10 Multi-day Tours in Yunnan That You Shouldn't Miss

May 21, 2021 Veronika Gaddis

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country. It spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 45.7 million (as of 2009). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
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1. 3 Days Undiscovered Pearls Tour: The Earth Forest & Heijing Ancient Town

Kunming, Kunming, Yunnan Zomya (Yunnan) International Travel Service
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This 3 Days trip will take you to the Non-touristy destinations between Kunming and Dali. At the end of the trip, You can either choose option back to Kunming or been transferred further to Dali. Even though the Earth Forest & Heijing Ancient Town are not world famous, but both of them have incredible scenery and deep cultural background. • The Heijing is a small ancient town along a river in a narrow valley surrounded by steep hillsides. It was a prosperous town in the Ming and Qing dynasties because of its salt wells. The laidback life and Quaint old houses are quite similar with the Lijiang old town used to feel like before it got transformed by mass tourism.  • Earth forest shows a surprise around every corner, a fairytale landscape with magical castle towers and intriguing shaped sandstone sculptures everywhere. It is a great experience especially at the end of the afternoon where you almost have the place to yourself.

Inclusions: 2 nights accommodation, Driver/guide, Professional guide, Hotel pickup and drop-off, Private tour, Transport by private vehicle

Exclusions: Food and drinks, Gratuities

Reviewed By mohammedarfadurb

We had the most memorable family tour with Zomya travels. We felt everything was great, our guide Xin and driver truly cared about us which was amazing. They did their best to make the trip remarkable. This journey was something we will cherish for many years to come.

2. 12-Day Small Group China Tour to Beijing, Xi'an, Guilin, Kunming and Lijiang

Travel China Guide
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Join this guided 12-day tour of China and visit three of its major cities - Beijing, Xi'an and Guilin and then continue to Kunming and Lijiang - inhabited mostly by ethnic people. Travel in small groups numbering no more than 6 travelers, benefit from the cost-effective group tour price and enjoy the expert service of professional, English-speaking tour guides.

Inclusions: Lunch, Breakfast, Breakfast, Lunch, Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Breakfast, Breakfast, Breakfast, Lunch, Breakfast, Lunch, Lunch, Breakfast, Breakfast, Breakfast, Breakfast, Lunch, One-way Economy class airfare of Beijing/Xi'an/ Guilin, Hotel accommodation based on twin-sharing room, Professional English-speaking guides, Drivers & air-conditioned vehicles, Train fare of Guilin/ Kunming/Lijiang.

Exclusions: International airfares, Entry Visa fees, Tips or gratuities for guides and drivers, Airport drop-off service in Lijiang on Day 12

Reviewed By 283brianneb

Really great experience! Our guide Rocky was really knowledgeable and took some amazing photos for our group. This tour made our trip stress free, leaving us to enjoy the beautiful views.

3. 9-Day Private West Yunnan RV Trip with Ethnic Minority Culture Experience

This trip takes you to the mythical places(Shangri-La, Lijiang and Dali) with the unique travel method - Motorhome and travel route. Enjoy a private travel experience with a professional guide and chauffeur. Hundreds of old villages are to be explored.

Inclusions: Accommodation as per itinerary, Driver/guide, Professional art historian guide, Hotel/port pickup and drop-off, Use of bicycle, Live entertainment, Private tour, Landing and facility fees

Exclusions: Food and drinks, Lunch, Gratuities, Highway Toll, Fuel

4. 2 Days Dongchuan Red Land Private Trip - Charge by Vehicle

OTW Adventure

This is private transportation service for Dongchuan Red Land in Kunming,Guests will visit the paradise of photographer.It's also a good chance for people who would like to experience the rural life and to educate kids about agriculture,as well as to see the real animal and vegetable.

Inclusions: Transport by private vehicle, Transport by air-conditioned minivan, Round-trip private transfer, Private tour, All taxes, fees and handling charges, Petrol, toll, and parking, Chinese Speaking Driver (Call our English Support Team), English Speaking Driver

Exclusions: Hotel (Hotel or Resort can be arranged upon request), Guide Fee (Guide Service can be arranged upon request ), Food and drinks

Reviewed By mrarmangani

Kunming is not only a very beautiful city with cool air and views of the lake, seagulls. flowers, trees with colorful leaves on my visit in early December, but also a historic city for Islam in China. Halal food and mosque for Muslims can be found in many places. make sure you bring enough cash because it is not easy for tourists to withdraw cash from ATM machines and it is not easy to pay by credit card even in shopping centers. generally the locals cannot speak English but are very kind and try to help when needed

5. 2-Day Leaping Tiger Gorge & Shangri-La Tour

Wonders Of Yunnan Travel

This tour will take you to some scenic spots between Lijiang and Shangri-la. During this journey you can see the astonishing first bend of the Yangze River shaped like the lettter U. Then hike one of the deepest gorges in the world - the Tiger leaping Gorge with a 3900-meter-high cliff from the river to the top of the mountain. Enter deep into the Tibetan world of Shangri-la, with its lofty and all year-round snow-capped mountains, hidden valleys, endless grasslands, steep and grand gorges, azure lakes and idyllic villages. Visit the biggest Tibetan monastery in Yunnan, meet a local family, explore a hidden temple and see a lot of yaks, horses, wild flowers and birds in the beautiful highland meadows around Napa Lake. • The First Bend of the Yangtze River • Tiger Leaping Gorge • Songzanlin Monastery • Visit a Tibetan Family • Baiji Temple • Napa Lake

Inclusions: Lunch, Lunch, 1 night in a comfort hotel - twin sharing accommodation with breakfast (B), 2 bottles of local drinking water per person per day, Transportation with skilled driver during tour at designated period of time, Experienced private English-speaking tour guides, Supplement for driver and tour guide (accommodation and meals), 24/7 English-speaking customer services, Government taxes, Breakfast

Exclusions: Dinners, Shopping, Chinese visa, Personal expenses;, Domestic and international flight, Tourist bus / minibus transportation between airport / train station, Single room supplement if clients request a private room in hotel, Personal Travel Accident Insurance., Tips for drivers and guides, highly appreciated but not requested, Things not mentioned in this itinerary

Reviewed By Luke_huihui

Just returned home from our first Yunnan trip. Kaylee at Wonders of Yunnan arranged everything for us and provided many useful tips. As a result, we had a great time in Yunnan and it certainly exceeded our expectation. Will definitely use the service of Wonders of Yunnan again when we visit the region next time. Well done!

6. 8 Days Yunnan Shangri-La Deep Searching Private Tour

Legend Tour

Yunnan Province is highly likely the most valuable and popular tour destination in China. It has amazing and various natural landscape, attractive scenary, pleasent and joyful climate, uncontaminated enviroment, friendly natives, millions of travelers would put Yunnan on their vacation priority list. It's also the most ethnicaly diversified area in China, different religion and culture have been mixed up for over thousand years. Travelers may learn history and culture together with beautiful wild nature, that could only hanppen in Yunnan. We focus on private tour service, make our clients travel like a local. For such a long highway road trip you do need a friendly, sophisticated and safe driver guide to be around, a driver-guide who knows both Chinese culture and how to do a safe, joyful and professional guiding job will be your choice. A round trip air ride 8 days private guided tour of same standard would cost even more but much less convenient, reliaable.and operatable.

Inclusions: Breakfast, Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner, Dinner, Lunch, Breakfast, Lunch, Lunch, Dinner, Private transportation, Breakfast, Dinner, My personal private guiding service, Bottled water, Hotel pick up and drop off, Naxi ancient music show in Lijiang., accommodation

Exclusions: Admission unless specified

Reviewed By Insomnia82

The one day trip was excellent arranged and our tour guide Legend was very knowledgable, fun and let us discover the beautiful Wulong Karst area. I fully recommend taking this trip to everyone who plans a visit to Chongqing or nearby area.

7. 2 Days Shangri-la Tour

Lijiang, Yunnan, China Lijiang Black and White Water River Travel

Located in the north of Yunnan, Shangri la is considered a taste of the end of the world, with a unique and distant atmosphere partly due to the local Tibetan minority, which gives the region a foretaste of Tibet. The altitude of the region is 3200m. There are still many authentic Tibetan villages with an intense rural life. The Songzanlin Monastery, which resembles the famous Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, is one of the most important monasteries in Yunnan; The ancient village of Dukezong, a Tibetan village on the borders of Yunnan, is reminiscent of the simplicity of life, and the huge Pudacuo Nature Park is also worth a visit.

Inclusions: Lunch, Breakfast, Lunch, Private transportation, Professional guide, skilled driver

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8. 2days tour Dali Cangshan Mout erhai lake xizhou market three pagodas from Dali

China Kongfu Panda tour

Dali City, located in the western part of Yunnan Province, is the prefecture-level administrative capital of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture. Dali City is located in the Erhai Plain, the foot of Cangshan Mountain and the shore of Erhai Lake on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. It is the capital of Nanzhao and Dali in ancient times. As the political, economic and cultural center of ancient Yunnan, it lasted for more than 500 years. The average temperature is 14degrees it’s a sunshine city but it’s also called windy city, while in summer not hot and winter not cold and all the year is pleasant. During the two days we will arrange your trip to hike at Cangshan Mountain along with the Dali old town, which is a really fantastic day, also we will arrange a day trip to Xizhou market, Erhai lake cruise, and three Pagodas which is another beautiful day, hope you will enjoy the 2 days trip in Dali.

Inclusions: Lunch, Lunch, Private transfer, English/Chinese speaking guide

Exclusions: Tips, Personal things, Accommodation, Dinner

Reviewed By 630johank

I had booked this private tour with Viator (written confirmation, with date, time, hotel name and pick-up). The operator/guide never showed up, and couldn’t be reached on the designated phone number, despite several tries. Neither I nor Viator could reach them. An hour later they returned my calls and said “I don’t think we have any tours planned today.” (Viator has refunded the tour-cost.)

9. 2 days Hiking tour at Tiger leaping gorge with accommodation start from Lijiang

China Kongfu Panda tour

Meet guide in the hotel lobby at 8:30am and transfer to tiger leaping gorge for the hiking, pls note you like hiking and can hike around 5 hours a day then you can join the tour. Tiger Leaping Gorge (Hutiao Gorge) is on the Jinsha River of the upper reaches of the Yangtze. It is located 100 kilometers north of LiJiang. The gorge is 17 kilometers long with a drop of 213 meters. The gorge is divided into three sections: Upper, Middle and Lower Hutiao. At the narrowest spot the river is only 30 meters wide. The mouth of the gorge is 1,800 meters above sea level. The river is flanked by Yulong and Haba Snow Mountains, with a height difference of 3,900 meters. It is one of the deepest gorges in the world. We will offer 2 days hiking for you in the tiger leaping gorge.

Inclusions: Lunch, Lunch, Private transfer, Entrance fee, 1 bottle of water p.p per day

Exclusions: Gratuities, Dinner, Personal things, Accommodation in Lijiang

Reviewed By 630johank

I had booked this private tour with Viator (written confirmation, with date, time, hotel name and pick-up). The operator/guide never showed up, and couldn’t be reached on the designated phone number, despite several tries. Neither I nor Viator could reach them. An hour later they returned my calls and said “I don’t think we have any tours planned today.” (Viator has refunded the tour-cost.)

10. 4days private tour Stone forest Yuanyang Terrace Jianshui old town from Kunming

China Kongfu Panda tour

The private tour is only for your group, you will visit the Unique of the world Stone forest, Yuyang Terrace trekking to see sunrise and Sunset with beautiful view of countryside, stay in the local boutique guest house in Yuanyang for 2night and 1 night hotel in Jianshui city, visit the Zhujia Garden imposing Qing style residential complex architecture. Here you will be not only amazed by the combination of the courtyards and architectures, and learn the confucianism at the 2nd biggest Confucius temple in Jianshui old town, night tour in the old town, visit Local Toufu factory. It will start from Kunming city and end at Kunming airport (need flight take off afternoon 16:00pm)/ Kunming bullet train station(need train depart after 16:00) or Kunming hotel.

Inclusions: Lunch, Lunch, Lunch, English/Chinese speaking guide, Private transfers, Accommodation with breakfast, 2 bottles of water p.p per day, Entrance fee

Exclusions: Tips, Personal things, Dinner, All flights, train tickets, Accommodation in Kunming city

Reviewed By 630johank

I had booked this private tour with Viator (written confirmation, with date, time, hotel name and pick-up). The operator/guide never showed up, and couldn’t be reached on the designated phone number, despite several tries. Neither I nor Viator could reach them. An hour later they returned my calls and said “I don’t think we have any tours planned today.” (Viator has refunded the tour-cost.)

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