Route 5 : The ancient Tea-Horse Road, traveling around with the horses

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Xishuangbanna, Pu’er, Kunming, Chuxiong, Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-la

Suggested itinerary: fifteen days and fourteen nights
1st-3rd day: Xishuangbanna, 4th-6th day: Pu’er, 7th-8th day: Kunming, 9th day: Chuxiong, 10th-11th day: Dali, 12th-13rd day: Lijiang, 14th-15th day: Shangri-la or Nujiang

In the March, people transport Pu’er tea via horses.

The ancient Tea-Horse Road is the highest trading route in the world. The route earned the name Tea-Horse Road because of the common trade of Tibetan ponies for Chinese tea. The Ancient Tea Route was a trade link from Yunnan, one of the first tea-producing regions: to Lhasa, Tibet; and Calcutta of India via Himalaya.

• Route 4 : Roaming along the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway
• Towering grandeur of Naigu stone forest in Yunnan
• Picturesque scenery of red earth in Dongchuan, SW China's Yunnan

• Discovering Yunnan

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