Gain a more intimate insight into village life and Chinese minority cultures with a private tour of the Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces. Your private guide will explain the traditions of Yao and Zhuang people before you visit Huangluo village. Next, drive to Ping’an village to trek to two of the most beautiful rice-terrace views. After lunch, your driver will drop you back to your hotel.
Discover the sculpted landscapes of the Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces
Learn about Yao and Zhuang culture from your private guide
Feast on bamboo rice, smoked pork, rice wine, and more in Ping’an village
Relax with private door-to-door transfers from your Guilin hotel
Pickup included
Your driver guide picks you up at the lobby of your hotel at 9:00am. After a two-hour ride will get to Longji parking lot where we can buy the entry tickets to the Longji Rice Terraces, you can take a break for about 10 minutes here. Heading to Longji Pingan Rice Terraces, this rice terraces is the most famous and beautiful one which is earliest discovered by tourists and photographers, we can walk up from Pingan parking lot to No. 2 viewing platform through Pingan zhuang village by stone stairs, you can see the Zhuang people’s daily life as well as wooden stilted houses in the village. When you get to No. 2 viewing platform, it looks like seven stars with the moon. Then another walk to No. 1 viewing platform through flat path. On the way you can see the bamboo groves, rice terraces, mountains, etc. When you arrive at the No.1 viewing platform, you will have panoramic view of Longji rice terraces. Then walk downstairs to the Parking lot.
Drive to Huangluo village, located at the foot of a mountain with a beautiful river, this village is home to the Red Yao people, a branch of the Yao ethnic minority, is renowned for the lady with long hair, even 7 feet long, discovery this village, you can find the local women embroider dresses, wooden houses, Yao longhair ladies, etc. Then we can have lunch in this village, you can try to taste the sticky bamboo rice, bamboo chicken, smoke pork with bamboo shoots, etc. After a nice day tour in Longji Rice Terraces , you will be transferred back to your hotel in Guilin for about 2 hours and you just take a nap and relax on the way back to Guilin. You will be back to your Guilin hotel at about 6:00 pm.
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
Please arrive at the pick up point 30 minutes before departure time.
We will pick you up at the arrival hall.