for 1 yuan are half price for students. Yan Family Courtyard is divided into new courtyard and old courtyard. Tickets for 1 yuan can be viewed in both houses. The layout of the two houses is similar, and the new house looks good, but if it is true, it belongs to the old house.
Baba in Xizhou is very famous. The tunnel made in Hutongkou, the old courtyard of Yanjia, is 2 yuan. If you don't care about eating, you can buy two for dinner.
butterfly spring is not far from the Yanjia Courtyard, but the butterfly is long gone, leaving only the dry well to accompany the crowded tourists. Admission: 2 yuan. Please ask CMB flight attendants or local people for the specific route.
No matter Cangshan, Xizhou dwellings or butterfly spring, tourists are just watching the excitement-beating children in rainy days is also idle-after all, Dali is a stop on a trip to Yunnan, so if it's too much trouble, you can take a day trip to the local area the next day in Dali, 12 yuan/person or so, but you must be careful again.
After visiting Dali, you can choose to go to Lijiang or Shangri-La directly.
Personally, I suggest taking the night sleeper bus directly (the fare is 7 yuan, which can be ordered at a private booking point in the ancient city. Personally, I recommend the booking point downstairs of the Golden Flower Hotel at the corner of the foreigner's street, and the proprietress is very enthusiastic) to go directly to Shangri-La and arrive the next morning. If this arrangement can not only save one night's time and accommodation expenses, but also save the entrance fee of 12 yuan to Yulong Snow Mountain (see below). In addition, the itinerary in Lijiang will be flexible.
If you want to go to Lijiang first, you can book a ticket for the next morning. Ordinary CMB 35 yuan/person, luxury express 5 yuan/person. We will arrive in Lijiang in four hours.
The third stop Shangri-La
Shangri-La was originally a place mentioned by an American from Hilton in her novel The Lost Horizon. In order to develop tourism, Yunnan people renamed the original Zhongdian County Xianggelila County after being instructed by experts, which belongs to Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province. The Shangri-La area indicated by our usual tour is also very light, such as Meili Snow Mountain, Haba Snow Mountain and Tiger Leaping Gorge. The area is not only high in altitude, but also inconvenient to communicate, so you should be mentally prepared before coming. Here, I only send a short version of the route guide.
The scenic spots in Zhongdian County can only be arranged for two days.
On the first day,
General vehicles will arrive in Zhongdian County before noon. After arriving, they can immediately find accommodation and recommend a place called the Fire Brigade Guest House (which can be taken by taxi). Although the environment is not very sanitary, the beds are passable. In addition, the price is extremely cheap, 1 yuan/person. The most important thing is that in front of it is a place where chartered cars are concentrated, which is very convenient.
If you arrive in Zhongdian in the morning, you can take the CMB (ticket 3-5 yuan) at the bus station to Napahai (ticket 1 yuan) and return at noon. If you go to Zhongdian at noon, Napahai can be omitted, and there will be many such scenery afterwards.
in the afternoon, ask for directions and walk to the No.3 bus stop (the fare is 1 yuan) to the end point, Gadansong Zanlin Temple. Songzanlin Temple, known as Little Potala Palace, is well worth visiting. (Tickets to 1 yuan, no student tickets)
Songzanlin Temple is a Tibetan Buddhist temple, where you will realize what real Buddhist monks are like, and they will not try their best to earn or cheat tourists like the secular monks in the Buddhist temples mentioned above in the tour group route. All expenses here are voluntary except tickets. You can ask the living Buddha to touch the top for blessing, or you can ask the little Lama to pray in the main hall. He will give you a bracelet, and you can give the incense money at will, from a few cents to hundreds.
Tickets for Songzanlin Temple are the cheapest and the best value for money among all the scenic spots in Yunnan, but it can be evaded. After reaching the main entrance of the temple, go straight along the stone road and enter an iron gate, and then enter the scenic spot. Save this 1 yuan and donate it to a temple or ask for a prayer wheel (the smallest 25 yuan). Those who have been lighted will be closer to the Buddha.
The first day trip to Zhongdian was arranged loosely. The altitude of Zhongdian is more than 2, meters, and it is unknown that altitude sickness will occur.
The next day
The famous scenic spots in Zhongdian are Bitahuan and Baishuitai, both of which are on the way from Zhongdian to Xiahutiao. However, the bus is inconvenient and basically requires a chartered car. It's best to gather more people when you charter a car, and then tell the driver to go directly to Daju County (near Jinsha River) instead of after swimming in Baishuitai.