3 Days Puer XiaoAozi Coffee and Jingmai Mountain Tea Tour

Yunnan is not only famous for ethnic diversity and tea, but also getting more and more famous for its small seed coffee. At present, the planting area of Yunnan coffee accounts for 70% of the total planting area in China and its production accounts for 83% of the total production of the whole country. Yunnan small seed coffee has established a dominant position in China. Let’s start a tour for looking for good quality of coffee and tea, and experience ethnic culture.

3 Days Puer XiaoAozi Coffee and Jingmai Mountain Tea Tour MAP

Highlights:

  • Visit the tea gardens, tea mountains and tea workshops along the way.
  • Experience the ethnic culture of Dai.
  • Meet the coffee farmers and see their coffee planting base.

Brief Itinerary

  • Day 1: Jinghong-Xiaoaozi-Puer
  • Day 2: Puer – Lancang-Jingmai
  • Day 3: Jingmai-Menghai-Jinghong

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1 Jinghong-XiaoAozi-Puer

Sightseeing and Activities: Puer Tea Expo Garden, Nandaohe Village
Accommodation: Puer
Meals: Lunch

Drive around 1 hour to XiaoAozi Coffee Farm in the morning. Arrive at XiaoAozi Coffee Farm and start the coffee making class (around 5-6 hours).
Yunnan coffee is the “golden belt” of the world’s finest coffee beans. Almost half of Yunnan’s total coffee production comes from Pu’er. After more than 20 years of painstaking development, Pu’er has been called the “coffee capital” of China. China may be the only country in the world that both consumes and grows coffee. And Pu’er coffee is a real Chinese taste.
Drive to Puer City in the late afternoon, you can walk around Meizihu Lake (Plum Lake).
Stay in Puer City

Day 2 Puer-Lancang-Jingmai

Sightseeing and Activities: Puer Tea Expo Garden, Laodabao Lahu Ethnic Village
Accommodation: Jingmai Bulang Princess Inn
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfastm head for the Puer Tea Expo Garden(中华普洱茶博览苑) for tea-leaf picking experience and learn how Puer tea is processed. This garden shows the origination, history, development, plantation, making process, and tasting of Puer tea.

Transfer to Lancang County, pay a visit Laodabao Lahu Ethnic Village. Laodabao Village(老达保寨), located in the southeast of Lincang County, is 42KM from the county. It is a typical Lahu Village with all the 114 families/473 villagers are Lahu People. Laodabao Village, with well-preserved primitive sceneries, is very natural and beautiful. You can peer at their ethnic customs and profound history from their traditional pole and column buildings in the village since it is the village which has preserved the most intact Lahu’s traditional cultures throughout the time.

Transfer to Jingmai Mountain in the late afternoon.
Stay in Jingmai Mountain

Day 3 Jingmai-Menghai-Jinghong

Sightseeing and Activities:Jingmai tea mountain, Wengji Village, Jingmai Village, Mangjing Village, Jingzhen Octagonal Pavilion Temple
Accommodation: Puer
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

In the morning, enjoy the sunrise view of Jingmai tea mountain, do some hiking in the tea mountains.Visit Wengji Village, Jingmai Village and Mangjing Village.

Jingmai Tea Mountain is located in Huimin Township, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu’er City, east to Menghai County of Xishuangbanna , and west to Myanmar. It is the junction of Xishuangbanna, Pu’er and Myanmar. Jingmai Mountain is known as for Pu’er tea. In the ancient tea gardens of thousands of mu in Jingmai and Mangjing, dozens of villages have formed a landscape of 28,000 mu of Jingmai Mountain ancient tea gardens, including Banggai Village (帮改村), Longbang Village (笼蚌村), Nanzuo Village (南座村), Nanai Village (那耐村), Jingmai Dazhai Village(景迈大寨村), Mengben Village(勐本村), Manggeng Village (芒埂村), Nuogan Village(糯干村), Manghong Village(芒洪村), Wengwa Village(翁哇村), Wengji Village (翁基村), Laojiufang Village (老酒房村). The fresh tea leaves of each village have been sold in the name of “Pu’er Tea in Jingmai Mountain”.

After lunch, transfer to Menghai County, stop to visit Jingzhen Octagonal Pavilion Temple.
Jingzhen Octagonal Pavilion (Chinese name: 景真八角亭), an famous ancient Buddhism architecture in China, is one of the most important cultural relics in Xishuangbanna. Located in the Jingzhen Village, about 14km away from Mang Hai County, this pavilion is called Octagonal Pavilion which means a place to hold the holy religious ceremony.

Transfer to Jinghong in the late afternoon.

Service Included:

  • Admission fees for all of the sightseeing spots listed in the itinerary;
  • Meals as listed in the itinerary;
  • Hotels as listed in the itinerary;
  • Private English-speaking tour guide;
  • Private vehicle for transfers & sightseeing with skilled driver;
  • Service charge & government taxes;
  • Luggage transfers between airports and hotels;
  • Domestic train tickets of soft sleeper.

Service Excluded:

  • Any arrival and departure international airfares or train tickets;
  • Chinese visa fees;
  • Excess baggage charged by Airlines;
  • Single room supplement;
  • Tips to guides and drivers;
  • Personal expenses and gratuities to service staff;
  • Personal travel accident insurance;
  • All optional programs.

Jingmai Ancient Tea Mountain in Lancang County, Puer
Jingmai Ancient Tea Mountain in Lancang County, Puer