Festivals in April
Firecracker Festival of Dong
16 April 2010
Dance Flower Festival of Miao
2-5 April 2010
Tours in April
Spring’s color
02/4 arrive in Guiyang
03/4 Guiyang-Huishui, visit Qingyan ancient town constructed during the Ming Dynasty, and later afternoon attend the Glutinous Rice Cake Festival in a Red Miao village.
04/4 Huishui-Tongzhou, discover a coquille (or seashell) Miao village; appreciate spectacular landscape of Xiguan karst plateau.
05/4 Tongzhou-Wangmo,discover Red Miao and experience local ethnic market in the marketing day.
06/4 [...]
Hidden Civilizations(Southeast Guizhou)
With boundless mountains and innumerous valleys, southeast Guizhou is like a refugee for minorities, the Dong, Miao, Shui etc. are living in the traditional life and keep their immemorial unsophisticated custom and culture in the modern world.
Miao and Dong Explore, 9 day’s trip.
Day 1 Guiyang-Shuitouzhai
Arrive Guiyang, then drive to Shuitouzhai, the buyi village in central [...]
Last memory of traditional textile
Despite their spectacular scenery, large parts of Guizhou are still very poor and are very difficult to reach. This relative isolation has enabled many minority groups in the area to retain their rich cultural heritage and preserve ethnic distinctiveness. In the more remote parts traditional textiles are still very much a part of daily life, [...]
Tribes in karst peaks(South Guizhou)
Day 1 Arrive in Guiyang. Transfer to hotel
Day 2 Guiyang—Ziyun
Discover old Han(Chinese) stone village.These people are descendant of Han garison who arrived at Ming Dynasty, 14th centry. They play the own Dixi opera for hundreds years. In the opera, actors wear a wood carving mask on their forehead. Each mask incarnates a [...]
Mountain spirit(Traversing Guizhou trip.)
Day 1. Arrive Guiyang
Day 2. Guiyang to Huangguoshu waterfall. Discover the old Han Chinese in stone castle, and appreciate the Ground Opera. They are the descendants of soldiers from today’s Nan Jing east of china in Ming dynasty. Opera used to the Beijing style was also brought to Guizhou together. Appreciate the waterfall, 81m wide [...]
