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A dreamlike trekking to Mt. KawageboThe Mt. Kawagebo is a sacred snow mountain in the Tibetan region of Yunnan and one of the most desirable pilgrimage destinations for the Tibetan people, who believe in its spiritual magic power to purify their souls. In this belief they come here and undertake Parikrama, a kind of circumambulation around a sacred site, by foot or even by throwing themselves down to the ground e...details
The Twin Lakes of QinghaiQinghai Lake is the biggest Lake of China, located at the northeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet-Plateau, a region inhabited by Tibetans, Mongolians and other minorities mixed together. In the native tongue it is called an Azur blue Lake (Koko-Nor in Mongolian). Just like the diversity of its habitants, the Lake offers various sceneries around itself with vast Grasslands, sand dun...details
Pingyao: A Miracle of TimePingyao is the most well-preserved old city in China. It is not just a few houses under heritage protection, but the city as a whole. The city wall, the street blocks as well as the residential buildings, all of them originate from the Middle Qing dynasty (18th.-19th. Century) or ever earlier. It is a miracle in China that, a city can successfully save itself from all the warfa...details
Shaxi, a romantic old town on the Tea-Horse RoadA small town located halfway between Dali and Lijiang in Yunnan, was once an important trading place for tea and horsed in the history, and is now probably the most intact horse caravan town along the legendary tea-horse trading route leading from Yunnan into Burma and Tibet. In Shaxi, the time seems having stopped and local people, many of them are ethnic minorities, cherish u...details
Xingyi: Your next weekend GetawayXingyi is located at the eastern edge of the Yunan-Guizhou Plateau, in an attitude of 1,200m, an ideal high level for human living, with dry and warm weather all round the year. The landscape of Xingyi is characterized by thousands of pyramid-shaped hills and rocks, densely accumulated in a not very vast area, which effects like a forest of mountains. The so-called Wanfenglin (...details
Along the traces of Miaos and DongsThe southeast of Guizhou is one of the ethnic richest regions of China, inhabited by more than 20 minorities. The main of them are Dong and Miao. They are very different from Han-Chinese, characterizing themselves with unique hair dressing, costumes, singsongs, dwellings, food etc. Their traditional lifestyle has been well preserved and is still being practised in many aspects ...details