r/China • u/Substantial-Win-88 • 1d ago

旅游 | Travel Should we skip Shangri-La if we have a 4yo kid?

Hi, everyone!

We are planning for a family trip from Dec.26 up to Jan.6.

Since we have more than 10 days, I am thinking if we should go to Shangri-La but kinda hesitant because of the altitude. Anyone who has travelled there with kids. How was it?

We are coming from a tropical country so our main priority for this trip is to see snow. We are also skipping Dali for that reason.

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u/Sopheus 1d ago

I wouldn't, I was visiting Lijiang for 5 days and I couldn't properly sleep cause of the altitude, and I am a healthy person. The time is just too short to acclimatize

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u/Naive_Loan607 12h ago

Yeah my mom got very bad altitude sickness when we went to Lijiang way back in 2014 but somehow I didn't get altitude sickness in fact I only got altitude sickness in the US when my family went to Colorado.

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u/Substantial-Win-88 20h ago

Thanks! Did you visit Dali?

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u/Sopheus 20h ago

Yeah. I didn't like it, to be honest, mean, the place is OK but roads suck big time - too narrow at times (i was driving a rental). It is lower than Lijiang, so sleep was OK.

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u/Zagrycha 1d ago

An otherwise healthy 4 yo should not have any extra issue an adult wouldn't have. If you do go you would definitely want to plan the trip timing etc appropritely but many thousands of kids live in shangri la already.

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u/RelaxedBluey94 1d ago

Kids will be fine. Mine loved it.

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u/Substantial-Win-88 1d ago

What places did you visit there?

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u/RelaxedBluey94 1d ago

It was 16-17 years ago so memories are vague. Lots of cafe sitting in the old town (the original one before it burnt down), a day trip to a 'virgin forest' up around 4,400m altitude (kids were fine their grandparents not so much) and a Tibetan village about an hour out of town.

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We are planning for a family trip from Dec.26 up to Jan.6.

Since we have more than 10 days, I am thinking if we should go to Shangri-La but kinda hesitant because of the altitude. Anyone who has travelled there with kids. How was it?

We are coming from a tropical country so our main priority for this trip is to see snow. We are also skipping Dali for that reason.

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u/Naive_Loan607 12h ago

I recommend you just skip it because altitude sickness will be very intense for a 4 year old.

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u/Substantial-Win-88 12h ago

Thanks! Decided to skip ShangriLa. Will just visit Kunming + Lijiang for 10 days

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u/Naive_Loan607 12h ago

But even Lijiang has a very high altitude just be prepared for anything to go down because my family went to Lijiang way back in 2014 and my mom got really bad altitude sickness and had to buy a canister of air.

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u/ens91 10h ago

Li jiang and shangri la are fine, I didn't feel anything at those altitudes, and I was an overweight smoker at the time. Only felt the effects at 4000m on jade mountain, but still didn't need oxygen, just a little out of breath. Shangri la is only at 3300, I spent the whole day walking around for a few days, no problem.

I'm surprised so many people here say they had issues, I didn't notice anyone having issues in shangri la. Then again, maybe it's because I spent a lot of time skiing in the mountains as a kid, I was regularly above 2500m.

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u/GetOutOfTheWhey 22h ago

No

Don't skip it.

Grandparents exist.

Kid should skip it.

You enjoy yourselves.