Songtsam Hotels & Resorts (Songtsam Group)
Hotels and accommodation · Shangri-La, Yunnan
About Songtsam Hotels & Resorts (Songtsam Group)
Songtsam is a luxury boutique hotel group born in Shangri-La, in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan, founded in 2000 by Baima Duoji, a Tibetan documentary filmmaker. Its official English-language website presents a collection of Tibetan-style hotels and lodges spread across Yunnan, Tibet and Sichuan, strung along the ancient Tea Horse Road and the route to Lhasa, and designed as a circuit to be travelled from house to house.
The collection brings together two lines, Lodges and Retreats (Linka), with a dozen properties plus a glamping site: the first Songtsam Lodge Shangri-La, beside Songzanlin Monastery, and houses in Lijiang, Meili, Benzilan, Tacheng, Cizhong, the Nujiang Canyon, Bingzhongluo and Pu'er in Yunnan; retreats and lodges in Lhasa, Bome, Laigu, Rumei, Lake Basong and Namcha Barwa in Tibet; and a lodge in Yading, Sichuan. Its largest property, Songtsam Linka Kunming, offers 53 rooms beside Dianchi Lake.
Songtsam combines accommodation, Chinese, Tibetan and Western dining, cultural activities and its own tailor-made travel line, Songtsam Tours, which links the houses on circuits such as the Tea Horse Road expedition between Yunnan and Tibet. The group centralises bookings from Shangri-La, with the email info@songtsam.com and a Chinese reservations line, and stands out for employing mostly staff from the villages where each lodge sits, weaving the hotel into local life.
The collection brings together two lines, Lodges and Retreats (Linka), with a dozen properties plus a glamping site: the first Songtsam Lodge Shangri-La, beside Songzanlin Monastery, and houses in Lijiang, Meili, Benzilan, Tacheng, Cizhong, the Nujiang Canyon, Bingzhongluo and Pu'er in Yunnan; retreats and lodges in Lhasa, Bome, Laigu, Rumei, Lake Basong and Namcha Barwa in Tibet; and a lodge in Yading, Sichuan. Its largest property, Songtsam Linka Kunming, offers 53 rooms beside Dianchi Lake.
Songtsam combines accommodation, Chinese, Tibetan and Western dining, cultural activities and its own tailor-made travel line, Songtsam Tours, which links the houses on circuits such as the Tea Horse Road expedition between Yunnan and Tibet. The group centralises bookings from Shangri-La, with the email info@songtsam.com and a Chinese reservations line, and stands out for employing mostly staff from the villages where each lodge sits, weaving the hotel into local life.