• 13 Days

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  • DESTINATIONS:

    Yunnan
  • TRIP STYLE:

    Photography Adventure
  • ALTITUDE:

    1000m - 2000m
  • TRIP CODE:

Day 1, Home - Kunming - shilin 

Take Air Asia flight to Kunming andarrive around 5pm, airport pick up, and then transfer to Shilin. Stay in ShilinVountain villa after dinner.


Day 2, Stone Forest Villa - Luliang - Caiseshalin - Luoping

We are going to visit Lu liang colorful sand forest after breakfast. After that, 2 hours bus ride will take us into the sea of yellow flowers—Luoping. This is a small town located in the merge of three provinces-Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou , 20 thousand acres of rape flower start to bloom, you will feels like you sunk into a yellow ocean. In the afternoon, we are going to visit Jiulong River waterfalls group . We will trekking to the highest level waterfall, and enjoy the full view of the whole area. After that, we will back to Luoping county, having Buyi minority style dinner, stay in Luoping overnight.


Day 3, Luoping - Kowloon falls group - the Duoyi River resort - Luoping 

After breakfast, we leave for Jinji peaks forest on the northeast side of the Luoping County. This is the paradise of photographers,standing on the mountain, you will see endless flower ocean, little Karst hills grown out from the ocean like bamboo shoots. Then, we will visit Duoyi River natural bioscenic area, fully enjoy the beautiful river view and local Buyi minority traditional buildings. There are many huge water wheels along the river, just like a water wheel museum. We will back to Luoping after the trip and stay in Luoping overnight.


Day 4, Luoping - Puzhehei 

In the morning,a beautiful mountain road will take up to Puzhehei scenic area which located in the Wenshan Zhuang Minority County. Puzhehei is a very nice scenic area with Karst peak forest, a group of lakes and caves, green fields and lotus pools,was called the unique country view in China. We will take a boat trip on the lake to see the scenery, you can also hire a little horse carriage to explore the countryside view. In the evening, try Zhuang style fish soup and sour checking for dinner. Stay in local hotel overnight.


Day 5, Puzhehei - Bamei 

In the morning, we are going to a small mountain to see the sunrise in Puzhehei, and free time after breakfast, you can choose to ride a bicycle to enjoy the beautiful scenery. After a early lunch, we will take 4 hours bus ride from Puzhehei to Bamei. Bamei is a secret village hiding in a valley; only way to enter is by boat through a cave, like in the ancient book . The local Zhuang minority people stay here for hundreds of years, some of old people have never go out of cave. They use their whole life to create a wonderful holy land, stay out of the modern world. We will stay in a family guesthouse in Bamei village.


Day 6, Bamei - Yanshan 

In the morning, we will have time to fully enjoy the cute Bamei village, you can do some trekking in the beautiful fields, or chatting with local people, or swimming in the river like locals. After we fully enjoy the beautiful Bamei village, we will take boat and horse carriage ride to go out of cave in the afternoon and meet  with our bus. 2.5 hours bus ride will bring us to the Yanshan County, a town close to China and Vietnam border. A leisure time in the evening, you can do some shopping in the local market or try some local BBQ which is very special. Stay overnight in Yanshan hotel.


Day 7, Yanshan - Yuanyang

After breakfast,we will drive to the misty mountainous town Yuanyang. Afternoon to Ba Da terraces,this quiet and small village with an unusual great scenery, clear spring,the antique wooden bridge, the old watermill babbling creaked as if recounting the story of the millennium, exquisite terrace group  like a huge Chinese bonsai, rough Hani houses like mushrooms scattered among the land. The villagers bright dressed and their smile take us back to reality, you can’t help sighing that those indigenous people with amazing hard-working created spectacular Yuanyang terrace. After appreciatethe terraces sunset, we will return to the Quanfu Zhuang Farmhouse nearby and stay there overnight.


Day 8, Yuanyang terrace

If weather is good, we will wake up early, take packed breakfast, drive 28 km out of county to see wonderful terraces sunrise. After that, we are going to visit Bada terraces and Hani morning market. In the afternoon, we will visit the highest view point—Tiger mouth. From Tiger Mouth, we can see the endless terrace connect to the sky, this is also the best place to see the sunset. We will back to hotel and stay there overnight.


Day 9, Yuanyang - Jianshui 

We will take 3 hours drive in the morning to Jianshui. Jianshui is a place with great location, have a history over 1200 years, is one of the famous cultural city in China. In the Jianshui old town, there are good preserved Chinese ancient buildings from Song, Yuan, Ming,Qing dynasties, more than 50 ancient stone bridge, known as the "China ancient residential architecture museum". Jianshui Food is well-known throughout China, we will never miss it.


Day 10, Jianshui - Fuxian Lake - Kunming 

In the morning, we will take 30 minutes bus ride to Tuan Shan village which full of ancient residence, enjoy ancient village, visiting the ancient Zhang’s family garden. On the way to Tuanshan, we are going to visit Chinese architectural treasures - Double Dragon Bridge. After lunch drive to Fuxian Lake, enjoy the sunshine coast,the water quality is the best in all the lakes in China, and then drive to Kunming and stay there overnight.


Day 11. Kunming - Dongchuan - Flower Stone Village

Drive from Kunming to Dongchuan colorful stone village, and start picture time after arrive the place. Enjoy sunset at Qicaipo. Stay overnight in DongchuanHuashitou village .


Day 12, Flower stone village - Kunming - Home

Picture time of sunrise at Jinxiuyuan in the morning, then we drive back to Kunming after breakfast, take afternoon flight back home.

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