# Four days, two daughters and no snow mountain

A family of 7 travellers from Malaysia had 4 days in Yunnan in August 2026, with two girls aged 7 and 11 and their grandmother in the group. They wanted flowers, not a snow mountain — so we cut Lijiang and Yulong Snow Mountain and built the trip around Kunming and Dali instead.

> "Flowers really are a Yunnan speciality. Thank you! I feel safe recommending you."

**Trip facts:** 7 travellers · Malaysia · Aug 2026 · 4 days

## A short window, two children, one grandmother

The flights were already booked when we started talking, and they landed in Kunming at 1:25 in the morning with two girls aged 7 and 11 and their grandmother in the group. Four days was all the family had.

She told us straight away what she did not want:

- no snow mountain
- no Shangri-La
- as few hotel changes as possible

What she did want was flowers.

## What we took out of the plan

- We dropped Lijiang and Yulong Snow Mountain entirely, since she was not going up the mountain anyway and the drive would have eaten a day.
- Kunming stayed, and Dali got two nights in a sea-view room.
- The spare time went into flowers: Dounan flower market in Kunming, Asia's biggest fresh-cut flower market with flowers all year round, and slow days along Erhai Lake in Dali.
- They also asked how they would manage six suitcases on the high-speed train, so we arranged cars at both stations instead of leaving them to carry everything through the platforms.

## How the four days went

- **Arrival night:** they reached the hotel at 3:30 in the morning and slept in.
- **First day:** Dianchi Lake and the flower market.
- **Then:** the high-speed train to Dali, Shuanglang, a boat on Erhai and Jinshuan Island.
- **Next day:** Longkan pier, Wencun, Luwo Mountain and Xizhou old town.
- **Last day:** Dali old town and the S-bend road at Panxi, before the train back to Kunming and a 2:30 a.m. flight home.

They asked us to put one room as a king bed so she could sleep with both daughters, and we changed the room plan before they arrived.

## Her words afterwards

She wrote to us a week after getting home, still catching up on sleep, and then did something we did not ask for: she sent our number to a friend. That friend wrote to us because our photos from the trip looked like fun. Her own summary was simple: she trusts us to look after people she sends.

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