📌 Product Overview
• This private Lijiang day tour is designed for travelers who want to understand Naxi Dongba culture, local heritage, tea culture, and evening market life in one route.
• Visit Lijiang Museum to learn about local history, Naxi culture, and Dongba cultural background.
• Continue to a Dongba cultural experience venue, where you can learn about Dongba belief, pictographic script, paintings, dance traditions, and traditional Naxi living space.
• Try hands-on Dongba script writing with brush and paper, and keep your work as a cultural souvenir.
• Enjoy a local lunch, join a tea ceremony experience, and end the day with local food tastings at Zhongyi Night Market.
• This private tour includes an English-speaking guide, transportation during the tour, entrance fees, cultural activity costs, lunch, tea experience, night market tastings, and hotel pickup and drop-off within Lijiang Old Town area.
✨ Highlights
• Explore Naxi Dongba culture with a private English-speaking guide.
• Visit Lijiang Museum for cultural background before the deeper Dongba experience.
• Learn Dongba script and try brush writing on special Dongba paper.
• Enjoy a tea ceremony experience and local lunch during the day.
• End the tour at Zhongyi Night Market with local food tastings and evening street life.
⏰ Departure Time / Meeting Time
• Duration: around 8–9 hours.
• Available pickup time: between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM.
• Exact pickup time will be confirmed by your guide 1 day before the tour.
• For tours starting at 2:00 PM, the experience may end in the late evening, around 10:00 PM–11:00 PM.
• Pickup is included only within Lijiang Old Town area.
• If your hotel is outside Lijiang Old Town area, please meet your guide at an agreed nearby meeting point.
• Final pickup time and tour details will be sent before departure.
🗓️ Itinerary
• Meet your private English-speaking guide at your hotel within Lijiang Old Town area, or at an agreed nearby meeting point if you stay outside the pickup area.
• Travel by private arranged transport to Lijiang Museum.
• Visit Lijiang Museum and learn about local history, Naxi culture, and Dongba cultural background.
• Enjoy a local lunch. A vegetarian option is available if requested in advance.
• Continue to a Dongba cultural experience venue.
• Visit a traditional Naxi-style living space and learn about local home layout, courtyard culture, clothing, farming tools, and small ritual scenes.
• Learn about Dongba belief, Dongba script, Dongba paintings, and dance traditions from a cultural teacher or professional instructor.
• Practice writing common Dongba pictographs with a brush on special paper.
• Keep your Dongba writing work as a souvenir.
• Transfer to a local teahouse for a tea ceremony experience.
• Visit Zhongyi Night Market and sample local food while experiencing Lijiang’s evening street life.
• Return to your hotel within Lijiang Old Town area or the agreed drop-off point.
• The tour ends after drop-off in Lijiang.
📦 Inclusions & Exclusions
✅ Private English-speaking guide
✅ Hotel pickup and drop-off within Lijiang Old Town area
✅ Transportation during the tour
✅ Lijiang Museum visit
✅ All listed entrance fees and activity costs
✅ Naxi Dongba cultural experience fee
✅ Dongba script writing experience
✅ Tea ceremony experience fee
✅ Local lunch
✅ Vegetarian lunch option if requested in advance
✅ Zhongyi Night Market local food tastings
❌ Pickup and drop-off outside Lijiang Old Town area
❌ Extra purchases at Zhongyi Night Market
❌ Additional food and drinks beyond the listed lunch, tea experience, and night market tastings
❌ Personal expenses
❌ Tips or gratuities
❌ Any service not clearly listed as included
⚠️ Know Before You Go
• This is a private cultural day tour, not a shared group tour.
• Pickup and drop-off are included only within Lijiang Old Town area.
• If your hotel is outside Lijiang Old Town area, please arrange a nearby meeting point with your guide in advance.
• Your guide will contact you 1 day before the tour to confirm pickup time and tour details.
• Available pickup time is between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM.
• For tours starting at 2:00 PM, the experience may end in the late evening, around 10:00 PM–11:00 PM.
• Please wear comfortable shoes, as the tour includes museum visits, cultural venues, old-town areas, and night market walking.
• Please prepare for strong sun and large day-night temperature differences in Lijiang.
• Vegetarian lunch can be arranged if requested in advance.
• The exact order, timing, and route may be adjusted due to traffic, venue operation, teacher availability, weather, crowd levels, or local conditions.
• Extra purchases at the night market are not included.
📍 Pickup / Drop-off Information
• Pickup area: hotels within Lijiang Old Town area.
• Drop-off area: hotels within Lijiang Old Town area.
• If your hotel is outside Lijiang Old Town area, please meet your guide at an agreed nearby meeting point.
• Final pickup time and meeting details will be confirmed 1 day before the tour.
• Please provide your hotel name, address, contact details, and dietary requirements when booking.
