Day 1 Dali Old Town → Dali West Lake → Niaodiao Mountain → Dali Old Town
All day
08:30 Pick up guests from the ancient city and start the rafting and hiking tour;
Free pick-up range: within 3 kilometers around Dali Ancient City.
Free drop-off range: within 3 kilometers around Dali Ancient City, and customers who stop by during the return journey.
09:30 Arrive at Dali West Lake. Although it is not as famous as Hangzhou West Lake, its unique experience will surely make you linger!
Xu Xiake of the Ming Dynasty once praised Dali West Lake as "surrounded by verdant mountains, winding harbors, interwoven villages and lakes, and a natural beauty of wildness." This shows his extremely high evaluation of Dali West Lake.
Dali's West Lake is particularly famous for its "lake within a village, village within a lake." Bai villages and islands are scattered throughout the lake, forming a landscape of interwoven villages and lakes.
China-TravelNote offers a one-hour boating experience (with guided tour). Reeds sway in the lake, Cangshan Mountain is reflected in it, and you can see many wild ducks swimming in the water, and seagulls flying over the lake from time to time. It's a very pleasant experience!
10:30 Head to Dali’s hidden gem, Niaodiao Mountain, and start hiking;
Along the way, you will pass through continuous alpine meadows and dense bushes, see slowly turning plateau windmills, cattle and sheep grazing leisurely, horses walking on the grassland, and encounter herdsmen's houses and Love Lake.
Return at 16:30, and you can choose to disband at Dengchuan Expressway Exit, Xizhou, Dali Ancient Town, or Xiaguan City;
Arrive at the final stop, Shimonoseki, at 18:30. You will be transferred to your hotel in the city.
