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A series of new boutique hotels in China's beautiful Yunnan province are making this remote, mountainous region a more attractive – and comfortable – place to visit. Read Article
June 12, 2011
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By Eileen Wen Mooney
The golden roof of the Songzanlin Monastery gleams as the first rays of the morning sun peek over the distant mountains behind it. Sturdy yaks, bells clanging around their necks, plod steadfastly across the grasslands and up into the hills, as smoke drifts out of the nearby farm houses and Tibetan women build the morning fire to prepare their breakfast of tsampa, or barley and yak butter tea.