The place's given a beautiful name - Yunnan, ‘the south of colorful cloud’, and endowed with intriguing natural scenery and enchanted ethnic culture. For years, it has been one of China’s most photographed destinations, with many amazing locations of landscape photography.
The list of places for picture-taking in Yunnan seems never-ending, and here are top 5 of them.
160 km away from Spring City Kunming, Dongchuan Red land reaches its most beautiful time from May to June and from September to December. The spectacular color-covered landscape combined with red land, green potato sprouts and golden fields of wheat and highland barley extend to as far as your eye can reach. March is time for a snow-blanketed wintery landscape.
China’s most stunning terraced rice fields, it is a masterpiece of agriculture created by local Hani people, and a paradise for painters and photographers. Furthermore, get your camera ready for the Hani and Yi people’s colorful ethnic costumes and distinctive traditional villages and dwellings.
The over 1200-year-old Jianshui Town keeps more than 50 ancient buildings and historic sites, therefore is famed as "the museum of ancient building" and "the museum of ancient habitant". Yinghui Gate and Double Dragon Bridge are the most famous ones.
In the spring time, starting from February, the countryside of Luoping sees an ocean of golden canola flowers stretching though the roads, villages and the Karst hills. Besides, don’t miss the Nine Dragon Waterfall in Luoping.
Standing 2380 above sea level, the water terraces is a pure place and the holy land of local Naxi people.
