Chuxiong Travel Guide

Chuxiong (楚雄市; 楚雄市; Chǔxióng shì) is a city and prefecture capital of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the Yunnan province of China.
Chuxiong is about 127 km west of Yunnan's capital city of Kunming on highway GZ65. Chuxiong City is nestled between mountain ranges on all sides in a plateau region at 5800 ft (roughly 1750 meters). Chuxiong City has a population of 130,000 inhabitants, and the entire Chuxiong Automomous Prefecture has an estimated 2,542,530 inhabitants.
Chuxiong is the first stop from Kunming on the way to Dali and Lijiang. Dali is 180 km northwest of Chuxiong, or about a 2.5 hour drive on GZ65. Lijiang is about 6 hours from Chuxiong, and Lugu Lake is about 11 hours north, on the Sichuan border. (...) more....

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