5 Days Lincang Tea Culture Tour with Dianhong Black Tea, Baiyingshan, Xigui and Mengku

Day 3 Fengqing-124KM/4 hours-Baiyingshan-90KM/3hours-Yunxian

Sightseeing and Activities: Bai Ying Shan Mountain, Baiyingshan Tea Plantation, Ergazi Tea, Lancang-Mekong River
Accommodation: Yunxian
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

In the morning, experience the Dianhong milk black tea in the hotel reception. Yunnan black tea is fermented and roasted. Tea polyphenols undergo an oxidative reaction under the action of oxidised syrup. Drinking Yunnan black tea with milk can aid the reduction of inflammation and protect the gastric mucosa, and it also has a certain effect on the treatment of ulcers.

Drive to Bai Ying Shan Mountain whichis a mountain located in Manwan Town of Yunxian County. Visit the tea factory and tea mountain in Baiyingshan. You will have lunch in the local family. Transfer back to Yunxian for overnight.

For the pu-erh tea lovers, Bai Ying Shan is definitely the one which can not be missed. I think the best vintage pu-erh tea I ever had is a 2007 crop Bai Ying Shan. It is really wonderful for the sweetness and rich strong taste it gave.
Bai Ying Shan 白莺山 is one of the branch mountains of Wu Liang Shan 无量山 in Southwest Yunnan Lincang Region, and near Lan Cang River. Though it is still not yet very famous among the many tea mountains of Yunnan, Bai Ying Shan is the origin of the Yunnan old big tea trees as study indicates. Here there is the oldest tea tree more than 3,000 years old, and the biological character of the tea seed of Bai Ying Shan old tree proves here is the birthplace of the Yunnan Big Leaf Tea. The tea species growing here according to the farmers include Ben Shan Cha 本山茶, Hei Tiao Cha 黑条茶, Er Ga Zi Cha 二嘎子茶，Meng Ku Zhong 勐库种, Bai Ya Cha 白芽茶，Liu Ye Cha 柳叶茶, He Zhuang Cha 贺庄茶 and Teng Zi Cha 藤子茶.

The tea trees grow in the Bai Ying Shan Village. Here the trees are not close to each other. But many of them are very big and thousand years old.Bai Ying Shan village is on the peak of the mountain and faces Northeast. This location makes the land entirley exposed to the Sunlight all the day. And at night, the temperature lowers a lot. The moisture from the Lancang River goes up to the mountain and forms cloud anf mist. This kind of weather is very good for the quality of tea. 

Transfer to Yunxian for overnight.

Day 4 Yunxian-Dazhai-100KM/3 hours-Xigui-60KM/30minutes-Lincang

Sightseeing and Activities: Chafang Township, Dazhai Township
Accommodation: Lincang
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

This morning, transfer to Bangdong Town via Xiaojie town(晓街乡)，Chafang Town(茶房乡)，Dazhai Town(大寨乡)，Dachaoshan XizhenTown(大朝山西镇)，Huangshahe Ancient Tea Trees(黄沙河古茶树群) and arrive at Xigui at last.
You will pass by Huangshahe River and some ancient tea tree forests including Nuowu King of the Tea Tree(糯伍千年茶王),  Zhishanqing(纸山箐), Xiyuan(昔元), Wangjiadi (王家地) in Dachaoshan(大朝山口), The Ancester of Tea in Dazhai Town (大寨曼来茶祖).
Arrive at Xigui for lunch, visit Manglu Tea Mountain in Xigui located at the bank of Lancang-Mekong River. Visit Xigui tea factory and have lunch in the local family.Visit Nahan(纳罕) and Manggan(曼岗) tea villages as well.

Xi Gui is located in Lincang county, Lincang city, Yunnan. It is developed along the bank of Mekong River (called as Lincang Jiang in Chinese). The fertile soil brought by the Mekong River is very rich in calcium, and it seems to be contributing body.
Recently the road condition to Xi Gui has been drastically improved. It takes less than 5 hours to reach Xi Gui by car from Lincang city center. Under the circumstances, there are increasing number of high-amateur and tourist from all over China and other countries. Generally, they are less experienced in evaluating the quality of tea. As a result, the tea that gives very floral scent is very popular. This kind of flavor can be easily produced if the manufacture lightly fry tea and retain more enzymes that develop floral scent like oolong during sunshine drying on account of enzymatic fermentation. However, the raw pu-erh tea produced with light pan-frying is not suitable for long storage. It develops sort of black tea flavor and noise in taste in a Rutsan Tea(如灿茶叶).

Day 5 Lincang-Mengku-Lincang

Sightseeing and Activities: 5 Villages of Bingdao villages, Xiaohusai Village, Bingdao Lake, 
Accommodation: Lingcang
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

This early morning, drive to Mengku Township first, then drive to Bingdao village(冰岛), which is Luhu tribal village surrounded by green mountains and is the origin of the tea plantation in China. You will see several huge ancient tea trees over 2000 years old! You will have a chance to see this rare, unique village of the Lahu people. They are known to wear colorful, traditional clothes. 
Visit the 5 villages of Bingdao including Dijie (地界）, Bingdao Laozhai (冰岛老寨), Bawai (坝歪), Nanpo (南迫) and Nuowu Village(糯五). Experience the tea making in Dijie village and have lunch there.

Bing Dao Puerh is named after its village of origin, Bing Dao Village of Mengku County, Yunnan Province, China. Bing Dao means “a village with bamboo gate” in Thai. Local villagers, mainly tribal Thai people, have a documented tea growing history dating back to the 15th century. Bing Dao is made from ancient tea trees (gu shu) more than 300 years old and is stone-pressed in the traditional manner. The trees grow on the sunny side of Bang Ma Mountain, more than 2500m above sea level. As a high mountain tea, Bing Dao brews sweet, rich, and is pleasantly refreshing with almost no astringency. Moreover, it has a lasting sweet after-taste (huigan) in the throat, and is sheng jin in character, meaning that it leaves the palate feeling quenched. The fragrance is lightly citrusy and flowery, with a note of wild honey. Our Bing Dao cake is made with old tea leaves and is a great candidate for further aging.

In the afternoon, drive to Xiaohusai(小户赛) Tea village and Dahusai Village.
Transfer back to Lincang City in the late afternoon and see off.
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