Yunnan

How to Travel from Yunnan (Kunming) to Tibet (Lhasa) By Land...

China National Highway 214 (G214) runs from Xining, Qinghai to Jinghong, Yunnan. It is 3,256 kilometres in length and runs south from Xining towards Tibet, and ends in Yunnan Province. It is a national highway with China’s most abundant cultural and...

Meili Xue Shan (Chinese 梅里雪山, translation: “Mainri snowy range”) or Mainri Snow Mountain (Tibetan: སྨན་རི།) is a mountain range in the Chinese province of Yunnan. It lies close to the northwestern boundary of the province and is...

Weixi Lisu Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 维西傈僳族自治县; traditional Chinese: 維西傈僳族自治縣; pinyin: Wéixī lìsùzú Zìzhìxiàn, Tibetan: འབའ་ལུང་ལི་སུའུ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང།, Wylie: ‘ba’-lung li-su’u-rigs rang-skyong rdzong, ZYPY: Balung Lisurig Ranggyong Zong; Lisu: WEI-XI. LI-SU X ∩: FI, C ∩, X ∀,) is located in Diqing Prefecture, in...

Dêqên County (Standard Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་), or Deqin County (Chinese: 德钦县), is under the administration of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, located in the northwest of Yunnan province, China. Dêqên occupies the northwest corner of Diqing Prefecture, and in...

Shangri-La or Xianggelila is a county-level city in northwestern Yunnan province, People’s Republic of China and is the location of the seat of the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Shangri-la Travel Guide introduces useful travel information of Shangri-la...

Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 迪庆藏族自治州; traditional Chinese: 迪慶藏族自治州; pinyin: Díqìng Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: Bde-chen Bod-rigs rang-skyong khul) is an autonomous prefecture in northwestern Yunnan province, China. It has an area of 23,870 km2 (9,220 sq mi). Its capital, which is also the largest...

Yunnan-Tibet railway refers to the railway from Kunming, Yunnan to Lhasa, Tibet, which is an important route to Tibet and has a common sections with some railways. Yunnan-Tibet railway...