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China - Kunming Golf Vacation and Sightseeing Tour - 7 Days
Best Time to visit: From March to November
Day 1 - Arrival Kunming (D)
Upon arrival at the Kunming International Airport. Transfer to Kunming Spring City Golf & Lake Resort.
Welcome dinner in the resort.
Accommodation: Spring City Golf & Lake Resort, Standard room
Day 2 - Kunming Spring City Golf Course & Lake Resort - Stone Forest
In the morning, play 18 hole golf at the Mountain Course.
Kunming Spring City Golf & Lake Resort: a premier integrated golf resort in Kunming, comprises luxury villas
and two championship golf courses - the Mountain Course designed by Jack Nicklaus and the Lake Course by Robert
Trent Jones Jr.
Surrounded by mountains and beside the limpid lake, the Spring City Golf & Lake Resort is one of the most beautiful golf holiday resorts in the world. In June 1999, the US Golf Digest evaluated it as No.1 Golf resort in China and Hong Kong.
After lunch, we drive to visit Stone Forest to marvel at the karst landscape.
Then transfer back to Spring City golf & lake resort.
Accommodation: Spring City Golf & Lake Resort, Standard room
Day 3 - Kunming Spring City Golf Course & Lake Resort - Kunming
In the morning play the 2nd round 18 hole golf at the Lake Course of Kunming Spring City Golf & Lake Resort.
After lunch drive 1.5hrs back to Kunming and visit Yuantong Temple which is the biggest Buddhist shrine in Kunming. It was originally built over 1000 years ago during the Tang Dynasty. After two restorations and expansions in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the temple took on its present appearance, with covered corridors, bridges and grand halls.
Continue to have a nice walk in the Flower and Birds Market in the late afternoon.
Accommodation:Crowne Plaza Kunming City Centre (5*), Superior room
Day 4 - Kunming - Lakeview Golf Club of Kunming
After breakfast, drive to play a round of 18 hole golf at Lakeview Golf Club Kunming
has spectacular views of the famous Western Hill, which has significant cultural importance in Chinese history, and the 300 square Km
Dianchi Lake the 6th largest lake in China, renowned for being the migratory resting grounds of the Siberian Red Beaked Gull and home to many native Chinese Flora and fauna.
Afterward, you will drive to Western Hill and take the chairlift up to visit Dragon Gate of the Western Hill, which is located at the west bank of the Dianchi Lake, It is set in mountains well covered by evergreen woods and filled with sweet songs by lovely birds. Its luxuriant trees and bamboos set off splendid Huating Temple, Taihua Temple, Sanqing Monastery and the Dragon Gate. Accommodation:Crowne Plaza Kunming City Center (5*), Superior room
Afterward, you will drive to Western Hill and take the chairlift up to visit Dragon Gate of the Western Hill, which is located at the west bank of the Dianchi Lake, It is set in mountains well covered by evergreen woods and filled with sweet songs by lovely birds. Its luxuriant trees and bamboos set off splendid Huating Temple, Taihua Temple, Sanqing Monastery and the Dragon Gate.
Accommodation: Inter Continental Lijiang Ancient Town Resort
Day 5 - Kunming - Dali
Take the morning flight from Kunming to Dali, meet your local guide and driver, drive to play golf at Dali Stone Mountain Golf Club. After the golf, you will visit the Three-pagoda in Chongshen Temple, which is a typical historical symbol of Yunnan. It is also one of the oldest sublime architecture in South China.
At last, you will visit Dali Old City, a historically and culturally famous city of China, is renowned for her historical interest. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was the capital of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms, the political, economic and cultural centre of Yunnan, an important gateway of cultural exchange and trading with southeastern Asian countries, and an important pass of the ancient "Silk Route of the South". It has long enjoyed the reputation of "a land of letters".
Located in the perfect union of place and culture, Dali Stone Mountain Golf Club is the first-and currently the only golf course in Dali. Situated to the right of Dali’s famous Three Pagodas and Chongsheng Temple, the Club faces Lake Erhai, with its back to the Cangshan Mountains. It is a few short minutes from Dali Ancient City and a 30 minute drive to Dali International Airport .The Club’ s surroundings are characterized by stunning scenery and a pristine environment.
Day 6 - Dali - Lijiang
In the morning, you’ll travel in the Erhai Lake by boat and visit Jinsuo Island. Erhai Lake is the largest highland lake next to Dianchi and one of the seven biggest fresh water lakes in China. It means, 'sea shaped like an ear', in Chinese. Implying that the lake is ear shaped and as large as a sea, hence it was so named. The lake covers an area of 250 square kilometers and is located about two kilometers east of Dali.
After landing, you will head for Xizhou Town to fully appreciate Bai-style architecture, taste their fragrant three-course tea and explore their distinctive culture. Then drive about 4 hours to Lijiang.
You will be free in Lijiang Old Town. Lijiang Old Town has a history more than 800 years; it was listed as the World Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO 1997.Here you will see the wonderful wooden architecture of Naxi ethnic people.
Day 7 - Lijiang - Departure
Meals: Breakfast
In the morning after having breakfast in your hotel, your local guide will meet you and you will be driven to the airport for your flight home.
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