China: Festivals & Textiles of Guizhou and Guanxi
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Overview
Highlights
- Explore Beijing
- Visit Temple of Heaven, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and The Hutongs
- Visit Great Wall and Lama Temple
- Enjoy Sister’s Meal Festival and Lusheng Festival
- Explore the Libo
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- Accommodations as listed, including all service charges and taxes
- All ground transfers
- All excursions with expert English-speaking guides
- Private village performances for groups of 4-10 people
- Private dance performance
- Meeting with Mrs. Yang
- Entrance fees to museums, temples, etc.
- All meals as indicated with Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
- Seat-in-coach basis hotel and airport transfers in Hong Kong
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Accommodation: Red Wall Shija Hotel Or The Opposite House
Arriving in Beijing, you will clear customs and immigration. Leaving the airport, you will be met by our operator, holding a sign with your name on it. S/he will take you to your hotel to rest, unpack a...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Red Wall Shija Hotel Or The Opposite House
This morning, you should rise early and leave the hotel before 8 AM or so for a trip to the Temple of Heaven or Tiāntán. Perhaps the most perfect example of Ming...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Red Wall Shija Hotel Or The Opposite House
Very early, you head out to the section of the Great Wall in Mutianyu. Although most history books claim that the wall was built to keep the barbarians from the ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sheraton Guiyang Hotel
After breakfast, you transfer to the airport for a flight to Guiyang. Arriving in Guiyang from Beijing, you will be met by your guide and transferred to the Sheraton Beijing Hotel. If time permits, you can do some touring.
Guiyang is the largest city in Guizhou Province and its capital. Built during the Ming Dynasty, Guiyang follows all of the rules of geomancy – south of the mountain and north of the river – and is quite a lovely city. In 1913, it became the provincial capital, and wa...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sheraton Guiyang Hotel
Heading out to the suburbs, you visit Qingyan Ancient Town, originally built in 1378 for military reasons during the Ming Dynasty era (1368-1644). Today the town is an interesting b...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Zong Heng Hotel
In the morning, you travel southeast today on the new highway to Kaili, capital of the iandongnan Miao and Dong Prefecture, one of the most well known areas of minority culture. Most grou...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Fucheng Hotel
Your path today takes you to Zhenyuan and two places, Wangxiang Miao village and Matang Geija Village. Wangxiang Miao village is famous for its folded silk work and use of the Peking knot in...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Zong Heng Hotel
Today is festival day an opportunity to see villagers from all over the area come to sell their wares, find a husband or wife, and socialize. You can find items needed for Miao embroiderie...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Zong Heng Hotel
Today you visit the Long Skirt Miao in Langde Village. Langde is the first village to be opened to Westerners way back in 1980. The girls wear stunning silver ornaments, and often do a viv...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sanli Hotel
This morning, you have about a 5-hour drive to Libo. Libo lying in a valley in southern Guizhou, has extraordinary karst limestone scenery and natural vegetation. Unpolluted streams and river...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sanli Hotel
When you are ready, you can continue to explore Libo and the Daqikong area. The Yao minority people live nearby. Both men and women dress in traditional outfits, the girls wearing pleated co...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Zhaoxing Hotel
Today you drive first to Sandu County, where you pick up the newly finished expressway to Zhaoxing. Zhaoxing Dong Village is one of the largest Dong villages in southeast Guizhou. Known as...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Longfeng Hostel
After breakfast, you have another long 5-hour drive to Sanjiang, home to the largest and longest of the Wind and Rain Bridges in China, and a masterpiece of Dong architecture. The Chengya...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Longji Leader Guesthouse
When you are ready, you head out from Sanjiang to Longji. Longji is famous for its beautiful rice terraced fields and ethnic villages in mountainous areas. The well known Longji (...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hot Springs Hotel
Rise early to continue exploring the Longji area. When you are ready, you will drive about 1½ hours to the Hot Springs Hotel, for a last night of relaxation. Here you can soak in the pool, watched over by Chinese goddesses.
Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast, you drive from Longyi to Guilin, arriving in time for your flight to Beijing on CN 7216 (1240/1520).
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- If 120 Days or more prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is $1,000 per person plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
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