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Arrive in Jinghong from Kunming by air, your guide will be at the airport to welcome you and transfer you to your hotel. After a short rest, your guide will take you to rent motorbike.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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Drive motorcycle to visit Ganlanba in the morning: local market, Burmese Temple, rubber plantation garden and Dai ethnic villages. After lunch, drive about 156km/4 hrs to Pu’er. After arrival, check in hotel for rest.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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After breakfast at hotel, drive about 224km/5 hrs to Mojiang. After arrival, check in hotel.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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Today drive about 246km/6 hrs to Kunming via Yuxi. After arrival, check in hotel and then have a stroll on the old street of Kunming and Bird & Flower Market.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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This morning, visit Stone Forest, 80 ha. site of fantastic limestone formations created during the Permian Era when the sea covered this area. Shilin is on the World Heritage List and managed by the traditional owners the Yi people. It is famous in China and unique in the world. We will to visit the Stone Forest for 2.5 hours. Today’s lunch is Yunnan local flavour Yiliang Roast Duck. Return to Kunming.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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Drive about 159km/4 hrs to Chuxiong via Lufeng and visit Lufeng Dinosaur Fossil Museum. After arrival at Chuxiong, check in hotel for rest.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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Today, drive on to Dali via Xiangyun (about 192km/4.5 hrs). After arrival, have a stroll in Dali Old Town. The history of Dali Old Town can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty when Dali was the capital of Nanzhao Kingdom which is the home to Bai minority. The town, whose format is like a chess board with four gates guarding in the directions of east , south, west and north stands between Cangshan Mountains and Erhai Lake, a natural configuration that seems specially designed for a good bountiful life.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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After breakfast visit morning market in Xizhou Bai village and Zhoucheng village for the Bai traditional batik Tie-dye family workshop, then drive about 180km/4 hrs to Lijiang, walking in Lijiang Old Town, a lovely traditional town with beautiful wooden houses and crisscrossed with streams of mountain water. Lijiang is one of the best preserved ancient towns in China and is on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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In the morning take a visit to Baisha Naxi Village. Baisha (White Sand) is located in the north of Lijiang. It is named this because of the large amount of white sand on the earths surface there. According to history Baisha is the earliest place for the settlement of Naxi nationality after they entered Lijiang basin. Then visit Shuhe Old Town. Shuhe, also "Shaowu" in Naxi language, means "the village at the foot of the high hill". In the past, there behind the village was a high hill named Jubao Hill, so people named the village after the hill. Generation after generation, the village gets its present name. The Ancient Town of Shuhe is located 4 kilometers to the northwest of the Ancient City of Lijiang. Its central part covers an area of about 5 square kilometers. In 1997, the Ancient Town of Shuhe was ranked as an important part of the Ancient City of Lijiang. This afternoon is free for your leisure. (Optional tour: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Lijiang city or Tiger Leaping Gorge, 88km away from Lijiang)444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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Drive via Jianchuan and Eryuan to Dali (198km/5 hrs). Visit Shibao Mounatin in Jianchuan. The Shibaoshan rock carvings are over 1300 years old and evidence of the spread of Mahayana Buddhism into Yunnan from Tibet. Representations of the bodhisattva Guanyin and other Buddhist images are carved into the rocky mountainside. And visit fishing villages around Erhai Lake in Eryuan. Erhai Lake is the second largest highland lake next to Dianchi. The lake covers an area of 250 square kilometers and is located about two kilometers east of Dali. It is like a crescent lying between Cangshan and Dali city as seen from Cangshan Mount. In a sunny day, the crystal waters of Erhai Lake and the snow mantled Cangshan Mount radiate with each other. Thus the scene was commonly described as "Silver Cangshan mountain and Jade Erhai lake".444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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After breakfast, drive 266km/6 hrs via Yunxian to Lincang. After arrival, check in hotel for rest.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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After breakfast, drive 247km/5.5 hrs via Shuangjiang to Lancang. After arrival, check in hotel for rest.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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This morning drive 177km/3.5 hrs via Menghai to Jinghong. After arrival, have lunch and then tour Mengle Great Buddha Temple was built to memorize a beautiful Dai Minority queen who was a pious Buddhist during Ming dynasty (1368-1644), which was destroyed during a war in 1848 and what we see today was rebuilt in 2007. Notable for its peculiar shape which resembles a sitting Buddha, Mengle Great Buddha Temple, the largest Theravada Buddhist temple in China, is the most sacred and important religion site of Dai people.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com
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Transfer to airport for departure flight. End of service.444www.Chinakindnesstour.com