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    In this tour. We travel along the world famous Burma Road. When Japanese troops occupied northern and eastern China in 1937 , the Kuomintang government retreated in land to Chongqing. As they looked for supply lines through which to receive reinforcements, they turned back the ancient overland Tea-Horse Routes with Burma and India, namely the Southwest Silk Road and the old Ambassador’s road, once travelled by Marco Polo. The Kunming-Dali Section was built from 1934-1935, and in 1937 200,000 laborers were drafted in to build the section From Dali to Wanding and the on Madalay in 1940 via railhead of Llahio in Burma Shan State. By February 1039 allied supplies were being transported by boat to Rangoon, by train in Lashio in northern Burma and the trucked across the jungles and mountain ranges of Burma to Dali and finally Kunming, which rapidly became a major US air base. In 1942 the Japanese overran Burma and cut the Burma road and allies were forced to build another road, from Ledo in northeast India to Bhamo. At one point there were even plans to link Lijiang to Assam and US army engineers went as far as enlisting Joseph Rock’s help in mapping the area. The road from Ledo became known as the Stillwell Road, after General Joseph Stillwell. Who led the Allied forces in China, Buma and India from his base in Kunming, the road was finally finished in 1944 and disused in 1945.a short-term stopgap was an air supply line, which ran over the Hump from British India and over the Himalayan Hump into the airfields of Kunming and Lijiang. Over 1000 airmen died crossing the Hump, lost in territory so remote and wild that many bodies have still not been recovered. The US army is currently investigation two sites in far eastern Tibet as the suspected site of a C-46 plane that crashed in 1946 en route from India. The importance of the Burma Road diminished after WW II but is enjoying a rival of border trade and tourism.

 Tour Route:
Kunming-Shangri-la-Lijang-Dali-Tengchong

Day by day itineray 

Day01

Arrive Kunming

 

Highlight: Western hills, Dragon Gate, Bamboo Temple

Transportation: coach

Meal: welcoming dinner

Stay over night in Kunming 4 star hotel

Located approximately 15km from Kunming. The Western Hills spread out across a long wedge of parkland on the western side of lake Dianchi
Dragon Gate, a network of narrow corridors, shrines and grottoes dug out of the hillside by Taoist monks between 1781- 1835 , tremendous views open out across the lake from up here.
Bamboo Temple dates back to the Tang Dynasty, burned down and rebuilt in the 15th century, these life-size clay figures are stunning-either very realistic and surrealistic- a sculptural tour de force.

Day02

Kunming

 

Highlight: Stone Forest

Transportation: coach

Meals: breakfast lunch dinner (mushroom hotpot)

Stay over night in Kunming 4 star hotel

Green Lake park is a good place lose your self in a colorful local life,
Yuantong Temple is the largest Buddhist temple in Kunming. And a target for pilgrims.
Stone Forest is a massive collection of grey lime stone pillars. It is composed of closely knit outcrops of dark gray limestone Karst that have weathered into interesting shapes since their formation beneath a sea some 270 million years ago. In 2007, Stone forest is enlisted as one of world natural heritages.

Day03

Kunming/Shangri-la

 

Highlight: Pudacuo National Park, Xiagei Tibetan handcraft village, Guishan Park

Transportation: coach

Meals: breakfast lunch dinner

Stay over night in Shangri-la 4 star hotel

Pudacuo is Sanskrit. It means the lake that ferrys souls. It’s the first national park in china. the flora and fauna of the park are so abundant
Guishan Park is located nearby the Old Town of Zhongdian, The biggsest sutra prayer wheel in the world on the top of the hill.

Day04

Shangri-la-Tiger Leaping Gorge-Lijang

 

Highlight: Ganden Somtzangling Monastery,Tiger leaping Gorge

Transportation: coach

Meal:s breakfast lunch dinner

Stay over night in Lijiang 4 star hotel

Tiger Leaping Gorge is 16km in length, atfer making its first turn at Shigu, the mighty Yangzi river surges between Haba Snow Mountain an Jade Dragon Snow Mountain through one of deepest gorges in the world, and it’s a giddy 3900m from the waters to the snowcapped mountain tops.
  Lesser Shangri-la is a huge pasture on the way to Shangri-la. The most beautiful seasons are spring an fall. When all the flowers in full bloom.
Ganden Sumtseling Gompa is the largest Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Southwest of China with around 600 monks,built up by the fifth Dalai Lama in 1679.a pilgrimage destination for all the believers from all Champa Tibetan regions.

Day05

Lijiang

 

Highlight: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, White Water River, Basha Frescos. Black Dragon Pool, Old Town of Lijiang

Transportation: couch

Meals: breakfast lunch dinner

Stay over night in Lijiang 4 star hotel

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain With a highest elevation of 5500m, is holy Mountain to the local Naxi Nationality, the reincarnation of a Naxi hero—Samdo, the glacier of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is the most southern glacier of the world. a chairlift will take you up to the Cloud Fir Meadow, where is the legendary entrance to the Jade Dragon Kingdom according to the Naxi Long Poem.
Basha was the capital city of Naxi Kingdom before Kublai Khan made it part of his Yuan empire 800 years ago,
Baisha wall frescos are the masterpieces of Naxi, Bai, Tibetan and Han, the frescos in Dabaoji Temple represent the harmony of different religions of Taoism Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism,

Day06

Lijiang—Dali

 

Highlight: Stone Treasure Mountain, Xizhou Village. Old Town of Dali

Transportation: couch

Meals: breakfast lunch dinner

Stay over night in Dali 4 star hotel

Black Dragon Pool is a quite small park to stroll around, a good place to take the photos of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Then a visit to Dongba Museum where so many exibitions of Naxi and Dongba Culture displayed.
Stone Teasure Mountain Grottoes used to the family shrine to the Nanzhao Kingdom in Tang dynasty, the undulating mountain ranges resemble a huge rooster, the stone cave sculptures on the mountain is done by local Bai nationality, considered as valuable as those in Dunhuang.
The ancient town of Lijiang was enlisted by Unesco in 1997 as one the world cultural heritage. the ancient town is set amid beautiful scenery .the traditional Naxi houses are lined with willow trees and canals..there is no place like Lijiang where the natural landscape of snow mountains, multicultures of Minority Nationalites so perfectly and naturally mixed together.
On the way to Dali. Xizhou is the largest Village of Bai Nationality with a population of over 3000 households, the Bai Architecture here has been very well preserved
Old Town of Dali lies on the western edge of Erhai Lake, at an altitude of 1900m, with imposing 4000m tall Cang Shan Behind it, served as the capital city of Yunnan Province for much of the five centuries, the Old city still retains a historical atmosphere that is hard to come by in other parts of China.

Day07

Dali

 

Highlight: Three Pagodas, Small Boat Cruise on Erhai Lake, Canshan Mountain

Transportation: coach

Meals: breakfast lunch dinner

Stay over night in Dali

Three Pagodas are the most outstanding landmarks in Dali. just 2km northwest of Old Town of Dali, located on the hillside, the three pagodas look particularly pretty when reflected in the nearby lake, they are among the oldest standing structures in southwest China.
The small boat cruise provide you a great chance to go on small fishing villages of local Bai nationality. 

Day08

Dali-Baoshan-Tengchong

 

Highlight: Gaoligong Mountain. Skin Cut show

Transportation: coach

Meals: breakfast lunch dinner

Stay over night in Tengchong 4 star hotel

Marco Polo visited Baoshan City in the 13th century when it was known as Yongchang and marveled at the locals’ gold teeth and tattoos. On the way to Baoshan. We can visit few villages of local minorities, and stop over at Gaoligong Mountain, to observe the last group of ape families in China. will arrive in Tengchong in the afternoon. Dinner tonight is at a local restaurant and enjoy the Skin Show

Day09

Tengchong

 

Highlight: Beihai Wetland,.Volcano Park, Sea of Heat, Heshun Village.

Transportation: coach

Meals: breakfast lunch dinner

Stay over night in Tengchong

Tengchong County is renowned for its volcanoes, and although the, y have been behaving themselves for many centuries, the seismic and geothermal activity in the area indicates tthat they wont always continue to do so. Around 5km to the northwest is the most accessible cluster of volcanoes.
Sea of Heat is a cluster of hote springs, geysers and streams about 12km southwest of Tengchong. Some of the springs here reach temperatures of 102.
southwest of town is the village of Heshun,

Day10

Tengchong—Ruili--Burma

 

Hightlight:

Transportation: coach

Meals: breakfast lunch

Coach to Ruili, exit China for Burma at Wanding Border Checkpoint. End of tour.

Cost of the tour:

 

1 pax

2—5 pax

6—9 pax

10—up

Single suppliment

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Super deluxe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Price Includes:

1: hotels as mentioned in the itinerary, all rooms based on share of 2 people.
2: all meals as mentioned in the itinerary.
3: all transportation services in the each city mentioned in the tour.
4: English spoke local guide service throughout your tour.
5: all entrance fee and tickets to the parks and tourist attraction mentioned in the itinerary.
6: domestic tourist insurance.

Price excludes:

1: Visa Fee to China.
2: international and domestic air tickets not listed in the tour.
3: specific local flavor not mentioned in the tour.
4: tips for the guide and driver.
5: expenses based on personal nature.
6: performance and show not included in the tour.

 

 

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