Yunnan, on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest of China,
is a land of natural beauty and mystery, which covers an area
of 394,000 square kilometers with a population of 40,000,000.
Yunnan represents the last great region to join the Chinese empire.
Even today many Chinese think of it as a " frontier province
" although it was Kublai and his successor, 200 years before
Christopher Columbus, whose forces entered these mountainous lands
that lie just below the Tibetan plateau and abut Vietnam, Laos
and Burma.
Many of our tourists visit Kunming, Lijiang, Dali ancient ethnic
towns and the Xishuangbanna (Near Sino-Burman border).
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