西双版纳位于中国云南省南端，与老挝、缅甸山水相连，与泰国、越南近邻，土地面积近2万平方公里，国境线长966公里。 她美丽、富饶、神奇、犹如一颗璀灿的明珠镶嵌在祖国的西南边疆。澜沧江纵贯南北，出境后称湄公河，流经缅、老、泰、柬、越5国后汇入太平洋，誉称为"东方多瑙河"。西双版纳辖景洪市、勐海县、勐腊县和11个国营农场，总人口近84万人。这里聚居着傣、哈尼、拉祜、布朗、基诺等13个少数民族，占全州人口的74%。 西双版纳地处北回归线以南的热带北部边沿，热带季风气候，终年温暖、阳光充足，湿润多雨，是地球北回归线沙漠带上唯一的一块绿州，是中国热带雨林生态系统保存最完整、最典型、面积最大的地区，也是当今地球上少有的动植物基因库，被誉为地球的一大自然奇观。西双版纳在国内外享有"植物王国"、"动物王国"、"药物王国"的美誉。1995年被国务院公布为全国第一个自然生态平衡的生态州。
西双版纳原本是云南最好玩，最值得旅游的地方，只是由于旅行社之间恶性和过度竞争的结果，游客到了西双版纳后，由于时间短，由于有大量的进店购物，很多非常漂亮的地方不会带客人去了，客人也没有时间去。建议：如果你的时间较充足的话，增加在西双版纳停留的时间。
Xishuangbanna is the southernmost prefecture of Yunnan Province. The prefecture is nicknamed "Aerial Garden" for its luxuriant and multi-layered primitive woods and tropical rain forests, which are teeming with animals and plants.
Renowned as a huge natural zoo, Xishuangbanna's rain forest and monsoon jungles provide a habitat for nearly 1000 species of animals. Within thick and boundless forests wild elephants and wild oxen ramble about, with peacocks in their pride, gibbons at play, and hornbills whispering.
Thirteen species of wild life enjoy state protection, including loris, the gibbons, the red-necked cranes, the brown-neck horn-bills, and the green peacocks, which to the Dai people are a symbol of peace, happiness and good fortune and whose graceful postures can put professional dancers to shame. The region has 5,000 kinds of plants or about one-sixth of the total in China. This has earned it the renown and sobriquet "The moonstone on the Crown of the Kingdom of Plants".
Among these are such fascinating ones as the "color-changing flower" whose colors change three times daily and the "dancing herb" whose leaves rotate gently. Then there is "mysterious fruit" which reverse tastes, turning sour to sweet.
Species of trees that go back a million years are still propagating themselves. The "King of Tea Trees ,"which authorities say is at least 800 years old, continues to sprout, adding extraordinary splendor to the homeland of the famous Pu'er tea. In Xishuangbanna, there is a saying: "Even a single tree can make a forest and an old stalk can blossom and beat fruit ."
