Day 1. River exploration, a 15km meander. Bingzhongluo sits at around 1800m, not so much when you consider the towering hillsides that engulf it. There are a couple of restaurants on the one street town, a few cars and then with the exception of the odd rice terrace it is all to the wilderness, and what a wilderness it is. Let us begin with opening the curtains to a green canvass ripped apart by streamers of clouds, and then a walk in the direction of the famo...

I imagine how many traveller has asked this question while gazing upon the Salween river in Nu Jiang valley, at 2815k km long it is one of the largest flowing rivers in the world. Originated from the glaciers within the Quinghai mountain in Tibet, Salween/ Nu Jiang runs through Yunnan, Myanmar and Thailand. Pushing a fantastic 4876 cube meters of water per second it is not without occasional tantrums of rapids and backflow. Cascading waterfalls supplying its ev...