12-Day Yunnan Flower Trail Journey / 12天云南花海之旅

Take an international flight to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, known as the Spring City and the City of Flowers. On arrival, meet your guide, have dinner and check in to the hotel to rest.

搭乘国际航班飞往云南省省会【昆明】，素有“春城”“花都”美誉的城市。抵达后导游接机，安排晚餐，餐后入住酒店休息。

After breakfast, visit the Stone Forest Scenic Area (including tram), a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site and World Geopark where you explore a seabed landscape more than 200 million years old. Grey karst pinnacles rise from the earth, some like lovable animals, others like swords piercing the clouds, in endless variation. After lunch, drive about 4 hours to Luoping, on the border of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi and long known for the saying that a rooster’s crow is heard in three provinces. The countryside is lush, and every February and March 300,000 mu of canola flowers bloom in spectacular splendour.

早餐后，参观被列为世界自然遗产与世界地质公园的【石林风景区】（含电瓶车）。一座座灰色石峰拔地而起，形态万千，有的似可爱的动物，有的像利剑直插云霄，变幻无穷。午餐后，前往【罗平】（约4小时），罗平位于滇、黔、桂三省交界处，素有“鸡鸣三省”的美誉。境内山川秀美、物产丰富，二三月间，三十万亩油菜花竞相开放，景致壮观。

After breakfast, visit the Nine Dragon Waterfall (including bamboo raft), a scene to rival Jiuzhaigou and famed for its ten shoals in a single glance. Over a stretch of nearly 2 km the Jiulong River drops in ten tiers of waterfalls of differing heights and widths, a magnificent cascade known for its unbroken grandeur. Then return to the Golden Rooster Peak Cluster (including the small train loop), the most spectacular viewpoint of Luoping’s canola flowers: from the summit, an endless golden sea of blossoms stretches to the horizon.

早餐后，前往【九龙瀑布】（含竹筏），观赏胜似九寨沟的人间仙境“一目十滩”。由于地貌差异，九龙河近两公里的河面上形成高低宽窄不等的十级瀑布，组成气势恢宏的瀑布群，以连绵壮观著称。随后返程游览【金鸡峰丛】（含小火车环线），这里是罗平油菜花风光最壮观、最美的景点，登上峰顶，油菜花海满目金黄，尽收眼底，壮美难以言表。

After breakfast, continue to admire the vast sea of canola flowers, then visit the Duoyi River Scenic Area (including tram). From Duoyi Village to the three-river confluence where the three provinces meet, nearly 40 waterfalls line 12 km of riverbed, with ancient trees and tall bamboo on both banks in rich, layered colour. In the afternoon, drive about 3 hours to Mile and check in to a five-star hot spring hotel, where you are free to enjoy the hot springs. Please bring your own swimwear.

早餐后，继续欣赏十万花海般壮观迷人的油菜花风光。之后前往【多依河风景区】（含电瓶车），景区从多依寨至“鸡鸣三省”的三江口，12公里的河床上有近40个瀑布，两岸古木修竹，色彩丰富，层次清晰。下午乘车前往【弥勒】（约3小时），入住五星级温泉酒店，您可在酒店内自由享受温泉时光。（请您自备泳衣泳裤）

After breakfast, visit the Dongfengyun Scenic Area (including tram), whose distinctive buildings are mostly built of locally fired red brick with a strong sense of design. Then drive about 4 hours to Yuanyang and explore the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Yuanyang Rice Terraces, also called the Hani Terraces. With no rice in the fields at this season, the water lies like a mirror reflecting sky and cloud, a photographer’s paradise for sunrise and sunset. Continue to Yuanyang Old Town to check in, then head to Laohuzui, the Tiger’s Mouth, for the sunset.

早餐后，参观【东风韵景区】（含电瓶车），景区内建筑极具特色，大多以本地生产的红砖建造，设计感十足，十分值得一看。随后乘车前往元阳（约4小时），游览世界文化遗产【元阳梯田】，又称哈尼梯田，田中无稻谷，水面如镜，倒映天光云影，是拍摄大片和日出日落的绝佳去处。之后前往【元阳老城】入住。抵达后，前往【老虎嘴】欣赏日落。

In the early morning, drive to the Duoyishu Terraces to watch the sunrise over the fields. Then visit Qingkou Folk Village to learn about the customs of the Hani people and photograph their distinctive mushroom houses. Continue to Azheke, one of the five villages inside the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage area of the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, where the mushroom house is still the traditional Hani dwelling. In the late afternoon, head to the Bada Terraces for the sunset (weather permitting): rising like a 3,700-step staircase from the mountains to the clouds, the terraces are the palette with which the Hani people colour their land.

今日清晨，乘车前往【多依树梯田】观赏梯田日出风光。接着前往【箐口民俗村】，了解哈尼族独特的民族风情，拍摄哈尼族特色的蘑菇房。续程前往【阿者科】，这里是世界文化遗产红河哈尼梯田申遗区五个村寨之一，蘑菇房是阿者科村哈尼族的传统民居。傍晚前往【坝达梯田】观赏日落时光（视天气情况而定），宛如三千七百级天梯般的梯田从山峦直达云霄，多彩的风景线是哈尼族用以美化自然的调色板。

In the early morning, drive about 2.5 hours to Jianshui, a National Historic and Cultural City, and check in to the hotel. In the afternoon, ride the century-old metre-gauge train, China’s earliest self-built railway and the narrowest gauge in its history, for a journey through time. Continue to the Tuanshan Residential Complex, a historic settlement with more than 1,200 years of history, then to the Double Dragon Bridge for the sunset (weather permitting). In the evening, arrive at Jianshui Ancient City, which dates back more than 1,200 years: with cool summers and mild winters, it was one of the earliest developed cultural cities of southern Yunnan and a historic frontier town.

清晨乘车前往国家历史文化名城【建水】（约2.5小时），抵达后入住酒店。下午乘坐百年米轨小火车，体验沧桑历史，它是中国最早自建的铁路、历史上最小轨距的铁路。续程游览【团山民居】，一座拥有1200多年历史的中国历史文化名城。之后前往【双龙桥】拍摄美丽的日落景观（视天气情况而定）。傍晚抵达【建水古城】，古城距今已有1200多年的历史。这里自然条件优越，夏无酷暑、冬无严寒，是滇南开发较早、历史悠久的文化古城和边陲重镇。

After breakfast, visit a tofu workshop, a small world of its own: taste freshly made soy milk and see the ancient wells used in traditional tofu-making. Then visit the Zhu Family Garden, a maze-like complex renowned for its grand scale, unique style and the charm of a private garden of southern Yunnan. Drive back to Kunming (about 4 hours), visiting the Dounan Flower Market on the way.

早餐后，参观【豆腐作坊】，别有一番天地，品尝刚酿制的新鲜豆浆，参观古井。之后参观【朱家花园】，整座建筑形如迷宫，是一组规模宏大、风格独特、富有滇南私家园林韵味的建筑群。随后乘车返回昆明（约4小时），途中参观【斗南花市】。

After breakfast, drive about 3 hours to the Yuanmou Earth Forest, where the earth formations take endlessly varied shapes: sprouts, castles, pointed bamboo shoots and iron caps. At sunset the landscape is at its most beautiful, as if you had stepped into a secluded fairyland. In the afternoon, continue to Yuanmou county town to check in and rest.

早餐后，乘车前往【元谋土林】（约3小时）。土林形态千变万化，有土芽型、古堡型、尖笋型、铁帽型。日落时分更是美轮美奂，令人恍若置身与世隔绝的仙境。下午前往元谋县城入住酒店休息。

After breakfast, visit the Yuanmou Man Museum, then drive about 3 hours to the Dongchuan Red Land, the most concentrated and distinctive stretch of red earth on Yunnan’s red-soil plateau, where blue sky, white clouds and ever-changing light combine into a spectacular scene. On arrival, head to Lepu’ao and Wafang Liangzi to admire the sunset.

早餐后，参观【元谋人博物馆】。之后乘车前往【东川红土地】（约3小时）。这里是云南红土高原上最集中、最典型、最具特色的红土地，衬以蓝天、白云与变幻莫测的光线，构成壮观的红土景色。抵达后，前往【乐谱凹】、【瓦房梁子】，欣赏日落。

In the early morning, visit the highlights of the Red Land: Luoxiagou (including tram), Jinxiu Garden, Qicai Slope and Dalongshu. Then drive about 2.5 hours back to Kunming and head to Yuantong Mountain for the cherry blossoms, which usually bloom from late February to mid-March. The mountain is also home to Kunming Zoo, so you can enjoy the blossoms and watch the adorable animals. Yuantong Temple on the hill is the oldest temple in the Kunming area, as elegant as a classical garden and not to be missed.

今日清晨游览【落霞沟】（含电瓶车）、【锦绣园】、【七彩坡】、【大龙树】等红土地精华景点。随后乘车返回昆明（约2.5小时）。抵达后前往【圆通山】赏樱花，花期为每年二月底至三月中旬。圆通山也是【昆明动物园】的所在地，赏花之余还可观赏萌态可掬的小动物。山上的【圆通寺】是昆明一带最古老的寺庙，环境优雅如古典园林，务必不要错过。

With a packed breakfast, gather at the appointed time for the transfer to the airport and your flight home to Singapore.

早餐打包，接着按指定时间集合前往机场送机，乘航班返回温馨的家，新加坡。