Essence of Guilin & Yangshuo with Li River Cruise

Whenever and however you arrive in Guilin, your guide will be on time ready in arrivals of the airport, train station or bus station. Outside the arrivals, your local driver is already waiting for you with a private air-conditioned and non-smoking car. Sit back and relax while being transferred to your hotel.

The rest of today is on your own arrangement. The guide will go through the details with you for the following trip. Surely your knowledgeable guide will also offer you ideas of the dinner and the evening for free.

Great to know:

• 1. Best time to do this tour - Guilin is suitable for visit at all seasons, but the most comfortable season is from April to November, which is warm and less humid, Yao Mountain is close for freezing weather in winter.
• 2. You can change the hotel - We specially arrange hotels with high ranking on Tripadvisor and good reputations among our customers, good service and perfect locations. However you are always welcome to tell your needs for a particular hotel. Our professional travel advisor team always try their best to create you a satisfactory trip.

• Hotels: Guilin Park Hotel, (3-star, #13 of 577 Hotels in Guilin), Guilin Waterfall Hotel (4-star, #7 of 577 Hotels in Guilin)) Sheraton Hotel Guilin (5-star, #9 of 577 Hotels in Guilin)
• Meals: None
• Activities: Guilin Airport pick-up and transfer

Your guide will be waiting for you at appointed time in the hotel lobby. Then take you to embark the Li River Cruise at Zhujiang Pier.

Li River Cruise from Guilin Zhujiang Pier to Yangshuo (09:30-13:30)
Your guide will go with your on Li River Cruise. A Li River Cruise is a must-do for all first-timers as it is the best way to appreciate the charms of Li River. The unique Karsts landscape along the river is the essence of Guilin and you cannot see elsewhere, such as limestone peaks, local farmers tending rice paddies and water buffaloes cooling themselves off in the river. The view of fishermen on bamboo rafts with fishing cormorants maybe the most typical impression for travelers.

Cycle around Yanghshuo Countryside and Visit a Local Family (14:00-16:30)
The cruise will arrive at Yangshuo near West Street at around 13:30 or 14:30, which depends on the water level. Before hopping on a bike to explore the countryside area, your guide will help you choose a good bike to ensure your cycling safe and smooth.

No trip will be complete in Yangshuo without a cycling around Yangshuo countryside. It is the second highlight after Li River Cruise. The best view is along the road for lovely limestone peaks and rice fields. Your guide will then take you to a local family. The nice host will show you around the house and love to talk with you about life in the countryside. Be transferred back to the hotel in Guilin (16:30-18:00) When the cycling finishes, your guide will transfer you back to your hotel in Guilin in the same private car. It is about 1 1/2 hours driving time.

Good to Know:

• About the ships – we upgrade our customers to the brand new deluxe ship with comfortable seats and spacious space.
• Duration for Li River Cruise - 4 or 5 hours depending on the water level.
• Lunch on board - The cruise provides Chinese food lunchbox but it does not meet the standard of our service. So your guide will take an extra lunchbox(sandwich,desert,and fruit) for you from a local restaurant in Guilin.
• Cruise capacity - There are 90 seats. The ship has 3 stories and each one has their own seat in the first or second floor. The third one is an open deck for sightseeing and photography.
• Cruise Toilet - Usually have both squatting toilet and western closestool.

• Hotels: Guilin Park Hotel, (3-star, #13 of 577 Hotels in Guilin), Guilin Waterfall Hotel (4-star, #7 of 577 Hotels in Guilin)) Sheraton Hotel Guilin (5-star, #9 of 577 Hotels in Guilin)
• Meals: breakfast, lunch on the cruise
• Activities: Li River Cruise, Yangshuo Countryside Cycling

Explore Reed Flute Cave, one of the 15 worlds’ most amazing and mysterious caves. Stop over at Lujia Village for a short walk and see what a new Chinese village looks like. The village is famous for its tofu. Many Guilinese go to the village for local food and creative food.

Next head forward to Elephant Trunk Park, which is the landmark of Guilin City. Most Chinese pupils learn it from their text books when they are eight or nine.

After that you will have your lunch at McFound Restaurant, which is ranked#1 of all Chinese restaurants for Chinese food at Tripadvisor.

Last spot will visit Yao Mountain – the highest viewing point of Karst formation landscape in Guilin, you will take a round way chairlift up and panoramic the scenery around.

When the tour finishes, your guide will transfer you with the private car to the airport/train station for your next stop, ensuring everything go smooth and on time. The guide will also help you check in and escort you to the point of the security check.

Good to Know:

• 1. The Reed Flute Cave inside have up and down stone steps in the certain area, for this respect, it equip with stone seat for take a rest.
• 2. The chairlift up to Yao Mountain is quite exciting, but for safety reason, the kids under 3 years old and people with heart disease is suggest taking aerial tramway up.

• Hotels: No
• Activities: Reed Flute Cave, Elephant Trunk Park, Yao Mountain, Airport pick-up and transfer
• Meals: Breakfast, lunch at local restaurant