We had a wonderful and memorable time in Lijiang with Jess as our tour guide. Jess unlike other tour guide treat my family members like friends, taught us a lot about the Lijiang culture and brought us to taste the local naxi food :) The best part about the private tour with Jess is that she is really sincere, caring and all she want is that all of us enjoy our trip in Lijiang, unlike the usual commercial tour where the tour trip is really rush and not enough time to enjoy the beautiful city like Lijiang. We had a 2 days tour in lijiang. First day of the tour, we travelled to the Jade Snow Mountain, baisha village, ganhai, blue moon valley. As time permits, Jess brought us to Shuhe old town. I never regret travelling to Shuhe, it is much more ancient looking, very peaceful and much more beautiful as compared to lijiang old town. I would highly recommend people to visit Shuhe.
Throughout the trip, Jess (chinese name: xiao yu) was very attentive. She knew that we would not get used to the high attitude and my father in law's health, hence she would keep checking on our health conditions, remind us to use the oxygen bottle, and even bought us hot ginger tea at the Jade snow mountain. She also provided useful tips so that we can avoid the usual tourist traps e.g. to buy the oxygen bottles, medicine for high attitude sickness, rent the warm rain proof coats etc at the town area, as these will get more expensive at the mountain area. Note that the waterproof rain coats are much cleaner than those at the mountain area.
The next day, we went to Tiger Leaping Gorges, Shangri-la first tibetians village, the wildgrass land and a temple with the golden bell (forgot the name of that place). Along the journey, we get to view the pretty shangri-la view. I have never seen such pretty nature view in my entire life. As time is tight, we were fortunate to get to taste dali food, even though we did not travel to dali. The trip was well planned by Jess and the meals were equally local and delicious.
Overall, I have enjoyed my trip in lijiang and really glad that we chose Jess as our private tour guide. We would highly recommend Jess as a private tour guide to anyone who would like to experience lijiang local culture.
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