Tickets and booking
Admission is priced the same all year, every day of the week: 90 RMB for adults, 45 RMB for the half-price ticket. The data pack documents no online or advance-booking channel, so the practical default is buying at the gate on arrival; to confirm current arrangements before you go, the listed phone lines are 0871-64311255 and 0871-68279327. Every concession category is document-based, so carry the relevant ID or certificate (full list under cost-breakdown).
Entrance and routes
The site sits at 1310 Dianchi Road, Xishan District, Kunming, on the shore of Dian Lake. The documented arrival route is bus 94 to the Haigeng Park stop, followed by a short walk to the entrance. The only other access point named in the data is the southwest gate, which doubles as the boarding point for the cable car to Xishan Forest Park — worth noting if you intend to continue on to the hills instead of backtracking.
Photo spots
The pack names no specific viewpoints or photogenic compounds inside the village, so anchor your shots on what is documented: the setting on the shore of Dian Lake, and the cable car that leaves the southwest gate for Xishan Forest Park. Hours run to 22:10 daily, so dusk and after-dark visits fall within opening hours if you want the lakefront in low light.
Timing and crowds
Opening hours are 09:00-22:10, Monday through Sunday, all year. The pack contains no visitor-volume or crowd data, so no crowd pattern can be stated; the reliable planning numbers are the hours and the suggested duration of 3 hours or more. That fits easily inside one day — an opening-time arrival leaves more than 13 hours before close, and the latest arrival that still clears the 3-hour minimum is around 19:10.
Walking and effort
The pack documents no trail lengths, terrain grades or internal shuttles, so the honest effort estimate is the suggested duration: 3 hours or more, on foot. The only mechanized link in the data is the outbound cable car from the southwest gate to Xishan Forest Park; it connects the two sites and does not replace walking inside the village. If you are pairing the two and want to limit walking, plan your route to finish at the southwest gate.
Getting there
Two documented options. Bus: take route 94 to the Haigeng Park stop and walk to the entrance. Cable car: a service runs between the village and neighboring Xishan Forest Park, boarding at the village’s southwest gate, at about 40 RMB one way or 70 RMB round trip. For a taxi or ride-hail, the navigation address is 1310 Dianchi Road, Xishan District, Kunming.
Cost breakdown
Fixed costs from the pack: adult admission 90 RMB, half-price ticket 45 RMB, valid all year. Half price with valid ID: minors aged 7-18 (18 included), full-time undergraduate students and below, and seniors aged 60 up to but not including 70.
Free entry with valid ID: children aged 6 or under (or 1.2 m and shorter); seniors aged 70 and above, or holders of the honored-retirement certificate; active-duty, disabled and retired military personnel, retired cadres and retired sergeants; disabled visitors (blind, double lower-limb or other severe disabilities, with one escort admitted free); holders of national, provincial or municipal model-worker certificates; serving, retired or disabled fire-rescue personnel and fire-service academy students; journalists with a National Press and Publication Administration press card plus an interview letter, processed at the site’s marketing department; and licensed tour guides and travel-agency managers. Seniors aged 80 and above with a senior preferential card may bring one escort in free. The only add-on price documented is the Xishan Forest Park cable car, about 40 RMB one way or 70 RMB round trip — an adult doing the round trip pays roughly 160 RMB all-in.
