Longji Rice Fields and Minority Villages: A One-Day Tour in Guilin

On this one-day excursion, your proficient local guide from Guilin will take you on a hike to the Longji Rice Terraced Fields and tour two minority villages. You’ll have the pleasure of viewing the stunning scenery of the terraced fields from various perspectives, and explore the indigenous cultures of the Zhuang and Yao communities.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces - Your guide will be waiting for you in your hotel’s lobby or other appointed location at the agreed time, which is usually 8 am.  You’ll join a group with no more than 10 members, which is a great size to ensure you enjoy a better travel experience.
    Longji Terraced Fields is located in Longsheng county of Guilin…
What's Included
  • Scenic hiking trip from Guzhuang to Ping’an Village.
  • Guidance by an English-speaking local guide.
  • Complimentary bottled water.
  • Included admission to Longji Rice Terraces.
  • Convenient hotel pickup and return transport.
What's Not Included
  • Airport transfer.
  • Gratuities to your tour guide & driver (usually CNY 50 - 100 per person). It is not compulsory but would be a great encouragement for them.
  • Your personal expenses.
  • Lunch
Additional Information
  • In Yangshuo town, the hotel collection and drop-off area should be within the urban area. For further distances, you need to hire a taxi to the Green Lotus Hotel (碧莲江景酒店).
  • Minimum number of participants required for the tour to run is 2. Maximum number of participants per tour is 10.
  • If the number of participants are more than 6, we need to…
Location
Guilin
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Meander08233092237
Jun 11, 2024
Fantastic, 100% worth the price, would book it again and again 😍 - Fantastic adventure trip. Highly recommended. My tour guide was very well-read and super friendly. A people-oriented experience. Culturally, there was a lovely show in the Longhair Village that explained the tradition.
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Duppiedup
Sep 11, 2020
Magnificent scenery combined with a delicious lunch at a farmer family - We loved the whole trip with our great German speaking guide Julia. Just the three off us wandering through the fields and enjoying the magnificent scenery. Another highlight was the lunch prepared for us by a local farmer family, very friendly people and delicious food prepared from fresh ingredients. Overall, a great day out.
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Gentman
Nov 7, 2019
Beautiful terrace rice farming - During harvesting and photos taken from cable car. We wish we could help up with the farmers but it was raining. During harvest now, it resemble gold field. I would expect the growing will be all green which is a different beauty altogether.
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Matthias_w
Aug 18, 2019
We had a fantastic day at the Longji Rice Rerraced Fields with our guide Lily. - Our Guide Lily was very friendly and helpful. Her english was excellent and she told us very interesting things about the arey. The landscape was amazing. We had bamboo rice and other meat and vegeables wich was very delicious. We had lots of fun preparing the bamboo rice. Our children 8 and 11 had much fun walking trough this beautiful landscape. We loved wearing the rice hats.
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Tour10388728303
Jun 3, 2019
You can’t miss it! - Even if the weather does not contribute it’s impossible to not enjoy the journey. The history and fields are amazing! A once and only lifetime experience! Lily our tour guide was exceptional :) very receptive, friendly and told us every single detail about everything! The lunch at the farmers house was awesome and also delicious! I had a excellent time!
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Stoffelchecker
May 14, 2019
Great experience in great scenery even under suboptimal weather - We were lucky, in addition to us there was only one more person with us on the tour, which made the tour even more enjoyable. First it seemed as if the weather would spoil the tour for us. But our guide Lily had a good instict or experience regarding the schedule of the tour. So we were able to have some fog-free views on the terraces between the rainy sections what made the experience even a little mystical. We also liked the look into a typical house and how they made paint out of leaves. And last but not least the great lunch we had, definitely one of the best we had during our complete journey. So this tour was an absolute highlight on our journey, 100 percent recommendation. I only want to add that the described schedule on this website is more like a rough idea of the tour, which isn´t a problem. More important for me is to have a great experience with a guide that can react on the given circumstances. And that was absolutely given.
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Jeanine_s
May 13, 2019
Amazing, wonderful rice terraces - This was a great tour. The rice terraces are spectacular no matter what the season. A great view of village life. Great food! A word of warning though: The road is a rough drive up the mountain, so if you have a bad back, consider giving this tour a miss.
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Stephen
May 7, 2019
This tour was the highlight of our trip to Guilin - We absolutely loved our tour the the rice terraces and the local villages. We went on May 1 which is the first day of the planting festival so there was lots of activity with the locals getting the fields ready for planting. Despite being a long weekend it was not too busy. There is a fair bit of walking, but all of us including our 2 kids (6 and 8) really enjoying walking through the fields, trees and villages. Yang was a very friendly and knowledgeable guide.
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Stoogie58
Apr 23, 2019
An Excellent Experience - Our group consisted of four people, including ourselves. Therefore there was plenty of time to enjoy the company of our companions and to hear from our engaging and informative guide, Yang. The lunch in the village and the views across the terraces with the mist lifting were particularly memorable. Alan and Christine
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Celina
Oct 9, 2023
Cancelled one day before the Tour - Trip got cancelled the night before the Trip. I booked 3 weeks in advance. Not recommended. You can find another, better Guide.
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From $79
up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).