Jinghong

Jinghong (Chinese: 景洪; Jǐnghóng, Lü: ᦵᦋᧂ ᦣᦳᧂᧈ) is the capital of Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan. It is a hub for Chinese package tourists as well as for Muslim travellers passing between China and Laos. A prime area for backpackers, it is an interesting alternative to Laos or northern Thailand. It is an easy overland trip from Laos and it is also feasible to get there by boat from Thailand without obtaining a Lao visa.

MengleDaFo - Main Gate of Da Fo (Big Buddha) Temple

Travel to Jinghong

Buy a Flight ticket to and from Jinghong

• Xishuangbanna Gasa Airport IATA Flight Code: JHG Daily Flights from Kunming and a few other cities in China. China Eastern flies twice weekly between Bangkok (IATA Flight Code: BKK) and Jinghong.

Travel on a Bus in Jinghong

There are over a dozen sleeper buses from Kunming daily, from around 9am to 10pm. They cost ¥250-260, depending on the coach quality. The bus takes around 8 hours, and will travel over some bumpy dirt roads. It may be a "sleeper bus" (lying down) even during the day.

From Yuanyang coming down to Jinghong is a bit more tricky. First option is from Xinjie or Nansha you backtrack to Jianshui (3-4 hours) and take a sleeper bus to Jinghong from there (¥277, 12 hours, at 1330 and 1630). Second option, again from Xinjie city you can take a bus to Luchun (¥78, 5 hours), spent the night there and catch the one and only Luchun to Jinghong bus at 8.00am the next morning (¥220, 12 hours). Be aware that the second option will take you through very bumpy, rough and many times unpaved roads crossing endless mountains, Rice terraces, banana plantations and little villages so its not for the fainthearted but the scenery is stunning. Landslides are often and many times small streams go through the unpaved road so its not recommended during the rainy reason, you might get stuck in the middle of nowhere due to a blocked road. Furthermore there will be a few police checkpoints where your passport will be checked but its very fast and hassle free.

This is the first big city for travelers coming from Laos, but most travelers will have to switch buses in Mengla to get here. A direct bus from the border town of Mohan takes 3 hours.

How to get around in Jinghong

The few limited interesting parts of town are definitely walkable.

Jinghong has plenty of tuk-tuks or auto-ricksaws about. Hire these as a slightly cheaper way to get between places, but more than a kilometer or two and your butt might be sore all day.

Taxis run about ¥65-60 to places in town.

Down by the Nancang it may be feasible to hire a boat for a bit of river cruising.

What to see in Jinghong

WatChienglarn - Wat Chienglarn

• Minority villages | Scattered outside town are authentic minority villages, and "minority villages" that are stylized reconstructions featuring song-and-dance numbers for Chinese package tourists. Approach with caution.

• Tropical Flowers and Plant Garden | Large park visited by many Chinese eHalal Tour Groups]. Definitely a disappointment for foreign tourists.

• Pottery Factory | The biggest temple in Xishuangbanna. In the southern area in Jionghong, you can hire bicycle to go there.

• Peacock Lake Park | A pleasant "park" with an artificial lake and a fountain. If its not raining, during the evening check the junction just outside the park on the roundabout, local residents gather and dance on the open for many hours.

• Manting Park - Another pleasant park which is divided in eight parts and the main entrance and the National Cultural Plaza and the Tropical Orchid Garden and the Peacock Garden and the Life-leaving Lake and the Buddhism Cultural Quarter and the Planting Memorial Quarter and the Dai Cultural Teahouse. There are extra performances of singing, dancing and fire (which cost extra as well), check with the counter in the entrance for times and fees.

Top Muslim Travel Tips for Jinghong

Songkran at China - Songkran celebration in Jinghong

• Dai Newyear | If you are in the town during the (Thai) (Dai in that area) New year there is a massive celebration with Dragon boating and capped off with a massive city wide water fight on the final day of celebration.

• Riverfront Walks | The town is on the Nancang River, a wide tributary of the Mekong. There is excellent walking along the riverfront.

• Man Jing Lan (Meng Peng Road) - By night this street becomes the red light neighborhood. The local residents call it Man Jing Lan, though it's actually on Meng Peng Road. You will see girls standing on the street, and if you are a single male and they will call out to you.

• Tour / Trekking with Apollo - Apollo is a very friendly local who came from Dali/Yunnan who majored in English. His previous work experience includes several years of internal research support & interpretation. His research group focused on environmental studies in and around Xishuangbanna which brought him in contact with many villages as well as local minorities. Today, he offers a multitude of custom tailored trips from single day excursions to multi-day trekking with overnight stays village homes. He offers to take you to drink tea with his local friends and deep-dive into a cultural experience with minorities by living & celebrating with them (February 2022).

Muslim Friendly Shopping in Jinghong

Bank of China with 24 hours ATM is available a few minutes walk from the bus terminal. Cross the road and turn right as you leave the terminal. There are other banks in the area as well.

The usual Chinese tourist gimmicks, somehow more here than anywhere else in China. Local Dai produced items also available.

• Night market Xishuangbanna Park | Every night there is a big night market in Xishuangbanna Park just on the right of the New Bridge. (The new bridge is the suspension bridge all lit up at night, and the right side is looking at it as you would be leaving Jinghong across it). You can buy almost anything here and there are endless street food stalls. The river side is all bars serving food, some with good live music.

• Thailand Avenue (Tai Guo Jie) | A newly built large open market and (Thai) themed stores centered around a stage. There are at least two bars on premise. Free live music at night at around 19:00.

Halal Food & Restaurants

To be updated

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Muslim Friendly Hotels

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Travel Next

• Villages - Jinghong is the getway to Yunnan's Xishuangbanna Region. This is China's part of Southeast Asia, with several minority groups that are in many respects more (Thai) or Lao than Chinese. The city is quite close to a number of Dai Villages, which can be visited by local bus or through myriad tours available here or in Kunming. Note these villages are highly commercialised, and will disappoint many looking for an authentic experience.
• Kunming - Sleeper buses take 8-9 hours and cost ¥235. First bus early morning and last bus 22:20. There's a military and police inspection points on the way where all passengers get off the bus and bags are unprofessionally inspected. They arrive at Kunming's new Southern Bus Terminal and from there to the downtown you can take bus C71 (¥7) or walk to 3 minutes to reach a local bus terminal where bus 154 (¥2) will take you for about half an hour where you can change to bus 90 (¥2) that will take you to Jinbi Lu. Make sure you have exact change for the bus.
• Mengla - the second last town (Mohan is the last, right on the border) before Laos, is five hours away. Buses leave from the Banna Bus Station two times an hour for ¥73. The station is across the street and about 100 meters south of the long-distance station. From Mengla there is one bus daily at 09:00 to Luang Nam Tha and the first town in Laos.
• Vietnam - getting from Jinghong to Vietnam can prove to be a bit of a problem, with two imperfect solutions. The obvious one is to go back to Kunming and start from there. This can cause problems in that you may have to wait for a day or two to get a train or bus ticket to the border crossing. The second, marginally preferable option is to take a sleeper bus from the North bus station to Mengzi. These leave every day at 14:00, cost ¥270 and arrive at Mengzi at 6am the following day. A taxi will be ready to take you to the town's second bus station where a shuttle van leaves for the border town of Hekou at 06:50 and gets there at 11:00. From there you can cross over the bridge into the Vietnamese town of Lao Cai. Alternatively one can enter Vietnam via Laos.
• Luang Namtha: there is a direct bus to Luang Nam Tha. Get tickets at the new-ish northern bus station the day before. Leaves at 10:40. Cost is ¥70. It takes 8 hours, arriving in Luang Namtha just before dark (around 18:00). Be prepared for stops along the way. Best is that the bus crosses the border too, so you do not have to unload anything. The border formalities for foreigners are fastidious and potentially involve multiple queues: (1) pay tourist tax, (2) fill out and submit visa application with 1 passport photo, (3) pay for the visa, (4) then at last fill out entry form and get passport stamp. Careless bus drivers have left bureaucracy-burdened tourists stranded at this border, so make sure to keep other passengers in sight until you are safely through passport control. Otherwise a comfortable ride.
• Huai Xai: direct bus to the Laos-Thailand border at 06:40, ¥220Y.

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