Day 01. BeijingCKunming-Baoshan(by air)
Take the flight from Beijing to Kunming and then Kunming to Baoshan. Upon arrival, we will be met by our English-speaking tour guide and transferred to our 3* hotel in Baoshan, the capital city of Nujiang Area. In the evening we will have a briefing of the tour ahead.

Day 02. Baoshan-Liuku (200km, about 3 hours)
Drive about 3 hours to Liuku. We will first check into our hotel, where we will have a little rest before leaving for the Kuoshi Festival celebrations. As the best celebration activities are held in the late afternoon, and there is a bonfire and dancing at night, we will be absent from the hotel the rest of the afternoon and the entire evening. There are many activities going on: listening to the Folk Song competition, marveling at the brave villagers who choose to climb up sharp knifes and walk across hot coals with bare feet,and joining the local people on their dizzying swings. We will even have time for the uninhibited to join the locals in the public bath(Zaotanghui).After dinner, there is a bonfire and dancing in the open air, a real carnival for the locals. Overnight in the best hotel in Liuku.( 3* or similar)

Day 03. Liuku-Baihualing Nature Resort 
Today we can sleep in. After breakfast we will drive 129km to Baihualing Nature Resort, which will take us about 2.5 hours. This afternoon is left free to enjoy some leisure time in the Nature Resort. We may take a brief walk to the small hot spring, then on the way back watch Sandieshui Waterfalls, and take pictures of strangely-shaped jungle trees. Dinner with local dishes. Overnight in the hostel at Baihualing Nature Resort(with private bathroom).

Day 04 Baihualing-Lin's House-Heshun(Picnic lunch and dinner) 
Today we will hike over Mt. Gaoligongshan. The trail we will walk on is part of the South Silk Road(the Tea-horse Old Trail from China to Myanmar). This morning we will start early (7:30am) from Jiujiezhi, which means 'old street'  in Chinese. We can imagine caravans of horses traveling trough this street with their valuable cargo hundreds of years ago. We will hike up through 6 different climate zones from Jiujiezhi(altitude 1900m) to Nanzhaigongfang (3250m), enjoying the plants, trees, foliage, vegetation, flowers, bushes, and animals found in the jungle. Then we will walk from Nanzhaigongfang down to Lin's house along the western slope of Gaoligongshan. The whole hiking should take about 9-10 hours. At the end of the hiking, we will drive to Heshun (about 2 hours away). Overnight in a comfortable guest house in the old town.

Day 05 Heshun
Today is left free for us to have a good rest after our hard hike over Mt. Gaoligongshan. 'Heshun' means peace and harmony. We could walk leisurely around the historical old town, built in earlier days by overseas Chinese as a location for their retirement. The remaining old town is a very beautiful place with many ornamental structures such as pavilions, memorial halls, archways, and balustrades, and also with lotus ponds and wetlands with many birds. The library in this town is worth mentioning-set up in 1924, it possesses over 60,000 volumes of books, many of which are rare editions of ancient works.

Day 06 Tengchong
Today we will take a day-trip to Tengchong, famous for its geothermal area and its cluster of sleeping volcanoes. We will return back to Heshun for the night. Stay in the same.

Day 07 Heshun-Ruili 
It takes about 5 hours to drive first from Heshun to Mangshi. Visit Dai Style Buddhist architecture, the Tree-Wrapped-Pagoda and Wuyun Temple. We then drive to Ruili, visiting the Mono-Tree Forest on the way. Explore the night market in Ruili. Stay in the 3 star hotel in Ruili.

Day 08 Ruili-Mangshi-Kunming 
We will visit Jiegao, China's border gate to Myanmar. We will visit the market which lies on the border between China and Burma. We will also visit Wangdin city where there is a strong sense of the merging of Burmese and Chinese life styles. Drive to Mangshi, take an evening flight back to Kunming. Stay in a 4 star hotel in Kunming.

Day 09 Kunming-Beijing
Transfer from the hotel to Kunming airport for the flight back to Beijing. The end of the tour.