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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Dry Sea
Dry Sea is a large natural pasture locates in the eastern foot of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, about 25 kilometers away from Old Town of Lijiang. Dry Sea is the closest and the best place for looking up the complete picture of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Here you can see the thirteen peaks of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain arranged in order from north to south, magnificent, majestic and impressive. Dry Sea protected area...
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Lishui Jinsha Grand Performance
Lishui Jinsha is a grand tourism Performance of Lijiang. It makes full use of modern art and manifestation skill, through the beautiful dance vocabulary, exciting music tunes, colorful ethnic costumes, stereo grand dance scene and superb lighting effects to greatly enhance the performance force of the folk dance and create the new manifestations of folk dance, which gives a strong artistic impact and shocking to the audie...
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Baisha Mural
Baisha Mural is situated in Baisha Ancient Town (commonly known as Baisha Village), which located about 10 km in the north of Lijiang Old Town. Baisha Mural is an integral part of world cultural heritage and the manifestation of Lijiang Dongba culture as well as an integral part of Lijiang tourism.The famous "Lijiang Mural" is a great opening product of Naxi society in Ming Dynasty (1368--1644). It draws from...
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Baisha Village
Baisha Village, or Baisha Ancient Town is located in the Dayan town of Lijiang; it is a beautiful ancient town and the earliest birthplace of Nakhi (Naxi) people. Once, as the political, economic and cultural center of Lijiang, Chieftain Mu had built homes and villas here.There are a number of ancient buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties remained intact now, such as the Large Maharatnakuta Palace and Yufeng Temple. The...
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Lion Hill Park
Located in the downtown of Lijiang, Lion Hill Park is an important part of the World Heritage Lijiang. The park is named as lion after the main mountain in the park like a sleeping lion. Lion Hill Park is a main attraction of the National scenic areas. And it is the only forest park built on hillside in Lijiang Ancient City (aka Ancient Town of Lijiang). Lion Hill Park has a total area of 15 hectares; the forest coverage...
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Joseph Rock's Former Residence
Joseph Rock's Former Residence (Former Residence of Joseph Rock)is located in Snow Song village g natural village which on the south of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain , about10 kilometers away from the Old Town of Lijiang .The house is the former residence of the famous "father of Naxiology"-- American Austrian Josef Rock (1884-1962). In May of 1922, Rock was appointed as explorer, copywriter, and photographer...
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Wen Lake
Wen Lake is located in the north of the ancient city of Lijiang; it is 23 km away from the city. Wen Lake is situated in Wenhai Village which belongs to Baisha Town of Yulong County. At an elevation of 3,258 metresl, it is a typical mountain area alpine meadow.Wen Lake is a seasonal alpine lakes and wetlands. When the rainy season comes in July and August each year, the water on the lake starts to rise. October is the...
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Lugu Lake
Lugu Lake is located between Yunnan's Ninglang County and Sichuan's Yanyuan County, with an area of over 50 square kilometers and at an altitude of 2,685 meters counting from the surface of the water. Therefore it is the lake with the highest altitude in the province. It is a fresh water lake with an average depth of 40 meters and the maximum of 93.5 meters.Lugu Lake is known as the "pearl of the plateau". There...