National Day·Guilin | 6-Day Trip to Guilin Oct.1st-Oct.6th

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National Day | 6-Day Trip to Guilin



Activity place: Guangxi province

Activity date: Oct.1st - Oct.6th

Meeting point: Guilin railway station

Meeting time:Oct.1st 16:30

Traffic tools: Train+Travelling Bus

Participants:Min 10 people,Max 20 people

Trip Fee: 2380RMB(more than 2 people book seats together, each one can get 100RMB discount)

VIP Price: 2280RMB  (Click it o join CET VIP more than 2 people book seats together, each one can get 100RMB discount)


Please book your seat and do your payment as soon as possible, as the tickets of hard sleepers are hard to reserve. 

Booking Hotline: 18514204269 (English & Mandarin)

After sell service:18514204469 (English & Mandarin)

Statement: No refund within 5 days before this trip.

Details about train information


Z285:Beijing West Railway Station Sep.30th 21:10 - Guilin North Railway Station Oct.1st 16:23or other train that suitable for you

Z6:【Guilin Railway Station Oct.6th 14:22- Beijing West Railway Station Oct.7th 09:48】


Please buy the railway ticket in advance, because the railway tickets are in great demand during National Day Holiday. You can buy railway tickets one month in advance. If you do not know how to buy railway tickets, please consult customer service staff. 


Information for new train passengers:  You have to make sure you are typing your full name stated in your passport.;Via Wechat or Alipay to get tickets, you need typing your name properly and also be careful that the Xiecheng will print your tickets by a third party;Anyway 12306 or C trip is best for you. 12306 is the official  website by the Chinese railway company but it has only Chinese service and C trip would be good English service but charge you a little for service fee

Trip Fee


  • Tickets:Longji Rice Terrace: 85RMB for each one; DIY bamboo-tube-cooked rice: 30RMB for each one; paper-making technology experience: 30RMB for each one; Gudong Waterfalls: 75RMB for each one; ‘Mountains& River’ performance': 198RMB for each one; Li River: 75RMB for each one; Silver Cave: 80RMB for each one; Yangshuo Cycling: 20RMB for each one; The Land of Idyllic Beauty: 65RMB for each one; The Elephant Hill: 70RMB for each one

  • Local bus for transferring between different places

  • Meals:  All the meals from Oct.2nd-6th except the dinner for Oct.4th and Oct.6th

  • Hotel: Four nights standard hotel;One night homestay in Longji

  • 6 day outdoor insurance 

  • Local tour guide and CET English speaking leader


Schedule

【Day 1】

When you arrive at Guilin North Railway Station, collect your luggage  and stay at the exit, the special pick-up worker will contact you in advance. Later, we will go to the hotel and check in.



In the evening:you can walk freely on the pedestrian street of Zhengyang to taste the specialsnacks on the Shangshui Food Street and enjoy the most beautiful night scene of Sun&Moon Towers. At 8:30, tourists can go to Lijiang Waterfall  Hotel towatch the man-made waterfalls with the Guinness World Records. 



【Day 2】

In the morning: see the world No.1 terrace Longji Rice Terrace is located in Ping’an Village of Heping Town in multinational autonomous County of Longsheng. The terrace has the extraordinary workmanship of nature and pictures que artistic conception, so it has the reputation of ‘the No.1 World Terrace’.  



In the afternoon: make bamboo-tube-cooked rice and cut down the bamboos.After reaching Longji(Mahai Village), we need to allocate the houses. In Longji, we all live in the local villagers’ home. 



Living in the farmers’ home can make you enjoy the culture, customs, architecture and food of minorities. (we all live in the stilted buildings. The wooden house has a very poor condition, so you shall bring personal hygiene products).

Later, we will follow the villagers to cut bamboos on the mountains and make the bamboo-tube-cooked rice.  


 


【Day 3】

In the morning: Witness the papermaking technology - one of the four ancient Chinese inventors

 


Get up in the morning, then we canenjoy the sun rising. After the breakfast, we can explore the secretes together- the papermaking technology - one of the four ancient Chinese inventors. [the ancient paper-making technology] At the same time, they can let us join them.There are tools, so you can do it in person. 

 


In the Afternoon:  Gudong Waterfalls  - The only one waterfall letting you climb 



Tips: In the scenery of Gudong waterfalls, if you want to climb the waterfall, you shall change the safety equipment in the scenery, like safety helmet, straw sandals and raincoat. Youneed spend 10 rmb for them. You can buy them by yourselves.



In the evening: send a ticket of ‘Mountains& River’ - the large-scale magic singing&dancing show worth 198 rmb.

[Mountains & River] This is a tourism stage show applying the world first-class stage techniques, integrating Guilin’s romantic singing and dancing performance and fine acrobatics and describing the stories of Guilin mountains and rivers from a peculiar angle.


[Special Attention: as to the gift item, owing to the special reasons, like time, weather and irresistible force, it will be canceled. There shall be no refund. CET reserves all the specific interpretationpower. Thanks for your understanding. ]


【Day 4】

In the morning: [Li River] 

Li River is like the winding jade belt,enwinding the lush strange peaks. It has been the karst scenic spots with the largest scale and the most beautiful scenery.Among the ‘World’s Top 15 Rivers’American CNN selected,  Li River is the only one river in China, which has been selected.



 

Walk along the Yulong River - the most beautiful Chinese river.[Scenery of Yulong River] (It takes about 40 minutes. You can enjoy the scenery onfoot). Yulong river - the most beautiful place in China.



In the afternoon: Silver Cave 

[Silver Cave] (It takes about 60 minutes). The Silver Cave’s karst cave is the typical karst landform. The former president - Clinton is also its fan. In1998, when he visited China, he specially delayed the flight to Hongkong in order to go on a tour around the Silver Cave. 



In the evening: walk on the west street 

 You can freely walk in he place,where there is no country, a great amount of passion and the rich feelings[Foreigner Street - the west street of Yangshuo] (There shall be no vehicle orguides available for you)


【Day 5】

In the morning: Yangshuo Cycling, which you have to experience once during your whole life. 



[Ridein the ten - mile gallery] American president - Carter came to Yangshou to touraround. He knew the information from the bodyguards that there are many interestingscenes in the Ten- mile gallery. If you take the car, it will be left behind ina very short time. When he heard this, he temporarily put up with the scheme oftourism. He borrowed several bikes and enjoyed the ten-mile gallery. 



In the afternoon: walk into the land of idyllic beauty.

[The Land of Idyllic Beauty] -- (about 70 minutes) personally experience thepurely natural artistic conception of ‘Bridge, Flowing Water and Families’ in ‘The Land of Idyllic Beauty’.



In the evening: walk around Banyan Lake

[BanyanLake ] (about 40 minutes). ‘Two Rivers And Four Lakes’ is the name card ofGuilin. And Banyan Lake collects the essence of it.  



【Day 6】

In the morning:  Visit the Elephant Hill and Take photos with the City badge of Guilin .

[Elephant Trunk Hill] (about 60 minutes) the original name of the Elephant Hill is called Li Mountain. The mountain has gotthe name because it is especially like a huge elephant, which is standing alongthe river and extending its long nose into the water to drink the sweet waterof Li river. It is called the symbol of landscape of Guilin. 



The Elephant Hill is famous because it is full of miracles. The magic includes firstly, its bodyand spirit are both like the elephant. Secondly, between the nose and the legs,a moon adjacent to water has been formed, which leads to the magic scenery of ‘WaterAnd Moon of Elephant Hill’. Therefore, Elephant Trunk Hill is the city badgemountain of Guilin and is the mark of touring around Guilin. It is located atthe confluence of Li river and Taohua River in the center of Guilin. 



Its shapeis like a huge elephant, whose nose extends into the Li river to drink water.There is a big round hole with the are of 150 square meters between the trunkand the legs. The river is crossing through the hole and is like the moonfloating on the water. The water and moon sitting on the west bank and the Moonstones on the east bank of Li river are opposite. One is hanging in the sky andthe other one is floating on the water, which forms the peculiar landscape of ‘TwoMoons of Li River’ .


In the afternoon: Back to Beijing.


 


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