4-day Guilin to Yangshuo Art Leisure Tour
Highlights: Li River Cruise, West Street,Yulong River,Yulong River,The Reed Flute Cave, Elephant Trunk Hill
Besides beautiful Karst landscape of Li River Cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo, you can also experience local art of Taichi and Watercolor paintings and funny things such as cormorants fishing, countryside biking and bamboo rafting for idyllic rurality sights.
Day 1 Arrival in Guilin
Welcome to Guilin! On arrival at Guilin Liangjiang International Airport, you will be escorted to check in the hotel. Free leisure for the rest of the day.
Evening or night relax options: an walk (1-2 hours) around Xicheng Pedestrian Street or Two Rivers and Four Lakes
Day 2 Li River Cruise Guilin to Yangshuo
Meal: B
Site Visited: Li River Cruise, Yangshuo West Street
After breakfast, enjoy a breathtaking cruise along the Li River, which was once listed as one of the ten top watery wonders in the world by National Geographic Magazine in 2010. Upon arrival at Yangshuo Dock, you will be transfered for a stroll along the famous West Street. This is a vibrant place alive with cafes, pubs, restaurants and where many westerners gather.
Later you can choose Commorants Fishing or Impression Liu Sanjie for your optional evening/nigth show for relax.
Day 3 Yangshuo Local Life Experience
Meal: B
Site Visited: Rafting, Biking, Chinese Taichi or Watercolor Painting Learning
Option A - After breakfast, you will learn to play Taichi for 1-2 hours; And then attend Chinese cooking course in a cooking school where maybe you can prepare a Chinese lunch for yourselves if you prefer it. After Lunch, you will rent and ride a bike, follow the best way to explore Yangshuo's idyllic countryside scenery along the Yulong River. Visit a local farmer's old house on the way, the friendly host is happy to show you around the house and introduce you to their rural life there.
Option B - After breakfast, you will learn to play Taichi for 1-2 hours; and then drive to enjoy idyllic countryside scenery along the Yulong River by a bamboo rafting. After Lunch, you will be transfered to Fuli Ancient Town. There you can have a walk around and learn Chinese painting at watercolor workshop in the old town.
Option C - Enjoy a morning biking trip to the beautiful Yangshuo countryside and then have a bamboo rafting on the Yulong River. Later you will go to experience Guilin Yangshuo Helicopter Tours are operated by Guilin Zhanzhuo Tonghang Co., Ltd. and HNA (Hainan Airlines), and served by an AS350B3 helicopter or Robinson R44 helicopter (Three Seats for passangers), flying over Li River, Yulong River and Xingping Ancient Town.
Day 4 Yangshuo/Guilin Departure
Meal: B
Site Visited: Elephant Trunk Hill, Jingjiang Prince City, The Reed Flute Cave
After breakfast, you will be driven back to Guilin to visit Elephant Trunk Hill, the symbol of Guilin and Jingjiang Prince City, a tourist attraction highlighted by the gorgeous Solitary Beauty Peak, whose summit offers the best panoramic view of Guilin City. And then to view The Reed Flute Cave. Later, your tour comes to an end with a departure transfer to Guilin Train Station or Guilin Liangjiang International Airport.
Service Ends
Price Includes:
Transportation & Private Transfers:Transportation cost covers all the domestic airfare of economy class with airport tax, train tickets between the cities as the itinerary specified.
Transfer between airports, railway station, hotels and scenic spots for sightseeing around the cities that are specified by the itinerary with private air conditioned vehicle with driver and English-speaking guide. Separate arrivals and departures will incur extra charges.
Entrance Fees:
All entrance fees to the scenic spots listed in the itinerary. The final arrangement will be determined by private tour guides depends on the real-time local circumstances wheather are beyond the control of Access China Travel. We will adhere to the original itinerary as accurately as possible.
Normal Meals:
All normal meals as the itinerary specified: B = breakfast, L = Lunch, D = dinner in local restaurant. Breakfasts are served in hotel, breakfasts have Chinese or Western style for your option; Lunches are served in carefully selected quality local Chinese restaurants with best service, your lunches will be ordered by your guide catering to your preferences within normal standard. Dinners as the itinerary specified will be also served in local Chinese restaurants. The meal quotation is normalized. If you have any special request about meals, like vegetarian, famous rare dishes, Indian food or more, please inform us in advance. For the unspecified dinners, you will have dinner on your own. Feel free to ask your local guide for suggestions or recommendation.
Private Sightseeing Escort:
Normal sightseeing activities as the itinerary listed will be escorted with English-speaking guide. The English-speaking guide and driver in each city are with you throughout the entire itinerary around that city. They do not fly with you from one city to another.
Hotel Accommodation:
Hotel service criterion: two adults share on one standard twin/double-bed room; solo traveler who want to occupy one twin/double-bed room assigned is required for extra single supplement rate. A single room is available on prior request at an additional cost; if a recommended hotel unavailable, it will be replaced by one of the same class. All hotels as the itinerary listed serve daily western or Chinese breakfast. All rooms are air-conditioned with private facilities unless specified.
Tour Arrangements:
The tour cost includes the planning, handling, booking, operation and communication charges.
Price Excludes:
International airfare or train tickets for entry or exit China, unless that is noted or required otherwise.Visa Fees, passport application or renewal fee.
Excess Baggage Charges.
Personal Expenses:
Expenses of a purely personal nature such as excess luggage fees, laundry, drinks, fax, telephone call, optional activities (shows) and meals, beverages...
Meals:
Any meal are not specified in the itinerary with "B", "L" or "D".
Any extra cost caused by the changes of natural disasters, fires, weather, government and local authority orders, politics, strikes, war, riots, quarantine, custom regulations; as well as tourist law violation, accident damages or injury incurred out of Access China Travel control.
Gratuities:
Tips to guides, escort, drivers bellman, etc.
