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13 Days Yunnan (China)-Laos High Speed Train Tour from Kunming to Vientiane
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China – Laos Railway commenced construction on December 2nd, 2015 and is scheduled for completion by 2020. It will connect Kunming, the capital city of southwestern China’s Yunan Province, with Laos’ capital city, Vientiane. The China – Laos railway project is actually a section of the Kunming-Singapore Railway Project, which connects Kunming with Singapore, passing through Laos, Thailand, and Malaysia.
Highlights
- Appreciate the fabulous natural sceneries, including the Samaba Rice Terraces;
- Explore the ethnic culture of Hani, Jino, Dai and Aka people ;
- Meet both Chinese and Laos culture;
- Experience the tropical forest with elephant in XishuangBanna;
- Discover the Ancient culture in Luang Prabang;
- Enjoy the water and river in Nam Song River of Vang Vieng;
- Experience Hani ethnic people(Aka people in Laos) from Yunnan to Laos;
- Mekong River Le Grand Cruise experience from Houay Xai to Luang Prabang;
Brief Itinerary
- Day 1: Kunming Arrival
- Day 2: Kunming – Shilin-Jianshui
- Day 3: Jianshui-Yuanyang
- Day 4: Yunayang
- Day 5: Yuanyang-Yuanjiang-Jinghong
- Day 6: Jinghong
- Day 7: Jinghong-Mengla-Mohan-Luang Prabang
- Day 8: Luang Prabang
- Day 9: Luang Prabang
- Day 10: Luang Prabang-Vang Vieng
- Day 11: Vang Vieng
- Day 12: Vang Vieng-Vientiane
- Day 13: Departure from Vientiane
Day by Day Itinerary
Kunming Arrival
Upon your arrival in Kunming, meet your local tour guide and driver, transfer to the hotel for rest.
Welcome to Kunming, the Spring City of China! Upon arrival at the Kunming airport/train station, the local tour guide and driver will meet you in the arrival hall and escort you to your hotel and help you check in. The rest of the day is on your own to explore the comfortable cityscape and leisure atmosphere there! Have a good rest!
After a short break, drive to explore Kunming Flowers & Birds Market. Walk along the narrow paths lined with various shops selling birds, fishes, flowers, antiques, fishing gear, etc. and watch local people finding their best things to buy with sounds of bargaining, chirping, etc.
Next, go to enjoy a cultural visit to Yuantong Temple that is one of the top oldest Buddhist temples in Kunming with more than 1,200 years’ history. Take your stroll there to feel the rich Buddhist atmosphere of three Buddhist sects filling the antique halls and houses specially designed into a traditional Chinese garden layout for a quite different appreciation of temple in China.
Then, walk to Kunming Green Lake nearby. This pretty park with a lovely lake, old-styled pavilions, corridors, flowers, etc. is the most popular place for an authentic feeling of local Kunming people’s leisure life with citizens singing, dancing, talking, exercising, etc. During November to the next March, Black-headed Gulls from Siberian will never be late to fly there for their expecting comfortable warm winter holiday. Do not miss playing with those adorable and vigorous elfin during your relaxing roam!
After today’s visiting, be escorted back to your hotel. Enjoy a good sleep!
Kunming-Shilin-Jianshui
In the morning, you will drive 86 km to the Stone Forest. There is a local saying: ‘It is a waste of time not to visit the Stone Forest while visiting Kunming’, which vividly expresses the deep love of the local people toward this world wonder. The quintessential karst landscape makes every tourist lost in wonder. And then, you’ll drive around 4 hours to Jiangshui.
After arriving at Jianshui, you’ll visit the Jianshui Old Town and the Chaoyang Gateway, which was built in Ming Dynasty (1389). It is also known as ‘Miniature Tian’an men’ because the out shape of it is similar to Tian’anmen Square in Beijing. Visit a typical southern private garden-the Garden of Family Zhu.
–Jianshui is a small town in Honghe prefecture, in the southern part of Yunnan. It is on the road Kunimg to the famous Yuanyang rice terraces, most of the travellers stay one night here to enjoy the atmophere of an ancient Chinese town. There are numerous buildings of historic value and places of interest in this area, including over 100 temples ,academies of classical learning and large residences .There are still kept in good condition, including the Chaoyang Gateway Arch, the Jianshui Confucius Temple, the Zhilin Temple, Shuanglong Bridge, the Private Garden of the Zhu Family and the Ancient Nalou office Building.
Jianshui-Yuanyang
In the morning, visit the Confucius Temple, which has a history of 700 years. It is the second largest Confucius Temple in China. Then you’ll visit Tuanshan Village and the Garden of Family Zhang; Tuanshan Village is a rare surviving example of an intact-albeit neglected-traditional walled Yunnan village compound in southwestern China, and has been added to the 2005 list of internationally significant sites by the World Memorial Fund for Architecture (WMF), an international fund for the protection of world heritage sites.
In the afternoon, you will transfer to Yuanyang and enjoy the sight of terraced fields of Laohuzui(Tiger Mouth) at sunset. Overnight at Mengnong Chieftain Palace.
–Yuanyang is about 300km south of Kunming, renowned for its rice terraces, which claim as the world’s largest and most spectacular one, crafted out by bare hands by the Hani people one thousand years ago and is still in use today. The rice farmers have had to practice ecology and land preservation centuries before those concepts were widely accepted around the world. Without hard work maintaining the terrace walls and irrigation system, the precious top soil would wash down the hillsides into the rivers.
Yuanyang Rice Terrace is a self sustaining ecosystem. During winter to early spring, the entire field is irrigated with spring water from the forest above to rejuvenate and getting prepared for the next season. The Hani people have repeated this for more than a thousand years. There is only one harvest in a year for the Yuanyang Rice Terrace; planting is from March to Oct./Nov. every year.
Yuanyang
Get up early in the morning, you’ll drive 30KM to visit Doyishu Village and enjoy the sunrise of Duoyishu Rice Terrace Fields when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. The terraced fields are ring upon ring and cascade one by one. They go along the hillside up to the sky. You will see the scenery of the terraced fields from the top of the mountains to the bottom. They are all farms under the sunshine and cloud and mist. The landscape is spectacular.
And then, you will visit Qingkou Village and rice terraces where Hani people for generations inhabit. Visit Bada Hani Rice Terrace, Shengcun Market as well. You will enjoy the sunset of Longshuba Rice Terraces in the late afternoon about 5KM away from Xinjie Town.
Yuanyang-Yuanjiang-Puer-Jinghong
In the morning, we will transfer to visit Datan Village (打炭村) and Zhega Village (者嘎村), Dulang Village(都郎村) and Xiaoyan Village(小燕村) of Dai ethnic people;
Take the high speed train to Jinghong City of XishuangBanna after lunch.
If you want to travel Thailand and China in one go, then look no further than Xishuangbanna! Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, as it is known officially, is located in southern Yunnan Province of China, on the borders of Laos and Myanmar. Compared with the distance to Beijing, the capital of China, Xishuangbanna is about a third of closer to Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. Therefore, unlike typical China you may imagine, you will get a strong taste of Thailand besides the charm of China in Xishuangbanna. Golden Southeast Asia style temples, banana trees, elephant groups and Thai-flavored snacks are somehow the strong proofs. Besides, known as the “Kingdom of Animals and Plants”, Xishuangbanna is, of course, a beautiful, mysterious and earthly paradise worthy of any nature lover’s bucket list.
Arrive in Jinghong at noon. You will pay a visit Manting Park and Dafosi Temple in the city downtown.
Explore Gaozhuang Night Market at night.
Stay in Jinghong
Jinghong
After breakfast, transfer to visit Galanba(Olive Dam) with an elevation of 530 meters above the sea level, a small town where you will see typical Dai bamboo cabins, Dai ethnic villages, Mangting Park, tropical plants and colorful fruits. Visit the Ganlanba Morning Bazaar, here you will see some ethnic people decorated colorful costume in the market.
After lunch, step cross a suspension bridge to visit Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden, which has the riches plant diversity in China.
Jinghong-Mengla-Mohan-Toten-Lunag Prabang
After breakfast, transfer to Jinghong Railway Station, take the high speed trian (C389 07:45-09:00) to Mohan border, cross the border to Bo Ten, continue the train to Nateuy.
After clearing with immigration check point Bo Ten you will continue the high speed train to Luang Prabang .
Overnight in Luang Prabang
Full Day Elephant village & Tad Sae Waterfall
Enjoy a full day excursion to the Elephant Village where you will have fun with different activities with the Elephant and learn how to take care of the elephant by joining in an elephant mahout course.In the afternoon, you will have a boat trip to the Tad Sae Waterfall where you will have fun in the clear water and relax.The activities will finish at around 3:00pm to 4:00pm, then you will be transferred back to Luang Prabang, rest of the day will be at your leisure.
Full Day Kuang Si Waterfalls & Luang Prabang City Tour
Luang Prabang, the city surrounded by Mekong River and well known for its golden city is well known for its beautiful decorated Buddhist temples, it is a place that you will keep appearing in your mind for long time after your Indochina tour.
Your memorable trip will starts from partaking in an alms ritual in the morning, you will accepts the blessing by monks who you give the alms. Have breakfast in the hotel and then start the half day excursion to Kuang Si Waterfalls, where you will enjoy beautiful natural scenery, have fun in waterfalls and relax.
Drive back to the town for lunch. In the afternoon, visit the Wat Xiengthong which is symbolic temple of the classic Laotian architecture, visit the Royal Palace Musem to learn some history of Laos. Then visit the Wat Aham Temple which means “Monastery of the Opened Heart” and the Stupa of Wat Visoun.
Rest of the day at your leisure to relax and explore the city, you can enjoy some drinks in one of the cafés or strolling along the beautiful riverside.
Half Day Pak Ou Cave—the Thousands Buddha Cave-Speed Train to Vang Vieng
Today you will embark on a private boat for a 2 hours boat trip along the Mekong River to the Pak Ou Cave. Along the boat trip, you will enjoy the beautiful scenery along the Mekong River and see daily life of local people in riverside fishing village.
Visit the Pak Ou Cave which locates by the Mekong River and you will discover numbers of gold-lacquered Buddha statues in the cave. After visiting, take the boat back to Luang Prabang and rest of the day at your leisure.
Take Speed Train to Vang Vieng in the afternoon.
Vang Vieng overflows many interesting activities like caving and tubing down the river. Upon arrival, check in your hotel.After a short rest, we transfer by boat down the poetic Nam Song River offering the amazing scenery of karst rock. This is also a popular tourist destination with landscape of authentic Lao countryside. Following the exploration on the river, we will transfer back to your hotel by private vehicle.
Vang Vieng
At around 08:30 or 09.00am, we leave this wonderful town after breakfast for our journey northbound to Vang Vieng on route No. 13. We will see some breathtaking scenery enroute as we pass through spectacular countryside towards the mountainous region.
Vang Vieng is a riverside town in Central Laos. The town hosts been known as a get-together destination for quite a long time, and whilst regardless these remaining parts more open air situated exercises are currently accessible, for example, mountain biking, trekking, kayaking, giving in, swimming and shake climbing.
Upon arrival at Vang Vieng, we cross the Nam Song River to Tham Jang caves and today ends with a superb panorama of the sunset reflecting over the Nam Song River with long tail boat ride.
Enjoy your lunch at local restaurant;
Then transfer to your hotel for check-in. Remainder of the day is at leisure.
Dinner is on your own.
Optional Tour in Vang Vieng:
In the early morning, we drive to where Balloon to fly over the Vang Vieng City
After breakfast at your hotel, we start our board on a local tractor through paddy field areas heading to Tham Phoukham caves, where your breath will be taken away seeing the most beautiful and famous limestone cavern, surrounded by natural forests. Along the way, you have chance to explore the local cultures by greeting the local villagers and learning about their daily lifestyle. There is a small natural pool in front of the caves where you can take a swim to refresh yourself from the hot climate or you could explore the nearby area.
You will have a picnic lunch enjoying the scenery. After spending the day at the caves and its surrounding areas, we make our return to the Vang Vieng town, using local transportation or tractor. En route, we visit the ethnic minority villages of Hmong, Souay and Taidam villages meeting the warm and friendly hill tribe people and observing their traditional tribal costumes. Then we drive to Nam Song River bank there will be Tubing or Kayaking await at start to scroll down Nam Song River to your hotel
Overnight in Vang Vieng
Vang Vieng – Vientiane
After breakfast at your hotel, we drive out of town to the fabulous capital, Vientiane by express way. Vientiane is the charming and fascinating capital of Laos. This small town conjures up exotic images, with the curious mix of Lao, Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, French influences.
This afternoon we explore the town; with Wat Sisaket which is the oldest temple still standing in Vientiane. This amazing structure features remarkable frescoes and Buddha images. We continue sightseeing by visiting Haw Prakeo, the former royal temple of Laos monarchy, which previously housed the famous Emerald Buddha Statue. We then visit the imposing Patuxay Monument, which is well known as Vientiane’s own Arc de Triumph before continuing to the famous That Luang Stupa.
After Lunch, we drive approximately 35km to visit one of Laos’ slightly stranger attractions – Xieng Khuan Buddha Park or Buddha Park. It was Built in 1958 on the banks of the Mekong River This is the site of a large collection of many kinds of Buddhist and Hindu Sculptures then our guide and driver will take you a walk out to the night market to do shopping and enjoying testing street food, back to hotel for the night.
Overnight in Vientiane
Departure from Vientiane
After breakfast is free at leisure until time for transfer to the airport for departure flight to home/ next destination (air tickets is on your own).
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