In Kunming, you can visit the special resort of eating and checking in - Guandu Ancient Town in-depth one-day tour~

Number of days: 1 day
With whom: a person
Updated: 2020.07.23

Guandu Ancient Town in Kunming is located in the southeastern suburbs of Kunming, with a long history, many cultural monuments and rich cultural landscapes, and is one of the birthplaces of Yunnan culture, and is the main historical and cultural landscape of tourism to Yunnan, especially Kunming. Before the Song Dynasty, there was a ferry, where fishing boats and passing official ships docked, and they were changed to sedan chairs or horses through the Zhuangyuan Building into Kunming City, so it was named "Guandu".

Guandu Ancient Town

The Guandu Archway is the gate of Guandu Ancient Town built in 2003, and the front couplet is: Ten thousand calamities and vicissitudes of life to save the ancient crossing, and the sun and moon shine on the snail peak for thousands of autumns. The couplet on the back is: Biye Luozhou is full of thousands of characters, and King Kong Gudu has enjoyed the storm for five hundred years. It reflects the unique natural environment of Guandu, which is not only outstanding and profound, but also has many talents and leads the way.

Guandu Ancient Town Statutory Temple

Guandu Ancient Town

The "King Kong Pagoda" in the ancient town is a key cultural relics protection unit in our country, and is the earliest and best-preserved Vajra throne-style stone pagoda in our country. In addition to the Vajra Pagoda, there are also provincial and municipal cultural relics protection units: Miaozhan Temple East Pagoda, Tuzhu Temple, Statutory Temple, Civilization Pavilion, Kuixing Pavilion, Guanyin Temple, Lingyun Pavilion, Guxi Building, Sansheng Palace, Lantern Temple, Wugu Temple and other more than 10 landscapes and hundreds of well-preserved "courtyard one Indian" houses, forming a prosperous market town, known as "Little Yunnan" in ancient times.

Guandu Ancient Town

Guandu Ancient Town King Kong Pagoda

Guandu Ancient Town Vajra Pagoda

As a 4A-level scenic spot, a famous landscape tourism town with national characteristics, even Kunming has an old saying, the thousand-year-old city looks at Guandu. The ancient pagodas, ancient temples, ancient streets, ancient alleys, ancient bridges, ancient wells, ancient trees, and ancient residents of the ancient town are dotted, and the eight scenic spots of the ancient town are Guandu fishing lanterns, snail peaks stacked green, Yuntai moonlight, apricot garden sheep, Lingyun smoke, southern Yunnan lawn, King Kong night whisper, pen writing sky, constituting the most charming scenery in history.

Guandu Ancient Town

Guandu Ancient Town Craftsmen in the ancient town

The ancient Yunnan culture has a deep accumulation, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and local polyreligions coexist, festivals and temple fairs, religious folk customs, lantern songs and dances, cave music has been passed down for thousands of years, the distant tea horse ancient road station, and the unique flavor of Guandu snacks passed down from generation to generation, so that the ancient style and ancient charm of Guandu has become a prosperous market town, lively, and the snacks of Guandu Ancient Town have a unique flavor, among which Guandu baba, rice noodles, and bait blocks have also become the three treasures of Guandu, along Zhuangyuan Street, taste the special food all the way, while enjoying the different scenery of Guandu in the four seasons.

Guandu Ancient Town King Kong Pagoda

Guandu Ancient Town

Guandu Ancient Town Zhuangyuan Street

The newly built courtyard house, attic archway, corridor and wall, staggered, antique, reproduce the layout of the streets of ancient Yunnan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and form a national folk culture street with Yunnan flavor-based special catering, Yunnan style bars and inns, ethnic folk crafts, folk literature and skills performances, the ancient town is known as a living ancient town in the city, and is one of the top ten tourist towns in Yunnan Province.

Guandu Ancient Town

Guandu Ancient Town Liuhuan Snack Street

Guandu Ancient Town Ancient Town Street

Guandu Ancient Town

Guandu Ancient Town One-day Tour Guide:

Best Season: Spring and Summer

Best time to visit: All day, or after night

Attraction tickets: free

Accommodation: If you want to take a flight, choose Howard Johnson International Hotel in the City of Flowers, which is close to the airport in the east and Guandu Ancient Town in the southeast.

Precautions:

1. The flow of people in Guandu Ancient Town is dense, so pay attention to carrying valuables with you.

2. There are many fruit stalls in street food stalls, so be careful not to eat too much.

3. There are people dancing near the King Kong Pagoda at night, folk dance square dance, you can take pictures and check in~

4. Kunming is cooler in spring and summer, at most a thin jacket is enough, and do a good job of sun protection during the day.

5. One day is enough to finish shopping, all kinds of ethnic handicrafts, specialty stores, silverware and jade shops, embroidery and weaving shops are worth seeing, Liuhuan snack street is very cheap, one person can order a lot, enjoyable.

Guandu Ancient Town

Guandu Ancient Town The

Guandu Baba in the ancient town is a feature worth trying, and if you have time, you can also watch an acrobatic performance on the street, and let the craftsmen make a sugar man or something , The cool evening breeze blew through the streets, and the unique Yunnan memory began to get slightly drunk, and it entered the bones with the breath.