2020 latest Chengdu to Yunnan Lugu Lake, Lijiang and Sichuan-Yunnan-Tibet Ring Road self-driving tour guide

  • Number of days:9 days
  • Time: April
  • Average cost: 1500 yuan
  • With whom: With friends
  • Tour kinds: photography, self-driving, independent travel, semi-free travel, poor travel, saving money, weekend travel
  • The author went to these places: Lugu Lake Lijiang Daocheng Aden Nisai Village lover tree puppy love tree Walking Marriage Bridge Lijiang Ancient City big waterwheel Tiger Leaping Gorge Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Okikoji Sennohi Pearl Sea Rakuyo Ushiba Milk Sea Goshiki sea Shintobashi Mt. Oridoyama Kangding
  • Updated: 2020-04-16 09:46

During the epidemic, many friends who want to go out to play probably want to know the most is whether the local attractions are open, whether the local hotels and inns can receive guests, and friends who travel by car also want to know whether the road to the place they want to go is unblocked, etc., today Xiaobian spent an afternoon looking up the guide online, asking about the actual situation in various self-driving tour groups, making a guide, and preparing to try to explore the road in person.

Itinerary route

: Chengdu 450km (6 hours), →Xichang 299km (7 hours→ Lugu Lake 292km (4 hours 30 minutes), → Lijiang 173km (3 hours 30 minutes), →Shangri-La 310km (8 hours→ Daocheng Aden 450km (8 hours), → Xinduqiao 350km (5 hours 30 minutes) → Chengdu

itinerary and expense plan

The above picture is a temporary itinerary planning map, which is based on the professional self-driving tour team of a certain platform, and optimizes some routes by itself, and then calculates the approximate cost, in order to find some companions to AA to travel poorly, and preliminarily calculated that if there are 5 people to go, one person is about 1,000 yuan, not only can you enjoy the beautiful scenery of Yunnan's mainstream attractions, but also enjoy the mainstream attractions on the Sichuan-Tibet line, is it interesting to use the sharing economy on tourism?

Itinerary

Day 1: Chengdu - Xichang (6 hours)

Accommodation: A hotel in Xichang

Driving distance: 450 kilometers

from Chengdu Tianhe Road at 8 a.m. to Xichang to check in at the hotel. In the evening, go to taste the local specialty brazier barbecue and experience the heroism of the Yi people eating meat in large pieces and drinking in large bowls.

Day2: Xichang - Lugu Lake (7 hours)

Accommodation: Lugu Lake

inn

drive: 245 kilometers

After breakfast, we went to Lugu Lake, passed through Qionghai, climbed over Daliang Mountain, arrived at about 3 pm, after finding a hotel, you can take the unique pig trough boat of the Mosuo people, enjoy the sunset on the lakeside, enjoy the waves and gulls, listen to the moving love songs of the Mosuo girl, and find a small shop in the evening. Taste local Mosuo cuisine.

Mosuo Food

Day3: Travel around Lugu Lake

Accommodation: An inn in Lugu Lake

Driving distance: 80 kilometers

Sleep until you wake up naturally on this day and move freely in Lugu Lake. You can get up early to take pictures of Lugu Lake in the morning light. you can also drive around the lake, go to Nisai Village to find the famous lover tree and puppy love tree, and feel the original Mosuo style in the small falling water of one of the oldest villages of the Mosuo people; go to Luyuanya to condescendingly appreciate the source of Lugu Lake; Go to Lover's Beach to feel the ten-mile sandy shore and willows; go to the last Tusi Princess's Mansion to feel the glory and difficulties of the life of the "Queen Mosuo"; go to the seagrass to see the reeds in the water, carry the beloved girl on the wedding bridge, and walk from beginning to end; Go to Goddess Bay to look at Goddess Mountain and wait for the most beautiful sunset in Lugu Lake.

Lugu Lake Beautiful View 1

Lugu Lake Scenery 2

Lugu Lake Beautiful View 3

Day4: Lugu Lake - Lijiang (4 hours and 30 minutes).

Accommodation: A hotel in Lijiang

Driving distance: 265 kilometers

After breakfast, we went to Lijiang via the provincial highway. The picturesque scenery along the way is dizzying.Arrive in the ancient city of Lijiang in the afternoon, then freely enter the ancient city to wander around, taste the local Naxi food, enjoy the gorgeous night of the ancient city after nightfall, find a small bar to listen to songs and sit idly, and wait to see if Lijiang is really as legendary as the capital of romance? Haha, just kidding!

the big waterwheel of the iconic building of Lijiang Ancient Town

the ancient stone steps of Lijiang Ancient Town

the beautiful scenery of Lijiang Ancient

Town Day5: Lijiang-Shangri-La (3 hours and 30 minutes).

Accommodation: A hotel in Shangri-La

Drive: 200 kilometers

After breakfast, go to Tiger Leaping Gorge, enter the scenic spot and go down to the Jinsha River along the scenic plank road to enjoy the magnificent spectacle of the rushing Jinsha River roaring in the narrow and widening canyon. After the tour, go to the Songzanlin Temple of the Little Potala Palace, taste authentic Tibetan food in the ancient city of Dukezong in the evening, enjoy the night view of the ancient city, visit the world's largest prayer wheel, and settle in the hotel after the end.

Tiger Leaping Gorge

Tiger Leaping Gorge Canyon is in the upper reaches of the Jinsha River, with a total length of 18 kilometers, divided into three sections: upper tiger jumping, middle tiger jumping, lower tiger jumping, 25 kilometers of winding road, east of Yulong Snow Mountain, west of Diqing's Haba Snow Mountain, canyon vertical height difference of 3,790 meters, famous for "danger", is one of the deepest canyons in China. At the narrowest point of the river, only about 30 meters, it is said that the tiger descends the mountain and can soar over the reef in the river, so it is called the Tiger Leaping Gorge. There are many reefs in the gorge, with 21 dangerous beaches, 7 drops of about 10 meters high, and 10 waterfalls, enjoying the rich original style and pastoral scenery.

Kadan Songtsan Temple

Kadan Songzanlin Monastery, also known as Guihua Temple, is the largest Tibetan Buddhist temple in Yunnan Province, one of the famous monasteries in Kang District, and the center of Huangjiao in Sichuan and Yunnan. The temple is built on the mountain, shaped like an ancient castle, which is the culmination of Tibetan plastic art and is also known as the "Museum of Tibetan Art".

beautiful scenery of the ancient city of Dukezong

The ancient city of Dukezong is the best-preserved and largest Tibetan settlement in China, and it is the hub of the ancient tea horse road. The ancient city of Dukezong, located in Shangri-La County, Diqing Prefecture, Yunnan Province, is an ancient city with a history of more than 1,300 years, built by the Tibetan Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty. It was once a window for cultural exchanges between the snowy Tibetan countryside and the Yunnan region, and a link between the economy and trade of Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan. The ancient city is built on the mountain, and the road is paved with stone slabs.

Day6: Shangri-La-Riwa Township (8 hours)

Accommodation: Camping at a hotel or designated camping site in Aden

Driving distance: 310 kilometers

Don't look at the small more than 300 kilometers away, due to road conditions and speed limits and other factors, it is estimated that it will take 8 hours to drive, and it is estimated that you will have to find a place to live in Aden. You can camp at the camp to see the stars, and if you are lucky, you can also see the meteors

Daocheng Aden Camping Base

Day7: Aden Scenic Area

Accommodation: A hotel in Riwa Township

Drive: 5 kilometers

After breakfast, transfer to the scenic sightseeing bus at the tourist reception center to arrive at the Aden Scenic Area, and after getting off the bus, tourists can go up the mountain and directly arrive at Chonggu Temple to enjoy the scenery of Chonggu Temple and [Shenshan Xiannai Ri] (meaning Guanyin Bodhisattva, 6023 meters above sea level), and then continue to worship Zhuomala Cuo Shen Lake (Pearl Sea). Or go directly to Luorong Cattle Farm to hike or ride horses to reach the Milk Sea and the Five-Colored Sea, although the scenery is good, but the altitude is high, and the parents who want to go should walk according to their own physical strength, enjoy the perfect scenery, and return to the hotel to rest after filming the blockbuster. Important things to say three times: high altitude, high altitude, high altitude, many people will have high reactions, it is best to take drugs to prevent high reactions 3 days in advance

all-natural

very poetic

clear lake water

Daocheng Aden is located in the southern part of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, which is a national nature reserve and a provincial scenic spot, known as "the last Shangri-La", "Shangri-La Wonderland", "the last pure land on the blue planet", and is one of the most complete and primitive alpine natural ecosystems in China, presenting the world's beautiful alpine canyons and natural scenery.

Day8: Riwa Township - Xinduqiao (8 hours)

Accommodation: A hotel in Xinduqiao or camping alpine meadow (about 4500 above sea level)

Driving distance: 450 kilometers

After breakfast, we can climb over the Zheduo Mountains to see the plateau meadow, if you camp, you can see the sunrise when you get up, in fact, there is no good scenery here in Xinduqiao now, you have to wait for about June to July, The wildflowers on the mountains bloom so beautifully

Xinduqiao Lavender Base

Highland Meadows

large areas of wildflowers

Day9: Xinduqiao - Chengdu (5 hours and 30 minutes).

Accommodation: Safe to get home

Drive: 350 kilometers

If you have enough time, you can go to the birthplace of Kangding love songs to feel the breath of Kangding, but Xiaobian feels that there is nothing too fun to go there this season, so I won't introduce much, friends in Chengdu, friends who are interested in going to play together can leave me a message, I am not specialized in outdoors, I just want to go around by myself, the cost of going out to play will be lower, and I can also meet some new friends how good it is. I started checking the guide at 12 noon, and wrote the guide until 9 pm, and finally planned the 9-day itinerary.


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