Visit Longsheng Terraces and stay overnight in a village. The hotel of Quanjinglou is located on the summit of the mountain and is the hotel best available here.
About this activity
- Free cancellation
- Cancel up to 24 hours in advance to receive a full refund
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- Use your phone or print your voucher
- Duration 2 days
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Experience
Highlights
- Enjoy a 3-hour hike to the hotel escorted by hotel staff through villages and rice paddies
- Experience a sunrise photo excursion to the rice terraces if weather permits
- Encounter the ethnic minorities in the villages and rice paddies
Full description
Day 1
Start with a pick-up from your hotel in downtown Guilin. Then, you will be transferred to Longsheng by hotel shuttle bus. After a 3-hour drive, you will arrive at Jinkeng and start a 3-hour hiking tour escorted by hotel staff from Hotel Quanjinglou, a hotel located on the highest point of Longsheng Rice Terraces, and is the best available hotel in the area of Jinkeng.
This area is filled with hills known for its amazing rice terraces with a history going back more than 700 years. The best time to visit Longsheng Rice Terraces is during spring, when the rice paddies are watering for the planting season. Alternatively, October is another good time to visit during the harvest.
Day 2
After breakfast, you will walk for 2-hours, from the hotel to the bus terminal, through large areas of rice terraces and 2 villages: Dazhai and Tiantou village. Most often, you will be walking on stone roads but sometimes also on trails built on rice paddies. You will have plenty of photo opportunities along the way. Please leave enough time for walking and photography. The hotel shuttle bus will drop you off at Xiangjiang Hotel, which is near Guilin Railway Station.
Includes
- Hotel pick-up from 30+ hotels in downtown Guilin in by air-conditioned coach
- 1-night accommodation with breakfast in best available hotel in the Jinkeng Rice Terraces
- Hotel shuttle bus transfer from downtown Guilin to Jinkeng Rice Terraces
- Admission ticket of Longsheng Rice Terraces
- Escorted 3-hour walking trip by hotel staff to Quanjinlou Hotel on the mountain summit
- Enjoy the view of the rice terraces and villages of Yao ethnic minority
- English-speaking hotel staff assistance at the front desk
- Return hotel shuttle bus transfer from Jinkeng to Guilin on day 2
- Porter charge for luggage from parking lot to hotel
- Sedan chair service up and down the mountain
- Lunch and dinner
- Cable car ticket in Jinkeng Rice Terrace if required (The cable car will go to another summit named Qianfoding, not the mountain summit where your hotel is located and it will take an extra 2-hours from the upper cable car station to your hotel)
- Gratuities for driver (recommended)
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Know before you go
- A minimum of 2 adults per booking is required
- The pick-up service is only available if you are staying in downtown Guilin. Hotels in Yangshuo not provided
- Accommodation on Longsheng Rice Terraces: Adult price is based on twin/ triple share of a hotel room. Child price is based on child without extra bed. If you need one adult in one room, single supplement will be informed and charged. If you need an extra bed for a child, an additional cost will be informed and charged. Please note that the hotel allows a maximum of only 3 persons to overnight in one room
- Porter Service: Luggage can be carried by local villagers. Extra cost is about USD 10 per piece one way. This supplement cost can be paid to the villagers directly. The hotel staff will find a porter for you on arrival
- Sedan chair: Ask hotel staff for help. You can reserve a sedan chair from the foot of the mountain ao that you do not need to walk all the way to your hotel
