2-Day Shaxi and Shibaoshan Sightseeing Tour from Lijiang

• Meet your Chinese tour guide and get picked up from your hotel to head to the historic market in Shaxi.

• Visit the Tibetan Zhiyun monastery, built during the reign of the Qing dynasty, where rare and precious medicinal plants can be found.

• Drive to the highway town of Jianchaun to enjoy delicious local food.

• Return to Shaxi in the afternoon and visit the Bai people to get a glimpse of their culture and lifestyle.

Spend the rest of your day at leisure.

• Check out from the hotel and drive to Shibaoshan mountain, filled with dense forests, rock landscapes, and Buddhist temples famous for their grottoes and cliff statues carved during the Tang dynasty.

• Take a shuttle bus from the entrance to explore the Buddhist temple and ancient Buddhist statues.

• Hike through the pine forest to see the natural landscape of the Turtle-Back rock formation, created by centuries of rainwater.

• Return to Lijiang in the late afternoon.