Glacier Park, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

Glacier Park
The major attraction in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is the Glacier Park, where a cable car can take you to the summit. 

 

Wooden trails of 300 metres have been built in 2002, you might follow the trails to the highest point to worship this mountain.  The glacier on the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is the southmost glacier in China.

 

Must see

 

Glacier Park

    

Yak Meadow

    

Yunshanping

 

The Naxi people divide snow-mountains into white, green and black. The snow-mountains with glaciers are green ones. There is a big serac forest in the areas with an elevation of over 4500 meters in Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.

 

Know More

 

In the Naxi language Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is "Wuluyoucuige", which means the place for loves that die for their love.

 

The Naxi is a people that will pursue love bravely. Many lovers choose to die for their love. Peter Goullart called Lijiang the city of people dying for love.in Jade Dragon Mountain in order to protect their love from being ruined by worldly conceptions.

 

In Dongba classic work Lubanlurao, there is a story like this: a couple sang songs while walking. They passed by the first kingdom in Jade Dragon that was covered with all kinds of thistlles and thorns.

 

Then they crossed the infertile second kingdom of Jade Dragon. Finally, they came to the third kingdom at the peak with the snow on it.It is an ideal place like Eden.

 

They didn't want worldy wealth and even the heavenly dwelling that god enjoys. They wanted the third kingdom, this paradise on the top of Jade Dragon. In this place, people ride on tigers and herb white deer. They get up in the songs of birds and drink the wine made from the white snow.