Kunming-Jianshui- Yuanyang Rice Terraces Tour (Join in)

Day 1 Arrive in Kunming (-)

Arrive in Kunming, go to your hotel in Kunming by yourslef,check in hotel via your name,have a good rest. 
(Remark : the airport pick-up is excluded in the tour, no guide and driver service be offered today )
Meals Including: None
Overnight : Kunming Enjoying International Hotel 

Warm tips : Please take the shutter bus No.919C from Kunming airport to Kunming Railway station, after taking off at the terminal station , just walking 5m to arrive at Kunming Enjoying International Hotel (address: Yongsheng Road (Nanyao Railway Station), Guandu District, Kunming)

Day 2 Kunming-Stone Forest-Yuanyang (B)

Sightseeing: The Stone Forest, the Sunset View of Longshuba Rice Terraces

At 08:30 am , our English speaking guide pick up your at lobby of hotel. Then drive to the Stone Forest (98 km, 1.5 hrs). As an extremely rare geological phenomenon dating back to 270 million years ago, there are 80 hectares of karst limestone pillars in fantastic shapes that resembles a forest viewed from a distance. It is also home to the Sani People, a branch of the diverse Yi minority renowned for their diligence, embroidery and dancing.
After the tour, drive 300 kilometers (6 hours ) to Yuanyang. Arrive in Yuanyang, if time permits, drive to enjoy the sunset view of Longshuba Rice Terraces which is located 5KM away from Xinjie town.

Meals Including: Breakfast
Overnight : Duoyishu Timeless Inn Yuanyang

Day 3 Yuanyang (B)

Sightseeing: the sunrise view of Duoyishu Rice Terraces, Shengcun Morning Market, Bada Rice Terraces, Qingkou Village,the sunset view of Laohuzui Rice Terraces

You should get up very early in this morning, and you'll firstly visit Doyishu Village and enjoy the  sunrise of Duoyishu Rice Terrace Fields  when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. The terraced fields are ring upon ring and cascade one by one. They go along the hillside up to the sky. You will see the scenery of the terraced fields from the top of the mountains to the bottom. They are all farms under the sunshine and cloud and mist. The landscape is spectacular.
And then, you will visit Qinggou Village and rice terraces where Hani people for generations inhabit. Visit Bada Hani Rice Terrace, Shengcun Market as well. You will enjoy the sunset of Laohuzui Rice Terraces.

Meals Including: Breakfast
Overnight : Yuanyang Timeless Hostel

Day 4 Yuanyang-Jianshui (B)
Sightseeing:  Zhu Family Garden, Confucius Temple, Jianshui Old Street, Jianshui Old Well

Morning departure from Yuanyang and drive to Jianshui (3hrs ). After arrival, start your tour from Zhu Family Garden, the so-called 'Grand View Garden' of South Yunnan Province, which is a representative of Chinese residential houses of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Later go to visit Jianshui Confucius Temple  . This over 700-year-old temple was initially built in the 22nd year of Zhi Yuan reign in the Yuan Dynasty (1285AD). Finally stroll along Jianshui Old street.

visit the Old Well in the old town.

Meals Including: Breakfast
Overnight: Red Sky Inn in Jianshui

Day 5  Jianshui -Kunming  (B )
Sightseeing: takes sightseeing train from Jianshui to Tuanshan Village, Double Dragon Bridge

 

Today, you will have a nice experience of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway. Take one way train from Jianshui Town to Tuanshan Village go through by the 12.82km of narrow-gauge railway (soft class seat ). Enjoy the view of field and village on the way.
Make a tour of Tuanshan Village, which is a rare surviving example of an intact-albeit neglected-traditional walled Yunnan village compound in southwestern China, and has been added to the 2005 list of internationally significant sites by the World Memorial Fund for Architecture (WMF), an international fund for the protection of world heritage sites. And visit Double Dragon Bridge, which is a 17-hole bridge with 148 meters long and 3-8 meters wide.
After tour, drive back to Kunming (4-5 hrs). Upon arrival Kunming, check in your hotel.

Meals Including: Breakfast
Overnight : Kunming Enjoying International Hotel

Day 6 Departure from Kunming

After breakfast , you will choose:
1) check out the hotel before 12:00 at noon , then transfer to Lijiang airport or railway station to departure Lijiang on your own arrangement.
2) continue to prolong you stay in Lijiang (the extra cost of accommodation is on request)
Meals Including: Breakfast
( Remark : no guide or driver service be offered today )