To my shame, this trip to Dali, Lijiang was my first trip to Yunnan. With a yearning for natural landscapes such as snow-capped mountains and lakes, I avoided ancient cities and other cultural landscapes during this trip, drove between mountains and seas, found several places to escape the world, and secluded myself in nature.

"Lijiang"

Come straight to the point and cultivate in Youjinmao Puxiu Hotel

From the dawn light to the bright stars

Surrounded by the snowy mountains, watching the sun rise and the moon set

Like a waterfall of stars, countless meteors

Singing with the snowy mountains and dancing with the white clouds

Jinmao Puxiu is the only hotel in the Yulong Snow Mountain Scenic Area. It is located in the Ganhaizi Meadow Area at an altitude of 3100 meters at the eastern foot of the Snow Mountain. When you wake up in the morning, you will be greeted by the magnificent Rizhao Jinshan landscape. When you look up at night, you will see the stars in the sky. From the dawn light to the bright stars, you can see it thoroughly while lying in bed.

The hotel has a total of 89 rooms, decorated in Tibetan and Naxi styles. Each room has an oversized terrace facing the snowy mountains. All rooms have an unobstructed private terrace. The location and angle are unique, allowing you to enjoy the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in front of you 180 degrees.

Winter is a good season to see the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. You can see the Rizhao Jinshan almost every morning. If you are lucky, you will be in a fairyland when you encounter snow. Looking at the Rizhao Jinshan in the sky in the early morning, this is the best position to shoot the reflection of the snowy mountains. If you encounter windless weather, the pool next to the yoga studio will also form a calm reflection.

The public areas of the hotel have very good views and views, including yoga rooms, sky landscapes, landscape corridors, amphitheater, and snowy mountains everywhere.

Doing yoga in the most beautiful yoga studio at the foot of the snowy mountain is a fairy experience.

The landscape corridor leading to Skyland, yoga studio, and amphitheater has beautiful scenery.

Most of the guests are concentrated near Skyland and yoga studio. In fact, the snowy mountain landscape at the Amphitheater is more open.

In addition to the invincible scenery of the snowy mountains, the hotel's various experience activities far exceed expectations. Tea culture experience, Dongba papermaking skills experience, ethnic minority tie-dyeing experience, coffee roasting experience, and stargazing experience on a starry night are all definitely worth it.

In fact, you don't have to climb mountains to see the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Hidden in the luxurious scenery at the foot of the snow mountain, you can enjoy the exclusive view of the snow mountain in your simple room.

If you stay at the hotel, you will provide a pass for the Yulong Snow Mountain Scenic Area, which will exempt you from the 100 yuan ticket fee per person entering the scenic area. Eating yak meat hot pot at Xuejingge Restaurant facing the Yulong Snow Mountain, the yak meat stewed in copper pot is soft and delicious, and the taste and scenery are top-notch. It also includes a generous breakfast and free afternoon tea. I just want to visit the hotel here and no longer have the heart to visit the scenic spots.

Puxiu is a world-class astronomy themed hotel and the only hotel with a private observatory. This is one of the best astronomical observation sites in the world. The professional observatory that cooperates with NASA has 26 professional-level astronomical telescopes and even has the ability to discover asteroids, including the largest astronomical telescope in China's scenic spots. In the evening, check out the hotel's starry sky night event, watch the stars at the Observatory, and listen to professional staff explain popular astronomy knowledge.

At night on the terrace of our room, we also encountered a meteor. For starry sky lovers, living in Puxiu makes it easy and comfortable to watch and shoot stars. With a tripod on the terrace, you can rest in the room while taking pictures for extended periods of time ~

After three days and two nights of seclusion in Puxiu, we drove away from the hotel and stopped in the parking lot at the entrance to enjoy the panoramic view of the Yulong Snow Mountain.

Wawu Qunbi Yulong Jie Luofu Hotel

Colorful clouds are fluttering, and rows of tiled houses are lined up. The ink pool reflects the moon, and the jade dragon shines.

Visiting the ancient city, looking at the snowy mountains, and basking in the sun may be the way for every friend to check in to Lijiang. In fact, as long as you choose the right hotel, you will find that the hotel itself is the best destination.

GF Gerlov Shanye Hotel is such a place. It contracts the entire snowy mountain and a Chinese courtyard with a roof, away from the hustle and commercialization of the ancient city, and is in a paradise in the valley.

This hotel is a cross-border hotel built by the famous French skincare brand Gélève. It focuses on aroma healing and health care. Drinking afternoon tea to feel the breeze in the canyon and having a good sleep in the aroma is definitely a healing journey.

The hotel combines Chinese style elements and Naxi characteristics, and has a carefully designed Chinese garden landscape, flowing water in the courtyard, and blue tiles in the wooden house, like a picture scroll.

The best thing to take is that the area is the roof, arch bridge, and platform of the hotel. The drone can take photos with excellent viewing angles.

Lotus leaves float on the water, maple leaves dot flower nurseries, pavilions and pavilions, with unique ancient charm.

You can ask the front desk for tables, chairs and tea sets to enjoy afternoon tea on the outdoor terrace.

The hotel is located in the Dongba Valley Scenic Area of the Mysterious Canyon at the foot of the Yulong Snow Mountain. It is built according to the mountain conditions and is known as the most beautiful Snow Mountain Canyon hotel.

We also met the most beautiful colorful auspicious clouds here, and the south of the colorful clouds deserves its name.

Address: In the Dongba Valley Scenic Area of Yulong Naxi Autonomous County, half an hour's drive from Shuhe Ancient Town.

The fairy tale world at the foot of the snowy mountains, listening to the flower valley

There is such a fairy tale world hidden under the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Scenes that were once only seen in movies appear in front of us like this. Snow mountains, meadows, forests, lakes, and flowers of flowers appear in front of us like this.

The Hobbit hut hidden under the hill has three alpaca babies that can be framed together. The snowy mountains in the distance serve as the background. There are also various sea of flowers around it in different seasons, which feels like new Zealand.

There are three Hobbit huts in total. The scenery is very careful and each one is easy to shoot. You can take photos of the snowy mountains in the background on the slope of the left and the roof of the upper room. There are also many props near the huts that you can use to take photos.

The water in front of the Hobbit's hut is very suitable for taking panoramic reflections. The camera is on the opposite bank and the characters can just walk along the water's edge.

If you want to take an empty mirror, it's best to open the door early in the morning. The light is best around dusk in the afternoon, but there are always people who come to take wedding photos, and you need to wait for the plane to take them well.

In addition to the Hobbit Lodge, there are actually many easy scenes in Tinghuawan, such as the Eye of the Snow Mountain, the Garden Restaurant, the Bird's Nest and Tree House, the White Church, the Four Seasons Flower Sea, the wooden bridge by the lake, the bus, etc.

There is also a garden restaurant overlooking the snowy mountains and sea of flowers in the scenic area where you can enjoy lunch and afternoon tea. In addition to dining and travel photos, weddings can also be held here ~

There are no flowers that are bald in winter, so it is more suitable to take pictures when there are flowers in summer ~

Tickets: 120 yuan per person.

Opening hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Address: No. 100 Guluo Village, Baisha Town, Lijiang City, more than ten minutes 'drive from Shuhe Ancient Town, and you can navigate to Tinghua Valley.

Dali

Erhai Lake is not the most beautiful ecological corridor in the sea

"Xiaguan wind, Shangguan flowers, Cangshan snow, Erhai moon."

At sunrise and sunset, the clouds roll and relax. Count the seagulls pass by and listen to the murmuring of the old tree.

This is how the days along the Erhai Lake should be spent.

Recently, the new check-in area where a fire broke out along the Erhai Lake in Dali is definitely the Erhai Lake Ecological Corridor near Qianxi Village, commonly known as the S-bend. Many people call it Dali's "Little Kamakura". You can navigate to Dali Erduo Garden Seaview Hotel, where the very obvious white house next to the curve is here. Cars are not allowed to drive into the newly built ecological corridor. You can just drive nearby and find a place to park.

There are many seagulls near Bend S in winter, and many people feed the seagulls here in good weather, so it is almost impossible to take photos of no one. But in fact, there are far more to photographed nearby than the S-bend. The two trees nearby by the water are also very easy to photographed.

The most beautiful seagull season in Erhai Lake is from the beginning of November to the end of March of the following year. Every winter, red-billed seagulls from Siberia fly in droves to Yunnan to spend the entire warm winter, with the Dianchi Lake in Kunming and the Erhai Lake in Dali being the most concentrated. Bring it to the beginning of spring next year, and they will quietly leave again.

In addition to Qianxi Village, Huanhai West Road, suitable locations for taking pictures of seagulls include Xiaguan Xingsheng Bridge and Xiaoputuo on Huanhai East Road (at sunset, the camera faces Haixi. If you are lucky, you can take pictures of the sparkling sea under the vast Cangshan Mountains. The moving seagulls and the burning clouds at sunset), Longniche Wharf, and the dug color seaside.

In fact, there are S-shaped highways everywhere on Huanhai West Road along the Erhai Lake. There is no need to go specifically to check in Qianxi Village. I found this S-bend with better scenery near Shenjiang Village, so everyone can not stick to the online celebrity check-in point.

Colorful boats are scattered at the end of the road, and villages are in the distance, with no tourists at all.

When shooting at the S-bend, you can find nearby high positions, such as standing on steps and other places, so that the road has a more extended feeling.

The most convenient thing about self-driving travel is that you can stop and go and discover new scenery.

In fact, there are scenery everywhere along the Erhai Lake. The seaside trestle below is very quiet and there are few tourists. No matter how you take pictures, it also belongs to the Erhai Lake Ecological Corridor. Navigation to Yueman Xilou Inn, which is located in Chongyi Village, Xiaguan Town.

If it had been earlier, these Metasequoia trees would have been more beautiful with red leaves in December.

The shadows of the trees are mottled in the sun, like oil paintings.

Another trestle not far away is also very beautiful. It is highly recommended to press the road along the Erhai Lake Ecological Corridor and enjoy the slow life in winter.

Pretending to be in a utopian state of Europe

Dali Ideal State is a Santorini hidden in Cangshan and Erhai Lake. It is located in Haidong Town, Dali Prefecture with beautiful mountains and rivers. It faces the ancient city of Dali across the Erhai Sea. The quiet blue Erhai Lake and the undulating Cangshan Mountains are here. Take a panoramic view. It seems to be a castle built against a mountain. It is well-organized and highly layered.

Ideal State is actually a real estate with commercial areas, villas, hotels, shooting bases, etc. Currently, there are four hotels in operation: Songyun, Xianlaidu, Boji and Yanyun.

When you arrive in the ideal state, don't miss taking photos in these places! It's much nicer than the arches that many people check in. The entire area is built against the mountains and can be divided into upper and lower parts by the parking lot. The yellow and white houses above are very distinctive, and walking through them gives you the feeling of being in a European town.

The sunny afternoon is the most suitable place to take photos here. The building presents rich light and shadow effects under the sunshine. The sky and clouds are used as a background to set off the contrast between warm and warm.

The public areas of the entire Ideal State are still relatively large, and it takes about two hours to walk and take photos.

There are various architectural styles here, and it is very exotic to be able to film "Pretend to be in Greece","Pretend to be in Spain" and so on.

Due to its proximity to the airport, this is a no-fly zone for drones.

The area below is mainly contracted by several hotels and shooting bases, but there are also beautiful stairs, walkways, etc. to shoot.

There is a small path down next to the Songyun Cliff Hotel, which is this very "Gaudi" archway. It is easy to take photos towards the sea or towards the hotel.

This is currently the highest priced and most difficult to book Songyun Cliff Hotel in Ideal Bangli. Isn't it quite Santorini? If you want to shoot in the hotel area, you need to book a room or pay a venue fee to shoot in.

Traveling from top to bottom, down to the area closest to Huanhai East Road, the architectural style has changed again. Whether friends who have been to Spain have found a familiar feeling again, it is quite like Gaudi.

Although it is not the season with lush flowers and plants, and some areas of Ideal State are also under construction and maintenance, I personally think that the diverse architectural styles here are still worth checking in ~

Location: Dali Erhai Lake, on Huanhai East Road, near Jinsuo Island. You can navigate the "Ideal State" and reach the parking lot on the uphill. The charge is 10 yuan per hour, with a maximum of 50 yuan. Attractions are free, and photos are taken in public areas!

Overlooking Cangshan Erhai Zhemo Mountain Wind Yard

Dali is more than just Cangshan and Erhai. This time, we drove to the niche tourist attraction, Mo Mountain, which is more amazing than the Erhai side.

Looking down on Dali City surrounded by Cangshan and Erhai Lake from the Windmill Mountain is completely different from the beautiful and snowy Dali in my impression.

It takes about one and a half hours to leave from the ancient city of Dali. The navigation searcher Moshan Fengdian charges a fee of ten yuan for the relevant card before going up the mountain. You need to take mountain roads, and there are very few tourists.

The scenery on the way up the mountain is good enough, but the most beautiful is near the top of the mountain. There is a panoramic view of Cangshan and Erhai Lake, and huge windmills are scattered among the mountains.

It is recommended to arrive at the top of the mountain around 4 p.m.. It is a particularly suitable place for camping and taking photos. It is windy at the top of the mountain, remember to wear more clothes.

This is a forest reserve, so fireworks are strictly prohibited ~

Heading up the mountain road, there are multiple platforms along the way where you can park and enjoy the scenery.

This is very suitable for aerial photography, but pay attention to windmills and wires.

The huge windmill and the Cangshan and Erhai Lake in the distance are full of movie feeling at dusk.

Only by driving on the road can you see such beautiful scenery.

After seeing the sunset by the Erhai Lake, you might as well come to Fengfeng Mountain to enjoy a different dusk.

Through the car window, I saw the most beautiful sunset on this trip.

After watching the sunset at the top of the mountain, we start returning. The mountain road is rugged and it takes about half an hour to drive to the foot of the mountain. Try to go down the mountain before dark and pay attention to safety ~

The car that accompanied us on this trip-Lian| move| Yun's Qoros 5SUV has off-road performance, so walking on such unpaved mountain roads is stress-free and easy.

Pushing the window to see the sea, listening to the flower hall, sea view, garden, beautiful accommodation

Dali, the birthplace of Internet celebrity photos, is difficult to resist photo props such as glass boats and sky. Dali has many fee-paying photo bases, many of which are crowded, and this B & B I stayed in this time can take extremely beautiful photos without going out.

Tinghuatang Seaview Garden Meisu (Dali Erhai Tianjing Store) is located near Chose and Xiaoptuo on the east bank of the Erhai Lake. The location is relatively high. On the other side is Cangshan, and the photo effect is beautiful.

"Eye of Erhai Lake" is the most classic photo spot here, and the light is better when taking photos in the afternoon.

The sky here is backed by Cangshan and Erhai, which is also a must-take!

There are also transparent chairs and other props next to it, which can be used ~

Tinghuatang has always been famous for its beautiful gardens. The terrace on the roof is surrounded by small daisies. Here, you can really feel the warmth of spring facing the sea and blooming flowers.

There is a transparent boat outside the front desk on the second floor, and the best shooting positions are on the balconies of several rooms facing the Erhai Lake.

The big moon on the terrace on the third floor of the hotel is very easy to shoot. It is the best place to shoot at dusk every day. It is easy to encounter sunset. Unfortunately, it was already dark after we checked in, but we could actually change the background later.

The hotel includes almost all the Internet celebrity elements of photo shoots. The public areas are so easy to shoot, and there are blockbusters everywhere.

The hotel also provides photo-taking services and clothing rental services for photographers, so you don't have to complain that the male ticket can't take photos anymore.

The hotel's decoration style is Chinese folk style, the details are in place, the service is also very considerate, and the value for money is extremely high.

The room also has oversized floor-to-ceiling windows. It is so comfortable to take a bath here and watch the Erhai Lake!

Breakfast is also very delicious and rich, starting a full day of sightseeing in Erhai ~

"Conclusion"

On my first trip to Yunnan, I only went to the popular destinations of Lijiang and Dali, but I chose a niche Buddhist travel method. As the first trip in the New Year, I met snowy mountains and lakes, encountered colorful clouds and meteors, which brought hope and good luck to the beginning of 2021 ~