Travel Tips of Self-driving Tour to Lancang County, Puer
First Impression
Lancang County, named after the Lancang River, is an important part of Pu’er “Green Triangle” tourist area, is one of the two counties with the same name as an aqueous in Yunnan. Jingmai Dasan is one of six new Yunnan tea Dasan. Customs of Lahu and Bulang ethnic minorities can be experienced here. Rufu Church presents an ethnic appearance and western interior style. By the impact of foreign culture, half of the villagers of Laodabao National Tourism Village can play the guitar and sing in unrestrained free way, mixed with traditional national songs together, do making a flavor. What a pleasure it is to just trance or ecercise Yoga with the Dasan fragrance full of negative oxygen ions.
Recommendation
1. Lancang Downtown–Huimin Tourism Town(42 km)–Jingmai Mangjing Resort(27 km)
2. Lancang Downtown–Lahu Custom Park (Double A rated Scenic Area(3 km)–Nanling Mengbing Longtang Ancient Village of Lahu Nationality(78 km)
3. Lancang Downtown–Laodabao National Tourism Village in Jiujing(38 km)
Bueatiful Scene
Huimin Jingmai Mangjing Resort
the core attraction in the ancestral history of tea culture tourism project of Pu’er’s three surrounding counties. Contains 8 tourist cottage composition including Jingmaishan conservation area, Huimin integrated services town, Fula hot springs, Manggeng, Mengben, Jingmai Grand Village, Rugan, Wengji, the upper Mangjing, the lower Mangjing, and Manghong. Mangjing was listed as “Top 10 of China’s most attractive leisure village.
Nanling Mengbing Longtang Ancient Village
a Lahu village over 70 km away from the county seat. “Yekuo Lahu” holy mountain locates in the village. Villages in Mengbing maintains a simple folk custom, retains Lahu traditional houses, dances and other characteristics, and Longtong Village stands for the most typical one. The village has only a few households, planting bananas and other fruit trees around the houses, on the thatched roofs rising smoke from kitchen chimneys, inadvertently constituting an ancient beautiful scene, also making the village a fairy wonderland away from the hustle and bustle.
Lahu Custom Park
the park covers an area over 300 acres, showing Lahu history, Lahu literature & art, and Lahu tradition, it is a tourism area combines leisure and entertainment as one.
Jiujing Laodabao
the famous village of Lahu dancing, it is the heritage base for “Mu PA Mi Pa” the national non-material cultural heritage and famous Lahu Creation Epic. Tourists can experience the traditional Lusheng dance, swing dance and popular “Happy Lahu””It Is Reluctant”.
Cultural Experiences
Ethnic Festival Activity
Gourd Festival
April 8~10, Lahu People in Lancang celebrate by dancing and exchanging glutinous rice cakes, to express the wish for a bright future of this nationality come out from a gourd.
New Rice Festival
at the beginning of the 8th Lunar month, villagers from Dongwen and other villages bring newly-harvested crops and other special food to celebrate their grand harvest. Due to the harvest time varies every year, the festival could fall on a random day in early Augest.
Delicacies
Blood pork
scarlet row pork and uncooked blood dressed with emerald charge mixture, wild color and wild taste.
Tea leaves
Lahu and Dai people in Lancang obtain tea leaves and make them special dishes such as tea-boiled rice, cold servered tea leaves, and sour tea leaves.
Lancang chicken
Flowers
Many well-known or unknown wild flowers often appear in the Lancang local restaurants, the most common ones are banana flower and white flowers that are similar to the Bauhinia Flower.
Restaurants
Hualong Grand Hotel
Address: Minzu St. Langcang.
Average Consumption: 80 yuan
Hotels
Lancang Kangxin Inn
Address: Huimin Tourism Town
Consumption: starting at 488 yuan
Tel: 0879-7521888
Yunnan Jingmai Brilliant Resort and SPA
Address: Organic Tea Plantation of Brilliant Jingmaishan Pu’er Tea Manor
Consumption: starting at 3240 yuan
Tel: 0879-7525666
Lancang A’baila Leisure Villa
Address: Fengwangshenshu Rd. Mangjing Village in Huimin Town
Consumption: starting at 380 yuan
Tel: 15087982676
Souvenirs
Pu’er Tea(Jingmai Tea)
Made of Dashu tea leaves produced in Jingmaishan, with special process refined.
Traveling Info
Best Time to Travel
Lancang is available all the year round, February to May is the proper time to enjoy the mature spring tea in tea plantation, late May to late September for tea in rainy season, September to November for autumn tea.
Restaura[FS:Page]nt
1. Zhana Leisure Attic(Lahu flavor)
Jianshe Rd.
0879-723697
2. Lahu Hometown(Lahu flavor)
Jianshe Rd.
13577963444
3. Yeyan Restaurant
Daqiaotou in Menglang Town
0879-7234366
4. Red Mansion Restaurant
Dacaoba Reservoir
0879-7227359
5. Daixiangyuan(Dai flavor)
Ring Rd.
13320471106
6. Chayuan Restaurant
Mengben, Jingmai
13987964434
7. Jingmai Family(Dai flavor)
Manggeng, Jingmai
13769926819
8. A’ka Hearth Liquor
en route Jingmai Dasan
13577989625
Hotels
1.Lancang Inn
(0879-7221656)
#26 Jianshe Rd. Lancang
2. Western Yunnan Wan Inn
(0879-72334567)
Menglang St. Lancang
3. Xiaokang Inn
(0879-7227008)
Donglang Rd. Lancang
4. Hualong Hotel
(0879-7236999)
Minzu St. Lancang
5. Lancang Chaxiang Inn
(0879-7228796)
6. Lancang Yaliang Hotel
(0879-7222756)
7. Jinfu Hotel
(0879-7231998)
Auto Repairing Shops
Pengpo Auto Repair
13987912998
New Era Auto Repair
7227959
Shopping Stores
Lanhuahua Ethnic Crafts
Minzu St.
Royal Tea Manor
The Intersection of G214 & Wenquan Rd.
Shengda Ancient Tea Manor
Beside Yuanju KTV Salon
Daxing Discount Supermarket
Jianshe Rd.
Tianshengxiang Supermarket
Jianshe Rd.
Bars
Tsingtao Brewery Beer City Lancang Branch
Athena KTV Salon
Lahu Square
New Giants KTV Salon
Minzu St.
Sunshine Sukh Niwas
Former Silan Rd.