Trip Details, Dates, Prices, etc.
Menu14-Days Expedition for Orchids and Other Endemic Plants Guizhou and Guangxi
Dates & Prices
| Dates | Booking Status | Price | Single Supplement | Group Size | Guide |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr.17 to Apr.30, 2024 | Open to Booking | 4,100USD/pax | 480USD/pax | 6 | Local Guide |
| Apr.17 to Apr.30, 2025 | Open to Booking | 4,100USD/pax | 480USD/pax | 6 | Local Guide |
The cost includes the following:
2. Meals in local popular restaurants.
3. All the entrance tickets for places listed in the itinerary including cable cars and shuttle buses.
4. Hotel stays from the first day to the last day of the trip, nice 3-star hotels in big cities and local best in local places.
5.Bottled water, and snacks throughout the trip.
6. Service charges of this trip include the fees of a professional English-speaking plant guide.
7. China domestic travel insurance.
The cost does not include the following:
2. During this trip, extra charges due to the change of itinerary from the client-side or other factors are beyond the control of WildFloraTour.
3. Flight tickets to the place where our trip starts and from the place where our trip ends.
4. Expenses for visa application.
5. Gratuities to the guide and driver.
Itinerary
D1 Arrives at Guiyang. Meals: D
Arrives at Guiyang. Meet your guide at the airport and transfer to your hotel. Welcome dinner in the evening.
D2 Guiyang City Tour. Meals: BLD
Do a city tour in Guiyang, visit Guiyang Qianlingshan Park in the morning, and Qingyan Ancient Town in the afternoon. Roam in Erqi food road in the evening.
Drive 4h to Fanjingshan Mountain, explore valleys around our hotel in the afternoon.
D4 Explore the Fanjingshan Mountain. Meals: BLD
We will take a cable car to the top of Fanjing Mountain, look for plants around the top area, then walk down to explore the lower area for more plants.
D5 Fanjing Mountain to Xijiang Miao Village. Meals: BLD
Drive 3.5h to Xijiang Miao village and visit Miao village in the afternoon.
D6 Xijiang Miao village to Libo Maolan nature reserve. Meals: BLD
Drive 2.5h to Libo Maolan nature reserve, look for orchids, and other plants.
D7 Visit Xiaoqikong valley. Meals: BLD
Visit Xiaoqikong valley, explore plants and see the stunning scenery of blue water, valley, subtropical forests, karst peaks.
D8 Xiaoqikong valley to Du’an County. Meals: BLD
Drive 4h to Du’an County, visit beautiful rivers and karst peaks.
D9 Du’an County to Leye County. Meals: BLD
Drive 4h to Leye County, after lunch, we explore karst valleys around Leye County.
D10 Explore Dashiwei Tiankeng Group. Meals: BLD
We will spend the whole day exploring Dashiwei Tiankeng Group, look for plants.
D11Leye to Xingyi. Meals: BLD
Drive 4h from Leye to Xingyi, after lunch we explore karst peaks for plants around Xingyi.
D12 Malinghe Valley to Huangguoshu waterfall. Meals: BLD
Explore Malinghe Valley near Xingyi in the morning and drive 2.5h to Huangguoshu waterfall in the afternoon.
D13 Huangguoshu waterfall to Guiyang. Meals: BLD
Visit the Huangguoshu waterfall. Drive 2h back to Guiyang in the afternoon.
D14 Fly back home from Guiyang.
Introduction to Trip Destinations:
Mt. Fanjing
Maolan
Xijiang Miao village
Xingyi & Malinghe Valley
Dashiwei Tiankeng Group
Huanguoshu Waterfall
Tour Guides
We will arrange one of our best flower guides for this trip who has rich experiences of guiding tours in this region. The following are some of our best local guides for your references.
Cory Li
Cory Li, co-founder, and general manager of WildFloraTour is a super fan of nature, especially for flowers. His passion for nature grows from the beauty of greens in the little boys' eyes. As a native of Sichuan Chengdu, he has spent a lot of time exploring nature in the mountains nearby his hometown. During his study at Sichuan University, he began to take lots of outdoor activities like hiking and mountain climbing and started to study knowledge about flora by himself. After graduation, he even spent more time in the wild than office exploring wildflowers in Sichuan and nearby provinces with other nature lovers and photographed about two thousand wildflower species. He even found several new distributions of some endemic species and even some new species of plants along with some other nature lovers. He loves to share his findings and stories behind the photos with other nature lovers on the internet and became a “flora idol” in southwest China. He never expected becoming famous out of this, he just enjoys sharing the beauty of those lovely flowers with others.
Philip
As a half Kangba Tibetan, Philip is the founder of WildfloraTour and is native of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. He has a deep love for his Kangba Tibetan heritage and the land where he was born and raised. Philip's career has gone from mining technician to teacher, to translator, and finally to a guide and tour operator. Along the way, Philip discovered his passion and love for helping tourists understand the beauty and history of his people and homeland. Philip is known for his ability to plan and execute unique and exciting adventure trips exploring the sights off the usual tourist routes. He is active, open-minded, and adventurous and always ready to share interesting and useful information with his clients. As a travel professional working in this field for more than 15 years, Philip believes travel is an art and a process of learning and discovery. Each trip is a unique artistic work created with knowledge and expertise based on the resources available and the interests and tastes of travelers. To help more people to understand the unique resources in panda habitats and neighboring areas, he established Wildflora to bring his educational fun-filled tours to more people eager to explore and learn about China. Besides, Philip is an active and knowledgeable birder and a dedicated photographer.
Besides, one of WildFloraTour's local guides in Southeast China will participate in this trip to ensure a high-end traveling experience.
Testimonials
As a new department set up in 2017 under AbsoluteWild Travel Co, Ltd., WildFloraTour consists of a group of English-speaking local plants and travel experts to provide the best quality trips for plant lovers to enjoy the beauty of the natural plant resources in China. In the past, we have organized many flower-watching trips with some cooperative travel agents under their company names. For this important page, we would quote some feedbacks made on TripAdvisor by travelers from our sister department AbsolutePanda. As a department of the same company, we share the same culture and principles.
