Xishuangbanna classic four-day self-help tour guide
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Line design: (four days)
D1, arrived in Jinghong, the afternoon tour of the General Buddha Temple and the Man Listening Park, check into the hotel (Youth Hostel or three-star), the night to participate in the bonfire or stroll through the night market, tasting cold drinks.
D2, Jinghong - Wild Elephant Valley - downtown, live in Jinghong (Youth Hostel or three-star), evening Menghuala Naxi song and dance party or Dai barbecue.
D3, Jinghong - Wangtianshu - Menglun, stay in Menglun or Botanical Garden Hotel.
D4, Menglun Botanical Garden - Olive Dam Dai Garden - Jinghong, end of trip.
Total cost: 658 yuan (live in Menglun small hotel)
738 yuan (live in the Botanical Garden Hotel)
D1, hotel quasi-three-star 80 yuan/standard (including breakfast) together with 40 yuan/person, the General Buddha Temple and Man Listening Park can be exempted from the ticket, cold drinks 10 yuan/person. Dinner 10 yuan. Total: 60 yuan.
D2, fare: Wild Elephant Valley round trip 30 yuan, the ticket is 65 yuan, one-way ropeway 40 yuan. Scenic buffet lunch 20 yuan, dinner 10 yuan. Accommodation 40 yuan / person. Total: 205 yuan.
D3, fare: Jinghong - Mengla 38 yuan, Mengla round trip to Wangtianshu 16 yuan, Mengla - Menglun 20 yuan. Wangtian tree tickets 60 yuan, Menglun Botanical Garden 80 yuan, accommodation Botanical Garden Hotel 220 yuan / standard (including breakfast) together 110 yuan / person, or Menglun town small hotel 30 yuan / standard. Meals: 15 yuan. Total: 339 yuan (live in a small hotel to save 80 yuan).
D4, fare: Menglun - five townships 8 yuan - olive dam 5 yuan - Jinghong 8 yuan, 21 yuan. Dai Garden tickets 100 yuan, 15 yuan for lunch and dinner. Total: 134 yuan.
Before writing this guide, I carefully analyzed the trip of many guests to Banna, there are several features, if you are one of them, then be sure to patiently and carefully read the following content, it will bring a lot of convenience for your journey.
Feature one: the trip is mostly three to four days.
Characteristic two: no particular in-depth understanding of Banna, come to the name.
Characteristic three: will choose the following attractions, AAAA attractions: Wild Elephant Valley, Primitive Forest Park, Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden, Dai Garden
AAA attractions: Wangtian Tree, Menghu Dancing Buddha Temple, the first walled village of China-Burma Menghu Jinglai.
Feature 4: You don't want to follow the group or spend unspecified money.
Are you one of them, if so, then you must see thirteen Banna real tips.
Banna tourism is divided into four categories: rainforest culture, ethnic culture, Pu'er tea culture, border culture
Tourist routes are divided into four lines and one center:
Great East Line (Dai Garden, Menlun Tropical Botanical Garden, Manmai Sangkang, Rainforest Valley, Mengyuan Wonderland, Wangtianshu, Mawan, China-Laos Border)
North Line (Wild Elephant Valley, Keno cottage, Original Forest Park )
West Line (Nannuo Mountain, Cloud Tea Source, Jingzhen Bajiao Pavilion, Menghuanglai, Doktor Forest, Taoluo, China-Burma)
South Line (Manfred Dragon White Pagoda, Da Menghuanglong, Brown Mountain)
Center (centered on Jinghong city, with songs and dances, rafting, bonfires, restaurants, bars, and specialty shopping)
Line Actual Measurement and Playing Points:
D1, Line description: As the first day is not sure of the arrival time in Banna, morning, afternoon, evening are possible. So in the arrangement of the first day of the trip is, you can refer to the thirteen Banna recommendations. Taking into account the later time are relatively tight, are in Jinghong outside the scenic play, so the first day, we should be Jinghong downtown some of the contents of the first feel, such as handicrafts market tourist goods, such as Manjinglan or Mengjia Road, catering and barbecue and Shawan cold drinks, including the Jinglan International and the Dai Jiangnan bar street. In addition, the city's flower garden, Manjung Park, the General Buddha Temple, Mengdasha Big Buddha Temple are the scenic spots we can choose.
If you go to Jinghong in the morning you must go to the handicraft market. There are three reasons: 1. Dai dresses and Dai brocade are both favorites of ladies. Imagine you can also be like water like Dai girls, graceful, so here to pick a set of handmade Dai skirt or Dai brocade jewelry are so precious.2, Dai pottery and wood carving, if you want to decorate your home full of Southeast Asian atmosphere, full of Buddhist piety, so in Banna to pick up some of the national intangible cultural heritage of the Dai pottery and a variety of antique wood carving handicrafts is the most appropriate.3, Burmese jade and Thai food, Xishuangbanna and Burma, Laos, Thailand and neighboring, where you can find the most pure Burmese jade A goods, of course, to compare the goods, by the way, do not forget to put your killing skills to the extreme. Of course, Thai food and tropical fruits, and even slippers are the symbol of Banna and Thai rainforest culture, you can bring home, and family members to share the tropical flavor of Banna and Southeast Asia.
And if you arrive in Banna in the afternoon, then you probably can only go to one of the parks in the city to walk around and experience Banna, which is known as the Kingdom of Plants. In addition you can also go to the food street to taste the food, thirteen Banna here to recommend a few local people love to go to the place, due to the selective, I will not say the name of the store, Manjinglan or Mengjia Road catering and barbecue and cold drinks in Shawan, including Jinglan International and Dai Jiangnan bar street.
The night is even simpler, one, Man Listening bonfire party or Menghuara Naxi song and dance show, two, Man Jinglan or Man Listening small village barbecue. Third, Jinglan International as well as Dai Jiangnan's bar or ethnic culture plaza next to choose a certain cold drink store.
D2, line description: today is our real backpacking trip, but according to the plan at night we will return to the downtown hotel, so the luggage do not need to carry at any time. At 8:00 a.m., take a bus from Banna Bus Station to Wild Elephant Valley, the ticket price is 15 yuan, the ride is about 70 minutes, in the scenic area of the back door off.
9:10 visit to the Elephant Museum, hiking through the rainforest, elevated corridors, arrived at the Observatory, if we are lucky, we will be able to see the wild elephants in the valley (this section of the road is about 2.5 kilometers, for the legs and feet of people who are inconvenient, we recommend that you take the "mountain BMW"). 10:30 and then go up to the mountain to take the cable car, in the 10:30am, then go up the mountain to take the ropeway and have a bird's eye view of the virgin rainforest from above, and arrive at the lower station of the ropeway after 45 minutes.
11:20 minutes down the mountain to visit the Bird Park, Butterfly Park, Monkey Park, Snake Park, 12:20 minutes in the scenic area restaurant to eat buffet, 13:10 minutes to the Elephant Showground, to visit the elephant show (11:00 a.m., the afternoon show time for 13:30 and 15:30, it is best to take up space a little bit in advance, of course, it is more convenient to the front row of the close with the elephants, and in addition to facilitate the photographs well). The best time to visit the elephant show is 13:30 and 15:30 in the afternoon. After visiting the elephant show we can ride an elephant through the rainforest, feel the treatment of the Dai King. However, you need to spend 200RMB. interested friends can also watch 14:30 minutes of song and dance show (performance time: 9:30, 12:00, 14:30). 15:00, in the front gate intersection to take the car back to Jinghong.
Note: 1, wild elephant attack circle: within 30 meters; 2, wild elephant easy to attack people period: wild elephant rutting period; there are baby elephants around; close to the attack circle; 3, escape from the attack of wild elephants: curve run, slope run, run to the forest densely populated places; elephant volume is large, it is difficult to balance the limbs; 4, in the Wild Elephant Valley scenic area we need to calculate ahead of time to take the ropeway, dining, and Watch the elephant show time, so as not to delay and miss the schedule.
D3, line note: Because the third day and the fourth day of the trip are the Great Eastern Route, in order to save time and reduce travel, so we will not go back to Jinghong to stay. So before we go, we need to check out of the room first, put the luggage storage, to pick up the next day when we return.8:00 from the Banna passenger station to Mengla, with luck, the shuttle bus will not stop in Menglun, directly to Mengla, time consuming 2 hours and 10 minutes, Menglun stops it will take 30 minutes. Tickets cost RMB 38. Arrive in Mengla at around 11am and immediately buy a ticket to Wangtianshu at the station (normally the bus will leave at 12pm sharp) for RMB 8. Then use this short stopover in Mengla to have a light lunch, or to pick up some local specialties at the nearby port market.
From Mengla to Wangtianshu is 16 kilometers and takes 40 minutes. Admission to the scenic spot is 60 yuan, or 20 yuan per person if you choose to take a boat ride. Boat trip on the Nanla River through the primitive rainforest is the most distinctive feature of Wangtianshu, and another attraction is to walk in the air canopy corridor, which is 36 meters above the ground and up to 500 meters long, to experience the feeling of heartbeat and marvel at the power of nature. There are two hiking rainforest trails deep in the scenic area, namely the 900-meter-long Caixitao Trail and the 2-kilometer-long Phillip's Trail. Walk into the depths of the rainforest to feel the dense vegetation of the rainforest, walk through the strands of the rainforest between the mountain springs, and listen to the sounds of nature. These are the most real feeling that Wangtian Tree Rainforest National Park brings to you. It takes about 2-3 hours to visit Wangtianshu Scenic Spot, and at 3:30 pm, you will take a bus to Mengla directly in front of the scenic spot. Then transfer to Menglun shuttle bus in Mengla, the fare from Mengla to Menglun is 20 yuan, and it takes 70 minutes.
Arrive at Menglun at 5:30 p.m. You can choose to stay in a hotel in Menglun town for 30-50 yuan for a standard room. Or directly buy tickets to enter the Botanical Garden, the ticket 80 yuan, and then check into the Botanical Garden Hotel, the old building standard room 220 yuan, the new building standard room 280 yuan. Staying in Menglun and the Botanical Garden have their own characteristics, if you stay in Menglun, you can be in close contact with this town located on the banks of the Luodujiang River at night, and even encounter the Dai women bathing, or in the Luodujiang River to enjoy the sunset twilight, the night you can also taste the characteristics of the barbecue in the Luodujiang River.
If you choose to stay in the Botanical Garden Hotel, you can hear the sound of birds chirping (very wonderful, can make you quickly into dreamland), you can also go to the open-air swimming pool covered in greenery, of course, you can also hold hands and their lovers walking in the bamboo building, under the coconut trees, and even the lotus pond, you can imagine the large botanical garden is your backyard at the moment, and that's how let a person! It's a great thing to be mesmerized by.
D4, you do not have to get up too early, otherwise it is really sorry for such a cozy resting place. Stretch your legs at 9:00 a.m. and walk slowly to the restaurant for an early breakfast of local specialties.
In the Botanical Garden you can choose to go to too many places, thirteen Banner recommended: the colorful garden of the Hundred Flowers, exotic flowers garden of dancing grass, palm garden of the Missile Forest, Banyan Garden of the tree wrapped in the tower, a single tree into a forest, the shade of the Botanical Garden of the vegetation in the water, the celebrity famous tree garden of the story of the National Tree and National Garden of the encompassing, so much too much to see... ...Bring your heart, bring your eyes, bring your camera and a big enough memory ......
At the Botanical Gardens, we have to mention the gradually forgotten Eastern Rainforest Valley. The East Rainforest Valley is a very small number of people, the natural ecology is very good, it is best to have a guide to lead in, one or two people do not go in easily. The rainforest valley is slippery and wet, covered by the sun, and has many wild animals, so you should pay attention to safety. So, especially girls should not go by themselves. Going to Rainforest Valley is a long distance, it is better to choose to rent a battery car to go there, which can save both time and physical strength. There are a few iconic places in the Rainforest Valley, the first is the Strangler Banyan, the second is the Dabangan, and the other is the deep tropical gully.
After lunch in Menglun at 12:30 p.m., buy a bus ticket to Wuxiang at the station for 8 yuan. Then transfer to a country bus at Wuxiang to Olive Dam for 5 yuan. Arrive at Dai Garden at 2:10 p.m. Ticket is 100 RMB. Visit Manchun Manfo Temple, Dai village, handicrafts, folk culture, 14:50 in the Water Splashing Square to participate in the water splashing carnival, with a hundred small servants whistle with the charm of the Oriental carnival. 15:30 in the Song and Dance Plaza to watch the exhibition of ethnic culture, and finally go to the Manghang White Pagoda to visit the pagoda bag tree, the White Pagoda. 16:30 to the Olive Dam (Menghans) bus station to return to Jinghong by bus, the ticket price of 8 yuan, the car ride for 1 hour! .
17:30 back to Jinghong, go to the hotel to pack up, dinner and end the classic four days and three nights of Banna trip.
Note: 1, go to Menglun Botanical Garden Rainforest Valley to pay attention to safety, not just go alone, need to arrange for a guide or guide. 2, in the tropical rainforest do not touch or close to the plants, to avoid poisoning and other accidents. 3, olive dam is Menghuang, Menghuang is Olive Dam. As the shuttle bus from Menglun to Jinghong does not pass through Olive Dam, so you need to transfer in Wuxiang, please be sure to tell the driver to get off at the Wuxiang turnoff.4. Olive Dam Dai Garden afternoon splashing activities for the time of 14:50 and 16:30 two, so be sure to calculate the time in the arrangement of the tour.