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A Summer Journey Through Three Border Towns in Western Yunnan: Tengchong, Mangshi, and Ruili Preface: Why Western Yunnan? With airfare to Xinjiang sky-high and Guangxi's rainy season off-putting, our family of three went back and forth before finally settling on the place we never tire…

February in Kunming｜Those Gentle Days Dancing with Seagulls Prologue: A Healing Migration Every winter, when the city's noise leaves me exhausted and the creases in my soul need smoothing out, I find myself thinking of one place—Kunming. There, warm sunshine awaits, the turquoise waves of…

In Xishuangbanna, I Want to Become a Plant When the plane cut through the clouds and a thick, almost impenetrable green appeared beneath the window, I knew we had finally arrived at the place we'd talked about countless times and put off just as many.

Graduation Trip · Lijiang & Shangri-La: A Spontaneous Youth Adventure Prologue: A Crazy "Just Go" Decision The words "graduation trip" always sound romantic and ceremonial. But my trip to Yunnan with my best friend Ouyang was a completely last-minute impulse — we only roughly settled…

Heavy Rain Over the Three Rivers: An Incomplete Yunnan Northwest Loop The rainy season in northwest Yunnan is a gamble with the weather. When the plane broke through the clouds and landed in rain-soaked Dali, I suddenly realized this trip was destined to be accompanied…