Top Southern China Cultural Tours

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Experience the beautiful Li River on this sunset or sunrise cruise with a traditional cormorant fisherman. After a convenient hotel pickup, climb aboard the bamboo raft and marvel at the lush scenery while your guide practices this ancient type of fishing that involves no bait or hooks—just his trusty cormorant.

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Explore the best of Guangzhou during this 4-hour small-group cycling tour of the city’s center. Start in the oldest parts of the city and meander through hutong alleyways and outdoor markets, stopping for visits at places such as the City God Taoist Temple, People’s Park and Ersha Island. Approaching present-day Guangzhou, visit the Canton Tower and the famous Guangdong Museum and Library. Learn about the city’s rich history from your local guide and travel at a leisurely pace as you bike along, stopping to snack, take pictures and chat with locals along the way. 

Explore Guangzhou by night, under the neon lights, and choose what activity you’d like to do, which could be a Pearl River cruise or a trip to Canton Tower. Your guide will help you arrange logistics and tell you the history of the area, but the entrance fees are at your own expense. Another option is to try some traditional Cantonese dim sum for dinner. Your guide can recommend some excellent places.

Explore the best attractions in Xiamen on this half day tour, which is great for those with a layover, or for those who just want to explore the city. If your layover is longer, you can extend the tour. Things you’ll see include Shuahuang Garden on Gulangyu Island, check out the colonial buildings and the piano museum located there, and get some great views from Sunlight Rock.

Experience the highlights of Guangzhou on a private, full-day sightseeing tour. Traveling by air-conditioned vehicle with your own private guide, visit top attractions such as Shamian Island, the Five Ram Statue and Guangzhou Museum, set in the 5-story Zhenhai Tower. Learn fascinating facts about Guangzhou’s ancient, medieval and colonial past from your expert guide, and delve deeper into the city’s history at the Chen Family Temple and mural-coated, 2,000-year-old Mausoleum of the Nanyue King. A delicious Chinese lunch at a local restaurant is included.

Get an insight into local lifestyles that are impossible without a guide on this day trip to the Longji rice terraces. Discover the unique culture of the Yao women, with their impossibly long hair, soak up stunning rice terrace views, enjoy a local lunch, and hike the “Dragon’s Backbone” through Zhuang and Yao villages. Tour includes hotel pickup and drop-off.

This day trip(with hotel pick up and drop off in downtown Guangzhou) will let you explore the west outskirt of Guangzhou, immerse in the beautiful landscape in the countryside and escape the bustle city. Based on your interest, you can choose 2 places of interest to visit for this tour from the 4 options below: 1) Xiqiao Mountain, national 5A natural resort with fresh air, sky lake reservoir, Karst cave as well as the big Buddha temple. 2) Martial Art institution, hometown of Bruce Lee, to watch Kongfu show and traditional Chinese lion dance. 3) Pingsha Island village, bicycle ride on the island to observe the local village with broad farmland and orchard(dragon fruit, grape, fig, banana and so on). 4) Guoyi Film City, for the royal palace model and local commercial street for films taking. The above 4 sites are relatively close to each other located to the west of Guangzhou around 1.5 hours driving, visiting 2 of them would compose a 9 hours day trip. Suitable for adult and kids.

Delve into Guilin’s cultural and natural treasure chest during a private tour of the Yao Mountain and a verdant tea plantation. Ascend to the summit of Yao Mountain on a smooth cable car ride and absorb panoramic vistas of the scenery from the top. Gain fascinating insight into Chinese tea production during a tour of a plantation and sample freshly brewed green tea during an indigenous tea ceremony. Enjoy the convenience of private round-trip transportation and experience the undivided attention of your guide on this private tour.

With banks insulated by rice paddies and water buffalo and jagged mountains spreading across the skyline, the Li River is a sightseer's dream come true. This tour includes a 4-hour tour down the river, followed by a trip to the 1,400-year-old Yangshuo Old Town, all with round-trip transportation from your hotel in Guilin. Lunch and a guide are also included in this tour.

Visit the top historical sites in Guangzhou with a private guide who shares informative commentary about the city’s rich history and culture. See the 19th-century architecture of the Chen Clan Academy, the picturesque environs of Lizhiwan canal, a variety of goods at Qingping Market, and monumental Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. Enjoy an escape from the city bustle inside Banyan Pagoda, a 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple with important Buddhist relics. Try Cantonese dishes for lunch and relax in your own private vehicle as you travel around the city.

This half-day private tour of Nanshan Buddhism Culture Park will give you access to stunning shrines, statues, and temples, and also help you learn about China’s Buddhist culture. You won’t have to worry about organizing transport as hotel pickup is included at a time convenient for you. You’ll travel with ease in a private vehicle to Nanshan Buddhism Culture Park, and beat the visitor lines with entrance fees included too.

When in Guilin, it’s worth a day trip to get out of the city and into the terraced countryside of Longji. This private tour gets you out to the rice terraces, exploring the minority cultures that you encounter along the way. Transport, admission fees, and your guide are all included, so you don’t need to hassle with any planning. Plus this is a private tour, so you can go at your own pace the entire day.

If you have time for one day trip from Guangzhou, make it the watchtowers of Kaiping. These multi-story towers (diaolous) were built as flood refuges, forts and residences from medieval to modern times, with the later ones incorporating Western architectural styles. On this private 10-hour trip, visit these castle-like buildings at Zili village, explore ornamental Liuyuan Garden, and see Chikan Old Town’s east-meets-west architecture. Includes lunch, entrance fees, and hotel pickup and drop-off.

Explore the historic Sai Kwan district of Guangzhou with a private walking tour that includes tastings of the local Cantonese cuisine. Start with a dim sum lunch before walking around the foreign concessions of Shamian Island, with additional stops at a traditional Chinese Medicine Market, Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street and Liwan Lake Park. Go off the beaten path with a local guide and learn about the history of the city and traditional Chinese life and culture.

It's a well-arranged worry-free tour with perfect itinerary. You will visit the best attractions in Zhangjiajie and Fenghuang with private vehicles service. Visiting not only Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and Tianmen Mountain but also Fenghuang and an amazing evening show on this tour. It's a private tour with private transfers (a return trip between Zhangjiajie and Fenghuang) and all entrance tickets included. (Many other private tours do not include Fenghuang, because they think it is expensive to do it by a private car for a round-trip.) Detailed entrance tickets included on this tour: 1). Including Zhangjiajie National Forest Park Pass; 2). Bailong Elevator; 3). Cable car at Tianzi Mountain; 4). Tianmen Fox Fairy Show; 5). Tianmen Mountain entrance ticket (including one-way cable car ride); 6). Shoe covers; 7). Boating on Tuo River in the evening. The optional escalator and chairlift on Tianmen Mountain are excluded.

Discover China’s rich minority culture on an enriching full-day excursion to Longsheng from Guilin. Accompanied by a private guide, venture to the rural countryside to interact with the Zhuang and Yao communities, whose intriguing way of life is characterized by ancient traditions. Hike to the renowned Longji Rice Terraces and absorb spectacular views of the agricultural marvels, then capture photographs of the scenic sights with your guide. Enjoy the convenience of round-trip transportation from your Guilin hotel and receive the undivided attention of your guide on this private tour.

This 9 hours day trip tour(with hotel pick up and drop off in downtown Guangzhou) will let you explore Foshan city, the hometown of Bruce Lee, which is around 1.5 hours driving to the west of Guangzhou. Here's what you can do in this tour: 1) Visit ancient Chinese classic garden to enjoy the beautiful green landscape by specially planted trees as well as southern Chinese style architecture; 2) Visit the muesum of Ip-man, the master of Bruce Lee, get an idea of how Foshan city fostered many Kungfu stars and their life, history and influence to the world; 3) Watch the Kungfu show by professional masters and apprentices from martial art school; 4) Watch the traditional Chinese culture-Lion Dance by professional performers; 5) Lunch at a local restaurant to try the decilious Foshan cuisine. With the company of a knowledgable local guide and a private car with driver, The tour incorporates both driving and walking, for sightseeing as well as trying some local food.

Explore Guangzhou in comfort with a private full-day tour, which can be customized to your interests and preferences. See top attractions like the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Baiyuan Mountain, Chen Clan Academy, and more. Travel around in comfort in a private vehicle and learn about Guangzhou and Chinese culture with stories and insights from your local guide.

Discover the spectacular beauty and local cultures of the Longji Rice Terraces on a full-day tour from Guilin. Take in Huangluo Yao village to learn about the Yao and Zhuang peoples that have cultivated these rice terraces for more than 800 years. Have lunch in the village and taste bamboo rice, a specialty dish cooked in a bamboo stalk. Then ascend the mountain to visit Ping’an village and take a walk through the Longji Rice Terraces. Photo ops abound in this stunning region — keep your camera handy!

Li River is renowned for its incredible natural sights, including the immense karst mountains that tower over the water, and river cruises are a popular attraction in the region. Instead of battling the crowds and rushing to organise everything in Guilin, however, you can book a full-day river cruise that picks you up from your downtown hotel and drops you back in Guilin at the end of the day.

Experience Longji’s amazing rice terraces on this guided excursion. After a convenient hotel pickup, learn about these ancient terraced fields—known by locals as “Dragon’s Backbone”—that were first developed nearly a millennia ago, during the Yuan Dynasty. Admire their surreal scenery from a lookout point after a quick cable car ride, then enjoy an optional hike down and lunch before returning to Guilin.

Marvel at Zhangjiajie National Forest and other scenic highlights on a private day trip from Zhangjiajie. Admire the cloud-misted pillars at Zhangjiajie National Forest: an inspiration to the creators of 2010 movie 'Avatar.' Then, ride a mountainside elevator to see the ‘Avatar Hallelujah’ Mountain, No.1 Bridge under Heaven, and more. Finish at Tianzi Mountain, admiring Helong Park and the surrounding peaks before a cable car descent. Lunch, entrance fees, and hotel pickup and drop-off included.