A place I will definitely visit again is Xishuangbanna
Travel tips:
🧡Xishuangbanna Transportation
🔸How to get there: If direct flights to Banna are expensive, consider transferring in Kunming
🔸Local transportation: Rent a car or drive yourself, the usual price for a chartered car is about 400 per day
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🧡Best Time to Visit
Banna is not big, 3-5 days is enough.
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🧡Xishuangbanna Attractions
🔹In the city: Manting Park + Zongfo Temple, Big Buddha Temple, Primitive Forest Park, Prajna Temple, Starlight Night Market
🔹Surrounding areas: Chinese Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden, Wangtianshu, Wild Elephant Valley, Jinuo Mountain Village, etc.
🔹Manting Park, rainforest trekking, and Starlight Night Market are must-visit attractions, small but characteristic.
🔹For less crowded places, Wangtianshu is also a good choice, other attractions depend on your own schedule
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1⃣ Manting Park
A taxi from Gaozhuang costs about 10-15 yuan, or you can ride a scooter for 20 minutes, the ticket is 40 yuan per person, and Dai costumes here are very suitable for taking photos.
✅Recommended route: Main entrance—Dai Palace—Parrot Paradise—Royal Elephant Garden——Octagonal Pavilion Bridge—White Pagoda (🚌)—Zongfo Temple—White Pagoda (🚌)—Bonfire Party—Entrance
Zongfo Temple is next to it, no ticket is needed, if you go from the White Pagoda, return the same way after taking photos.
The bonfire party is inside Manting Park, you need to buy another ticket, 280 including meal and water lanterns, etc., it is the largest existing performance in Banna.
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2⃣ Chinese Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden
The Chinese Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden is the only 5A attraction in Banna, managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
✅Recommended route: West Gate-Baihua Garden-Banyan Tree Garden-Aquatic Plant Garden-Palm Garden--Shade Plant Garden-Banyan Tree Garden-Baiguo Garden Station-Vine Garden-West Gate
⚠Attention:
❗June to September is the season for Victoria amazonica, the hot air balloon experience lasts about 15 minutes
❗The park is really big, if you want to visit both east and west areas, it is recommended to buy an electric car ticket, if you only visit the west area, walking is fine, about 4 hours
❗It is recommended to book a guide at the ticket office in advance, without a guide, many plants are incomprehensible
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3⃣Wangtianshu
The tallest trees in the world, very spectacular, and located on the border, so even in the peak season, there are relatively fewer people than other attractions, the skywalk and boat ride are must-experience projects at Wangtianshu! Don't miss out.
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4⃣Rainforest Trekking
There are many rainforest trekking routes in Xishuangbanna, pay attention to several points before signing up: whether to purchase insurance, group or private tour, whether to carpool in a private tour, whether the guide is qualified, whether the rainforest activities have been approved and filed by the tourism bureau, what is the queue time for each rainforest activity? Departure and return times, etc.
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🧡Xishuangbanna Cuisine
The food in Banna is both good-looking and delicious, but don't eat too much, not all foreign stomachs can handle it.
🥘Chunwuli: The most popular on the food list, the signature dish is lemon sugar chicken wings
🥘Cat Lemon: "Highly photogenic", a must-visit restaurant for many internet celebrities, the signature dish is bread curry crab
🥘Thai Banna Designer: GET the same check-in spot as Zhao Lusi, a three-story western-style building, the signature dish is pineapple rice
🥘Xia Wang: The main theme is forest style, with a semi-outdoor environment under an open-air canopy, the signature dish is fragrant fried fruit platter
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The Big Buddha Temple in Xishuangbanna mainly promotes Southern Buddhism culture, and it was originally the royal temple of the Dai king, belonging to a national 4A tourist attraction. The pagoda is splendid and you can pray with lotus lanterns🪷.
🚶In the scenic area, you can choose a one-way tour car to go directly to the top, then walk down to enjoy the scenery; or if you are physically fit, choose to walk up and down the mountain
🎫Ticket price: 120/person
Half-price ticket: Children above 1.2 meters and seniors above 60, price 80
Free admission policy: Children below 1.2 meters and seniors above 70, free entry
🦚Peacock flying shows five times a day
9:30|11:00|13:00|15:00|17:00
Hundreds of peacocks will fly from the big Buddha statue to the lawn, and after the release, you can feed the peacocks there.
⛲️Buddha Bathing and Water Splashing Square
There are 2 water-splashing festival activities every day at 14:00|16:00, this is the designated place for the Buddha bathing and blessing ceremony, where you can also feel the sprinkling and blessing of holy water, it will be canceled on rainy days.
⏰Opening hours: 08:00-18:00
Very good, there is a large cruise, the building inside is also quite amazing. I feel that I must wear Dai costumes to take pictures in Manting Park. The photos I took are really amazing.
I went with my classmates in 2019, this time I went with my wife. This time I learned more thoroughly. And also interacted with elephants. Mastered elephant knowledge. Be kind to the wild butcher. Protect our environment.
As a northerner, the southern scenery of Manting Park is very attractive. The beautiful flowers and exquisite buildings are all unseen by the northern children. The air is fresh and natural oxygen bar. The park is not too big for two or three hours.
Recommended, the day I left Banna, I went to check in Manting, take pictures in the resort, the Yu Wang's imperial garden is not blowing, rent a set of Yi costumes in the park. It’s very popular to take pictures everywhere. You can also interact with elephants, feed, watch peacocks, overall it’s great.
Very ethnically characteristic places, the overall division is divided into many areas, there are tour buses and maps, it is recommended to buy a ticket if the physical strength is not good. My side is recommended to go to Manting Park first and then go to the Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, because after the Botanical Garden is finished, I will feel that the plants in Manting Park are not amazing. But the building is still very good, there are Dai costumes, photography, many places are suitable for taking pictures, there is a large hall that can only be used in the park photography store to consume and shoot, it seems that their photo store made the scene by itself. At this time, the orchid garden flowers are not blooming, only the leaves, the leaf garden can be seen well, the lotus is also blooming, there are ducks and ducks I don’t know in the pool, black swans, salmon, there are fish food, you can feed, small 5 yuan, large 10 yuan. The paradise is not big, King Kong, sunflowers, and peony? There are peacocks, blue peacocks, white peacocks, go in and feed 30, elephants because it is too late to wait for the show time. Go to the back and you can directly enter the General Buddha Temple. Don’t wear it. The young lady who wears Yi costumes recommends taking an outside. After all, it is a Buddhist temple. The Buddha Temple is not big as a whole, but the building is spectacular. The Buddha in the Great Hall remembers to take off his shoes. There are some places where tourists are not allowed to enter, and don’t touch it. I don't know if there is any statement from the Buddhist Temple. I didn't dare to take pictures when I went in, but I also saw many young ladies taking pictures, but commercial photography is definitely not good. It seems that I can take pictures by myself. It is recommended to ask the staff. Please incense here is not expensive, and the holidays are not clear. Listening to locals say that there will be a lot of people in some festivals in the Buddhist temple of the Yi people. It is not the peak tourist season and the traffic is average.
The building is very distinctive and suitable for taking pictures. Unlike some attractions, I don't feel too artificial and have a sense of hierarchy. The net red punch card is hidden under the flowers, and the beauty is turned over. You can indeed have more chairs. The desserts in the net red store are also delicious, and it is a bit expensive. .
The palace of the king of the king, convenient parking. As soon as you enter the door, you will find the statue of the beloved Premier Zhou. Many young ladies wear Yi costumes to take pictures. The white tower is blue sky, and the golden lotus is surging. I have seen the solemnity of the General Buddha Temple and worship the Buddha. A lake of water and tropical plants, a side of the scenery.
Mantingyu Garden is very suitable for buying Yi costumes at the entrance of the garden to take pictures. The costumes are not expensive and cheap, and they are about 30 yuan. There are many styles and many full-time photos. The garden is very large and you can visit for a long time. There are elephants and dragonflies in the park. You can arrange them reasonably according to the time. The garden has been going in the General Buddha Temple. After visiting the General Buddha Temple, you can return with the ticket. There are two peacocks in the General Buddha Temple, one pure white flower, and two of them will open the screen. If they are opened, they will not easily close the screen. You can take a good photo.