Hiking in Guizhou and Guangxi

Duration: 10 Days
Areas: Guiyang – Kaili – Paiyang – Xijiang – Leigongping – Fangxiang Village – Leishan County – Kaili

Highlights:

Charming landscape in southwest China
Local Customs of the Ethnic Groups
Minority Villages
Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces
Li River Bamboo Rafting
Idyllic Cycling Route from Yangshuo to Putao and Baisha Village

Day 01 Guiyang – Kaili

Arrival in Guiyang, pick up and drive directly to Kaili. Kaili is the gateway to the local minorities there. Stay overnight in the hotel in Kaili.

Day 02 Kaili – Xijiang F/M/A

Arrive in Yangpai village, trekking 23 km to Xinjiang, which is one of the largest and most beautiful Miao villages in China. If you are arriving in Xinjiang in the late afternoon, you will be greeted with the wine of the minorities.

Day 03 Xijiang – Leigongping F/M/A

After breakfast, trekking starts on Leigongping Hill. You will take about 6 hours of hiking rise up and through the dense forest. In the afternoon you will arrive the top of Leiggongping (a wide-open position). Stay overnight on Leigongping.

Tag 04 Leigongping – Fangxiang – Kreisstadt Leishan F/M/

The trekking today takes us through the charming nature reserve from Leigongping to Fangxiang. At end by bus to Leishan county.

Day 05 Leishan – Rongjiang F

Sightseeing of Chejiang Drum Tower
Today we are in the region of the Dong minority, the old villages surrounded by rice terraces and fields are scattered around the scenic hills. An afternoon excursion takes us to the village with its saying of Chejiang Sanbao drum tower – a tall, interior stairs mountable on a new tower with ancestral temples and riverside pavilion.

Day 06 Rongjiang – Zhaoxing F/M/

Zhaoxing Dong village is the largest village in the area and also a village of the Dong minority. Zhaoxing is still an amazing place, packed with traditional wooden structures, several wind and rain bridges and five remarkable drum towers. The village consists of five districts, each of which is inhabited by another clan. On the streets you will find local people dress in traditional dark blue clothes Dong, which is also produced here.

Day 07 Zhaoxing – Sanjiang F/M/

Visit to Dong Tang village, the only ecological museum of Dong Minority. The village was built on a steep hillside overlooking the rice terraces.
Visit Chengyang Wind and Rain Bridge, which was built 1916th It is one of the largest wind and rain bridges in Dong area.

Day 08 Sanjiang – Longsheng – Guilin F/M/

Longsheng Rice Terrace Trekking.

Day 09 Guilin – Yangshuo F/M/

Li River Bamboo rafting or boating takes about 4 hours normally. River cruise on the Li River with its alluring mountain and river viewing is certainly one of the highlights of any China trips.