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The Lijiang City locates in the northwestern Yunnan, which is the connection of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, with the Tibetan Nationality Autonomous Prefecture in the north, the Dali Bai Nationality Autonomous Prefecture in the south and the Lisu Nationality Autonomous Prefecture in the west. Panzhihua City and the Liangshan Yi Nationality Autonomous Prefecture are adjacent to it in the east. Lijiang City covers 20,600 square kilometers, including the ancient city area, the Yulong Naxi Nationality Autonomous Country, the town of Yongsheng, the town of Huaping, the Ninglang Yi Nationality Autonomous Country and so on. There are 69 towns and 446 villages in total, with the population of 1,100,000 persons. Lijiang has been a multi-ethnic region since ancient tim... Lijiang Overview

Lijiang Attractions

"Two mountains, one city, one lake, one river, one culture, one custom” are the representatives of Lijiang’s tourism resources. The lively ancient city, distinguishable Dongba culture of Naxi Nationality, various historical heritages, beautiful snow mountains, aqueducts and meadows call more and more public attentions world-wide.   Lijiang Attractions

  • Lijiang Ancient Town: The Lijiang Ancient City locates on a plateau tableland, which is 2,400 meters high above the sea level, locating at the foot of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, in northwestern Yunnan. It is hailed “the Oriental Venice”, which is listed as the World Famous Historic and Cultural Cities together with Athens, Paris and some other famous cities.
  • Lugu Lake : The Lake area is best known as home of the unique Mosuo culture. The Mosuo, a subgroup of the Naxi, is a matrilineal society whose members engage in traditional "walking marriages," in which husband and wife remain in their respective maternal homes and often have more than one partner.
  • Shuhe Naxi Village: Also called Longquan Village, it was an important town on the ancient tea and horse route, and also the earliest settlement of Naxi people. The whole town is peaceful with flowing streams flow pass ancient houses and bridges.

Lijiang Shopping

The Lijiang Ancient City is an important concentrating and distributing center, also a main handcrafts origin in the northwest Yunnan. Almost all of the regional specialties of the southwestern China ... Lijiang Shopping

Lijiang Nightlife

One of the famous specialties of Lijiang is the Bars. Except Lijiang’s beautiful sceneries and ethnic customs, another reason of peoples’ unwilling to leave is the bar culture. The most ba... Lijiang Nightlife

  • Show of Impression Lijiang: The “Show of Impression Lijiang” is consisted of six parts——“the Caravan on the Ancient Tea and Horse Route”, " Drink facing snow mountain”, "the Ea...
  • The Freedom Commune Bar: Only a few of the numerous bars are operated by the natives. The Freedom Commune is one of them, which is a very special bar with wooden rooms without any decoration and large French windows. The bar ...
  • The Rembrandt Bar: The Rembrandt Bar is operated by a France fellow and a Chinese girl. They brought sentiment and romantic from both of Amsterdam and Yunan, which perfectly combine with each other here. All the stuffs-...

Lijiang Transportation

As a famous tourist resort, Lijiang’s transportation is convenient by flight to lots of other cities like Bijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Chongqing and Guiyang. Most of the touri... Lijiang Transportation

  • Air: As a famous tourist resort, Lijiang’s transportation is convenient. And Kunming and Xishuangbanna of Yunnan, lots of other cities like Bijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Chongqing and Guiyang have already established direct flight to Lijiang. Most of the tourists choose to use Kunming as the transfer stop-fly to Kunming first, then go to Lijiang by air or by bus. The air journey takes about 40 minutes. The Lijiang airport is 28 kilometers away from the town.  
  • City Transportation: Taxi Although the population number is not very big, there are over thousands of taxis in Lijiang. the per-capita taxi number have come top in Yunnan Province. Red cars of brand Xiali are main vehicl...
  • Highway and Passenger Stations: Lijiang locates in the connective area of three provinces - Yunan, Sichuan and Tibet - so that there are lots of highways running through Lijiang. And there are several passenger stations serve in the city.

Lijiang Travel Tips

1. Lijiang’s elevation is 2,410 meters, tourists will seldom suffer not suffer altitude sickness there. 2. The development of tourism in Lijiang brought lots of business opportunities to the an... Lijiang Travel Tips

 

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