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Slow Time on the Ancient Tea Horse Road: A Teramont, Nine Days in Western Yunnan, and a Millennial Dialogue with Mountain Tea Prologue: When Life Hits the Pause Button Some journeys are about arriving; others are about leaving. Leaving behind those days sliced into fragments…

Heading South: Ten Days and Ten Nights, My First Complete Yunnan Road Trip The Beginning: A Strange Shift from Northeast to Southwest Last Spring Festival, our family of three drove to Fujian – 4,500 kilometers that satisfied my driving itch and gave me plenty of…

Yunnan | Everyone Has a Shangri-La in Their Heart The winter air in Beijing is always mixed with coal smoke, exhaust fumes, and an indescribable weariness. The trees outside the window stand bare, like forgotten utility poles. Towering buildings loom expressionlessly, and pedestrians walk with…

Sunshine All the Way: The Colorful Wonders of Eastern Yunnan (Part 2): Blue Dream of Fuxian Lake and the Fossil World Heritage Museum Some places linger in your mind long after you leave. Some landscapes, once seen, can never be forgotten. When I first encountered…

Celebrating the Spring Festival in Pu'er: A Summer-Like New Year While the north is still wrapped in biting winter winds, Pu'er in Yunnan has long been bathed in warm, summer-like sunshine. This Spring Festival, we decided to head south to Jingmai Mountain for an early…