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Kunming, Yunnan | Weekend Cross-Province Getaway Series: My Two Days in the Spring City "Give civilization to time, not time to civilization." This line from The Three-Body Problem unexpectedly became the footnote to my travel philosophy this year. We're all ordinary people living in concrete…

Escaping the Heat in Kunming: When the Spring City Meets Yunnan Cuisine, I Gladly Become a Migratory Bird July in China feels like a giant microwave, with heat waves sweeping across every corner from east to west, north to south. But there's always an exception—Kunming,…

The Yunnan-Tibet Road: Composing a Prose Poem of Shangri-La in the Heart of the Snow Mountains Introduction: When the World Stopped, We Finally Saw Our Homeland The Spring Festival of 2020 arrived with an unusual quietness. COVID-19 swept across the globe like a silent avalanche,…

Return to the Jurassic: A Family Road Trip to Yunnan's Dinosaur Valley That Made the Whole Family Scream with Excitement The first time my son asked, "Did dinosaurs really exist?" I knew that one day I would have to take him to see those ancient…

69 Days as a Volunteer at Meili Snow Mountain: At 3,400 Meters, I Found Another Way to Live Prologue: When Life Demands a Complete Escape In March 2019, I was 26—not young, not old. But that feeling of being "pushed along by life" was like…