• Yufeng Monastery (Yufeng si )
  
  
  

  This small lama monastery is on a hillside about five km past the town of Baisha . The monastery sits at the foot of Mountain Yulongxue , and was established in 1756AD . The main attraction nowadays is the “ camellia tree of 10000 blossoms’ . Ten thousand might be something of an exaggeration , but locals claim that the tree produces at least 4000 between February and April . A monk on the grouds risked his life to keep the tree secretly waterd during the years of the Cultural Revolution .

  
  

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• Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (Yulong xue shan )
  
  

  The formidable Jade Dragon Snow Mountain dominate the Lijiang Plain , defining its western edge with their towering mass . The mountains’ western flanks drop steeply to the Upper yangzi River ( Jinsha Jiang ) , helping to form magnificent , deep gorges , and the highest peak is shanzidou , at 5596 . Storms
  frequently rage around the glaciers , rocks and perpetual snowfields of the five primary summits , however , the alpine meadows on the lower slope , where herders sing to their goats and cattle and collectors of wild medicinal herbs go happily about their business , are excellent hiking country

   

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• Baisha Mural
  
  

  	The Baisha Mural is located in the Baisha Village on the plain north of Lijiang . the mural was made from 1385 to 1619 , employing the eclectic artist energies of Chines Daoist , Tibetan and Naxi Buddhists and local dongba shamans . This rich fusion had resulted in a tremendously powerful art , heavy in spirit and awe-inspiring in its presentation of the mystical world . Dominated by black , silver , dark green , gold and red colours , the murals in the back hall , overlaid with centuries of brown soot , are doomladen and bizarre , the scenes and
  	figures , some still vivid in detail , are largely taken from Tibetan Buddhist iconography and include the wheel of life , judges of the underworld , the damned , titans and gods , Buddhas and bodhisattvas . There are trigrams , lotus flowers and even Sanskrit inscriptions on the ceiling . The deliberate damage done to the paintings is apparent and terrible , but the loss of the irreplaceable wooden statuary that filled the temple , of which there is no trace , is even more tragic .

   
  

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