Yunnan News

In Land That Values Ivory, Wild Elephants Find a Safe Haven: Over the past two decades, the number of Asiatic elephants in Yunnan Province in China has roughly doubled, to nearly 300, thanks to government-financed feeding programs, wildlife education efforts and a strict elephant protection law unmatched anywhere else in the world. Convicted poachers in China face the death penalty. Read more on nytimes.com

Jinghong: Nearly Thai

"Thai To Tai (in less than a day)", titles Bangkok Post about a reportage. It's about a visit of Jinghing.

Xishuangbanna Impressions (Sipsongpanna)

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Village near Xishuangbanna

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Yakou Village

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Eurasian Hoopoe, Upupa epops, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

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Sunset over rice fields; northeast of Galamba


Where to stay:

Anantara Xishuangbanna Resort & Spa

Kunming Impressions

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Bird and flower market area in Kunming

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Old pharmacy selling traditional Chinese medicine in a run down street, waiting to be demolised to make room for the South section of the Zhengyi Fashion Mall in downtown Kunming

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Big market, mostly food, near Green Lake in centre of Kunming. Woman and grandchild at a meat stall. Mostly dried hams, but other bits too.

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A 24 hours McDonald's restaurant in a newly built old-style building, next to the Zhengyi Fasion Mall in Kunming.

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Bread bargain in the old Muslim quarter of Kunming

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Kunming Square

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These old men were relaxing and having a smoke together (look at the pipe on the right) in a park in Kunming. (Dec 1998)

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Yuantong Temple is the most famous Buddhist temple in Kunming, Yunnan province, China. It was first built in the late 8th and early 9th century, the time of the Nanzhao Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty. After two major restorations and expansion in the Chenghua period (1465-1487) of the Ming Dynasty and the 24th year of Emperor Kangxi's rule (1686) of the Qing Dynasty, the temple took on its present design, with covered corridors, bridges and grand halls.

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Stone Forest

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Jindian, Golden Temple, Mingfeng Mountains

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Discoveries in Yunnan

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Rice terraces in Yuanyang


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A small personal museum to the ancient Tea Horse Road in an old courtyard house off Tiaoshui Xiang (挑水巷) west off Renli Lu (仁里路), Shuhe ancient town (束河), Lijiang (丽江), Yunnan (云南)