12 Days Beijing Guilin & Guizhou Tour

Day 1Arrive in Beijing

Welcome to Beijing! Our private English-speaking tour guide & driver will pick you up in time at Beijing airport and transfer you to your hotel in downtown Beijing. A paper board with the sign of YangtzeTour.com and your name will be held high by the guide at exit of the airport. The rest of day is free at your own leisure.

Day 2Beijing ( B, L )

After breakfast, our tour guide will pick you up at your hotel and drive to visit Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City in the morning. Tiananmen Square is the largest city square in the world and of great historical significance, where you could see the symbol of China – the ancient majestic Tiananmen Tower. Nearby the Square is the Forbidden City, which is the largest and best-preserved ancient imperial palaces group with 500 years history in the world.

After lunch at a Chinese-style restaurant, you will be transferred to visit Temple of Heaven, which is the largest ancient imperial worship architecture group in the world where the ancient Emperors held the grand sacrificial and prayed for peace and harvest. After today’s sightseeing, transferred back to your hotel.

After dinner, you are arranged to see the Kung Fu Show at Red Theatre or Liyuan Theatre. The show is great and breathtaking.

Day 3Beijing ( B, L, D )

After breakfast at your hotel, our tour guide will pick you up at your hotel and drive to visit Ming Tombs and its Sacred Way. Ming Tomes is the imperial mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty, where 13 emperors and their wives were buried. As the major road to the Ming Tomb, the Sacred Way was believed to be the route leading to heaven in ancient times.

After a Chinese lunch, head to Mutianyu Great Wall; less crowed with the most spectacular views. The wall is the most beautiful section of the all five sections of the Great Wall in Beijing. The day’s sightseeing will come to an end after taking pictures at the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube.

In the evening, you are arranged to have a Peking Roast Duck dinner in a Beijing featured Restaurant. Then transferred back to your hotel.

Day 4Beijing – Guiyang ( B )

After breakfast, you will be transferred to visit Summer Palace, which is the largest and most beautiful Chinese imperial garden. It is regarded as a museum of gardens in China. In the Summer Palace, there are many pavilions, vividly painted corridors, temples, among lakes and surrounded by hills.

In the afternoon, our tour guide will escort you to the airport and take flight to Guiyang. In Guiyang airport, our English-speaking tour guide & driver will meat you and transfer to the hotel in downtown Guiyang.

Day 5Guiyang ( B, L )

After breakfast at hotel, you will be picked up and transferred to visit Huangguoshu Waterfalls, which are one of the largest waterfall groups in China and consist of 18 falls on the ground and 4 underground falls.

Then you will head to visit Tianlong Tunpu Ancient Town, where you will enjoy the local Ground Opera of Lao Han ethnic group. Afterwards, you will be transferred back to the hotel in Guiyang.

Day 6Guiyang – Kaili ( B, L )

After breakfast, you will be driven from Guiyang to Kaili. In Kaili, you will visit Kaili Folk Museum, which gives you an excellent introduction to the clothing of Guizhou’s ethnic minority groups.

Then you head to the Shiqiao Miao Village to see its traditional way of making paper from the bark of mulberry tree and to the Qingman Miao Village for drinking the block-way wine. Afterwards, you will be transferred to your hotel in Kaili.

Day 7Kaili – Rongjiang ( B, L )

After breakfast, you will be driven from Kaili to Rongjiang. Along the way, you will visit the beautiful Chejiang Village, which is the home of Dong ethnic minority group and a grove of ancient Banyan tree. The members of the Dong minority group can be recognized by their turbans for men and pleated skirts for women. They are also known for their architecture, particularly their drum towers, and Feng Yu qiao (or wind and rain bridges), which are ingeniously built using no metal fasteners of any kind. Afterwards, you will be transferred to your hotel in Rongjiang.

Day 8Rongjiang – Zhaoxing ( B, L )

After breakfast, you will be driven from Rongjiang to Zhaoxing. Today you will visit the Baisha Miao Village, where the villagers still practice their unique traditions and are very little touched by violent modernization. Then you head to visit Zhaoxing Dong Village, which is one of the largest Dong villages in Guizhou Province. Afterwards, transferred to your hotel in Zhaoxing.

Day 9Zhaoxing – Sangjiang ( B, L )

After breakfast, you will be driven from Zhaoxing to Sangjiang, located in Guangxi province. Today, you will visit Tangan Dong Village, which was built on a steep mountain slope overlooking terraced paddy fields. The village contains ancient wooden buildings, a traditional drum tower, theater stage, and gravel yard adjacent to some residential houses, and a well provided water supply.

Then you will head to Chengyang Village to the largest Feng Yu qiao (or wind and rain bridges) in Dong villages. Afterwards, Afterwards, transferred to your hotel in Sanjiang.

Day 10Sangjing – Longshen – Guilin ( B, L )

After breakfast, you will be driven from Sangjiang to Longsheng. Today, you will visit the grand Longji Rice Terrace. You also can experience the local lifestyle of Yao and Miao ethnic minorities who live there. Afterwards, you will be transferred to the hotel in downtown Guilin.

Day 11Guilin – Yangshuo – Guilin ( B, L )

After breakfast at your hotel, you will be transferred about 1 hour to get to Zhujiang Pier for a 4-hour cruise on Li River. When cruising downstream along Li River, you will enjoy the beautiful mountains, verdant fields, farms and villages with water buffalos, cows wondering around on both sides of the river bank, and you will feel like travelling in a traditional Chinese painting.

Disembark at Yangshuo County, which is famous for its spectacular views of hills and rivers with the famous West Street. In the evening, you will have a nice option to see the fabulous Impression Liu Sanjie Show.

Day 12Depart from Guilin ( B )

After breakfast at the hotel, our local tour guide & driver will pick you up and drive to visit Reed Flute Cave, which is a fantastic wonderland of Karst caves with landscape and rural scenery. Then head to visit Elephant Trunk Hill, which is the symbol of Guilin city and the whole hill looks like a giant elephant sucking water from the Li River with its long trunk.

In the afternoon, your private guide and driver will escort you to the airport in Guilin for departure on your own. Your pleasant trip ends.