1-Day Lijiang Bike Tour

- Lijiang Cycling Trip

Trip Highlights - Attractions involved: Lijiang Ancient City, Shuhe Ancient Village and Baisha Ancient Frescos are the three places represent the traditional culture of Lijiang. Listed as a UNESCO Heritage Site, Lijiang is a so enchanting tour destination due to its sound preservation of a delightful maze of cobbel-stone streets, wooden buildings, busy market life as well as distinctive Naxi ethnic group culture. Nowadays, Lijiang is always full of tours but also a paradise for backpackers, hikers and photographers. We kindly offer a One Day Lijiang Bike Tour with excellent service and competitive rates to you.
Availability: Daily.      Pick-up Point & Time: Your hotel, 8:30am.      Finishing Point & Time: Your hotel, 5:00pm.      Duration: 8 hours.

Tour Itinerary:(Lunch)
About 2 hours riding from Lijiang Ancient City, you will arrive at the plateau meadow. There, you can view the Yushui Stockaded Village where you can taste the Naxi culture and history, enjoy Dongba traditional dances and Naxi ancient music.The Baisha Frescoes are 40 mins cycling from Yushui Stockaded Village, which is famous for the ancient frescoes from Ming Dynasty. Then you'll continue another half an hour biking to the Longquan Temple where you can get to know the Naxi people's faith. After a short visit there, you'll go on to the well preserved Shuhe Ancient Village where the local Naxi people live a peaceful life.
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Attraction Description
Baisha Ancient Frescos
Baisha Mural can be found near Baisha Village on a plain just north of Lijiang. It is an interesting travel site for visitors. The mural was mostly created from 1385 to 1619 and depicts religious stories of Taoism, Tibetan, Naxi Buddhism and local Dongba shamans. And one of characteristics is to combine several legends into one picture. The murals use various colors, especially black, silver, dark green...
Lijiang Ancient City
The ancient city of Lijiang is also known as Dayan Town in Lijiangba. It is an intact ancient city inhabited mostly by Naxi ethnic people and covers an area of 1.5 square kilometers. At its center there is a square. It was first built in 1126 in the late Song Dynasty, and in 1253 Kublai (the first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty) was stationed here on his march into the south. Lijiang is world renowned as an ancient city built in a simple and artistic style and scientifically laid out. It was listed as a national historical and cultural city in 1986.
Shuhe Ancient Village
Shuhe, or 'Shaowu' in Naxi language, means the village at the foot of the high mountain. In the past, behind the village there was a high moutain named Jubao, so people named the village. Shuhe Ancient Town is located 4km to the northwest of the Lijiang Ancient Town. Its central part covers an area of about 5 square kilometers with a population around 3,000. In 1997, Shuhe was ranked as an important part of Lijiang Ancient Town which was already the World Cultural Heritage named by UNESCO.