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This small-group day tour of up to 15 people starts with pickup from your hotel in central Guilin. Choose one route among the Longji Rice Terraces and the Red Yao long-hair village, a Li River cruise with the Yangshuo countryside, or Guilin city highlights such as Reed Flute Cave and Elephant Trunk Hill. For the Li River cruise you can choose a 3-star boat or a 4-star boat with a lunch buffet. An English-speaking guide accompanies you and round-trip hotel transfers are included.

This is a small-group day tour of up to 15 people with hotel pickup in central Guilin. Choose the Longji Rice Terraces, the Li River cruise and Yangshuo, or Guilin City Highlights as your option and explore with an English-speaking guide. Groups of 1–6 have a driver-guide, while groups of 7–15 have a separate driver and guide.

Leave your hotel between 8:00 and 8:30 AM and drive about 2 hours to Huangluo, the Red Yao village famous for its long-hair tradition. See the colorful red costumes and well-preserved way of life.
Then continue to Ping'an Village and walk about 50 minutes along ancient stone paths to the main viewpoints over the Longji Rice Terraces. Lunch is at your own expense; you leave around 4:00 PM and return to your Guilin hotel around 6:00 PM.

Leave your hotel between 7:10 and 7:50 AM for the cruise pier, then from 9:20 AM sail down the Li River for about 4 hours on a 3-star or 4-star boat. You pass Nine Horse Fresco Hill and the scenery printed on the 20-yuan note. The 4-star cruise includes a lunch buffet and the 3-star cruise includes a Chinese boxed lunch.
In Yangshuo you meet your guide and stroll West Street with its cafés, shops and craft stores, then walk along the Yulong River among mountains, rice fields and villages. Bikes, scooters and bamboo rafts are available at extra cost; you leave around 5:00 PM and return to your Guilin hotel around 6:30 PM.

In the morning, browse a Guilin morning market (snacks at your own expense) and admire the illuminated stalactites and stalagmites of Reed Flute Cave, known as the 'Palace of Natural Arts'. Have lunch at your own expense at East-West Lane and browse its traditional craft shops.
In the afternoon, visit Elephant Trunk Hill, shaped like an elephant drinking from the Li River, then enjoy a 70-minute city waterway cruise (One River Four Lakes) past the Sun and Moon Pagodas and more than 10 bridges before returning to your hotel around 5:00 PM.
※ On Tours 2 and 3, the guide does not board the Li River cruise and meets you again in Yangshuo.
※ In peak season (June–August), leave a note when booking if you wish to go bamboo rafting. Payment is made on site.
Meeting point :
Guilin hotel pickup
Meeting point information:
Pickup takes place at the hotel or designated pickup point selected when booking. Please check the voucher provided after confirmation for the exact pickup location and time.
Pickup is from hotels in central Guilin. According to the itinerary, Tours 1 and 4 pick up between 8:00 and 8:30 AM, and Tours 2 and 3 between 7:10 and 7:50 AM. The operator recommends staying in central areas such as near Elephant Trunk Hill Park, Seven Star Park or Guilin Railway Station.