4-Day Classic Guilin & Yangshuo Tour

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Arrive in Guiin Liangjiang International Airport or a train station, where your guide will meet you and transfer to your hotel in Guilin. Your guide will assist you to check-in the hotel and free the rest of the day is free for you to relax or explore around the hotel.

Know before Arrival

• Best time to do this tour - all year round, Guilin is located in the subtropical zone, will expect no snowy weather during the winter.
• You can change the hotel - We specially arrange hotels with high ranking on Trip advisor and good reputations among our customers, good service and perfect locations. However you are always welcome to tell your needs for a particular hotel. Our professional travel advisors always try their best to create you a satisfactory trip.
• The Safety of out for walk at night – Guilin is safety city for travel, but should take care of the personal belongs and aware pickpocket when go out.

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

First is the Reed Flute Cave (1 hour) with its spectacular display of stalagmites and stalactites, renowned as “must-see” cave in Guilin.

Later move on to Elephant Trunk Hill (50 minutes) which is the symbol of Guilin, representative culture and landscape of this area. The guide will show you locals store their rice wine in caves at bottom, that’s really interesting.

Lunch is at the very popular local restaurant.

Afternoon head for a culture site and well-preserved old town in Guilin - Daxu (1 1/2 hours), the flourishing market in the past, a special arrangement to visit a local family Mr. Zhou and a traditional Chinese pharmacy will telling the story behind the old houses and reveal real life of the locals.

Today's Tips

• There are up and down stone steps inside Reed Flute Cave, should aware of this situation for whom have walking problem.
• The Daxu town is 1 hour driving from Guilin, but surly worth to see because of the exquisite old houses and authentic rural life.

• Breakfast, Lunch

The Li River cruise is the highlight today. It is the reason most people come to Guilin. Commencing form Guilin Zhujiang Wharf, it travels downstream to Yangshuo which normally takes 4hours. There is breathtaking scenery at each bends of the limpid river, the Water buffalo and miles of rice paddies fields make the river cruise a unique experience. A lunchbox of Chinese food will provided.

Hop-off in Yangshuo Dock near West Street, and then check-in your hotel.

Fun activities arranged for afternoon tour (3:00pm - 5:00pm) – Chinese Cooking Class, Chinese Kongfu/Taichi Class, Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Class for alterative. You can choose one of these base on your interest.

Today's Tips

• About the ships – we upgrade our customers to the brand new deluxe ship with comfortable seats and spacious space.
• Duration for Li River Cruise – 4 or 5 hours depending on the water level.
• Lunch on board – The cruise provides Chinese food lunchbox but it does not meet the standard of our service. So your guide will take an extra lunchbox (sandwich, desert and fruit) for you from a local restaurant in Guilin.
• Cruise capacity – There are 90 seats. The ship has 3 stories and each one has their own seat in the first or second floor. The third one is an open deck for sightseeing and photography.
• Cruise Toilet – Usually have both squatting toilet and western closestool.
• Luggages — just bring the necessity stuff with you and the big suitcases will drop at your hotel by your driver.
• The cruise only operates downstream Guilin to Yangshuo; the upstream trip is not available.

• Breakfast, Lunch

Explore the Yangshuo by bike in the morning. Leaving from it takes 10 minutes late will get into the countryside. You will cycle through the hundreds of small peaks, beside the clear river and the paddy fields where the local farmers go about their work. We stop in a village and visit one of the local families to get a feel for Chinese rural life. The ride takes around 3 hours.

Lunch will be arranged in a local restaurant. Transfer to Guilin Liangjiang Airport after lunch, where your guide will help to check-in in the airport for your onward flight.

Today's Tips

• There is 10 minutes bike escape to countryside though the busting city, should aware of the terrible traffic.
• For safety consideration, kids under 6 years old are not suggested to take this trip.