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Description of Activity/Tour

Founded in 1989, Edward Adventures was the first company in China's Yunnan Province to offer adventurous travel for Westerners in this exciting and yet little-known part of the world. It has provided motor travel, camping, trekking and mountaineering holidays and festival trips for tour companies and individuals from all over Europe and the States with its expertise. It is able to suit the requirements of all its clients at every level of travel experience.Southwest China and Tibet set the stage for real adventures. Here you can visit Buddhist monasteries and Taoist temples, climb sacred mountains dotted with holy lakes, follow ancient pilgrimage routes and explore both cities and little-known villages.Half of China's ethnic minorities have been living in this region for centuries. Their unique cultures and traditions have been well preserved till today, especially through various local festivals. Come and see them before they change forever.

Typical Day

South of the Clouds
Day 1, Arrival in Kunming
Day 2, Morning flight to Dali, visit the old town of Dali, visit Thousand year old Three pagodas.
Day 3, Visit Xizhou morning market, Bai houses, boat ride on Erhai Lake and travel around the Lake with visits to fishing villages.
Day 4, Drive to Shibaoshan and visit temples and grottos there, some easy walks in the mountain to Shaxi village.
Day 5, Drive to Lijiang and visit the old town of Lijiang and Black Dragon Pool.
Day 6, Day in Lijiang to visit the local Naxi villages of Yuhu and Puji, visit Puji Monastery with some walks in the pine forest.
Day 7, Drive to Shangri-La through the famous Tiger Leaping Gorge and visit Baishuitai White Terraces.
Day 8, Visit Songzanling Monastery, Ringsha Temple and Tibetan villages.
Day 9, Morning flight to Kunming and tour ends.

Age range, type of group

Any Adult from 25 to 65 can join the tours. We keep our tour groups as small as possible. The maximum is 12 and the minimum is 6. This helps maintain a better service, giving you more freedom and opportunities to interact with local people. However, we do take smaller groups upon request.

Sleeping and meals

We put up in 3-or-4 star hotels in cities and the best possible local style hotels in smaller towns. These give you the maximum opportunity to acquaint yourselves with the local area and its people. In some cases, we may stay in guesthouses, farmhouses or tents during treks, which are often the most exciting experience of the tours.All meals are inclusive: breakfasts in the hotels, and other meals in restaurants typical of the locality. During trekking/camping, cooked meals are provided for breakfast and dinner, while lunch is usually a picnic.

Rates

A trip costs from US$800 to US$1400 per person depends on the size of the group and different requests of the clients. The price includes: Domestic flights & airport taxes;All transportation and meals;Hotels, guesthouses and tents;Guides and sightseeing entry fees;Porters used during treks.

Other Information

We run tours in Yunnan, Sichuan Guizhou and Tibet, All the itineraries on our homepage just give you some ideas of where to go and what to do, but if you come on your own or with family or friends and want to do something different. All the tour can be tailor-made for you to meet your needs, just tell us when to come, what to do and where to go, we will do the rest for you. Whether you are interest in a colourful festival trip or an adventurous expedition in southwest China, we can make it for you. Join us for a trip of life time. Please visit our website for more details.

Guizhou - Miao New Year Festival 2008

New Year Festival of the Miao falls on Nov.10th, 2008 and lasts for a week, the first three days are the best to attend it. This is the biggest and most important festival of the Miao people in southeast Guizhou. At the Opening Ceremony, thousands of Miao and Dong people from the are will take part in, singing and dancing through the streets of Leishan and carrying on to the Square, gather there for the celebrations, During the ceremony, you will see different kinds of dances and folk songs of Miao and Dong, tens of thousands of people are watching. On the following days, there will be more songs and dances, buffalo fights, ethnic sports and so on. It is also a time for locals to visit friends, young people to look for marriage partners and arrange weddings. No festival in Guizhou is more colorful, interesting and worthwhile visiting than New Year Festival of Miao.


Itinerary
Day 1, Arrival in Guiyang
Day 2, Day trip to Huanggaoshu Waterfalls which the biggest in Asia and visit Han and Bouyi villages along the way.
Day 3, Six/seven hours drive to Shibing with visits to Miao villages along the way.
Day 4, Day in Shibing to visit Miao villages and take a four-hour walk on Mt. Yuantai.
Day 5 Drive to Zhengyuan, take a boatride on Wuyang River to enjoy the dramatic landscape of the water and mountains.
Day 6, Visit the ancient town of Zhenyuan by wandering in the old quarter to see the traditional houses built ages ago and visit Zhenyuan Museum, visit Dragon Cave which built with temples in different styles on a Cliff on the bank of Wuyang River, from here you can have a birds-eye view of the town. Relax
Day 7, 20 minutes drive from the town and take a five-hour walk in a mountain valley follow a stream to see the different vegetations of the mountain and vary landscape. To visit a place called Dragon Pool which the water comes out in a pool about 500 square meters, it’s blue and green with fogs on the surface, no one know how deep it is.
Day 8, Drive to Taijiang with a visit to Shidong on the way.
Day 9, Day in Taijiang to explore local Miao villages in the area.
Day10, Drive to Leishan and attend the Opening Ceremony New Year Festival of the Miao in the afternoon.
Day 11 & 12, Attend the festival and visit the local villages in the area. We can join the local dinner one day and see how the festival meals like in Leishan.
Day 13, Drive back to Guiyang via Kaili to visit the museum and a market in town.
Day 14, Fly home.

Dates: Nov.1st to Nov.14th, 2008

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94 Yin Cang Road
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