Yunnan, literally means the south of the cloud, is a province of the People's Republic of China, and is located in the far southwestern corner of the country. Access to every place is possible form outside and also internally, for, a wide variety of transportation facilities are available in the province, so as to ensure the comfort and convenience to the tourists.

Some of the major tourist destinations in Yunnan are Dali, a historic center of the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms; Jinghong, the center and prefectural capital of the Xishuangbanna Dai minority autonomous prefecture; Lijiang, a Naxi minority city, a world heritage site; Shangri-La County, an ethnic Tibetan township and county set high in Yunnan's north-western mountains; The Stone Forest, a series of karst outcrops east of Kunming; Snowy mountains in Diqing and Yuanyang, a Hani minority settlement with vast rice-terraces.