The 10 Best Things to do Good for a Rainy Day in Yunnan, China

May 22, 2021 Velvet Champine

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country. It spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 45.7 million (as of 2009). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
Restaurants in Yunnan

1. Rice & Friends Chinese Cooking School

No.13 Yu Ju Street, Dali 671000 China +86 151 2526 4065 [email protected] http://riceandfriends.com
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5.0 based on 205 reviews

Rice & Friends Chinese Cooking School

Rice & Friends Chinese cooking school offers hands-on Chinese cooking courses with English instruction in a beautiful open-air setup with mountain views. It is a very authentic and personal 5-hour cooking experience, including outdoor-market shopping for ingredients, introduction to the theory of Chinese cooking, hands-on preparation of 3 dishes with a recipe booklet to take away and plenty of time for everybody to sit down together and enjoy the meal they cooked themselves. The receipes has been tested overseas and specially designed in order to make sure you can still get all the ingredients for those dishes when you are back home.

Reviewed By X8959NQmarcoc - Florence, Italy

Luxi is an amazing person, full of knowledge of food and chinese culture. She speaks perfect english and communication among us was great. Our was not just a cooking class but a journey thru local flavours and chinese history. I really reccomend taking this class (we did the "classic three chinese dishes" class) as this was our hilight in Dali. Marco

2. Baisha Naxi Embroidery Institute

No.12 Team 2, Sanyuan Village, Baisha Town, Yulong County 674101 China +86 130 9523 0290 http://www.lijiangethnicembroidery.com
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5.0 based on 70 reviews

Baisha Naxi Embroidery Institute

Reviewed By alohatripper

Oct 16 After a quick visit to Jade Dragon Snow Mt, Blue Moon Valley and Lake, we saw the afternoon Lijiang Impression Show performance. Although we arrived about 10 min late, we were able to squeeze seats at different spots. Then we went to Baisha Ancient Town and stopped at the Baisha Naxi Embroidery Institute along the main street. In the front room we viewed novices and experienced artisans producing hand-made objects d'art. Then a salesperson took us into the gallery and showed finished works. I looked at several and bought a beautiful grouping of colorful koi fish in a circle embroidery that took 1 month to finish. I paid 500 RMB. I plan to show it in the house.

3. Shangri-La Highland Craft Brewery

Qingkou Industrial Zone 香格里拉往丽江方向国道, Shangri-La County 674400 China +86 887 306 9519 [email protected] http://www.shangri-la-beer.com
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5.0 based on 24 reviews

Shangri-La Highland Craft Brewery

We are China's first fully licensed craft brewery located at the foot of the Shangri-La mountain range. In cooperation with Swiss and German beer experts, our beer is still brewed using traditional and manual methods, with special focus placed on the use of pristine resources. Our prime brewing ingredients are all local, including highland barley and alpine spring water.

4. Tubo Tibetan Thangka Store

No.6 Chilang Gang Dukezong Ancient Town, Shangri-La County 674400 China +86 131 8798 8630
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Tubo Tibetan Thangka Store

Tubo Tibetan Thangka Store is an owned Tibetan painting store. Thangka is a Tibetan Buddhist art which has more than one thousand and three hundreds years history. Dhadak(Kawa), the owner, speaks Tibetan, English and Chinese.

Reviewed By marktJ1234WH - Sunshine, Australia

A must see if you’re looking for a special piece of Tibetan art. Owners and artist Kawa is a delightful source of knowledge and information. Highly recommend a visit.

5. Yunnan Nationalities Museum

Np.1503 Dianchi Road, Xishan District, Kunming China 0871-4311394 http://www.ynnmuseum.com
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4.5 based on 61 reviews

Yunnan Nationalities Museum

Reviewed By patricialowismagnani - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Thanks to former comments on Trip advisor, we visited this museum and did not regret it ! we spent a very worthwhile and informative afternoon and found a lot of comments in English.

6. Dynamic Yunnan

Kunming Conference Hall No.81 West Dongfeng Road.Wuhua District, Kunming China (86 871) 564 5165 [email protected] http://www.yangliping.com
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4.5 based on 300 reviews

Dynamic Yunnan

Reviewed By KishoreS211 - Sunderland, United Kingdom

This was an optional activity on our first day of tour in China. The whole show is superb, beautifully choreographed and well executed. All actors are amateurs drawn from the nearby villages and the youngest is five years old. The whole show is a superb exposition of the rich cultural heritage and diversity of Yunan Province. The whole show is a combination of traditional and folk art representing the various ethnic communities in the. province. It tells the story of their beliefs, view of the world and living; divinity, earth, sky, moon. There are fabulous dances with amazing costumes. The show starts with the drums; The Dawn of Life, followed by act one, representing the Sun, again drums by different communities. Act two is earth represented by dance by different communities. Act three is representation of homeland by Yi minority group. Act four is pilgrimage mainly Tibetan. Final is the Spirit of Peacock dance. The show lasts 90 minutes. You wouldn't realise the passing of the time. You are allowed to take pictures without flash but no video recording allowed. But you will be too mesmerised to remember to take photos.

7. Moondog

No.138-5 Wacang South Road, Kunming 650000 China +86 187 2505 0246 [email protected]
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4.5 based on 13 reviews

Moondog

8. Shangrila Handicrafts Center

No.1 Jinlong Street, Shangri-La County China +86 887 822 7742 [email protected] http://ymhfshangrila.com/
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4.5 based on 13 reviews

Shangrila Handicrafts Center

Who We Are The YMHC Shangrila Handicraft Center is a community based organization founded to support local cultural heritage, handicrafts and eco-tourism in Diqing Prefecture, Yunnan. The Center projects include handicraft development, preservation of cultural heritage, poverty alleviation and sustainable and ecologically balanced development. The fragile eco-system of small villages, highland wetlands, and snowcapped mountains is home to 250,000 Tibetans. Most of the population lives in mountain villages. Their traditional livelihood includes agriculture, herding yak and sheep, craft production and harvesting and selling herbs and mushrooms from the nearby forests. The region was once part of the tea-horse caravan trade route stretching from Yunnan, Burma, and India to Tibet. It is home to a colorful legacy of Tibetan hand crafted wooden implements, leather goods, decorative architectural detail, pottery, silver jewelry, Tangkas, weaving and carpet making. Many of these products gained fame on this ancient trade transit corridor. Our mission is to support this community of artisans, students, and friends to popularize local tradition and culture as tourism grows and to encourage heritage crafts and lifestyle based business so that this the flavor of the Tibetan highlands in this corner of Yunnan can become a prominent feature of the tourist markets. What We Do YMHC Handicraft Store opened in 2006 in the heart of the Old Town of Shangrila features iconic crafts from Nixi potters, Benzilan wood carvers, Naxi Dongba paper makers, weavers in the Shangrila valley and local silversmiths. We source the work of local artisans to sell to visitors from China and abroad, the artisans often live in small remote mountain villages. We help the artisans network into larger markets and buyers outside the area. Shangrila Library and Learning Center was founded in 2008 and houses our 5000 volume library for children, middle and high school students and adults. It is open to the public and contains Chinese, English and Tibetan volumes. English Conversation classes are offered free of charge to students and entrepreneurs throughout the year. We organize free lectures and workshops to the community on a variety of topics including health care, developing business skills, beekeeping, marketing and branding, tourism development and Tangka Painting Beekeeping as Family-based Micro Enterprise: Training farmers in bee keeping provides a new source of income in the villages. Started in Shangrila in 2008, the beekeeping program has become well established in Weixi and Dongwang counties. We work with professional Chinese and international beekeepers who train Shangrila farms in the art of hive management with the goal of producing honey to sell locally. YMHF Volunteers National and international volunteers participate in our year round program activities in Beijing and Shangri La. Teaching English, helping in the Shangri La Handicraft Shop and Library, marketing and designing crafts, helping in village based projects

9. Yunnan Railway Museum

No.913 Beijing Road, Kunming China +86 871 6613 8610
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4.5 based on 27 reviews

Yunnan Railway Museum

10. Naxi Embroidery Shijia

No.101 Sanyuan Village, Baisha Town, Lijiang 674100 China +86 888 531 8869
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4.5 based on 23 reviews

Naxi Embroidery Shijia

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