South Yunnan
Terraced rice fields and mosaic of people on the border of China and Vietnam
Kuming—Jianshui—Yuanyang—Jinping—Mengzi—Shilin(stone forest)—Kunming
Enter the southwest of China; travel against to the time and on the mountain road of Yunnan; encounter minorities with astonishing costume and traditional villages. It is always the happiness for great travelers to release in a background of terraced rice [...]
Spring’s color
02/4 arrive in Guiyang
03/4 Guiyang-Huishui, visit Qingyan ancient town constructed during the Ming Dynasty, and later afternoon attend the Glutinous Rice Cake Festival in a Red Miao village.
04/4 Huishui-Tongzhou, discover a coquille (or seashell) Miao village; appreciate spectacular landscape of Xiguan karst plateau.
05/4 Tongzhou-Wangmo,discover Red Miao and experience local ethnic market in the marketing day.
06/4 [...]
Summer’s date–festivals
25/6 Arrive in Guilin or Yangsuo
26/6 Guilin-Chengyang, appreciate tea plantation garden, visit the Dong ethnic villages and Cheng Yang roofed bridge, which is the biggest one in Guangxi province.
27/6 Changyang-Zhaoxing, discover more about Dong ethnic. Zhaoxing is the biggest Dong ethnic village in the world with almost a thousand households. Appreciate the ecological museum founded [...]
Winter tide
Lusheng Festivals and Tiaohua Festival
Lusheng is so prevailed in Miao community in many aspects that they spend Lusheng festival across the province. Having busied with farming over the last year, villagers, temporarily escaped from burdens, wholly dedicate to the celebration for this festival. Stunning costumes with layers of silver lead quiet villages to be vivid [...]
Hidden Civilizations(Southeast Guizhou)
With boundless mountains and innumerous valleys, southeast Guizhou is like a refugee for minorities, the Dong, Miao, Shui etc. are living in the traditional life and keep their immemorial unsophisticated custom and culture in the modern world.
Miao and Dong Explore, 9 day’s trip.
Day 1 Guiyang-Shuitouzhai
Arrive Guiyang, then drive to Shuitouzhai, the buyi village in central [...]
