About 8 hours by bus,and an hour by plane. There is no railway to Lijiang.   The distance from Kunming to Lijiang is about 680 km. About 300 km form Kunming to Adli,and abo…ut 380 km from Dali to Lijiang. (MORE)

Most of the people of Kunming are Chinese and speak the Kunming  Dialect of Chinese. There are also some minorities like the Yi, the  Bai, and the Miao that also speak their… unique languages. (MORE)