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Yunnan, China
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Northwestern Yunnan is in China. It consists of Diqing Prefecture (Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture), and Lijiang Prefecture.
Diqing Shangri-La Airport (DIG), Lijiang Sanyi International Airport (LJG).
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Lijiang (丽江; Lìjiāng) is a small city in Yunnan Province, China; it was once the capital of a small kingdom. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a busy tourist town.
Benzilan (奔子栏) is a small town in extreme northwestern Yunnan Province. It lies along a stretch of the Jinsha River (a major headwater stream of the Yangtze River) that forms the border with Sichuan Province, roughly halfway along the road from Zhongdian to Deqin.
Deqin (德钦; བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་; Dêqên) is a county in Yunnan province, in the Hengduan Range at the eastern end of the Himalayas. 80% of its 55,000 inhabitants are Tibetan.
Haba is a small town in Yunnan, China, on the eastern route between Qiaotou and Shangrila.
Shangrila (香格里拉, Xiānggélǐlā; སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ, Semkyi'nyida; formerly Zhongdian 中甸 Zhōngdiàn in Chinese, and Gyalthang རྒྱལ་ཐང། in Tibetan) is in Yunnan Province. The second town with this name is in Sichuan, and known as the gateway to Yading National Park.
Xidang is a city in Northwestern Yunnan.
Yubeng (雨崩) is a village in Northwestern Yunnan. Yubeng Village is a base for hiking and climbing in the Meili Snow Mountain Range.
Yulong Naxi Autonomous County (玉龙纳西族自治县; Yùlóng Nàxīzú Zìzhìxiàn) is a city in Yunnan Province in China famous for its old town and handicrafts.
The Tiger Leaping Gorge trek (虎跳峡; Pinyin: Hǔ Tiào Xiá), near Lijiang in Yunnan, is a mountain hike through some of the most naturally beautiful and diverse landscapes China has to offer. The high trail runs along the northern side of the gorge, passing quiet villages, shady forest, exposed mountainsides and verdant terraced farmland.
The Three parallel rivers region is in Yunnan, China, in part of the same complex of mountain ranges as the Himalayas, at the eastern end of the Himalaya proper. Descending from Tibet, three mighty rivers here run parallel to each other for over 200 km (125 miles), carving out vast canyons, before diverging halfway across Asia, nourishing billions and giving rise to splendid civilizations.
Lugu Lake (泸沽湖 Lúgū Hú) is on the Yunnan/Sichuan border in China. It is a nice lake between Yunnan and Sichuan to relax one or two days.
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