Private Tour
Longji Rice Terraces and Minority Village Day Tour
Overview
Available languages
8 hours
Mobile ticket
This private tour provides you a trouble-free and safe tour during the pandemic to visit the magnificent scenery of terrace fields at Longji and explore the local minority villages and their tradition and culture. You could trek around the well-known Longji Rice Terraces and enjoy the local food for lunch.
If the tour is to visit Jinkeng Terraces Fields ( Dazhai), the cable car is available to reach the top viewpoint (cable car fee is excluded and it depends on your option)
Additional Info
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Longji Rice Terraces
In the morning, the guide will pick tourists up hotel in the city center of Guilin at about 08:00-08:30O. Then our vehicle goes up and down the mountains to reach the entrance of Longji Terraces Scenic Area for about 2.5 hours. Keep driving for less than 30 minutes, we will arrive at the foot for Ping An Zhuang Village, which is located on a hillside. There are about 170 families in Ping An Village with more than 700 people. All of these people have the same family name "Liao".
Ping'an Village
A local Chinese lunch is arranged in Ping An Village, with the featured local food, such as bamboo rice, chicken, etc. It tastes like the light fragrance of bamboo, quite different from what we eat downtown. In the late afternoon, we will drive back to Guilin but have a stop at Yao Village en route. The women in this village are all in red national costumes, with long hair set on their heads. In the village, you will have a chance to watch Long Hair Dance Show performed by the locals (The show is excluded from the price). Keep driving back to Guilin. You will be dropped off at the hotel around 17:00-17:30.
What‘s Included
English speaking driver cum guide
Hotel pickup and drop-off at hotel in downtown Guilin
Transport by air-conditioned minivan
Typical Chinese Lunch
Gratuities
Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
Personal travel insurance
Personal expenses
Separate English speaking guide (can be a option with extra fee)
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Meeting points
Guilin
Guilin China
End points
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
Options
Longji Rice Terraces and Minority Village Day Tour
Pickup included
Reviews
18 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Perfect tour!
Martina9992,,Sep 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00A very well organized private tour: the guide, very prepared, picked us up at the hotel and took us first to Yao Village, where we had dinner, and then to Longi. Breathtaking views, despite the fields were still deep green! Recommended!
Wonderful country
malacitana75,,Aug 22, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Wonderful experience in China, not only for landscapes but for guides and transports. It was very well organized.
Fantastic experience in a lovely place
V3216FUgiuseppec,,Jun 2, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We visited a very engaging and fascinating place. Thanks to our guide we had the opportunity to have lunch in a place with traditional home cooking. The organization of all 12 days of tours in greater China was greatly appreciated
A great experience
425patrizias,,Apr 26, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We went for a 14 days "classic" China tour, staying in Beijing, Datong, Pingyao, Xi'an, Guilin,Shanghai and Suzhou. The organization was perfect, drivers and guide encountered in each location were kind, helpful and experienced. We had as well the opportunity to taste local foods recommended by the local guide. The experience was great and we enjoyed it so much. I strongly recommend this tour operator. A personal suggestion for the travellers would be to spend more time in Shanghai and less in Suzhou.
Rice fields
muratkocacinar,,Nov 1, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00It 's a must-see. It 's especially beautiful early September . When rice plantations are turning yellow .
Well worth the trip.
Paul E,,Oct 31, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00Did this hike from our local hotel and thoroughly enjoyed it. The rice fields are amazing and when you walk through them and start to think about the energy required to maintain them, then you really must appreciate and respect these farmers. The views are just spectacular. We took about 2.5 hrs to complete our walk and it was a real experience.
Good for the standard chinese touirism
Mario C,,Aug 6, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
3.00The place is amazing, but why i must go where is a cableway,120 yuan not included, te see the terrace or step by step 45.minuts up is reeeeally difficolt... the guide cant speak really english, like me aniway, but sheis not really a guide, but she came to sell the ticket cableway and the bamboo cicken, not included 25 yuan(not good) After lunch we go in the teatre for a short spetacle really nice about the women of.long hair. (Not so bad) So you pay only the transport, but its.not so close to guilin and finally you will spend a good dau with them.
I paid double than others
JonKepa A,,Jun 20, 2019
- Review from Viator
5.00I booked this trip in advanced, and during the visit there were other people who paid half we paid. I am not happy with this. I have to mentioned the trip was worthy. So I do recommend it, but I sugggest to book in the destionation, in the hotel or other agents instead. Regards,
Giant live museum
Danexplorer,,Nov 4, 2018
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00It is probably not economic to grow rice this way any longer, but the population has bound itself to continue since no rice growing on terraces no tourists = no income. It is a fantastic view once you have made your way to the viewpoints, but you need good legs. We had expected that our driver would just take us to a high point from where we could enjoy the view, but no. After two hours drive from Guilin he dropped us of at a terminal, from where we continued with busses another hour. From where we were dropped of we had to continue up a combination of a steep paths and more than a 1000 steps to reach the viewpoints. Half way up we stopped for lunch which was rich and had some interesting local specialities like smoked meat and rice prepared in bamboo.
Getting too touristy but still really enjoyed
kelbel51,,Oct 26, 2018
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00I guess everywhere I go will be tourist infested. I do wish this one could have held on to its authenticity a little more rather than having so many little shopping spots with people trying to sell you their "unique" "handmade" items (which i'm not sure I believe were). But it's also very nice to learn how rice is actually done -- way up here in the mountain. I enjoyed walking all around in the beautiful weather - up and down steps, out to other terraces, through the little enclave in the middle. I enjoyed seeing how very different peoples lives can be. I enjoyed that people still kept their clothing, their methods of doing some things.
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