Yunnan
Yunnan packs snow peaks, tropical rainforest, rice terraces and two dozen ethnic cultures into China’s southwest corner. From Lijiang’s old town to the Yuanyang terraces and the tea mountains of Xishuangbanna, it is the classic offbeat circuit.
Places to visit
NeighborhoodLijiang Old Town
Lijiang’s old town is an 800-year-old maze of cobbled lanes, canals and Naxi timber houses that once anchored the Tea Horse Road caravan trade. UNESCO listed…
NatureStone Forest
The Stone Forest is 270 million years of geology doing its best impression of architecture: a plain of limestone karst pinnacles, some 30 metres tall, packed…
NatureTiger Leaping Gorge
Tiger Leaping Gorge is one of the deepest river canyons on earth — the Jinsha (upper Yangtze) thundering through a 3,900-metre slot between Jade Dragon and…
NatureYuanyang Rice Terraces
For over 1,300 years the Hani people have sculpted the Ailao Mountains into thousands of water-filled terraces that fall as much as 1,800 metres down a single…