Category: Yunnan

Dianchi Lake, also known as Kunming Lake, lies at the foot of Xishan Hills. It was formed by a fault on the central Yunnan Plateau and receives more than 20 streams.

Xishuangbanna Dai Auto-nomous Prefecture is located in the southern part of Yunnan Province, over 500 kilometres from Kun-ming, the provincial capital and covering an area of 25,000 square kilometres. It is bounded on the south by Laos and Burma, with River Lancang running through the whole region. This autonomous prefecture has under its jurisdiedinnthres coun-ties…

Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, is situated 1,895 metres above sea level on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in southwest China. Rimmed by mountains on three sides with Dianchi Lake to the south, this beautiful city and its outskirts cover an area of 6,500 square kilo-metres. It has a population of 1.93 million, of 12 different…

Da Li is situated between Dian Cang Mountain and Er Hai Lake. The western Dian Cang Mountain meanders its way southward, with a total length of 45 kilometers. the eastern Er Hai Lake is a freshwater lake in the south-west plateau of our country, with an altitude of l,972 meters. Between Dian Cang Mountain and…

The Xishuangbanna Tropical Rain Forest & Dai Ethnic Folklore Tour The major scenic spots on the route are Dai stockades, the Manfeilong Buddhist Pagoda and the Mengla Tropical Botanical Garden. Xishuangbanna lies in southern Yunnan. In the thick forest on both sides of the Lancang River live dozens of ethnic groups including the Dai, Hani…

Known as the hometown of Princess Peacock, Yunan Province is where the largest ethnic minority population lives in China. Apart from its capital city Kunming, the host city of the ’99 International Horticultural Expo, Dali and Lijiang are two cities with exceptionally appealing landscape and strong ethnic aroma. Located between Erhai Lake and Cangshan Mountain,…

Yunnan, on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest of China lying just below the Tibetan Plateau and abutting Vietnam, Laos and Burma, is a mysterious land of great natural beauty. It covers an area of 394,000 square kilometers, and has a population of 40,000,000. Even today many Chinese think of it as a ” frontier…