16-day Hong Kong Guilin Yunnan Chengdu Tour

Day 1 Arrival in Hong Kong   
After a private transfer from the airport to your hotel, settle down for a relax on your own. Victoria Cruise for a night option.


Day 2 Hong Kong
Meals: B
Places to visit: Victoria Peak, Wong Tai Sin Temple, Repulse Bay and Stanley Market, Lantau Island(Big Buddha and Da'ao Fishing Village), Aberdeen Fishing Village.

After breakfast, you will be driven to Central for your tram ride up to Victoria Peak, which will give you a fantastic bird's eye view of Hong Kong. After a little bit rest, head to the famous Wong Tai Sin Temple where old beliefs and traditions survive in this modern city. Then proceed to visit Aberdeen where you will see an entire community living on small houseboats as they have for centuries, or to visit Lantau Island for Big Buddha and Da'ao Fishing Village.   

Then you will go to the romantic beach of Repulse Bay and explore the Stanley Market to find some of your favorite souvenirs for your family or friends, where is the most luxurious section of Hong Kong.  


Day 3 Hong Kong/Guilin
Meals: B
Site visited: Elephant Trunk Hill, Reed Flute Cave
After breakfast, you will take a morning flight to Guilin. Upon arrival in Guilin, you will be transferred from airport to visit Elephant Trunk Hill, Reed Flute Cave. Stay overnight in Guilin.

Evening option is a relax walk around Two River and Four Lakes Scenic Area, refering to the landscape such as Li River (the part within the city), Taohua (Peach Blossom) River, Mulong Lake, Gui Lake, Rong Lake, and Shan Lake. Enjoy the light vision at night.  


Day 4 Guilin/Yangshuo
Meals: B,L,D
Site visited: Li River Cruise, West Street, Impression of Liu Sanjie
After breakfast in your hotel, you will be driven to enjoy a downstream cruise (3.5-5hrs) on the world's top watery wonders -- Li River.  Disembark in Yangshuo, and then visit the West Street. After dinner, enjoy a wonderful ethnic show on the Li River - Impression of Liu Sanjie.


Day 5 Yangshuo/Longsheng
Meals: B, L
Places to visit: Yulong River, Longji Rice Terraces
Enjoy a morning biking along the Yulong River to see the poetic natural scenery of Yangshuo's countryside; the paddy field and orchards that surround the famous mountains will give a fascinating insight into life in rural China. on the way, you can pay a visit to the local farmer's family.
 
An afternoon drive (about 2.5 hours) from Yanghuo to Longji Rice Terraces. And then you will enjoy the dusk view of rice terraces around Zhuang and Yao minority villages.  The terraces look like ribbons as they wind from the foot to the top of some hills. The villages feature traditional architecture where no nails are used in construction. The different minority customs and dress are especially interesting.  


Day 6 Longsheng/Guilin/Kunming
Meal: B, L
Site Visited: Huangluo Yao Village
Enjoy a morning visit to Huangluo Yao Village to meet long-hair wowen and watch the ethnic performance. In the afternoon you will be driven back to Guilin airport to take the flight to Kunming.


Day 7 Kunming/Dali
Meals: B, L
Places to visit: Kunming Flowers & Birds Market, Stone Forest,

After breakfast, today tour start with Kunming Flowers & Birds Market. Then drive 1.5 hours (90 KM) to visit the Stone Forest. The Stone Forest covers 26,000-hectare and from a distance, it does indeed look like a forest of stones with its peaks and odd-shaped rocks standing straight up from the ground. You can walk around the forest on paths that have been built and there is some stair climbing involved if you want to walk around it. Drive back to Kunming for overnight train with sleeper seat to Dali city.


Day 8 Dali
Meals: B, L
Site Visited: Zhoucheng Village, Chongshengsi Three Pagodas, Dali Ancient Town,
Upon arrival in Dali, you will be transfered to visit Zhoucheng Village for local Bai people's traditional Tie-dye cloth art workshop. Then visit Three Pagodas in Chongsheng Monastery which has a history of over 1,800 years located at the foot of Cangshan Mountain facing to the Erhai Lake. Three Pagodas are made of three ancient independent pagodas forming a symmetrical triangle. In the afternoon, you will visit the Ancient Dali Town, walk around the Foreigner Street and enjoy the relax time with local people. Standing on the city wall of Dali, you will have panoramic view of the Erhai Lake.


Day 9 Dali/Lijiang
Meals: B, L
Site Visited: Xizhou Village, Lijiang Old City, Black Dragon Pool,
After a morning visit to local market at Xizhou Town and Yan Family Mansion full Bai-style traditional architectural courtyards, taste their fragrant Three-Course Tea and explore their distinctive culture. Then drive about 180 km (3 hours) to Lijiang. You'll head for the scenic Black Dragon Pool and the Dongba Museum to explore the rich Naxi minority culture.
         
In the evening, explore Lijiang Old Town. It has a history more than 800 years; it was listed as the World Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO 1997. Here you will see the wonderful wooden architecture of Naxi ethnic people.

     

Day 10 Lijiang
Meals: B, L
Site Visited: Shuhe Ancient Town, Baisha Old Town,
After breakfast, you will pay a morning visit to Yuhu Village (Jade Lake Village), where you have overlook view of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, a holy mountain for the Naxi people that is located 15km north of Lijiang city. Then visit Locke's Former Residence.

Stroll through Baisha Old Town, which is an enchanting traditional Naxi style old town, where houses Baisha Murals made in succession from the early Ming dynasty to the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing dynasty. These mural paintings, with their fine and smooth lines, bright colors, vivid pattern and balanced and harmonious composition are a wonderful sight. Today's tour will end with Shuhe Ancient Town.


Day 11 Lijiang/Shangrila
Meals: B, L
Site Visited: First Bend of the Yangtze River, Tiger Leaping Gorge,
From Lijiang, you'll drive about 60KM to the First Bend on the Yangtze River with imposing gorge scenery, visit the Iron Chain Bridge,the Red Army's Long March Memorial Monument in the Shigu Old Town. The town of Stone Drum got its name from a large, cylindrical, marble tablet shaped like a drum. The scenery is magnificent as the road running through the Lijiang valley which is filled with wheat fields and drying haystacks.

Continue to visit the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the deepest gorge in the world.  Located on the Jinsha River of the upper reaches of the Yangtze, 105 kilometers south of Shangrila County. The gorge is 17 kilometers long with a drop of 213 meters. Tiger Leaping Gorge is divided into three sections: Upper, Middle and Lower Hutiao. At the narrowest spot the river is only 30 meters wide. The mouth of the gorge is 1,800 meters above sea level. The river is flanked by Yulong and Haba snow mountains, with a height difference of 3,900 meters.

In the late afternoon, you'll head for Shangri La, formerly named Zhongdian where is well known as the paradise destination for every tourist. Upon arrival in Shangri La, you will have entered the Tibetan cultural area and a landscape of barley fields and yaks scattered in the valleys.


Day 12 Shangri La
Meals: B
Site Visited: Songzanlin Monastery,
In the morning, you will visit Songzanlin Monastery located at the foot of Mt. Foping, four kilometers north of Zhongdian County, a monastery was first built here in 1679 and has been rebuilt many times.

Then you'll visit the tranquil Bita Lake & Shudu Lake in Pudacuo National Park. Pudacuo National Park is located in one of the most biologically-diverse regions of the world.

While the region comprises only 0.7 percent of China's land area, it contains more than 20 percent of the country's plant species, about one-third of its mammal and bird species and almost 100 endangered species. Visit Dabao Monastery on the way back from Pudacuo National Park.


Day 13 Shangri-la/Chengdu
Meals: B
Morning transfer by flight to Chengdu. Your guide will meet and bring you to visit Chengdu Big Panda Breeding Center, to see lovely Panda. Then back to Chengdu city to visit Kuanzai Alley.


Day 14 Chengdu/Leshan/Mt. Emei
Meals: B, L
After breakfast, will transfer you to visit Huanglongxi Ancient Town which has 1,700 years of history. Then take bus to Leshan, to see the world's largest stone Giant Buddha.

Then visit the Lingyun Temple, the ancient Plank Cliff Path and the Stele Forest. After visiting will take bus to Emeishan, stay overnight in Emei.


Day 15 Mt. Emei/Chengdu
Meals: B, L
After breakfast will take cable car up the Mt. Emei. Visit the Wannian Temple. Then walk through Qingyin Pavilion - the biggest natural ecology reserve area for monkeys. Then

take the tourist bus down to the foot of the mountain. To visit the Fuhu Temple, one of famous nuns temple. Then you will be transfered back to Chengdu for the flight to Shangrila in Yunnan. When you arrive in Shangrila, will meet you and transfer you to hotel for a rest.


Day 16 Chengdu Departure
Meals: B   
After breakfast at the hotel, you will be driven to the airport for your flight to next destination.

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