After discovering a wonderland for tea lovers, Liu Mingchu extended his one-week stay in Zhanglang Village in Yunnan Province to more than three weeks.
The entrepreneur from Guangdong Province runs a travel agency featuring niche travel routes in China. He traveled to the village earlier this year while scouting destinations for planned tea-themed tours in the province.
He selected the village for several reasons. Nestled in a primitive forest above a valley, Zhanglang has a history of over 1,000 years. Its inhabitants, all of the Blang ethnic group, build their houses in the forest and have maintained traditional methods of growing and making
