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
The Yi folklore building gathering place, there are Yi dance performances on the way, and the exotic culture is strong. The building is even more beautiful. There are a small number of peacocks in the park. The children are still very happy to see peacocks.
Enjoy the unique ethnicity, unique scenery, and also watched the performance of the king of the trip. I saw the Boshui Festival of Premier Zhou in the textbook. The green grass is full of flowers. How leisurely life is very longing for it.
The area of Mantingyu Garden is small. The building has characteristics of the Yi people. It is worth visiting. The tour guide in the park is very interesting. It is recommended that the park provide some chairs for tourists to rest in the right location.
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.
It is worth going. It takes about 3 hours to play. The scenery is beautiful. It is a blockbuster. It is recommended to go early or go off-peak, there are few people, otherwise people will be crowded, the play experience will decline, there are also many cute animals, elephants, parrots, peacocks, etc., all are well taken care of, and the classmates are also very noisy~
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. .
Manting Park is very famous in Banna, and it is said on the Internet that it must go. This is the only attraction I bought for 40 yuan to play in this more than ten-day trip to Yunnan. Manting Park is not big, the trees are shaded and the buildings are golden, all kinds of flowers, red, pink, white, yellow are really good-looking, the young lady who took the travel photography is a lot of expensive, and the four rented boats are 200 yuan small lake. Seeing a family of three by the lake, the girl feeding fish, the mother taking pictures, and the father fishing for fish were very happy. I quietly watched it for a while and felt the happy time of their happy family.
2024.4.16 Manting Royal Garden, located on Manting Road, Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna, was formerly the Yuwang Royal Garden, built in the 8th century Yu Dynasty (1286-1345), and still has the legend of the garden of the Princess of the Yu. Rebuilt on the Yu Garden site in 1982. Manting Park covers an area of more than 400 mu, is the oldest park in Xishuangbanna, Yi people are used to call it "chunhuan", meaning "the garden of the soul", formerly the imperial garden of Xishuangbanna king. The park has a national cultural square, vine plant area, tropical orchid, peacock garden, Buddhist cultural area, tree planting memorial area and other eight regional parks in the central part of the national cultural square. Premier Zhou Enlai attended the Songkran Festival in the park in 1961. The highlight of Manting Park is the "Lancang River Mekong Night" singing and dancing bonfire party, showing the characteristics of the Xishuangbanna minority, and at the same time integrating the five national characteristics of Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, reflecting the blend of multiculturalism of "one river and six countries". The scenic Manting Park was originally the Yuwang Royal Garden, called "Spring Huan", meaning "Soul Garden", the park is only 2 kilometers away from the city center, covering an area of 2.4 10,000 square meters. The main entrance of Manting Park is located in the south of the park, and there is a national cultural square in the park; the vine plant area; the Yulan Garden; the release lake; Buddhist Cultural District; Tree Planting Memorial District and other six scenic spots. The Buddhist Cultural District has the famous Xishuangbanna General Buddha Temple in Southeast Asia, Wa Bajie, and the White Pagoda, Octagonal Pavilion, and the release lake here you can pass incense, worship Buddha Shuan Line...