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 Wangmo-Ziyun, discover White Miao and find Bu Yi with shinning cloth.
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Day 1. Arrive Guiyang

Day 2. Guiyang to Huangguoshu waterfall. Discover the old Han Chinese in stone castle, and appreciate the Ground Opera. They are the descendants of soldiers from today’s Nan Jing east of china in Ming dynasty. Opera used to the Beijing style was also brought to Guizhou together. Appreciate the waterfall, 81m wide and 74m high, one of the famous falls in the world.

Day 3, Huangguoshu–Liuzhi. Discover the Long Horn Miao (Hmong) in Suo Ga village. Appreciate their long horns and batik daily dress made in home by them.

Day 4. Liuzhi—Zhenfeng. Across the big gorge of Huajiang, and enjoy its marvelous view. Later on discover Black Miao.
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04/11 Arrive in Guiyang

05/11 Guiyang-Sandu, attend the Duan Festival in a Shui village. Discover how Shui people cerebrate this important day. A farewell meal will be prepared to worship ancestors and to entertain with ancestors by beating bronze drum will be conducted.

06/11 Sandu-Rongjiang, possible to visit the ethnic market on the road, discover more Shui villages and Visit Chejiang Dong village, covered by group of ancient banyans along Duliu river.

07/11 Rongjiang-Congjiang, discover Miao village of Basha. Known as a nice primitive village, Basha has been in such view for hundreds of years that very one is in indigo garment every day and every man, always holding a gun or knife, has the hairstyle of ancient warrior. Then appreciate Yintan village with two drum towers, also a very primitive Dong village.
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Enter the south-west part of China, remount the time and the roads of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, explore the least known of the regions’s minority people with their amazing costumes and tribal tradition, be enchanted by the nice senery of the terraced fields.

Day 1 Kunming
Arrive Kunming. Free time for visit the “Spring city’: the flower market–a charming area of teahouses and small boutiques selling handicrafts and beautiful local paintings.

Day 2 Kunming — Jianshui
Jianshui boasts a long history, rich culture and many famous sites of scenic and historic
interest. Visit the confucius Temple the 2nd largest Confucius temple in China, Chaoyang Gate in this old city of Ming Dynasty, Double Dragon Bridge, Private Garden of the Zhu Family.

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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 by Norway government in Tang’an. In evening enjoy polyphonic singing, which is exclusively only from Dong and a treasure for Dong ethnic too.

28/6 Zhaoxing-Rongjiang, discover Basha Miao. Known as the No1 primitive village, Basha has been in such view for hundreds of years that very one is in indigo garment every day and every man, always with a gun or knife, has the hairstyle of ancient warrior. Then appreciate Yintan village with two drum towers, also a very primitive Dong village.
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