4 Days Jianshui Confucian Culture Festival Tour
Tour Overview
Confucian Culture Festival is held mainly in Jianshui County, Honghe Prefecture. Activities include worshipping Confucius ceremony, a tour to the Wen Temple, art performances, local music performances, costume parades...
Code of Tour: YET0000003557
Length of Travel: 4 Day
Destinations of Tour: Kunming-Shilin-Jianshui-Kunming
Departure City: Kunming
Price of Tour: Request
Type of Tour:
Features of Tour: Culture History Festivals Education Ancient towns
Confucian Culture Festival is held mainly in Jianshui County, Honghe Prefecture. Activities include worshipping Confucius ceremony, a tour to the Wen Temple, art performances, local music performances, costume parades and so on. In addition, the festival also holds shows and exhibitions, like lantern shows, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, cultural tourism product exhibitions and trade fairs.
Highlights:
- Be marveled at the the ‘First Wonder of the World’ – Stone Forest.
- Experience the Confucian Culture Festival in Jianshui, with some shows and exhibitions.
- Explore the historic Jianshui Ancient town and surrounding attractions.
Brief Itinerary
- Day 1: Kunming – Jianshui
- Day 2: Jianshui
- Day 3: Jianshui
- Day 4: Jianshui – Kunming
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Detailed Itinerary
Day 1 Kunming -Jianshui
Sightseeing and Activities:Stone Forest
Accommodation: Jianshui
Meals:
Morning, pick up from your hotel, transfer 1.5hrs to visit Stone Forest, Then you will continue 4-5hrs driving to the Jianshui County. Check in your hotel after arriving at Jianshui.
Day 2 Jianshui
Sightseeing and Activities:Tuanshan Village, Double dragon bridge, Zhu’s Family Garden, Jianshui Old Town, a local Doufu Workshop
Accommodation: Jianshui
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Today, you will take one way sightseeing train about 2.5hrs from Jianshui town to Tuanshan village, going through the 12.82 km narrow-gauge railway(soft class seat). Enjoy the view of field, village on the way. And have a stop at Twin Dragon Bridge to take the picture, which is a 17-hole bridge with 148 meters long, 3-8 meters wide.
Then take off the train, make a tour of Tuanshan Village which is a rare surviving example of an intact-albeit neglected-traditional walled Yunnan village compound in southwestern China, and has been added to the 2005 list of internationally significant sites by the World Memorial Fund for Architecture (WMF), an international fund for the protection of world heritage sites.
Afterward, drive back to Jianshui city and have the tour of Zhu Family Garden. The so-called ‘Grand View Garden’ of South Yunnan Province, is a representative of Chinese residential houses of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). When walking through the garden, it really seems as if you are strolling through the Grand View Garden depicted in ‘A Dream of the Red Mansions’ (a famous Chinese Classical novel by Cao Xueqin (1724-1764) in the Qing Dynasty). This garden was the residence and ancestral temple of the rich man Zhu Weiqing and his brother in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
Later , Stroll in Jianshui Old Town, to see Chaoyang Gateway Tower, Old Well , and a local Doufu Workshop.
Day 3 Jianshui
Sightseeing and Activities:worshiping Confucius ceremony, art performances
Accommodation: Jianshui
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Enjoy the worshiping Confucius ceremony, a tour to the Confucian Temple, art performances, local music performances, costume parades and so on. In addition, the festival also holds shows and exhibitions, like lantern shows, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, cultural tourism product exhibitions and trade fairs.
Through Confucian Culture Festival of Jianshui, the local people absorb the essence of Confucian spirit, which is characterized by exerting and striving hard without any letting up and advancing with the times, which plays an important role in promoting the development in Honghe area. Through Confucian Culture Festival of Jianshui, Jianshui is forged into an international tourist city by promoting its development in historical culture and tourist culture.
Day 4 Jianshui -Kunming
Sightseeing and Activities:Xinmeng Village of Tong hai
Accommodation:
Meals: Breakfast
Morning departure from Jianshui and drive back to Kunming. On the way, have a stop at Xinmeng Village of Tong hai. Upon arrival, escort you to the airport for your departure flight.
Recommended Hotels
| City | 5 Star | 4 Star | 3 Star |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jianshui | Lin’an Hotel | Zhu Family Garden | Jianshui Hotel |
Service Included:
- Admission fees for all of the sightseeing spots listed in the itinerary;
- Meals as listed in the itinerary;
- Hotels as listed in the itinerary;
- Private English-speaking tour guide;
- Private vehicle for transfers & sightseeing with skilled driver;
- Service charge & government taxes;
- Luggage transfers between airports and hotels;
- Domestic train tickets of soft sleeper.
Service Excluded:
- Any arrival and departure international airfares or train tickets;
- Chinese visa fees;
- Excess baggage charged by Airlines;
- Single room supplement;
- Tips to guides and drivers;
- Personal expenses and gratuities to service staff;
- Personal travel accident insurance;
- All optional programs.
