'Heaven is a place on Earth', Malaysian hiker discovers in China

By KOO WEE HON

Ladies in traditional costumes on their way to the Sacred Waterfall in Yubeng, China. — Photos: KOO WEE HON

There is a stone carving located in Yubeng, a wondrous village in China’s Yunnan Province, that says: “Heaven is on the left, Yubeng is on the right.”

I don’t think this is an idle boast.

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