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9 Days South Yunnan Coffee and Puerh Tea Tour
1This tour offers a unique exploration of the diverse cultural and ethnic attractions found in the cities of south Yunnan, including the opportunity to discover and interact with various minority groups such as the Yis, Hanis, Lahus, Was, and Dais.
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Yunnan is a microcosm of China in the areas of minority affairs and nationality relations. The province has 25 minority groups, nearly half of the country's total ( 56 ethnic groups ). With such ethnic diversity it is important to ask the question: what criteria are used to determine minority status and classification? Basically, there are five ways: Race, Language, Culture, Religion, History. This is an unconventional tour including winter experience at Yuanyang Rice Terrace and Summer experience(tropical forest) at Xishuangbannan. This tour focuses on attractions of the cities of south Yunnan. This could also be a minority discovery tour, because you may find minority features like Yis, Hanis, Lahus, Was and Dais.
You May Embrace “Must-see & Must-do” with The Tour
Highlight 1: The exciting and memorable experiences of hiking through the stunning Yuanyang Hini Rice Terraces and witnessing an Elephant Show at the Wild Elephant Valley.
Highlight 2: This tour showcases the breathtaking beauty of the Stone Forest, Jianshui Old Town, Jianshui Confucius Temple, Yuanyang Hani Rice Terraces, Puer Tea Garden, and Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden, offering a feast for the eyes and a deep dive into the rich cultural and natural heritage of Yunnan province.
Highlight 3: Explore and savor the diverse flavors and traditions of Yunnan's ethnic groups, including the Yi, Hani, Jino, and Dai, through a culinary and cultural journey that will ignite your senses and enrich your understanding of this region's rich heritage.
Highlight 4: Embark on a historical journey through the ancient streets of Jianshui Old Town, the well-preserved architecture of Tuanshan Village, and the exquisite beauty of the Zhang Family Garden, to uncover the rich history and cultural significance of these iconic landmarks.
Highlight 5: Engage in unique and immersive experiences such as Jianshui pottery making, Puer tea cake making, Dai ethnic paper making, and a ride on the narrow-gauge railway in Jianshui, to delve into the traditional crafts and activities that highlight the cultural richness of the region.
Highlight 6: Immerse yourself in the tradition and history of Puerh tea culture through hands-on experiences like Puerh tea picking and tea cake making, and explore the ancient trade route of the Tea Horse Road with a picturesque hike in Nannuo Mountain.
Breif Itinerary
Kunming: 1 Days
Stone Forest
Jianshui: 2 Days
Jianshui Old Town,the Chaoyang Gateway, the Garden of Family Zhu, Confucius Temple, Tuanshan Village, Shuanglong Bridge, the Garden of Family Zhang
Yuanyang: 2 Days
Laohuzui,Duoyishu Rice Terrace Fields, Bada Hani Rice Terrace, Shengcun Market, Qingkou Village and rice terraces, Laohuzui Rice Terraces, Honghe Bridge
Pu'er: 2 Days
China Puer Tea Exhibition Garden
Jinghong: 2 Days
Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden, Dai Ethnic Garden,Manting Park,Nannuo Mountain
Day by Day Itinerary
Kunming Arrival
Hello! Welcome to Kunming! Upon arrival at the Kunming International Airport, meet your local guide and transfer to the hotel. Kunming is the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in southwest China. Known as the "Spring City" due to its mild climate all year round, Kunming is famous for its beautiful scenery, colorful ethnic minority cultures, and vibrant urban atmosphere.
Free Time Ideas: Shop at the Bird and Flower Market: Browse the stalls at the Bird and Flower Market, a bustling market in Kunming where you can find a variety of flowers, plants, birds, and other goods. Enjoy the lively atmosphere, interact with vendors, and maybe pick up a souvenir to take home. Try Yunnan Cuisine: Sample the diverse and delicious flavors of Yunnan cuisine at local restaurants and food markets in Kunming. Don't miss out on dishes like Crossing the Bridge Noodles, Steam Pot Chicken, and Yunnan-style hot pot.
Kunming-Shilin-Jianshui
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, 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 from 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. Those 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.
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 take the Jianshui Touring Train to visit Tuanshan Village, Shuanglong Bridge 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 was claimed 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.
Get up very early in the morning, you’ll drive 30 KM to visit Duoyishu 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. There are all farms under the sunshine and cloud and mist. The landscape is spectacular.
And then, you will visit Bada Hani Rice Terrace, Shengcun Market where Hani people for generations inhabit. Visit Qingkou Village and rice terraces as well. You will enjoy the sunset of Laohuzui Rice Terraces in the late afternoon at Panzhihua Town.
Transfer back to Xinjie Town.
Yuanyang-Yuanjiang-Puer
Drive along the Red River Valley to Yuanjiang, visit the Great Bend of Red River on the way. Arrive in Yuanjiang, pay a visit to the Honghe Bridge, which is famous for being the highest bridge in the world.
Continue the driving to Puer, visit China Puer Tea Exhibition Garden in Puer City. Located at the Yingpan Mountains, 34km (21mi) from Cuiyun District of Puer City, and near Puer National Park, the China Puer Tea Exhibition Garden covers an area of 24,167mu (1,611ha). It is an ideal place for growing Puer Tea because of the pleasant climate and great environment. There you can enjoy tea-leaves picking, processing, and exquisite drinking art, as well as buying some to bring home.(We will arrange tea cake making experience in Nannuoshan Mountain in XishuangBanna.)
Visit the Plum Lake in Puer City in the late afternoon. Meizi Lake or Plum Lake is 3.5 km long; its water area is 600 Mu (Chinese acre) and its average depth is 15 meters. For sightseeing, boating facilities have been equipped. In particular, on the lake shore, there are pavilions and archaized architectures, and corridors to display the calligraphic works of the local literati.
Puer-Daxiang Coffee Farm -Jinghong
Yunnan is not only famous for ethnic diversity and tea, but also getting more and more famous for its small seed coffee. At present, the planting area of Yunnan coffee accounts for 70% of the total planting area in China and its production accounts for 83% of the total production of the whole country. Yunnan small seed coffee has established a dominant position in China. Let’s start a tour for looking for good quality of coffee and tea, and experience ethnic culture.
Today coffee, tea and cocoa are called the world’s three major beverages. According to Records of Puer Region and Records of Puer City, in 1956, Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County established a coffee farm in Manlaojie and introduced small coffee varieties for cultivation.
After breakfast, we will drive around 1 hour to Mengzhuzhai (勐主寨) and visit Daxiang Coffee Farm(大象咖啡庄园). Arrive at Daxiang Coffee Farm and start the coffee making class (around 5-6 hours). Yunnan coffee is the “golden belt” of the world’s finest coffee beans. Almost half of Yunnan’s total coffee production comes from Pu’er. After more than 20 years of painstaking development, Pu’er has been called the “coffee capital” of China. China may be the only country in the world that both consumes and grows coffee. And Pu’er coffee is a real Chinese taste.
After lunch, we will have chance to visit the wild elephants in Mengzhuzhai Village with the help of the boss of Daxiang Coffee Farm.
Optional Tour:
We will drive around half an hour to the Wild Elephant Valley, which is the first national park in China focusing on animal and environmental protection. The wild Elephant Valley is densely forested, frequently visited by Asian wild elephants, bison, green peacocks and black bears. It is a natural reserve where visitors can experience close contact with wild elephants in a comparatively safe way.
Drive 1.5 hour to Jinghong City in the late afternoon.
Jinghong-Menglun-Jinghong
In the morning drive from Puer to Menglun Town. Take a tour of the Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden. As the home to many rare flora and endangered fauna, Xishuangbanna is an excellent place to take in the unique beauty of sub-tropical nature and biodiversity in China. Take a visit to the Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden and observe beautiful flowers, shrubbery, and trees in the spacious garden. If you go early enough in the morning, you can see the sunrise cast a dreamy golden glow over the garden.
Drive to visit Dai Ethnic Garden, located in the Ganlan Basin in Menghan County, proudly holds a national 4A rating as one of China's top scenic spots. Within the Dai Ethnic Garden, five Dai villages - Manjiang, Manchunman, Manting, ManZha, and Manga - cover an area of 3.36 square kilometers and consist of 309 families, or 1487 individual villagers.
Transfer to Jinghong in the late afternoon and pay a visit Manting Park which is a modern park that measures about 30 acres in Jinghong, Xishuangbanna. It has a large new Buddhist temple called Zongfo Si. There is a display of ethnic architecture, and people entertain themselves by water fights during the Dai Water Splashing Festival each year. Entertainment is presented in the evening.
Jinghong-Nannuo Mountain-Jinghong
Nannuo Mountain is famous in China and abroad as the home of the “King of Tea Tree,” a human cultivated 800+ year old tree. Fine tea tree varieties and superior natural conditions produce outstanding Nannuo Mountain tea products. Puer Tea is mainly made of tea of Nannuo Mountain. Nannuo Tea Mountain become famous with the selling of Puer Tea at home and abroad.
Well-known for its long history of tea cultivation, Nannuo Mountain (南糯山) has gone through a series of transformations but remains a place for pilgrimage. Its trees, many aged between 200 and 500 years, produce some of the best pu'er tea in the province.
In the morning, we will be accompanied by our tour guide in Jinghong, we will head out to meet some local tea farmers at a nearby town. Shitou Village (石头村) is a traditional Aini (爱昵) settlement, which rests peacefully on the side of Nannuo mountain amid groves of bamboo and tea.
We will hike through these Ethnic Villages in Nannuo Mountain. Villages in Nannuo Mountain consist of Banpo Laozhai Village(半坡老寨), Duoyizhai Village(南糯山多依寨村), Guniang Village(姑娘寨), Yakou Xinzhai Village(丫口新寨), Laozhai Village(老寨), Shitouzhai Village(石头寨),Zhulincun Village(竹林村寨) ,Xiangyang Village(向阳寨) and Shuihe Village(水河寨).
The half-day tour includes:
a. Round-trip transportation from the hotel to Nannuo Mountain (up to 4 passengers)
b. A visit to the Hani Tourism and Cultural Village to experience the local culture
c. A hike up to the Banpo Laozhai tea-making village on Nannuo Mountain
d. Crossing through the centuries-old tea forest along the way and visiting the 800-year-old tea tree
e. A visit to the small market in Nannuo Shanzhai
Transfer back to Jinghong in the afternoon. After that, we will head to the Manting Park, which is a natural village park and the oldest one in Xishuangbanna. There are 8 areas in the park, including the national culture square, the vine plant area, the tropical orchid garden, the peacock garden, the Buddhist culture area and etc.
From here, you can walk less than 10 minutes to the General Buddhist Temple, which is the highest Buddhist temple in Xishuangbanna. It is also the center for the Buddhist worships there. The biggest characteristic of the temple is the use of a large number of relieve silver plates, which stands in sharp contrast to the gold painted architectural decoration and the vermilion walls. In addition, the performance of the "Lancang River • Mekong Night" and the campfire party are the biggest highlights of the park, which are well worth a visit.
Departure from Jinghong
As your9 days China tour comes to a close, your guide will accompany you to the airport or train station for your onward journey to your next destination. We at Yaso Trip extend our heartfelt gratitude for choosing us to be part of your memorable journey through China. It has been our pleasure to create meaningful experiences and unforgettable moments during your time in this diverse and fascinating country.
We are committed to ensuring your travel experiences are seamless and enriching, and we look forward to welcoming you back for future adventures in China or other captivating destinations in Asia.
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