Maoniuping Scenic Area
Alpine cable-car meadow beneath the Jade Dragon range, with a wooden loop trail and a tiny prayer-flag shrine.
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This guide to Maoniuping Scenic Area outside Lijiang starts by untangling a mix-up: two very different places in Yunnan share the name Yak Meadow, and only one sits a quick cable-car ride from town, tucked against Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. It follows the boardwalk looping across the grass near twenty-eight hundred fifty meters, above the Heishui River and old-growth forest, with a view of the mountain's thirteen peaks lined up in a jagged row. You'll also find a small Tibetan Buddhist shrine near the upper station, with prayer wheels, a white stupa and flags snapping in the wind, on pasture Yi and Tibetan herders have grazed for generations.
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