Xishuangbanna is also known as "Mengbalanaxi", which means "ideal and magical paradise" in ancient Dai language. The lush tropical rainforest, tropical fruits filling the streets, and various ethnic buildings make people immersed in the exotic customs of Southeast Asia in one second.
Xishuangbanna is famous for its magical tropical rainforest scenery, rare animal and plant resources, and colorful ethnic minority customs. 4 The Water Splashing Festival held in mid-month attracted a large number of tourists.
Xishuangbanna is home to Han, Dai, Aini, Hani, Jino and other ethnic groups. 13 Among them, the Dai people are the main ethnic group, accounting for about half of the total population of ethnic minorities; the Jinuo people are 56 It is the last single ethnic group among the 194 ethnic groups to be approved and recognized by the State Council.
Xishuangbanna is the only tropical rainforest nature reserve in the country. It is a veritable "animal kingdom" and "plant kingdom". There are a wide variety of animal and plant resources in the territory, many of which are rare, ancient, peculiar, and endangered animals and plants that are unique to Xishuangbanna. .
In this tropical jungle, Asian elephants, hornbills, peacocks, black-crested gibbons and other rare birds and animals live. Among the unique and rare plants in Xishuangbanna are the hope tree, the red light tree, the Yunnan nutmeg, the four trees, the yellow fruit tree, the Chinese walnut tree, the maydenwood, and the cephalopod tree.
The climate in Xishuangbanna is warm and humid all year round, with lush trees and tangled vines. Not only does it produce a wide variety of tropical fruits, it is also the second largest natural rubber producing area in China (the largest producing area in Hainan Province), the native place of big-leaf tea, and the hometown of Pu'er tea.
Due to its proximity to Buddhist countries such as Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar, Theravada Buddhism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people here, and the Dai people are basically devout Buddhists. Buddhist temples and pagodas full of Southeast Asian style are intertwined with Dai bamboo buildings, green bamboos and ancient trees, creating a sacred scene.
The people of Banna believe deeply in Buddhism and are not particular about details. Therefore, the temples in Banna do not have many rules and regulations. The Manfeilong White Pagoda is a model of the pagoda in Xishuangbanna, with a strong Southeast Asian flavor; the Jingzhen Octagonal Pavilion is also a famous Buddhist building in Banna, resembling a Dai bamboo house.
The Dai people are the most populous ethnic minority in Xishuangbanna. They have their own language and writing, exquisite bamboo buildings, beautiful cucurbit flutes, beautiful peacock dance, and cheerful elephant foot dance. The Dai people have regarded peacocks and elephants as mascots since ancient times.
Per year 4 In mid-month, Xishuangbanna will hold the Water Splashing Festival, when the whole city will splash water and celebrate. The Dai people will express their best wishes to their relatives and friends through this special way of celebration. During this grand festival, the Dai people will also carry out many traditional activities with ethnic characteristics, such as praying in temples, releasing sky lanterns, releasing water lanterns, releasing kites, throwing bags, dragon boat racing, and parading floats.
Dai men and women are free to fall in love. Whenever the New Year's Water Splashing Festival comes, the girls will throw the diamond-shaped flower cloth bags they have made to their loved ones at the bag throwing field. This is the famous "bag throwing" activity of the Dai people; the boys come downstairs to the girl they like at night. Playing the flute to express one's feelings is called "Chuan Girl".
Take a flight from Yangzhou or Nanjing to Xishuangbanna, check into the hotel and rest after arrival.
In the morning, we visited the Wild Elephant Valley for about 3 hours, and after lunch we visited the Primitive Forest Park for about 3 hours. In the evening, you will have about 2 hours of free time in Gaozhuang Xishuangjing.
China's wild elephants currently only exist in the Mengyang Nature Reserve in Xishuangbanna. The Wild Elephant Valley in the Sancha River Valley of the Mengyang Nature Reserve is the most concentrated and frequent place for wild elephant activities, and it is also the only place in China A place where you can get up close and personal with wild Asian elephants.
Routine entertainment projects in the scenic area mainly include: elephant performance ground, rainforest theater and ethnic dance performances, butterfly garden, bird garden, orchid garden, elephant viewing elevated plank road, cable car, big tree hotel, and forest bar. There’s also an Asian Elephant Museum that offers in-depth knowledge about elephants.
The elephant show is the most popular tourist attraction in the scenic spot. The naive elephant can draw, raise flags, play football with its trunk... and most importantly, it can also compete in beauty contests. Visitors can not only watch elephant performances, but also ride on the back of the elephant or sit on the trunk and take photos with the elephant.
The elevated sightseeing plank road in the scenic area winds between tropical rainforests and shuttles deep into the dense forest. When hiking on the plank road, you can see traces of wild elephant activities. If you are lucky, you may even see wild elephants with your own eyes. In addition, wild animals such as white-cheeked gibbons, green peacocks, bison, and black bears also often appear here.
The Primeval Forest Park is 8 kilometers away from Jinghong City and is the closest piece of primeval forest to Jinghong City. The park is full of lush trees and a wide variety of tropical plants that cover the sky. Not only can you enjoy the wonders of the rainforest and truly feel the mystery of nature, but there are also sightseeing projects such as Peacock Flying, Jino Mountain Village, Kowloon Waterfall, and Valley Rainforest.
The first stop of the park tour is Peacock Villa. Visitors can watch the spectacular scene of more than a hundred peacocks flying here - this is the most popular project among tourists in the primeval forest park. Hundreds of peacocks spread their wings and flew over the sparkling lake and landed on the shore. It was a spectacular scene.
There are fixed times for releasing the peacocks every day, seven or eight times a day, each time 10 minutes. Cancellation on rainy days. The Primeval Forest Park is the largest peacock breeding base in Southeast Asia. It has a wide variety and number of peacocks, ranking first among Southeast Asian countries. It is said that each release is not a batch of peacocks, but different breeders releasing them in rotation.
The second stop of the park tour is Aini Mountain Village and Kowloon Waterfall. One of the eighteen eccentrics in Yunnan - "falling in love behind the back of a child" refers to Ai Ni. Aini people are good at singing and dancing. In Aini Village, they will lead tourists to dance with bamboo poles.
Not far from Aini Mountain Village is the Jiulong Waterfall, where you can enjoy the musical instrument performances of ethnic minorities, such as the drums of the Jinuo people, the cucurbits of the Dai people, and the gongs of the Wa people... which fully demonstrate the colorful ethnic customs of Xishuangbanna.
The last stop of the tour is the Gully Rainforest. Not only can you enjoy the original forest landscape here, but more importantly, there is a thrilling jungle leap at your own expense. Jungle Leap is divided into two lines: A and B. However, the prices are not cheap.
Gaozhuang Xishuangjing is a Dai word meaning "Nine Pagodas and Twelve Villages". It is a tourist commercial real estate project created by Yunnan Haicheng Group integrating Dai and Tai culture, aiming to recreate the prosperous scene of Jinghong in ancient times.
This "city within Jinghong city" integrating food, shopping, entertainment and accommodation has now become Xishuangbanna's new city card and a must-visit destination for tourists.
The majestic Jinghong Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Burmese Shwedagon Pagoda, is the iconic landscape of Gaozhuang Xishuangjing, and of course it is also the first choice for tourists to check in and take photos. The tower is 66.6 meters high, which means that one river connects six countries. The four small towers are solid towers, and the big tower is the Bayeux Sutra Museum.
The most attractive thing about Gaozhuang Xishuangjing is its night market scenery. The night markets in Gaozhuang are divided into Xingguang Night Market and Qianbao Night Market. Wandering in the colorful night market, you can taste Yunnan specialties, shop for special handicrafts, place water lanterns to pray, or sit in a bar.
The Liuguo Floating Market is a floating market built on the Lancang River. It brings together the characteristics of six countries: China, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Visitors can find many special items and taste delicacies from various countries here. There is also a light cruise in the water market that you can experience.
In the morning, we visited Manting Park and Zong Buddhist Temple for a total of about 2 hours. After the tour, go to Mengla Wangtianshu Scenic Area (the drive is about 2.5 hours) and the tour is about 3 hours. Overnight stay in Mengla.
Manting Park is located next to Manting Village in the southeast of Jinghong City. It is the oldest park in Xishuangbanna. It used to be the Imperial Garden of the Dai King. In the history of the Dai people, it was a place for feudal lords and chieftains to visit and enjoy flowers. It has a history of 1300 years.
The Dai people are accustomed to calling it "Chunhuan", which means "Garden of Souls". Legend has it that when Princess Dai came to visit, the beautiful scenery here attracted her soul, hence the name. Historically, the Dai people would gather here to sing and dance every year during the Open Door Festival, Close Door Festival and Water Splashing Festival.
Manting Park is a natural village-style park located in the triangle where the Lancang River and the Liusha River meet. 400 It covers an area of more than 1,000 mu and has eight tourist areas, including the National Culture Square, Royal Orchid Garden, Release Lake, and Buddhist Culture Area, which embody the three major themes of "Dai royal culture, Buddhist culture, and Dai folk culture."
There are well-preserved 500 ancient ironwood trees and vegetation in the park. There are artificially cultivated exotic flowers and garden buildings with strong national characteristics. There is also a memorial to Premier Zhou Enlai The commemorative bronze statue of the Water Splashing Festival in Mantingzhai in 1961 and the two Bodhi trees planted by the Princess of Thailand when she visited Jinghong.
In the Buddhist cultural area of the park, there are the Xishuangbanna Buddhist Temple, the White Pagoda, the Octagonal Pavilion, and the Free Life Lake, which are famous in Southeast Asia. Here tourists can experience the rich Theravada Buddhist culture through Buddhist activities such as offering incense, worshiping Buddhas and tying threads, releasing animals, and visiting the Bay-leaf Sutra.
There are regular elephant and parrot performances in the park (free). The elephant and parrot performances are located close to each other, and the performance times are also connected to each other. However, after watching the elephant performance in Wild Elephant Valley, the performance here can be ignored. There is also a performance of the "Spring Joy" story at Zhanghating every noon.
The Zongfo Temple is called "Waba Ji" in Dai language, where "Wa" means temple, "Ba" means forest, and "Ji" refers to the fact that the Buddha once spent 25 in peace. Lin's abbreviation for Loneliness Garden. Therefore, "Wabaji" is a beautiful and quiet forest dojo like Jieda Linge Loneliness Garden.
According to legend, the Zongfo Temple was built by two Southern Buddhist monks who came from Myanmar to promote Buddhism in the mid-7 century AD. It has a history of 1,000 years and is the earliest one established in Xishuangbanna. One of the Buddhist temples of Theravada, it has a long history and profound connections with the Dharma.
About 700 years ago, the Zongfu Temple was established as the highest-level Buddhist temple in Xishuangbanna by the Xuanwei Division. It was responsible for announcing nationwide Buddhist activities, approving the promotion of senior monks, holding new Xuanwei envoys, and various events. The place where the chieftain's oath-taking ceremony was held is also a holy place where Xuanwei and his meng chieftains from Xishuangbanna worshiped Buddha, and where Buddhist temples from various places hosted pilgrimages.
Due to its long history and numerous eminent monks, it enjoys a high reputation among Theravada Buddhist believers throughout Southeast Asia. It is also a sacred place revered by believers in Xishuangbanna. Its unique Baye culture, string tying, life release and other Buddhist activities reflect the rich Theravada Buddhist cultural atmosphere. It is a must-visit attraction when traveling to Xishuangbanna.
Due to the vicissitudes of history, the current Zongfo Temple was rebuilt on 2012 on 12 month 12. It consists of the Nisari Pagoda, the Elder's House, the Monk's House, the Yingbin Building, the Zhaitang and the Standing Buddha about 7.9 meters high. The construction technology not only inherits the traditional culture of the Dai people, but also draws on the traditions of Buddhist temples in Southeast Asian countries. Architectural essence.
Mengla Wangtianshu Scenic Area is about 150 kilometers away from Jinghong City. It is the only oasis at 21 degrees north latitude on the earth and the only tropical rainforest in China recognized by the world. This is also one of the filming locations for the movie "Avatar".
In this dense virgin tropical rain forest, there grows the iconic tree species of the tropical rain forest - the sky tree. The Wangtian tree is a unique and rare tree species that only grows in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. It is a rare plant under first-level protection in China. Wangtian tree is a tall evergreen broad-leaved tree with a majestic appearance and a height of 40-70 meters. It is known as "Giant in the Forest" and "Prince in the Forest".
The most attractive thing in the scenic area is the aerial corridor, which allows you to overlook the entire tropical rainforest from the air. This corridor is 500 meters long and 36 meters high. It is built with thick iron cables connected between the tall sky-watching trees. It is suspended with steel ropes, nylon rope nets as guardrails, and aluminum An alloy ladder serves as a tread, and each section is connected to a wooden platform built on a tree trunk.
Walking along the "Philip's Trail" and "Cai Xitao Trail" in the original tropical rainforest, visitors can not only feel the tallness and tallness of the sky trees, but also experience the five wonders of the tropical rainforest up close - rooting, strangulation, and parasitic attachment. Ecological phenomena such as green leaves, dripping leaf tips, and old stems embracing spring.
The Nanla River is the last first-level tributary of the Lancang River before it leaves the country. It is the mother river of Mengla, nourishing more than a dozen ethnic minorities living in villages along the river. Taking a scenic cruise, you can enjoy the tropical rainforest scenery on both sides of the Nanla River along the way.
After breakfast, go to Menglun Botanical Garden (the drive is about 1.5 hours) and visit for about 3 hours. In the afternoon, return to Jinghong and visit the Dai Village for about 2.5 hours. In the evening Free time at the Jiangbian Night Market is about 2 hours. Those who are interested can also go to Wanda Tourism Resort to watch the "Dai Show" performance at their own expense.
Menglun Botanical Garden, full name of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences, is located on Hulu Peninsula in Menglun Town, Mengla County, 1.5 km from Jinghong 70 It is the only 5A Level scenic spot.
The Menglun Botanical Garden was founded in 1958 by Professor Cai Xitao, a famous botanist in my country. After nearly 60 years of construction and development, it has now become a center integrating scientific research, species preservation and popular science education. It is a comprehensive research institution and tourist scenic spot. It is also the botanical garden with the largest area, the richest collection of species, and the most specialized botanical parks in China.
Menglun Botanical Garden covers an area of 900 hectares and is divided into two large areas in the east and west. Among the nearly 10,000 species in the scenic area, there are many exotic species that most tourists have never heard of or seen.
The East District is an area of 800 The more than 10,000 hectares of virgin forest area mainly includes two scenic spots: tropical rain forest and green stone forest, which showcase the typical characteristics of tropical rain forest: large plank roots, strangulation phenomenon, flowers on old stems, sky gardens and large wooden vines hanging in the air. However, the scenery in the east area is a bit monotonous, and it requires climbing mountains and crossing ridges, so not many tourists go there.
The west area is mainly a botanical garden, which is an artificially planted part. The terrain of the garden is relatively flat, the scenic spots are densely packed, and they are beautifully decorated. It can be said that the scenery changes with every step, and it is a must-visit place for tourists. Visiting here is not only an eye-catching trip, but also a popular science trip.
The West District Botanical Garden is divided into aquatic botanical garden, shade botanical garden, celebrity tree garden, palm garden, national tree garden, exotic flower garden, hundred fruit garden, hundred bamboo garden, hundred garden, passion garden, banyan tree garden, vine garden, etc.30More than 100 special botanical gardens make the garden full of flowers, lush trees and full of life.
The shade plant garden and the aquatic plant garden are next to each other. The most popular thing among tourists in the aquatic botanical garden is the "Big Lotus". From 7 to 8 there is a "My King Lotus, My Boat" experience activity, weighing 40 Visitors under 1kg can participate.
The Garden of Exotic Flowers is a must-see for tourists, including flowers that change colors, dancing grass that trembles with the rhythm of music, clock flowers that bloom on time, mimosa, bachelor trees with only trunks but no leaves, and poisonous tree pulp. The exotic flowers and trees such as "blood seals the throat" will open your eyes and leave you amazed.
Baiyuan Garden is the largest park, where flowers bloom all year round and each season has different characteristics. There are various styles of pavilions in the Baiyuan Garden, as well as small bridges and flowing water, which are very suitable for taking pictures.
The Celebrity Famous Tree Garden collects and displays 340 a variety of tropical plants. Among them are the acacia tree planted by Jiang Zemin, the iron tree planted by Li Peng, the small-leaf fig planted by Li Ruihuan, the sky tree planted by Prince Philip, chairman of the World Wildlife Fund, and the Cambodian dragon blood tree planted by Professor Cai Xitao, the founder of the botanical garden. Collect and save.
The National Tree and National Garden is divided into six continents in the world, and collects and displays 80 national trees and flowers from 58 countries that are suitable for local growth. Through text and popular science explanations, the public can learn more about the customs, cultural traditions, geography and landforms of various countries.
After the Water Splashing Festival every year, male fireflies fly all over the night sky after the rain in the Botanical Garden and the sky clears up. They flash with a faint light, making Huludao look like a fairy tale world.
The Dai Garden is about 1,000 m from Jinghong City. 27 kilometers, including the relatively well-preserved Mansongman, Manting, Manjiang, Manzha, and Manga It consists of five natural Dai villages. Mansongman and Manting are two of the larger villages.
The main attractions of the Dai Nationality Garden include: Yingbin Square, Manchun Mangu Buddhist Temple, Dai Village, Splashing Water Square, Amphitheatre, Dai Natural Village in the park, etc. When entering the gate of the scenic spot, the first thing you will see is the welcome square, where the enthusiastic Dai people perform welcome dances, sing congratulations, and sprinkle water blessings.
Manchunman Ancient Buddhist Temple has a history of more than 1,400 years. Unfortunately, the original Buddhist temple was destroyed in the 60s of the last century, and the Buddhist temple you see now was built in the late 70s. The Manchunman Buddhist Temple, which is full of Theravada Buddhism characteristics, is full of incense and chanting can be heard in the temple every day.
The most solemn festival of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna is the Water Splashing Festival. In the Water Splashing Square of the Dai Garden, you can feel the lively scene of the Water Splashing Festival every day.
Dai dances are performed regularly in the open-air theater every day; Zanha songs, folk dances such as boxing dance, knife dance, and tattoo dance are refreshing for tourists; wedding customs, bag throwing, bride snatching, cockfighting, etc. are highly participatory, and tourists are entertained It deepened our understanding of Dai culture in a relaxed and enjoyable way.
There are two famous night markets in Jinghong: one is Gaozhuang Xishuangjing, and the other is Jiangbian Night Market. Jiangbian Night Market is located near Xishuangbanna Bridge, across the river from Gaozhuang Xishuangjing. It is a night market visited by many locals. The Jiangbian Night Market is about 2 kilometers one way from beginning to end. Not only are there many specialty snacks, but there is also a Dai Jiangnan Bar Street here.
Daijiangnan Bar Street is located next to the Lancang River. It used to be called "Golden Beach" but is now called "Daijiangnan". It gets lively here at night. The architecture and decoration of the bar street are very charming, and there are also bamboo-foot buildings with Dai characteristics.
Here you can also see the most beautiful night view along the river in Xishuangbanna, the quietly flowing Lancang River, and the luxury cruise ships on the river. Find a bar near the river, face the Lancang River, listen to ethnic minority songs, and feel the night with your friends. Jinghong City in China.
Lancang River is the name of the upper reaches of the Mekong River in China. It originates from Tanggula Mountain in Qinghai Province and flows through Qinghai, Tibet and Yunnan provinces. The flow in Xishuangbanna is 158 kilometers. After exiting Mengla County in Xishuangbanna, it becomes The boundary river between Laos and Myanmar was originally called the Mekong River.
The Impression Lancang River Cruise is located in Jinghong Port (next to Xishuangbanna Bridge). The ticket includes dinner and snacks and fruits, watching ethnic song and dance performances and performances by red-top artists, and enjoying the river view of Xishuangbanna along the river. The whole journey takes about 2 hours.
The Dai Show is created by Cirque du Soleil and directed by Mr. Frank Degon, the designer of the "O" show in Las Vegas and the "House of Dancing Water" in Macau. It is a national art show that combines Xishuangbanna's , a stage art that combines high-tech lighting and sound effects, dance, acrobatics, diving, fountains, sand paintings and other performance forms.
Dai Show is based on the ancient and mysterious Dai folklore "The Peacock Princess". It tells the story of an urban boy who accidentally fell into a mysterious rainforest thousands of years ago. Here he met and fell in love with a beautiful and charming Dai princess. Their love was accompanied by With the emergence of various spiritual characters in the rainforest, after going through a thrilling test, the young man finally wins precious love.
The Dai people like to live near water and regard water as a holy and auspicious thing. For the Dai people who have lived in Xishuangbanna for generations, the vast rainforest between the mountains and rivers is their spiritual sustenance. The Dai show thus highlights the theme of water, which determines that it is a visual feast of water, light and shadow.
The performance team brings together elite actors from 15 countries. Through dazzling technological special effects, dazzling costumes and styles, uncertain stages, stereo sound effects and fantasy scenes, the world challenges the limits of the human body in a wonderful performance Combined on one stage, it is dizzying and breathtaking!
The Dai Xiu Theater, which was built with a lot of money, was designed by Mark Fisher, the world's top architectural art and stage art design master. The shape of the double-layer dome resembles a bamboo hat, so the Dai Show Theater has a tropical rainforest-style nickname - the golden bamboo hat. The gap between the two domes creates ventilation openings that bring natural wind into the theater.
The Dai Show Theater can seat 1,200 spectators. Since the seats are arranged at 270 degrees around the stage, you can enjoy the performance anywhere you sit without any blind spots. The stage facilities and audio-visual equipment of the theater are comparable to the world's first-class song and dance theaters: the water storage and pumping system turns the stage into a "mulberry field" in an instant, and high-tech sound and light make the audience feel like they are in a primitive rainforest with the roar of birds and beasts...
After getting up early, go to Gasa International Airport, take a flight back to Yangzhou or Nanjing, end the pleasant tropical rainforest style trip, and return to your warm home!
Estimated quotation based on 20 people purely for fun and round-trip air tickets of 1,600
Xishuangbanna has a tropical rainforest climate. There is neither extreme heat in summer nor severe cold in winter. It is warm and pleasant all year round. You can travel to Xishuangbanna at any time. It never snows here, and even the coldest 1 monthly average temperature can reach 16 ℃. 6, 7 and are the hottest months in Xishuangbanna, but the average temperature at the hottest time is only 28 ℃.
Xishuangbanna has only dry season and rainy season in a year. The dry season is from 11 to 4 of the following year. The temperature is neither cold nor hot, making it most suitable for traveling to Xishuangbanna. Especially from March to May, flowers are in full bloom here, and the Water Splashing Festival in mid-April is even more lively. The rainy season lasts from late 5 to late 10. At this time, many tropical fruits and various wild vegetables, fungi, bamboo shoots, etc. are on the market.
The residents of Xishuangbanna are mainly Dai people. Dai cuisine is mainly glutinous rice, sour and baked meats, and aquatic products. Wild cultivated plants are often used as spices, giving it a unique ethnic flavor.
Grilled tilapia with lemongrass, stir-fried pork with sour bamboo shoots, Yunnan jelly, dried lemon Bass, pineapple rice, bamboo tube rice, Nammi platter, Dai barbecue, special snacks... are all worth trying.
The Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan, three mosquitoes on a plate, grasshoppers as a side dish... If you choose to come to Banna during the rainy season, you will not only have wild vegetables and bamboo shoots, but also wild fungi and insects that will challenge you. The richness will definitely leave you speechless.
How can you miss all kinds of tropical fruits when you come to Xishuangbanna, the "tropical kingdom", such as mystery fruit, sugar apple, jackfruit... Tropical fruits that are usually too expensive to eat are also rare varieties that you have never seen before. Let's go together here Eat until you have enough.
Gaozhuang Xingguang Night Market, Jiangbian Night Market, and Manting Xiaozhai are the best places to eat barbecue; while Damanmo, Manjinglan, and Manlazhai are good places to taste Dai dishes.
Shopping: Pu'er tea, arabica coffee, wood carvings, root carvings, tropical fruits and dried fruit preserves, black pottery, Dai Tongba (i.e. satchel bag with rich patterns and fine workmanship), Dai flower bag (originally a toy for Dai young men and women to entertain and convey affection, now it has become a became tourist souvenirs) etc.
Xishuangbanna is located on the border, and there are many local jewelry and jades. Most of the "Burmese jade" and other items purchased by tourists at the market are fake. It is best to buy them in a reputable large shopping mall and ask for an invoice. Generally speaking, the heavier the Dai painted wood carvings, the better the quality.
◇ You must take off your shoes when entering a temple or a Dai home
◇ Don’t touch the heads of little monks and children
◇ Don’t peek into the bedrooms of ethnic minority residents
◇ Umbrellas, sunglasses, hats and sunscreen are essential. Xishuangbanna is humid and rainy, so necessary rain gear is also indispensable. Xishuangbanna is warm and humid, and there are many mosquitoes. You must also bring anti-mosquito bite spray.
◇ When going to Xishuangbanna in summer, anti-heat stroke medicine is indispensable. Be sure to bring a cool T shirt, shorts and flip flops. When I arrive in Xishuangbanna, I basically have to wear slippers every day, and sneakers are absolutely intolerable. Bring a light jacket as it can get a bit chilly in the morning and evening. Whenever you go to Xishuangbanna, it’s absolutely right to prepare summer clothes, shoes and hats.
◇ Purchasing incense, writing names in merit books, and receiving prayer cards all require additional fees, so you need to inquire in advance. Before participating in any activity, ask if there will be any additional charges to avoid any unpleasantness.
◇ Please wear a hat when entering the tropical rainforest. Many plants in the rainforest are thorny and poisonous. Do not pick or touch plants with your hands. Do not smell wild flowers or taste wild fruits to avoid being scratched or injured. Poisoned. Beware of poisonous larvae or snake bites in overgrown areas, and do not act without permission.
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