Just returned from a trip to Dali Ancient City without stepping on any landmines! Here's a tested guide!

🔔Dali Ancient City is one of the top ten ancient cities in China, where you can feel the cultural atmosphere. Walking in the streets and alleys of the ancient city, you can feel the romance of this city, and you will understand why so many people like to live in Dali. 📍Location: Dali Ancient City 🗺️Address: No. 42, Yita Road, Dali City, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. 🚗Transportation strategy 1⃣️Take a high-speed train from Kunming to Dali Station for 2 hours, and take the "8th Route/Three Pagodas Special Line" bus directly to "Dali Ancient City", 2⃣️Long-distance bus from Kunming to Dali Ancient City. The long-distance bus takes 3-4 hours. 3⃣️From Dali Airport to the ancient city, you can choose a taxi or a coach. The taxi takes about 30 minutes, and the coach takes 1 hour 🛕Four city gates of Dali Ancient City 1️⃣South Gate➡️Near Bed Sheet Art Factory (creative market, handmade works, strong artistic atmosphere) 2️⃣North Gate➡️There is a North Gate Market (a lot of delicious local food in the morning market) 3️⃣East Gate➡️Erhai Gate (close to Erhai) 4️⃣West Gate➡️Cangshan Gate (March Street is a unique market for locals, with a strong atmosphere of life, and things are very cheap) 🚇Must-visit photo spots! 📸Wuhua Building: You can go up, overlook Cangshan, overlook the ancient city, and there are many succulent plants growing on it, which look super good! 📸South Gate of the City: It's a popular photo spot, suitable for taking pictures 📸People's Road: Very busy, the shops are good to visit 📸Marshal's Mansion: Actually it is Dali Museum, if you want to quickly understand the history of Dali, come here 📸Foreigner Street Located in the center of Dali Ancient City, there are many restaurants and cafes on the street, suitable for rest. Feel the literary atmosphere. 📸Dali Bed Sheet Factory Art District: A miniature of Dali's poetry and the distance, it is a gathering place for literary youths, a relatively small and fresh area, very suitable for taking pictures. 🍰🍜🍷Specialty food: Bai people's stone slab roast, Bai people's casserole fish, papaya chicken, hot and sour fish, Xizhou Baba, cold chicken rice noodles, carved plum, roasted milk fan, bait block. 🏡Living around the ancient city is more convenient for eating. However, the ancient city is usually congested during holidays. You can also live in the village by the sea, where there are not many places to eat, but there are fewer people. 📝Note tips: ⭕Don't take the yellow tricycles in the ancient city. The ground in the ancient city is all uneven stone roads. If you take it, it will not only be very bumpy, but also be slaughtered. ⭕Dali has a large temperature difference between day and night, and it has also cooled down during this period. It is still very cold at night. You need to wear a coat, sweater, and thick coat. During the day, more than ten degrees wear a base coat + coat is enough. ⭕You have to compare three shops when buying things in the ancient city, don't consume blindly ⭕The most important thing is sun protection, sun protection, sun protection!!! Dali's ultraviolet rays are strong all year round! ⭕Try not to buy fruits in the ancient city, most of the boss's scales are not accurate.