---- to locate Dao-Gu Chinese Character for grain & Gu the character for Ravine or valley. If you follow up the north on latitude 102 degrees. you will come to Yuanma (Yuanmou) Dao-Gu village is roughly a fraction under the letter M of Yuanma up in the mountains. It takes 4 hours to walk down to Yuanma. We use to take a week walking from Kunming via Wuding. Now it is about 7 or 8 hours by jeep! Yuanma is where the Yangtse river turns and heads north west. Nearly all the rivers in Yunnan province unlike the other rivers of China that flow East they flow south to Burma and Vietnam. . ---- [click here]