The province of Yunnan and especially its Southern tropical area abounds in biodiversity and ethnic communities with a rich tradition of making use of the properties of herbal medicine. This is also the birth place of the thousands of years old Puer tea. Puer, a small town of Xishuangbanna, produces this brand and the tea roads, on which the tea was brought into neighboring countries, had been as famous as the silk roads.

The tea tree is still growing in the mountain forests of Xishuangbanna. Some trees have reached Babylonian age and are attracting visitors.

Aini woman in her medical garden