Seamless Shangri-La Tour - Comprehensive Nanny-level Guide
🚄 Transportation
The high-speed train departs from Lijiang at 8 am, and with only a 49 yuan ticket, you can seamlessly reach Shangri-La. After leaving the station, take the No. 1 bus (2 yuan fare) directly to the north gate of Dukezong Ancient City, seamlessly connecting your journey.
🏠 Accommodation
Choose to stay near the south or north gate of Dukezong Ancient City, not only is it convenient for transportation, but it is also close to Songzanlin Temple and Napahai, making your trip easier. Remember, don't choose a hotel in the center of the ancient city, dragging luggage on the slate road is not an easy task.
👗 Tibetan Costume Rental Experience
There are many shops in the ancient city that rent Tibetan clothes. Choose the style you like, it is recommended to book in advance the night before, so there are more choices, and go directly to the store the next day to create your Tibetan style! The off-season price is 68 yuan per day, remember to bring your own false eyelashes, they will not be provided for free here.
🏰 Dukezong Ancient City
Want to take a photo in front of the world's largest prayer wheel? Then go to Turtle Mountain Park during the day, the photo effect at night is not so ideal. At 7:30 in the evening, the Guozhuang dance begins on time at the Sifang Square (remember to search for 'Sifang Square', not 'Sifang Street'), don't miss this cultural feast.
🕊️ Songzanlin Temple
Online tickets are only available in packages (90 yuan), but you can actually bring your ID card to the offline window, only buy tickets (55 yuan) and the uphill bus (10 yuan), which can save 25 yuan. After the tour, take the No. 3 bus directly from the temple gate back to the ancient city. Don't believe those people who take you to Napahai for 10 yuan at the gate, they might take you to a private horse farm and let you ride a horse to consume.
🌊 Napahai
Napahai and Yila Prairie are the same place, but the name changes with the seasons. The lake tour is highly recommended for self-driving. Napahai is a free attraction, no tickets are needed, navigate to 'Ring Lake Road', play clockwise, and the scenery is beautiful all the way. But be aware that the water road can only be experienced during the summer flood season. The average price for renting an electric car around the lake is 80 yuan, remember to ask clearly about the battery life and whether it can go around Napahai. The wind in Napahai in December is very strong, remember to wear a hat and keep warm. Want to hold a lamb for a photo? That costs about 20 yuan. Want to ride a horse? Remember to bargain! Route A is 160 yuan, Route B is 128 yuan, and the horse riding project in the scenic area is no longer open after 18:00.
🌿 Pudacuo
You must go to Pudacuo early, otherwise there really isn't enough time. From entering the scenic area to leaving the scenic area, it is recommended to reserve 4 hours. The scenic area bus takes about 20 minutes to Shudu Lake, and the return trip needs to gather 25 people before it can leave. Now there are not many people in the off-season, but the scenic area closes at 4 pm. Shudu Lake has a 3.3km walk, Bita Lake has a 2km walk, and wearing sports shoes is the wisest choice.
🏔️ Meili Snow Mountain
November to March of the following year is the best season to watch Meili Snow Mountain. Choose a hotel near Feilai Temple for accommodation. From Shangri-La Station, there are direct buses to Deqin-Feilai Temple on the roadside, the fare is 80 yuan, very convenient. After watching the sunrise over the golden mountain of Meili, those who like hiking can take a bus to Yubeng next to Feilai Temple, and those who are obsessed with glaciers can go to Mingyong Glacier.
🏞️ Balagezong
I personally do not recommend going to Balagezong, the tickets are expensive, the transportation is inconvenient, and the cost performance is not high.
🍴 Shangri-La Restaurant Recommendation
Ama's butter tea, Shunshun Snacks, Caisheng Restaurant, Jingjing's Mani Stone, these restaurants are all the taste of Shangri-La, not to be missed.
Take this guide and make your Shangri-La trip as comfortable as at home, enjoying every beautiful moment!🎉🎉🎉
Dukezong Ancient City as the oldest castle on the Tea Horse Road, so with its unique geographical location, and the vicissitudes of an ancient city full of mercy, welcome the endless business travelers in the history of the Tea Horse Road. At the same time, the development of business has also cultivated a generation of giant merchants who have gone out from the ancient city of Dukezong. Ma cast materials are one of them. With the Tibetan cast materials of the "cast record" business, this is the long historical footprint of Dukezong ancient city, exploring the outside world.
The ancient city of Dukezong in Shangri-La is called Jiantang, which means a castle under white moonlight. The ancient city was built in the Tang Dynasty and the Tibetans called it the "Moonlight City". At present, the world's largest, heaviest, and most Tibetan scriptures are located on the Big Turtle Mountain in the center of Dukezong Ancient City.
The ancient city of Dukezong is the best preserved and largest Tibetan settlement in China. In recent years, with the development of local tourism, Shangri-La City has strengthened the protection and repair of Dukezong Ancient City, and recreated the historical style of the ancient city. During the Tang Yifeng and Tiaolu years (AD 676-679), Tuyu here set up a Zhaibao on the top of the big turtle mountain, named "Du Kezong", a Tibetan pronunciation contains two meanings, one is "castle built on stone", and the other is "moonlight city". Later, the ancient city was built around the Zhaibao on the top of the mountain. This echoes the establishment of "Nivongzong" on a mountaintop by the Naizi River, as "Niguang City", whose Zhaibao is no longer there, and the original site is a white tower. The ancient city of Dukezong was built on the hillside, and the road was uneven. It was paved with natural terrain for some old stones for a long time. By 2021, there were still deep horseshoe marks on the stone road. That was the message left by the horse gang for time. For the horse gangs who cross the ancient tea horse road, Dukezong Ancient City is a heavy town on the ancient tea horse road, and the first stop after the horse gang entered Tibet. This is a quite comfortable road. In 2001, Dukezong Ancient City was approved as a famous historical and cultural city in Yunnan Province.
Go back in time to ancient history in Shangrali-Li Dukezong Ancient Town and see how beautiful it is and. explore the roots of Tibetan culture.
Guishan Park is located in the center of Dukezong Ancient City, on the west side of Moonlight Square. Shangri-La City, the center of Diqingzhou, is a thousand-year-old tea horse town. Dukezong Ancient City is the essence of Shangri-La's history and culture. The tea horse culture that has settled for thousands of years has made this ancient city. Tibetan architecture and natural scenery are everywhere, and Guishan Park is the largest urban park in Diqingzhou. Shangri-La Guishan Park was built during the Qing Kangxi period and consists of the Big Buddha Temple, the prayer wheel and the observation deck. The view from the top of the mountain is excellent, with a bird's eye view of the city and the continuous snowy mountains. Although the altitude of Guishan Park is not very high, it is a plateau area after all, so the altitude sickness is more obvious. It is recommended that you come to Shangri-La Guishan Park for the first time to slow down the mountain. "Shangri-La" is the meaning of the original tribe, people and people are indisputable, live a prosperous and healthy life, and seem to be economically backward but live a full life. Guishan Park is the commanding height of Dukezong Ancient City. You can visit many well-known attractions in Guishan Park and its surroundings, such as the Big Buddha Temple and the world's largest prayer wheel, Diqing Red Army Long March Museum, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Museum, Moonlight Square, Guishan Ancient Well, Shanbara Old Street, Dukezong Flower Lane, Jinlong Street, which survived the 2014 fire. In 2014, Dukezong Ancient City suffered a fire, which swallowed the entire ancient city. The ancient city that I see today is later rebuilt. However, the history and culture of this ancient tea-horse road will be permanent and will not disappear due to the fire.
Dukezong Ancient City in the night. Dukezong Ancient City is located in the center of Shangri-La, founded more than 1300 years ago in the Tang Dynasty, when Diqing belonged to the Tubu Dynasty dependency, in the big turtle mountain base stone for the city, the name is Dukezong, it contains two meanings, one is built on the stone castle, the second is the moonlight city. This is an ancient city known as the "Dukezong" by Tibetans, and it was built according to the ideal country of Shambhala in the Buddhist scriptures. The ancient city was built on the hillside, and the road was uneven. It was some old stones paved with natural terrain for a long time. There were still deep horseshoe marks on the stone road. It was a message left by the horse gang for time. Dukezong is an important market town on the ancient tea horse road in the past, and the first stop after the horse helped into Tibet. Dukezong ancient city has a unique style of Tibetan people, with the world's largest pure copper-plated gilded prayer wheel. In "The Vanished Horizon", once described it like this, last night there was a dream, far away and ancient. Dreaming of solemn ancestral, devout monks, simple villagers, dreaming of the ancient village with bright lights between thousands of mountains and snow, dreaming of the horse gang from afar to repair it, the horseshoes are light and crisp, the bells are light. Unfortunately, a fire on January 11, 2014, burned two-thirds of the ancient city of Dukezong (the last two photos are the fire point at the time), so now the Dukezong is the look of the reconstruction after 2016.