Yunnan Xishuangbanna Jungle Family Tour D1 Arrive in Jinghong and take a flight to Jinghong (the capital of Xishuangbanna Prefecture). The driver will pick you up at the airport and drive you to the hotel for check-in (check-in can usually be arranged after 14:00).
D2 Jinghong - Menghai - Jinghong: Pu'er Tea Culture Experience Day Today we will go to Menghai, the starting point of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, and visit Dayi Manor.
Menghai, where Dayi Manor is located, has the reputation of being the first county for Pu'er tea in China. It has a large number of well-preserved precious cultural relics collected on the Yunnan-Tibet line of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, including ancient streets, caravan stations, western Yunnan houses, and the Sino-Burmese War.
Panoramic display points such as the World War II Memorial Hall.
The caravan station in the manor still stores the saddles left behind when walking the Tea Horse Road. The green moss on the roof silently tells the vicissitudes of the past years.
Dayi Manor covers a very large area. You can first take a small carriage tour and then take a walk to enjoy the scenery of the Ancient Tea Horse Road.
In the afternoon, experience making tea cakes by yourself in the tea garden (each family will make one cake of Pu'er tea).
Wear a small backpack and pick tea in the vast tea fields. Then, under the guidance of the teacher, you will step by step from curing, kneading and drying to autoclaving. Finally, you will choose the packaging, write your name and date by hand, and you can keep it and take it away.
My own tea cake.
In the evening, arrange to visit the Starlight Night Market. This is the most beautiful night market on the Mekong River and the largest and most distinctive night market in the Greater Golden Triangle.
As night falls, the lights flash, forming several star-studded streets, like the glowing tentacles of jellyfish, extending into the distance, alone and beautiful in the night.
Every corner of the night market is full of "passion and temptation", and every place reveals the local prosperity and popularity.
There are a variety of Southeast Asian delicacies, costumes with regional characteristics, and folk handicrafts, and you can feel the bustling Banna style at night.
D3 Jinghong: Tropical Rainforest/Dai Customs Tour In the morning, we went to the Primitive Forest Park. This is the closest virgin forest to Jinghong City. The forest coverage rate in the park exceeds 98%. It is a natural oxygen bar.
The park's unique primeval forest scenery and charming ethnic customs blend together.
Sing and dance with your loved ones and enjoy the spectacle of hundreds of peacocks flying.
Take a leisurely walk in the ravine rainforest and feel the green life in the embrace of the rainforest.
Activities that can be experienced: Those who are brave can experience the "Jungle Leap", transform into a flying squirrel and fly through the high altitude of the rainforest and fly over the primitive jungle (price not included).
Return to the city in the afternoon and visit the Mengli Grand Buddha Temple.
This place was restored and rebuilt on the original site of the ancient Dai Dynasty royal temple "Jingpiao Buddhist Temple". There are more than 3,000 steps. Take a battery car to the top of the mountain to overlook the beautiful scenery of Jinghong City.
Then arrange the Water Splashing Festival experience (clothing and tools can be rented, the rent is at your own expense).
The Water Splashing Festival is a festival unique to Theravada Buddhism. People believe that by pouring water on them, they will remove bad luck and bring blessings to them.
Everyone can put on Dai costumes and experience the atmosphere of the Water Splashing Festival firsthand.
D4 Jinghong - Mengyang - Menglun: Today you need to change hotels for the Animal and Plant Kingdom Carnival Day. After checking out of the hotel in the morning, go to the Wild Elephant Valley Reserve in Mengyang.
Admire the rainforest scenery, look for traces of Asian wild elephants, watch elephant performances, and interact closely.
Activities available: Children of all ages can experience being an elephant caretaker, have close contact with elephants, and learn about their living habits.
Follow the Elephant Dad guide to visit the elephant school, give the elephants a physical examination, bathe the elephants (cancelled when the weather is cold), feed the elephants by hand, and clean the elephant house (not included in the price; some activities require reservation in advance).
In the afternoon, go to Menglun Town and check into a local hotel. The drive takes about 1.5 hours.
In the evening, follow the guide for a night tour of the Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Away from the hustle and bustle of the quiet night, step into tropical nature, listen to frogs, look for insects, listen to birds and observe plants.
If you are lucky, you may even encounter cute sleeping animals such as warblers, lizards, and bees.
Especially from April to September, you can see the romantic firefly night.
The guide will also use the star pointing pen in his hand to take you to understand the starry sky in Xishuangbanna. When you look up, you will see the vast starry sky, the Milky Way hangs in the sky, and the constellations are clearly visible, and will introduce the constellations and the stories behind them.
D5 Menglun: Ethnic Minority Life Visit Day In the morning, we went to the Jinuo village near Menglun and visited real minority homes.
Here, beans are freshly ground to make soy milk, tofu, and barbecue. Those who are interested can go fishing, catching crabs, or going to the orchard. The happiness and fun in the mountains seem to be particularly simple and simple.
Lunch is made with ingredients picked fresh from the villagers’ own vegetable fields.
After lunch, return to the hotel and take a short rest.
Then visit the Menglun Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences again to explore the plant kingdom during the day.