10 Days Guizhou Minority Tour

Tour Code:GZT-1006
Start in:Guiyang
End in: Guiyang
Destinations:Guiyang-Sandu-Rongjiang-Liping-Zhaoxing-Congjiang-Rongjiang-Xijiang-Kaili-Guiyang-Anshun

Main Attraction Pictures

Basha Miao Minority Village Basha Miao Minority Village Dong Minority Village Sanbao Dong minority Village Qingman Miao Village Guiyang Airport
Tour Highlights
Guizhou is a place highlighted by its numerous ethnic minority festivals. Guiyang, as the capital city of Guizhou Province, is an assembly point for the multi-ethnic people. The Buyi and the Miao have the largest population of all. During the festivals, local people put on their gala clothes, which are very beautiful and each have their own characteristics
Detailed Itinerary

Day 1 :Arrive in Guiyang
Today's Activities: Airport to Hotel Transfer (Guiyang)

Day 2 :Guiyang-Sandu
Today's Activities: Shiqiao Miao village, Qingman Miao Village
Shiqiao Miao village : A Miao village is well known for silk felt making whilst Shiqiao village has a history of paper making whose ancient traditional methods of production are still followed today.
Qingman Miao Village : Located 23 kilometers southwest away from Kaili city. One of the biggest characteristics here is that a guest who visits a household at will may have witnessed the entire process of traditional Miao clothes-making. The main traditional clothing material is the homemade cloth span, woven, and dyed all by the Miaos. The widespread local song 'Cotton Song' states the entire process of looking for the cotton seed, seed selection, land reclamation, sowing, harvesting cotton, getting rid of seed, bowing cotton, spinning, reeling thread, dyeing, and sewing. In each household you can see dye vats used for dying cotton material. This kind of dye vat is made of the cedar plank, approximately 2 and half feet high, one meter in diameter. The dye vat must be raised because it takes about one month to finish dying a bolt of cloth by indigo dying water and this process is called 'aising vat'.

Day 3 :Sandu-Rongjiang
Today's Activities: Sanbao Dong village, Rongjiang County, Zengchong Drum Tower, Duliu river
Sanbao Dong village : It is located among mountains and rivers,in the center of Banyan tree scenic area.Surrounded by more than 40 trees that are hundreds of years old.There are several hundred families in the village, most people surnamed Yang,and has a singing tradition. Almost all people in village can sing folk songs.
Rongjiang County : It is an old town with the history of over 2000 years. It is holly land where the Dong & Miao ethnic nationalities originated.
Zengchong Drum Tower : Standing in Zengchong Village, 82 Kilometres northwest of Congjiang, Zengchong Drum Tower is the largest and oldest drum tower in Guizhou and also a major cultural relic under state protection.
Duliu river : It originates from southern Dushan County, flows southeast across the Dong area in Rongjiang County and empties into the Liujiang River in Guangxi. With many tributaries, the Duliu has abundant flow of water.

Day 4 :Rongjiang-Liping-Zhaoxing
Today's Activities: Dali Dong village, Dong People's Village in Zhaoxing 
Dali Dong village : It is a typical minority village.There are all together one thousand villager settled there.The village locates near the river, as water is the soul of Dong Minority. Its characteristic architecture style and flagging all tell you the long history and show you a picture of natural beauty.
Dong People's Village in Zhaoxing : It is the largest and oldest Dong village in China and the world. There are five Drum Towers, Wind & Rain Bridges and traditional stages in the village.

Day 5 :Zhaoxing-Congjiang-Rongjiang
Today's Activities: Basha Miao Village, Tang'an Dong Village
Basha Miao Village : Only 5 kilometers away from Congjiang and with a highway running right across. Basha is a very special and old Miao Ethnic village. The villagers still practice their unique traditions dating to Qing Dynasty ( about 2200 years ago. Basha village is very little touched by violent modernization. Residents there still live in their wooden houses, practicing centuries-long custom and have their own unique belief.
Tang'an Dong Village : The country road stretches to the village, which is located on a mountainside and is surrounded by paddy field and lush greens. There are about 800 people and 160 households in the village. The village has a long history, though it hasn't got any written records of its history. There are village gate, drum tower, drama tower, ancient graveyard, ancient well, and water-powered roller for grinding grain, barns and the pit to worship the female ancestors of Dong people. There are also ancient stone paths and wood houses in the village. All of these make it a perfect place for people to return to nature.

Day 6 :Rongjiang-Xijiang
Today's Activities: Xijiang Miao Village
Xijiang Miao Village : Xijiang Miao Village, also called the 'homeland of Lusheng', is the largest Miao villages in Guizhou.
Geographic location: 36 km northeast of the county town of Leishan.

Day 7 :Xijiang-KaiLi
Today's Activities: Langde Miao village, Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum, Nanhua long-skirt Miao village
Langde Miao village : The villagers in Langde wear long skirts, hence they are 'Long Skirt Miao'. The Miao style houses 'Diaojiaolou' and its featured and creative festivals will cause you spell bound.Around 500 villagers in ten families, the Langde Miao Village is considered small. Members of the Miao Ethnic Minority, they adopt common habits and customes. Entering the village, visitors would find themselves literarily immersed in works of art. 
Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum : In the museum there has a quite detailed introduction to human culture, geography, and the national minorities'customs of the southeastern areas of Guizhou Province. Some writing, pictures, and material objects are displayed here. Minority Customs hall and Dragon Boat hall are the main exhibits which are worth watching.
Nanhua long-skirt Miao village : It is the counterpart of Langde, about twenty kilometers from Kaili. Either will bring visitors unexpected pleasant surprise.
The Miao style houses 'Diaojiaolou' and its featured and creative festivals are fascinating. The Miao Village is considered small. Members of the Miao Ethnic Minority, they adopt common habits and costumes. Entering the village, visitors would find themselves literarily immersed in works of art.

Day 8 :KaiLi-Guiyang-Anshun
Today's Activities: Jiaxiulou, Tunbao Cultural Village in Tianlong
Jiaxiulou : Built in 1598, and is one of the symbols of Guiyang. The tower is a timberwork building with attics,and twelve stone pillars at the bottom.It is surrounded by a marble balustrade. Jiaxiu Tower is linked with the Fuyu Bridge which connects both the south and north banks.
Tunbao Cultural Village in Tianlong : Tunbao People settle in the middle of Guizhou Province. According to the historical literature and narrated materials, the ancestors of Tunbao People are the soldiers who were stationed in Guizhou Province about 600 years ago in the Ming Dynasty. Even now, Tunbao People still live in forts and keep a simple and peculiar army style. Stone foundations, stone walls, flagstone roofs, watchtowers, wall crenels and even dogholes upstairs characterize their buildings. They (especially women) dress in the ancient Ming and Qing style, speak with the accent of their native regions on the south of Yangtze River and eat food of army flavor. Dixi, which they perform at festivals and celebrations, is the continuation of the ancient 'Martial Nuoxi' and renowned as 'the living fossil of the ancient shows'.

Day 9 :Anshun-Guiyang
Today's Activities: The Dragon Palace, Huangguoshu Waterfall
The Dragon Palace : 27 km from Anshun and 132 km from Guiyang,it made up of a great number of karst caves stretching fifteen kilometers long, running through some twenty hills and connecting over ninety caves. An underground river flows through the caves, leaving some dry and some wet. At the moment only 840 meters of the stone tunnel is open, having been divided into six 'halls'. The cave, 80-meter high and 50-meters at its widest point, contains some fantastic stalactites and is entered by boat from Tianci Lake. It is known as one of the spectacles of Asia.
Huangguoshu Waterfall : Located 43 km southwest of Anshun of Guizhou Province, the Huangguoshu Waterfalls are one of the largest waterfall groups in China. They have been found out that the falls in this area consist of 18 falls on the ground and 4 underground falls. Among them Huangguoshu Waterfalls, which is the largest one in the groups and in Asia as well, is 68 meters high and 8l meters wide with a flow of more than 700 cubic meters of water per second, huge amounts of water seem like pouring from the sky. Turbulent waters throw into a pool at the bottom of a valley, sending foams up by 100 meters. And roars can be heard kilometers away. When the sun rises rainbows appear, adding a touch of beauty to the majesty of the cataract.

Day 10 :Depart Guiyang, Flight not included
Today's Activities: Hotel to airport Transfer (Guiyang)

Private Tour Prices (Based on per person and shown in US dollars)

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Jul.2011-Oct.2011 1860 1720 1460 180 -
Nov.2010-Jun.2011 1700 1560 1380 180 -
Remark : We will give the visitors some discounts from 2% to 5% depending on the time they book this tour but it should be at least 1 month earlier. The booking will be confirmed once the deposit is received.

Service included

1.Transportation:local air conditioned vehicle according to the group size including the airport transport.
2.Accommodation: Twin rooms in four star hotels or the best available.
3.Meals:Hotel breakfasts and all the lucnes and dinners involved.
4.Entry Fee;All the entrance tickets to the places listed in the itinerary.
5.Tour guide;Private English speaking guide.

Service excluded

1.Any airfare.
2.Personal expenses such as shopping, entertainment.laundry etc.
3.Tips or gratitudes to the driver and tour guide.

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