3 Days Yuanyang Rice Terrace Photography Tour from Kunming

Sightseeing and Activities: ethnic villages, sunset of Laohuizui Rice Terraces, Terraced Fields of Laohuzui
Accommodation: Yuanyang
Meals: Lunch

Meet your tour guide at Kunming Hotel. Start off at 8:30 am. You will arrive at Yuanyang in the afternoon. Visit the ethnic villages in Yuanyang and enjoy the sight of terraced fields of Laohuzui (Tiger Mouth) at sunset.

Yuanyang is about 300km south of Kunming, renowned for its rice terraces, which claim as the world's largest and most spectacular one, crafted out by bare hands by the Hani people one thousand years ago and is still in use today. The rice farmers have had to practice ecology and land preservation centuries before those concepts were widely accepted around the world. Without hard work maintaining the terrace walls and irrigation system, the precious top soil would wash down the hillsides into the rivers.

Yuanyang Rice Terrace is a self sustaining ecosystem. During winter to early spring, the entire field is irrigated with spring water from the forest above to rejuvenate and getting prepared for the next season. The Hani people have repeated this for more than a thousand years. There is only one harvest in a year for the Yuanyang Rice Terrace; planting is from March to Oct./Nov. every year.

Sightseeing and Activities:Duoyishu Rice Terrace Fields, Qingkou Village, Bada Hani Rice Terrace, local ethnic market, Longshuba Rice Terraces
Accommodation: Yuanyang
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Get up every early in the morning,you'll drive 30KM to visit Doyishu Village and enjoy the sunrise of Duoyishu Rice Terrace Fields when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. The terraced fields are ring upon ring and cascade one by one. They go along the hillside up to the sky. You will see the scenery of the terraced fields from the top of the mountains to the bottom. They are all farms under the sunshine and cloud and mist. The landscape is spectacular.

And then, you will visit Qingkou Village and rice terraces where Hani people for generations inhabit. Visit Bada Hani Rice Terrace and local ethnic market as well. You will enjoy the sunset of Longshuba Rice Terraces in the late afternoon about 5KM away from Xinjie Town.

Sightseeing and Activities: sunrise of Yuanyang Rice Terrace, local market and villages, take photos
Accommodation: None
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Enjoy the sunrise of Yuanyang Rice Terrace, take photos as you like. Visit the local market and villages nearby. After lunch enjoy your free time in Yuanyang. You can trek around the terraces. Assemble at the visitor center at 15:00 pm, drive back to Kunming at 15:30 pm. After arriving in Kunming, service ends.