19 Days East Yunnan Ethnic Minority Photograph Tour

Visit the Bamboo Temple. Overnight in Harbour Plaza Hotel, 5 star.

Drive to Tonghai, visit the Ximen Mengu Village, go ahead to drive to Jianshui. Overnight in Linnan Hotel, 3 star.

Visit the confucius Temple the 2nd largest Confucius temple in China , Chaoyang Gate in this old city of Ming Dynasty , Double Dragon Bridge , Private Garden of the Zhu Family and Tuanjie Village which is very old county. Visit the Ancient Daban Well, Same Hotel.

Drive to Yuanyang, visit the New Street market, Horse Street . See Sunset. Overnight in Yuanyang Terrace Field Hotel. 2 star

See the Sunrise , visit Terrace Field, Hani Village, Yi’s Minority primary school. ShenChun,  Duoyi Shu Terrace Field.

In the morning you will drive to Pingbian Miao Autonomous County, a small county in the border between Yunnan and Vietnam. Drive to visit Daweishan National Forest Park including the hanging bridge, cloud ladder, the tree twinned trunks. Daweishan National Forest Park is featured by the tropical and subtropical trees and flowers, and wild animals. It is about 10 Km away from Yuping Town.

When Miao people celebrate the Huashan Festival from January 3rd to March 7th of the lunar year, this mountain will be very crowded and the Miao girls and boys will come to the mountain for the dance and singing, as well as some race will be held in the mountain.
Overnight in Pinbian hotel, 2 star.

In the morning you will go to visit the black bears in the Black Bears Zoo, black bear is well known as the of the  animal kingdom. Visit the Wooden Free Market if we meet the special date.

In the afternoon, drive to Maguan County, which is the hometown of fructus amomi tsao-ko, the home town of folk art, located in the border between Vietnam and Yunnan.

Trekking for 10-15km: Jiahan Qin-Jia Bo, visit the Zhuang Minority People, to Luoshui Dong, visit the Miao Minority people, Guangkan( Zhuang People), overnight in Tongda Hotel.
In the afternoon you will drive to Dulong Old Town.

Dulong Old Town as a Sino-Vietnamese war in the border last century is located Maguan County of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province; it is only eight kilometers from Vietnam.
Every Sunday, besides the local Miao, Zhuang, Dai, Buyi, Han and other ethnic minorities, there are many Zhuang, Miao people from Vietnam as well as some Chinese businessmen and western tourists.
Dulong Old Town is featured by the ethnic clothing market, because these clothes are hand-made, the price is relatively more expensive, a bright color, fine workmanship of Miao clothing.

Drive to Guangnan via Wenshan

After breakfast, drive about one hour to Bamei Town, which is a typical Zhuang ethnic village in remote mountains located 50 Km away from Guannan. When you arrive at the entrance to Bamei Village, you have to take a small boat and cross the cave and valley to Bamei. Chinese writer Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 317-420) once described in his work a legendary fairyland “Peach Blossom Valley” – a place completely isolated from the rest of the world. People there lived a simple, pastoral life.

In Bamei, you will visit Zhuang ethnic family; enjoy the real performance of Zhuang people. Have lunch with local ethnic flavour in the village, and then take the boat to the water area for playing, ride the rickshaw by cow. You will find this is a peaceful and quiet paradise for tourists. Drive back to Guannan in the late afternoon.

–Bamei Village is one for the Zhuang People where there only live more than 100 families and 600 villagers. The villagers here belong to the Sha branch of the aboriginal Zhuang. The folkways here are plain and simple. The villagers are honest, frank and kind-hearted. Whoever come and tour here would receive warm welcome: both young and old villagers would sing and dance all the way; if you go into the house of the villagers, they would take out the best brawn, fresh vegetables and Babao Rice of Zhuang people which is in fact colourful sticky rice to entertain the guests.

You will visit Guannan Old Town, the Lotus Lake Park, and the Bronze Drum Plaza, Lotus Peak Pagoda.
Drive to Qiubei County in the afternoon.
Visit the Puzhe Hei, overnight in Puzhehei hostel.

Drive to Luopin, overnight in Luopin Telecom hotel, 2 star hotel

Visit the Nine Dragon Fall, Gold Cock Peak, Buyi Minority People. Drive to Quqing

Drive to Huize, for 4-5 hours, Visit the Huize Ancient Town, Jiangxi Trade Hall, Tang Jiyao Former Residence, overnight in Huize Hotel. 2 star.

Trip to the bridge of Huize county town. Trip 40km’s to Daqiao Village to observe the Black Neck Crane. Daqiao Village/the bridge of Huize county, sub black crane’s provincial nature reserve of neck of reservoir of Changhai, the pasture and water is luxuriant, the marsh ecology keeps intact, is aquatic bird’s most ideal habit environment that black neck crane and other survive the winter, it is the best environment that the Black Neck Crane depends on for existence too.

Drive 40kms to trip to the Dacao Hai Hills/English name is the Big Grass Land, where is located in the southwest of county town of Huize, between 2570-4017 meters of elevation, the whole area is 20 ten thousand mu, is the most high alpine grass mars land of Yunnan, been always world-famous for grass, flower, could, fog, snow, light, water, peak, soul, known as “New Zealand” in the East. See the Slab stone Village House.

Drive 3-4 hours to Dongchuan, Overnight in Dongchuan Hotel, 3 star.

Drive 40km to see the Red Earth, take picture of Red Earth.
Overnight in Farm Hostel.

Drive 4-5 hours back to Kunming, overnight in Kunming city.
Transfer to Kunming International Airport for returning.
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