Around 170,000 Mu of terraced fields make up the Yuanyang Terraces, carved out of the earth and formed thanks to the lifetime efforts of generations of Hani people over more than 1,300 years.
The cuisine of Lijiang is a delicious blend of foods and flavors of all the local ethnic cultures, dominated by the Naxi people, with influences from the neighboring regions of the Han Chinese and the Tibetans
To international travelers, the name "Shangri-la" refers to an exotic land of enchantment and magic, a place everyone wants to visit to get away from mundane reality.