Hiking the Yuanyang rice terraces – get off the beaten track for the real deal
Many of northern China’s migratory birds winter in bucolic Yunnan province and, as the mercury dropped in Beijing in November, I followed suit. A journey south from the Yunnan capital, Kunming, trades kilometres for degrees and I’m in short sleeves by the time I reach Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture. The air smells as rich as the claret hills that define this land, hemmed in by the...
