Slideshows

Changchundong Temple on Weibaoshan is one of the best preserved Daoist temples in Yunnan.

The archery competition is an integral part of the Dali Third Month Fair.

The horse races at the Third Month Fair, made famous in the movie Five Golden Flowers 五朵金花, are getting ever more professional.

A forrest fire burning on the eastern side of Erhai during the dry season in 2024.

The old town of Weishan 巍山 at night.

The flowering of rapeseed turns the fields of Weishan 巍山 a splendid yellow in late February and early March.

Haiyan is an old fishing village on Dianchi. In its long-abandoned Guangsheng Temple a few murals remain.

A small, but significant Buddhist temple above the Mekong. One of the southernmost Tibetan temples in China. Pictures are from 2009.

The Xianfeng Bookchain 先锋书店, an upmarket bookseller known for innovative architecture, has opened a store in the Ming dynasty Chongzheng Academy 崇正书院 in the centre of Weishan 巍山.

Several old bridges still span the Longjiang River in Tengchong county.

Yunnan's best preserved Wenchang Temple.

A blacksmith in Fengyi's Jiangxi village 凤仪江西村 still makes farmtools by hand. In the village once most households were blacksmiths, today only a handful remain.