| Day 1 Xian, Guilin ( ) |
| Pikup from Guilin airport and transfer to your hotel. Free time to explore Guilin in the evening. |
Guilin | Guilin, blessed with stunning natural splendor, is a scenic town in North Guangxi, China, ranked top 10 tourist destinations in China. Popular sights include the Li River Cruise, Seven Star Park, Reed Flute Cave, Elephant Trunk Hill, etc.. |
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| [ Optional ] Evening cruise on Li River and surrounding lakes: Guilin is gifted with water. Two Rivers and Four Lake Scenic Aare is a park-like scenic area which can’t be missed out. This area is filled with trees, plants, meandering path and small pavilions, which is one of the favorite places to stroll for visitors and residents. |
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| Day 2 Guilin ( B,L ) |
| Pickup from the hotel at 08h30. Transfer to the dock. The Li River Cruise departs at 09h30. The total Journey is around 30 Kilometers and takes 4 hours. Arrive at Yangshuo old town at 14h30. Two hours cycle tour to rice paddies. |
West Street | It is an ancient street with a history of over 1,400 years and lies in the heart of Yangshuo. It now draws visitors for its unique mix of cultures. The 2000-m-long street enjoys various bars, cafes, restaurants,art crafts and souvenir stores, foreign language clubs and even Kungfu schools. | Li River Cruise | Li River boasts the largest and most beautiful scenic area in China, her landscape decorated with rolling hills, steep cliffs, fantastic caves, leisurely boats. Cruising on Li River, you can respire fresh air, feel the gentle breeze and appreciate the fabulous landscape on both sides. | Bike ride in Yangshuo | Cycling Excursion is the best way to appreciate the pristine countryside scenery in Yangshuo as trails often lead where buses and cars can’t go. In addition, cycling riding is the most economic way to tour the Yangshuo countryside which only about 1-2 dollars per day, also a popular way. |
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| [ Optional ] Bamboo Rafting on Yulong River: Rafting on the Yulong River is relaxing and can be an opportunity to spend good time with your family. The perfect combination of water, ancient bridges, Karst mountains and countryside scenery makes this rafting trip one of the favorite choices of photographers and artists coming to the area. |
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| Day 3 Guilin, Sanjiang ( B,L ) |
| Drive 3 hours to Longji Rice Terrace. 2 hours walking around the rice paddies on the mountain top, meet minority ethics of Zhuang and Yao people. Continue your trip after lunch for 1 hour drive to Sanjiang. We will visit the Chengyang Wind & Rain Bridge in the afernoon. Stay overnight near the Ma'An village of Dong Ethnic. |
Longji Rice Terrace | Longji Rice Terraces, located in Longsheng County about 2 hours from Guilin, are built into the hillsides, nearby Pingan village. The terraces look like great chains or ribbons as they wind from the foot to the top of the hill... | Chengyang Dong Villages | Chengyang is 20 km north of Sanjiang, is becoming a popular tourist destination with backpackers. It is a region traditionally inhabited by the Dong people, bordering Guizhou to the northwest and Hunan to the northeast. | Chengyang Wind & Rain Bridge | Chengyang Roof Covered Bridge: One of the most beautiful & well protected shelter bridges in China,constructed in 1911,finished in 1925. The bridge is 64.4 meters long, 3.4 meters wide, 10.6 meters high, with beautiful shelters construction on it. It is supported by five big stone piers and the whol…… |
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| [ Optional ] Huangluo Yao Longhair Village: Huangluo Yao village is located at the foot of a mountain with a beautiful river zig-zagging around Longsheng rice terrace. It was known for the long hairs of Yao ethnic women. They use a long cloth to twist the hair into a knot, go down to the river to wash their hair in summer time. |
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| Day 4 Sanjiang, Zhaoxing ( B,L ) |
| 3 hours drive to TangAn and Zhaoxing, the biggest Dong Village in this area. Our journey is Sanjiang → Tongle → Yangxi → Deping, visit Deping Roof Covered Bridge → TangAn → Zhaoxing. Total journey is about 160 KM. The coach will drop you off at TangAn. 3 hours walk around the village of TangAn and Zhaoxing. Stay overnight in Zhaoxing. |
Zhaoxing Dong Village | Zhaoxing, one of the largest Dong villages in the region, with more than 700 households and a population of 4000. The Dong people in Zhaoxing are all surnamed Lu. According to an old man, the head of the Dong people in Zhaoxing divided the people into five groups in order to make administration easi…… | Drum Towers in Zhaoxing | The most famous buildings in Zhaoxing are the five drum towers. According to the tradition of the Dong people, each individual drum tower represents one group of local people. The five towers represent kindness, righteousness, politeness, intellect and creditworthiness. | TangAn Village | The TangAn village is located about 6 km east of Zhaoxing, half way up Mount Longbao, about 840 meters above sea level. The village was first built in the Jiaqin years of Qing Dynasty (A.D 1795-1820). It is now home to over 170 households and more than 800 people. The Sino-Norway cooperative 'TangA…… |
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| [ Optional ] Dong Drama Performance: The opera troupes in Zhaoxing is well known for their folk drama. Their literary is abundant with narrative poems, pipa songs and epics. Usually the performance is hosted in a traditional drum tower at night. |
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| Day 5 Zhaoxing, Rongjiang ( B,L ) |
| Today's journey is Zhaoxing → Congjiang → Basha → Chejiang → Rongjiang. Total journey is about 153 KM. Stay overnight in Rongjiang. The highlight today is Basha, which is a Miao Ethic village with the history of over 2000 years and holly land where the Miao ethinc originated. |
Basha Miao Ethnic Village | Basha (Biasha) Miao Ethnic village is a very special and old Miao Ethnic village. The villagers remain their unique tradition since Qing Dynasty( about 2200 years ago). All the men comb their hair with a very special hair, caring a knife on the waist and a traditional fowling piece, dressing like an…… | Chejiang Dong Village | Dong village in CheJiang is famous lots of acitivities under dozens of Banyan trees. People are busy pounding the life out of some black (indigo-dyed) cloth with a heavy, wooden mallet. The pounding softens the cloth and then it into a shiny blue-black color. It takes hours and days of pounding to …… |
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| [ Optional ] Diaojiaolou: Diaojiaolou is the name for houses in minority ethnic inhabited areas, mostly be seen in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and Hunan Provinces. There are subsidiary buildings at the two sides of a house with staircases for up and down. People live on the upper floors, and on the ground level is kept for domestic animals. Each family owns a fire pit for sitting around together to keep warm in cold days. |
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