แชงกรีล่า - ย่าติง Finding The Lost Horizon
TRIP Shangri-La - Yading Finding The Lost Horizon
Route: Bangkok Kunming Lijiang Shangri-La Daocheng Shangri-La Kunming Bangkok
Period: 30 Mar - 8 Apr 2019
Plan
D1: Bangkok - Kunming - Lijiang
D2: Lijiang 1 day trip Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
D3: Lijiang Lijiang Old Town & Dragon Black Pool
D4: Lijiang - Shangri-La Dafo Temple
D5: Shangri-La - Daocheng
D6: Daocheng Yading Nature Reserve; Milk Lake & Five-Color Lake
D7: Daocheng, Chonggu Temple & Frog Lake - Shangri-La
D8: Shangri-La, Songzanlin Temple & Shangri-La Old Town
D9: Shangri-La - Kunming
D10: Kunming - Bangkok
*Essential items for climbing high places: Oxygen cans, candies, sweets, chocolates, jelly, sweets with sugar, smelling salts, hot water bottles to sip to keep warm
Prepare all winter gear, especially umbrellas or raincoats because rain and snow can come at any second. Shoes should be non-slip, waterproof, and snow-proof. We saw many people going down to the ground to measure their feet
Various medicines, e.g. anti-allergy, pain reliever, fever reducer, stomachache and diarrhea, mineral salts, personal medicine if you have a chronic disease*
Train tickets can be booked in advance online or bought at the station
You can look for tour tickets or day trips there. The hotel staff can help you with everything.
For chartering a car to move between cities, we asked the hotel owner there to help us find a price that we could afford.
Accommodation can be booked in advance or found by yourself, which is not difficult.
The entire trip, including tickets and visas, was roughly 23,000 baht per person, including food and accommodation. We split everything by 4.
AIS's Sim2fly has a signal everywhere, no matter how high or how high, except when traveling between mountains, there is no signal.
Download the Google Translate and WeChat apps to talk to people there.
When we went, we exchanged cash. We haven't used cashless payment yet (2019).
Note: The people there are friendly and kind. They are not fierce at all. And we didn't encounter any scary bathrooms (our luck was good. We only used bathrooms in shopping malls and hotels. We managed our drinking water well. All of our male friends encountered horrifying bathrooms).
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