Day 1 Arrival and Pick up service (/)
Upon Arriving at
Guilin, be met and transferred to your 4 star hotel in downtown Guilin. Free the rest of the day for you to explore downtown Guilin.
Day 2 Bus tour,
Li river cruise to
Yangshuo from Guilin, stay in Yangshuo (B, L )
Pick up at the lobby of your hotel in the morning. Be transferred to the Zhujiang Pier (about 1 hour drive) for a 4.5 hours wonderful Li River cruise with lunch aboard. You will enjoy the picturesque mountains, peaceful green fields, farms and villages with water buffalos, cows wondering around on both sides of the river bank. Disembark at the one thousand year old town YangShuo -one-thousand-year-old town, a lovely and relaxing place to break a journey and to soak up some of China's most beautiful scenery in the afternoon. Free in Yangshuo in the afternoon. You can have a short exploration to the old town by yourself or join the Yangshuo countryside tour program (price exclude) before to be transferred back to Guilin city. Stay in Guilin hotel.
Day 3:
Longji Rice Terraces tour +
Hot Spring Spa (B)
Pick you up from your hotel at about 8:00 am, take about 2 hours' drive to Dragon Back Rice Terrace. The first stop will be Huangluo Yao Village, which is at the hillside of Longji Rice Terraces. The Huangluo Yao Village is the only one of Yao ethnic group among all the thirteen villages in Longji. You will find that all the women in the village enjoy wearing red clothes. But the extremely important characteristic of the village is that it's known as the Long-hair Village. According to local tradition, women cut their hair only once in their lives - at about 16 to 18 years old when they are considered ready for adulthood and marriage.
After lunch, you will go to Ping'an village and enjoy the beautiful terrace rice fields after getting to the summit of Longji. The terraces look like great chains or ribbons as they wind from the foot to the top of the hill, imposing and towering like the back of a dragon. They were built from the Yuan dynasty to the beginning of Qing dynasty by the minority peoples of the area. The rice terraces at Ping'an Village is a renowned place for rice culture of China.
You will leave Longji at about 15:30 and go to the Longsheng Hot Spring National Park. and stay in Longsheng Hot Spring Resort. There, relax in the hotspring at night.
Day 4: Longsheng Hot Spring - Guilin (B)
You will be free in the morning. You can stroll along the stream in the virgin forest, and enjoy the beautiful picturesque Guilin waters and mountains. Go back to Guilin after lunch. End of service.