Yunnan Sheng Off The Beaten Path

 
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Town of Fuyuan, near Guizhou Border

by crewrower

I would have liked to create a Fuyuan Town page, but it does not turn up on a VT search. So I will suggest it here as an Off the Beaten Path tip. In short, Fuyuan is a beautiful valley town surrounded by mountains on all sides with many pines nearby. Although the surrounding areas are all farmland, mining and timber areas, the city itself is bustling. Many new, comfortable and reasonably priced hotels have sprung up. There is a "fake" temple being built (March 2007) on a hilltop. You can't miss it. I say it's fake because what they are putting up is something that never existed before, but on the hillside are parts of the original temple and burial site. The temple is worth a vist anyway (the perch gives good view of the town), but be careful some taxi drivers will try to charge quite a bit to drive up the steep hill (you can walk up though on the steps).

See the real China in Yunnan

by crewrower

When you travel in China, in places like Yunnan, you can see children like this. This boy was with his mates playing in the street with a couple car tires. They were just having a good old time the way kids anywhere in the world, in a real boy way. Not video games. Not TV. No manufactured toys. No playstations out here. No DVDs being sold form cardboard fruit boxes. Just out in his little neighborhood having fun.You sometimes have to go to places like Yunnan, outside the big cities, to see children just being children in the traditional way.

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Down to the River

by afidos

At the halfway point (end of your first day's hike), if your are legs are up for it, there's the descent down the cliff face to the river itself. It was built by Zhang, a primary school teacher who charges RMB 10 each way for the three-hour round trip, but you can opt out of the return leg. It's a sandy, slippery path which heads recklessly down a steep and dangerous cliff to the whitewater below. The Yangzi boils through the gorge at incredible speed, slamming into huge rocks and forming whirlpools and eddies that make the surface churn..

See the Miao Village of Da Nuo Hei

by crewrower

Da Nuo Hei is a small minority town to the east and south of Kunming and Shilin (the Stone Forest). It is one of many such hilltowns (there are also valley towns). Tourists almost never venture inside, which is precisely the right reason to drop in and say hello. Most of the people were unphased/indifference about my appearance in their village. Even the children didn't care. That made it great to just walk around and look at the scense: old women making woodchips, women washing their clothes in the lake, men attending to livestock, etc. Many of the women were wearing traiditional clothing. I took some pictures of the people there; let me know if you'd like to see them! :)

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A Huge Cave Not Yet Touristed

by crewrower

There is a HUGE cave along the Nan Pan River in southeast Yunnan. You can see it from the big red bridge near the #2 power station. You have to walk up the hill. The mouth of the cave is absolutely huge, and if you go inside with a torch you will discover that it is very deep and wide inside as well. For now, this cave is not on the tourist circuit, and you won't find it in lonely planet or even a Chinese language guidebook. Some local tourists do visit. They are building a road and more power stations along the river. One of the construction workers told me that in 5 years time (i.e. 2011) the area will be developed and touristed, so maybe by then this cave will have green neon lights and guides pointing out the rock formations of Chinese animals on the ceilings. For now, it is peaceful an cool inside.One bad thing to see was that during my trip inside 5 guys were coming out. Each of...

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Luoping - Puzhehei - Xiangbian by road

by mke1963

Culture Factor: **Oooh Factor: **Constantly changing up and down road from the "Kunming level" (1900m) down to the lower river level(750m) and back up to the Puzhehei karst limestone features (1400m) then up to the hilltop societies in the limestone mountains, a spectacular down-and-up (from 2050m to 970m in 12 km, then winding back up to the plateau again) at the western end. The cultural aspect is the numerous ethnic minorities along the route: Buyi near Luoping, Zhuang along the next 50km plus many Miao (Hmong) and Hui then the Yi of the Puzhehei plain, and finally the Miao in very large numbers. The hilltop market town of Lijiao, west of Puzhehei has an enormous Tuesday market....Miao and Yi in full regalia, vegetables, clothing, agricultural commodities, horses and carts everywhere, buffalo, chickens, pigs and ducks on sale, food stall, mens loafers in 400 loafer styles, men shoeing...

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Fertile Soil

by victorwkf

Because Yunnan is fed by many rivers and favourable rainfall, the soil here is very fertile which gives rise to many species of flora growing in the forests, plus good agricultural yields.

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The beautiful countryside

by victorwkf

If possible, do stop along the journey and admire the beautiful countryside of Yunnan. Despite the mountainous terrain, people have managed to get agriculture going in Yunnan.

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Younger Lama

by wanghua

Younger Lama in Songzanlin temple.Zhongdian, Yunnan Province

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Q:  A friend and I will be going to Yunnan in mid-November for 2 weeks. Besides Kunming, Dali, Lijiang and Shangrila, I hope to be... 

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A: Yunnan is amazing, I spent a week there, although most of my time was in Dali (4 days) Lijiang 1 day and Kunming the rest. Dali is very nice but perhaps not real... 

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