4-Day Essence of Yangshuo with Li River Cruise
Overview
Guilin's Li River is famous for its crystal clear water. Cruise along Li River to see the classic natural scenery like Paint Brush Peak and Yellow Cloths Beach. Biking in Yangshuo countryside will be a highlight of your tour.
Highlights
- Li River Cruise
- Yangshuo Countryside Cycling
Tour Details
Upon arrival in Guilin, our guide will take you to the hotel. Free time to explore the city.
- Meals: No Meals
- Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin
| Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel 
| Guilin Park Hotel 
Li River
Today is the Li River from Guilin to Yangshuo. The landscape in Guilin is characterized by its green hills, clear waters, pretty rocks and grotesque caves. The cruise provides surprises at each bend of the river. Water buffalo patrol the fields, peasants reap the rice paddies, school kids and fisherman float by on bamboo rafts. Lunch is provided on the cruise. After berthing at Yangshuo, there is free time to visit West Street which has 1,400 year history. Stay at Yangshuo for next day's adventure tour.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
- Hotels: Yangshuo Ancient Garden Boutique Hotel | Yangshuo Mountain Retreat | Yangshuo Village Inn
Guilin
After have breakfast at hotel the guide will organize a suitable bike for the days cycling. Biking alongside the paddy fields and orchards which surround the mountains will let your see the authentic life in rural china. Visit a local family en-route. Finish cycling trip in Yangshuo and go to the Chinese Cookery Class. Firstly visitors need to choose three dishes for learn and then go to local market to buy the ingredients. Taste the dishes cook by yourself. Take the recipes with you. After today's activates, we will head back to Guilin.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants with authentic Yangshuo food
- Hotels: Yangshuo Ancient Garden Boutique Hotel | Yangshuo Mountain Retreat | Yangshuo Village Inn
After breakfast, our guide and drive will transfer visitor to airport for you next destination.
- Meals: Breakfast
What's Included & Excluded
What's Included
- Entrance Fees to the Scenic Spots as Listed in the Itinerary
- Centrally Located Hotels with Daily Western & Chinese Buffet Breakfasts
- Meals in Local Restaurant as Mentioned in the Itinerary
- Private Cars and Drivers
- Private Guides
- Service Charge & Government Taxes
- Insurance
- Luggage Transfers
What's Not Included
- International Airfare or Train Tickets Toenter or Leave China
- Domestic transportation
- China Entry Visa Fees
- Excess Baggage Charges
- Personal Expenses
- Single Room Supplement
Good to Know
- This is a private tour. The local private English-speaking guide and the private car will serve your own group only.
- When on the tour, your tour guide and the driver can shorten or lengthen your time as your energy levels permitted.
- Once you make an inquiry, you will get the specific reply from one of our travel advisors within 24 hours without service fee.
- You can ask the travel advisor to tailor-make your own Guilin or even China trip based on this itinerary.
- We can also arrange tours in other Chinese cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an and add them to this itinerary.
- You will stop at a shop but absolutely no forced shopping.
Itinerary Plus
Xianggong Mountain
Located at the bend of Li River, famed as the best place to frame with the Karsts mountain scene, the 20 minutes’ walk up to the highest point by stone steps, a picture of mesmerizing landscape will be vivid appear in front of you. This off-the beaten trial is highly recommended by local professional photographer, if your physical permit, why not go up to capture the best moments.
A Local Yao Lady’s Family Visit
Oil tea, Chinese name it Youcha, is a feature food of Yao Minority in Guilin, and now popular among locals, it can remove the body moisture and good for prevent rheumatism in the humid mountain area, on the way up to the terrace field, our guide will take you to visit a local Yao lady’s family, she will show us how to make oil tea and treat us lunch there.
Yangshuo Chinese Cookery Class
This class begins at the local market where ingredients for the dishes are chosen by students. Back at a covered, rooftop patio-classroom, you have an opportunity to learn three dishes and enjoy the fruits of your labor. You can choose other favorite dishes at the lunch.
Explore Daxu Ancient Town with Local Scholar
Daxu ancient town, which has been a glory trade market in the past decade, it owns the biggest water transportation hub in Guilin. We invited a local scholar to show you around, give a brief lecture of the interesting story behind the town, visit the last and the only Chinese traditional pharmacy in town that still using traditional way for treatment! Also you get a chance to visit one of the local families and talk to the locals.
Helicopter Flight on Li River
You will catch a bird’s eye view of karsts formation scenery along Li River by taking a helicopter flight; you have 4 flight route options base on your interest, just ask your travel consultants.
Photography on Li River Sunset and Local Fisherman
This tour deserve to the photographer, for sunset on Li River with karsts mountain as background, a local fisherman seating on his bamboo boat with his cormorant birds, which are the fisherman’s pet and good at catching fish in the river. The fisherman will show naturally pose with different postures. Your guide will help you to get the best composition of photos as possible.
