Traveling Xishuangbanna Indochina

Xishuangbanna, with an area of 20,000 square kilometers, is located in the south most corner of Yunnan province at 21°10′～22°40N and 99°55′～101°50′E. It is neighboring Myanmar Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, with a boundary of 966.3 kilometers. It is a bright pearl of southwest China, beautiful, rich and miraculous, with Lancangjiang River (Mekong River, praised as the oriental Danube) passing through from north to south. There are three state ports, one provincial port, and six highways, one of which connects Laos and Myanmar, forming an Omni bearing transport network on water, land and air.

It has a population of 840,000, among which Dai minority takes 28.8%, Han 25%, Hani 19.04%, nine other Ethnic Groups 24.76%. Xishuangbanna Reign consists of three parts: Jinghong City (the capital city), Menghai County and Mengla County, with totally19 scenic areas covering over 800 scenic spots. Xishuangbanna, as a National Scenic Resort, is rich in nature, historical and cultural resources, noted for the multifarious folklore, rain forests, rare plants and wildlife, etc. Its major tourist attractions include Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden, Manfeilong Pagodas (Tanuozhuanglong), Jingzhen Pavilion, Wild Elephant Gully, Dai people's village at Ganlanba, etc.

Xishuangbanna is the only tropical rainforest reserve in China boasting the largest equatorial rainforest ecosystem which is best preserved. It's also a rare gene pool in the world, thus regarded as a nature wonder on the earth.

Since the Tertiary period, Xishuangbanna is in the area of tropical monsoon climate, so it has never been destroyed by the south-moving glacier. Ancient biota is able to develop and evolve here. In Xishuangbanna, the tropical monsoon nature protection zone covers an area of 3,600,000, of which 700,000 is well-kept as primary forest.

There are 20,000 species of plants here, 5,000 of which are making up one sixth of the total in the country, and about 300 kinds of plants are peculiar and rare. Fifty-one species are in the list of precious and endangered plants protected by the state. They are as follows: fern on tree, hip-liked fruit, wooden lotus, chicken feather tree, cycad and so on. The trees mentioned above have lived and multiplied on this land more than one million years. They are the "living-fossils" in China.

The Dai People and Bulang people have a strong belief in Buddhism. There are 500 temples, 150 pagodas and 5,000 monks with 84,000 Buddhist Scriptures. The Buddhism culture there is really unique for Xishuangbanna was once a remote place far away from central China and close to Thailand and Myanmar. 

On arriving at Xishuangbanna, you will find yourself in a green world featured primary forests, rubber trees, banana trees and tea hills. The rich and special ethnic customs attract visitors from all over the world