Originally Posted by
GinFizz
If you end up wanting more time in either Lijiang or Dali then just skip the Stone Forest, as you are going anyway to the mother of all Karst outcrops in China, namely Zhangjiajie.
Thank you. It will not be easy to safe time in Kunming. Train from Dali will arrive at 05:15, train to Zhangjiajie will depart at 07:00. If the train from Dali will be delayed it could be to narrow to buy a ticket for the next train. And of course this will extend the travel time to 33 hours in one part, without a break.
I dont want to stay to long in the big cities, so maybe I will follow your advice, but only if I could buy a ticket to Zhangjiajie in Dali or Lijiang.