Yunnan Travel Reviews

(Introduction: In the summer of 2005 a good friend (S) and I decided to hike Tiger Leaping Gorge as part of a month long journey around China. I was only planning to spend a year teaching and believed this would be my only chance to travel. This is a two-part story based on the diary I wrote and my ... Details

(Introduction: In the summer of 2005 a good friend (S) and I decided to hike Tiger Leaping Gorge as part of a month long journey around China. I was only planning to spend a year teaching and believed this would be my only chance to travel. This is a trip we had planned for months. This is a two-part ... Details

An English speech contest was held in Weixin (ZhaoTong District), Yunnan Province, China on June 15th. Under mostly cloudy skies, the best speakers from 2 levels of the local Middle School and 3 levels from the High School announced their "Love of our Mother School, aspiration for being outstanding". ... Details

I woke up startled. The deafening sound coming from outside seemed to make the whole bus tremble. We were crossing an old wooden bridge, below was a roaring chocolate brown river.
“Jinsha Jiang”
An old man sitting next to me was pointing at the river. I looked at him tiredly still ... Details

JingHong is a small town of about 13,000 and the capital of the XiShuangBanna region, the southernmost region of the Yunnan Province. XiShuangBanna comes from the Thai Sip Song Panna meaning "12 Rice Growing Districts". It is tropical in climate, host to rainforests and jungles; tigers, ... Details

China is 9,596,960 sq km, has 1,306,313,812 people, and borders 14 countries. It stayed hidden to most of the world until the early 1200s. When the first Europeans found the mountainous path now called the Silk Road they slowly made there way into a whole new world. Once in China they wrote of things ... Details

Yunnan is a fascinating province in the Southwest of China. It borders three counties and has touches of Tibet in the northwest. This province has as much diversity as China does itself. There are snow peaked mountains and thick humid jungles, overgrown green gullies and placid, prosaic plains. With ... Details

I never know there is such a wonderful place as the small stone town Lijiang in the south end of China. I had the 1st impression of the tranquil town from one of my favorite website chinaonline and then decided to go there with my fiend. We flied there early of the month and stayed for 2 weeks. The ... Details

My New Years Eve in China consisited of me acting on stage in front of a thousand people dressed as Father Christmas. This is not a story of New Years Eve however; it's a story of the New Year, and my out of the ordinary trip through China's country side to Vietnam.

I staggered to the bus station ... Details

In Nujiang, which is the western part of Yunnan sheng, there is river call Nu Jiang. The folks on the other side of the river crosses the river daily for errands and goes to work and even to buy stuff. Though at some point of the river there are high suspension bridges, in some area, the local folks ... Details