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Yunnan

Tibetan Buddhism Flags

Trail Tribulations

Ancient tea and Horse Caravan Trip: The following is an excerpt from “Trail Tribulations” by Paul Mooney, South China Morning Post———–Ouyang Shangxian worked briefly on the trail. His classic Shaxi courtyard house is indicative of...
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Beautiful night in an old town in Yunnan

Development vs conservation in Yunnan

Beautiful and diverse, southwestern China’s Yunnan province is not only one of our most popular destinations, it is where WildChina was born. In the initial stages of China’s dizzyingly fast modernization, Yunnan avoided much of...
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Chinese door in Hutong alley

Tibet Travel Ban Doesn’t Include All of China’s Tibetan Regions

Tibet travel ban doesn’t include all of China’s Tibetan regions.Unfortunate travel news out of Tibet: foreign travelers are not being allowed into Tibet this month and no clear timetable for when they will be allowed...
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Candles in a Buddhist temple

Want to experience China differently? Go west!

As noted earlier, China is already the world’s number-three destination for international travel. Many travelers nowadays have already made one or two trips to China, but more often than not, they’re visiting the coast, possibly...
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Chinese door in Hutong alley

Home for the Holidays: China’s Busiest Travel Season

Today marks the beginning of the busiest travel season in China: from January 21 to February 27, China’s skies, roads, and rails will be inundated as an expected 640 million people, from every corner of...
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Chinese door in Hutong alley

South of the Clouds: Shaxi, Yunnan, China

The following post is an excerpt from Catherine Bodry, a writer for AOL’s Gadling Travel Blog.Once an important market town on China’s ancient tea-horse road, Shaxi is one of seemingly very few Chinese villages that have retained...
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Man enjoying his tea

Dai food: Chinese cuisine’s best-kept secret

Dai food: Chinese cuisine’s best-kept secret.While most of China is frozen or at least quite cold, there are still some parts of the country’s south that are enjoying shorts and t-shirt weather during the winter...
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The mystic Yellow Mountain in Anhui

On the road in Xishuangbanna: The Manfeilong Stupas

China is filled with cultural and historical treasures dating back centuries, even millennia, but it is a sad truth that the number of valuable sites and relics diminished greatly in the past 200 years, primarily...
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A camel resting in the Gobi Desert

Traditional papermaking still alive in Xishuangbanna

During a recent visit to Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan Province we stopped by the small but industrious village of Manzhao, which is known throughout the region for its traditional papermaking.The people of Manzhao are uncommonly...
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Man enjoying his tea

A village homestay in Mangang Village

A village homestay in Mangang Village.Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan is one of the few places in China that stays warm and pleasant while the rest of the country is blanketed by chilly winter weather. Last...
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