Dongchuan Red Land One-day Tour in Kunming, Yunnan

Dongchuan Red Land - God overturned the palette.

In Yunnan, there is a gorgeous land of seven colors, red, orange, red, green, green, blue and purple, like a rainbow. It seems to have been burned by the fires of heaven and earth after the collapse of the ancient heavens and earth, and that's why it is now so brilliantly colored, and this land is the Dongchuan Red Land! It is only 250 highway from Kunming.

Dongchuan Red Land Scenic Area, located in the town of Red Land, Dongchuan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, is a dazzling sight due to the high content of iron and aluminum in the soil. Color. The distinctive red soils cover the winding, rolling hills in patches with green crops, silver-grey roads, white villages, etc. Interspersed with each other, forming a picture of colorful, gorgeous and gigantic "painting". This place is known as a palette box in God's hands, a kaleidoscope under the sky. In spring, summer, autumn and winter, different crops create a place of splendid color and beauty.

Dongchuan’s red soil forms a colorful patchwork with the surrounding fields. Its changing light and seasonal crops make the area a rewarding destination for landscape photography.

Dongchuan folklore, the original taste touches the heart, undiscovered rustic place, these folklore should not be missed.

Best time of year to visit

　　In May-June, God overturned the palette.

　　Every year in mid-May, layers upon layers of terraces, the fiery red soil, wheat flowers, buckwheat flowers, potato flowers, white rape flowers and radish flowers alternately open, colorful dazzling, vast, bright and intense blocks of color until the clouds, fog, the sky ... One minute the sun is shining brightly and the whole scene is magnificent; the next minute a cloud arrives unexpectedly, blocking some of the light and making the red earth a different place.

      As far as the eye can see, the gently undulating lines of the earth have a brilliant expanse of color, set against the blue sky, white clouds and the ever-changing light of the plateau. A unique landscape in the red earth, the golden wheat waves rolled like blue waves in the cool mountain breeze, a layer of green, a layer of white, another layer of Red, a layer of gold. From afar, as if the sky painted color blocks, colorful and dazzling, bright and full, has a beautiful line, and so outlined Heavy ink.

      September-December is as gorgeous as if it were on fire.

　  By November, the golden autumn, the scene here becomes more enthusiastic and dazzling, fading into a gentle pea-green green, showing waves of gold and scarlet. A part of the red earth is plowed and ready for planting, while another part is already planted with green barley, wheat and other crops. From afar, it looked like a heavenly carpet, gently covering the land. 

    Rainbows are also one of the regular visitors to the Redlands, and with the highland climate being showery, you'll find rainbows high up in the clear blue sky after the rain! An exhilarating rainbow. If you have a day with a thick cloud mass, every now and then a rare column of light will come down through the gaps between the clouds, and that powerful beam of The light, the brightness of a certain land, and the vivid colors become the focal point of a very powerful image.