Yunlong County Travel Guide

Yunlong County (云龙县) is a county in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture located in southern Yunnan Province, China.

Yunlong county is located at west part of Dali district, total population amount is 200000, covering area is 4400.95 square kilometers, it is the south end of three rivers collecting together sight scene area which as world natural legacy, with long history, thick and deep culture, united nationality, pure national tradition and rich tourism resource, it is as treasure land for development.

Tianchi Lake in Yunlong County
Tianchi Lake in Yunlong County, called the Shuchang Sea, extends one square kilometer at an elevation of 2,552 meters in Wubao Mountain, 20-odd kilometers west of the Yunlong county seat. The crystal-clear water is surrounded by green hills. Nearly 100 species of animals and plants are found in the lakeside forests. The lake area is a second-resort of Yunnan Province.

Nuodeng ancient village and natural universe diagram view cultural tour area is located in Yunlong County. The natural diagram is on the back part of the county, since the river has been rounds into a “S” shape here, it become the natural geography spectacular sight of the formation which is similar religion of Taoism’s “Universe” pattern; at “Universe” diagram’s both east and south has the religion of Taoism buildings, the natural view and the humanities views all unify on the religion of Taoism principle, becoming Chinese traditional religion of Taoism in “Trinity” and the cultural tour view of the Confucianism “the nature and man united as one”. The whole view district includes four scene zones: “Natural universe diagram” zone, thousands years Bai minority village zone, Hutou Mountain district and Tianchi Pond zone.