Why this site exists

Most English-language guides to Yunnan are written by people who visited once, or by tour operators who need you to buy something. Both produce the same problem: a place described in adjectives, with no information you can act on.

Yunnan Trips is written and maintained by a small team based in Kunming. We travel these routes ourselves, we ask drivers and guesthouse owners what has actually changed, and we write down the parts that are inconvenient — the road that closes, the town that is too commercial after dark, the mountain where altitude will ruin your first night.

How we work

• We describe places, not packages. There is no cart on this site and no prices pretending to be final.
• Where we arrange a car or help with a guesthouse, we say so plainly, and we take no booking fee from the traveller.
• We do not accept payment for a good review, and we do not publish reviews at all.
• Figures we print are sourced; where we are unsure, we write "check locally" rather than guess.

What we are not

We are not a tour operator, a booking platform, or a travel agency. We do not hold hotel inventory and we do not take payments for accommodation. If something goes wrong on the road, we will help you solve it, but the contract for a hotel or a ticket is between you and that business.

If you have a correction, we want it: hello@yntrips.com.