5-Day Guilin Winter Hot Spring Tour

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Arrive in Guilin Lijing International Airport, meet your guide upon your arrival and then we will take you to your Guilin hotel.

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

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.

Today's Tips

• 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.
• 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.

• Breakfast, Lunch

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.

• Breakfast, Lunch

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.

Today's Tips

• Lunch will be provided on the boat in style of buffet
• The sightseeing deck is built as in the open air for a wide vision, and good position for photography.

• Breakfast, Lunch

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.