6-Day Kunming Xishuangbanna Highlights Tour

Kunming Stone Forest

Kunming Stone Forest

Today after breakfast, we will head to visit the Stone Forest which is known as "the first wonder of the world". Marvel at its natural stone masterpieces and be bewitched by the stone peaks, pillars and stalagmites rising abruptly from the ground and extending as far as the eye can see.

After the tour in the afternoon, return back to Kunming city. En route, we will stop by the Golden Temple Park, a large Taoist temple in Yunnan, located on the Mingfeng Mountains, 7KM to the east of Kunming city. There is a fine building made of bronze, commonly known as Jindian (the "Golden Temple").

After the tour, be accompanied to your hotel in Kunming.

• Drive about 171.6KM for approx. 4 hrs
• Altitude: Kunming (1895M), Stone Forest (700M);
• Internet & Wifi
• Kunming business hotel
• Breakfast, Lunch

Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest

Elephant Performance in Wild Elephant Valley

In the morning, you will escorted to the airport to take a flight to Jinghong City in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. Upon your arrival at Xishuangbanna Gasa International Airport, our tour guide meet and escort you to check in your hotel in downtown.

After lunch, we drive 32km to visit Wild Elephant Valley Nature Reserve, passing through the tropical rainforest.The valley is the only region in China where wild elephants are living. Here, you will appreciate the wild elephants herding and moving, watch the trained elephants performing dancing, greeting and bathing.

• Flight to Xishuangbanna from Kunming, drive 64km
• Altitude: Jinghong (580M)
• Internet & Wifi
• Jinghong business hotel
• Breakfast, Lunch

Dai Minority Flavor Performance in Ganlanba

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

Today we will drive 62km along the Mekong River to the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in Menglun Town. En Route, you will visit the local market, a minority family and the temple in Ganlanba where is a place full of tropical scenery and Dai minority flavor. In the local minority family, you will learn about the exotic custom.

Upon your arrival at the Tropical Botanical Garden, you will be astonished by this plant kingdom in miniature. If Xishuangbanna is described as evergreen boundless forest, the Garden would be the soul of its. Here, you could see the most typical rare plants of tropical rainforest. Afterwards, be transferred back to your hotel in Jinghong.

• Today drive about 124km
• Altitude: Jinghong (580M), Menglun (1400m)
• Internet & Wifi
• Jinghong business hotel
• Breakfast, Lunch

Jingzhen Octagonal Pavilion

Xishuangbanna Dai Minority Flavor

Today, we drive 67km to Menghai County to visit the Jingzhen Octagonal Pavilion, which was built in the honor of Sakyamuni by the local Dai people. The Dai Buddhists usually have meetings and some important religious activities here. Then visit the Hani People’s Village where you could experience traditional and interesting custom of despoiling marriage. Xishuangbanna is the home of the world famous Pu’er Tea. You will have a chance to visit the Tea Plantation and learn about tea culture and tea plants in depth.

In the afternoon, we will drive back to Jinghong and visit the Manting Park, the oldest park in Xishuangbanna, where you could enjoy its beautiful scenery, appreciate unique constructions and taste traditional culture of the Dai People.

• Today drive about 134km
• Altitude: Menghai (1300m)
• Internet & Wifi
• Jinghong business hotel
• Breakfast, Lunch

Today, you will be free until your tour guide escorts you to the airport for your flight back to Kunming, and then for your next destination.

• Flight to Kunming and departure
• Altitude: Jinghong (580M), Kunming (1895M)
• Internet & Wifi: NO
• Hotel: NO
• Breakfast