No to being a special forces soldier! Shangri-La Lazy Person's 3-Day Slow Travel Guide
Work, study, it's all too competitive! Finally, when it's time to relax and travel, I refuse to be a special forces soldier😜
Choosing Shangri-La, the land of dreams, indeed did not disappoint me! A leisurely 3-day tour is so relaxing😉
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My travel itinerary was: Dukezong Ancient Town➡️Napa Lake➡️Dukezong Ancient Town
🏯Dukezong Ancient Town
This is the best preserved and largest Tibetan mutual aid community in our country. There are several places to visit here, all within walking distance, not tiring, and all free of charge🆓.
✻Da Baoji Temple
The gilded roof shines beautifully under the blue sky and the sun! In the morning, facing the sun, the chanting sounds like a gushing sweet spring, purifying the entire ancient town.
⚠️Notice
It is advised to tour from the left up to the right down (local custom), to visit temples in a clockwise direction, not to take photos of Buddha statues, and not to speak loudly.
✻Turtle Mountain Park
🈶The world's largest prayer wheel, it is said to require 8️⃣ adult men to push! Turning clockwise for 3️⃣ circles🉑eliminates misfortune and prays for blessings💞 (don't worry about not being able to pull it, tourists generally pull hard, including children🤪)
✻Sifang Street
At night, 🈶local Tibetans dance the Guozhuang dance, usually starting after seven o'clock and ending before nine. Tourists can join in, and the scene is very lively💃🏻
✻Museum
The museums on both sides of Moonlight Square, to understand the past that was burned down and the history and customs of the ancient town.
🌄Napa Lake
When I went to Napa Lake, it had just snowed in Shangri-La D2. On the open ground around, people were having snowball fights, building snowmen, super lively. 🈶Tibetan horses and cattle, idly dazing. Absolutely beautiful!
The other half is the stunningly huge water surface! Against the backdrop of the sky, the water surface looks like a deep blue sea, with ripples glistening, and large flocks of ducks playing on the water, another absolutely beautiful scene!
⚠️Note: Napa Lake is really cold. The weather is different from Dukezong Ancient Town. Especially need to pay attention to keeping warm!
Shangri-La travel tip:
🛏Accommodation: In Dukezong, I stayed at Shangjing Shengtu, where cars can drive up to the door, and the room's floor heating, oxygen machine, and humidifier🉑really relieved my altitude sickness! Especially the third-floor observation deck! Extremely beautiful (the first picture was taken from the observation deck)
In Napa Lake, I stayed at Shanyu Hai. A 25-minute drive from the ancient town. A cave-style homestay, lying in bed, pulling open the curtains to see the sunrise over Napa Lake😍
🥘Gourmet
Sanwen Rainbow Trout Farm, their own spring water fish farm. Rainbow trout is ordered and cut on the spot🔪, the meat is firm and sweet. Eating raw, hot pot are both very👍🏻.
Pugu Cang•Mountain Chicken Mushroom Hanging Stove Hot Pot, a shop opened by a Tibetan actor and a Mongolian photographer. The original mushroom chicken soup can really make your eyebrows fall off🤩 You can also visit his souvenir shop. The largest souvenir collection store, gathering Tibetan cultural and handicraft products, you may have a surprise find😘
💃🏻Entertainment
Recho Bar: Yunnan's earliest reggae bar. Live performances, the atmosphere is great👍🏻❗️Often there are various bands coming on tour
3300 Tavern: Shangri-La's local highland barley specialty brew! There is a factory locally, it's very worth trying👌The local people often go to drink the specialty brew tavern
Dayata Thangka Shop: Learn to hand-paint thangkas with a teacher who has been painting since the age of 17, thangka painting🎨intangible cultural experience, requires patience and devout faith to create✍️
Tibetan Joy Travel Photography: The largest travel photography shop in the ancient town! A huge selection of costumes! Rely on them for photos! Not only can you take travel photos but also videos✅
The ancient city of Dukezong is the best preserved and largest Tibetan settlement in China. Tang (AD 676-679), Tuyu here set up a Zhaibao on the top of the big turtle mountain, named "Dukezong", a Tibetan pronunciation contains two meanings, one is "castle built on stone", and the other is "moonlight city". For the horse gangs who cross the ancient tea horse road, Dukezong Ancient City is a heavy town on the ancient tea horse road, and the first stop after the horse gang entered Tibet. The most worth seeing in the ancient city is the Big Buddha Temple and the prayer wheel. The Big Buddha Temple on Guishan Mountain was built during the Qing Kangxi period. The prayer wheel was built in 2002 and is the world's largest prayer wheel. The prayer wheel is an iconic building built to commemorate Zhongdian's renamed Shangri-La. The current ancient city is similar to the ancient city of Lijiang and Dali. It is a store mainly for inns, restaurants, shops and travel photography.
Dukezong Ancient City as the oldest castle on the Tea Horse Road, so with its unique geographical location, and the vicissitudes of an ancient city full of mercy, welcome the endless business travelers in the history of the Tea Horse Road. At the same time, the development of business has also cultivated a generation of giant merchants who have gone out from the ancient city of Dukezong. Ma cast materials are one of them. With the Tibetan cast materials of the "cast record" business, this is the long historical footprint of Dukezong ancient city, exploring the outside world.
The ancient city of Dukezong in Shangri-La is called Jiantang, which means a castle under white moonlight. The ancient city was built in the Tang Dynasty and the Tibetans called it the "Moonlight City". At present, the world's largest, heaviest, and most Tibetan scriptures are located on the Big Turtle Mountain in the center of Dukezong Ancient City.
Shangri-La Yubeng National Day 7 | Snow Mountain Meadow and Tibetan style National Day travel follow the principle of being able to go out is a blessing, and draw a blind box of destinations in the intersection of normalized control areas and their own unknown areas. About a month in advance and the friends finalized Shangri-La Yubeng as the destination, then leave enough time (considering the stranding factor) and travel. Outbound ✈️:10/4 Shanghai Pudong 15:55 - Lijiang 19:35 Return ✈️:10/11 Lijiang 10:20 - Shanghai Pudong 15:4510/5 Napahai ➡️ Duke Zong Indigo 10/6 Pudacuo ➡️ Duke Zong 10/7 Shangri-La ➡️ Deqin ➡️ Xidang ➡️ Sushang Yubeng 10/8 Ice Lake ➡️ Su Yubeng 10/9 Shen Waterfall (half journey) ➡️ Xidang ➡️ Deqin ➡️ Shangri-La 10/10 Songzanlin Temple ➡️ Lijiang Ancient City 😷 nucleic acid reports are required within 24 hours for scenic spots and hotels, and the records in the test are not recognized. The airport and Lijiang and Shangri-La passenger terminals have landing detection booths, and they need to continue their lives at the frequency of 12-24 hour intervals in the city. Due to the epidemic in Yunnan, the return ticket from Shangri-La has been temporarily cancelled, and finally can only be temporarily booked from Lijiang. Attractions 🏙: Napahai 🎫 0➕🚗 200r chartered /2r one-way bus Pudacuo 🎫 138r➕🚗 80r one-way taxi / 25r one-way bus Dukezong Ancient City 🎫 0➕🚗 City taxi Songzanlin Temple 🎫 55r➕🚗 City taxi traffic 🚌: Intercity traffic is mainly through "Lijiang Transportation" and "Diqing Transportation", Traffic in the city can be directly dripping. Lijiang Airport 🚖 Lijiang Ancient City 1h/80-90r Lijiang Passenger Terminal 🚌 Shangri-La Passenger Terminal 3h/80r Shangri-La 🚌 Deqin 4h/62r Deqin 🚗 Xidang 1h//Carpooling 20-50r Xidang 🚗 Shangyu Beng 1h/ Off-road Vehicle 200r Xidang 🚗 Rain Beng 1h/ Off-road Vehicle 260r Shangyu Beng 🏍️ Rain Beng 2km/50r Accommodation 🏨: ▪️ Shangri-La is the origin of "Songzan". It is recommended that the first Songzan hotel "Shangri-La Songzan Green Valley" and "Songzan Linka" at the top of the mountain overlooking Songzanlin Temple. "Songzan Linka" in "Songzan Linka" and "The ancestral bird living room" can also be visited for free without staying in the store. These two Songzan hotels are giving Songzanlin Temple tickets, afternoon tea, sweet soup fruit before bed, breakfast, pick-up and drop-off, and the store decoration is suitable for Tibetan clothes shooting. The price of about 1k on weekdays is actually not expensive. ▪️ Four or five-star hotels in Shangri-La and Lijiang 300-1000r/night, luxury or design hotels 2-5k/night. Shangri-La Food 🍴: ▪️ Yipin Yang Restaurant: Hot Black Goat Hot Pot ▪️ Colorful Snow Field: butter tea, fried beef, bovine fungus ▪️ Ancient City Corner: butter tea latte, yogurt (can be photographed in Tibetan clothes) ▪️ Yubeng's mountain bistro: latte, Western-style light meal ▪️ Shangyubeng Restaurant chooses more than rain
The architectural style of Dukezong Ancient City is more unique. Compared with the ancient city in the mainland, according to the characteristics, there is a strong ethnic architectural style. The wooden structure-based buildings and the brick-and-wood castles meet the mainland buildings in style. There are obvious differences. The architectural wisdom of the Tibetan people is, It is fully reflected here.