Danina Jahn, Asia product manager at Gebeco Travel, started her Yunnan trip by feeding the red-billed gulls at Haigeng Dam on Dianchi Lake in Kunming. Together with other friends from Europe, they enjoyed up-close views of countless gulls soaring through the sky, taking in the ecological charm of the highland lake and experiencing Kunming’s unique, laid-back winter atmosphere.
Since 1985, tens of thousands of red-billed gulls have traveled thousands of miles from Siberia to Kunming every autumn and winter — a cross-border "warm city rendezvous" that has continued for four decades.
