Cangshan’s tickets and cableway fees are really troublesome.
The suggestion to the poster is that the poster decides the tour route first, and does not need to buy the ropeway fee in advance. If you take the ropeway, the price of each ropeway is different. You can buy one-way tickets or round-trip tickets. Therefore, it is recommended to buy ropeway tickets when you arrive on site. For online tickets, many are purchased in bundles, specifying a separate ropeway for round-trip travel.
There are currently three cableways in Cangshan Mountain: Zhonghe Cableway, Ximatan Cableway, and Gantong Cableway. If you want to save worry and effort, you can go all the way to the Ximatan Cableway, which goes directly to the top of the mountain. When you get to the middle of the mountain, you can get off the cableway and enjoy the scenery halfway up the mountain, or you can take the sightseeing slide. (If you decide to take the Ximatan Ropeway, you can purchase a large ticket package directly online)
If you want to take the Yudai Yunyou route, it is recommended that you go up the mountain from Gantong Temple or Gantong Cableway, all the way to Zhonghe Temple, or take the Zhonghe Cableway down the mountain. The distance from Gantong Temple to Zhonghe Temple is about 16 kilometers. This is suitable for people who like hiking
If you don’t take the cableway in Cangshan, the entrance fee is 40 yuan. There is an inconspicuous entrance in front of the Ximatan cableway gate.
The Ximatan Ropeway is divided into half-journey and full-journey. For the half-journey, the half-journey ropeway fee to Yudai Yunyou Road is 150 yuan. If it is the full journey to Yuju Peak Ximatan, the round trip fee is 280 yuan. There is more than 1 kilometer of climbing road from the gate to the ropeway ride. If you take a battery car, you need to pay 10 yuan. If you reach the Seven Dragon Girl Pond halfway, walk down at the cableway transfer station. The drop is 300 meters (from 2900 to 2600 meters). There are small steps every time you go back and forth. If you don’t want to walk, you can sit on the smooth track at your own expense and it costs 50 yuan for a round trip. Yuan, 30 Yuan one way.  
For the Gantong Cableway, it is free to visit Gantong Temple and Jizhao Temple. You can visit Gantong Temple and then purchase a cableway ticket (includes Cangshan Ticket), and then visit Jizhao Temple.
Zhonghe Cableway is a hanging basket type cableway, and the tourist attraction is Zhonghe Temple.
The three ropeways connected in series are the Yudai Yunyou Road.
If you are interested, you can check out my travel notes:
One person, one backpack, 54 days, two countries and one province: Yunnan Province 32 days (Part 2) Kunming
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Jizu Mountain Tengchong
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