I feel silly asking this because feel I ought to be able to find it myself on the internet, but the fact is I just spent some time searching in both English and Chinese and turned up nothing.

I am looking for a map that shows the current (or daily) temperatures for the entire country of China.

This is an incredibly normal thing in other countries. Go to weather.com and in one click you can get this for the United States.

Why is it so difficult to find such a map for China? I can find maps of other (less useful) weather-related information, such as the deviation from mean temperature. But actual temperatures I can't find.

I know I can find a list of temperatures in various Chinese cities. But I like visualizing things in maps.

Surely such a map exists somewhere. Please can someone help me find it...

Thanks

Brento, in October 2010 I spent a few days walking around Lugu Lake.
I'm not sure if that's what you had in mind when you said "trekking", as a good portion of that walk was along the main highway.

But part of the lakeshore (the eastern half, entirely in Sichuan) is very rugged and there is only a trail.

In fact, in places it's even less than a trail. I started off in Luo'ao (洛凹) and walked north on a trail that followed the lakeshore. But at one point the trail disappeared and I scaled down a steep cliff to the water. Then I took off my shoes and waded through the water, then hiked over a mountain range and ended up at A'ao (阿凹)

somenick,

The highlighted route on the google map posted below the article is incorrect. It is simply the "old" paved road that parallels the new expressway. That is not the "old road" that the article is talking about.

Recently came across this article about a trek along the so-called "Ambassador Road" from Yongping County in Dali Prefecture to Tengchong County in Baoshan Prefecture.

www.cnngo.com/[...]

The "road" in question is actually 1000 years old, paved with stones, but partially overgrown by jungle now that it has been largely replaced by newer, more modern highways.

Unfortunately, the article doesn't include many geographic specifics. And there's no way to contact the author.

I'm wondering if anyone here on GoKunming is familiar with this route and could provide some more details.

I'll be trying just that later this week.
My goal is to leave China, then re-enter China without ever officially entering Vietnam (something I have done successfully several times at the Lao border in Mohan).
But I went ahead and got the Vietnamese visa, in the case that it doesn't work.
I once got grilled hard at the Vietnamese border, so I want to make sure I've got the documents to do a real official crossing if need be.
I'll report back on the details after I get back.