5-Day Guilin Winter Hot Spring Tour
Overview
Guilin is suitable for travel for every season, even in winter, when everything falls in the northern part of China, Guilin still green and cool, hot spring SPA is the perfect activities for customer visit Guilin in winter, tour combine with the unique site as Li Rive Cruise and countryside visit, it will be the most relaxing and comfortable trip of your China tour.
Highlights
- Minority village and Longsheng Terraced Field
- Longsheng Hot Spring National Park
- Li River Cruise
- Elephant Trunk Hill
- Reed Flute Cave
Tour Details
Arrive in Guilin Lijing International Airport, meet your guide upon your arrival and then we will take you to your Guilin hotel.
- Meals: No Meals
- Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin
| Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel 
| Guilin Park Hotel 
| Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel 
| Guilin Park Hotel 
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Minority village and Longsheng Terraced Field
Your guide will pick you up from your hotel at appointment time. Today will escort to explore Minority village and Longsheng Terraced Field. The local minority is live away from the city; it will take us 2 1/2 hours drive to get there, there are two minorities live in this area, one is Red Yao ethnic group at the bottom of the mountain and Zhuang ethnic group settle down on the mountain, it is great to see their distinctive minority culture and their wooden architectures. The different minority customs and dressing styles are especially interesting. The raising rice paddies in the village are range from bottom all the way up to the mountain, hence the name of terrace field. Stay overnight in Ping'an Zhuang Village today. Tips: 1.Sedan chairs are available from the parking lot to the top of through Pingan’ Zhuang Village for customers who would like to see the great views but fail to climb all the way up to the top, it takes about CNY350 per person for the round trip. 2.For customers stay overnight in the village carry with big luggage, hire a porter in the parking lot to carry your luggage to your hotel at the half way up Ping’an village on the mountain. It takes about CNY40 Yuan for one suitcase.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants with authentic Guilin food
- Hotels: Longsheng Hot Spring Hotel | Longsheng Hot Spring Resort | Longsheng Hot Spring Resort
Longsheng hot spring resort
Today is a leisure day, check out in your hotel in the morning, we will arrange to Longsheng Hot Spring National Park for enjoying hot spring spa, it is about 1 1/2 hours away from Longji minority villages. Covering an area of 260 hectares (about 642 acres), the park boasts a dense forest with rare animals and plants, as well as its natural hot springs. The best known attractions in the park are the sixteen hot springs Varity with different size and functions. These springs spout over 1,200 meters from underground river at water temperatures ranging from 45C (113F) to 58C (136F). The waters contain various elements including zinc, manganese, lithium, strontium and iron that are beneficial to health. Bathing in the springs is not only good for your heath, but reputedly, can alleviate diseases such as rheumatism as well as certain skin problem. Unlike other hot springs, the water here is purifying that can be drunk directly from the source. It is a modern complex which offers a range of baths, massage services, saunas and swimming pools. No wonder that Longsheng is the most famous hot springs in southern China. Come back to Guilin after hot spring tour.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants with authentic Guilin food
- Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin | Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel | Guilin Park Hotel
Li River Cruise
Today we will arrange to admire Guilin's most spectacular scenery by Li River Cruise. Check out your Guilin hotel then be transferred to Guilin Mopanshan Wharf to board the boat in the morning; your guide will accompany with you on the boat and translated Li River scenery and the local culture, the boat sailing all the way down to Yangshuo and normally takes around 4 hours. The stunning natural landscape and the blue waters of the Li River compose like a Chinese landscape painting. Many visitors travel far and wide to see the renowned karsts, the steep, pointy hills that freckle the landscape, this makes it unique. Disembarking in Yangshuo after tour, your guide will show you around West Street to find the unique and fun items. The afternoon tour you will take a car to explore Yangshuo countryside. It is quite a pure land that people still live on farming, during the tour we will stop at a local farmer's family and visit their house, you can talk to them and to get acknowledge about Chinese rural life. Stay overnight in Yangshuo. Tips: 1.Lunch will be provided on the boat in style of buffet. 2.The sightseeing deck is built as in the open air for a wide vision, and good position for photography.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
- Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin | Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel | Guilin Park Hotel
Reed Flute Cave
Your guide will meet you in the hotel at appointment time after breakfast. First will take you to Reed Flute Cave, reputed as the largest and most spectacular cave in Guilin city, the soft light lighten on the stalagmite and stalactite for ever-changing scene. Later on we drive to the Elephant Trunk Hill, which is the most representative spots of this area, the Love Island and the rice wine store cave formed on the hill bottom is worth to see. Lunch will be arranged in a delightful Chinese restaurant. Transfer to the airport after lunch, you guide will help to check in your flights and your Guilin tour ends today.
- 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
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.
