Dali Bai Nationality Autonomous Region History - Page 4 Some other scenes are as follows:

The Grand View of Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake - Cangshan is 30 miles long and 12 miles wide. There are 19 peaks and 18 brooks between each peak.

Butterfly Springs - famous hot spring with a breathtaking convergence of tens of thousands of butterflies.

Bai musicians and dancers perform for visitors. They put on a show just for us when we arrived Nanzhao Folk Style Island Yellow Dragon Pond View - The four most famous scenes, so-called Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon.

Chicken Foot Mountain (Ji Zu Shan) Erhai Park - the Goddess of Mercy Temple, formerly a hunting preserve of Nanzhao kings.

Golden Shuttle Island - there is a small fishing community, a cave for exploring, and Buddhist buildings dated back 1500 years ago.

Rainbow Bridge - has the footprint of Marco Polo Snake Bone Pagoda. The Three Pagoda (Dali Santa) - landmarks of the region: As these pagodas are once part of a vast temple complex built during the Tang Dynasty, they serve as a storehouse for scriptures and precious objects of the ancient Dali culture. Its museum contains a priceless hoard of paintings, jewels, copper mirrors, gold and silver ornaments, utensils and musical instruments.

Tianshengyin village Xiao Putao Dao - renowned for night fishing for the huge 40-kilo "green fish."

Zhoucheng and Xizhou Villages - it is the bustling center of the Ming Dynasty tea trade for 200 years, and still a busy and prosperous settlement.

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