7 Days Yuanyang Manmade Wonders and Natural Beauty Tour

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Tour Description

Spending a holiday in City of Spring, you'll become the envy of those who have to curl up at home! Look what Kunming, Yuanyang and Jianshui have in store to please you: gorgeous manmade attractions like traditional garden, bridge and Yuanyang Rice Terraces; fabulous naturally shaped works like Stone Forest and Dianchi Lakes. You would enter a wonderland interlaced with the artificial and the natural. Hey, just jump at the tour!

Visit World Geopark Stone Forest
Tour mirror-like Yuanyang Rice Terraces
Explore Dragon Gate sculpture on Western Hill

Day 1 Arrive in Kunming
Today's Activities As soon as your flight reaches Kunming Airport, we're right there to pick you up and transfer you to the hotel in downtown Kunming. The rest half day is spent as you please. Apart from getting sufficient rest at the hotel, you may as well have a walk at Kunming Flower and Bird Market. The buoyant birds and flourishing flowers there all convey easy breezy tones of spring rather than freezing winter, telling you why Kunming is entitled City of Spring. Additionally, you can visit Golden Horse and Green Phoenix Archway, the symbolic building of Kunming.
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Kunming Flower and Bird Market Kunming Flower and Bird Market Golden Horse and Green Phoenix Archway          
Kunming Flower and Bird Market Kunming Flower and Bird Market Golden Horse and Green Phoenix Archway          
Day 2 Kunming (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today's Activities Kunming is ever proud of its gorgeous landscapes, the most outstanding of which is listed as one of World Natural Heritage, Stone Forest. Drive about 100 km south of Kunming and you get the unbelievable Stone Forest. Watching the spectacular array of limbstone, you can hardly assume what it was like millions of years ago. Stone Forest is developed from under the ocean in the similar way Mt. Everest rises. So just enjoy such a grant page of world geography. Afterwards you'll be touring the Western Hill and Dragon Gate. Unlike the naturally shaped Stone Forest, Western Hill and Dragon Gate known for man-made grottoes, sculptures, corridors, and pavilions hacked from the cliff. The creators, a Taoist monk and his co-workers, consumed 72 years (from 1781 to 1853) to complete the project. Having visited the artificial masterpiece, you''ll feast on another natural beauty, the glossy Dianchi Lake. The lake never gets frozen, entertaining you and making you feel as if you' were in permanent springtime!
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Stone Forest Western Hill and Dragon Gate Dianchi Lake          
Stone Forest Western Hill and Dragon Gate Dianchi Lake          
Day 3 Jianshui (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today's Activities Today let's dip into profound traditional culture and fabulous architectural art around Kunming. The private car will take you to Jianshui County within 4 hours and the well-preserved Jianshui Confucian Temple will greet you. No matter how much you know about Confucius, it is worth a visit at the temple built in the year 1285, the second largest confucian temple after Qufu Temple, Shandong Province. After that, Zhu Family Garden is waiting for your exploration. The grand complex of Yunnan civilian houses will attract you with bulks of exquisite details.
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Jianshui Confucian Temple Zhu Family Garden Zhu Family Garden          
Jianshui Confucian Temple Zhu Family Garden Zhu Family Garden          
Day 4 Jianshui - Yuanyang (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today's Activities Paying a morning visit at Chaoyang Wall is quite fab! The old city wall of Jianshui, built in 1389, has gone through scores of big earthquakes and battles with merely 48 huge wooden pillars and other cogs and thus is qualified as the No.1 city wall in Yunnan every inch. Later you'll go to Double-Dragon Bridge. Having Appreciated the 400-year-old bridge known for elegant pavilion style and 17 bridge openings, you can't help marveling at the great architectural aesthetics in Yunnan.

Your tour in Yunnan will turn to a new chapter, Yuanyang County in the afternoon. What Yuanyang prepares for you is an amazing combo of folklore, man-made wonders and natural glamour. That is, vast areas of fog-shrouded rice terraces and exotic folk villages. Tomorrow the chapter will unfold itself to you, just keep thrilled!
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Chaoyang Wall Double-Dragon Bridge Double-Dragon Bridge          
Chaoyang Wall Double-Dragon Bridge Double-Dragon Bridge          
Day 5 Yuanyang (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today's Activities There is nothing better than feasting on snow-capped rice terraces and savoring interesting folklore alternatively.Yuanyang County seems a huge exhibition hall of different views of rice terraces. The most powerful words would fail when you have these rice terraces in front of you. Today you'll tour three rice terrace areas, Duoyishu, Bada and Tiger Mouth Pass, along with Hani Ethnic Village. You'll sure be hooked by the real primitive earthen houses and the unique custom of local minority.

(The best time of touring Yuanyang Rice Terraces is from November to April, the second year.)
Highlights
Bada Rice Terrace Area Tiger Mouth Pass Rice Terrace Area Hani Ethnic Village          
Bada Rice Terrace Area Tiger Mouth Pass Terrace Area Hani Ethnic Village          
Day 6 Yuanyang - Kunming(Breakfast, Lunch)
Today's Activities Enjoy good breakfast in the Yuanyang hotel, then drive about 6 hours back to Kunming. Along the way is parades of beautiful landscape, can you believe it?
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Passing Kunming Ethnic Village by Passing Kunming Green Lake Park by Passing Dianchi Lake b          
Passing Kunming Ethnic Village by Passing Kunming Green Lake Park by Passing Dianchi Lake by          
Day 7 Kunming - Departure (Breakfast)
Today's Activities kiss Kunming goodbye and board the flight at Kunming airport. We see you off and wish you a thoroughly happy journey and your next visit!
Package Details
Tour Package Includes:
Dining: 6 breakfasts and 5 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 Kunming
Crowne Plaza Kunming City Centre
Crowne Plaza Kunming City Centre offers a five-star stay experience for each guest. The hotel has comprehensive business facilities including a variety of meeting rooms and a Crowne Plaza Club lounge with private rooms, business facilities and dining area with panoramic river views. The hotel offers easy transportation access when guests travel for leisure and business purposes in Kunming.
Kunming Hotel
Kunming Hotel is located in the commercial and shopping district. With many famous department stores nearby, the hotel is one of Kunming''s most cosmopolitan areas.With an area of 2.7 hectares,the hotel is divided into 6 parts,including the main building,business building,garden square, entertainment building,courtyard and subsidiary building.The inner environment is comfort and it is fully equipped which is the ideal place for longstaying and leisure.
Camellia Hotel
With its beautiful scenery and convenient transportation, the Camellia Hotel is an ideal choice for budget travellers.The Kunming Camellia Hotel is a 3-star foreign-guests oriented hotel,located in downtown area of Kunming, "the City of Eternal Spring", and it has been serving as a star-rated hotel for international travelers since 1986.
Hotels in Jianshui
Zhu Family Garden Hotel
At Zhu Family Garden Hotel in Yunnan, China you will discover your own Shangri-La... a distant and secluded hideaway of great beauty and peacefulness. A remote paradise on earth where harmony reigns, where the gods walk among the people, and where man and nature embrace.
Jianshui Hotel
The hotel is located in the financial and cultural center of Jianshui. There are many department stores near the hotel. Transpoctation is convernient and the environment is excellent. There are 440 comfortable rooms and 7 restaurants in the hotel. There are 9 meeting rooms that can hold 10-500 persons respectively.
Hotel in Yuanyang
Yunti Hotel
Yunti Hotel comes as the first choice of economical hotels in Yuanyang. It provides the guests with all-around facilities and service at relatively low prices. Apart from center of Hani folk, the hotel still has access to one-stop shopping mall and recreational programmes. Moreover, located at the highest spot in Yuanyang, the hotel gives a marvelous view of the ancient town. Concerning all the advantages mentioned above, Yunti Hotel is definately the best hotel in Yuanyang meeting multiple needs.

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:

Kunming

The variety of Kunming cuisine never fails to satisfy hungry travelers. It really is a "crossroads" featuring dishes from all over Yunnan. The feature of Kunming cuisine is a perfect blend of sour and spicy flavors, made from the minority 's century-old traditional recipes.

Steaming-Pot Chicken Guo Qiao Rice Noodles
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Hello Michelle,

We're writing our first email since returning from our wonderful month visiting your beautiful and exciting country. We want to thank you most sincerely for your wonderful assistance and professionalism. We didn't think that such a complicated tour that we planned (with 20 different hotels, 6 flights, 2 trains, 2 buses, countless boats, 2 concerts, a major trek etc etc) would be possible without some serious hiccups - we were totally wrong! This was, by far, the best organised holiday we've ever been on and we were delighted by your choice of hotels, local guides etc etc.

We would have no hesitation in recommending your company and, especially, yourself to any potential clients. Again, many thanks and very best wishes.

Customer: Martin and ChristineUpdate Date: May 10, 2011

Destinations: Shanghai - Suzhou - Nanjing - Huangshan - Hangzhou - Kunming - Dali - Lijiang - Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking - Zhongdian (Shangri-la) - Kunming - Guilin - Chongqing - Yangtze River Cruise - Yichang - Shanghai

Related Tour Name: 16 days China Odyssey & Yangtze River Cruise Tour, 7 days Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Tour with Extension to Shangrila

Hello Nancy,

I just wanted to thank you so much for helping me through the booking of our trip. We had a wonderful time. The hotel in Yuanyang was one of the nicest I've stayed in. The guides were great. Jack spoke excellent English and gave us plenty of information. Shau Yang was delightful too. Our train tickets turned up just as you planned and we really enjoyed the soft sleeper experience. If I can be of reference for anyone please use my name.

Customer: Lynne SkoylesUpdate Date: Apr 7, 2011

Destinations: Yuanyang - Zhongdian - Kunming

Related Tour Name: 8 days Kunming – Dali – Lijiang – Shangri-la Tour

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