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Tongle Lisu Village 同乐村Tónglè Cūn
National heritage site · Diqing, Yunnan
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Diqing
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Tongle Lisu Village
A Lisu village of about 130 households on a slope above the east bank of the Lancang (upper Mekong) at about 2,200 metres, founded more than 200 years ago. Its 137 houses are mostly log cabins of crossed round timbers with wooden-shingle roofs weighted with stones, living quarters upstairs and space for livestock below, and field huts, fire houses and water mills stand on the opposite slope and in the valley below.
How to get to Tongle Lisu Village
Near Yezhi town, now part of Deqin County, roughly 2–3 hours by road north of Weixi town; carry your passport for checkpoints.
Nearby
- Nujiang Grand Canyon & Bingzhongluo 怒江大峡谷与丙中洛 60 km
A deep, remote river canyon of Lisu and Nu villages, mission churches and a horseshoe bend
Also within 20 km: Yezhi Tusi Residence 叶枝土司衙署 (under 10 km), Shouguo Temple, Kangpu 寿国寺 (under 10 km).
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