Leiding Village in Yuanmou County, Chuxiong
Chinese Name:元谋雷丁生态旅游村
English Name: Leiding Village in Yuanmou County, Chuxiong
Leiding Village is situated in Yuanmou County of Chuxiong Prefecture. Leiding is the transliteration of a Dai word meaning “a village at the foot of a mountain”. The entire village is composed of 48 families. What astonishes visitors is that there are over 1,000 indigenous tamarind and kapok trees among which a 1,600-year-old tamarind tree is locally regarded as “Tamarind King” because it needs 6 adults to encircle. In 2010, Leiding Village was listed into the third batch of “special tourist villages” of Yunnan Province.
