4 Days Jingpo Ethnic Minority's Munao Zongge Festival Tour (January)

Sightseeing and Activities:Tower Wrapped in the Tree
Accommodation:Mangshi
Meals:

The tour guide and the driver will pick you up at the airport and then visit Tower Wrapped in the Tree. Back to the hotel for a rest after the visit.

-The 15th tusi (native chieftain) built the Jielie Stupa to remember a triumph. It is said that there was a God sprinkling a piece of seed into the stupa. After 200 years, this seed amazingly grow into a tall banyan tree. So that the rare view “A tree wrapped the stupa” comes into being.

-Tower Wrapped in the Tree was formerly called Iron City Stupa which was built in memory of a war. The Stupa is a solid tower made of bricks. It is wraped and covered by roots, and is thus called Tower Wrapped in the Tree. It is the earliest stupa built by local Dai people.

After breakfast in hotel, drive to visit Menghuan Golden Pagoda on the top of mountain “Leiyarang” (雷崖让山), which locates by Kongque lake , in the picturesque scenery and lush woods, looking up at the Menghuan Golden Pagoda, tall and straight, majestic and magnificent , you will be enlightened suddenly. After that, go to visit the Class 4A Tourist Spots in China “Mengba Naxi Rare Park(勐巴娜西珍奇园) “, a primitive simplicity, natural and exotic scenic spot with the rare ecological garden, thousand-year-old trees and flowers, plants and strange stones.

Today, drive to Longchuan County for Munaozongge Festival of Jingpo Ethnic Group in Longchuan County, and join the party celebrating the festival.

-Munaozongge (literally means mass dance in Jingpo language) Dance Festival, dubbed “dance of paradise” and “mass revelry dance,” is the grandest traditional festival of the Jingpo ethnic group. During the festival, tens of thousands of Jingpos dance following the same capper beat. It falls on the fifteenth day of the first month in Chinese lunar calendar. On the day, every Jingpo village will hold such mass performance.

Enjoy the Munaozongge Festival of Jingpo Ethnic Group in Longchuan County, and join the party celebrating the festival.

After lunch, drive to Ruili,  head for One Tree Forest to enjoy the amazing scenery and Jiegao Border to appreciate a dazzling array of handicrafts with a good feeling of border trade life. Overnight in Ruili.

After breakfast, go to the border village Hansha Scenic Area, and then visit “A Village of Two Countries“. After lunch, transfer back to Mangshi airport, service ends.

-Hansha village has a beautiful pastoral scenery and strong ethnic customs. Coming here, you can see the bamboo house hidden in the Bambusa multiplex and banyan trees, and the whole village surrounded by fields.

-The famous No.71 boundary monument for sino-burmese standing in the village, and the boundary winding its way through the village , is a typical border area of “a village , two countries’.