Discover Yunnan

Tengchong: A Dream You Never Want to Wake From in an Autumn Border Town Prologue: A Long-Overdue Promise Fulfilled I first heard of Tengchong seven or eight years ago. Back then, I learned that on the western border of Yunnan, tucked away in obscurity, lay…

Dali: A Veil Ceremony Between Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake – Saying Goodbye to Your 20s, Embracing the Unknown at 30 Prologue: A Ritual for a Milestone Age Thirty years old. It feels like an invisible threshold. Some dread it, some look forward to it,…

The Century-Old Pilgrimage: Notes on the Outer Kora of Meili Snow Mountain A Soulful Journey Between Faith and Landscape In the belief system of Tibetan Buddhism, performing a kora (circumambulation) around a sacred mountain is not merely a religious ritual, but a spiritual purification. Legend…

Xishuangbanna: A Reunion with This City After Fifteen Years Fifteen years ago, I last set foot on the soil of Xishuangbanna. Back then, I was a young backpacker brimming with curiosity about the world. Fifteen years later, as I stepped out of Gasa Airport again,…

Time Travels Under the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain: In Lijiang, Searching for a Dream You Never Want to Wake From Prologue: When My Feet Finally Touched This Land Before 2020, Yunnan was nothing more than an unopened map to me. Just as I didn't set…