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The cuisine of Lijiang is a delicious blend of foods and flavors of all the local ethnic cultures, dominated by the Naxi people, with influences from the neighboring regions of the Han Chinese and the Tibetans

To international travelers, the name "Shangri-la" refers to an exotic land of enchantment and magic, a place everyone wants to visit to get away from mundane reality.

The glorious rapeseed pageantry is Luoping's most famous tourist attraction. The rapeseed display is a drawing card for visitors who arrive to find spellbinding natural landscapes everywhere they travel throughout the county.

The climate becomes warmer and tropical as you travel farther south toward the Tropic of Cancer.

The capital city of Kunming is known for its spring-like climate all year round.

The highland regions, including Lijiang and Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, are best experienced in the warmer months between April and October.

Yunnan Province is believed to be one of the earliest areas in China to be occupied by human forms of the genus Homo.

Yunnan is an inland province with no coastal area, but it is nevertheless remarkably rich in water resources, with a great variety of inland bodies of water, including rivers, lakes, springs, pools, and glaciers, all couched within gloriously beautiful landscapes.

Yunnan is a "Natural Garden" with 2,100 kinds of ornamental plants.It possesses one of the richest arrays of wild animals in the world. Yunnan also has a great abundance of mineral reserves including a great diversity of types of mineral reserves.

Yunnan province is one of the warmest regions in all of China. The province has an average daily temperature of 24 degrees Celsius. But within the province there is a great deal of variety of weather conditions according to geography and season.