What are the pitfalls of Yunnan tourism?

You'd better not sign up for a tour in Yunnan. Because basically every group will have a pit.

Yunnan is rich in scenic resources, which makes many tourists from other places especially like to visit this place. In the early years, under the condition of inadequate supervision, there was a serious phenomenon of killing tourists. Among all these varied pits, I am most impressed and extremely uncomfortable, that is, the folk village sells silverware.

Because this is an act of deceiving customers under the bright banner. Including Yunnan and Tibet, there are actually many such phenomena.

The specific process is that the tour guide will tell you in the car. Next, we will visit the villages and gathering places of local ethnic groups in Yunnan, visit their silverware, and then take everyone directly to a local village.

in the tour guide's mouth, this is only for the integration of nations and the promotion of mutual exchanges and understanding between nations. Under such a banner, what you do is to deceive customers, because after taking you to the ethnic village, they will preach all kinds of magical effects of silverware, which can cure headaches, foot pains, colds, and even solve gastrointestinal problems and various stone problems. It is exaggerated to say that cancer can be treated through this.

basically, the so-called treatment is to soak the silver in water to drink. However, as a person who has had basic educational knowledge, he will feel that this is extremely unscientific.

And the silverware they sell is very expensive. Compared with the silverware sold in gold and silver shops in the city, their purity is not as high as that in the city, but their price can be sold for two or three times that in the city. Coupled with the high processing costs, the whole thing is actually very expensive. And this part of the higher money is basically obtained by deception. Especially for those elderly tourists. This is a typical fraud, which not only cheats their money, but also makes them blindly believe that silverware can cure all diseases, which may delay their treatment. This is a phenomenon that I hate most.