Guizhou

Guizhou's natural wonder and cultural diversity is a beautiful province in China. 

 

Simplified itinerary

Day 1 KL/Kunming

Day 2 Kunming/Panzhou/Xingyi

Day 3 Xingyi

Day 4 Xingyi/Anshun

Day 5 Anshun/Duyun

Day 6 Duyun/Libo

Day 7 Libo/Kaili

Day 8 Kaili/Guiyang

Day 9 Guiyang/Kunming/KL

 

Huanguoshu Waterfall

 

Day 1 We flew via Air Asia from KL about 4 hours journey to Kunming.  You can also choose to fly to Nanning.  We had our mushroom steamboat dinner and then stayed a night in Kunming.  

 

Day 2 Next morning we took an hour & half high speed rail from Kunming to Panzhou. 

From Panzhou, we were driven in a coach to Xingyi, a city in Southwest Guizhou.  Our first destination was Maling River Grand Canyon, a geological wonder aka Scar of the Earth.  We have to walk a distance to take the sightseeing lift down and then walk quite extensive to the end of the scenic area passing by various waterfalls. 

 

 

Maling River Grand Canyon

We stayed in 4* Bast Dreamland Hotel for 2 nights which are next to shopping mall and nearby Happy Mall.  We shopped for our food souvenir at supermarket in Happy Mall much cheaper that those sold by local tour guide promoting in the coach.

 

Day 3 Wanfenglin Scenic Area (Forest of Ten Thousand Peaks)was covered in the morning whereas boat ride at Wanfeng Lake in the afternoon. Walking down the stairs to take the ride is like almost the steps in Batu Caves about 240 steps.  And you need to climb up the same after finish the boat ride.

Day 4 We left Xingyi for Anshun after breakfast. When we reached Anshun, we went lunch before proceed to visit Huangguoshu Waterfall, one of the largest waterfall in China using public coach. There is an escalator one way down.  We covered Silver Necklace and Duopotang Waterfall, Shuilian Cave (water curtain, 134m long naturally formed cave located in the back of the waterfall. 

 

 

Cave under Huanguoshu waterfall

 

We skipped Tianxing Bridge Scenic Area as all of us are too tired to continue.

We checked into local 5 star hotel for a good rest after a tiring day.

Day 5 After breakfast we proceed our journey to Duyun.  First stop was Tiantaishan Wulong Temple built in Ming Dynasty. After lunch, we visited Tianlong Tunbao where well preserved there are over 40 Tunpu Village during Ming Dynasty, listed in Guinness World as largest cultural village. Buggy ride included. We end the day at Shiban Street, selling antiques and works of folk art before dinner and the check into hotel.

Day 6 Duyun to Libo - Had early lunch prior to Xiao Qikong Scenic Area dubbed Little Juizhaigou featuring karst forests interwoven with beautiful waterscapes and striking valleys and moutains.  This area are large where you need to cover.  It includes Laya Waterfall (68 level falling waterfalls), Aquatic Forest, rate trees, Wolong Lake.

Day 7 Lio to Kaili where we visited Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village world's largest Miao Ethinic tribe. Cultural Musuem. We had Miao Long Table Banquet for lunch, local signature dish such as spicy sour fish soup and stir fry slice black iberian pork which were so tender and tasty.

Day 8 Guiyang the last place to be to cover Qingyan Ancient Town, Jiaxiu Tower. We had paid optional ticket to watch Colorful Guizhou Style at RMB260. Actors perform in the show "Colorful Guizhou Style" at Guiyang Grand Theatre in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province. The "Colorful Guizhou Style" show, which debuted in 2006, has been performed in over 40 countries or regions worldwide and seen by over 10 million people. The show illustrates the vibrant ethnic culture of Guizhou and the hospitable people living there.We ended the day with Qingyun Road in Naming Street (night street food)

 

Colorful GUizhou

 

Day 9 We took high speed train (2.5 hrs) from Guiyang to Kunming, had cross bridge noodle before airport.  As we need depart early from hotel, we were given packed breakfast with some patries/bun and egg with either box milk or mineral water.

Do take note that these places of interest need lots of walking and climbing stairs at some place.  So if you are not too fit, is better not to visit Guizhou especially for senior citizen. 

We followed Beeflyz tour for this trip where their local guide was good and tour leader is ok too.  Hotel stayed mixture of local four and five star hotel with large room. Varieties of 10 dishes and above served during lunch and dinner, not too bad.