Lijiang city subject to Yunnan province, located at the joints of Yunan-Guizhou plateau and Qinghai-Tibet plateau. The downtown altitude is 2418 meters, and together with Langzhong of, Pingyao of Shaanxi, Shexian of Anhui were known as the ''best preserved of the four ancient city''. Lijiang is a multi-ethnic areas where resident 12 ethnic minorities, Naxi, Yi, Lisu are the 3 major minorities.
Lijiang is a plateau south-west monsoon climate with the low temperature and significant difference between day and night. Most of regions are warm winter and cool summer, so the best season for tour is spring and summer.
The tourism resources are main representative with ''two mountains, a city, a lake, a river, a culture and a style''. Two mountains, mean Yulong Snow Mountain and Laojun Mountain; a city, means Old town of Lijiang; a lake, means Lugu lake; a river, means Jinsha River; a culture, means Naxi Dongba culture; a style, means the Mosuo customs that refer to the people living in Lugu lake still retain the matriarchal walking-marriage customs ''men do not take wife, women do not marry to husband''.
Naxi ethnic have many flavor foods, especially the well-known ham baba. Also there is Naxi pot, chicken bean jelly, chicken stew tofu, blown liver, butter tea and so on. Ancient town of Lijiang is the main distribution center of goods and crafts, ''Square Street'' is the most traditional and popular market in Lijiang.
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