Yunnan Travel FAQs
General Information
When is the best time to visit Yunnan?
Due to the complex topography, the weather in Yunnan is diverse that makes the different travel seasons to different areas. Generally, Yunnan has mild climate with pleasant and fair weather, so the suitable time to travel to Yunnan could be all year round, depends on routes and places you will visit.
What to bring if I travel to Yunnan?
The personal items listed below are general main stuffs recommended to keep with you when you are travelling to Yunnan:
- ‘Layered’ clothing for flexibility or Strong and quick-drying outdoor clothing
- T-shirts or long and short sleeved shirts/sweaters
- Comfortable walking shoes, Sandals
- Long loose fitting pants
- Sun hat, sunglasses, suntan lotion, lipsticks, umbrella, day pack etc.
- Mosquito repellent
- The hotel facility is lower rate in the remote areas, it is suggested you to bring an inner sheet or a light sleeping bag incase any use.
The above list is the regular things to pack, we will provide a list of appropriate travel stuffs depending on your travel types, itineraries and travel areas.
Are credit cards accepted in Yunnan?
Most major hotels in Yunnan's larger cities will accept major credit cards. Your hotels also can change money for you and ATMs are easy to find. But it is not for the remote or smaller places.
Travel & Tours
Where are your tours going in Yunnan?
Our tours cover the most popular destinations of Yunnan in north and south province, but also offer the off-beaten-track tours in remote or lesser-visited parts for hidden explorations.
What are your Yunnan tours features?
All of our offerings are built around a passion to create original itinerary and splendid experience, to present you sites with unique insights and hidden traces. Our tours are not fixed on the popular sights, but also demonstrate both breadth and depth with adding new ideas that take you to a journey beneath the surface of the region.
What do you mainly focus on?
Yunnan is rich in both cultural and natural landscapes, as well as ethnic folk customs. Our Yunnan tours are trying to offer a combination of them with an unforgettable travel experience. We present you the intriguing local natures from the soaring Kawagebo peak at the Tibetan plateau to the rainforest juggle in Southeast Asia border. We design out the tours with cultural themes concerning tea or tea-horse route. We cater opportunities for the immersion in local lifestyle, bring you into people’s lives and homes to see how they live and work.
Lodging and Dining
What are the accommodations like in Yunnan?
Main Cities like Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-La and Xishuangbanna have the reputed or new opened hotels ranging from budget to luxury. In other lesser cities in Yuanyang, Dechen and Nujiang Canyon have average hotels with 2 or 3 star categories. In smaller towns, the hotels are more basic. Further in remote towns such as Bingzhongluo and Weixi, the accommodation is rudimentary or the guest house with dorm bed and outhouse toilet. Sometimes you have to spend night in local family for an experience or limited conditions.
Does the hotel room have access or WIFI to internet?
The internet access or wifi service is available in hotel rooms in some popular or bigger cities or towns, not all, and not for hotels in remote or smaller places. But most of hotels equipped business center where you can use internet service.
What can I eat in Yunnan?
The food in Yunnan is interesting and tasty that has wide choices for both Han Chinese style cuisine and ethnic style cuisine. The most famous or typical Yunnan food are chicken steamed in a pot (qiguo ji), crossing-the-bridge rice noodles (guoqiao mixian), and regional mushrooms/fungi which is one of Yunnan’s characters with infinite varieties, many are endemic, rare in other places, and hard to call out the names.
Transportation
Can you reserve the air tickets and train tickets for Yunnan?
Yes, we can help for air tickets and train tickets reservation. The earlier booking, the more guaranteed that is suggested to book the tickets at least 20 days prior to the trip schedule and your scancopied passport front page is required.
What vehicle do you use in Yunnan?
The vehicles we provide for our clients are available for varied group size. Generally, a car is provided for a group of 2 persons, a business van for a group of 5 persons, a medium bus for a group of over 10 persons. We provide a larger vehicle with more seats than the number of people on the tour, to make sure you are comfortable and have space for all your baggage. The road condition in Yunnan is fairly good, but in a few time we will offer 4WD jeep for the areas involve tough road driving and off road excursions.