Xishuangbanna is located in southwestern Yunnan, is also China's most southwestern region, here is a large tract of tropical rainforest and primitive forest landscape, natural environmental protection is very much in place, with good ecosystems, but also tourists come to Yunnan is one of the must-visit places, the following to give you a detailed introduction to Xishuangbanna's tourist attractions and culinary tips.

Yunnan has a very beautiful and lovely place, where seven-colored clouds float in the sky.

Brothers and sisters preparing to paddle a dragon boat are getting active

Madness of the Water Festival

The second semester of the fourth year of college is really a wave of the fly~~~Besides the noodles and beer and mahjong, but also because of the trip to Banna, I met Haixiang, Danyang and theirs, which laid a solid foundation for the revolutionary friendship of the future of the wave of the world~~

Going to Yunnan is just a whim! The first time I saw the movie, I was in the middle of the movie, and I was in the middle of the movie, and I was in the middle of the movie, and I was in the middle of the movie, and I was in the middle of the movie, and I was in the middle of the movie, and I was in the middle of the movie. Thank you Dove, this trip has opened the door for many trips in the future! I would have thought that there is a generation gap with the pigeons, I did not think that after this get-together will be out of control, reached a deep **** knowledge ah (I do not know is my mind too old, or her mind is too young)

From Lijiang to Xishuangbanna to take about 20 hours of the car, in the car ran into a pair of young people (at that time I was also very young, bitter smile), all kinds of talk, and when I got off the car and invited me to talk to them, but I did not experience the same. They together, but unfortunately I did not experience any storm, too shy inside, politely refused them (to be like me now so "old driver", has long been out, but there may be a conflict ah).

Xishuangbanna is at the junction of China and Laos, Myanmar, the Mekong River meanders from here, secretly may be jade, amber, drug smuggling rampant, but here the climate is warm and comfortable, full of blue sky, white clouds, green water, and filled with the freshness of the original forest, exudes a strong wild charm, vigorous vitality, coupled with a variety of fruits that are delicious to the point of no return, this place can really be called heaven on earth. It can be called heaven on earth. There are many tourist attractions around Banna, there is the Wild Elephant Valley, the National Forest Park, the Great Buddha Temple, the Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (also known as the Menglun Botanical Gardens), which is inhabited by the Dai ethnic group, so the buildings here, dressed in exotic flavors.

Because the pigeon in the Chinese Academy of Sciences Tropical Botanical Garden for graduate school, so the scope of this activity is mainly to botanical gardens. Menglun Botanical Garden is China's largest botanical garden, inside a variety of exotic flowers and plants, many of the plants really have never heard of, but I do not have much interest in plants, after looking at it can only say: hold grass, so beautiful! What is this? Grip grass, this tree is really strange!!!!! What I envy and yearn for is the life here. At that time, I had completely given up on graduate school, but after seeing Dove's postgraduate life, I actually regretted it in my heart. Of course, the heavy and hard work of school is definitely there, but the life of playing with my buddies, freedom and debauchery is even more itchy (regretting that I didn't study hard). Here there are students from various countries (Peng and pigeon actually did not seize the opportunity, otherwise I would have a mixed nephew), there is my favorite billiards room (otherwise my billiards skills are not so bad), and most importantly there are endless flowers and plants and eat endless free fruit ah ~ ~ ~ ~ (eat bananas and pineapples here is the cheapest and most delicious I've ever eaten)

Pineapple honey

Forget what it's called, this never seen flowers and plants, the Botanical Gardens is too much

Cutting rubber

Every morning to sleep to wake up naturally, listening to the birds chirping outside the window, and then cycling around the Botanical Gardens, looking for ripe fruits, to see if there is a peacock open screen, so that the day is really beautiful and incredible

Western Shuangbanna splash festival is the traditional festival of the Dai ethnic group. the traditional festival of the Dai people and the New Year of the Dai calendar. Every year, the Botanical Garden will organize a team to participate in the Menglun Dragon Boat Race, although I can not swim, but by pigeon I also enrolled, followed to get together a lively. The day before the race, a group of us just went to practice a few times, gosh, really tired. Don't know how to power, can't grasp the rhythm, the dragon boat does not go straight, all sorts of problems, but we are still excited to participate in it is not, hahahahaha~~

Our dragon boat launched

Hair of the team uniforms, is the botanical garden of the homemade, colorful Chinese red, the chest has an elephant, and then this dress also went with me to Tibet.

While we wear red, the momentum is also red, helpless technology is too poor, with us than the team also let us a small section, but soon exceeded us, far behind us.

Drink yo, roar yo

It doesn't matter if we lose, we all laugh together

Paddling a dragon boat, the cooperation between the team members is very important, maybe we practiced a little more and then it's fine (:-D). Afterwards, we all said, we lost because we have a few female generals, strength lost the lead (humph), the importance of participation, participation ah, hehehe.

After paddling the dragon boat, about Haixiang girls, hurry to participate in the activities to catch the pendulum. The Xishuangbanna food is very interesting, before I came, I always thought, Banna only fruit, but I do not know their side of the food more than countless. Pineapple rice, fried bamboo worms, lemongrass grilled fish, hot and sour lemon chicken claws (Peng's favorite) and so on and so forth. The "Catch Pendulum" is just like our New Year's fair, very lively, everyone puts out the special snacks, household utensils, special goods to sell, and the beautiful Dai girls will wear flower beads on their heads, wearing Dai costumes, dressed up beautifully.

Beautiful headdress of a Dai girl

Pretty Dai girl

Specialized Dai barbecue

Banna's barbecue is very famous, very tasty, and very characteristic. Especially the grilled fish, small fish from the Lancang River on the lemongrass, and then with Banna's unique dipping sauce, sweet and sour spicy, taste is a great.

Roasted fish

After participating in the swinging activity, we saved up our energy to deal with the next water-splashing activity.

Water splashing is the highlight of the festival, we wrapped up all our electronics in plastic bags and rushed down the street to join the festival (we didn't seem to have any water splashing weapons with us, for crying out loud). It's really a city-wide water splashing frenzy. Officials will open the tap for everyone to use, and you can get water everywhere on the street. Children with water guns, small washbasins, girls and boys with buckets, modest take a bottle of water, we splash each other, and even some people driving a truck, the car is filled with water, all the way to drive over, all the way to splash over ~ ~ splash the more, the more blessings ~ ~ ~

I have a washbasin on my head and a water gun in my hand

You hide what?

The whole city is crazy about splashing

The years have gone by, and time flies.

Since 20 years ago, the CCTV hit the TV series "Sins", the drama touched the hearts of countless ordinary people, especially our generation has experienced the experience of Zhiqing sweet and sour life people! When I have been a youth, I have been thinking about how the Shanghai youths have been sinning? How they wasted their years? There is such a group of people, their **** the same language is: I have been a Zhiqing, our generation for us, Zhiqing career is unforgettable generation, now many have become well-known scholars, professors, provincial cadres, about 50% of the people have had this experience. When I meet these people, he won't talk about what he has accomplished, but he will naturally tell me about where he was a youth. These years are unforgettable for all of us,?

The wasted years of that generation?

Most of the children in the 80's and 90's have seen the 20-episode "Sins and Debts" TV series produced by Shanghai TV in 1994, which was a hit across the country, right? If you haven't seen "Sins and Debts", you've heard the song "Beautiful Xishuangbanna, can't keep my dad, dad a home, mom a home ......"? ?

The wasted years of that generation?

I'd definitely like to see everything there sometime! (Due to my occupational disease of being a youth, I was also a youth for a few years, but we were lucky not to have that kind of "sinful debt"

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Beautiful Xishuangbanna?

From the flower city of Kunming, Yunnan, all the way to the bus arrived in Shilin, Dali, Lijiang, and other cities, Dali, Lijiang's ancient city culture of Xishuangbanna's empty and sacred, leaving me with lifelong unforgettable memories.

Today's flight from Lijiang, will arrive in China, a paradise - Xishuangbanna!

Always thought that Xishuangbanna is a place I can definitely want to go to see where the young people there have stories, but today, I finally set foot on this red hot land.?

According to the information, Xishuangbanna ancient Dai language name "Mengbala Naxi", meaning "ideal and magical paradise". With this leafy tropical rainforest **** born of 44 nationalities, also practiced a "sweet food, beautiful clothes, live in peace, and enjoy their customs," the ideal of life. Xishuangbanna, both a piece of magical land, but also a breeding unique ethnic forest culture of the region. The magic lies in the fact that she is located in China's remote border, bordering Laos and Myanmar, and neighboring Thailand, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries connected.

The bus carried a few of us through the downtown, streets and walled villages of Xishuangbanna.?

I sat by the window of the bus, where there were no skyscrapers to be seen at all, and I saw a sprawling sea of green, undulating and rolling. Covered in the lush fruit trees is a patchwork of Dai family bamboo buildings, tropical unique scenery, rubber trees, fruit trees, banana forests, tea mountain, as if the green fairy tale forest, the whole process of dazzling scenery, mountains Cuiwei, magnificent and spectacular, the beauty of the difficult to collect difficult to manage.?

Walking on the green stone road, the air is a little humid, but also can smell the faint aroma of the soil. Around is a variety of flowers and plants, there are some birds singing. On both sides of the path, the green grass is bleak, some sky-high trees, branches and leaves, and some ancient vines twisted, covering the sky and the sun.

The botanical gardens here must go when, there are subtropical jungle, beautiful and pleasant. On both sides of the road, banana trees, banana forest, betel nut trees, palm trees everywhere. Someone wearing the costume of the Tang Monk, a few people riding an elephant, smiling and leisurely. This scene, I have only seen such a scene in the TV series "Journey to the West", as if it is the Tang Dynasty on the way of the Tang Monk and his disciples to fetch the scriptures.?

In Xishuangbanna for several days, whether it is to visit the Dai walled villages on the China-Burma border in Mengla, go to Menghai to search for ancient tea mountains, go to Mengyang to explore the activity of wild elephants, or go to Olive Dam to find the ancient Bay Leaf Sutra, we all walk through the rainforest that covers the sky. As local photographer Li Weijun told us, it's hard to find an angle to observe and photograph the rainforest panorama because the undergrowth is so dense that there are no "windows".

We visited several villages in Xishuangbanna for a few days, and seldom heard of any young people going out to work, they are willing to stay at home to do farm work, but not as far as to go to the nearby counties to do business. The pace of life in the village is slow and even idle, especially in the midday three or four hours, it is difficult to see a person walking outside, people are drinking with friends and relatives or at home for a nap. Dai people also speak softly and slowly, easily do not argue with people, mostly contented character. This is of course and accounted for the majority of the population of Xishuangbanna Dai, Brown people all believe in Buddhism, but also reflects the southwest border of Xishuangbanna, a "sweet food, beautiful clothes, live in peace, and enjoy their customs" of the "small country, few people" ideal of life. Banna, the hometown of the golden peacock, is like being in a beautiful landscape painting: in the dense primitive forest, trees are lush, vines are intertwined, wild elephants stroll leisurely in the forest, peacocks and white pheasants fly freely; on the picturesque idyllic gardens, the phoenix-tailed bamboos have a whirling shadow, and the palm forests are pavilion; the fresh flowers

The Dai cottages and bamboo buildings surrounded by green trees, and the mouth-watering tropical fruits of more than 50 kinds are so beautiful and dreamlike that people will never forget them. Tropical rainforest and Dai mainly multi-ethnic flavor of Xishuangbanna, which is located in the southwest border of the land is both magical and unique to attract millions of tourists from home and abroad. Xishuangbanna is a national tourist scenic area with a good reputation both at home and abroad.

Some people say, Xishuangbanna, is the place where the dream begins, then, let my dream, from here to go!

In the theme song of the TV series "Sins and Debts": beautiful Xishuangbanna, can't keep my dad, Shanghai is so big, is there a home for me? Dad has a home, mom has a home, I'm left on my own, as if I'm redundant?

This is the story of a few young intellectuals with a lot of passion and ambition, who responded to the motherland's call and went to Yunnan to support the border. So in this beautiful place, left their hot youth, spilled their loyal blood. On this soil of quicksand river and rubber forest, they fell in love, got married, and had the fruit of their love.?

But, time flies, years like a shuttle, ten years a dream, the return of the surging tide and the once young and now very realistic group of them pushed to the shore of the big city. They left this beautiful land, however, they gave up not only the rubber forest, coconut trees, and their love, as well as their flesh and blood.

The five children of the 1990s then board a train to Shanghai to find the parents who gave birth to them and then abandoned them, while their mothers and fathers return to the city to start new families and new children. Their arrival is no doubt a time bomb for their biological parents, who already have a new home?

This is a poignant story that reflects the reality of the subject. I revisited the song before setting foot in the hot land of Xishuangbanna.?

The lyrics say, "The beautiful Xishuangbanna, can't keep my dad". Its beauty and magic is an invisible attraction to me, and the love story that happened in the beautiful Banna makes me want to witness the intoxicating flavor of Banna.

No longer is the apricot blossom smoky rain a cut of cold plum melancholy; no longer humongous wind flying sand white mountains and black water of the North. It is the treasure trove of nature, is the green kingdom, is a bright pearl of the South. Is the Wuling people edge of the stream line exempt from the fairyland place, is the butterfly fluttering peacock screen home. It is the universe of the beginning of chaos, is the hot summer feast.

It is the purity of the snowy plateau into the Lancang River soup soup of the passing water, is the moonlight of the phoenix-tailed bamboo national flavor of the most pleasant silhouette.

Here, everywhere is full of exotic flavor!

This is a great place, a place where you can enjoy exotic flavors without leaving your home.?

It's a great place to live, a place where you can rest your soul.

Want to go to the primitive forest adventure? Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest National Park is the best place to go.

Here, there is a mysterious, ancient, sentimental atmosphere of the Wangtian tree, there is a thrilling "air corridor", there are negative oxygen ions spit area, there are through the Philip's trail. There are rare wild animals, nationally protected plants, endangered species of rare creatures, as well as ethnic minorities in the mysterious performance?

Being immersed in a large forest with strong primitive ecology, you can really feel a kind of primitive and relaxation.

Walking in the forest, you can hear the sound of the stream, see the clear spring on the rocks, and slowly experience the pleasant sound of the water. Listen to the birds singing, that is the mountains and the call of the soul.

Layers of forests, towering into the clouds. The crystal light and moist green leaves such as a side of wine _, Zhang Zhang beckons the green is brewed on the intoxicating fragrance. Tilting your head, you can only see a small piece of sky. We occasionally shouted to the sky, "I'm coming", in the mountain stream echoed back and forth. We occasionally close our eyes to rest our heads and feel a sense of transcendence in our hearts.

Here we also found a lot of wonders, such as plant strangulation, old stems and flowers, dragon tree roots, one tree into a forest, etc., the original nature is so mysterious and magical, peacocks open screen, monkeys play, people and elephants *** dance, etc., a true sense of the animal kingdom kind and beautiful.

Come here to explore, it can stimulate our curious sensitive nerves.

Come here to enjoy nature, it is a beautiful landscape painting.?

We went to a cottage and arrived at a farmhouse.?

The customs here are very different from those of our ethnic minorities, with each house being owned by a woman, who is the breadwinner, and a man who looks after the children and cooks the meals.

The men here are called Cat Do Li and the women are called Sao Do Li. We were greeted by a beautiful Sao Duo Li.

Their houses are very special, are wooden attic. The first floor is usually to raise livestock and poultry, or put agricultural tools, attic columns are rectangular, rather than cylindrical, and even more strange is that these columns are just put on the surface of the flat ground, not buried into the soil. The master said that such a building was summarized according to the climate and natural conditions of the place. There are two reasons: first, this is a mountainous area, where snakes are randomly infested, and with round pillars, snakes can easily climb into the house, whereas with rectangular ones, snakes can't climb up. The second is that the mountains are low here, and in case of heavy rain, the water from the mountains may rush down, and then flooding may happen at any time. And such a wooden attic, the columns are not buried into the land, if a flood occurs, the whole attic will float up and automatically become a small boat. We couldn't help but be impressed by the ingenuity of the few private investors in Xishuangbanna. Following the stairs to the second floor, the house was not very luxurious, but it was clean. Simple furniture, simple tables and chairs.?

This hostess spoke of his family's condition, one of the best in the village. Here, they are all men hired to women's homes. The woman is more important than the man, if any family if the birth of a male child, it is said that the birth of a money-losing goods, the birth of a girl, the whole village will be a big feast to celebrate three days. At the time of marriage, the man must have a dowry, usually rubber trees. The woman inherits her mother's family's property after marriage.

What amazes me more is the way of life here, or the custom of "group living". A large kang, can live three generations. They are separated by mosquito nets. If there are two daughters, there is one mosquito net for the parents, one mosquito net for the first daughter's family, and one mosquito net for the second daughter's family. For us here around the city, we didn't even think about it. Although we feel curious and will not accept such a way of life, but we can still from the heart to respect the living habits and customs of the people, which, is their faith and civilization.?

Maybe, we have many differences, but I still love, because I love the civilization of the Chinese people.?

? Dali, Lijiang and Xishuangbanna, it feels like two different flavors of delicacies.?

Dali, Lijiang, like a stunning beauty, she is ice-clear, cold and superb!

While Xishuangbanna, is a woman of great splendor, she is gentle and charming, wind clear ten thousand kinds!

Beautiful Xishuangbanna, enchanting blossoming flowers, chirping birdsong, layers of forests, back to basics of the attic! Everything, beautiful in the eyes, remember the heart.?

The scenery is beautiful, not my hometown, the residence is good, not my home.

Xishuangbanna, I'm going back, your mysterious rich, beautiful and magical, stay in my heart.?

Farewell, Banna, you will always be the place I aspire to!?

The rolling tropical rainforest, thousands of strange and exotic flowers and grasses, layers and layers of ancient trees, the refreshing green ah, the passionate and exuberant beauty ah, the vigorous vitality ah, not to mention that the people can not let go of the food ah ~ ~ ~ ~ - Banna, Banna, all these are the beautiful Xishuangbanna!