Benjamin Wong has found peace — at 8,530 feet.
As a high school teacher in Singapore, he gets long summer breaks, but he struggles to find places to travel to that aren’t as unbearably hot as where he lives.
This summer, he is camping out at a luxury mountain lodge in Yunnan, a region of southwestern China that has become more popular with tourists looking for places to escape the heat. Dali and Lijiang, well-visited cities in Yunnan, can be as cool as 59 degrees Fahrenheit at night in the summer — a major deciding factor for Wong.
“Other than weekend getaways to neighboring Southeast Asian cities, all my other holidays are always to places…