3-Day Impressions of Guilin from Hong Kong Tour
Overview
Tired of the fast path of urban life? Are you looking to return to nature to revive your senses? Guilin could provide the answer! As a famous poem once said,"East or west, Guilin landscape is best!" Find out why on a Li river cruise! This special deal tour is included round way airfare between Hong Kong and Guilin.
Highlights
- Li River Cruise
- Reed Flute Cave
- Elephant Trunk Hill
- Fubo Hill
Tour Details
Depart from Hong Kong, Our tour guide will be waiting for you at Guilin airport and then take you to your hotel in a private car. On the way to the hotel. Our tour guide will check the itinerary with you and make a brief introduction of the city. The rest of the day is free for you to have a rest or explore the city. Flight from Hong Kong to Guilin is included in this tour.
- Meals: No Meals
- Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin
| Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel 
| Guilin Park Hotel 
| Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel 
| Guilin Park Hotel 
Li River Cruise
The Li river cruise today is a highlight of this tour. The total length of Li river is 437 km and from Guilin to Yangshuo is 83km. The Li river cruise will be an unforgettable experience, you can will see different kinds of scenery - Bat hill, Wangfu Rock, Yangdi Village, Yellow Cloth Shoal and fishing village. If you’re lucky you might see the famous fishing cormorants. The stunning views from the boat will last for 3-4 hours, so the lunch is included on the boat.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
- Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin | Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel | Guilin Park Hotel
Elephant Trunk Hill
Today you'll visit the main attractions in Guilin. Elephant trunk hill is the symbol of Guilin and located at the junction of Li river and Peach blossom river. The hill's name come from the shape of the hill which appears is just like an elephant sucking water from the river. Fubo hill has great cultural significance is the site of many ancient relics from the Tang dynasty. The natural palace of art - the reed flute cave is next. The stalagmites, stalactites and stone pillars in many shapes and sizes and illuminated in a fantastic display of lightning are fascinating. In the afternoon, our tour guide will accompany you to the airport, board your onward flight to Hong Kong and see you off!
Flight from Guilin to Hong Kong is included in this tour.Please note that the tour price may go up around public holidays, such as the Easter Day, China National Day, Spring Festival and the Christmas.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants with authentic Guilin food
- Hotels: No
What's Included & Excluded
What's Included
- Round Trip Flights between Hong Kong and Guilin
- Centrally Located Hotels with Daily Western& Chinese Buffet Breakfasts
- Meals in Local Restaurant as mentioned inthe Itinerary
- Private Cars and Drivers and Guides
- Service Charge & Government Taxes
- Insurance
What's Not Included
- 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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
