The place closest to heaven—Shangri-La
Shangri-La, the place closest to heaven, boasts beautiful scenery at an altitude of 3600-4200 meters. "Shangri-La" means "the sun and moon in one's heart" in Tibetan.
🔥 Transportation Guide🚙
✈️Plane: Direct flights to Diqing Shangri-La Airport, then transfer to a bus/public transport; or transfer via Kunming/Lijiang to reach by high-speed train/bus.
🚄High-speed train: Shangri-La station, then transfer to public transport/taxi to hotels and attractions (Kunming→Shangri-La, 4.5h).
🚘Self-driving (chartered car): Take the expressway, National Highway 214, or the Eastern Ring Road, with the Eastern Ring Road being the most scenic.
🔥 Attraction Recommendations
📍Potatso National Park
China's first national park, the place of Serteng revival, "Potatso" in Tibetan means to ferry all living beings to the other shore of suffering.
📍Baishuitai
China's version of "Cotton Castle," where the azure spring water💧 flows over naturally formed limestone terraces, Baishuitai is a natural wonder formed by the dissolution of calcium carbonate in the spring water. The spring water, containing calcium bicarbonate, flows slowly, and carbonates gradually precipitate, forming terraces over the years, resembling layered terraces.
📍Songzanlin Monastery
The largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the world, known as the "Little Potala Palace." It houses a large number of Buddhist relics and classic architecture.
📍Tiger Leaping Gorge
One of China's deepest gorges, hidden at the junction of Shangri-La and Lijiang, with Jade Dragon Snow Mountain on one side and Haba Snow Mountain on the other. During the rainy season from May to September, the river water rises rapidly, which is quite spectacular.
📍Dukezong Ancient Town
Known as the "Moonlight City Castle built on stone," it still retains the world's largest and highest prayer wheel, where you can walk clockwise around the prayer wheel three times.
📍Napa Lake
Napa Lake is not a sea but a seasonal highland lake, with Shangri-La's largest grassland, tranquil lakes, and majestic mountains, horses and lambs, and Tibetan dress photography is very photogenic📸.
📍Meili Snow Mountain Gang
Meili Snow Mountain is very close to Shangri-La, with the 'golden pagoda'-shaped main peak of Meili - Kawagebo Peak, the thirteen peaks of Meili, located at the confluence of the Jinsha River, Lancang River, and Nu River. It is said that those who see the sun shining on the golden mountain at Meili Snow Mountain will be lucky for the whole year, and the best season is autumn and winter. The Wunongding viewing platform is the best position to capture the panoramic view of Meili Snow Mountain.
📍Liangbeng
A place yearned for by many hiking enthusiasts, known as "hiking paradise." The last village in China to be electrified, Liangbeng is located at the foot of Meili Snow Mountain, and the sun shining on the golden mountain seen from Liangbeng village has a unique angle.
⚠️When entering Songzanlin Monastery, a Buddhist holy site, be sure to pay attention to your attire when visiting inside; do not wear short skirts, shorts, or sleeveless backless clothes. Photography is not allowed inside the hall, and remember to take off hats and sunglasses to respect local customs and culture.
🔥 Shangri-La Specialty Cuisine
🌟 Zongka Tibetan Meal
The yak meat hot pot ingredients are really good and delicious, very tender! The yak pizza amazed me, with a crispy crust and a very fragrant filling.
🌟 Mariga Tibetan Meal
It's like Tibetan dumplings filled with yak meat, really delicious when dipped in sauce.
🌟 Old Boy Barbecue
🍢 Their barbecue is quite flavorful, with delicious grilled meat skewers and grilled garlic.
🌟 Ama's Butter Tea
🧀 Butter milk cheese: With barley grains and cheese chunks on top, and yogurt below, stir it up, and the barley with yogurt is very fragrant.
🍮 Barley milk tea: With barley on top of the milk tea, the milk tea is not sweet, and it's very warming in the cold weather there.
🌟 Shunshun Snacks
🍜 Yak meat rice noodles: The beef is very fragrant, and the soup base is rich, not the clear soup type, with the addition of pickled cabbage and chili, you can't stop eating.
🍚 Yak meat fried rice: The fried rice is distinct, and when you take a big bite, it's super fragrant, and there's a lot of yak meat.
🥩 Yak meat buns: Their buns are super delicious!!! With large chunks of yak meat paired with green pepper filling, the presence of green pepper perfectly cuts through the richness, making it easy and burden-free to eat, really super fragrant.
Buy tickets for Songzanlin Temple on Ctrip.com, including tickets, round-trip transportation, explanation, 90 yuan/person. The parking lot at the entrance of the scenic spot is relatively large, parking is convenient, the temple is built on the mountain, and the momentum is like a rainbow. When I went there, the lake under the mountain was surrounded by fences. It should be repaired.
The largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yunnan Province, the Sudan Songzanlin Temple is known as the "Little Potala Palace". The temple is built on the hill and looks like an ancient castle. The temple is also known as the Naturalization Temple. It was built by the fifth Dalai Lama in 1679. The two residence halls of Songzanlin Temple, Zhacang and Jikang, stand in the center, consisting of eight Kangcan and more than 300 monk houses. The upper floor of the main hall is gilded copper tiles, and the temple horn beast kisses moths. The monk houses are covered with house panels or flat roofs. The architectural style is mostly iron-wood Tibetan-style temples. In short, the Tibetan temple is very powerful.
One word describes your beauty, spectacular, or spectacular, the attractions are very good, the transportation is convenient, the parking is convenient, there are not too many people, the photos are also good-looking, stop and go, can play for a day, play slowly, will come again
五分主要给到寺本身,实在没必要圈这么大个地来进行大巴收费,我想可能是在寺门口收费不好意思吧,,90块,,比起布达拉宫是便宜的,,两者还是不太有可比性,,我个人觉得哈,佛渡众生吧(不收钱会更好点,)
普达措森林公园应该算是香格里拉附近最大的景区了吧,因为要赶火车,我们只在里面待了两个多小时 游玩了属都湖就没有再去碧塔海。进入景区先乘观光大巴,大巴要盘山蛮长时间才能到第一站属都湖,然后进入3.3公里的徒步,不过基本都是木质栈道,所以走起来比较方便。四月底的香格里拉温度还是比较低,由于阴天没有太阳,前一晚还下过雨导致景区风也很大,草甸还处于微微有点绿的状态,不过里面马牛都是自由吃草的状态。属都湖以及原始森林还是很美,远处能看到一部分雪山🏔️。原始森林里有不少小松鼠🐿️,不怕人,会讨食吃,很可爱。这里海拔有四千多米,如果高反严重还是准备氧气罐吸一吸。属都湖结束乘大巴是先返回景区大门口,如果要去碧塔海再乘大巴过去。如果夏天来普达措应该会更美!