5 days 4 Nights Guilin Rice Terraces Yangshuo Huangyao Tour

Day 1:  Meet you at the airport and transfer to your hotel, Diecai Hill, Reed Flute Cave.   (Chinese lunch)     Stay in Guilin.

Diecai Hill, you can walk up to the top by flagstone to see the panoramic view of Guilin city.

Reed Flute Cave is reputed as " the art palace of the nature"where you can see beautiful stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone flowers with various shape, all glistening in colorful lights which create breathtaking splendor.

   

Day 2:   Guilin- Longji Rice Terraces--Guilin   (Breakfast and Chinese lunch)    Stay in Guilin.

Be met at your hotel at about 9 am, about 2 and half hour ride to Longji ( Dragon's Backbone) Terrace rice which looks like great chains or ribbons as they wind from the foot to the top of the hill. You can see different features of rice terrace in Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter and it is the most astounding in China.  You will find nice wooden houses, long hair women with colorful clothes, heavy, silver hat and earrings, customs and lifestyle.

Notes:  You have to trek to the top from parking lot through narrow flagstones.  

      

Day 3:   Li river cruise   Guilin to Yangshuo   (Breakfast and Chinese lunch)    Stay in Yangshuo

Meet you at your hotel at 8:00 -8:30 and transfer to Mopanshan pier at 9:30. Li River cruise (4 hours) to Yangshuo with lunch on board, you will feast your eyes with the reflection of fantastic peaks with various shapes, crystal clear water, green hills, bamboo groves, the river passes an endless procession of distinct peaks and bamboo groves and the stunning landscape.  Disembark at Yangshuo about 2 pm, roam in famous West Street.     

The West Street is oldest street in Yangshuo with over 1400 years, it is located at the center of Yangshuo, became famous since 1980's.

   

Day 5:  Huangyao old town tour,   (Breakfast and Chinese lunch)    Stay in Yangshuo

Huangyao Town with a history of thousand years, is situated in the northern of Zhaoping County, Guangxi, by the lower reaches of Li River and some 100 km from Yangshuo.  

It has long known as a mini-Guilin for its typical development of karst topography. Covering and area of 3.6 square km, the town is skirted on all side by spectacular hills, crystal clear waters, caves and towering old trees. All paved by flag-stone, the town's architectures are of southland style displaying the primitive simplicity with blue bricks and black tiles. More than 30 temples, ancestral halls and pavilions are well preserved, as well as numerous exquisite cultural relics.

   

Day 5:  Yangshuo Country Tour  Bamboo rafting, villages,  Moon Hill.    (Breakfast and Chinese lunch)  

Explore Yangshuo villages, you will see beautiful limestone karst towering peaks, rice paddies, bamboo groves, local's custom and lifestyle. Visit Yulong River, a major tributary of Li River, Yulong River flows through some of the most beautiful Karst (limestone) scenery near Yangshuo. Local people use rafts as daily transportation up and down the river between house, markets, and rice paddies. Some villagers made bigger rafts and started to woo the travelers and soon it became a highlight of tour around Yangshuo.  Sitting on the reclining chair on the raft, you can enjoy an all around view of the natural, rural life down the river.

You can see Moon Hill, it has a natural round cave at the peak, the cave (a hole in the peak) resembles the moon.

Transfer to Guilin airport for departure.

 Tour Package Price per person in US Dollars.

	1 person	2-5 persons	6-9 persons	over 9 persons
Exclude hotel	785	480	400	365
5 star hotel	1250	750	599	499
4 star hotel	980	650	499	439
3 star hotel	850	550	399	350

 Top end   Guilin Sheraton Hotel   Yangshuo Green Lotus Hotel 

 Middle range   Guilin Bravo Hotel,    Yangshuo Magnolia Hotel.  

 Budget   Guilin Vienna Hotel,  Yangshuo Magnolia Hotel.

Hotel accommodation is based on two persons sharing one standard twin room.   

Package Includes:

A.   Admissions of the sights mentioned.
B.   Chinese lunch and dinner in local Chinese restaurant as indicated in the itinerary.
       B=breakfast; L=lunch; D=Dinner.
C.   Personal Guide Services.
D.   Private transport between airports or train stations, hotel and all the scenic spots
      mentioned in the itinerary by air-conditioned car, van or mini-bus.

Package Excludes:

A.   Air tickets.
B.   Personal expenses and optional items.
C.   Any meals which are not specified with "B", "L", or "D". 
D.   Gratuities to the service staffs.
E.   Others not mentioned above.