Dali

Butterfly Spring

    　　Beside the spring an ancient camphor tree spreads its boughs over the pool. Each year during the fourth month of the lunar calendar when the ancient tree gives forth fragrant white and yellow flowers, thousands of butterflies flutter among its branches. Then linking head with tail, they hang themselves on the boughs like strings of colorful beads.

Cangshan Mountain

    　　Also called Diancang, Cangshan Mountain thrusts up in the fashion of a huge screen wall in the western part of Dali. Malong, the main peak, soars 4,122 meters into the sky under a snow mantle that never thaws. 

Erhai Lake

    　　In the shape of an er, meaning the ear in Chinese, Erhai Lake in the east of Dali covers 250 square kilometers in area at an elevation of 1,980 meters.

Dali Three Pagodas

    　　Located at the foot of Yinglo Peak of Cangshan Mountain northwest of Dali City, the three pagodas stand where the ancient Chongsheng Monastery once stood; hence they are called Chongsheng Three Pagodas.