Xishuangbanna

Xishuangbanna is the southernmost prefecture of Yunnan Province with the city of Jinghong and thecounties of Menghai and Mangla under its jurisdiction. Of Xishangbanna¡¯s 19184.45 square kilometers of territory, tourist and scenic resorts make up 1202.13 square kilometers, and nature reserves occupy a total of 2,064.6 square kilometers. The prefecture is nicknamed ¡° Aerial Garden ¡° for its luxuriant and multi-layered primitive woods and tropical rain forest, which are teeming with animals and plants. Xishuangbanna is famed for its wild herds of elephants, looking auspicious in an awesome fashion, and its swarms of peacocks, whose graceful psotures can put professional dancers to shame. The prefecture is truly a cradle height of 88 meters, and a single tree can grow into a forest.
It takes twenty or so hours to drive from Kunming to Xishuannbanna, which are 700 kilometers apart. banna Airport is large enough to accommodate Boeing ¨C737s, and a flight between Kunming and Xishuangbanna takes about 50minutes.Apart from daily flights to and from Kunming, the airport also operates chartered flights between the prefecture and Chengdu, Chongqing, Bangkok and some other cities.