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TTCS: 4 Days Kunming & Luoping Canola Flowers Appreciation Tour
Tour Type: Private Tour,your family, friends or group
Guide & Driver: Chinese-English-speaking guide & air-conditioned
Tour Highlights:
    • Throw yourselves into the Stone Forest formed about 270 million years ago and catch a panoramic view of thousands of limestone rock formation erecting upward from the earth;
    • Be amazed at the incredible work of art made by farmers in Niujie Luosi Field and appreciate the golden land carved into screw; enjoy gentle sunrise shining over the sea of golden canola flowers at Jinji Hill.
    • Pay a visit to the Nine Dragon Waterfalls, one of the most beautiful waterfalls in China, for a panoramic view of 10 cascades pouring down among the green valleys;
    • Luoping County is the melting pot for many ethnic groups and the majority is Buyi people. You have chance to meet them who dressed in traditional ethnic costumes and know their unique culture.
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Day 1 Kunming Arrival & Kunming Arrive in Kunming & Transfer to Your Hotel in Kunming Downtown Area
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Welcome to Kunming, the Spring City of China! Upon arrival at the Kunming airport/train station, the local tour guide and driver will meet you in the arrival hall and escort you to your hotel and help you check in. The rest of the day is on your own to explore the comfortable cityscape and leisure atmosphere there! Have a good rest!

Arrival Ideas: You can take a direct flight from more than 110 domestic cities and some international destinations including Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, San Francisco, Tokyo, London, and Los Angeles. Also, you can take a bullet train from Chengdu (5.5 hours), Chongqing (4 hours), Guilin (8 hours), Guiyang (2 hours), Guangzhou (7 hours), Beijing (11 hours), Shanghai (11 hours), Hong Kong (7.5 hours), etc. with convenience!

Free-time Ideas (If you arrive early): In this afternoon, go to enjoy a cultural visit to Yuantong Temple that is one of the top oldest Buddhist temples in Kunming with more than 1,200 years’ history. Take your stroll there to feel the rich Buddhist atmosphere of three Buddhist sects filling the antique halls and houses specially designed into a traditional Chinese garden layout for a quite different appreciation of temple in China.

Then, walk to Kunming Green Lake nearby. This pretty park with a lovely lake, old-styled pavilions, corridors, flowers, etc. is the most popular place for an authentic feeling of local Kunming people’s leisure life with citizens singing, dancing, talking, exercising, etc. During November to the next March, Black-headed Gulls from Siberian will never be late to fly there for their expecting comfortable warm winter holiday. Do not miss playing with those adorable and vigorous elfin during your relaxing roam!

Kunming Green Lake
Kunming Yuantong Temple
Day 2 Kunming - Stone Forest - Luoping (B, L) Kunming Stone Forest - Drive to Luoping County - Niujie Luosi Field
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After breakfast, your local guide and driver will meet you at your hotel and then escort you to discover Stone Forest first for about 1.5 hours’ riding (85km)!

Kunming Stone Forest as the “Essence of World Karst Landform” has been listed as the UNESCO World Natural Heritage with the incomparable coverage of 12 square kilometers’ stone pinnacle groups. Take the sightseeing bus to visit the Greater Stone Forest Scenic Area to admire the typical concentrating cinerous stone pinnacles by walking through the maze of stone peaks and jumping high for the panorama of the forest of protruding stone peaks. Also, you will see the famous peak on many photos and even stones towering over 40 meters. Then, continue to ride the bus to explore the Lesser Stone Forest to closely look at the iconic stone “Ashima” like a young lady, listen to the touching love story of Ashima, and fill your eyes with the emerald garden-like park of wilder stone peaks surrounded by lush green plants and blossoms. Take the sightseeing bus to exit the scenic park.

Later, drive about 143km to Niujie Luosi Field, which is one of the three best places to shoot golden canola flowers in the beautiful spring in Luoping County. Luosi means “screw” and the flowers in Luosi Field are grown in circular rings following the contours of the slopes. Reach the observation deck at a high location and enjoy a panoramic view of the whole field looking like the rings of a snail’s shell, akin to rice terraces in corkscrew patterns. It is a true work of art created by local farmers.

After the tour, drive to Luoping County for accommodation.

Major Stone Forest
Canola Flowers in Niujie Luosi Field
Day 3 Luoping (B, L) Jinji Hills - Nine Dragon Waterfalls - Duoyi River Scenic Area - Hundreds of Thousands of Mountains
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In this morning, try to get up early and get to Jinji Hills (Golden Rooster Hills), the best site to watch sunrise in Luoping. The landscape here is flat, punctuated by a few mounds of lovely karst hills, breaking the monotony. Catch the best time to enjoy sun gradually rising and the sunlight sprinkling on the golden flower sea. That vast expanse of rapeseed fields has so much like an extraordinary rural painting, stretching far away through villages, country roads, streams, hills… and to connect the azure sky! If you are photographers, you can head to Lingyi Temple for the superlative panorama, where has a better perspective of the vastness and magnificence of the farms.

Later, drive to Nine Dragon Waterfalls, listed as one of China’s largest and most beautiful waterfalls, with 10 cascades level by level situated among the green hills. Take a cable car up the hill to the viewing platform, where you can have a bird’s eye view of the waterfalls and golden canola flowers nearby. After fascinating sightseeing above, walk the area and down the hill to the biggest and most spectacular waterfall called Shenlong Waterfall - 56-meter-high and 112-meter-wide. Take a leisure walk to the upper valley for an appreciation of other cascades.

After that, transfer to Duoyi River Scenic Area where you can feel the ethnic flavor of Buyi people. With a full length of about 12 kilometers, Duoyi River has nearly 40 waterfalls, surrounded by ancient trees, and the traditional Buyi villages built along the emerald river. Take a delightful bamboo raft on the river and immerse yourselves in the intoxicating sceneries. If you come to Double Third Day of Buyi group (the Water-Sprinkling Festival), you can experience more culture and traditions of this minority.

On the way back to Luoping County, you’ll have the chance to pass by Hundreds of Thousands of Mountains, hundreds of square kilometers vast area with numerous peaks widespread. The peaks are in tower-shaped, pointed cone, or rounded dotted on the farmland - it is very charming at dusk.

Get to your hotel in Luoping and have a good rest.

Golden Canola Flowers
Nine Dragon Waterfalls
Day 4 Luoping - Kunming Departure (B) Drive from Luoping County to Kunming for Departure
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After breakfast, it is time to say goodbye to this golden land. Your guide and driver will escort you directly from Luoping to the airport or railway station in Kunming to catch your flight/train to next destination.

B-- Breakfast L-- Lunch D-- Dinner

The quotation for this trip is from Request P/P

1. This price is for one person, based on a group of 2 adults sharing one standard double-bed room in 4-star hotel and traveling with our private tour in low seasons.

2. This price is subject to change according your traveling season, group size, hotel class, change of activities in your itinerary and possible fluctuation of currency exchange rate. If you want a lower price, you can get more people to join you, or use economy class hotels.

Price Includes.

    Professional licensed English-speaking guide;

    Admission tickets for all attractions listed in the itinerary;

    Accommodation as listed in the itinerary (4-star standard);

    Necessary vehicle transfers as listed in the itinerary;

    Domestic flights (economy class) and high-speed trains (second class) as listed in the itinerary;

    Airport (and train station) pick up and drop off;

    Luggage Transfers: between airports (railway station) and hotels;

    All meals as listed( “B” for Chinese and Western breakfast buffet in your hotel; “L” for Chinese Lunch in local restaurant; “D” for Chinese dinner in local restaurant.);

    Accident insurance;

    Our service charge, including tour planning, handling, operational and communication charges.

Price Excludes.

    China visa;

    Personal expenses;

    Accommodation not listed in the itinerary;

    Single Room Supplement;

    Tourist sites which are not listed in the itinerary;

    Recommended optional activities;

    Flights or trains not listed in the itinerary;

    Excess Baggage Charges;

    Optional tips to guides, drivers, etc.

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