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Yunnan - China Yunnan - China - 30 Mai 2009
Yuantong templeIn China, southeastern Tibet, there is one of the most secret and most preserved of China : Yunnan云南. Border of Vietnam and Burma, it brings together people of various ethnicities.

Yunnan has landscapes of great diversity, arid plateaus of Tibet (the top of Yunnan is 6 700 m) and tropical forests of Xishuangbanna. Mainly agricultural province with very fertile land and a generally mild climate.

Its capital, Kunming, is located in a hollow about 2 000 m above sea level and surrounded by rice floors.

Browsing Yunnan south to north, would the following this itinerary:
Jinuo Culture Village, fire breathing

Xishuangbanna (西双版纳)

Xishuangbanna (西双版纳), lived to 75% by the Dai minority region bordering Myanmar and Laos. The climate is tropical, coconut, banana and Mekong recall the South-East Asia.
Stones forest

Shilin (石林)

Shilin (石林) with its forest of stone, a large park where you can stroll in extraordinary natural formations.

Will continue rising to the north via the capital of the province, Kunming (昆明).
Rice harvest to the hand!

Dali (大理)

The city of Dali (大理), with its three pagodas (the "towers" of Dali) and its beautiful old town.
One of the many channels and way pedestrian of Lijiang

Lijiang (麗江市)

We can say that the Himalayan atmosphere begins to Lijiang. This beautiful city invites the “cool attitude and spirit”. Its canals, narrow streets, we traveled on foot, winding in all directions.

This ancient royal city, ranked on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site, has forget by bad developers, for now ....

Its wooden houses carefully restored (earthquake in 1996: 1 / 3 of the city was destroyed) have become shops and small inns.
Tiger Leaping Gorge

Hengduan Mountains - Tiger Leaping Gorge (虎跳峡)

Lijiang around the mountain kingdom : Hengduan Mountains stands a wall of snow peaks. Such eminences in tropical areas have created the richest in biodiversity, according to experts of UNESCO.

We can not go in Yunnan go without the edge of the Yangtze River (longest river in Asia (6 300 km). There is the famous Tiger Leaping Gorge (虎跳峡), a hike of 2 days to see the beauty of the landscape.

It is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas World Heritage Site.
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