Your Best Yunnan Travel Guide
The Old Town of Lijiang is a famous UNESCO Heritage Site located in Lijiang City,Yunnan,China.The town has a history going back more than 800 years and was once a confluence for trade along the old tea horse road. The Lijiang old town is famous for its orderly system of waterways and bridges. The old town of Lijiang differs from other ancient Chinese cities in architecture, history and the culture of its traditional residents the Nakhi people, therefore people there are called 胖金哥 and 胖金妹 (male and female respectively).
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In the southwest of China and at the southern most tip of Yunnan Province, there is a picturesque, fertile and mysterious land - Xishuangbanan.
“Shangri-la” is a Tibetan word, which means “land of sacredness and peace.”
Dali, a historically and culturally famous city of China, is renowned for her historical interest
Because of its year-round temperate climate, Kunming is often called the “Spring City” or “City of Eternal Spring” (春城).
In the year 1993, James Hilton described an eternally peaceful and quiet place among mountains in the East - “Shangri-La” in one of his novels for the first time. In the novel “Lost Horizon”, an English diplomat Conway and his brother Gorge scattered the English citizens and helped them leave the dangerous region. On their way home, their plane was hijacked and fell down into the mountain in the Tibetan region. Some lucky survivors were taken to Shangri-la where Conway found lots of fantastic things in such a state founded nearly 200 years ago, in which the local people lived up to more than one hundred years old and lived peacefully and harmoniously with the other people, animals and everything here. The place was called “Shangri-La” by the local folks. Read the full story »
Bita means “a piece of land as soft as cattle hair felt” in Tibet language, “Hai” means “sea”. Roads have been constructed to this scenic area. The total area of the “sea” is 3,000 meters in length, the maximum width of the lake is over 700 meters. The altitude of the lake is 3,540 meters forming up by gathering the water streaming down from the surrounding mountains.
One of the two distinctive biological characters of the lake is the 50-centimeter- thick grass coverings on the surface of the lake, creating a world of floating hydrophyte. The other is the scene happening every late spring and early summer. When the azalea on the surrounding mountains are in full bloom, the fish in the water are always found lethargic sleep on the surface of the lake for swallowing some lightly - poisonous petals falling off the azalea. The local people call this wonder as ” Fish Drunk by Azalea “. Read the full story »
The Baishui Tableland (the wonder formed by calcium carbonate sinter) is approximate 90 kilometers from the center of Zhongdian county. It is located in the Bai people village at the foot of Haba Snow Mountain. The terrace slope is 140 meters in length and 160 meters in width, with a semicircular platform pool on the top surrounded by white limestone. Read the full story »