Atlas of China
Yunnanyi 云南驿Yúnnán Yì
National heritage site · Dali, Yunnan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Dali
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Yunnanyi
A village on the old caravan road south-east of Xiangyun, named after the Han-dynasty Yunnan County seated here and the post station ('yi') kept on the route from the Yuan to the Qing dynasties. About 1.7 km of the old stone road survives, lined with shopfronts, caravan inns, family compounds, ancestral halls and temples mostly of the mid-to-late Qing, and the Qian family's former caravan inn now houses the Yunnan Horse Caravan Culture Museum. Both the village buildings and its stretch of the Tea Horse Road are national heritage sites.
How to get to Yunnanyi
About 20 km south-east of Xiangyun town, roughly an hour by road from Dali's Xiaguan.
Nearby
- Weishan Ancient Town 巍山古城 40 km
An unhurried Ming grid town south of Dali, where the Nanzhao kingdom was born
Also within 20 km: Shuimu Mountain 水目山 (under 10 km), Tianshengqiao Natural Bridge, Midu 弥渡天生桥 (20 km).
On the map
Open Yunnanyi on the illustrated map to see the terrain around it and what else is close, and to add it to a trip.
Open Yunnanyi on the map