Day 01Arrive in Kunming

Our guide will meet you outside the baggage claim area at Kunming Airport and transfer you to the hotel. The rest of the day is on your own to explore the city.

Meals: No meals
Accommodation: Kunming Hotel

A local market

Day 02Kunming - Jinghong in Xishuangbanna

This morning, you will take a flight to Jinghong in Xishuangbanna. Upon your arrival, our local guide will greet you at Jinghong Airport and transfer you to the hotel. In the afternoon, you will travel to the Wild Elephant Valley in Sanchahe Nature Reserve, the only region in China where wild elephants are living. Here, you could appreciate the wild elephants herding and moving in companies, watch the trained elephants performing dancing, greeting and bathing as well as admire the amazing tropical rainforest landscape.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Dai Garden Hotel

A traditional way of making furniture

Day 03Jinghong in Xishuangbanna

Today, we will transfer you to Menglun along the Mekong River to visit the Tropical Botanical Garden. On the way, visit the local market, a minority family and the temple in Ganlanba. In the local market, you will find various local products like fruits, vegetables and handicrafts as well as the local people in their traditional clothes. The local minority family visit afterwards will help you learn more about the exotic custom. The Ganlanba is a place full of tropical scenery and Dai minority flavor. The majestic, splendid and ancient temples are the highlights to see. Upon arriving at the Tropical Botanical Garden, you will be astonished by this plant kingdom in miniature. If Xishuangbanna is described as evergreen boundless forest, the Tropical Botanical Garden would be the soul of it, which collects the most typical rare plants of tropical rainforest. When the tour ends today, we will transfer you back to Jinghong.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Dai Garden Hotel

Day 04Jinghong in Xishuangbanna

The excursion will take you to Menghai in the morning to explore the Jingzhen Octagonal Pavilion, the Aini People's Village and the Tea Plantation. Harmoniously combined with southeast style and ancient Chinese style in architecture, Jingzhen Octagonal Pavilion was built in the honor of Sakyamuni by the local Dai people. Tradition has it that the Dai Buddhists usually have meetings and some important religious activities here. In the Aini People's village, you could experience traditional and interesting custom of despoiling marriage. Since Xishuangbanna is the home of the world famous Pu'er tea and other kinds of large-leaved tea, a visit to the Tea Plantation is arranged for you to learn about tea and tea plants in depth. In the afternoon, you will return to Jinghong and visit the Manting Park, the oldest park in Xishuangbanna. This is a place where you could enjoy beautiful scenery, appreciate unique constructions and taste traditional culture of the Dai People.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Dai Garden Hotel

Stone Forest, Kunming

Day 05Jinghong - Kunming - Jianshui

You will take an early morning flight to Kunming. Upon your arrival, our guide will meet you and transfer you to Jianshui. You could stop off at the Stone Forest, which is crowned as 'the essence of karst landforms in the world' and 'one of the eight natural wonders on earth'. Besides the rare geologic landscape and various stone formations, the rich Yi ethnic culture is also a highlight in the scenic area. Stay overnight at the best local hotel in Jianshui.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Chang Yuan Hotel

Zhu Family Garden, Jianshui

Day 06Jianshui

The whole day will be devoted to Jianshui. You will firstly tour the Zhu Family Garden, a grand complex featuring in fancy combination of garden architecture and dwelling house. The exquisite courtyards, austere ancestral hall, antique furniture, delicate wood carvings and stone sculptures all bear silent witness to the rich life that its former owner once led. After that, you will proceed to Jianshui Confucius Temple, the largest Confucius Temple in Yunnan. The temple was built over 700 years ago to commemorate Confucius, a great thinker, educationist and founder of Confucianism in history. The tour will then take you to visit a 17-hole stone bridge, the Double Dragon Bridge. The bridge is named so because it is located over the confluence of two dragon-like winding rivers. There are also three exquisite and elegant lofts on the bridge that especially worth your attention. The tour today will end with a visit to Jianshui Ancient Town, famed as the 'Museum of Ancient Constructions'. Over the past 12 centuries, this town has preserved more than 50 ancient constructions and folk houses after many ups and downs. Rambling around the tranquil old town, you could easily discover its unique charm.

Meals: Chinese breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Chang Yuan Hotel

A local village in Yuanyang

Day 07Jianshui - Yuanyang

In the morning, you will journey to Yuanyang and check in the best local hotel. After a short break, continue the tour to Qingkou Hani Minority Village and the terraced fields. Qingkou Hani Minority Village has a strong flavor of primeval country life. Its forest, streams, village and terraced fields have formed a sound ecosystem and are the most cherished properties of the villagers. Its terraced field, cultivated one thousand years ago, is an important part of Yuanyang Rice Terraces, which is one of the world's largest and most imposing terraces.

Meals: Chinese breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Yunti Hotel

Terraced Fields in Yuanyang

Day 08Yuanyang

Your tour today begins with a visit to a local market, a brilliant scene in Yuanyang when the locals flock in from all quarters wearing their colorful costumes and dresses. The narrow streets will also be full of assorted vending booths selling local products. Later, you will come to Duoyishu, another famous scenic area of Yuanyang Rice Terraces, to tour its local village and terraced fields. Here, you will find many mushroom-shaped houses dotting on the fields, like a scene in the fairy-tale world as well as the cloud-decorated terraced fields, presenting a traditional Chinese ink wash drawing. The last travel destination is the terraced fields in Laohuzui (Tiger's Mouth), distributed in a deep valley and resembling a huge flower.

Meals: Chinese breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Yunti Hotel

Day 09Yuanyang - Hekou Exit

As your Yunnan minorities tour ends, we will drive you to Hekou to reach Vietnam today. Please enjoy your following trip!

Meals: Chinese Breakfast

• ◆ 2012 Price
• ◆ 2011 Price

Based on per person and in U.S. dollars, valid from Mar. 1st, 2012 to Feb. 28th, 2013

Season Group Size		2-5 travelers	6-9 travelers	10 travelers & above
Year Round	Double Occupancy	$2009	$1409	$1129
	Single Occupancy	$2229	$1629	$1319

Note: This tour does not apply to our Early Bird Promotion.

Based on per person and in U.S. dollars, valid from Mar. 1st, 2011 to Feb. 29th, 2012

Season Group Size		2-5 travelers	6-9 travelers	10 travelers & above
Year Round	Double Occupancy	$1989	$1399	$1139
	Single Occupancy	$2209	$1629	$1349

Note: This tour does not apply to our Early Bird Promotion.

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