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Want to See the World with You: Next Stop, Yunnan [Who Says You Don’t Need a Guide for Domestic Travel? Essential Tips to Avoid Scams in Yunnan] A Note Before We Begin: Why I’m Writing This Guide I’ve been lurking on Mafengwo for what feels…

2018 Spring Festival Road Trip to Lugu Lake and Erhai Lake: A Seven-Day Soulful Journey Around the Lakes Every journey is a conversation with yourself. The destination may be the same, but with a different state of mind, everything you see becomes entirely different. During…

A 2,525-Kilometer Road Trip: Chasing a Colorful Dream in Yunnan Some places, just by saying their names, stir a longing deep within. Yunnan is exactly that kind of place. This time, my companion Feifei and I set off from Chengdu, driving 2,525 kilometers over seven…

Four Years Later, Reunited with You: Lijiang, We Meet Again Prologue: A Promise Long Overdue Some places linger in your mind long after you've left. Some regrets ferment over time, becoming the very reason to set out again. In the summer of 2014, fresh out…

Love Songs of Yunnan, Composed on Autumn's Staff Prologue: A Dream that Leaps from Summer into Autumn A friend who has traveled the world once told me that Lugu Lake is the only place in China that can rival Lake Baikal. That sentence became a…