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Welcome to the LEAF-go-VSO website, our Yunnan (and China) travel and culture resource centre.

Based on our experiences of living and working in Simao (Puer) - Yunnan Province - for 5 years between August 2005 and August 2010, this site lets you know what it was like living as a foreign family in this most interesting and diverse of China's Provinces! It was also a portal to Lesley's work as a VSO volunteer teacher trainer.

These days, however, we've moved on, from Simao and from VSO.

Check out the blog for our current location and activities...

For our latest news and daily updates on LEAF life in China (or beyond) check out the LEAFhousedaily Homepage and Blog.

"We were flying into the hub of south-east Asia. The Yunnan tablelands had foundered exhausted into jungled valleys, where the curves of rivers still left shining terraces. Soon we passed over the grotesque blood-vessel of the Red River, flowing south-east toward Hanoi before spilling into the Gulf of Tonkin. The frontiers of Burma, Laos and Vietnam were converging ahead of us. We landed near the town of Simao, ringed by forest."
Colin Thubron heads into southern Yunnan (Behind the Wall, 1987)

Links to other sites

LEAFhouse Daily
Here is a link to our Weebly homepage (see below) and blog. Click for regular updates on our day-to-day life here in China.

Paul Hider
Hilarious blog-tales from one of our friends, an ex-VSO volunteer now working in a private English language school in Kunming.
Leaving the countryside, however, hasn't left him without tales to make you chuckle.

SHR Long Distance
This is a link to Ali's Scottish Long Distance Hill Running Records
pages on the Scottish Hillrunners website.

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Contact Details

You can still email us at leafgovso
at tiscalidot
codotuk

Photographs: Unless otherwise stated, all photographs on this site are © LEAF