4 days Guilin-Yangshuo-Longsheng Extension Tour

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Tour Description

Guilin is not all about natural attractions. The tour is meant to open the pages of Guilin travel and show you ethnic custom and less-known lifestyle of the locals and featured handicrafts. With such an extensive tour, your understanding of Guilin will be complete and your love for Guilin will be much stronger!

Classic Guilin attractions, Reed Flute Cave and Li River
Intelligence of Longsheng farmers, Longji Rice Terraces
Interesting lifestyles, Longsheng ethnic villages and cormorant fishing

Day 1 Arrive in Guilin - Reed Flute Cave - Elephant Trunk Hill (Lunch)
Today's Activities After airport pickup and a brief rest at the hotel, you'll begin your tour around the fantastic Guilin in the afternoon. Like other visitors, you'll be quite grateful to the nice layout of Guilin attractions as even without driving far from downtown Guilin you can find many a scenic spots, Reed Flute Cave and Elephant Trunk Hill included. Right before you is a banquet of natural masterpieces of karst caves and hills. Trust you to be hooked by the color-capricious Reed Flute Cave and pretty adorable Elephant Trunk Hill within minutes!
Highlights
Guilin overview Reed Flute Cave Elephant Trunk Hill          
Garden city Guilin Reed Flute Cave Elephant Trunk Hill          
Day 2 Longji Rice Terraces – Longsheng Minority Villages – Guilin (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today's Activities Today is about human intelligence and ethnic custom exploration! Endless hills in Longsheng don’t get in the way of the local’s farming, instead, they become a huge platform of stunning scene of Longji rice terraces! Probing into the layer-upon-layer terrace fields, you can’t help giving thumbs-up to the local farmers.

You do hope to visit the local ethnic people who establish such gorgeous rice terraces, don’t you? So stroll up to the peak of the terraces, reach the minority villages and start exploring the mysterious life of Yao folks and Zhuang people. These friendly guys are happy to show you their merry party houses adorned with clusters of chilli and sweetcorn, their amazing songs and dances, their glossy jewel-dotted headwear and garment. Afterwards, you'll go back to your hotel in downtown Guilin, preparing for tomorrow's tour.
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Longji rice terraces minority villages minority villages          
Layers of Longji rice terraces Longhair Show by Yao women Visitors picking local handicrafts          
Day 3 Li River Cruise - Yangshuo Traditional Cormorant Fishing (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today's Activities The tour of Guilin comes to the essence when you board Zhujiang Wharf, launching the great 4-hour Li River cruise. Guilin landscape will unfold itself like a scroll of unbelievable Chinese ink painting along the stretch of Li River. What’s more, You'll have the tasty local lunch while feasting on the scenery.

In the afternoon you'll watch an interesting way of life, Traditional Cormorant Fishing. Only in serene Yangshuo where conventions are well preserved and people's minds are unstirred can you find such an amazing picture of silent aged fishmen and their cormorants seated on rafts. Time stops flowing there and you seem to return to the innocent life. Moreover you'll enjoy a tranquil night at hotel in Yangshuo.
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Li River cruise Traditional Cormorant Fishing Traditional Cormorant Fishing          
Assorted ships cruising on Li River Traditional Cormorant Fishing Traditional Cormorant Fishing          
Day 4 Fuli Town – Guilin - Departure (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today's Activities You may not hear about Fuli Town but you must fall in love with the splendid sea of fans crafted in this little town at first sight. The landscape of Guilin is stitched into these fans vividly, making them the most worthwhile souvenir for you to remember your tour around Guilin. Later we'll send you to Guilin Airport, wishing you a happy journey home.
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Fuli Town Fuli Town Fuli Town          
Fans made in Fuli Town Family workshop of Fuli fans Tranquil Fuli Old Town          
Package Details
Tour Package Includes:
Dining: 3 breakfasts and 4 lunches Admissions: Entrance fees to all scenic spots listed in itinerary
Tour Guide: Local experienced English-speaking guides Car Driver: Experienced licensed drivers
Vehicle: Private air-conditioned car, offering Round-trip transfers Luggage Transfers: A hand for your heavy luggage;
Insurance: Travel Agencies Liability Insurance; Government taxes & Service charges
Tour Package Excludes:
- Other optional tours / meals / flights not mentioned in itinerary; - Tips for tour guides and drivers.
Hotels in Guilin
Sheraton Guilin Hotel
First opened in 1988 and renovated in 2008, Sheraton Guilin Hotel is ideally located on the west bank of Li River within minutes' walk from the Elephant Trunk Hill and Fubo Hill. It's about 2km from the Railway Station and 30km from the Guilin International Airport.
Guilin Bravo Hotel
Guilin Bravo Hotel is located in the city centre besides the Banyan Lake Park. It's 28km from Guilin Liangjiang International Airport and 3km from Guilin Railway Station.
The hotel Boasts 329 tastefully decorated guest rooms and suites and various facilities to meet the guests' different needs.
Hotel Universal Guilin
Hotel Universal Guilin is situated on the bank of Li River, within walking distance to the local market, shopping area and tourist hot spots. The tastefully decorated guest rooms and a wide range of facilities and services provide guests with a comfortable and joyful stay.
Hotels in Yangshuo
Yangshuo Green Lotus Hotel
Located at the foot of the Green Lotus Peak in Yangshuo and on the bank of Li River, Yangshuo Green Lotus Hotel is a top luxury hotel integrating the natural beauty of mountains and rivers and the local minority peoples' architectural feature.
New West Street International Hotel
New West Street International Hotel is surrounded by mountains and rivers with convenient transportation. The hotel is furnished with 328 guest rooms, and has both Chinese and Western restaurants and other facilities. It's surely an ideal place for both leisure and business trip.
New West Street Hotel
Located on the centre square of Yangshuo, the New West Street Hotel has elegant environment, convenient traffic and faces Yangshuo Park with beautiful scenery. It's only 3 minutes from the world famous "Foreigners' Street" - The West Street.

Meals in the Package

-- Breakfasts are offered by the hotels
-- Lunches are arranged according to different classes of tour
-- Dinners are for your own arrangement

We promise worry-free dining quality, plus flexible choices regarding your preference. Any special requestment please tell our trip advisors directly. Other recommendations are as follow:

Guilin

Guilin's tasty dishes are also well-known except its charming landscapes. Traditional cuisines include Duck Stewed with Ginkgo Seeds, Lipu Taro Pork, Stewed Clams and Chicken, Lohan Boiled Chicked, and Fried Chicken with Water Chestnut. An abundance of special snacks are also offered throughout the city, like the famous Guilin Rice Noodles.

Guilin Rice Noodles Yangshuo Beer Fish
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Comments

Hello Michelle, Having returned home after the Guilin/Yangshuo tour, we hasten to send this brief note to thank you for all your excellent arrangements made for our sightseeing sojourn in the venues of world acclaim. The tour guide, Helen Liao Xiao Yun, surely made our tour an unforgettably beautiful experience. She was simply a wonderful person and her attention to all details along with the fine and hospitable services of the chauffeur should be highly complimented. With kind regards.

Customer: Bae OhUpdate Date: May, 2011

Destinations: Guilin - Yangshuo

Related Tour Name: 4 Days Guilin Yangshuo Picturesque Tour, 5 days Guilin-Longsheng-Jinkeng Hiking Tour

Hello Nancy, Thank you for your reply and understanding.

My tour got to the ending and I'll be back to work in HK on saturday. What a pitty! For me, the highest point of the tour was GUILIN!!! I'm recommending it to a friend of mine that will be working in HK next october, so she'll be in contact with you before that, ok? Once more, thank you for all your help and attention.

Customer: Lucia MillasUpdate Date: Apr. 30, 2011

Destinations: Guilin - Hongkong

Related Tour Name: 3 days Classic Guilin Tour

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