5 Days 4 Nights Family Trip to Lijiang! A Guide for Moms Without Exhaustion or Altitude Sickness

Our family spent half a month in Yunnan to escape the summer heat~
Dali, Xizhou, Shaxi, Lijiang, Shangri-La, traveling all the way with no one suffering from altitude sickness!
Here’s a 5-day 4-night family travel guide for Lijiang:

Day 1⃣ Taxi from Shaxi to Lijiang, 2 hours
In the evening, we went to Sifang Music Hall in Shuhe Ancient Town and joined a lively bonfire party 🔥
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Day 2⃣ Baisha Ancient Town
📍A day tour in Baisha Ancient Town:
Baisha Mural Museum – Luckin Coffee – Ancient Naxi Theme Post Office – Shambhala Milk Tea 🧋 – Buke Croissant 🥐 – Qiao Ke Toy House 🍫 – Baisha Story Market – Baisha Bookstore
Spent the whole afternoon at Baisha Bookstore! Drawing, playing with cats 🐱, dogs 🐕, alpacas 🦙, and free stamping～
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Day 3⃣ Shuhe Ancient Town + Lijiang Old Town
📍Shuhe Ancient Town walking and photo route:
Jiuding Longtan – Yanliu Alley – Qinglong Bridge – Sifang Street – Tea Horse Road Museum – Three-Eyed Well – Flying Flowers Touching Water – Cat’s Sky City – 🍚 Lunch at Fuxian Small Pot Rice

📍Lijiang Old Town food and sightseeing route:
Big Waterwheel – Wenchang Palace Viewing Platform – Dayan Flower Alley – Sakura Restaurant – Paper Umbrella Street – Nuosu Fragrant Cake – Loyalty Market – Yongfeng Food
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Day 4⃣ Yuhu Village + Wenhai Village
Rented an 8-seater car, 300 RMB for the day for seven people, super cost-effective!
📍Yuhu Village: 2700 meters altitude
Section A: Visitor Center – Yuhu Village Square, then walk 500 meters to 👇 Changshou Village pick-up point
Section B: Take the sightseeing bus from Changshou Village → Longnu Lake
The man-made lake view is average, but the stable + horse herd together, the grassland lakeside photos are quite nice
Tips: The descent is also in two trips returning the same way
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📍Wenhai Village:
The most beautiful place unexpectedly discovered on this Lijiang trip is Wenhai Village, worth climbing over mountains to reach the 3100-meter altitude!
✅ Mountain-top car coffee: overlooking the entire Lijiang city view
✅ Horse riding on the mountain top: 50 RMB per round, one adult and one child, 30 minutes
✅ Flower Tree Coffee: check in with snow mountain window view 🏔
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Day 5⃣ Wild Country + High-speed train to Shangri-La
📍Wild Country
Created “Howl’s Moving Castle” using scrap steel tires 🛞!
Booked a spring photography family trip at Wild Country, including makeup and styling, the photographer helped take photos all around, then we changed clothes to shoot ourselves, played all morning～
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