4-Days Stone Forest,Yuanyang Terraces and Jianshui Private Tour from Kunming

Long day drive to Yuanyang. On the way, discover the site of the Stone Forest. Free walk of about 2 hours inside the site, between rocky peaks and sometimes through narrow paths, away from the trails crossed by many Chinese tourists. Continue the road to Yuanyang area.

s and the representative of south China’s karst landscape. Known since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) as the 'First Wonder of the World', it is one of the most important attractions of Yunnan. An old local goes that if you have visited Kunming without seeing the Stone Forest, you have wasted your time.

The Bada Rice Terraces, a part of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, was listed as World Heritage Site in 2013. The 950-hectare Bada Rice Terraces is like the ladders to the heaven with over 3700 levels, rising up from 800 meters to 2000 meters. Hence, the words “Vast”, “Magnificent”, “Beautiful Curved Lines” and “Stereoscopic” can be used to describe Bada Rice Terraces. There are some villages including Quanfuzhuang, Malizhai, Bada, Shangmadian surrounded by the rice terraces and travelers can have panoramic view of the beautiful villages when shooting the rice paddies.

yishu Rice Terraces which is the best site to watch sunrise over the rice fields. In the early morning, the sunglow appears splendidly over the mountains and just a few minutes later, the gentle sun begins to show up and rise slowly over the top of the mountains. When the sun rises up the 6000-mu Duoyishu Rice Terraces, the whole villages turns bright and the vast rice terraces look like a mirror, radiating the rays of golden light. What makes Duoyishu sunrise the most beautiful is not only the golden rice terraces, but also the mysterious sea of cloud and Hani people’s mushroom-like houses. No matter you are photographers or not, catch the best moment to keep the amazing Duoyishu Rice Terrace sunrise with your camera.

Next, go to the local makert of Shengcun village which is located between the fabulous Bada and Duoyicun rice terraces, while the Shengcun Local Market is 25 minutes driving from Yuanyang. Alongside the main streets of Shengcun are filled with local merchandise. The Yi and Hani minorities come from the whole region no matter for sell, exchange or buy various kinds of fresh products, animals and trifles. Meanwhile, the Yi and Hani minority women always carry their traditional clothing. A Shengcun market day is therefore a true color festival! A visit of the Shengcun market is possible to combine itself in a half day tour with the visit of Bada and/or Duoyicun rice fields.

i minority village set amid the rice terraces of Yuanyang, not far from Bada. It is known for its mushroom roof houses, you can take a nice picture of this village and rice fields around from a road further to Duoyishu. The village of Jingkou underwent in recent years a renovation to make it as a kind of village museum, so it has lost its authenticity. The village is home to an interesting system for distributing running water.

r luggage, due to tomorrow will go to overnight at Jianshui.

ianshui Ancient city, need 3hrs driving, 120KM. When you arriving in Jianshui city, you first to check in the hotel then head to Tuanshan village.

Nowadays, there are 15 traditional houses, three village gates, three temples and one ancestral hall in well-preserved condition. It covers an area of 18,384.5 square metres and a building area of 16,158 square metres. As the typical dwelling in south Yunnan, it is usually composed a courtyard with three-side houses and a screen wall, a central courtyard with four small yards at each corner or a spacious central yard with three-side houses around winding corridor, which is covered by overhanging eaves and traditional white walls and black tiles in flexible layout and orderly structure.

km far from Jianshui city,was first built in Qing dynasty,built onLujiang river and Tachonghe River,because two rivers like two dragons,so call the Double Dragon Bridge.it is 148 metres long,3-5metres wide,it is one of biggest old bridge in China.

Then, go to the Mr Zhu Family Garden.

there is a grand complex -the private Garden of Zhu Family. It was build by Zhuchaoying and his brother in the late Qing Dynasty. The complex has a total area of 20, 000 square meters. With the well - arranged yards and well-furnished rooms and halls, the structure of the architecture can be described as ''streamlined'' it enjoys the fame ''the Daguan Garden at a Border Town''. Large and magnificent buildings like the private Garden of the Zhu family are now rarely seen in China).

constructed in 1285 and has renovated and extended for over 40 times, covering an area of 114mu. It is one of the well preserved Confucius Temples in large scale and high architectural level. With a history of more than 700 years and well preservation, it offers extremely precious materials for people to study the history of Confucianism and traditional architectural art. It is one of the national key cultural relics protection units.

t Kunming hotel or Kunming airport/train station. End of your tour services.