Top 10 Outdoor Activities in Yunnan, China

From Kunming City, Yunnan to Lhasa City, Tibet

Climb Dali offers guided trips involving a range of outdoor activities. We specialize in developing custom outdoor adventure programs that include any combination of rock climbing, trekking, cycling, flatwater kayaking, and river rafting, all of which include certified guides and equipment. All of our programs are operated in stunning locations around Dali and greater northwest Yunnan, well off the beaten path. If you want to experience the Yunnan that hasn't been modified for tourists, get in touch with us!

Is it too crowded in Lijiang, and you want to see beautiful nature and quiet villages away from the crowd?Lijiang Xintuo Ecotourism is a community-owned company (a rare thing in Lijiang nowadays!) that strives to empower local people in Yunnan Province, and follows fully all the Ecotourism criteria.Travel to the less known places around Lijiang to see nature or to close-by Naxi villages.

We are a company providing alternative community-based eco-tours in Yunnan. We provide all kinds of custom-made itineraries, including day trips starting all over the province. We our goal is to reduce the distance from the tourist to their hosts by exploring the remote parts of local nature and society, and encourage communication. We explicitly believe in a small scale and high quality approach.

Lijiang Guides offers professional, personal tailor-made guiding services in Yunnan province, to non-touristy areas. Based in the ancient town of Lijiang, the small tour company and travel agency is the leading eco-tourism and cultural tourism operation in Yunnan, with more than 16 years' experience in the region. Lijiang Guides offers a unique range of journey and trips, exploring the diversity of Yunnan, and taking you to authentic places where you can have meaningful interaction with the REAL China. Lijiang Guides can take you to off-the-beaten-track places, where you can meet some of the local minorities - Naxi, Yi, Tibetan, Bai, Pumi, Mosuo, Hui - and also experience the wonders of nature in Yunnan. Lijiang Guides specialises in day hikes, gourmet tours, photography and writing trips, visiting markets and monasteries - away from the tourist crowds. With experience in the area since 1996, and a staff of English-speaking guides, Lijiang Guides offers guiding services as well as flight/hotel/transport bookings across south-west China. And from 2011, Lijiang Guides can book all your travel arrangements from your home country to China.

Lijiang Guides is the region's leading eco-tourism and cultural-tourism operation, specialising in taking visitors to non-touristy places. We can help you explore Yunnan's diversity, its 26 different minorities, and the wonders of nature - mountains, lakes, glaciers, forests and blue skies. With experience in the area since 1996, we will take you away from the tourists to the REAL China, where you can experience the place and its people. With knowledgeable guides, who speak English and local languages, you can visit villages, markets, monasteries, mountains, farms, and grasslands. We visit families, enjoy the company of locals and share meals with Naxi, Yi and Tibetan families. Plus, if you like dogs, we have Lassie the guide dog to accompany you. Lijiang Guides offers native-English speaking guides as well as local Tibetan, Lisu, Yi and Naxi guides who speak English. Welcome to south-west China.

Thin Air provides guided day tours throughout the Shangri-la countryside. We offer both gentle scenic cycling tours as well as mountain climbs/descents. Or explore a Tibetan village on horseback! There are many mountains to be explored by hiking as well. Visit a Tibetan home and try a cup of yak butter tea. We'll provide an experience you'll never forget. Thin Air Adventures. Quality over quantity.

A day trip from either Lijiang or Zhongdian to the famous Tiger Leaping Gorge in the Yunnan Province China, one of the deepest canyons in the world. The difference in height from the Yangtze River to the highest peak of Jade Dragon Mountain measures almost 4,000 meters. Along a high trail, you hike high above the Yangtze River and enjoy the most breathtaking views the Yunnan Province can offer.