No winter here: blue sky, green land and hills, clear water and beautiful people!
The mirror-like Ruili River flows through Dehong gently, with fertile cropland beside the two banks and surrounded by trees and bamboos in Dai villages. What picturesque scenery!
You will see a stunning tropical rainforest landscape, like one tree make a forest.
Colourful ethnic customs and distinctive ethnic buildings.
Surrounded by Burma to the north, west and south, linked to Burma by mountains, rivers and villages.
Harmonious mixing of ethnic customs and exotic atmosphere.
Feature food you've never seen or eaten before, delights you will want to enjoy again.
The border place between China and Burma - Dehong Dai Nationality Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan!
It is hard to describe the beauty of Dehong in words. If you really want to know how beautiful it is, please refer to the tail-spreading peacock!
- Spreading Scenery - River
The majestic Daying River not only provides beautiful scenery, but also a picture scroll of cultural history.
Its upstream branch - Binglang River is a rushing stream roaring down hundreds of miles of land between the high mountains with rocks along the way, making the river even more majestic.
At the middle and lower reaches, the river is rippling gently between green trees and bamboos along the land which boasts rich soil and industrious people.
One bamboo punt-pole and one bamboo raft flow down the river, reflecting an ideal mood of "one bamboo raft flowing on the river, one man travelling in the picture".
- King of Banyan Tree in China
It is a thousand-year-old banyan tree, growing to a wonder of "one tree make a forest", covering nearly 10 mu. When you walk through the "forest" formed by 300 aerial roots and 168 new tree trunks, it feels like you are having an adventure in a virgin forest.
Address: Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province
- Shimiwadi
Shimiwadi means beautiful yellow fascine dam in Lisu language, it is also called "Shangri-La" in Yingjiang.
The dam, with high mountain grassland scenery, has a gentle terrain with cattle and horses and a small river running through it. There are also one-hundred-year-old trees standing beside it.
Address: Sudian Lisu Nationality Township, Yingjiang County.
-Mengbanaxi Curiosity Garden
The 526-mu Mengbanaxi Curiosity Garden gathers a huge number of famous trees rarely seen in China and silicified wood jade rarely seen in the world. Here, you can really feel the high level of rareness, wonder and curiosity!
Walking in the Curiosity Garden, rarely seen thousand-year-old sweet-scented osmanthus trees, Buxus sinica trees, crape myrtle trees and silicified wood jades are all around you, as if you are in a wonderful magic world!
Address: Southeast Luxi City, Dehong Prefecture
- Jinggu's Tower & Tree Wonders
The Tree Encompassing Tower is built to commemorate a war. The tower is a solid brick structure, encompassed by tree roots, hence the name.
Thick tree crown arms into the sky, the bronze tree trunk bends to tightly wrap the tower, the tree encompasses the tower, and the tower supports the tree, interdependence, forming a unique tree encompassing tower scenery, which is famous in western Yunnan and Southeast Asia.
Address: Mangshi No. 1 Primary School, Youyi Road, Luxi City.
- Murray Tropical Rainforest
Walking into Murray, thousands of species of tropical and subtropical plants stand in front of the sky. You can see the hundred-year-old huge vines as such as "hammock,” the cruel "killer tree" as well as the "tropical cold-blooded killer," the thousand-year-old ancient ferns and ten-thousand-year-old ancient fossils.
A pine stands and goes up into the sky, with a deep and cold forest. A light flower fragrance rises, with falling water.
Walking in the rain forest in the dark for a long time, you will hear the ambiguous sound of dropping water. When you move to the end of the canyon, the sound gets louder, like thunder. Views suddenly come in front your eyes, and you will see a huge waterfall pouring down from a 60-metre-high cliff. "Fall water like cotton, scatter without bows." That is the Murray Falls!
Address: 20 km from northeast Ruili City.
- Wanding
Wanding is a border port city with tropical, subtropical features and national characteristics.
Wanding Ecology Garden, with south Asian tropical banyan trees; Nongpian, a Dai village with plantain trees; and Wanding Forest Park are famous ecology scenic spots.
Address: South of Dehong Dai Nationality Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture