Private Day Tour to Longji Rice Terraces and Long Hair Village from Guilin
Description
Immerse yourself in Guilin’s iconic ethnic culture and natural beauty on this exclusive private day tour! Uncover the age-old hair-care secrets of Huangluo Yao Village and watch the locals’ traditional folk performance, then explore the breathtaking Longji Rice Terraces with a customizable experience. An English-speaking guide accompanies you for in-depth cultural commentary, and the tour is fully inclusive for a hassle-free journey. You can explore Longji Rice Terraces in your preferred way: take the cable car to discover Dazhai/Jinkeng Terraces, or go on a leisurely 2-hour hike around Ping’an Terraces. Wander scenic paths to unique photo spots and capture stunning shots of the terraced landscapes. All-Inclusive Highlights with professional English-speaking guide, all entrance fees, local lunch and round-trip private vehicle transfer.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Your professional English-speaking tour guide and driver will pick you up directly from your hotel in Guilin, and then you will head to Longji Rice Terraces. During the ride, your guide will carefully explain the relevant history&cultural background of Longji Rice Terraces and Huangluo Village, and you can ask any questions you have at any time for in-depth understanding. Longji Rice Terraces, a masterpiece of ancient Chinese agricultural civilization with a history of over 2,000 years, is famous for its magnificent layered landscapes that blend perfectly with the surrounding mountains and rural customs.
The first option is to take the cable car to tour Dazhai/Jinkeng Rice Terraces, where you can enjoy the breathtaking panoramic view of the terraced fields like a green waterfall cascading down the mountains, which is especially suitable for travelers who prefer a relaxed and effortless experience.
The second option is a 2-hour leisurely hike around Ping’an Rice Terraces, where you can walk among the terraced fields up close, appreciate the delicate beauty of the fields and the original rural life of the local people, and capture unique and beautiful photos along the way.
After exploring the terraces, you will enjoy a delicious local lunch featuring fresh mountain ingredients and authentic Guilin flavors. In the afternoon, you will visit Huangluo Long Hair Village, a famous Yao ethnic village where you can watch the traditional folk performances of the local Yao people, listen to the guide explain the legendary stories of the village, the secrets of how Yao women keep their long hair healthy and beautiful for a lifetime, and deeply understand the unique customs, lifestyle and ethnic culture of the local minority people. Throughout the visit to the village, your English-speaking guide will accompany you to explain in detail, ensuring you fully experience the charm of minority culture. At the end of the tour, your guide and driver will send you safely back to your hotel in Guilin, bringing this wonderful day of natural scenery and minority culture exploration to a perfect end.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Your driver will pick you up in the lobby of your hotel, please provide hotel information when make booking
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(4)
Emily our guide, was very nice, very professional and spoke great English. Lunch was amazing. However I am giving 3 stars for this tour and the reason is as follows : The tour is not value for the money and is very expensive for what it is. We started the tour at morning 9 and we were well finished around 4 pm and the things covered in the tour are quite expensive as what we felt. Later on we also ran past the tour and the cost with our hotel staff and they also confirm that this tour here is quite highly priced. It may be better off to do the same tour by speaking directly to the hotel staff, this way you will be paying a lot less for the same thing!
We're very sorry that we didn't meet your satisfaction. If it's a matter of price, we apologize for that. You can choose the cheaper tour package offered by the hotel. Then, could you take a look at what kind of services are provided in it? We have been running private inbound tourism groups for 15 years. You can also see that the tour guides, private cars, and services we offer are different from those of the cheaper tour packages of the hotel.
We were met in our hotel lobby by Emily. She is a bubbly, intelligent guide whose English is extremely good. We immediately felt a connection which only got stronger as the day went on. Our driver was very experienced and we felt very safe the entire day. We drove 2 hours to the Huangluo Long Hair Village where we watched the women perform their show and let down their long hair (most have hair longer than themselves). My husband and I both went on stage at different times. I won’t spoil it by telling you why. Just embrace it and go with he flow 😊 Back in the car we then drove to a village where we walked a short distance to have lunch. We had a fabulous feast and tried the bamboo rice and creek snails. Would highly recommend both. After lunch we continued to walk to the Longji Rice Terraces. Although there were no rice plants, the terraces were spectacular. We were able to walk through them at a pace we felt comfortable with. We then took the golf cart back down the mountain (we could have walked) before hopping back in the car for the 2 hour trip home. Emily gave us so much information during this tour which we could not have known if we did this outside of a tour. We spent the day laughing, eating, talking politics and sharing stories of our families and way of life. This tour with Emily is not to be missed. We made some wonderful memories and feel we made a good friend. Would highly recommend doing this one ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you Emily 😘
The show at the cultural village was excellent as it was the lunch and the walking in the rice fields.There were a lot of passion fruit and motinggao (some chinese medical plant) sellers. I would recommend to anyone that is passing by Guillin. Like everywherein China don't expect any extra favours from your guide.It was with great difficulty and after a lot of negotiations that I managed to persuade them to help me buy a SIM card.Yet I couldn't persuade them to unblock my WeChat account,so I couldn't leave my luggage at any station in China.In some places there were some shops next to the station that accepted them only for some hours. Take your heed also as the guide will try to persuade you to eat at her favourite restaurant and buy tea from her favourite tea producer, telling you that this is the only hygienic place.In China you can eat the food at any place without getting stomach problems-it is not like in India.
So much fun with our guide Tom. Amazing sites! A must in Guilin. The hair village and rice terraces is so peaceful and fun .
