Popular Lijiang Attractions
Can't decide how to spend your time in Lijiang? Start with this list of Lijiang's most popular attractions to get started planning your trip to Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
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Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain or Yulong Snow Mountain is a national-level scenic area, which located 25 kilometers north of the Lijiang Old Town. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is the southern section of the Hengduan Mountains. It has 13 peaks, stretching 35 kilometers from north to south and with a width of 20 kilometers. Fan Peak (Shanzidou in Chinese), the main peak of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, is about 5,596 meters above...
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Jade Water Village
As a national AAAA level scenic area, Jade Water Village (Yushui Zhai) is located 12km away from the ancient city of Lijiang at the north, Situated at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and at an elevation of 2500 meters. Jade Water Village is one of the major sources of Lijiang River. What’s more, it is the heritage sacred of Lijiang Dongba culture and heritage base of Baisha fine music as well as Lebas dance.Jade...
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Impression Lijiang
The Impression LiJiang is a real landscape drama directed by Zhang Yimou. It uses landscapes as the background and showing the local folk customs, the form of song and dance drama. The original ecology of large live performance Impression Lijiang was firstly performed in July 23, 2008, lasted more than a year, with a project investment of 250 million RMB, and completed after hundreds of times changes.The performance theat...
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Tiger Leaping Gorge
Tiger Leaping Gorge is the Yangtze River's best-known grand canyon. Also, it is the world famous grand canyon. The gorge is located 60 km north of Lijiang City, about 105 kilometers away from the southeast of Shangri-la. It is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas World Heritage Site. Yangtze River is embraced confrontation By Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain in this section, which...
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Yufeng Temple
Yufeng Temple, also known as Yufeng Lamasery or Yufeng Monastery, located at the southern foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, stands about 13 kilometers to the north of Lijiang City. The temple built in Kangxi thirty-nine years (1700) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), there are nine courtyards when it’s the largest. But today, there exists a hall and tow courtyards. The temple is tied for Lijiang suburban five lamaseries...
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Black Dragon Pool Park
The Black Dragon Pool Park, also known as Jade Spring Park, located at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain (Elephant Mountain) in the North of Lijiang Old Town. The Black Dragon Pool was founded in the second years of Emperor Qianlong (1737) and rebuilt both in the sixth years of Emperor Qianlong (1735 --- 1795) and the eighteen years of Emperor Guangxu(1875-1908). The Black Dragon Pool Park features its ancient buildings...
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Old Town of Lijiang
The Old Town of Lijiang (aka Ancient City of Lijiang), a well-preserved old city of minorities with brilliant culture, is a central town of the Lijiang Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. Located on the plateau 2,400 meters above the sea level, the Old Town looks like a big ink slab, therefore is also named as the Town of Big Ink Slab (Da Yan Zhen). Covering an area of 4 square kilometers, the Old Town of Lijiang...
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Lashi Lake
Lashi Lake is in the basin in Hengduan Mountain Range, 10 kilometers away from the Old Town of Lijiang. Located on the Tea-Horse Road, Lashi Lake has become one of the core attractions in Lijiang tourism. The visitors even said that Lashi Lake was the first stop of Lijiang tourism.In fact, Lashi Lake is a fault structure. With an area of 5,330 hectares, Lashi Lake is about 9.3 km long from south to north and 8.2 km wide...