6 Days Yunnan Coffee, Tea and Minority Culture Tour to Puer and XishuangBanna

Fly to Puer City in the morning. 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. Have a short  break at the tea flavor atmosphere with local natural landscape.

After that, drive to Nandaohe Village where is in Simao District of Puer City. You will meet local unsophisticated coffee farmers and explore their coffee planting base under their introduction. If you are the hardcore fan of coffee, it will be an unbelievable experience to impressive yourself by the amazing Yunnan coffee bean.

Today visit XiaoAozi Coffee Farm in the morning.

After lunch, You will transfter to to Zhengdong Town. Meet local farmers of coffee and visit their coffee plantation.
Stay overnight at local hotel or guesthouse in Jiangcheng.

Drive to Yiwu, a small town once boomed due to tea trade in the history, see the Old Yiwu town and the stele erected in Qing Dynasty that recorded the trade situation at that time, pay a visit to local families that are still producing Pu’er Tea in the traditional way. Visit some tea processing workshops.

Drive to Menglun Town, visit Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden, which holds more than 3000 species, enjoy nice scenery in the garden and learn about some interesting plants. Walk in rainforest zone, the most natural part of garden is especially recommended, where tourists seldom go there, very quiet and original, for simple knowledge about rainforest, the most bio-diversified vegetation type in the world, which is a good place.

Later, leave botanical garden for Jinuo Mountain Area and visit Jinuo People, who uniquely belongs to this region, is the last ethnic nationality classified by Chinese Government in 1979. See the ancient tea plantations around Jinuo village, which used to be one of Six Great Tea Mountains reputed as the cradles of famous Pu’er Tea. Back to Jinghong.

Pick you up from the hotel. Drive to Mount Nannuo and trek about 2 hours from Ban Po Lao Zhai(半坡老寨）to see ancient tea plantation aged over 800 years of Aini people, Aini, who have been engaged in tea-planting here for centuries. Visit their village. Through chat we may discover how much Aini people rely on tea.

Then pay a visit to small tea workshop in the village to learn about how fresh tea leaves are processed. Trek down to the foot of the Mountain and move on to Menghai.

Finally visit village of Bulang people, the third largest ethnic group of Xishuangbanna, who are farmers mainly engaged in planting tea and sugar cane, as well loyal Theravada Buddhists. Drive to Jinghong for overnight.

Check out the hotel and drive to Kunming airport for departure.
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