A three hours' direct flight to Lijiang

The direct flight from Nanjing to Lijiang, which was exclusively run and operated by Jiangsu International Travel Agency of China Youth Travel Agency, has officially been put into service officially on July 12, 2008. And tThis brings people of Nanjing people more conveniences for when going to Lijiangtraveling. Nanjing tourists could can fly to Lijiang directly and don’t need transfer flights anymore.

It is known that there are three flights every week to Lijiang, which sets off from Nanjing Lukou International Airport at 11:05 in the morning and takes off from Lijiang Sanyi Airport at 3:10 in the afternoon every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The whole journey takes about three hours and ten minutes. Before the operation of the direct flight, passengers going to Lijiang had to transfer flight in Kunming and wait in the waiting room for more than three hours. The whole journey will would have an estimated time oftake about eight hours, said the superintendent of the Jiangsu International Travel Agency.

After the direct flight to Lijiang has beenbeing put into service, various kinds of travel forms, like free travels, semi-independent travels, group travels, have becombecame e available. On the basis of the new direct flight to Lijiang, eight group travel lines have been developed. Taking the sSix-day trips have also been added to the lines and visitors can see thefor example, besides the ancient town of Lijiang and Shuhe, scenes of the Shangri-La, and the Song Zanlin temple which possess the fame of the little Potala Palace, have also been added to this trip lines.

For tourists who are fond of free travel, travel agencies provide more detailed information on inns and hotels for satisfying all walks of the needs of tourist’s needs. For touristthose who prefer semi-independent travel, they can take Lijiang as their main travel spots and , Shangri-La and Lugu Lake as accessory secondary travel spots.