Our Mission
“To craft journeys that awaken cultural curiosity, deepen nature connection, and nurture inner growth—creating meaningful experiences that foster understanding, paving the way for a more peaceful world.“
Our Core Values
🌍 Cultural Curiosity
We design encounters that go beyond sightseeing and consuming, creating space for genuine dialogue and shared humanity—moments of revelation, not just event completion.
🌿 Nature as a Connector
From snow mountain summits to lush green meadows and crystal clear creeks, wild places remind us we belong to something greater—encountering nature connects us with our inner self.
🕊️ Travel for Peace
We believe cross-cultural understanding is the quietest, most joyful path to global harmony.
🌀 Spiritual Pauses: Wu Wei Journeys 无为之旅
We curate retreats of purposeful stillness for deep reflection and reconnection—through guided meditation, wilderness journeys, and spaces where the soul can breathe.
🤝 Ethical Roots
Not a travel agency, but a community: we collaborate with trusted locals to ensure authenticity and fairness—ensuring tourism benefits both visitors and hosts.
Our Story
SYLVIE Culture Consulting Ltd. or 云南喜临文化传播有限公司 was born during the COVID19 pandemic. The company was created as a reaction to significantly deepened cultural gaps, when the pandemic sadly divided the world, intensifying a new hostile mentality towards China. Thus, the first company goal is to build bridges, to counteract unfounded fear and distrust, and to create better understanding between the West and China.
May it be through travel consultancy for expats in China who want to know their host country better; or for foreign guests interested in exploring other faces of this huge country, other than the ones presented in media abroad. May it be through artistic exchange projects e.g. in the performing arts, or in music; or through cultural and outdoor educational projects seeking to open minds of future generations.
Founder Sylvie Elena Krauss is an international arts manager (Cultural Studies M.A.), and a storyteller. With 20 years of professional experience, fluent in 4 languages and having spent her life traveling the world and settling down on 3 continents, she has lifelong been seeking to connect cultures in whatever possible way. From Germany to Québec/Canada to China/Beijing she now calls Yunnan province in the very southwest of China her home. Confronted with huge cultural differences upon arriving in China made her start a blog: to write down stories, simple anecdotes, to witness life and to pay tribute to all the people that she meets, and stunning places she visits. The blog eventually developed into SYLVIE Culture Consulting Ltd.
Through journeys, stories and photos, SYLVIE wants to share experiences with whomever is interested. Through arts and exchange projects, SYLVIE hopes to contribute a tiny little bit to the big dream that is World Peace.
Come dream with us!
Come journey with us!
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“While not a registered travel agency, we craft personalized travel experiences with a dual focus: deep cultural immersion that builds bridges between people, and unforgettable nature encounters that reconnect you with the wild, and your inner self. Think of us as your cultural and nature travel specialists, designing journeys with meaning.” Sylvie Krauss