Yunnan Province Guide

Tibetan Villages Around Shangrila

  Diqing Prefacture, known as the Shangri-la to the outer world, is such a rich, beautiful and mysterious land for Chinese and foriegn travellers. Sitting on the highland, with altitude above 3300 meters high, it is still a home for virgin forest, snow capped mountains, wild ferocious...

Tiger Leaping Gorge

Tiger Leaping Gorge (Chinese: 虎跳峡; pinyin: Hǔtiào Xiá) is a canyon on the Yangtze River – locally called the Golden Sands River (金沙江; Jīnshā Jiāng) – located 60 km north of Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China. It is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan...

Yuanyang Rice Terrace

Yuanyang lies in the relatively underdeveloped southeast part of Yunnan, Honghe Hani and Yi People's Autonomous Region, about 300km south of Kunming. Yuanyang is renowned for its rice terraces, which claim as the world's largest and most spectacular one, crafted out by bare hands by the...

Erhai Lake

Erhai Lake is the largest highland lake next to Dianchi and one of the seven biggest fresh water lakes in China.

It means, 'sea shaped like an ear', in Chinese.

Implying that the lake is ear shaped and as large as a sea, hence it was so named.

The lake covers an area...

Meili Snow Mountain - Yu Beng Village

Yu Beng (3200M) is a Tibetan Village hidden deep inside the Meili Snow Mountain. There is no road for vehicle. From where you drop your car ((2675M), you have to walk 6 hours to get there (highest point is 3730M). Tibetan live...

Xishuangbanna Tropical Garden

  Rich in many types of the amazing tropical plants, the This garden offers great experience to enjoy and to understand the secret language of plant. Check it out!

Cuihu Park(Green Lake Park)

Located in Kunming proper, the park was a beautiful bay on the Dianchi Lake before the Ming dynasty and became a tourist resort at the beginning of the Qing dynasty.

The Park is nowadays wellknown for its richly ornamented traditional pavilions and palaces, blue waves and ripples, fair...

Xizhou Old Town

One of the oldest town in Yunnan province,dating back to Nanzhou Kingdom.It used to be the old capital for the Bai ethnic people. A lot of the Bai's traditional architactures remains there.Such a nice place to overwhelm yourself in the big local market full of food,dress,handcrafts and tea.

Yunnan Nationalities Village

Take bus 44 or 73 to get there.

Lijiang Old Town

World Cultural Heritage--------Lijiang Old Town World Memorial Heriage-------Dongba Ancient Literature World Natural Heritage--------- Three Rivers Flow Parallel Scenic Spot The Favorite Chinese tourist city to European One of the 10 most fascinating cities in China

One of the...