Emei Mountain, Sichuan 四川省，峨眉山 Emei Shan 峨眉山, or loosly translated, 'High Mountain,' is located south of Chengdu 成都市, in central Sichuan...

Dali, Yunnan 云南省，大理 I spent my last week in Yunnan visiting the hipster town of Dali 大理. Dali has western breakfast joints scattered...

Yangshuo, Guangxi 广西壮族自治区， 阳朔 One of my favorite places on planet earth is Yangshuo 阳朔. Actually, it is the karst peaks and Li river 漓江...

Yuanyang, Yunnan 云南省，元阳 Two days and 16 hours of busses from Xishuangbanna brought me to beautiful Yuanyang 元阳. The rice terraces 梯田...

Xishuangbanna, Yunnan 云南省，西双版纳 A cheap airline ticket led to an impulse buy, commonly referred to as "pulling a Griff," and I wound up in...

Lugu Hu 泸沽湖 From Lijiang, I took a relatively grueling, 9-hour, one-way, two-bus commute up to Lugu Lake 泸沽湖, which sits at 2,690m...

Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan Province 虎跳峡 About 75 km north of Lijiang 丽江 and 50 km south of Shangri-la 香格里拉 lies the massive Tiger...

Lijiang, Yunnan 云南省，丽江 P eace and quiet is the best way to start the day. This is a tourist trap at night. On the hunt for coffee this...

Deqin, Yunnan 云南省， 德钦 Shennu Mountain 神女山 is just south of Kawa Karpo 卡瓦胳膊峰 (a few pictures later). The mountain is 6,054 m (19,862 ft)...

Shangri-la, Yunnan province, China, 云南省，香格里拉, 中国. I spent my first 10 months in China studying Mandarin and Chinese geography and...