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Ecotouring Dali, Lijiang and Shangrila

CHALLIS — The Custer County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a boater who went missing on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River on Tuesday. Robert W. Gray was last seen at 2:30 p.m. at First Bend, located downstream of the Boundary Creek boat launch. His red catamaran was later found lodged in a log […]

April 2-5 | Avatar Mountain & Glass Bridge Tour Located in the northern mountain ranges of Hunan, the remote Zhangjiajie National Forest was known only to the Tujia, Miao, and Bai minority groups for centuries. Today, with its towering karst spires, rich brown earth, and lush forests, Zhangjiajie has become the icon of China’s striking landscapes. Made a UNESCO Heritage Site in 1992, the park is a dramatic landscape of deep, forested canyons and enormous, isolated limestone peaks, each growin...