Like southern and western Yunnan, the landscape consisted of ridges of reddish-brown clay separated by deep gorges with little villages and cultivated terraces. However these ridges were far higher and … Read more
We spent a day in Lijiang and had a short walk round the old city in the morning. Dinner was eaten in a small cafe and it began to rain … Read more
A long day of driving 270 miles up and down increasingly high mountain ridges. The weather got cooler as the altitude increased and the nature of the countryside changed from … Read more
In the morning we visited a garden which has buildings and flowers of all the different minority groups in Yunnan Province. The symbol of the local people (can’t remember their … Read more
Another day of driving through the glorious countryside of Yunnan Province with steep hillsides covered in impenetrable jungle with a wide variety of trees and shrubs. Plenty of bamboo trees … Read more