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Holiday Overview
Holiday Overview
Highlights
- Lugu Lake: Mosuo people live by the lake, which earned this area another name, the Mysterious Queendom
- The Stone town: comprises of more than one hundred families on the top of a gigantic rock
- Tiger Leaping Gorge: the deepest gorge in the world
Brief Itinerary
- DAY 01 ARRIVE AT CHENGDU
- DAY 02 CHENGDU - LIJIANG
- DAY 03 LIJIANG HIGHLIGHT
- DAY 04 LIJIANG - WENHAI - LIJIANG
- DAY 05 LIJIANG - LUGU LAKE
- DAY 06 LUGU LAKE - YONGNING - ZHUANGZI
- DAY 07 ZHUANGZI - TRANSFER TO FENGLIAN VIA LABO - LIUQING
- DAY 08 LIUQING - BAOSHAN (STONE VILLAGE)
- DAY 09 BAOSHAN (STONE VILLAGE) - DAJU
- DAY 10 DAJU - TIGER LEAPING GORGE
- DAY 11 TIGER LEAPING GORGE - ZHONGIDAN
- DAY 12 ZHONGDIAN - CHENGDU
- DAY 13 CHENGDU - HOME
Map & Itinerary
Map & Itinerary
Lugu Lake is located in
northwest part of Yunnan province, it covers 58 square kms, the water is very
clear. The unique matriarchal Mosuo people live by the lake, which earned this
area another name: the Mysterious Queendom.
The Stone town is located about 110 km north of Lijiang in Yunnan province. It comprises of more than one hundred families on the top of a gigantic rock. This town was built in the late 13th century (Yuan Dynasty). In the Naxi tongue, it is called "La Bai Lu Pan Wu". La Bai was the first local Naxi leader, who lives here. Lu Pan Wu means white stone village. This town has such a long history due to it's unique geographic location. Below this stone town and towards the eastern side, lies the Golden Sand River. The other three sides are steep cliffs. The top of the cliff becomes a guarding post for the town. In this town, you may feel amazed at the sight of many household equipment which are made of stone. In most of the houses, their household items e.g. table, bed, water tank, fire stove are all carved out of big stones. You may wonder where do they do their farming of crops. They do their planting just below this uniquely perched village.
Tiger Leaping Gorge, tucked
between the Yulong Snow Mountain and the Haba Mountains, offers one of the most
attractive trekking in Southwest China. A thunderous roar of the gushing river
welcomes you as you approach the 16-kilometer gorge, which runs along the upper
reaches of the Yangtze River.
During this trekking route, you will not only visit impressive natural sites mentioned above but will reach the rarely visited villages which still maintain a slash and burn farming lifestyle. The richer villagers live in wooden huts with tiled roof, while the poorer ones in bamboo huts with thatched roofs. This trip also offers you a unique opportunity into the tropical part of Yunnan, highlighting the delights of country life of the ethnic minorities.
Holiday Itinerary
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ARRIVE AT CHENGDU
Your guide will meet the group at the airport and, after collecting the luggage, will transfer the group by private vehicle to a hotel.
Upon arrival at the hotel and after darkness has fallen, you will be free to wander around the local market and through the street bars area known as Jinli, purchase local delicacies for yourselves and enjoy the pace of life with local people.
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Accommodation 3 or 4-star Chengdu Hotel
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Meals D
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CHENGDU - LIJIANG
In the morning, you will go to the Chengdu Research Centre of Panda Breeding to have a real chance to interact with the world-famous panda. Today, we will enjoy a local Hot Pot for lunch, and visit Wenshu Temple in the afternoon, where you can spend some time relaxing in its tea house to enjoy a cup of tea and to absorb the special atmosphere of Chengdu. In the evening, transfer to the airport at Lijiang, Yunnan province. The driver will meet you at Lijiang airport and transfer you to your hotel.
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Accommodation 3 or 4 star courtyard guesthouse in the old town
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Meals BLD
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LIJIANG HIGHLIGHT
After breakfast, private guide and driver pick up from the hotel, drive to the Yak Meadow of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains. Take chairlift (roundtrip) ride up with superb views over the mountains and valleys, enjoy the mountain show of Lijiang Impression.
On the way back to Lijiang, visit Naxi village Baisha, housing 558 mural paintings on 12 walls that date back to the Ming Dynasty from 1385. Buddhism, Taoism and Lamaism manifest in integration in styles of the Han Chinese, the Tibetan, the Bai and the Naxi people on the murals, a proof of exchange on politics, economy, culture and religion between the mainland and the frontiers of China.
If the time permitted, we will also visit the Pond of the black dragons. The entire park is green with grass and shaded by swaying willow trees.
The evening we will walk around the beautiful old town of Lijiang on our own. Lijiang is located at an altitude of almost 8,000 feet and a UN World Heritage Site. The old part of the town has wonderful old cobbled streets, meandering streams and views that will take us back to hundred of year ago.
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Accommodation 3 or 4 star courtyard guesthouse in the old town
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Meals BLD
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LIJIANG - WENHAI - LIJIANG
Today is left free for you to wonder around Lijiang Old Town on your own to feel the time, the ethnic culture and shopping for some souvenir for your family and friends.
OPTIONAL TOUR:
In the morning, we drive 25 kilometers to Wenhai village, a beautiful and quiet Naxi minority’s village. Visit around the village to experience the quiet life. Trek around 4-5 hours to Lashi Lake. This lake is situated 8 km west of Lijiang City with an area of about 9 square kilometers. The hike today will prepare you for the adventure ahead and take you out into the nature unbelievably quiet compare to the crowds of Lijiang. In the Naxi language, Lashi means "New Basin". This beautiful lake is not only a scenic spot but also a provincial nature reserve because of the rich biodiversity of life forms found here. Rich in cultural and biological diversity, the Lashi Lake watershed is home to two minority ethnic groups, the Naxi and the Yi, and provides another critical habitat for the endangered black-necked crane, the only alpine crane in the world. An optional cycling tour around part of the lake could be arranged. Drive back to LiJiang for the dinner.
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Accommodation 3 or 4 star courtyard guesthouse in the old town
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Meals BLD
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Time 4-5hrs hiking with 2hrs bus driving
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LIJIANG - LUGU LAKE BY BUS
After breakfast, you will leave Lijiang and drive to Lugu Lake. It is a long drive for about 6.5-7hrs. To avoid long time on the van, you will have some stop on the way. There is a part of the road have a very beautiful view of the Yulong Snow mountain from the other side where the normal tourists will never see at all. Upon arrival, visit a typical Mosuo family and have dinner with them.-
Accommodation nice guesthouse with private washroom
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Distance 280km
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Meals BLD
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Time 6.5-7hrs driving
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LUGU LAKE - YONGNING - ZHUANGZI
This morning we will drive by car from Lugu lake to Yongning（altitude: 2800m.）. Meet up with our Cook, stablemen and horses who will escort us till Baoshan Stone Town. It is a 7-hs walk through the Yi, Pumi and Naxi villages in the forest. One can feel the spiritual atmosphere in those villages. You will climb over the mountain pass (about 3620 m) and then arrive to the Yi nationality’s area. Standing on the top of mountain, you will have the great view of Yongning basin and Golden Sand River Valley. Yi is the largest population of the minority nationalities in Yunnan. Picnic Lunch on the way.
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Accommodation guest house in Zhuangzi with public shower and toilet
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Ascent 900m
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Descent 670m
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Meals BLD
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Time 6-7hrs hiking with 45-minute bus driving
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ZHUANGZI - TRANSFER TO FENGLIAN VIA LABO - LIUQING
Today we will drive 1 hour to Fengke village and then take
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Accommodation Naxi village guest house with public toilet
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Ascent 750m
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Descent 150m
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Meals BLD
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Time 5-6hrs hiking
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LIUQING - BAOSHAN (STONE VILLAGE)
Today you across another mountain pass-Taizhi Pass with an altitude of 2490m. A strenuous day! With beautiful forests, village, valley view along the way.
The last part of the hiking is not easy, you will descend the steep and narrow trail from 2490m to 1788m. But you will find it is rewarding with a fantastic view of Baoshan Stone Town setting on a huge stone along the bank of the Yangtse River!
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Accommodation local guest house with public toilet and shower
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Ascent 620m
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Descent 800m
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Meals BLD
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Time 6-7 hrs hiking
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BAOSHAN (STONE VILLAGE) - DAJU
This morning is left free, you might relax in the lovely wooden guesthouse with beautiful view of the mountain and river, or you might join our guide wondering around the stunning and beautiful town. There are two gates for this village, this is one of main gate of the stone village, which lies on the big rock, there are only 108 families inside of gate. Following the development, there isn’t any space for more family, so most of families moved to outside of the gate. At the gate, there are many old people relaxing there, the old women wear black headband and talk in very traditional Naxi language, usually we can’t understand their pure Naxi language, but they can understand me! Around the Stone village, there are a lot of terrace fields with good crops, under the fields, it is the Yangt-Ze River which is around Lijiang about 615km.You may feel amazed at the sight of many household equipments which were made of stone. In most of the houses, their household items e.g. table, bed, water tank, fire stove are all carved out of big stones. After lunch, we will say good-bye to the stablemen and their horses who escorted us for 5days. There will be stablemen and their horses for the next 2 days` soft trekking. Drive 115 km about 3.5 hours by minibus from Baoshan to Daju.
P.S: the itinerary today is a bit different from the original one in the purpose to give the group more relaxing time and explore the beautiful stone town itself.-
Accommodation local village guest house with public toilet and shower
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Ascent 600m
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Descent 100m
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Meals BLD
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Time 6-7hrs Hiking time/3.5 hrs by bus
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DAJU - TIGER LEAPING GORGE
Your big luggage will be transferred by the van to the end of the hike point next day. You only take necessity of one-night needs in a small bag for the following two-day’s hiking. The rest two-day’s hiking have guesthouse or tea house along the way, we may take rest in or have lunch there. The guest house we will stay tonight is simple but comfortable, with toilet and show in the room.
After breakfast, we will walk from our guest house down to the ferry to across the River. The Yangtze River, still in its infancy here, passes through the Gorge with cliffs of almost 4,000 metres on both sides. After hiking up from the River up onto the motor way, we will take a short drive by local van passing Valnut village to a small trail. The narrow trail will take us down to the narrowest part of the Tiger Leaping Gorge, where we will standing at the bottom of cliffs on both side and hearing the roaring of the River sunning in the deep valley . We will pass Tina’s guest house and continue hike up to Half Way Guest House for the overnight.
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Accommodation local guest house with private toilet
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Ascent 700m
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Descent 300m
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Meals BLD
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Time 6hrs hiking
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TIGER LEAPING GORGE - ZHONGIDAN
Continuation the trekking to Qiaotou from Half Way about 5 hours along the Tea and Horse House in the Gorge , passing through 28-Zig-zag , cool and interesting. Opposite, Yulong (Jade Dragon) Mountain appearing in your eyes always, looks like a Chinese painting. One can’t help sigh how marvelous the nature is. Transfer from Qiaotou of Gorge to Zhongdian about 2 hours.
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Accommodation 3 or 4 star hotel in Zhongdian
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Ascent 300m
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Descent 820m
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Meals BLD
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Time 5hrs Hiking time/2hr by bus
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ZHONGDIAN - CHENGDU
Today we’ll spend our day doing sightseeing around the Old Town of Zhongdian-Shangri-la with an altitude of 3400m.This area is rich with Tibetan-style architecture and dates back 1300 years! We’ll eat breakfast and visit Songzanlin Monestary, 5km north of the old town center. The Songzanlin Monestary (constructed in 1679) is the largest Tibetan Monestary in Yunnan and is nicknamed the “Lesser Potala” due to its resemblance to the magnificent structure in Lhasa. We’ll visit for 2 hours until lunch at a local restaurant.
After lunch we’ll drive to a small hill to visit Napa Lake about 6km away. The Napa Lake Nature Reserve is the country’s largest grassland and most scene area of the plateau. We’ll have time to walk around, enjoy the Tibetan culture and take lots of photographs before get back to Old Town for some souvenir shopping.
Take evening flight to Chengdu.
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Accommodation 3 or 4 star hotel in Chengdu
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Meals BLD
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CHENGDU - HOME
After breakfast, transfer to the airport for flight back to France. End of the tour.
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Meals B
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Price Policy
Tour Price Policy
Additional details
1. Before you pay deposit to book the tour, we haven’t made any reservation yet. The train, flight tickets and the hotel may different from the itinerary listed.
2. The visiting order of the scenic spots in the itinerary may change according to the traffic condition and other unforeseen things.
3. Tourist insurance is a must before going, please provide us the confirmation of insurance company when sign up.
The price includes
1. Entrance Fees: to scenic spots as listed in the itinerary
2. All the activities fee mentioned in the itinerary: Hutong rickshaw in Beijing; Sichuan Opera show in Chengdu;
3. Private Transfers: Transfers between airports, hotels and scenic spots while sightseeing during the trip by private air conditioned vehicle with a driver.
4. Meals: All meals as indicated in the itinerary (B-breakfast, L-lunch, D-dinner), include Peking duck dinner in Beijing; Hot pot dinner in Chengdu.
5. Guide: As outlined in the itinerary an English-speaking guide and driver will be provided in each city, who will remain with you throughout your time in that city. A new guide and a new driver will meet you at each city on your tour, to provide you with the best local knowledge available
6. Hotel: hotel fees are based on two people sharing one room with king-size bed. All hotels as listed in the above itinerary serve daily western or Chinese breakfast
7. Internal flights
** Day 11/ Flight from Yichang to Shanghai (based on economy class);
8. Trains
** Day 04/ High speed train from Beijing to Xi’an (based on 2nd class);
** Day 06/ High speed train from Xi’an to Chengdu (based on 2nd class)
** Day 06/ High speed train from Chengdu to Chongqing (based on 2nd class)
9. Arrangements: the tour cost includes planning, handling, operational and communication charges
10. Travel Agency Liability insurance
The price does not include
1. International airfare or train tickets to enter or leave China
2. China entry visa fees
3. Excess baggage charges
4. The medicine for the sickness or accident while on the way
5. Personal expenses: expenses of a purely personal nature such as laundry, drinks, fax, telephone calls, optional activities, sightseeing or meals which are not included in the tour itinerary
6. Meals: any meals which are not specified in the tour itinerary
7. Single room supplement
8. Please notice that the price will be much higher during the festival of Labors’ Day, National Day, spring festival
9. Tips to tour guide and driver (recommended USD10-15/guest/day).
10. Tourist accident insurance. NB - you are strongly suggested to buy travel and health insurance before you start out from your home country.
Payment conditions
To confirm your reservation, you must pay a deposit of 30% of the total amount due via the payment link that your local agent will share. The balance is due 30 days prior to departure. The quoted exchange rate is valid for the next 7 days – if the deposit is not paid within this time, the quote will be re-calculated.
Terms and conditions for cancelation
i. Cancellation of the Tour by CAT (local agent):
CAT reserve the right to cancel the postpone tour at any time up to the date final payment is due under the following condition: in our opinion, health and/or safety factors related to conditions in China would make the tour inadvisable. And in this case, all money paid by the participants will be refunded. If the tour is postponed, CAT will offer all those who have signed up the opportunity to have the same tour for a later time, but the price may be changed according to the season. We will notify you of any change, and give you a reasonable period
of time to make your decision. Consumers may, but are under no obligation to, take the tour under these new terms. After final payment has been made, we may cancel the tour only if, in our opinion, health and/or safety factors related to conditions in China would make the tour inadvisable. Since cancellation in this case involves factors which may arise suddenly and are entirely outside our control, including but not limited to natural disasters, civil unrest and epidemic disease, we cannot guarantee a full refund in this case. This is because payment will already have been made to finalize the arrangements and reservation.
ii. Cancellation of the Tour by Consumer:
Any cancellation must be made by sending an email to the local agent. The cancellation fee varies according to how many days prior to departure the cancellation is made:
· More than 30 days prior to departure: 5% of the total holiday cost
· Between 30 and 22 days prior to departure : 25% of the total holiday cost
· Between 21 and 8 days prior to departure : 50% of the total holiday cost
· Between 7 and 3 days prior to departure : 75% of the total holiday cost
· Less than 3 days prior to departure and after the departure date: 100% of the total holiday cost
All cancellations must be in writing and will be effective upon receipt by CAT. No refund will be made to those participants who break the journey regardless of the portions of the package unused. If, owing to serious illness or injury, the participant withdraws from the tour, a refund will be subject to the consent of the local travel agent.
No refund will be made to those participants who have failed to secure valid travel documents such as passport or visas.
