City: Yunnan
Top Things to do in Yunnan
Top Hotels in Yunnan
- 1. HUALUXE Hotels and Resorts Kunming, an IHG hotel
- 2. Sofitel Kunming
- 3. Crowne Plaza Kunming City Centre, an IHG hotel
- 4. Pullman Lijiang Resort & Spa
- 5. InterContinental Lijiang Ancient Town Resort
- 6. Banyan Tree Lijiang
- 7. The Bivou
- 8. Hilton Yuxi Fuxian Lake
- 9. Songtsam Tacheng Lodge
- 10. Holiday Inn Kunming City Centre, an IHG hotel
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Things to do in Yunnan, China: The Best Architectural Buildings
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. Qiluo Wenchang Palace
2. Baoshan Stone Town
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 9 reviews
Reviewed By ggm96822 - Honolulu, United States
The second great bend of the Yangzi is inaccessible by road, but not far downstream is the last walled village in China, Bao Shan, a very old Naxi village 130 km from Lijiang, translated as "Stone Town" because of its distinctive architecture, foundations of the houses carved into the steep cliff. Since I wanted to see more of the mountains and more Naxi villages, and my Naxi taxi driver from the Shigu trip seemed up for it, we settled on 600¥ for a round trip. We covered approximately 100 km in first two hours, very scenic, thick pine forests, long-tailed birds fluttering by, meadows and mountain streams, small villages, rice, potatoes and corn being harvested in the narrow fields. The road gradually worsened, switchbacks up into and down out of the clouds, enough altitude change that my ears would pop, occasional road damage from landslides but nearly no traffic. Then the next hour the side road was more problematic, a one lane road with two way traffic and no shoulder, in fact the road surface was raised so leaving the road even a few inches would be disastrous, hairpin turns, many fresh landslides (it was raining every night in October), mostly just rocks but some parts of hillside with entire pine trees in them, places where the outer edge of the road had collapsed down the cliff, cracks where the road surface had shifted, I was thinking that this might be a candidate for the worse road I had ever been on, but that was before the road got really bad, basically a rock donkey path (there were in fact donkeys on it), fortunately only one car coming the other way for the 15 km stretch, ruts on which we bottomed out and I began to think that the taxi, a VW Lavida, was not going to survive, flooded sections of flowing red mud, but the driver would laugh each time we scraped or thumped something, he would navigate the worst turns in first gear, and when, 4 hours after leaving Lijiang, we reached Baoshan, he said something in Naxi that I interpreted as "I bet you thought we would never get here," which was true. I recommend hiking those last 15 km.
3. Chongsheng Three Pagodas
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 516 reviews
Reviewed By Travdon - Philadelphia, United States
The grounds of this complex are sprawling, and you could easily spend half a day exploring. The three pagodas are great to see, as they've been standing for over 1000 years. But after you pass those, there are myriad temple buildings to explore. There are some buildings stuffed with numerous gold-coated statues of various individuals - not really sure what it was or who they were, but they were interesting to see. The path continuously hikes upwards, and you have to navigate several sets of steps, but it's worth it. Some buildings you can walk up to the top and have great views of the lake and city. The entrance fee to the complex is 75 RMB/person, plus an additional 35 RMB if you want a shuttle to take you from the three pagodas to the main temple (not worth it, as the leisurely stroll is part of the fun).
4. Zhu's Family Garden (Zhu Jia Huayuan)
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 89 reviews
Reviewed By cremaprince
I found espresso in the most unlikely spot. The barista here speak a little English and make THE best shots in Yunnan. I highly recommend it to any caffeine deprived traveller.
5. Zhenqingguan Ancient Building
6. Guangyunmian Temple
7. Dali Erhai Tianjing Temple
8. Beiyue Temple of Lijiang
9. Donglianhua Village
10. Azheke Ziran Shengtai Cunluo
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