The scenic spots featured by Buddhist temples, folk custom and tropical rain forest in Xishuangbanna scatter in many places. The prefecture is nicknamed Aerial Garden for its luxuriant and multi – layered primitive woods and tropical rain forests, which are teeming with animals and plants. Tourists can not only feel strong ethnic flavor but also appreciate beautiful tropical scenery here.
▪ Tropical Rain Forest: Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden is the largest botanical garden in China, enjoying the fame of ‘Heart of Green Gem’.
▪ Tea Culture: Xishuangbanna is the home of China's famous Puer tea. The oldest tea tree in Menghai is 700 years old. The six most major Chinese Puer tea fields are all located in Xishuangbanna.
▪ Hinayana Buddhist Culture: Bright and magnificent Hinayana Buddhist temples are common to be seem in Xishuangbanna, such as Mengle Buddhist Pagodas and Jingzhen Octagonal Pagoda.
▪ Minority Culture: Over 10 ethnic groups are living in Xishuangbanna. Traveling to Xishuangbanna is very good way to understand the minorities' in Southwest China such as Dai minority dance, water-splashing festival, etc.
Xishuangbanna is rich in nature, historical and cultural resources, renowned for the multifarious folklore, rain forests, rare plants and wildlife, etc. Xishuangbanna Attractions mainly include Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden, Manfeilong Pagodas (Tanuozhuanglong), Jingzhen Pavilion, Wild Elephant Gully and Dai people's village at Ganlanba. If you are intent to travel to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Exploration can tailor-make you kind of tour to this province based on your preferences.
Xishuangbanna is located at the utmost southeast part of China. It is not only the major passageway and base to Southeast Asia and south Asia, but a window of Yunnan province opened to the world. Here are some options of transportation ways for your needs.
Xishuangbanna Travel Tips will be helpful to plan your trip to here. For a better travel experience, it's necessary to read the information below.
Of Xishuangbanna's 19,184.45 square kilometres of territory, tourist and scenic resorts make up 1,202.13 square kilometres, and nature reserves occupy a total of 2,064.6 square kilometres. You can check our detailed maps: Xishuangbanna Prefecture Map, Xishuangbanna Attraction Map, Xishuangbanna Tour Routes Map, Xishuangbanna Transportation Map, Xishuangbanna Location Map, Wild Elephant Valley Map, etc.
As a hot tourist city, Xishuangbanna is ready to offer you various Xishuangbanna Accommodation with well-appointed rooms and superior service. According to the different destination in the itinerary in Xishuangbanna. We carefully selected the following Best Hotels in Xishuangbanna for their good location and best valued price.
The food of Dai is recommended and it develops a famous branch of Dian food. Dai ethnic cuisine, renowned among Yunnan Cuisine, is taking sticky rice, sourness, grill and aquatic products as the principal things and seasoned with wild flavor. The representative Xishuangbanna Local Food of Dai are Fragrant Bamboo Rice, Boiled Fish with Pickled Bamboo Shoot and Chili and Fish Grilled by Fragrant Grass and Charcoal.
Xishuangbanna Ethnic Culture is diverse and colorful. It is a place where multi-ethnic groups inhabit. Different nationalities create different culture. The Dai minority makes up 28.8% of the population, Han 25%, Hani 19.04%, the rest 24.76. The Dai People and Bulang people believe in Buddhism.
Photos and pictures of the place help you enjoy natural scenery in advance and bring your some information about your destinations. In order to show you some views of the places, this part provides you Photos of Xishuangbanna Yunnan, such as natural scenery, scenic spots, festivals, activities, etc. These photos are all coming from our staffs or customers.
Xishuangbanna shopping has a wide choice of local products due to its tropical monsoon climate. So there are plentiful products like some tropical fruits and rare medicinal herbs, etc. You can also purchase some local silver ornaments, handicrafts and Black Pottery.
Xishuangbanna Education introduces some information about the Kindergarten, primary schools, international schools, middle schools, colleges and universities in Xishuangbanna of Yunnan Province. It helps you to design students education tours with local schools in Xishuangbanna. Here below are the details.
Xishuangbanna governs one county-level city and two counties: Jinghong City(景洪市), Menghai County(勐海县), Mengla County(勐腊县). The prefectural seat stands at Jinghong City. Look at the map below, the pink one stands for Menghai County, blue one Jinghong County and yellow one Mengla County.