(To read the first part of my trip to Xishuangbanna, click here! To read part two, click here!) If there’s one thing I’ve learned about traveling, especially traveling in China, and ESPECIALLY especially traveling in China during a pandemic, it is this: you have to be flexible. You have to bounce. If your plans comeContinue reading “Xishuangbanna Pt. III: A Cuppa Pu-erh with the Great Stone Dragon(s)”
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Xishuangbanna Pt. II: The Elephant Whisperer
(To read Part 1 of my Xishuangbanna trip, click here!) One of the amazing things about living and traveling through China is the variety of destinations available to you. There are giant metropolitan cities (larger than most American cities!) that I’d never even heard of before moving here, the classic Chinese tourism spots (the GreatContinue reading “Xishuangbanna Pt. II: The Elephant Whisperer”
Xishuangbanna: The Land of Peacocks and Elephants
Where last I left you, we had just traveled to Wuyi and Gouqi Island in the Zhejiang province for Golden Week – the first week in October. Due to heightened pandemic concerns (are you sensing a theme here?) we were not able to leave Shanghai over any of the next few holidays but, contrary toContinue reading “Xishuangbanna: The Land of Peacocks and Elephants”