Jiaozi (Sedan Chair) Snow Mountain (轿子雪山) Overnight Trip with Sunrise Summit Hiking

Embark on an overnight adventure to Jiaozi Snow Mountain from Kunming. Enjoy the sunrise from the summit, a scenic cable car ride, and a local lunch.

Begin your tour with a 6:00 PM hotel pickup in Kunming, arriving at Jiaozi Snow Mountain by 9:00 PM. After an early breakfast, start the 3:30 AM hike to catch the sunrise.

The 8-kilometer hike, with a 650-meter elevation gain, takes about 3 hours. After witnessing the sunrise at over 4,200 meters, descend via cable car for a scenic tour.

Conclude with a local lunch before returning to Kunming. Jiaozi Snow Mountain, over 4,200 meters high, is one of Yunnan's tallest peaks, offering breathtaking natural wonders.

From glaciers and snow-capped peaks to alpine lakes and waterfalls, this mountain range is a photographer’s paradise.

A paradise for flora and fauna and a glacial wonder

It is home to thousands of rare species of flora and fauna. The national first-class protected plants include Yunnan yew, the second-class protected plants in Yunnan Province include Gaohe cabbage, and the provincial-level protected plants include short-petaled Ruixiang, Yanshu and Luquan Flower and Leaf Chonglou.

The national first-class protected animals include the forest musk deer, and the second-class national key protected animals include impala, Sumatra antelope, otter, green ferret, pangolin, pine sparrowhawk, big bird, snake eagle, collar horn, white-bellied golden pheasant, bar-headed gull, red-bellied horned chicken, red set, etc.

The most Admired God for the Yi people - the Jiaozi snow Mountain

Alpine meadows, waterfalls, Buddha light, sea of clouds and glaciers, superior natural endowments make the sedan chair snow mountain well-known at home and abroad, and in the hearts of the Yi people, the sedan chair snow mountain has a more special status, here is the "holy mountain" in their minds, is the birthplace of the Yi people, but also the sustenance of the spirit and soul. The belief and folk customs that the Yi people have adhered to so far have also endowed the sedan chair snow mountain with a mysterious and strong historical culture, and the stories and legends are definitely worth savoring.

The sedan chair snow mountain, the spiritual sustenance of the Yi people

The sedan chair snow mountain is the "holy mountain" in the minds of the Yi people, which entrusts their faith and soul. According to Zhang Tingen, secretary general of the Yi Association of the two districts of Kunming, in the Yi classic "Guiding the Way", the sedan chair snow mountain is called "Lenibai".

In the "Guiding Path", "Lenibai" (sedan chair snow mountain) is depicted as a paradise with beautiful mountains and rivers, fertile land, beautiful and rich, and is also regarded as the birthplace of the Yi people and the place where the soul of the Yi people belongs.

The Yi people believe that no matter where they are, or in the ancestral temple, or on the road, or in the high mountains, or in the sea of flowers, as long as they chant "Le Ni Bai", it is a kind of formless and tangible, godless and godless, soulless and soulful chant rhyme, which gives the sedan chair snow mountain a mysterious religious and cultural color, and the sedan chair snow mountain is the holy mountain in the minds of the Yi people.

Walking into the sedan chair snow mountain, in these layered, undulating mountains, there are many Yi people, perhaps because the mountains are high and the valleys are deep, and they are less affected by the outside world, and the Yi people living around the sedan chair snow mountain still inherit the most simple and primitive folk customs.

Zhang Tingen introduced to Yun Lujun that there are more than 600 Yi people living in Duonuo Village, Zhuanlong Town, and the buildings here are still mostly traditional tile houses, and the elderly and children in the village communicate in Yi language, just like a "living museum" of Yi culture.

The Yi people living here have an inseparable relationship with the sedan chair snow mountain. Like many ethnic minorities, the Yi people believe that all things have spirits, that every mountain and every tree has life, and that living in harmony with nature is the creed of the Yi people.

The villagers never cut down the trees in the snow mountains of the sedan chair, and they also resolutely put an end to behaviors that damage the ecological environment." Zhang Tingen introduced. In the Jiaozi Snow Mountain, the Yi nationality's thousand-year-old pilgrimage to the holy mountain has never been interrupted, which not only contains the incomparably deep admiration and worship of the Jiaozi Snow Mountain, but also contains the awe of the mountains and rivers.

Preparation before climbing, Yi special food

Saba ham: made of the hind leg of the Saba pig of the excellent local variety of Luquan, pickled in the cold Saba mountainous area, it tastes pure and fragrant and delicious, the ham is clean and fresh, the soft and hard are moderate, the salt content is low, and the side dishes can be eaten alone.

Killing pig rice: Near the end of the year, Lu persuades every family to slaughter fat pigs in the lunar month of the winter lunar calendar for the New Year's consumption, after killing the pigs, invite relatives and friends to eat and drink, you can go to the local farmhouse experience.

Yi beef: Luquan has a variety of local beef practices, such as beef crispy meat, beef jerky, hot and sour beef tendon, sauce fragrant beef, etc. Alpine mutton: Mutton from the alpine zone grown at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, boiling a pot of mutton soup is the best delicacy for mountaineers.

Buckwheat Baba: A local traditional delicacy with a soft and glutinous taste with a unique flavor, which can be tasted at farmhouses around the sedan chair snow mountain.

Gastrodia food: Zhuanlong Town's sedan chair snow mountain black gastrodia production exceeded 500 tons, and developed a unique gastrodia banquet, "health medicinal diet", sedan chair snow mountain black gastrodia has no peculiar taste, fine glutinous taste, sweet characteristics