Yunnan classic driving tour route

Yunnan is located in the land of South Shao, here since ancient times is the birth of a great civilization system, everyone can well in this place to find a different landscape, the local area is located at a high altitude, so although it is the south, but the climate is temperate, four seasons like spring, attracting a large number of tourists to visit.

I. Yunnan Self-driving Tour Route Planning

Yunnan Self-driving Tour Route Planning Map

Along the way, it passes through Wenshan Prefecture, Honghe Prefecture, Pu'er City, Lincang City, Baoshan City, Dali Prefecture, Lijiang City, Diqing Prefecture, Panzhihua, Chuxiong Prefecture, passing through most of the cities and towns and most of the essential attractions of Yunnan, which is a very worthwhile self-driving tour route. As long as friends from different provinces have access to this circular route, they can complete the whole journey by self-driving as long as they have enough vacation time.

Self-driving tour of Yunnan is basically a highway, a small number of national highways county roads, route length of about 2700 kilometers, including going to the attractions of the total trip of about 3200 kilometers. If you have enough time, friends can also choose the national highway provincial highway, although the route is a little longer, but along the way the beauty of the scenery is breathtaking.

Yunnan driving mileage

Two, Yunnan important scenic distribution

Yunnan scenic distribution map

This map will be more important scenic spots along the way in Yunnan listed, because of the layout problem, there may be part of the attractions location has a little offset, from the map we see the attractions scenic spot is very, very much, the process of self-driving tour is impossible to do to every attraction scenic spot to play once, so friends can according to their own needs and the attractions of the city, and the attractions of the city. So friends can choose according to their own needs and preferences for you to play attractions scenic spots, delete or increase the distribution of scenic spots in Yunnan scenic spot map does not have attractions scenic spots. Attractions selection suggestions: a mountain, a forest, a geological, a wet, a dry, an Erhai, an ancient, a field, a man-made, a waterfall, a hole, a style, other attractions can be arbitrary.

Yunnan part of the famous attractions

1, Lijiang Shangri-La: Shangri-La is located in northwestern Yunnan Province, Yunnan, Sichuan, Tibet, "the big triangle" region, is the national "Three Rivers" scenic spot a pearl, is located in the heart of the Diqing Shangri-La! The area is one of the few perfectly preserved landscapes on earth. It is a rare piece of perfect preservation of natural ecology and national traditional culture of the pure land, known as the "alpine garden", "animal and plant kingdom", "non-ferrous metal kingdom" of the beauty of the name.

Lijiang Shangri-La is an area rich in humanistic and natural landscapes, and is one of the country's eight golden tourist hotlines.

"You don't have to go to Tibet to enjoy the Tibetan flavor". Diqing not only has the Tibetan plateau snowy mountains and valleys of the Tibetan style, but also can enjoy the Inner Mongolia prairie "wind blowing grass low see cattle and sheep" like a magnificent scenery. Shangri-La, since ancient times is the Tibetan nation's most ideal "Ruyi treasure", Tibetan folk song sings: "the sun shines the earliest place, is the East of Jie Tang, the most beautiful pure land on earth is the milk of the Shangri-La River".

Shangri-La

2, Lijiang Ancient City 5A:

Lijiang Ancient City, and the National Historic and Cultural City of Shanxi Pingyao, Langzhong in Sichuan Province, Anhui Province, Shexian and known as the "best preserved of the four ancient cities," Lijiang Ancient City is an ancient city without walls, smooth and clean green stone road, Lijiang is an ancient city without walls, with smooth and clean green stone roads, completely hand-built houses of adobe structure, and ubiquitous small bridges and rivers, it is a small city with a strong humanistic flavor.

Lijiang Old Town

3, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Scenic 5A:

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is the southernmost snow mountain in the northern hemisphere. Dangerous, beautiful, strange, show known in the world, the Jade Dragon landscape Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is Yunnan subtropical extreme high mountains, from the foot of the river valley to the peak with a subtropical, temperate to the frigid zone of the complete vertical zone of the natural landscape. Snow mountain natural tourism resources are abundant, the landscape can be roughly divided into snow - glacier landscape, primitive forest landscape, alpine meadow landscape, snow mountain water features, etc..

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

4, Chongsheng Temple Three Pagodas Cultural Tourism Zone 5A: Dali Chongsheng Temple Three Pagodas, one of the Dali scenic. Known as the symbol of the ancient culture of Dali.

The main tower of the Three Pagodas is called the Thousand Pagodas, which is a typical building of the Tang Dynasty along with the large and small Wild Goose Pagodas in Xi'an. The three towers of Chongsheng Temple are solemn and majestic, quite imposing. Next to the three towers, the original scale of the Chongsheng Temple.

The 1925 earthquake, the top of the tower earthquake, the wreckage is heavy, the top of the tower fell. After the founding of the country, the three towers as national cultural relics protection units, carried out careful maintenance.

Shongsheng Temple three towers

5, yuanyang hani terraces 4A: yuanyang terraces scale, magnificent, stretching across the entire south bank of the red river red river, yuanyang, luchun and jinping and other counties, only yuanyang county territory of 170,000 acres of terraces, is the core area of the hani terraces of the red river. The territory of Yuanyang County is full of high mountains, all the terraces are built on the mountain slopes, and the slope of the terraces ranges from 15 degrees to 75 degrees. In terms of a hillside, the highest number of terraces reaches 3,000 levels, which is rare in Chinese and foreign terraced landscapes. There are 3 major scenic spots of Hani Terraces in Yuanyang: Bada Scenic Spot, which includes more than 14,000 acres of terraces in Turnip Kou, Quanfuzhuang, Ma Li Zhai and Main Lu, Tiger's Mouth Scenic Spot, which includes nearly 6,000 acres of terraces in Menghu Pin, Dongpu, A Meng control, Baoshan Zhai, etc., and Doyishu Scenic Spot, which includes tens of thousands of acres of terraces in Doyishu, Aichun, and Dawajia. Such a large number of terraces, in the vast forest cover, in the diffuse sea of clouds cover, constitute a magical and magnificent landscape.

Yuanyang Hani Terraces

6, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden 5A:. The garden has the most well-preserved tropical gully rainforest south of the Tropic of Cancer, peacock breeding base, monkey domestication base, large-scale ethnic style performance field, love our Zhaiman, Shuanglong White Pagoda, the Nine Dragons waterfalls, a hundred meters of granite reliefs, the legend of the Golden Lake, the national flavor barbecue and other ten scenic spots more than fifty attractions, highlighting the "primitive forests, folklore, wildlife, the three major theme of the Characteristics. Inside the park, there are well-preserved tropical rainforests south of the Tropic of Cancer, along the way to enjoy the board roots, strangulation, ancient vines, old stems and flowers, and other exotic landscapes; love our cottage every day, "love our song Gatangpa" festivals will also make you forget to go back and forth. You can also see the Xishuangbanna ethnic minority large-scale clothing and costume exhibition, nine dragons flying waterfall next to the Xishuangbanna ethnic minority folk musical instrument exhibition.

Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest

7, Yunnan Ethnic Village 4A: Yunnan Ethnic Village is a collection of villages of 25 ethnic minorities in Yunnan, such as Yi, Dai, Bai, Miao, Naxi, Jingpo, Wa, Lisu, Hani, Dulong, etc. The village of the ethnic minorities, ethnic song and dance halls, ethnic plazas, as well as the water screen movie, laser fountain and other tourist facilities. The ethnic village adopts the method of restoration display to show the ethnic flavor of Yunnan. Into the village only to see different styles of ethnic villages distributed among them, staggered, each show style, the colorful village buildings of various ethnic minorities, life, production, religious customs are faithfully displayed, is the epitome of Yunnan's ethnic culture.

Yunnan Ethnic Village

8, Dali Ancient City 4A: Dali Ancient City is referred to as Yucheng, located at the foot of the scenic Cangshan Mountain. Dali Ancient City was built in Ming Hongwu 15 years (1382), is one of the first batch of historical and cultural cities.

Dali Ancient City, with the Erhai Sea to the east and the Cangshan Mountains to the west, is characterized by beautiful scenery and majestic citadels. The scale of Dali City is magnificent, simple and quiet,

The city has a main street running through the north and south, and there are all kinds of stores specializing in marble products, straw weaving, tie-dyeing and other famous products, and flavorful Bai food stores.

There are clear streams flowing in the city, and simple Bai traditional houses can be seen everywhere. The residents here, rich or poor, have the habit of raising flowers and planting grasses in their courtyards, and it is said in Dali Old Town that "every house has running water, and every house raises flowers".

Dali Ancient City

9, Erhai 4A: Erhai is known as "Yeyu water", also known as "Xie'er River", "Kunmichuan", is formed by the collapse of the Xie'er River. It is a plateau lake formed by the collapse of the Xi'er River, with the shape of an ear. The Cangshan Mountains and the Erhai Sea, with the mountains and the water, start from Jiangwei Township of Eryuan County in the north and end at Xiaguan of Dali in the south. The lake is named Erhai because it is shaped like a human ear. There is an Erhai Park in Tuan Shan, the southernmost part of the Erhai Sea, which is a good place to view the scenery of Cangshan Erhai. The Erhai Sea*** has 3 islands, 4 continents, 5 lakes and 9 curves. The lake water of Erhai is so clear and transparent that it has been called "the flawless jade among the mountains" since ancient times.

Erh Sea

10, Stone Forest Scenic Area 5A: Stone Forest is known as "the world's first wonders" and "Ashima's hometown" of the national key scenic spots. Is the world's only in the subtropical plateau region of karst geological wonders. Stone Forest Scenic Area includes "two forests, two lakes, two holes, a waterfall, a garden" eight areas, which are the size of the Stone Forest; long lake and moon lake; Qifeng Cave and Zhiyun Cave; the Great Folding Waterfalls and Guishan National Forest Park. After years of construction and development, it has now become the "Southern China Karst" World Natural Heritage, the first batch of World Geopark.

Shilin Scenic Area

Three, Yunnan driving tour itinerary schedule

Yunnan driving tour schedule

Blue numbers indicate the number of days you need to stay in the local Yunnan, the whole Yunnan driving tour itinerary I recommend spending no less than 17 days.

In fact, if your vacation time is not enough, you can reduce some of the scenic spots in the Yunnan self-driving tour, and drive a longer distance each day to reduce the total number of days of the self-driving tour. However, it is recommended to control the mileage of daily driving within 300 kilometers to reduce the fatigue and waste of time brought about by self-driving tours. For those who are on a tight schedule, please pay attention to scheduling your trip to avoid interfering with your normal work and work.

If friends do not want to drive around the whole of Yunnan, you can also consider the following chart of Yunnan self-driving small loop tour:

Yunnan self-driving tour route map

The chart of each color represents a small loop of Yunnan self-driving tours, mainly divided into the east line, the south line and the west line, I think that these three small loop of Yunnan self-driving line is still very good, the small loop line of the central part of Yunnan is not The attractions of the small ring tour line in central Yunnan is not listed, before driving friends to do their homework, according to their own hobbies or sources close to the choice of small ring tour routes.

Four, Yunnan diet and specialties

1, diet: Dian cuisine features a wide selection of materials, flavor, to cook the mountain treasures, water freshness. Its taste is characterized by tender, sweet, sweet and sour, spicy and slightly numb. Specialties: steamer chicken, over the bridge rice noodles, wild mushroom hot pot, dry bar fried cloud legs, red three chopped, black three chopped and so on.

2. Specialties: Xuanwei ham, Pu'er tea, Yunnan Baiyao, goat's milk fruit, wild mushrooms, tropical fruits and so on.