7 Days Amazing Guizhou Trekking Tour

Arrive Guiyang, drive to A Garrison Village, Mask Opera and viewing the peaks forest

Arrive Guiyang before 0200pm, be picked up and drive 1.5 hours to visit A Garrison Village built 500 years ago, you will watch the Mask Opera performed by local farmers. Walk around 40 mins to the top of Huangjiashan Hill, have a bird eye view of peaks forest. Then drive back to Guiyang and stay overnight at 4* Novotel Downtown Hotel.

Note: March is the blooming time for rape flowers. And the rice terrace field turns golden at the end of Aug and the whole Sep.

Drive to Kaili, Long Skirt Miao Village, MD Miao Village.

Morning depart from Guiyang, drive 3 hours to Long Skirt Miao Village, you would visit the village firstly. Then hike around 5 hours to MD Miao Village. Our driver would wait you there and drive 1 hour to Kaili. Stay overnight at 4* Grand Metropark Heaven-sent Resort.

Note: The 5 hours hiking trip can be divided into 3 sections. The first section is uphill road cost around 1.5 hours, you can turn back to see the Miao Village located in the opposite side of Bala River. And the second hiking is flat mountain slope walking and it takes around 2.5 hours. Sometimes up and down walking, you would see mountains, rivers and villages along the way. The third section is 1 hour downhill walking to the MD village.

Drive to YK Miao Village from Kaili.

Morning depart from Kaili, drive around 3 hours to JL Town. If you meet with Friday, there is a local market which available on 08:00am till 03:00pm. After lunch, we would take local mini-bus to YK Miao Village. We would drop you off at the side of the road, the local villager where you would stay in their house for one night would guide you to hike to their village. As Y K is still a village without road access, so you need to walk into the village. So please take your necessary belongs with you, and the rest left it in your car. The way lead to Y K village is mountain way (normally downhill) and you have to walk around 1.5 hours to reach the village. But the view along the way is beautiful, so you would not feel bored to walk this section mountain road. After reaching the village, you walk have dinner together with the local villagers and experience their real routing life, and you also can prepare the dinner together with the host of your homestay.

Hiking from YK Miao Village to BS Miao Village, SW Town, Shui Village. Drive to Rongjiang.

Morning hiking around 3.5 hours to BS Miao Village, then take around 30 mins driving to Shuiwei Town. If meet with Saturday, there is a local market which available on 08:00am till 03:00pm where local ethnic group villagers would dress their national custom to join in. Afternoon we would spend time to visit a Shui (means Water in Chinese) village. The Shui people are one of the ancient nationalities in China. Then drive to stay overnight in Rongjiang Town. You would stay overnight at 3* Shangpin Hotel (local best)

Note: The 3.5 hours morning hiking way are combined with 1 hour downhill, 30 mins river bed of stream walking, 40 mins uphill and 1.5 hours flat walking on the side of the mountain. You would probably need to take off your shoes to walk across the stream and it would be a very interesting experience. There would be forest and rice terrace field view along the way.

Drive to Gao Miao Village, hiking to Qiu Miao Village, continue to hike to Huanggang Dong Village

Morning drive around 1.5 hours to Gao Miao Village (If your vehicle is over 14 seaters, you would need to change the local mini-bus), then hike 3 hours from Gao Miao Village to Qiu Miao Village. You would have lunch at Qiu Miao Village, then hike another 2 hours to Huanggang Dong Village. Appreciate the Dong Song Singing Performance in the evening. Stay overnight at the guesthouse inside Huanggang Dong Village.

Note: Today's hiking experience, the first section takes around 40 mins, you would see little waterfall, stream and rice terrace along the way. The second section takes around 1 hour is mainly about the rice terrace field view. And the third section is 40 mins uphill climbing. The 4th section is around 40 mins downhill walking and 20 mins in between would be on the concrete road outside the village, you would see the fantastic view that village is surrounded by the rice terrace field. The 5^th hiking from Qiu Miao Village to Huanggang Dong Village is 2 hours in total, and the first 30 mins is gentle walking and we would passby the little waterfall. Ant the rest 1.5 hours are uphill hiking and finally reach the Dong Village locate at the top of the mountain.

Drive to W L Miao Village, hiking to Jiali Town via DL Miao Village, drive to Rongjiang County.

Morning drive 1.5 hours from Huanggang Dong Village to W L Miao Village (as the village locate with a narrow way get inside, so you only can walk 30 mins to enter it), then hiking 2 hours to D L Miao Village, continue to hike another 2 hours to Jiali Town. Drive from Jiali Town to Rongjiang County. Stay overnight at 3* Shangpin Hotel.

Note: The first 2 hours hiking from WL Miao Village to DL Miao Village, the first 1.5 hours are all with large scale rice terrace view along the way, and several Miao Villages on top of the mountains in the opposite side of your walking. Meanwhile you would see the splendid highway bridge build across the mountains and valleys. You would see the comparison of traditional and modern. The second 2 hours hiking from DL Miao Village to Jialiang Town, the first 30 mins is uphill road to walk across a Miao village, then gentle walking for another 30 mins, plus downhill walking to a rivulet, you might probably need to take off your shoes and walk across it in the summer time. Then connect with another 1 hour uphill hiking to Jialiang Town. And you would see the beautiful rice terrace view along the this way as well.

Early Market of Dong People, depart from Rongjiang.

After breakfast, you would be driven to visit the Early Market of Dong People. It is an interesting place to wander for an hour or more and watch the local Dong minority going about their business. Many of the Dong, especially the women, dressed up in their finest to come to the market. Some wear bright blue jackets with appliquéd and embroidered borders along the sleeves and cuffs, combined with dark, baggy trousers, while others prefer shiny indigo jackets and short skirts. Then we would drive you to the high-speed railway station to catch up with the train to next destination.

Note: There are direct bullet train from Rongjiang to Guilin, Guiyang, Guangzhou and Chengdu.