Upon arrival, you will be met by your local guide at the arrival hall of the airport or train station. Then, be escorted to check in your hotel in downtown by a private comfortable car. The rest of today is on your own to explore this modern metropolis. If you want to explore nearby, feel free to get some practical suggestions from your tour guide.
Chen Clan Ancestral Hall - Temple of the Six Banyan Trees - Yuexiu Park - Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall - Beijing Road
After breakfast, your local guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel. First, visit the must-see Chen Clan Ancestral Hall. Later, pay a short visit to the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees. Then, move your steps to Yuexiu Park and nearby Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall
Evening Option: 70-minute Pearl River night cruise
Canton Tower - Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King - Shamian Island - Guangzhou Departure
After breakfast, your guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel. Firstly, you will be transferred to the landmark of Guangzhou - Canton Tower, the third tallest TV tower in the world with a height of 600 meters. Your next stop is Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King
After that, have a break and enjoy the specially arranged Cantonese lunch and dim sum in one of the best reputed local restaurants along Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street.
Later, be transferred to see the quite different Shamian Island where over 150 European styled old buildings from the colonial period from 19th century are well preserved for a nice savory.
After the tour, your guide and driver will escort you to the train station to Guilin
Meet your guide and transfer to your hotel. Have a free leisure before dinner. After dinner, you will see the Two River and Four Lakes Scenic Area, refering to the landscape such as Li River (the part within the city), Taohua (Peach Blossom) River, Mulong Lake, Gui Lake, Rong Lake, and Shan Lake. Enjoy the light vision at night.
Places to visit: Li River Cruise, West Street
After breakfast at the hotel, our guide and driver will transfer you to the Zhujiang pier to board the ship for Li River cruise (4 hours) from Guilin to Yangshuo. It is one of the great waterways to admire the picturesque scenery along the river sides. Upon arrival at Yangshuo, you will have a stroll along the famous West Street. This is a vibrant place alive with cafes, pubs, restaurants and where many westerners gather.
Tips: Today we kindly suggest you have a larger breakfast at the hotel this morning as the lunch provided on the cruise is less than adequate. The cruise arrives at terminal Yangshuo at around 13:30 to 14:30 according to the different water flows. There are many cafes available in Yangshuo.
Optional activites for late afternoon:
1. Attend a Chinese cooking course in a cooking school
2. Learn Taichi for 1-2 hours.
3. Li River Beer Fish is recommended for dinner.
4. Night show options: Commorants Fishing or Impression Liu Sanjie
A cruise along the Li River from Guilin to Yangshuo is an unforgettable experience for stunning scenery. In Yangshuao, there's something interesting such as lumbering water buffaloes pulling carts or cooling off in the river, fishermen gliding along on their narrow bamboo rafts, and if you're very lucky you might see one of the famous fishing cormorants.
Impressions of Liusanjie performance. The Performance, directed by Zhang Yimou, China's premiere movie director and director of the Beijing Olympics' Opening Ceremony, is made up of hundreds of people and is performed on the Li River with the mountains as the backdrop. It is an unforgettable experience.
There are three options for morning enjoyment: Enjoy a countryside biking, a bamboo rafting on the Yulong River and a helicopter tour over Yangshuo.
An afternoon drive (about 2.5 hours) from Yanghuo to Longji Rice Terraces. And then you will enjoy the dusk/sunset view of rice terraces around Zhuang and Yao minority villages. The terraces look like ribbons as they wind from the foot to the top of some hills. The villages feature traditional wooden architecture where no nails are used in construction. The different ethnic minority customs and dress are especially interesting. Stayovernight at Ping'an Zhuang Village.
Get up early to take a morning walk around Ping'an Zhuang Village for a sunrise view of Longji Terraced Rice Fields. After breakfast, you will visit to Huangluo Yao Village to meet long-hair wowen and watch the ethnic performance.
Drive back Guilin to visit Elephant Trunk Hill, the symbol located on the west bank of the Li River. Then visit Reed Flute Cave. The cave is one of the largest known examples of what each tropical karst cone conceals within it.
A morning high speed train (1 hour) from Guilin to Congjiang Guizhou. Upon arrival in Congjiang Station, you will be transfered to visit Tang'an Village. The village has 160 households of 800 Dong people in Tang’an. Encircled by rice fields, green trees and hills, the village is situated at a mountain slope. No records have been registered for its history. Tang'an is gifted for the village gate, a drum-tower, ancient graveyards, wells. Water-powered rollers, a granary, ancient stone paths and scattered houses projecting over water, thus creating a harmony and perfection of nature and humanities of the Dong.
Visit Zhaoxing Village, is the biggest Dong village with over 1,000 Dong households in China. It has a history of nearly 2000 years. The village is divided into five natural sections. Each section has a clan and each clan has a drum-tower, a Wind-Rain-Bridge and a stage. The five wooden drum-towers in different postures, five Wind-Rain-Bridges bridges and five stages have absorbed the essence of the Dong architectural art. Then take a late afternoon bullet train to Guiyang.
After breakfast, you will start a full day Guiyang tour to visit Jiaxiu Tower, Qingyan Ancient Town. Then proceed to Anshun to visit Huangguoshu Waterfall, 243-foot waterfall set in lush, green national park & backed by caves, part of a group of 18 falls.
After a 40-minute morning bullet train, you will arriva in Kaili city and be transfered to visit Langde Miao village. This village is inhabited by Long-Skirt Miao, a subgroup of Miao ethnic minority group. It has legendary tint and a strong national culture, located at the foot of a hill and beside a stream. Houses supported by wooden pillars with a suspension roof and twisted corridors are built on the mountain slope. Most wooden buildings were built from 1616-1911.
After breakfast you will countinue to your Kaili tour to visit Zhenyuan Ancient Town, Qinglong Cave Ancient Architecture Group, Wuyang River and more....
Afer breakfast, you will take a morning bullet from Kaili to Guiyang for your flight or train to next destination.
