Olives Dam

Famous Old Temple with a New Shell

The ManChunMan Temple (曼春滿佛寺) is located inside the Xishuangbanna Dai Cultural Garden (see separate review). Reputedly the first temple set up by the southern Buddhists in this region more than 1400 ...

Very nice place to see into authentic life of Dai people

Olives Dam, as it is listed on Tripadvisor , is better known as “Ganlanba”/ 橄榄坝which is Pinyin/Chinese and literally means Olive Dam or as “Menghan” in Dai language. It is located about 35 km southeas...

テーマパーク化してゆくのか

タイ族の生活を垣間見れて、希望すれば民泊もできるのとのことで行ってみた。高床式の民家は見応えあるが、お土産と食事がセットになっている感じ。遠くには巨大なタイ式寺院も新築されており観光地として売り込む気は強く伝わってくる。