5 Days Miao Minority Tour

Day 1

Arrive in Guiyang

Transfer: Flight on your own arrangement (it can be arranged by us if you request)

Upon your arrival you will be greeted by our local guide and then transferred to your hotel by a private air-conditioned car. For the rest of the day you will enjoy some leisure time.

Day 2

Guiyang/Anshun/Guiyang (B,L)

Sightseeing: Huangguoshu Waterfall & Tianxing Qiao Scenic Area, Cultural Village in Tianlong

In the morning you will drive to Anshun. Arriving there, you will visit Huangguoshu Waterfall. Huangguoshu Waterfall, a milky way in miniature, is the largest waterfall in Asia. Seventy-four meters (243 feet) high and eighty-one meters (266 feet) wide, it is a scenic marvel. Do not miss it if you are in Guizhou Province. Known as the Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area, it is 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Anshun city in Guizhou Province. Together with minor waterfalls, the charms of Huangguoshu Waterfall are a natural tourist drawing card. Hospitable ethic groups add the human touch.

Tianxing Qiao Scenic Area:Featuring the perfect combination of stones, trees and water, the Tianxing Bridge Scenic Zone is a natural miniascape evolving from the growing stone forests in water. Compared with the grandness of the Huangguoshu Waterfalls, it is more bijou and beautiful. A couplet generalizing its verve goes like that: “It is compared to a gigantic miniature garden created by wind knife and water sword; also an ancient painting painted by root pen and vine ink.”

Then continue visit the Cultural Village in Tianlong. It is one of these ancient Tunbao settlements built during the reign of Emperor Hongwu by the descendants of the soldiers of the expeditionary troops of the Ming Dynasty, where locals still wear the old-style clothes of that time and keep most of the cultural traditions of the Ming Dynasty. This shows the Han's early migration from Central China to this mountainous area. You can see a similar life style to that of Central China. Moreover, you could enjoy a Chinese traditional local opera called "Dixi" which is only found in Guizhou as your optional choice.

Drive back to Guiyang after the tours.

Day 3

Guiyang/Kaili (B,L)

Sightseeing: Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum, Shiqiao Miao village, Qingman Miao Village

In the morning, we will drive to Kali. First visit Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum. Kaili Museum is actually an Ethnic Minorities Museum, which displays some buildings, food and drink, costumes, festivals, production, recreation, etiquette, morals and beliefs etc. created by Miao People. It provides a broad, comprehensive introduction to the history of the various ethnic minorities that make up the multi-cultural patchwork that is the southeastern part of present-day Guizhou Province. The Kaili museum will have 12 exhibition halls when it is completed. Currently there are only 4 exhibition halls open to the public, of which the Minority Customs Hall and the Dragon Boat Hall are the most noteworthy.

Then move to Shiqiao Miao village. Visit Shiqiao village, where Miao people make special paper by tree bark. For thousands of year Shiqiao village offer the paper for miao people in this rigion. Till nowaday you can see almost every village make different type of paper for decoration house, lantern.

Finally, we will visit to Qingman Miao Village. Located about 14 miles to the southwest of Kaili, Qingman Miao Village is built along the mountain contours. Surrounded by green mountains and rivers, it is the sweet home to over 300 households and 1,600 Miao people. The unique wooden stilt houses put up range upon range are indeed a splendid scene to see! During your visit here, you’ll experience many traditional ceremonies and performance, which are absolutely attractive.

Day 4

Kaili/Xijiang/Kaili (B,L)

Sightseeing: Xijiang Miao Village, Jidao Miao Village, Embroidery Museum. Back to Kaili in the afternoon

Trip to Xijiang, the biggest Miao village in China, with more than a thousand traditional houses gathered on the steep slopes of a high mountain.

Visit Jidao Miao Village. It is a original and beautiful village with a small river pass by, set in idyllic surroundings and populated by ethnic Miao people. Village life is simple and children play as their parents tend fields of lush, organically grown vegetables surrounded by towering pine forests. Elderly women stoke fires in traditional wooden houses, some hundreds of years old. It is so poor, mountainous and remote that the tranquility here is not yet broken by a flood of rich Chinese tourists and foreign visitors.

Then you will have visit to Embroidery Museum. Demonstration of the ethnic costumes in Guizhou where you can learn their traditional way of making different embroideries.

Drive back to Kaili in the afternoon.

Day 5

Kaili/Guiyang/Departure (B)

Transfer: Flight on your own arrangement (It can be arranged by us if you request)

Today will be free for your own purposes, until our guide will escort you to the airport for your next destination.