Yuanyang County

Attractions in Yuanyang are unique and stunning. Yuanyang is well-known for its Hani Rice Terraces, the most popular paradise for photographers, making it the ideal place to shoot natural large-scale Terraces, sunrise, sunset and sea of cloud. Yuanyang Rice Terraces was listed in the World Heritage in 2013. In addition to rice terraces, you can also step your feet into the local villages with mushroom-shaped houses and enjoy the festivals and activities of Hani, Dai, Yi minorities.

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As one of the popular tourist destinations on the Yunnan classic tour routes, Yuanyang tours are connected with other top destinations in Yunnan, like Kunming, Jianshui and Shilin, etc. Kunming-Jianshui-Yuanyang tour is one of the classic routes in Yunnan. Kunming is usually served as the gateway city to Yuanyang which means it's the first station, and you will take 2-3 days exploring Yuanyang Rice Terraces as well as Jianshui Ancient Town with the ancient architecture and cultural relics. If you want to witness the masterpiece of nature with a camera, it's recommended to take our specially-designed Yuanyang and Jianshui photography tour for splendid visual feast. More theme tours like hiking tour, Muslim tour, cycling tour and festival tours are flexible, and will be customized to satisfy your specific needs.

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The information on Yuanyang climate could be helpful for preparing a Yunnan travel. Because of high altitude and low latitude, Yuanyang enjoys a subtropical mountain monsoon climate, with the three-dimensional climatic feature of "one mountain has four seasons, every mile has different weather". Yuanyang County is one of the important production places of tropical fruit, cloud-fog tea and gold.

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Since airport and railway station are not available yet in Yuanyang, transportation to Yuanyang rice terraces is relatively simplex. Long-distance bus travel is the main alternative to get to Yuanyang county currently.

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Festivals and Activities in Yuanyang include a brief introduction of main festivals and activities in Yuanyang county, and tell travelers what to do during Yuanyang Hani Rice Terraces Festivals Tours. As the main minority inhabited in Yuanyang, Hani people created brilliant culture and customs, and the unique ethnic festivals of Hani enjoy high reputation and attract a crowd of tourists.

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As one of popular tourist destinations in Yunnan Province, there are increasingly foreign and domestic travelers in Yuanyang Hani rice terraces. To have a better travel experience in yuanyang, here are some useful Yuanyang travel tips which may be helpful for your Yuanyang rice terraces tour. When plan your trip to Yuanyang Hani rice terraces, view our answers to questions about Yuanyang travel to get better understanding of Yuanyang Honghe.

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If we go to somewhere new, maps are good support for us. To help you have a better understanding of Yuanyang County, we provide you different Honghe Yuanyang maps including Yuanyang location map, Yuanyang regional map, Yuanyang tourists attractions map, Yuanyang map, Yuanyang transportation map, Yuanyang travel map, etc, through which you can probably know how to get to Yuanyang County and what to discover there. Yuanyang county is located in the south of Yunnan province, the south section of Ailao mountain range. Yuanyang is adjacent to Jinping County in the east, Lvchun County in the south, Honghe County in the west, and faces Jianshui County, Gejiu City and Mengzi City in the north across the Honghe river.

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As a popular tourist destination in Yunnan, where to stay in Yuanyang is not even a problem. However, Yuanyang is a remote county far from Kunming, accommodation conditions in Yuanyang are in basic. Otherwise, in Duoyishu Rice Terraces and Shengcun Village, there are many hostels decorated in Hani style. These hostels in Duoyishu Rice Terraces are convenient for tourists to watch the sunrise and sunset and offer a excellent angle to view the beautiful scenery of rice terraces through the window.

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Yuanyang dining will bring you some information about what to eat and where to eat in Yuanyang rice terraces. Yuanyang is featuring complex climatic conditions and a great variety of animal and plant, is also an area inhabited by ethnic minorities. Each ethnic minority has own food custom, formed intricate and distinctive diet.

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Indigenous ethnic groups have created their own traditional ethnic cultures in Yuanyang, and have formed distinctive cultural relics, historical relics, residential architectures, costumes, diet and instruments, etc. So culture in Yuanyang is diverse and colorful. Yuanyang is a county mainly inhabited by Hani people. Hani culture includes ecological culture marked by forest, farming culture marked by rice terraces, food culture characterized by Long Street Banquet, architectural culture marked by mushroom house, costume culture dominated by apparel embroidery, and festival culture marked by Kuzhazha festival.

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The magnificent terraced landscape of 170,000 mu stretches in the territory of Yuanyang County. It is a masterpiece left by generations of Hani people. Perhaps photos can give you a idea about a place in advance in a intuitive way, and are easier to draw your attention than a long article. In order to attract more your attention and help you know Yuanyang County well, this part will provide you some photos of Yuanyang County. These Photos include the photos and pictures of Yuanyang tours, festivals, food, landmarks, customers travel photos as well as the top Attractions photos such as Longshuba Rice Terraces, Qingkou Rice Terraces, Bada Rice Terraces, Laohuzui Rice Terraces and Duoyishu Rice Terraces, Shengcun Market, etc.

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Yuanyang shopping will bring you some information about what to buy and where to buy in Yuanyang rice terraces. When traveling in Yuanyang, you must be curious that what kinds of travel souvenirs you can buy for your friends or families, and which specialties are only sold in Yuanyang? It is well-known that Yunnan ethnic groups are good at hand-making. The handicrafts made by them are colorful and exquisite. So when shopping in Yuanyang, the specialties such as Hani embroidery, ethnic clothes and shoes made by Hani people will be the top choices as souvenirs of your Yuanyang tour.

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Compared with other places like Dali and Kunming in Yunnan, Yuanyang County education is still backward. However, With the development of economy, education in Yuanyang is developing. Yuanyang education gives the information of some selected schools, which could be helpful to design your students education tour.

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Yuanyang County has jurisdiction over 14 subdivisions, including 2 towns and 12 townships. It is further divided into 4 communities and 133 villages. Here below are detailed towns and townships in Yuanyang.

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