Lijiang Shanshui Tan Homestay

I love this homestay. I have stayed in this place for the third time. It’s a beautiful, well maintained guesthouse with a caring, lovely owner in one of the most pretty, tiny mountain villages that I have seen so far in China. But I need to issue a serious warning about the recent developments on the hiking trails that surround the village. It took the young people who are now massively flocking these trails, less than a year to completely trash the trails with plastic garbage. This is NOT OK. This insensitive behavior is devastating and upsetting. It is unacceptable! The principle that all hikers and trekkers should follow when they enter the mountains is “to leave no traces”. Every plastic bottle, every plastic bag, every plastic food wrap, every oxygen bottle, every plastic rain cape, every aluminum bin, everything, that someone takes into the mountains, he or she has to take out of the mountain and to properly discard in the village’s official garbage bins. The purity and peace of natural places like this is fragile and vulnerable. Don’t take it for granted. Don’t destroy it.

My wife and I (Singaporean couple) stayed on the 9th and 10th December 2023. Overall, great value-for-money. Their service and hospitality left a deep impression. From getting us additional warmers so that we don't sleep cold, buying tickets of tourist attractions at locals' price, providing adaptors for us, arranging transportation, suggesting the fun places to go, and the breakfast - lightly flavored and healthy meal -and the amazing view of the snow mountain at 720am. They even help us to exchange our cash into smaller denomination when we ran into problems paying locals for their tea as they only accept wechat pay and we don't have one set up. You will get the full experience if you can speak mandarin with them. Oh, and the room is big and is very clean. -- 我们是一对从新加坡来的夫妇。这个民宿体验非常有意思。首先，他们的性价比非常高。服务很到位，也很快。沟通起来，感觉很像是他们村里的一份子。是一个很舒服也很亲切的体验。家族生意，什么都亲力亲为。房子是女儿打理的。早餐是妈妈准备的。我们很喜欢他们准备的早餐。简单，清淡，可口，营养丰富。印象最深刻的是他们的人情味。 最重要是，房间大，也很干净。

雪山下的村莊，納西族本地人開的民宿，一進院子就給人感覺特別温馨舒適，老闆一家人都很熱情會跟我們聊攻略和當地習俗，房子是石頭建的，老闆説是以前他們祖輩去河邊背的石頭，房間是木頭的，很有特色，在二樓拐角就能看到雪山，院子裏有兩衹狗狗也是我們喜歡這家民宿的理由之一，真的太可愛了很温順的兩衹大狗。 這裏離東巴谷也挺近大概十幾分鍾路程，我們早上提前約好車還看到了日照金山！ 晚上村莊就比較靜謐，可以看到滿天星辰也很美！ 老闆也給我們推薦了當地人開的餐廳，兩家我都去吃了都很棒，雪山魚和臘排骨紅豆餅烤牛肉串，我們還體驗了騎馬，很棒的一次體驗，下次來的話一定還要再住這裏！！