A comfortable yet fun and sporty tour route to West Mountain and Dianchi Lake!
Let's start with the route:
Subway West Mountain Park Station → One-way bus to Nie Er's Tomb → Walk up the mountain to the essence of Longmen → Open cable car down the mountain → Take the enclosed cable car to Dianchi Lake → Start touring Haigeng Dam and other surroundings of Dianchi Lake.
Ticket purchase and consumption (per adult):
Ctrip ticket 10 yuan + one-way bus 12.5 + one-way downhill cable car 25 + Dianchi Lake cable car 60.
📝 Note tips:
👉🏻 Exit A of West Mountain Park Subway Station, according to the sign, it is easy to find the ticket hall and the bus stop. The bus will stop at small attractions such as Taihua Temple in the middle, if you don't want to see it, you can directly sit to the end point Nie Er's Tomb.
👉🏻 From Nie Er's Tomb to the essence of Longmen (this is the ticket purchase and ride point for the cable car and electric car.)
It is recommended to walk, it only takes ten to twenty minutes in total, and you can enjoy the scenery along the way, and you don't feel tired. (I walked around the entire West Mountain Scenic Area according to this route, only more than 6,000 steps.)
If you are with the elderly and children and don't want to walk too much, and just want to turn around at the essence, then you can choose to take the electric car or the cable car up and down.
If you choose the cable car for one-way only, I personally recommend taking the downhill one. Climbing up the mountain on foot is not so tiring, and there is more fun in exercise. Going down the mountain will make your knees uncomfortable. And there are not so many people queuing for the downhill.
👉🏻 Arrive at Longmen, after touring, continue to go forward, through a hole to reach the platform. From the platform, follow the sign to the "downhill cable car" direction (about ten minutes walk).
The cable car in the scenic area is open, with a very good view, relax and immerse yourself in nature, it's wonderful! The whole journey is almost 20 minutes.
👉🏻 After going down, look at the sign, buy a cable car ticket to Dianchi Lake, one-way 60 yuan, also about 20 minutes. This is enclosed, up to six people, one or two people are also separate. This cable car first goes down the mountain, then crosses Dianchi Lake, and then you can tour Haigeng Dam and other attractions around Dianchi Lake.
A very good attraction, the whole attraction is relatively large, including several temples, Lingxu Pavilion, Longmen, etc., looking at Dianchi Lake, watching the panoramic view of Kunming, the bus cableway and the battery sightseeing car are equipped in place, of course, if the physical strength is good, the whole walk can also be, you can play in it for several hours.
The Xishan Scenic Area above Dianchi Lake is worth a visit. It is recommended to experience the wonders of Xishan on hiking. Xishan, Xiu, Jun, and the dangerous life is the experience that is the combination of body, soul, thought and soul.
Kunming Xishan consists of Huating Mountain, Taihua Mountain, Luohan Mountain and so on. Its peaks stretch more than 40 kilometers, and the altitude is 1900 meters to 2350 meters. It is rumored that there was a Phoenix stop in the ancient times. The person who saw it did not know it. It was called Biji Mountain. It is also called Biji Mountain because it is shaped like a sleeping Buddha. Xishan Forest is dense, flowers and plants are flourishing, quiet and beautiful, and the scenery is excellent. In ancient times, it has the reputation of "the first best environment in the middle of the mountain". From the southeast of Kunming City, Xishan is like a beautiful woman lying on both sides of the Dianchi Lake. Her head, chest, stomach, legs are always in sight, green silk floating in the waves of Dianchi Lake, appear rich and beautiful, so called sleeping beauty.
First go to Dianchi Haitang Park to make a car cableway, the cableway will pass from Dianchi Lake, overlooking the beautiful scenery of Dianchi Lake, the special thing about this cableway is that it has a turn, after passing through the Tiandi Lake, it will be at the turn, after turning, then go to the west mountain, the car cableway down, Just arrived at the Xishan Scenic Area. There are many ways to visit, there are sightseeing battery cars, there are ropeways, and you can walk. Our choice is to take the open cableway up the mountain one way to the top of the West Mountain, and then take the sightseeing battery car back to the exit. The open cableway is very special, the view is very good, the right hand side is the mountain, the left hand side is the Dianchi Lake, because it is open, the feet are vacated, it feels closer to nature, blowing the wind, watching the beautiful scenery of Dianchi Lake, very comfortable. The cableway is a short walk to the top of the mountain Lingxu Pavilion. This is basically the highest place in the West Mountain. It overlooks the 500-mile Dianchi Lake. The view is very good and the scenery is beautiful. After your arrival, you can go to the dragon gate. It is said that Yunnan has never been out of the dragon gate, so the dragon gate and the sacrifice of Kuixing are built to pray for the testers to get good results. Soon after the construction, Yunnan has come out of the dragon gate. This section of Longmen is the most essence of Xishan. After walking down the mountain, it is not too laborious. After arriving at the station of the battery car, take the sightseeing battery car and return to the door. A area at the door is the tomb of the ear, you can look at it and visit the memorial hall. After the tour is over, take the car cableway back to Dianchi Haitang Park, so that the whole process can be browsed for about 4 hours. Dianchi Haitang Park is on the edge of Dianchi Lake. After the Xishan overlooks Dianchi Lake, walk around Dianchi Lake. Experience a different feeling.
Xishan is about 10 kilometers away from the center of Kunming and about 15 minutes by taxi. The essence is in Longmen. Yunnan has been lacking since the ancient imperial examination. During Qianlong, Dao people were interested in a section of Xishan cliff chiselled and cast, and it took decades and three generations to complete it in Daoguang. It is cloudy day, it is fog, the dragon is smoky, there is a feeling of Tenglong wanting to come out.
Before I went, I was a little confused. I went to the visitor center to see the map and everything was clear. The 75 yuan Ctrip package bus stops at every attraction, and go to Longmen Scenic Area directly to the cableway in the package to Longmen Mountain. You can see the panoramic view of Dianchi Lake on the mountain. Follow the route down the mountain and take the battery car back to the entrance of Longmen Scenic Area. Take a taxi to the Xishan Scenic Area Visitor Center at 9 o'clock. If the student ticket is a bus return, it is the same as the Trip.com adult ticket 75 yuan. Our student ticket chose one-way 62.5 yuan. After leaving the Xishan Scenic Area, on the right is to buy a cableway ticket for 60 yuan to cross Dianchi Lake to Haitang Dam. The box can accommodate 6 people. This scenery is very good and there are few people. In the afternoon, I was happier than Xishan in Haitang Park. There seagull food is not recommended to buy, not as good as thin crisps by seagulls like.
On the top of the West Mountain, you can see a large area of Dianchi Lake. There are many Buddha statues on the Longmen below, but the road is a bit difficult to walk, and the overall is not bad. There are many fork roads along the road up the mountain, and each one leads to various places under the mountain. I really want to go again and again. The place can be beautiful with a shot on the mountain.