Kunming - Stone Forest - Yuanyang Bada Rice Terrace. O/N Yuanyang

Kunming - Meet your English speaking guide at 8:00 am at your hotel. Long day drive to Yuanyang. On the way, discover the site of the Stone Forest. Free walk of about 2 hours inside the site, between rocky peaks and sometimes through narrow paths, away from the trails crossed by many Chinese tourists. Continue the road to Yuanyang area.

Yunnan Stone Forest Geological Park - Kunming Stone Forest, Shilin in Chinese, is a spectacular set of limestone groups and the representative of south China’s karst landscape. Known since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) as the ‘First Wonder of the World’, it is one of the most important attractions of Yunnan. An old local goes that if you have visited Kunming without seeing the Stone Forest, you have wasted your time.

Yuanyang Rice Terraces - Next, drive to Yuanyang,Bada Rice Terraces(5hrs driving, 300km). The Bada Rice Terraces, a part of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, was listed as World Heritage Site in 2013. The 950-hectare Bada Rice Terraces is like the ladders to the heaven with over 3700 levels, rising up from 800 meters to 2000 meters. Hence, the words “Vast”, “Magnificent”, “Beautiful Curved Lines” and “Stereoscopic” can be used to describe Bada Rice Terraces. There are some villages including Quanfuzhuang, Malizhai, Bada, Shangmadian surrounded by the rice terraces and travelers can have panoramic view of the beautiful villages when shooting the rice paddies.

Sunrise in Duoyishu Rice Terrace - Local Market-Minority Village. O/N Yuanyang

Yuanyang Rice Terraces - At 5:00am, your guide will meet you at your hotel lobby and takes you to the Duoyishu Rice Terraces which is the best site to watch sunrise over the rice fields. In the early morning, the sunglow appears splendidly over the mountains and just a few minutes later, the gentle sun begins to show up and rise slowly over the top of the mountains. When the sun rises up the 6000-mu Duoyishu Rice Terraces, the whole villages turns bright and the vast rice terraces look like a mirror, radiating the rays of golden light. What makes Duoyishu sunrise the most beautiful is not only the golden rice terraces, but also the mysterious sea of cloud and Hani people’s mushroom-like houses. No matter you are photographers or not, catch the best moment to keep the amazing Duoyishu Rice Terrace sunrise with your camera.

Yuanyang Rice Terraces - After the lunch, you will transfer to the Yuanyang hotel and you can packged your luggage, due to tomorrow will go to overnight at Jianshui.

Jianshui. O/N Jianshui.

Jianshui Ancient City - At 8:30am, your tour guide wil meet you at the Yuanyang hotel then transfer to Jianshui Ancient city, need 3hrs driving, 120KM.
When you arriving in Jianshui city, you first to check in the hotel then head to Tuanshan village.

Double Dragons Brige - After the lunch, you will visit the Shuanglong(Double Dragon) Bridge which is 5 km far from Jianshui city,was first built in Qing dynasty,built onLujiang river and Tachonghe River,because two rivers like two dragons,so call the Double Dragon Bridge.it is 148 metres long,3-5metres wide,it is one of biggest old bridge in China.

Jianshui - Kunming. The tour end.

Jianshui Ancient City - Meet your English speaking guide at 9:00 am at your hotel and you should check out your hotel at Jianshui. Then, go to the Mr Zhu Family Garden.

Zhu’s Family Garden (Zhu Jia Huayuan) - The Zhu’s Family Garden( lies in the middle part of Jianxin Street of Jianshui, there is a grand complex -the private Garden of Zhu Family. It was build by Zhuchaoying and his brother in the late Qing Dynasty. The complex has a total area of 20, 000 square meters. With the well - arranged yards and well-furnished rooms and halls, the structure of the architecture can be described as ‘’streamlined’’ it enjoys the fame ‘’the Daguan Garden at a Border Town’’. Large and magnificent buildings like the private Garden of the Zhu family are now rarely seen in China).

Jianshui Confucius Temple - Afterwards, take the private car to Jianshui Confucius Temple, it was originally constructed in 1285 and has renovated and extended for over 40 times, covering an area of 114mu. It is one of the well preserved Confucius Temples in large scale and high architectural level. With a history of more than 700 years and well preservation, it offers extremely precious materials for people to study the history of Confucianism and traditional architectural art. It is one of the national key cultural relics protection units.

Kunming - After the lunch at Jianshui, you will transfer to Kunming, we can drop off you at Kunming hotel or Kunming airport/train station. End of your tour services.

• Private car with a personal guide
• Included entrance tickets
• Lunch provided
• Air-conditioned vehicles

• The hotel and dinner

• The Sunset or Sunrise at Yuanyang terraces area, it dpendes of the season, normally, the Dec to May, will have a more chance to catch the sunrise and sunset.

If you cancel at least 4 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.