English name: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
Location: 15 kilometers north of downtown Lijiang
Admiralty: 5,596 meters
Tickets: 190 yuan (Jade Dragon Snow Mountain entry fee of 80 yuan, the ancient city maintenance fee of 80 yuan), according to the Naxi Pureland Inn estimates, the overall cost of roughly per person in more than three hundred close to four hundred.
Scenic rank: national AAAAA level scenic spots, provincial nature reserves
Northern hemisphere's southernmost snow mountain. Mountain trend from north to south, north-south 35 kilometers long, east-west 25 kilometers wide, the snowy mountains cover an area of 960 square kilometers, alpine snowy landscape is located at an altitude of 4,000 meters above sea level. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to dangerous, strange, beautiful, show known in the world, majestic, exquisite and beautiful, with the season and the change of cloud and sunshine, sometimes the clouds steam Xiawei, Jade Dragon sometimes hidden; sometimes the blue sky, such as water, the peaks of the crystalline dazzling; sometimes the cloud belt belt belt, the snowy peaks in the clouds bright, clouds under the Gangshan Jade; sometimes the sunshine reflects the snowy peaks such as Phi red veil, delicate and unparalleled.
Jade Dragon landscape Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is Yunnan subtropical extreme high mountain, from the foot of the valley to the peak with a subtropical, temperate to the frigid zone of the complete vertical zone natural landscape. Snow mountain natural tourism resources, landscape can be roughly divided into snow - glacier landscape, alpine meadow landscape, primitive forest landscape, snow mountain water features. The main peak, Fanziphe, with an altitude of 5,596 meters, is the lowest latitude and highest mountain in the northern hemisphere of the world. It is located in the northwest of Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China, and is oriented in a north-south direction, about 13 kilometers wide from east to west and 35 kilometers long from north to south, confronting with the Haba Snow Mountain, with the raging Jinsha River rushing between them. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in the Naxi ethnic group is known as "Bo Shi Oulu", meaning white sand of silver-colored mountain rocks. The entire snow mountain consists of thirteen peaks, arranged vertically from north to south, stretching nearly 50 kilometers, east and west is about 13 kilometers wide. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is not only majestic, but also beautiful and upright, exquisite modeling, bright as crystal jade, brilliant as thirteen swords, in the blue sky screen, like a silver jade dragon in the eternal dance, so the name of the Jade Dragon Mountain. And because of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain's lithology is mainly limestone and basalt, black and white, so it is also known as "black and white snow mountain".
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is the Naxi and Lijiang nationalities in the mind of a sacred mountain, the Naxi people's protection of the god "three" is the embodiment of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Lijiang still held once a year a grand "three festival". Tang dynasty, the south of the state of iso mou search era, the south of the state of iso mou search seal mountain worship, has been awarded the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain for the north of the mountain, so far baisa village north of the north of the mountain temple still exists, is still the courtyard deep, Buddha face bright. Worship pilgrims in the way. In the early years of the Yuan dynasty, the Yuan Shizu Kublai Lie to Lijiang, had sealed the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain for the "Great Sacred Snow Stone North Yue Anbang Jingdi", so far, Baisha Village, North of the North Yue Temple still exists, is still the courtyard deep, Buddha face glow. Worship pilgrims are endless on the way. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain by virtue of its fascinating landscape, mysterious legends and so far no one has conquered the virgin peak and fascinating.
In 1988, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain was approved by the State Council to be included in the list of the second batch of national scenic spots under the name of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Scenic Spot in Lijiang, Yunnan, and on May 8, 2007, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Scenic Spot in Lijiang City was formally approved as a national 5A tourist spot by the National Tourism Administration.
The large area of the sea of snow is an excellent natural ski resort. According to the experts to examine the argument that: here is the world's longest ski resort, but also the warmest ski resort. For the convenience of tourists here also built is China's highest altitude tourist passenger ropeway. Through convenient facilities can take you into this magical world. [Editorial] Geological features </B> Yulong Snow Mountain is known for its danger, oddity, beauty and beauty. Its momentum is majestic and its shape is exquisite and beautiful. With the seasonal and climatic changes, sometimes the clouds vaporize, the Jade Dragon sometimes hidden, sometimes the blue sky is cloudless, the peaks of the crystal dazzling. Naxi scholars in the Qing dynasty wood source has been summarized in the image of the Jade Dragon twelve scenes, namely: three spring smoke cage, June cloud belt, dawn before the dawn, all night after the sunset, the five colors of the sun, the moon at night, the green snowy peaks of silver lamps dazzle the flame, Jade Lake reflection, the dragon early in the morning, the golden water Bilu, white springs and jade liquid. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain landscape can be roughly divided into alpine snow landscape, spring pool water landscape, forest landscape, meadow landscape, etc., the main attractions are Jade Pillar Optimization, spruce ping, snow mountain ropeway, black water river, white water river and Baoshan stone city. Summer Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
Environmental climate
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is not only majestic and magnificent, and with the change of the four seasons, the change of cloud and sunshine, show the strange and colorful, and sometimes the clouds wrapped around, the snowy mountains at first hidden at first glance, like a beautiful woman like holding a pipa half cover the face of the Goddess of beauty; and then the top of the mountain cloud seal , seems to be profound and inexplicable; and then up and down are open, the white clouds across the waist of a circumference, and another style; and then the sky is blue, peaks Such as washing, glittering with crystal silver. Even in the middle of the day, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is also endless changes. In the early morning, the village is still sleeping soundly, but the snowy mountains have been early to meet the dawn, the peaks dyed with morning sun, the morning sun reflecting the snowy peaks, the light of the sun and the snow reflect each other; evening, the setting sun, the afterglow of the mountain tops, the snowy mountains like a young girl with a red veil, pavilion; the moon out, the starlight glittering, the moonlight is soft soluble, so that the snowy mountains seem to hide into the white tent, and gradually into the sweet dreamland. When the end of spring and early summer, flowers fighting, Yunnan eight flowers are not available, only azalea has more than 40 kinds of; forests lush: to the pine in terms of the bottom to the top, the distribution of Yunnan Pine, Huashan Pine, spruce, red cedar, fir, etc.; the hometown of the medicinal herbs: there are Cordyceps sinensis, Snow Tea, Snow Lotus, ephedra, three-quartered three, mother-of-pearl, Poria, Mucuna pruriens, and so on.
Tourism Introduction Yulong Snow Mountain is known for its danger, beauty and wonder, within which there are mainly spruce pings, white water river, Ganhaizi, ice tower forest and other attractions, is a collection of sightseeing, mountaineering, adventure, scientific research, vacation, excursions as one of the multi-functional tourist resorts.
Gan Haizi: Gan Haizi is an open meadow on the east side of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Gan Haizi is about 4 kilometers long and 1.5 kilometers wide, with an elevation of about 2,900 meters above sea level, coming to the Gan Haizi gives a person a kind of feeling of openness and emptiness, in front of the eastern slope of the towering Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, there is such a large meadow, which provides visitors with a good site for viewing the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and looking at the horizontal Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the Fanzipi steep, etc. Here, you can see the peaks of Mt. The peaks of the mountains are all in sight. From the dry sea meadow to 4500 meters of snow line, you can see a variety of flowers, plants and trees, orchids, wild peony, snowdrops, a variety of species; tall trees are Yunnan pine, cedar, fir, chestnut, hemp chestnut and so on. Dry sea meadow is a natural pasture, every spring flowers, grass sprouting, live in the dry sea near the mountain streams of Tibet, Yi, Naxi herdsmen are to bring felt tents, riding a high horse, driving yaks, sheep, cattle, to the meadow grazing.
White Water River: Between Dry Hai Zi and Spruce Ping, there is a deep valley with forests and clear streams, and this clear spring-fed river at the bottom of the valley is called White Water River. Because the riverbed, terrace are composed of white marble, carbonite fragments, a grayish-white; clear springs from the stone flow through, is also white, due to the color of the name "White Water River". White Water River water from four or five kilometers high in the glacier snow melt water, fresh and cold, from no pollution, is a natural chilled drinks.
Spruce Ping: also known as the "love of death", 3240 meters above sea level, is the Naxi people in the heart of the holy land. Legend has it that from here it leads to the "Jade Dragon Third Kingdom". According to the Dongba scripture records, "Jade Dragon third country" in the "endless wear silk, eat endless fresh fruits and treasures, drink endless wine and sweet milk, with endless sands and silver dough, red tiger as a ride, silver-horned deer to plowing, wide-eared fox as a hound, flower-tailed brocade chickens to the dawn! ". Ride on the mountaineering cable car built in Baishuihe Resort, it only takes ten minutes to send you to the upper station of the cable car, and then along the wooden boardwalk supplemented by the forest, or ride on the Lijiang pony rented out by the local Yi girls, you can arrive at the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain's yet another great place - Yuncunping. Spruce ping is a piece of forest grassland in the east of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, about 0.5 square kilometers, about 3000 meters above sea level. Snowy mountain like jade screen, towering into the clouds; spruce ping surrounded by such as Dai City, lush and green. In the dense forest around the spruce ping, trees in the sky, dead branches hanging upside down, branches on the tree mustache, forests everywhere horizontal presented by the rotting wood, withered leaves, full of moss, as if a thousand years no one has come to disturb, just like a natural paradise. Legend has it that if young men and women are martyred at the spruce ping at the foot of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, their souls will enter the third kingdom of the Jade Dragon and be blessed with eternal happiness.
Ice Tower Forest: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is distributed in Eurasia from the equator nearest to the modern oceanic temperature glaciers and the sea of snow, glacier type complete, the development of 19 modern glaciers, a total area of 11.61 square kilometers, of which "white water one" modern glaciers is the most touring conditions of the glacier.
"White water one" modern glaciers up to 2.7 kilometers long, is located in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the main peak of the fan steep right below. Looking from the foot of the mountain, like a waterfall hanging in the sky, shocking. Ice tongue part of the ice tower forest, like a knife and halberd piercing the dome of the sky, in the sunlight, not white but green, green snow ten thousand Ren, as if a huge piece of emerald jasper set in the jagged rocks in the jagged between the scene that is the late Mr. Li Lin Chan, vice president of the former Taiwan National Palace Museum pen "green snow peaks". Close to the glacier, only to hear the "clattering" sound of running water, that is the glacier melted after the formation of the glacier. The fan steep ahead of the loud noise, that is the avalanche when the sound, like in the "rolling snow cow". Over the past ten million years, the fan steep consistently and continuously for the glacier to replenish the new snow. The unpredictable snow mountain, from time to time the sky snowflakes, it is difficult to walk; from time to time the wind and clouds, it is a little cold; from time to time the light of the world, as if it were a world away, can not help but feel a lot of emotion.
Tourist attractions
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Grand Ropeway
Grand Ropeway is the fan steep scenic spot, is the main peak of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. The scenery here is dominated by glaciers. The starting point of the ropeway is at an altitude of 3,356 meters, and the end point is at an altitude of 4,506 meters, with the focus on the highest altitude ski resort in the country (Four Seasons Ski Resort). There are also trestles at the top of the ropeway, and if you're in good shape, you can go further up until the highest point you can reach, at 4,680 meters above sea level.
Yunsugping Small Ropeway
Yunsugping, also known as "the place of love and death", is said to be the place where the first pair of Naxi lovers were martyred. At an altitude of 3,240 meters, it is a huge lawn hidden in the primitive spruce forest.
Yak-Ping Cableway
There are spacious open alpine meadows and the location is on the northeast side of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, which is a natural winter ski resort. There are many attractions in Yakping, and each season presents a different landscape. [edit]Travel Guide Attractions Tickets
Package: Big Jade Dragon pass: 190 yuan (including entry fee, Dongba Valley, Jade Pillar Prime, Dongba Wan Shen round, Yushui Village, Yufeng Temple, Dongba Kingdom **** 6 points, only recommended Dongba Valley and Yushui Village) (does not include the ancient city maintenance fee 80)
Scattered guests: the entry fee: 80 yuan (the big Jade Dragon 6 attractions can be purchased as a single-point ticket) . Ancient city maintenance fee: 80 yuan. Holding a student card (ropeway is invalid), officer's license (ropeway is also valid) half price. The rest of the documents are invalid. Glacier Park ropeway: 162 yuan. Yusuping small ropeway: 57 RMB. Yakping middle ropeway: 82 yuan.
Best time to visit
February - June every year. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the average annual temperature is 11.3 ℃, the average temperature of the coldest month 3.0 ℃, the average temperature of the hottest month 17 ℃. The annual rainfall of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Lijiang is about 1,000-1,200 millimeters, and the rainfall is mainly concentrated in June-October, with June-October accounting for 80% of the total rainfall; very little rainfall occurs in November-April of the following year.
Transportation
Chartered buses go to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain for 60-100 yuan/day; you can also take bus No. 7 to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain from Red Sun Plaza near Dashuicha for 15 yuan/person. Of course, tourists can also take the buses of the ropeway company to the mountain, which departs from Guluwan Guesthouse every morning.
Snow Mountain Ropeway
There are three ropeways on Snow Mountain, the Big Ropeway, the Spruce Peak Ropeway (Small Ropeway), and the Yak Peak Ropeway, and they all have different sceneries. In general, taking the big ropeway allows you to touch the snow, while the small ropeway (spruce ping) is in the halfway position of the snowy mountains, allowing you to take a panoramic view of the snowy mountains. Yak Ping is also located in the same half-mountain position as Spruce Ping, which is more open and has more foreign tourists. The most crowded ropeways are the spruce ping and the big ropeway.
In order to prevent the ropeway from being crowded, you can buy the ropeway tickets for the 2nd day in advance when you are touring the old town (usually there are no tickets for the same day, and the tickets for the 2nd day start to be sold after 12 o'clock every day, so it's better to go to buy them at 12 o'clock. It's best to buy them at 12 o'clock. There's no need to wait in line at that time. There are three ropeway ticket offices on the street in Xinjie to Sifangjie in the Old Town. But note that the big and small ropeways and the yak ping ropeway belong to different companies, so the ticket offices are different.
Yunchengping: you can go to Yunchengping from the ancient city, take the 7 road bus directly to the cable car for the 8-person seat all sealed type, arrive at the upper station can take the electric car tour (20 yuan)
Operating hours: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain tourist ropeway operating hours of 7:30 ~ 16:00.
The mountain can be rented down jackets, but also to rent the oxygen, 30 yuan, you have to pay a 100 yuan deposit (but in fact, most of them), and the mountain can also rent the oxygen. Yuan deposit (however, in fact, most tourists do not need to receive oxygen, according to their own actual situation, please set the degree). Jade Dragon Snow Mountain top of the infirmary, there is a kind of medicine called "rhodiola", specializing in the treatment of plateau reaction, 50 yuan a bottle.
Tour Route
The typical tour route is from Lijiang - Ganhaizi - Baishui River - Yunchengping. Starting from Baishuihe, you can take the Yuncunping cableway up the mountain, it is not recommended for tourists to ride a horse up the mountain, all the horseback riding up the snowy mountains are 100% traps, and you can't see any attractions at all.
Skiing: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain can ski all year round, take the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain closed cable car straight up to the Four Seasons Ski Resort at an altitude of 4,506 meters (round trip cable car 172 yuan).
Precautions
Snow mountain on the high altitude, such as the case of windy times must rent down. Do not use the season of the snowy mountains have different scenery, but do not go in October or so, because the snowy mountains are often blocked by the fog, a joke is to spend 500 dollars can only see 50 dollars of snow, the winter of the snowy mountains is the most spectacular, because of the cold air is blocked by the snowy mountains rows into the large-scale snow, but also because of this, Lijiang Old Town was able to be winter is also very warm. Summer from July to start the big cableway basically no snow, be careful.
Suggested itinerary
Gan Haizi, yak ping, horseback riding on the yak ping, view the full picture of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and then go to Baishui River, take the big ropeway on the main peak of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Fanzipi Steep, from the mountain down you can go to the East Ba Shen Garden to visit, but also to go to the Jade Peak Temple, Baishazhong Village, Baishazhong mural, and then return to the ancient city of Lijiang, Baidu search for Lijiang hotels. \
Lijiang Ancient City
Yulong Snow Mountain Travel Tips[2]
Best time to visit: winter, other seasons can also go, but need to go when the weather is clear.
Tour route: the typical tour route is from Lijiang county town - Ganhaizi - Baishui River - Yuncunping. Starting from Baishui River, you can take the Yuncunping cableway up the mountain. Naxi Pure Land does not recommend tourists to ride a horse up the mountain, and all the horseback riding up the snowy mountains are 100% traps, and you can't see any attractions at all.
Operating hours: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain tourist cableway operating hours for 9:30 ~ 16:00. recommended seven to eight thirty or so to go easy to queue.
Precautions: snow mountain on the high altitude, in case of windy times must rent down jacket, it is recommended not to rent in the environmental protection vehicle place, more expensive than the mountain, to 30 / piece / rent + 300 deposit, such as sitting on the environmental protection vehicle to the 3356M cable car station or 4506M cable car station and then rent, Naxi Pureland Inn free rent down jacket. Naxi Pure Land can book the snow mountain ropeway tickets, so as to avoid the queue when buying tickets on the mountain, but the big ropeway still need to queue. Do not use the season of the snow mountain has a different scenery, but also need to weather clear less clouds to go, because the snow mountain is often blocked by the fog, then go to joke is to spend 500 dollars can only see 50 dollars of snow, winter snow mountain most spectacular, because the cold air are blocked by the snow mountain line into a large scale of snow, but also because of this, Lijiang ancient city to be able to winter is also very warm and sunny. [Edit] glacier remains Yulong Snow Mountain is located 15 kilometers north of Lijiang Old Town, latitude 27 degrees 03'20" -27 degrees 40', longitude 100 degrees 04'10" -100 degrees 16'30" between. Its north-south length of about 35 kilometers, east-west width of about 25 kilometers, scenic area of 26,000 hectares. The main peak fan steep altitude 5596 meters, in Lijiang dam flat, straight into the sky, is the first peak of the south bank of the Yangtze River, but also the northern hemisphere from the equator closest to the modern oceanic glaciers, now still distributed modern glaciers, glacier type for the cliff glacier and ice bucket glacier development. The main peak fan steep development of cliff glaciers, ice bucket glaciers are mainly distributed in the altitude of about 4500 ~ 5000 meters above sea level. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in the history of the earth by the Lijiang Ice Age and the Dali Ice Age influence, ancient glacier remains a lot. Ancient glacial trough remains to the east slope of the dry river dam, locust dam of the U valley is the most typical, in the study of glaciology has a special significance.
The legend of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
Beautiful Naxi woman Kai Mei long life gold and Zhu fill feather Le Pan y in love, but by the male parent's strong opposition, sadness and despair of the Kai Mei long life gold martyrdom and death, Zhu fill feather Le Pan broke through the obstacles to rush to, has been separated from the yin and yang. In grief, he lit a blazing fire, holding his lover's body into the fire, both turned into ashes ......
Kai Mei Jiu life after the death of gold into the "wind" God, she created a lover's paradise on the top of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain: there is no suffering, there is no old age, The incomparable beauty of the third country of the Jade Dragon, specializing in seducing disillusioned lovers to follow in her footsteps. Kai Mei Jiu life gold and Zhu Tonic Yu Le Pan is the Naxi legend of the earliest martyrdom of a pair of lovers ......
Afterwards, the folk gradually rumor, in Lijiang Jade Dragon Snow Mountain top,
Every time to the Autumn Equinox, the heavens will be scattered 10,000 feet of sunshine,
On this day, all the sunshine of the sunshine over the people will be get beautiful love and a fulfilling life!
But this attracted the envy of the jealous god "Wind", so the sky was always covered with dark clouds on this day.
All the dreams of the people were covered by the thick clouds.
The kind daughter of the wind god, because of sympathy for the people who longed for a better life, on that day,
sneakly cut off a meter of the sunlight that brought hope and happiness to the people covered in the clouds,
and spread it in a cave on the steep cliff face, so that those who were courageous in love,
those who were obsessed with love but at the same time did not fear difficulties and dangers,
were able to make their dreams come true,
and the people who had a strong love for love and at the same time did not fear difficulties and danger.
Can get that one meter of sunlight to shine on that day, and live a happy and fulfilling life as a result!
This is the beautiful legend of one meter of sunshine!