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Songtsam Lodge Cizhong
Cizhong, Yunnan, China · Songtsam · Core Luxury
Songtsam Lodge Cizhong sits across the Mekong from the century-old Cizhong Catholic Church, a Gothic-meets-Chinese building French missionaries began rebuilding in 1909 after Tibetan lamas burned the original in 1905. Those missionaries also planted Rose Honey grapevines for sacramental wine, a French Bordeaux varietal wiped out by blight back home but still growing in Cizhong's vineyards today. Guests can hand-pick grapes during harvest season and tour the lodge's own winery.
- 26 rooms
- Opened 2019
- Neighborhood: 茨姑
About Songtsam Lodge Cizhong
- About 80 percent of Cizhong's mixed Tibetan and Naxi households are practicing Catholic today, one of the highest shares of any Tibetan-region village, a legacy of the missionaries who arrived in the 1800s.
- The Rose Honey grape the missionaries planted for sacramental wine was wiped out in France by a blight after 1860; Cizhong's vineyards, some worked by the same families for generations, still grow it.
- Black-and-white photographs taken by Western explorers during China's Republic era, roughly the 1910s to 1940s, hang throughout the lodge, documenting the valley's mixed-faith history.
- The lodge's 26 rooms sit in the dry, hot Lancang (upper Mekong) River valley at about 2,200 meters, split mainly between deluxe king and twin rooms.
Restaurants and bars
- Book Lounge — Bar
Experiences
- Songtsam Cizhong Winery visit and tastings — Guests can visit the Songtsam Cizhong Winery and enjoy tastings of high-altitude wines.
- Harvest-season grape picking with local villagers — During harvest season guests can join local villagers in hand-picking grapes straight from the vineyard.
- Chinese-Western fusion dining with home-made wine — Guests enjoy the hotel's home-made wine and Chinese-Western fusion dishes.
- Nanjiluo Hike — Hidden destination, alpine lake, primeval forest
- Cizhong Catholic Church Visit — Catholic architecture, mass, Tibetan and western culture, multiethnic centre
- Exploring Yunnan Circuit 8N/9D — A journey of cultural immersion, inner reflection and renewal through timeless villages, sacred mountains and some of Yunnan's most spectacular landscapes.
Amenities
- Each room has an open balcony
- Songtsam Cizhong Winery on site: high-altitude wine tastings
- Hotel home-made wine
- Visits to Songtsam Cizhong Winery
- Terrace
- Free Wi-Fi
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