5-Day Guilin and Huangyao Ancient Town Tour

Overview

The Guilin scenery is world renowned. We will visit the best places and cruise the famous Li River. At Huangyao Ancient Town, you will appreciate the history of this ancient town.

Highlights

  • Elephant Trunk Hill
  • Reed Flute Cave
  • Fubo Hill
  • Seven Star Park (including the panda house)
  • Li River Cruise
  • Huangyao Ancient Town
  • Yangshuo Countryside Cycling

Tour Details

Day 1Guilin Arrival

Be met at the arrival hall of the airport by our tour guide and transferred to your hotel in a comfortable private vehicle.

  • Meals: No Meals
  • Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin   |  Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel   |  Guilin Park Hotel 
Day 2Guilin
Reed Flute Cave

Reed Flute Cave

In the morning, our guider will take you from the hotel to the Reed Flute Cave, where stalactites and stalagmites are out of this world. There forms look like fruits, vegetables and animals such as monkeys and cabbages. Let you imagination go wild. Then we head back to the city to visit the Fubo hill to listen to the magical legend of the General Fubo. Lunch is at a local Restaurant. In the afternoon, go to visit the symbol of Guilin- Elephant Trunk Hill, which looks like an elephant drinking water from the Li River. Guilin Pearl Culture Shop is the last stop for today.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants with authentic Guilin food
  • Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin   |  Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel   |  Guilin Park Hotel 
Day 3Yangshuo
Li River Cruise

Li River Cruise

The cruise sets off at nine o'clock from Mopanshan pier. We will arrive in Yangshuo County between 1:00 and 1:30 pm. The scenery on the cruise includes the Yang Di scenery, Langshi Scenery, Nine Horses Painting Hill and the scene which appears on the 20RMB note. The viewing deck provides an excellent place to take photos. Lunch on board is a simple Chinese buffet. The cruise arrives at Yangshuo at 1:30 pm depending the water level at Yangshuo pier or Dragon Head Hill pier. Leave the boat, and stroll in West Street with your guide and take you to your hotel. Tips: The weather of Li River is changeable, please pack your umbrella.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
  • Hotels: Yangshuo Ancient Garden Boutique Hotel    |  Yangshuo Mountain Retreat   |  Yangshuo Village Inn 
Day 4Yangshuo
Huangyao Ancient Town

Huangyao Ancient Town

We are going to visit Huangyao Ancient Town. The town is about two hundred kilometers from Guilin. It has a history of nearly one thousand years and the architecture is traditional Linnan style and the street have grey-blue slates. Stroll in the street and we go back in history. Have lunch is in the town and return to Yangshuo.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Local Restaurant
  • Hotels: Yangshuo Ancient Garden Boutique Hotel    |  Yangshuo Mountain Retreat   |  Yangshuo Village Inn 
Day 5Guilin Departure

Today we bike through the rice fields in Yangshuo countryside where you see a glimpse of rural like in China. If you are interested in farming, then stop to chat with farmers. We will have lunch at a local restaurant.We will take you to the airport and board onward your flight after lunch.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants with authentic Guilin food

What's Included & Excluded

What's Included

  • Entrance Fees to the Scenic Spots as Listed in the Itinerary
  • Centrally Located Hotels with Daily Western & Chinese Buffet Breakfasts
  • Meals in Local Restaurant as Mentioned in the Itinerary
  • Private Cars and Drivers
  • Private Guides
  • Service Charge & Government Taxes
  • Insurance
  • Luggage Transfers

What's Not Included

  • International Airfare or Train Tickets Toenter or Leave China
  • Domestic transportation
  • China Entry Visa Fees
  • Excess Baggage Charges
  • Personal Expenses
  • Single Room Supplement

Good to Know

  • This is a private tour. The local private English-speaking guide and the private car will serve your own group only.
  • When on the tour, your tour guide and the driver can shorten or lengthen your time as your energy levels permitted.
  • Once you make an inquiry, you will get the specific reply from one of our travel advisors within 24 hours without service fee.
  • You can ask the travel advisor to tailor-make your own Guilin or even China trip based on this itinerary.
  • We can also arrange tours in other Chinese cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an and add them to this itinerary.
  • You will stop at a shop but absolutely no forced shopping.

Itinerary Plus

Xianggong Mountain

Xianggong Mountain

Located at the bend of Li River, famed as the best place to frame with the Karsts mountain scene, the 20 minutes’ walk up to the highest point by stone steps, a picture of mesmerizing landscape will be vivid appear in front of you. This off-the beaten trial is highly recommended by local professional photographer, if your physical permit, why not go up to capture the best moments.

Yao Lady’s Family

A Local Yao Lady’s Family Visit

Oil tea, Chinese name it Youcha, is a feature food of Yao Minority in Guilin, and now popular among locals, it can remove the body moisture and good for prevent rheumatism in the humid mountain area, on the way up to the terrace field, our guide will take you to visit a local Yao lady’s family, she will show us how to make oil tea and treat us lunch there.

Yangshuo Chinese Cookery Class

Yangshuo Chinese Cookery Class

This class begins at the local market where ingredients for the dishes are chosen by students. Back at a covered, rooftop patio-classroom, you have an opportunity to learn three dishes and enjoy the fruits of your labor. You can choose other favorite dishes at the lunch.

Daxu Ancient Town

Explore Daxu Ancient Town with Local Scholar

Daxu ancient town, which has been a glory trade market in the past decade, it owns the biggest water transportation hub in Guilin. We invited a local scholar to show you around, give a brief lecture of the interesting story behind the town, visit the last and the only Chinese traditional pharmacy in town that still using traditional way for treatment! Also you get a chance to visit one of the local families and talk to the locals.

Helicopter Flight on Li River

Helicopter Flight on Li River

You will catch a bird’s eye view of karsts formation scenery along Li River by taking a helicopter flight; you have 4 flight route options base on your interest, just ask your travel consultants.

Yangshuo Biking

Photography on Li River Sunset and Local Fisherman

This tour deserve to the photographer, for sunset on Li River with karsts mountain as background, a local fisherman seating on his bamboo boat with his cormorant birds, which are the fisherman’s pet and good at catching fish in the river. The fisherman will show naturally pose with different postures. Your guide will help you to get the best composition of photos as possible.

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