6 Days Yunnan Coffee, Tea and Minority Culture Tour to Puer and XishuangBanna

Today, we will go to Zhengdong Town. There, we will meet the local hard-working coffee farmers and visit their carefully tended coffee plantations. After that, we will choose a comfortable hotel or guesthouse in Jiangcheng to spend the night.

Drive to Menglun Town, visit Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden, which holds more than 3000 species, enjoy nice scenery in the garden and learn about some interesting plants. Walk in rainforest zone, the most natural part of garden is especially recommended, where tourists seldom go there, very quiet and original, for simple knowledge about rainforest, the most bio-diversified vegetation type in the world, which is a good place.

Later, leave botanical garden for Jinuo Mountain Area and visit Jinuo People, who uniquely belongs to this region, is the last ethnic nationality classified by Chinese Government in 1979. See the ancient tea plantations around Jinuo village, which used to be one of Six Great Tea Mountains reputed as the cradles of famous Pu’er Tea. Back to Jinghong.

Pick you up from the hotel. Drive to Mount Nannuo and trek about 2 hours from Ban Po Lao Zhai(半坡老寨）to see ancient tea plantation aged over 800 years of Aini people, Aini, who have been engaged in tea-planting here for centuries. Visit their village. Through chat we may discover how much Aini people rely on tea.

Then pay a visit to small tea workshop in the village to learn about how fresh tea leaves are processed. Trek down to the foot of the Mountain and move on to Menghai.

Finally visit village of Bulang people, the third largest ethnic group of Xishuangbanna, who are farmers mainly engaged in planting tea and sugar cane, as well loyal Theravada Buddhists. Drive to Jinghong for overnight.