Day 1: Arrival in Kunming
Upon your arrival at the Kunming Changshui International Airport, our tour guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel in Kunming. After settling down your luggage and a short rest, you will start your tour in Kunming.
Option for the Evening: Dynamic Yunnan Show is an original ethnic dance musical that directed by Yang Liping. You can get a unique “Yunnan Impression” from the show, which is a combination of folk dances and a fresh artistic concept. The show starts at 20:00 every day (except at and around the Spring Festival) and lasts for 1.5 hours.
Meals: No Accommodation: In Kunming
Day 2: Kunming - Luoping
After breakfast, you will head to Luoping, one of the largest plantations of canola flowers in southwest China. It is located 230 kilometers east of Kunming, and neighboring Guizhou Province and Guangxi Province. Every year, during the spring when canola flowers are blooming, there is an endless golden sea of yellow rapeseed flowers with small basins among mountain ranges.
The golden sea of canola flowers together with chocolate hills makes Luoping a paradise for photographers. And the best time to see the golden canola flowers in Luoping is from February to March, when the flowers are in full bloom.Then you will move on to Hundred Thousand Hills (called Shiwan Dashan in Chinese), which offers endless photo shooting options for photography enthusiasts.
After today's tour, you will be back at your hotel in Luoping in the late afternoon.
Meals: B/L Accommodation: In Luoping
Day 3: Luoping
Today, you will get up early in the morning to see the sunrise over Jinjiling Hill, which is the best place to witness the fields of yellow canola flowers with karst hills in north-south direction. The hills are just like small islands in the golden sea.
Then, you will visit Lingyi Temple on the Jinjiling Hill for another sightseeing part of today.
You will have breakfast afterwards and head to the Nine Dragon Waterfall that located within an hour's drive from Luoping. Nine Dragon Waterfall (also called as Jiulong Waterful) is one of the largest and most beautiful waterfalls in China with ten tiers. You can either take a cable car or hike up to hill to reach a viewing platform where you can enjoy a great view of valley and the waterfall.
After the tour, you will get back to Luoping.
Meals: B/L Accommodation: In Luoping
Day 4: Luoping - Stone Forest - Kunming
After breakfast, we will drive back to Kunming. Before arriving in Kunming, you will visit Stone Forest en route. We will arrive at Stone Forest Scenic Area after lunch. The Stone Forest in Yunnan is vast in area with lots of towering stones with peculiar shapes, creating a picture of stone world.
The Stone Forest Scenic Area covers an area of 1,460 square kilometers in total and the Karst Stone Forest has been formed 500,000 to 300 million years ago. You can enjoy the marvelous landscape of stones in different shapes.
After visiting the Stone Forest, we will drive back to Kunming.
Meals: B/L Accommodation: In Kunming
Day 5: Kunming- Departure
You may depart from Kunming at Kunming Changshui Airport.
Today is free for you to explore this Spring City, until your tour guide escort you to the airport or the train station for your next destination.
Meals: B