5-Day Memories of Guilin Travel and Yangshuo Cycling

Overview

The most fascinating landscape in Guilin City plus the picturesque countryside scenery and rural life in Yangshuo will create vivid memories of your Guilin tour.

Highlights

  • Reed Flute Cave
  • Folded Brocade Hill
  • Elephant Trunk Hill
  • Li River Cruise
  • Biking from Yangshuo to Aishan to Puyi to Yangshuo

Tour Details

Day 1Guilin Arrival

After arriving, our guide and driver will meet you at the airport and transfer you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free for you to rest and explore.

  • Meals: No Meals
  • Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin   |  Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel   |  Guilin Park Hotel 
Day 2Guilin
Elephant Trunk Hill

Elephant Trunk Hill

Your Guilin tour starts with the visit to Reed Flute Cave. The cave is well-known for the exquisite stalagmites and stalactites in a variety of shapes. Enhanced by the colored lights, the cave appears like a splendid palace. Lunch is at a local restaurant. Continue our visit in the afternoon by climbing Folded Brocade Hill for a panoramic view of the Li River and Guilin at your foot. Elephant Trunk Hill resembles an elephant drinking river water, and this is how the hill gets its name. It is the symbol of Guilin.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants with authentic Guilin food
  • Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin   |  Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel   |  Guilin Park Hotel 
Day 3Yangshuo
Li River Cruise

Li River Cruise

The Li River Cruise is today. You will be transferred to Mopanshan pier by our private car/van to board on the boat. During the four hours' cruise downstream to Yangshuo, you will see the best scenery along the Li River bank. Lunch will be provided on the cruise today. Arrive at Yangshuo terminal in the afternoon.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
  • Hotels: Yangshuo Ancient Garden Boutique Hotel    |  Yangshuo Mountain Retreat   |  Yangshuo Village Inn 
Day 4Yangshuo
Puyi Village was surrounding By Green Hills

Puyi Village was surrounding By Green Hills

Today's full day cycling tour takes around 7 hours from Yangshuo Aishan town and Puyi town. You will pass through the rice fields and local villages. The track gives you a taste of the beauty which made Yangshuo famous and it is a great opportunity to experience rural life.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants with authentic Guilin food
  • Hotels: Yangshuo Ancient Garden Boutique Hotel    |  Yangshuo Mountain Retreat   |  Yangshuo Village Inn 
Day 5Yangshuo Departure

You will be transferred from Yangshuo to Guilin airport by our private car/van.

  • 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

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.

Yao Lady’s Family

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

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.

Daxu Ancient Town

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

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.

Yangshuo Biking

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.

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