Part of the fun in travel is trying new kinds of food. Here are my top prize winners for unusual food flavor. It doesn't ...

Where Yunnan meets Tibet: Deqen (aka Deqing) Meili Glacier Park Unlike Zhondian which sprawled and stretched, Deqen huddled itself in the folds of Prince Meili Snow Mountain's ...

Zhondian Zhondian lady In the morning, Ge Sa, our local guide, tall and broad-shouldered, strode confidently into the Pacific Rim Hotel lobby. He was nineteen-years-old ...

Beyond Lijiang Mr. Zhang, our driver, told us he preferred Zhondian over Lijiang. I asked him why, "Because Zhondian is hometown!" Unlike ...

Lijiang, Yunnan Province Concrete and glass high-rise banks and hotels winked at the neighboring Jade Dragon Mountains as if to signal, "Just another plane-load of ...

Kunming, Yunnan Province If Shangri-la is in Asia, its antithesis is LAX or Los Angeles International Airport. Of all the airports we encountered, LAX took the ...