Summary

Yuanyang is well-known for Hani Rice Terraces, the best famous paradise for photographers, making it the ideal place to shooting natural large-scale Terraces, sunrise and sunset and cloudes clouds sea. Yuanyang Rice Terraces was listed in the World Heritage in 2013. The main Yuanyang Attractions are focus on Laohuzui (Tiger Mouth) Rice Terrace, Duoyishu Rice Terrace, Bada Rice Terrace and Longshuba Rice Terraces. In addition to the terraces, you can also step your feet into the local villages with mushroom-shaped houses and enjoy the festivals of Hani, Dai, Yi like Splashing Festival, Long Street Banquet and Torch Festival. Yuanyang is worth taking a tour, Come on now and find out what to see in Yuanyang.

For this tour, it could be a winter experience for the most beautiful scenery in Yuanyang Rice Terraces will be from November to March of next year. And this tour will be a good choice to photographers for its huge area of idyllic scenery made by local people.

Day 1 Kunming-Yuanyang( L , D )

Sightseeing and Activities:Kunming to Yuanyang, ethnic villages, sunset of Laohuizui Rice Terraces

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Meet your tour guide at Kunming Hotel. Start off at 8:30 am. You will arrive at Yuanyang in the afternoon. Visit the ethnic villages in Yuanyang and enjoy the sight of terraced fields of Laohuzui (Tiger Mouth) at sunset.

-Yuanyang is about 300km south of Kunming, renowned for its rice terraces, which claim as the world's largest and most spectacular one, crafted out by bare hands by the Hani people one thousand years ago and is still in use today. The rice farmers have had to practice ecology and land preservation centuries before those concepts were widely accepted around the world. Without hard work maintaining the terrace walls and irrigation system, the precious top soil would wash down the hillsides into the rivers.

Yuanyang Rice Terrace is a self sustaining ecosystem. During winter to early spring, the entire field is irrigated with spring water from the forest above to rejuvenate and getting prepared for the next season. The Hani people have repeated this for more than a thousand years. There is only one harvest in a year for the Yuanyang Rice Terrace; planting is from March to Oct./Nov. every year.

Day 2 Yuanyang( B , L , D )

Sightseeing and Activities:Duoyishu Rice Terrace Fields ,Qingkou Village, Bada Hani Rice Terrace, local ethnic market

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Get up every early in the morning,you'll drive 30KM to visit Doyishu Village and enjoy the sunrise of Duoyishu Rice Terrace Fields when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. The terraced fields are ring upon ring and cascade one by one. They go along the hillside up to the sky. You will see the scenery of the terraced fields from the top of the mountains to the bottom. They are all farms under the sunshine and cloud and mist. The landscape is spectacular.

And then, you will visit Qingkou Village and rice terraces where Hani people for generations inhabit. Visit Bada Hani Rice Terrace and local ethnic market as well. You will enjoy the sunset of Longshuba Rice Terraces in the late afternoon about 5KM away from Xinjie Town.

Day 3 Yuanyang-Kunming( B , L )

Sightseeing and Activities: sunrise of Yuanyang Rice Terrace, local market and villages

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Enjoy the sunrise of Yuanyang Rice Terrace, take photos as you like . Visit the local market and villages nearby. After lunch enjoy your free time in Yuanyang. You can trek around the terraces. Assemble at the visitor center at 15:00 pm, drive back to Kunming at 15:30 pm. After arriving in Kunming, service ends.

What's Include

Admission fees for all of the sightseeing spots listed in the itinerary.

Meals as listed in the itinerary.

Accommodation with breakfast as listed in the itinerary.

Private English-speaking tour guide and vehicle for transfers - sightseeing.

Service charge - government taxes.

Luggage transfers between airports and hotels.

Two bottles ofmineral watereach day.

What's Exclude

Any arrival and departure international airfares or train tickets.

Chinese visa fees.

Excess baggage charged by Airlines.

Single room supplement.

Tips to guides and drivers.

Personal expenses and gratuities to service staff.

Personal travel insurance.

All optional programs.

Travel Tips

Visitors are advised to always carry changes of clothing due to the large variations in temperature between day and night.

The climate is relatively dry, so drink more water every day.

Protecting oneself from strong UV radiation at high altitude.

Protecting oneself from altitude sickness. Lessen the effects of altitude sickness, avoid strenuous exercise and have plenty of rest.

Respect local customs , habits, and religious beliefs.

Situated on the northern edge of the tropical zone, Xishuangbanna area is hot, humid and rainy; don’t forget to take an umbrella or a raincoat when go out.

When take photos, please pay attention to your safety, do not shoot in dangerous areas.

With subtropical monsoon climate, Yuanyang owns a mild weather, having an average annual temperature around 15 °C, and 1670 hours annual sunlight. It has abundant rainfall with average annual rainfall of 1397.6mm, and relative humidity of 85% throughout the year, fog period of 174-180 days.

It’s available to visit Yuanyang Rice Terraces all year round. If you want to catch the most beautiful terraces scenery, November to next April is the best time to visit Yuanyang. Although there is no distinctive difference of seasons, the daily temperature can be varied from 32 °C to -2.6 °C, so you’d better check the specific weather condition before you tour Yuanyang.