Shaping Monday Market in Dali

Shaping Market, (About 30km north of Dali). Shaping Town offers a lively weekly market with plenty of local color. The market starts early. A great chance to see local farmers out in force and literally watch plenty of horse trading. Not much to buy (unless you are a farmer) but gives a feel for like in a small country town.

Shaping Market is on the north of the Butterfly Spring, on the foot of the Mt. Cangshan, and off the north bank of Erhai. It has a convenient transportation for the Dali highway, Zhenzang highway and the Huanhai highway combine right there. The long-historical Shaping market is ratified by the government of Yunnan province to trade cultural relics inferior to the third class.

Multitudinous curios, jade article, embroider are sold there, alluring many tourists around the country and abroad. Therefore, it got the reputation of “the foreigners’ street”. In addition, if one wants to travel from to Lijiang or Shangti-la, he has to pass Shaping Market. Each year, more than 10 million tourists pass by the Shaping Market.