Lijiang - Kunming

In the morning you take the flight back to Kunming, meet your local guide, transfer to the hotel and visit the Western Hills and Bamboo Temple in the afternoon. Located approximately 15km from Kunming, the Western Hills spread out across a long wedge of parkland on the western side of Lake Dianchi. Dragon Gate, a network of narrow corridors, shrines and grottoes dug out of the hillside by Taoist monks between 1781- 1835, tremendous views open out across the lake from up here. Bamboo Temple dates back to the Tang Dynasty, burned down and rebuilt in the 15th century, these life-size clay figures are stunning, either very realistic and surrealistic, a sculptural tour de force.