From Lijiang, driving about 3hrs to Shibaoshan in Jianchuan county. And you will visit Thousands of Lions(Qianshishan) Mountain. Thousand Lions Mountain is 1.5 km from Jianchuan. These stone-carved lions are from the Song (906-1279) to Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). You will find countless lions and endless steps.  Stone Carving Jianchuan has a long history of stone carving.Influenced by the grotto of Shizhongshan Mountain,the crafts of stone carving is very skillful,especially in the area of Meiyuan and Yangcen around Jianyang Town.The most outstanding stone carving artwares here are thousands of stone lions in Manxianlin Qianshishan Mountain.The magnificent scene is sure to amaze you.
 
Then drive to Shaxi Old Town, which is nestled deep in the Himalayan foothills of southwest China's Yunnan Province. Shaxi (pronounced 'Shah Shee'), is a culturally diverse town and to the Bai and Yi minority peoples. You will walk around the Shaxi Old Town, Shaxi River, Xinjiao Temple, stage in the quare and some ancient coutyards with local people. 
 
Shaxi once played an important role as a bustling trade station on the Tea and Horse Caravan Road, an important branch of the Silk Road. Just over one thousand years ago, this ancient trade route connected Tibet with Eastern China. In exchange for teas from Yunnan, Tibetans traded their famous breed of horse to Song Dynasty officials in eastern China, who were busy defending their territory from invaders from the north. Thus the Tea and Horse Caravan was born. Shaxi became the main trade station along this route.

Overnight at Laomadian Lodge

Today you will trek about one hour and a half from Shaxi Old Town up to Shibaoshan Mountain.

Visit the Shizhong temple in the mountain. There are eight grottoes of Shizhong temple for 800 years old. You will trek in the forest from Shizhong Temple to Baoxiang Temple, you hike 3 hours to look around that area, in the mountains there are many small old temples. On the path, you can see very nice views (forests, fields with crops, villages in big valley…). Baoxiang temple is a Chinese Buddhism Temple from Yuan Dynesty.
 
In this area about 3 hundred wild monkeys live with kulapatis around the Baoxiang temple. You shoud prepare some food for these monkeys f you want to paly with them. If you do not have food, please do not do any guesture to these monkeys, otherwise they will be very angry and bite you because they usually misunderstand guesture lunguage.

Drive back to Lijiang in the late afternoon.
Transfer to hotel/airport.
Service ends.