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 [...]
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 [...]
Last memory of traditional textile
Despite their spectacular scenery, large parts of Guizhou are still very poor and are very difficult to reach. This relative isolation has enabled many minority groups in the area to retain their rich cultural heritage and preserve ethnic distinctiveness. In the more remote parts traditional textiles are still very much a part of daily life, [...]
Tribes in karst peaks(South Guizhou)
Day 1 Arrive in Guiyang. Transfer to hotel
Day 2 Guiyang—Ziyun
Discover old Han(Chinese) stone village.These people are descendant of Han garison who arrived at Ming Dynasty, 14th centry. They play the own Dixi opera for hundreds years. In the opera, actors wear a wood carving mask on their forehead. Each mask incarnates a [...]
