Recommendation: Welcome to Guizhou in Spring Festival Period, Have a journey filled with plenty festivals among fantastic minorities ethnic!
Welcome to Guizhou in februrary, have a journey filled with celebrations among minorities.
(In January and Februrary 2012, in Guizhou, the southwest of China.)
From harvest to transplantion of rice, it is the period when earth sleeps. But in Guizhou, it is the peroid of Carnival! Minorities choose the period of Chinese New Year to do their celebration. This period is just correspond to the Februray.
From one valley to another, from west to east of Guizhou, among all the minorites ethnic, the Lusheng(music instrument) players, fighting buffalos and dancing girls, the silver ornaments are tinkling and shining on their fantastic festival dress. These festivals offer very good occasion for young people’s courtship.
February is really one of the best periods to travel among monorities group in Guizhou.
Because for more than ten days, Guizhou are displayed without stopping the festivities, activities such as wedding, family reunion etc. You can see the different festivals in different ethnic groups in different villages. It is like a feast with a variety of hearty dishes.
Simply, we need to find the right places to get a good time to attend all these activities.
Here we present some of these festivals with dates, also a itinerary very well studied.
Recommendation: Immersion into the minorities of Guizhou (the package tour of indigo lodge)
Indigo Lodge of Shuitouzhai (two nights), at an altitude of 900 meters.
Shuitouzhai
(1h 15m ‘s drive from the airport of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province)
Situated in a beautiful valley, Shuitouzhai is a Buyi ethnic village built along the Qinglonghe River. Nearby there are lot of things to discover: the big piece terraced fields, the tea plantation, the villages, the Buddhism temple and spectacle gorges.
This stay offers a immersion of the life of Buyi ethnic, who live mainly in the south, southwest of Guizhou, and a stay of pleasant countryside walk and picking up tea.
In this region, the climate is very agreeable in summer, the average temperature is 24℃.
Between the beginning of March and end of April, the rapeseed fields are flowering.



















