香格里拉

Shangri-LaTravel Budget Guide

Tier 3·IATA: DIG

When to visit

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Super-peak (national holiday)PeakShoulderOff-season
Holiday surges
  • extremeSpring Festival· Lunar Jan 1–7 (late Jan / mid-Feb)
  • highQingming (Tomb-Sweeping)· Apr 4–6
  • extremeLabor Day· May 1–5
  • highDragon Boat Festival· Lunar May 5 (~Jun)
  • highMid-Autumn Festival· Lunar Aug 15 (~Sep/Oct)
  • extremeNational Day Golden Week· Oct 1–7
Taxi flag-drop:¥10starting fare

Attractions

Pudacuo National Park普达措国家公园5A$20.40 (CN¥138)
Tiger Leaping Gorge (Shangri-La)虎跳峡(香格里拉段)4A$6.65 (CN¥45)
Sumtsenling Scenic Area松赞林景区4A$13.30 (CN¥90)
Shangri-La Balagezong Scenic Area香格里拉巴拉格宗风景名胜区4A$24.39 (CN¥165)
Ganden Sumtsenling Monastery噶丹松赞林寺—Heritage Site$13.30 (CN¥90)
Baishuitai Terraces白水台—$4.43 (CN¥30)
Dukezong Old Town (Shangri-La)独克宗古城—Heritage Site$0.00 (CN¥0)
Napa Lake (Yila Grassland)纳帕海(依拉草原)—$2.96 (CN¥20)
Mount Haba哈巴雪山—$128.14 (CN¥867)
Mount Shika石卡雪山—$27.79 (CN¥188)
Shudu Lake属都湖—$20.40 (CN¥138)
Abujicuo阿布吉措—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Giant Prayer Wheel of Dafo Temple大佛寺转经筒—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Shambhala Mandala Cultural Exhibition Center香巴拉时轮坛城文化博览中心—$14.78 (CN¥100)
Upper Tiger Leaping Gorge上虎跳峡—$9.61 (CN¥65)
Wudi Lake无底湖—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Guishan Park龟山公园—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Xiaozhongdian Flower Sea小中甸花海—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Middle Tiger Leaping Gorge, Shangri-La, Yunnan云南香格里拉中虎跳峡—$9.61 (CN¥65)
Great Prayer Flags大经幡—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Nixi Black Pottery Transmission Centre尼西黑陶传习中心—Heritage SiteFree

Hotels

Budget

$19.51 (CN¥132)
/night

Standard

$26.46 (CN¥179)
/night

Comfort

$53.36 (CN¥361)
/night

Tiers are grouped by hotel star rating — Budget ≈ 2★, Standard ≈ 3★, Comfort ≈ 4★ and up. Figures are citywide average nightly rates, so an individual hotel may sit above or below its tier.

Food

Budget meal

$4.29 (CN¥29)
/meal

Mid-range

$10.20 (CN¥69)
/meal

High-end

$32.37 (CN¥219)
/meal
Must try:
  • Yak meat hotpot
    牦牛肉火锅 · Máoniú ròu huǒguō
  • Highland barley cakes
    青稞饼 · Qīngkē bǐng
  • Yak butter tea
    酥油茶 · Sūyóu chá
  • Matsutake chicken soup
    松茸炖鸡 · Sōngróng dùnjī
  • Termite mushrooms
    鸡纵菌 · Jīzōngjùn
  • Tibetan blood sausage
    藏式血肠 · Zàngshì xuècháng
  • Yak milk yogurt
    牦牛酸奶 · Máoniú suānnǎi
  • Roasted barley flour (tsampa)
    糌粑 · Zānba
Styles:Fast food · Street snacks · Yunnan

Culture & Heritage

Famous Snacks (6)

Tsampa (Roasted Highland-Barley Flour)Famous Snacks
The daily staple of Tibetan life—highland barley roasted and ground, then kneaded with butter tea into a hand-formed dough, the millennium-old taste of the high plateau.
Butter Tea (Po Cha)Famous Snacks
A hot highland drink churned from yak butter, brick tea and salt that wards off cold and fatigue, indispensable to Tibetan hospitality and daily life.
Highland-Barley Wine (Qingke Jiu)Famous Snacks
A mellow, lightly sweet Tibetan wine brewed from highland barley, the festive and hospitality drink of Tibetan households.
Air-Dried Yak JerkyFamous Snacks
Air-dried strips of plateau yak, chewy and deeply savoury, the classic taste travellers carry home from the snow country.
Highland-Barley FlatbreadFamous Snacks
A hearty flatbread baked from highland-barley flour, crisp at the crust and chewy within, rich with the grain's own fragrance—the plain daily bread of the plateau Tibetan home.
Shuiqi Baba (Steamed Tibetan Flatbread)Famous Snacks
A Tibetan steamed bread cooked through by steam, soft and lightly sweet with the grain's own fragrance, a characteristic bread of Shangri-La's homes and street stalls.

Intangible Cultural Heritage (4)

Guozhuang Dance (Diqing Guozhuang)National ICH · Batch 第一批国家级非物质文化遗产
The Tibetan "circle dance," men and women joining hands around a bonfire to stamp and sing, the most emblematic folk dance of Diqing; a first-batch national ICH item from 2006.
Pottery Firing Technique (Tibetan Black Pottery)National ICH · Batch 第二批国家级非物质文化遗产
A black-pottery handcraft passed down for over two thousand years in Tangdui village of Nixi, Shangri-La, its wares simple in form and deep black in hue; a second-batch national ICH item from 2008.
Tibetan Thangka (Karma Gadri School)Provincial ICH
A leading school of Tibetan religious scroll painting, known for realistic landscape and subdued palette, taught at dedicated academies in Shangri-La; a Yunnan provincial ICH item.
Tibetan Butter SculptureProvincial ICH
Religious offerings shaped from coloured butter, vivid in colour and exquisite in detail, an important craft of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, with Diqing among its Yunnan centres.
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