15 Day Climbing the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

Day 01  Arrive in Beijing

Activities: Arrive in Beijing and transfer to hotel. The rest of the day is on your own. Just relax and take a leisured stroll around the city. You can excurse and reveal this charming city by person. Happy travel!

Accommodation:Holiday Inn Central Plaza Beijing

Meals: No Meals

Day 02  Beijing

Activities: After a hearty American style breakfast, leave Beijing by deluxe motor coach. Today you will climb the Great Wall, one of the world's fantastic architectural achievements. The tour continues to the renowned Sacred Way leading to the famous Ming Tombs. In the evening, we return to Beijing for a special Peking duck dinner party.

Accommodation:Holiday Inn Central Plaza Beijing

Meals: B/L

Day 03  Beijing

Activities: This morning, explore the best of Beijing with a visit to Tiananmen Square, the world's largest square, and the incomparable Forbidden City. After lunch, visit the spectacular and vast Summer Palace with an optional boat ride on Lake Kunming. In the evening, a memorable Peking Opera performance is recommended for your night show, which is exclusive in our quotation. Feel free to contact our travel advisor about the details and cost.

Accommodation:Holiday Inn Central Plaza Beijing

Meals: B/L

Day 04  Beijing -  - Kunming

Activities: In the morning, visit the Temple of Heaven, where dynastic Chinese rulers historically worshipped the Emperor of Heaven. After lunch, fly to Kunming. Arrive in Kunming, transfer to hotel.

Accommodation:Golden Dragon Hotel Kunming

Meals: B/L

Day 05  Kunming -  - Dali

Activities: Drive from Kunming to Dali. Sightseeing in Dali Old Town.

Accommodation:Asia Star Hotel - Dali

Meals: B/L

Day 06  Dali -  - Lijiang

Activities: Drive from Dali to Lijiang, Sightseeing in Lijiang(2400m). Then go and see the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.

Accommodation:Lijiang Jian Nan Chun Hotel

Meals: B/L

Day 07  Lijiang - Base Camp

Activities: Trek up the mountain to Base Camp (3800m).

Accommodation:Camping

Meals: B/L

Day 08  Climbing

Activities: Continue to climb up to build Camp (4l00m).

Accommodation:Camping

Meals: B/L

Day 09  Climbing, Back to Base Camp

Activities: Sightseeing in the mountain; trek down to Base Camp.

Accommodation:Camping

Meals: B/L

Day 10  Base Camp- Lijiang

Activities: Base Camp to Lijiang.

Accommodation:Lijiang Jian Nan Chun Hotel

Meals: B/L

Day 11  Lijiang

Activities: Sightseeing in Lijiang Ancient Town.

Accommodation:Lijiang Jian Nan Chun Hotel

Meals: B/L

Day 12  Lijiang-  - Chuxiong

Activities: Lijiang to Chuxiong, drive along Yangtze river valley.

Accommodation:Local Best

Meals: B/L

Day 13  Chuxiong -  - Kunming

Activities: Chuxiong to Kunming, Visit Yunnan Minorities Museum.

Accommodation:Golden Dragon Hotel Kunming

Meals: No Meals

Day 14  Kunming

Activities: Full day sightseeing tour in Kunming. You will visit the Green Lake Park and the Stone Forest. At the end of the day, you will be transferred back to your hotel.

Accommodation:Golden Dragon Hotel Kunming

Meals: No Meals

Day 15  Depart from Kunming

Activities: Free at leisure until you are transferred to the airport for your next destination.

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Day 01  Arrive in Beijing

Beijing, China's capital and a well-known tourist city of the world, offers sights and cultural relics found nowhere on earth. The city has its own individuality that is the flavor of Beijing. The quadrangle, small alley, tricycle, boiled mutton, roasted duck, Peking Opera, arts and crafts you can see, hear and feel them all only when you come to the city yourself. Relax and wander around the city. You can take your pace to explore the city and buy some souvenir for your family or friends.

Day 02  Beijing

Today you will visit the Great Wall and Ming Tombs.
Great Wall: The Great Wall was initially built in the Spring and Autumn Period. During the following 2,000 years, the construction, connection and restoration of the wall had never ceased. The present Great Wall was largely built in the Ming Dynasty. The Badaling stretch, the best preserved portion of the Ming Great Wall, was widely realized as the essence of the Ming Great Wall. Standing on the top of Badaling and looking to the distance, one will be amazed at the great wonder of the Wall. In 1961 it was listed by the Chinese State Council as a key national historical heritage protection site. Later in 1988,it was nominated by the UNESCO as a world cultural heritage.
Ming Tombs: The Ming Tombs, located in Changping District, about 50 kilometers from the northwest of Beijing, are surrounded by mountains on three sides. The imperial cemetery covers an area of 120 square kilometers and there are 13 Ming Dynasty emperors buried there (along with 23 empresses and a number of concubines, princes and princesses), thus it is also called The 13 Mausoleums. These tombs are the best preserved Chinese imperial tombs and have been nominated by UNESCO as world cultural heritage.

Day 03  Beijing

Today you will visit Tiananmen, Forbidden City and Summer Palace.
Tiananmen Square: Tiananmen (the Gate of Heavenly Peace), is located in the center of Beijing. It was first built in 1417 and named Chengtianmen (the Gate of Heavenly Succession). At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was seriously damaged by war. When it was rebuilt under the Qing in 1651, it was renamed Tiananmen, and served as the main entrance to the Imperial City, the administrative and residential quarters for court officials and retainers. The southern sections of the Imperial City wall still stand on both sides of the Gate. The tower at the top of the gate is nine-room wide and five-croom deep. According to the Book of Changes, the two numbers nine and five, when combined, symbolize the supreme status of a sovereign. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Tiananmen was the place where state ceremonies took place.
Forbidden City: Forbidden City also known as Palace Museum was home to 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the ancient time, the emperor claimed to be the son of the heaven and therefore their supreme power was conferred upon them from the heaven. Their residence on the earth was built as a replica of the Purple Palace where the God lived in the Heaven. Such divine place was certain forbidden for the ordinary people and it is why the Forbidden City is so called. The museum is a real treasures house of Chinese cultural and historical relics, recognized as one of the most important five palaces in the world. The splendid architecture of the Forbidden City represents the essence and culmination of the traditional Chinese architectural accomplishment. In 1961 the Palace Museum was listed as one of the important historical monuments under the special preservation by the Chinese central government and in 1987, it was nominated as the world cultural heritage by the UNESCO.
Summer Palace: UNESCO has this to say of the Summer Palace: a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value. The Summer Palace, in the Haidian District, northwest of central Beijing, is said to be the best preserved imperial garden in the world, and the largest of its kind still in existence in modern China. It is hardly surprising that, during the hot Beijing summers, the Imperial Family preferred the beautiful gardens and airy pavilions of the Summer Palace to the walled-in Forbidden City. Dowager Empress Cixi took up permanent residence here for a time, giving rise to some wonderful tales of extravagance and excess.

Day 04  Beijing -  - Kunming

Today you will visit Temple of Heaven. Then fly to Kunming.
Temple of Heaven: The Temple of Heaven is a large park and temple complex situated in more or less the south central area of Beijing. Its center piece is a large tower built, it is said, entirely of wood and not using a single nail. Having said that, the main features of the park are its trees and inhabitants. The park is filled with more than a thousand species of tree, some of which are hundreds of years old, despite their relatively small size. One thing you could notice here is that most of the architecture here. The park also attracts local residents by the thousand each day that come to practice singing, martial arts, Peking opera, chess, dancing, calligraphy. Of course, this can be said of many parks in Beijing, but the Temple of Heaven attracts more than its fair share.
Kunming is a prefecture-level city and capital of Yunnan province, in southwestern China. Because of its year-round temperate climate, Kunming is often called the "Spring City" or "City of Eternal Spring".

Day 05  Kunming -  - Dali

Drive from Kunming to Dali. Then visit Dali Old Town.
Dali Ancient Town: Unlike any other Chinese town, the traditional Bai ethnic folk houses give the town distinctive feel. The town's layout was uniform, with five main streets from south to north and eight main streets from east to west, while marketplaces were neatly arranged within the town, which has remained unchanged to this date. Besides the Bai houses, the houses with gray-green roof tiles, peculiar workshops, temples, schools and churches with antique flavor are scattered. Traditional marble artworks, like pencil vases, striped screen, and a variety of woven handicrafts of fine straw are laid chockablock on both sides of the street to be appreciated and purchased. Its grand city wall, traditional Bai houses and marvelous scenery have been attracted many visitors.

Day 06  Dali -  - Lijiang

Drive from Dali to Lijiang and visit the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
Lijiang: It is said there is a fairyland beneath the colorful clouds of southern China. A place blessed with fresh air, clear streams, breathtaking snow-capped mountains, and an undisturbed landscape inhabited by a friendly group of people. Life in this fairyland is so peaceful. Called Lijiang, this fairyland is located at the hub of Tibet, Yunnan and Sichuan provinces. Lijiang has the best preserved ancient town in China, which has been listed in the World Cultural Heritages by UNESCO in 1997. The Old Town was once the center of Lijiang and continues to maintain the original flavor of the local lifestyle, the typical groups of buildings and the profound cultural heritage of the region.
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain: Awesome and unconquered, they dominate the Lijiang Plain. Some have described Jade Dragon Snow Mountain as a radiant cornet crowning Lijiang's head. Scientists say she arose from an ancient geosynclines 230 million years ago in an age when dinosaurs began to increase and formed her present shape sometime during the last 600,000 years, even as late as 12,000 years ago. Storms frequently rage around the glaciers and silver-gray rocks and eternal snowfields of her five primary peaks. She is a sanctuary to animals that know not the scent of man and a flower kingdom that was old when the Gardens of Babylon were new. In the alpine meadows of her lower slopes, lonely herders sing to their goats and set the wild echoes flying with the music of their reed pipes.

Day 07  Lijiang - Base Camp

Appreciate the scenery along the way.

Day 08  Climbing

Sightseeing in the mountain.

Day 09  Climbing, Back to Base Camp

Appreciate the scenery along the way.

Day 10  Base Camp- Lijiang

Appreciate the scenery along the way.

Day 11  Lijiang

Sightseeing in Lijiang Ancient Town.
Lijiang Ancient Town, which is perfectly adapted to the uneven topography of this key commercial and strategic site, has retained a historic townscape of high quality and authenticity. Its architecture is noteworthy for the blending of elements from several cultures that have come together over many centuries. Lijiang also possesses an ancient water-supply system of great complexity and ingenuity that still functions effectively today.

Day 12  Lijiang-  - Chuxiong

Lijiang to Chuxiong, drive along Yangtze river valley.
Chuxiong: Chuxiong is famous for "Yuanmon Man", the fossils of lama ancient ape of Lufeng about 80 million years ago. It is the well- known as one of the birthplace of humanity and a treasure house of ancient living things' fossils. Other scenic spots like Wuding Lion Mountain and Colorful Yuanmou Earth Forest are attractive too.
The main scene of Lufeng is the dinosaur fossil, a provincial class scenic spot area and the Ramapithecus fossil. The scenic area is made up of the dinosaur hill, the relic of the Ramapithecus fossil at Shihuiba and Wutai Mountain, with an area of 50 square kilometers.

Day 13  Chuxiong -  - Kunming

Chuxiong to Kunming, Visit Yunnan Minorities Museum.
Yunnan Minorities Museum: The Yunnan Minorities Museum has the most centralized collection and display of various Yunnan national minorities. It is also the biggest national museum in Southeast Asia. The museum occupies a land area of 130,000 square meters. It is divided into four areas namely the display, demonstration, collection and scientific research.
The overall layout is in winding corridor garden type. It comprised of eight special halls, divided into "Yunnan National minority Form of society - Reform and Development", "Yunnan National minority Ecology Industry", "Yunnan National minority Spinning and Craft Weaving and Art Clothing", "the Yunnan National minority Folk Fine arts", "Yunnan National minority Festival Music Dancing Celebration", "Yunnan National minority Handicrafts", "Yunnan National minority Ancient book Literature" and "Wonderful Stone Treasure". They are displayed in 16 exhibition halls and have very high research and ornamental value.

Day 14  Kunming

Today you will discover Green Lake Park and the Stone Forest in Kunming.
Green Lake Park: Two long dikes divide the lake into four parts. It consists of a group of 4 small lakes linked by bridges in the traditional style. Brightly painted pavilions on the islands inside the park, tree-lined walks, flowers, and the local populace enjoying themselves by exercising in various specialist groups all add to the appeal of the park. Green Lake is surrounded by a ring road, and along the edge of that are restaurants and tea houses (some with rooftop dining), shops, and hotels, including the upscale Green Lake Hotel and Harbour Plaza Hotel.
Stone Forest: Stone Forest is about 120 km from Kunming City and requires only a three-hour drive. It covers an area of 400 square kilometers and includes both large and small forest as well as many other scenic spots. It has been know since the Ming Dynasty as the First Wonder of the World. The magnificent, strange and steep landscape of the Stone Forest creates countless labyrinthine vistas, all of which feature stones in various formations. Animals, plants, and even human figures can be found here. Some are elegant, some are rugged, and each is lifelike with its own distinguishing characteristics.

Day 15  Depart from Kunming

In the past few days you have had a wonderful time in China. You must be fascinated about China. We sincerely hope to see you revisit China again.

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