Amazing Minorities Tour China

Amazing Minorities Tour

These simple people live in some of the most beautiful places on earth. Peek into their world as we take you to some of China's most remote places.

Day 1 >> KUNMING

After your arrival in Kunming, airport transfer to your hotel. Rest of the day is free and easy. Overnight in Kunming.

Day 2 >> KUNMING (B/L/-)

Today's Activities: The Stone Forest, Bamboo Temple,
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch at Chinese Restaurant of Stone Forest Ashima Hotel

The Stone Forest (2 hours): A fantastic natural phenomena located 90 km southeast of Kunming. The various shapes of karst landscape was formed due to the millions years movement of Earth. The Stone Forest area is the home of the Sani people, their folk customs has become one spectacular scene, the colorful embroidery and minority dances combine with the natural sceneries, which will surely leave you a deep impression.

Bamboo Temple (1 hour): A Tang Dynasty temple known for its Arhat statues, is arguably the most famous of Kunming's temples.

Chinese Restaurant of Stone Forest Ashima Hotel: Situated by the entrance to Stone Forest landscaped area, the restaurant is famous for its roast duck.

Day 3 >> KUNMING - LIJIANG (B/L/-)

Today's Activities: Hotel to airport Transfer (Kunming), Flight from Kunming to Lijiang, Airport to Hotel Transfer (Lijiang), Yuantong Temple, The Grand View Tower, Green Lake Park / Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch at Dingxinyuan Restaurant

Yuantong Temple (1 hour): With a history of over 1,200 years, it is the largest temple in Kunming. In 1956, the grand ceremony of greeting and consecrating the Buddha's tooth was held in it. It was in the list among the key Buddhist temples in China issued by the State Council.

The Grand View Tower (30 minutes): It is located at the terminus of Daguan Road and is 6 km from the city center, near Dianchi Lake and facing Taihua Mountain which is on the other side of Dianchi Lake. Completed in 1690 during the Qing Dynasty, the park consists of hills, ponds, pavilions and rockeries in a style similar to that of the gardens of the Yangtze River Delta.

Green Lake Park (1 hour): Located just opposite the Kunming University, it is one of the most picturesque parks in downtown Kunming. There are nine spring outlets at north of the lake, so it was also named "Nine Dragon Pond" in ancient tomes. Here you may take a leisure walk or enjoy the performance by local people. In November and December every winter, huge flock of red-beaked gulls migrate here from Siberia, constructing a nice scene.

Dingxinyuan Restaurant: The Dingxinyuan restaurant is located near Kunming Green Lake Park. The cuisine is based on local flavors and Yunnan style cooking. It is a quiet place to enjoy a good meal.

Kunming, Pictures

Day 4 >> LIJIANG (B/L/-)

Today's Activities: The Mural in Baisha Village, The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (Yak Meadow)
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch at Baisha Shiguang Restaurant

The Mural in Baisha Village (30 minutes): Baisha village is one of the Naxi Minority villages in Lijiang and is more special because of the collection of murals in the village. Painted over a thousand years ago, they combine the cultures of Han, Tibetan and Naxi people displaying the life stories of the Tibet Buddhism, Confucian and Taoism. The unique artistic style and precious historical content of the murals attract visitors from home and abroad.

The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain: It's a snow capped mountain with an altitude of 5596 meters above sea level. The mountain has 13 peaks of which the highest is 18000 feet above sea level. Its high mountain and meadow views setting off the snow and rivers, construct amazing picture. It is a large patch of pasture tucked away hidden amongst a virgin spruce forest on the eastern side of the Yulong Snow Mountain.

Baisha Shiguang Restaurant: The restaurant is located in Baisha Village and provides mainly Naxi cuisine along with some Chinese dishes.

Day 5 >> LIJIANG (B/L/-)

Today's Activities: Shuhe Naxi Village, The Black Dragon Pool, Lijiang Ancient Town, Lijiang Museum
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch

Shuhe Naxi Village (1.5 hours): Also known as Longquan Village, it is home to one of the ethnic groups, and is just like a village forgotten by time. Featuring a nice temple complex, this village is extremely peaceful.It is a well preserved important town on the ancient tea and horse route.

The Black Dragon Pool (1.5 hours): The park holds the Black Dragon Pool and got name because of it. The pool is listed in the Collections of Famous Pools of China because of its beauty.

Lijiang Ancient Town (2 hours): It is situated in the middle area of the county, which is more than 2400 meters high above sea level. It enjoys beautiful scenes, an indeed famous city with long history and splendid culture, it is very rare in China that such well-preserved minority ancient city still exists. The old town is quite busy in the afternoon and evening with an active atmosphere of the lights and crowd. An early morning visit will be less crowded.

Misi Restaurant: Located in the center of Old City of Lijaing ,Misi Restaurant serves both Chinese and Western Cuisines.

Lijiang Museum: Lijiang Museum showcases products of many types, including the old paintings and hand writing arts.

Day 6 >> LIJIANG - KUNMING - GUIYANG (B/-/-)

After your breakfast flight via Kunming to Guiyang.

Day 7 >> GUIYANG (B/L/-)

Today's Activities: Huangguoshu Waterfall & Tianxing Qiao Scenic Area, Cultural Village in Tianlong, Batik Museum
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch

Huangguoshu Waterfall & Tianxing Qiao Scenic Area (3 hours): Located 43 km southwest of Anshun of Guizhou Province, the Huangguoshu Waterfalls are one of the largest waterfall groups in China. They have been found out that the falls in this area consist of 18 falls on the ground and 4 underground falls. Among them Huangguoshu Waterfalls, which is the largest one in the groups and in Asia as well, is 68 meters high and 8l meters wide with a flow of more than 700 cubic meters of water per second, huge amounts of water seem like pouring from the sky. Turbulent waters throw into a pool at the bottom of a valley, sending foams up by 100 meters. And roars can be heard kilometers away. When the sun rises rainbows appear, adding a touch of beauty to the majesty of the cataract.

Tianxing Qiao Scenic Area: Featuring the perfect combination of stones, trees and water, the Tianxing Bridge Scenic Zone is a natural miniascape evolving from the growing stone forests in water. Compared with the grandness of the Huangguoshu Waterfalls, it is more bijou and beautiful. A couplet generalizing its verve goes like that: “It is compared to a gigantic miniature garden created by wind knife and water sword; also an ancient painting painted by root pen and vine ink.”

Cultural Village in Tianlong (1 hour): Tunpu People settle in the middle of Guizhou Province. According to the historical literature and narrated materials, the ancestors of Tunbao People are the soldiers who were stationed in Guizhou Province about 600 years ago in the Ming Dynasty. Even now, Tunbao People still live in forts and keep a simple and peculiar army style. Stone foundations, stone walls, flagstone roofs, watchtowers, wall crenels and even dogholes upstairs characterize their buildings. They (especially women) dress in the ancient Ming and Qing style, speak with the accent of their native regions on the south of Yangtze River and eat food of army flavor. Dixi, which they perform at festivals and celebrations, is the continuation of the ancient "Martial Nuoxi" and renowned as "the living fossil of the ancient shows".

Batik Museum : The Batik Museum is near the Huangguoshu Waterfall in Anshun. You can see the process of making batik.

Guiyang, Pictures

Day 8 >> GUIYANG - KAILI (B/L/D)

Today's Activities: Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum, Shiqiao Miao village, Qingman Miao Village
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch, Chinese Dinner

Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum (1 hour): In the museum there has a quite detailed introduction to human culture, geography, and the national minorities'customs of the southeastern areas of Guizhou Province. Some writing, pictures, and material objects are displayed here. Minority Customs hall and Dragon Boat hall are the main exhibits which are worth watching.

Shiqiao Miao village (1 hour): Visit Shiqiao Miao village to see its traditional way of making paper from the bark of mulberry tree. This method of making paper has a history of more than one thousand years, local people still keep it and extend to make color paper using different plants.

Qingman Miao Village (40 minutes): Located 23 kilometers southwest away from Kaili city. One of the biggest characteristics here is that a guest who visits a household at will may have witnessed the entire process of traditional Miao clothes-making. The main traditional clothing material is the homemade cloth span, woven, and dyed all by the Miaos. The widespread local song "Cotton Song" states the entire process of looking for the cotton seed, seed selection, land reclamation, sowing, harvesting cotton, getting rid of seed, bowing cotton, spinning, reeling thread, dyeing, and sewing. In each household you can see dye vats used for dying cotton material. This kind of dye vat is made of the cedar plank, approximately 2 and half feet high, one meter in diameter. The dye vat must be raised because it takes about one month to finish dying a bolt of cloth by indigo dying water and this process is called "aising vat".

Kuai Huo Lin Restaurant: Kuai Huo Lin Restaurant is located in the center of Kaili city. Sour soup fish with less bone in hotpot is a Miao traditional dish served the Restaurant. It provides the chance to drink the rice wine wit a taste of sticky rice.

Day 9 >> KAILI - XIJIANG - KAILI (B/L/D)

Today's Activities: Xijiang Miao Village, Jidao Miao Village, Embroidery Museum
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch, Chinese Dinner

Xijiang Miao Village (2 hours): Xijiang Miao Village, also called the "homeland of Lusheng", is the largest Miao villages in Guizhou.
Geographic location: 36 km northeast of the county town of Leishan.

Jidao Miao Village (1 hour): Located in China's poor southwestern province of Guizhou, Jidao Miao village is set in idyllic surroundings and populated by ethnic Miao people. Village life is simple and children play as their parents tend fields of lush, organically grown vegetables surrounded by towering pine forests. Elderly women stoke fires in traditional wooden houses, some hundreds of years old. It is so poor, mountainous and remote that the tranquility here is not yet broken by a flood of rich Chinese tourists and foreign visitors.

Embroidery Museum: Embroidery Museum is near Jidao and Langde Miao people's village. It has displays of the ethnic costumes from the people of Guizhou. They also show they methods of making the different embroideries.

Day 10 >> KAILI - GUIYANG (B/-/-)

Breakfast and Transfer to the Airport.

Our package tour prices are inclusive of transfers and tours as mentioned with English speaking guide, baggage handling, entrance fees, meals as specified in the program (B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner), accommodation with breakfast, Flight from Kunming to Lijiang and from Lijiang via Kunming to Guiyang, service charges and Taxes. Not included are other meals than mentioned in the program, optional tours, expenditures of personal nature.

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