8 Days Grand Miao's Lusheng Festival Annual Tour

Our guide will meet you at Guiyang airport, and transfer you to Kaili, the state capital of Qiandongnan Autonomous Prefecture. This transfer will take 2.5 hours. Stay overnight at Kaili.

Today you will experience the highlight of this tour. After breakfast, we will drive to Chong'anjiang to attend the grand Lusheng Festival which is one of the most important festivals for Miao's people. On the way you can appreciate the beautiful countryside with its terraced hillsides and quaint towns. Upon arrival, you will be excited in the strong festival atmosphere. Miao girls of the whole village are dressed up with brilliant ethnic costumes and silver ornaments, participating in the celebration ceremonies, composed of Lusheng dancing, horse racing, rooster fights and buffalo fights. And the exciting thing is that we could join in the celebration to dance with local people. You can also stroll along local bazaar to appreciate ethnic handicrafts. After the festivities you will be driven back to Kaili. Tonight you will have a sound sleep and there are more splendid festivities waiting for tomorrow.

On this day, we will continue to enjoy fascinating festival celebration. After delicious breakfast, reach Gulong Village attend their Lusheng Festival. In Gulong, you will experience a kind of special celebration - over 1000 bamboo pipes are played simultaneously, which is a spectacle scene not to be seen anywhere else in the world. Boys try to play lusheng better, because the festival is also a good dating time or chance for the unmarried people to get to know each other, and become marriage partners. You could join in them to dance to the Lusheng music and enjoy the singing competition. Don't forget to take photoes with these charmingly girls. Today will be an impressive day for you. After visit and enjoyment, transfer back to Kaili hotel.

In the morning, a short drive from Kaili along the Bala River will take us to the beautiful Langde Upper Village, a real gem with traditional wooden houses and waterwheels. After lunch we will continue our journey to Paika Miao Village. Walking along the picturesque country road, we come to a local villager's house to appreciate how the Lusheng is made, and even you have chance to blow it. Lusheng is the Miao people's exclusive musical instrument. The next stop is the famous Datang Short-Skirt Miao Village, where all the women wear extremely short skirts all year round. Another highlight in this village is the granary built over a pond with the multi-function of fire-proofing, rat-proofing and ant-proofing.

Tonight, you will stay at the best local hotel in Rongjiang.

In the morning, depart Rongjiang. We will drive you to Basha Miao Village, which is reputed as the 'Last Gunmen's Tribe in China', for almost all the adult male villagers usually carry hunting guns on their shoulders and gunpowder bags, bullet bags and knives around their waists. Basha is virtually untouched by modernization, and their residents still keep very old lifestyle.  We will visit local people's wooden house to know more about their centuries-old customs and unique beliefs.

Afterwards, we will take you to Zhaoxing. After checking in, you will explore Zhaoxing Dong Village and have lunch. It is the largest Dong People's Village in Qiandongnan area. You will find many wooden stilt houses standing one by one as well as charming Drum Towers in the village.

Stay overnight at Zhaoxing.

After breakfast, you will take a relax stroll on local market of Zhaoxing, to experience local life and appreciate ethnic handicrafts. Here you could buy some exquisite souvenir. Then we will depart Guizhou Province to Guangxi Province. Drive about 3.5 hours to reach the quaint little village of Chengyang. Visit the renowned Chengyang Wind and Rain Bridge, which is one of the four famous old bridges in the world. Amazingly, this bridge is made of wood and stone, without the use of any nails or rivets. Walking out onto the bridge, you can sit on the bench and appreciate the picturesque scenery.

Our next stop is the eight famous stockade villages which offer a peek into the Dong's life and customs. They are Ma'an, Pingzhai, Yanzhai, Chengyang-Dazhai, Pingpu, Pingtan, Jichang and Guandong. Here you will enjoy the perfect pastoral life and experience the customs of the Dong people. In every village you can find its drum tower which has many-roofed structure and serves as the community's main meeting place. Wandering from town to town provides a fascinating series of glimpses of rural life, from live pigs for sale in the market to chickens wandering freely through village lanes.

Tonight you will stay at Chengyang hotel.

In the morning we will take you to Longsheng. Visit the world-famous Longji Terraces - Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces. There are about 66 square kilometers of terraced fields in the district. Leisure time for you to walk along the mountain road, and you will be intoxicated in its fantastic scenery. If you don't want to climb all the way up to the top of the mountain, there are sedan chairs available for you.

In the afternoon we will drive about 2 hours to Guilin for checking in. After short rest in hotel, you can walk around the hotel to appreciate beautiful night scenery of Guilin.

Today we will transfer to Guilin airport to end this fantastic tour. Wish you a pleasant journe!.