How to get to Western Hill (Xishan Mountain), Kunming.

     You can choose subway line 3. Stop at Western Hill station. From there, just walk for about 10 minutes before you reach the place where you can buy a ticket. When you exit from the subway, just go straight and turn left downhill. You can see some buses inside.

     The place is not so obvious, just ask around if there any local person. I think there is 3 places to buy a "ticket" (we chose RMB 88 to ride a return bas, ride a cable car one-way, ride a electric car one-way and also include an entrance to Dragon Gate), but I dont think there is a different between them as they wear the same cloth. So you can buy from any of them. There is also another 'plan' other than the RMB 88, but Im not sure about the price and what is inside the plan. Maybe you can search more about it. Sorry cannot help you with that information.

     The entrance to Western Hills is free. The one that we bought is not entrance ticket, but that is the service that they provide to anyone who want it and willing to pay. Second choice is, you can go uphill by walking. There is a road that will lead you to the place where you can take a cable car or you can trekking from there to the uphill without a cable car. What can I say is, it is so far hahaha maybe it took 1 hour or more to reach uphills from the entrance.

Its not so cable car actually 😛
You also will have a great view while you up here.

     By the time when you are at the top of the hill, you can have a stunning view of Kunming and Dian Lake. Take your time up there 😁 and you will get downhill by 1000 steps route.

     After that we go to Dragon Gate, and you will get a temporary card at the entrance. You'll have another thousand stairs to step 😅 its so tiring. Here, you'll get through all the temple before you can see an electric car that will bring you to where the bus dropped off you and take the bus back to the entrance.

This is the map for Western Hills.

     Now you can walk again to the subway, and take the subway back to your hostel and rest! Hahaha. If you want to ride a taxi, you can just wait infront of the entrance even the subway is so near to the entrance. Just for your information, from Kunming Railway Station to Western Hill is RMB43 by taxi.

     Oh, before that. You can try their traditional cloth inside the Western Hill with only RMB20, but the cheapest that I've found among the places that I've gone in Kunming is in Stone Forest, its only RMB10. Still, both are cheap 😀