9 Days Guilin Scenic Tour to Leye Sinkholes

Guilin, Yangshuo, Baise, Leye, Nanning

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Tour Type: Private Tour

Tour Code: SKY-Guangxi-01

Tour Highlights:

Discover ancient farming landscapes and minority culture

Experience China's most scenic river by bamboo raft

Visit one of the largest and deepest karst sinkholes on Earth

Witness the beauty of Detian Waterfall on the China-Vietnam border

Best Travel Time:
March to October

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Day 1Arrival Guilin

Transfer service to hotel

Meals: No Meals
Accommodation: In Guilin

Upon arrival in Guilin, you will be greeted by your local guide and transferred to your hotel. Take the rest of the day to relax or enjoy a short stroll near your hotel to soak in the peaceful charm of this riverside city.

Bamboo Raft in Li River

Day 2 Guilin

Longji Rice Terraces , Ping'an Zhuang Village, Long Hair Yao Village

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Guilin

Today, you will be greeted by your guide at around 9:00am in your hotel. Drive about 2 hours to arrive at the ticket office of Longji Rice Terraces Scenic Area. Continue driving to the middle of the mountain, where the entrance of the Ping'an Zhuang Village is located, you will take a trolley car to the top viewing platform of the Longji Rice Terraces famous as “Nine Dragons and Five Tigers”. Then walk along the rice terraces to another sightseeing named “Seven Stars Accompany Moon”.

Continue to walking down into the minority village and have a lunch for rest.

Afterwards, walk back to our car, we will drive back to Guilin, enroute, stop for a short visit at another Minority Village famous as “Long Hair Yao Village”. Drive back to hotel in Guilin at about 18:00.

Longji Rice Terraces

Day 3Guilin

Elephant Trunk Hill, Fir Lake and Banyan Lake, Reed Flute Cave, Yaoshan Mountain, Tea Plantation

Meals: Lunch
Accommodation: In Guilin

Today, you will visit the Elephant Trunk Hill(40mins), the symbol of Guilin city, and walk around the Fir Lake and Banyan Lake(40mins) nearby the hill, which are in the central city. Afterwards, head to visit the Reed Flute Cave(1hr) with numerous stalactites and stalagmites in unique shapes and lightened up by artificial colorful light inside.

Enjoy a Chinese lunch(1hr) in a local popular restaurant. Continue to take cable car to the top of the Yaoshan Mountain(1.5hr) to enjoy a bird's eye view of the whole city surrounded by over ten thousands of limestone peaks, hills. The round ways of the cable car up and down are included.

At the foot of Yaoshan Mountain, we will pay a visit to the Guilin Tea plantation(1hr), having a nice tea tasting session. You may try tea peaking and learning about the traditional Chinese tea ceremony. Tour ends by drop-off you at hotel in Guilin.

View from Yangshan

Day 4Guilin – Yangshuo – Guilin

Champion Bridge, Mirror-like Rice Paddies, Ruyi Peak, Fuli Ancient Town, Bamboo Rafting in Li River

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Guilin

Today, we will start our full day tour by visiting the Champion Bridge, Mirror-like Rice Paddies for about 2 hours. Then we'll drive to Ruyi Peak, where you'll take a cable car to the top — no climbing required. From there, you can enjoy a spectacular bird's-eye view of the Li River winding through countless limestone peaks and hills.

Afterwards, we will drive to Yangshuo to have lunch before a visit to Fuli Ancient Town, where you may not only see the houses, buildings well preserved from Ming and Qing Dynasties, also could learn how to make the traditional Chinese Paper Fun. You will take the Bamboo Raft up and down in Li River from the Fuli pier, where there are less boats and tourist. You may have chance to enjoy the peaceful bamboo rafting in a mirror like water of Li River when the weather is sunny. Tour ends by drop-off you at hotel in Guilin.

View from Ruyi Peak

Day 5Guilin – Baise – Leye

High-Speed Train to Baise, Drive to Leye

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: In Leye

After breakfast, take a high-speed train from Guilin to Baise, in western Guangxi. From Baise, continue by private car to Leye County, the gateway to one of the world's most remarkable geological sites: the Leye Tiankeng（Sinkholes） Cluster. Check into a local hotel in the afternoon.

Leye Tiankeng

Day 6 Leye – Lingyun County

Dashiwei Tiankeng(Sinkholes), drive to Lingyun County

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Lingyun

Spend the day exploring the Dashiwei Tiankeng, one of the world's largest sinkholes, with vertical cliffs over 600 meters high. Walk along scenic trails and witness the power of nature shaped over millions of years. After the visit, continue your journey to nearby Lingyun County, known for its mountain views and peaceful countryside.

Leye Dashiwei Tiankeng

Day 7Lingyun – Chongzuo

Haokun Lake, Drive to Chongzuo

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Mingshi Village

After breakfast, visit the tranquil and lesser-known Haokun Lake, surrounded by lush mountains and often referred to as a “hidden gem” in Guangxi. Enjoy a boat ride or walk along the lakeside before continuing the drive to Chongzuo, where the Mingshi Pastoral Village and Detian Transnational Waterfall are located. Check in the hotel nearby the Mingshi pastoral village and have a good rest for tomorrow's sightseeing.

Haokun Lake

Day 8Chongzuo – Nanning

Mingshi Pastoral Village, Detian Waterfall

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Nanning

Today you will take a full-day excursion to Detian Waterfall, located on the border with Vietnam. Stop at Mingshi Pastoral Village, known for its peaceful rural scenery and karst landscapes that resemble a Chinese painting. Continue to Detian Transnational Waterfall, Asia's largest cross-border waterfall. Walk along the boardwalks, take photos of the dramatic falls, and enjoy the tropical scenery before driving to Nanning in the evening.

Detian Waterfall

Day 9Departure Nanning

Transfer service to airport

Meals: Breakfast

Enjoy a leisure morning before your guide escorts you to the airport or train station for your departure. Your unforgettable Guangxi adventure concludes here.

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5.0

PunkNelson

5.0

Great Hotel stay Very Nice Tour guides Convenient planned daily trips Average selection of restaurant for food though

Kiwimac53

5.0

We were looking for a tour in SW China while in the area for work and found this one. While we wouldn't normally get a private tour but surprisingly it was actually cheaper than most of the group tours in the area and was great value. While I would usually rather keep one guide for the whole tour, as you get to know each other and they get to know what you are interested in, we changed guides 5 times during this trip (fortunately we had the same guide in Kunming at the start and end of the tour which was a real bonus as Murphy, our Kunming based guide, was excellent.) In this case changing guides had the advantage of local knowledge at each site so compensated for the change. Of the 4 guides we had 3 excellent and 1 very good with each of them working hard to look after us and make sure we enjoyed our trip. Vicky, our Dali based guide was also extremely good making our time there a highlight. The tour gives you 2 days at each base ie travel in the morning, have the afternoon and the next day touring the area then drive to the next base. We chose the driving tour as we feel it gives you a better experience of the area and you get to see the locals in action. All the drivers we had were great – they went out of their way to look after us and were very safe, which is saying something for driving in China. While all of the guides were very fluent in English none of the drivers could speak English which was a slight disadvantage as you didn't have the guides with you when traveling between bases but the friendliness and helpfulness of the drivers more than made up for this.
The tour was very well organised and we knew what we were doing from the time we met our guide on arrival at the Kunming railway station to when we walked through security at the airport on our way out. The tour comes with 4,5 and 6 star accommodation choices and we went for the cheapest 4 star option. While the English at the hotels was limited the guides made sure we were checked in and out and took care of any issues (which were minimal). The 4 star option is largely “Chinese style” hotels ie designed for Chinese visitors with breakfast consisting of what many westeners would consider dinner style food but there was always eggs and toast for the less adventurous. The hotels were all clean and comfortable and generally very well located. The Hotel in Kunming (Jin Jang Inn) was a bonus as it seemed higher than 4 star and we stayed there both on our way in and out. As well as breakfast, lunch came with the tour which was enjoyable as the guides choose the restaurants so we got a variety. I got the feeling that most of the restaurants were owned by friends or family or there was some arrangement with the guide, but as you get to formally review each guide and the meals at the end of each stop they work hard to make sure you enjoy the meal and there was always an abundance of food. We tried a range of local cuisine and there was only one meal we didn't think was up to par. You get your own dinner which also suited us as there is invariably a range of restaurants or for the more adventurous there is the street vendors and you can choose what you want. The vehicles we were driven in were all very good- plenty of space and very comfortable.
Being a private tour, while there was a set itinerary, which was diverse and very interesting with something for most people, the guides could tweak it to suit individual interests eg more time at one site and less at another. It is easy to get a bit templed out but overall the itinerary was a good mic of nature and culture. I would thoroughly recommend the tour and the company and we will be looking to the company if/when we go back – Guilin is next on the list as the guides were very happy to discus what they thought we would and wouldn't enjoy based on working with us on this tour,

N2265ZIinfo

5.0

Excellent guides, flexible and knowledgeable travel agent. They speak good English. Our trip was very well organized. We are 100% happy and I can recommend Top China Travel to everybody.

Wesley O

5.0

I contacted Top China travel for a 13 day China vacation (Beijing/Xian/Yangtze River cruise/Shanghai) and right from the start Bonnie provided me with great choices and package options. Throughout the entire planning and even during the trip Bonnie was there for us following up and making sure everything was perfect. Thank you Bonnie for making our China vacation unforgettable.

Johnf8958

5.0

From the minute I contacted Vicky at Top China Travel to book our holiday, to the time we were taken to Pudong airport for our flight home, the experience was perfect.
My wife and I visited Beijing, Xian and Shanghai and all of our tour guides were fluent in English, very knowledgeable and very friendly.
Thank you Vicky and all at YUNSKY and I will definitely be in contact when I return to China.