Luoping County, a small district in Qujing City, Yunnan Province, 213 kilometers (132 miles) east of Kunming, is best known for its splendorous display of bright yellow rapeseed flowers, which blossom every year from late January to early April. During that early spring season, the green hills are swept into a golden sea of bright yellow flowers that extend to the horizon and cover an astounding 534 million square meters of the Luoping landscape.
The yellow flowers are rapeseed flowers, also called canola flowers. The extravagant display has earned Luoping the title, “The Largest Natural Garden in the World.” The glorious rapeseed pageantry is Luoping's most famous tourist attraction, but not the only one, by any means. Luoping has many unforgettable attractions. The rapeseed display is a drawing card for visitors who arrive to find spellbinding natural landscapes everywhere they travel throughout the county.
The landscapes of Luoping are also beautiful during the months after the spring blossoming. Some of Luoping's other most spectacular attractions the Jiulong Waterfalls on the Duoyi River, the Three Gorges of the Lubuge, and the county’s paleontological fossils. And these are only the beginning of the natural beauty there is to see in Luoping.
Located at the eastern end of Yunnan Province, adjacent to Guizhou and Guangxi, Luoping was traditionally known as “the eastern door to Yunnan.” Luoping is still Yunnan’s eastern door today, representing the threshold to China’s western frontier, though most international visitors today enter Yunnan Province by air in Kunming.
The abundance of flowers makes Luoping a heaven for bees, which makes it a center of beekeeping and the production of honey products. The floral landscape creates a pleasant perfume in the atmosphere. Luoping is a heaven on earth.