Mini Group: Longji Rice Terraced Fields and Minority Villages Tour
Overview
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8 hours
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During this 1-day tour, your local professional guide from Guilin will accompany you as you hike to the Longji Rice Terraced Fields and visit two minority villages. You’ll admire the most beautiful scenery of the terraced fields from different angles and discover the local minority cultures of the Zhuang and Yao peoples.
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
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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).
If the number of participants are more than 6, we need to transfer to shuttle buses at the scenic area because there is a vehicle restriction for driving up or down the hill. The shuttle bus fee is included in pricing.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
A hiking trip from Guzhuang Village to Ping'an Village.
English-speaking local guide service.
Bottled water
Admission ticket to Longji Rice Field Terraces
Transport between attractions, including pickup and return to your hotel.
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
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
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Meeting points
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End points
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
What To Expect
Longji 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 city, covering 6 villages with a history of more than 2,000 years. The local Zhuang and Yao people have been farmed this mountainous fields day after days and year after years for their hard living. The Ancient Zhuang Village is the origin of the Zhuang people’s terraced fields. The highest altitude of the village is about 1,300 meters while the lowest altitude here is 350 meters. The terraced fields here look magnificent! After admiring the beautiful terraced fields scenery in the viewpoint of Slender Ditch you will hike to another famous village – Ping’an Village from here. This hike takes about 1 hour to complete about 8 kilometers' distance.
Ping'an Village
After lunch, you’ll start a visit to the most famous village in Longji – Ping’an Village. You’ll see the most beautiful and magnificent terraced fields scenery in Longji! Many world-awarding pictures were taken in this village. After visiting the Seven Star with Moon viewpoint we'll interview an old Yao lady with long hair come from another village nearby to discover another ethnic group – the Yao people with red clothes and their featured long hair culture for women. In their culture girls only allow having their hair cut for two times in their whole life. After interviewing the Yao lady, you'll go to the most beautiful viewpoint – Nine Dragons and Five Tigers. This viewpoint is absolutely the most highlight of the day! Time: 16:00–18:00, Drive back to Guilin or Yangshuo The trip comes to the end after visiting the viewpoint of Nine Dragons and Five Tigers.You’ll be dropped off at your hotel in Guilin or Yangshuo safely.
Options
Guilin Departure
Departs from Guilin
Pickup included
Yangshuo Departure
Departs from Yangshuo county.
Pickup included
Reviews
30 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Easy to book and excellent local experience
957giulianaz,
May 30, 2025
- Tripadvisor
5.00Ellen was an incredible tour guide and the driver was great also! Booking this was super easy and the pick up and drop off at all the locations was very smooth. Ellen was very informative about everything and enriched my experience. She took me to places where there were not many tourists to get a local feel. She even gave me recommendations for the rest of my time in Guilin. I would 100% recommend Ellen and this tour.
Fantastic, 100% worth the price, would book it again and again 😍
Meander08233092237,
Jun 11, 2024
- Tripadvisor
5.00Fantastic 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.
Magnificent scenery combined with a delicious lunch at a farmer family
Duppiedup,
Sep 11, 2020
- Tripadvisor
5.00We 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.
Beautiful terrace rice farming
gentman,
Nov 7, 2019
- Tripadvisor
5.00During 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.
Excellent time in small group in the rice fields
Jérémy P,
Sep 21, 2019
- Tripadvisor
5.00Full day with a group of 5 accompanied by our superb guide Sharon. The landscapes are beautiful (we were there mid-September = before the rice harvest). Not too crowded and we were as close to the premises thanks to our guide (Sharon) who knows the place very well and its inhabitants.
We had a fantastic day at the Longji Rice Rerraced Fields with our guide Lily.
Matthias W,
Aug 18, 2019
- Viator
5.00Our 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.
You can’t miss it!
Tour10388728303,
Jun 3, 2019
- Viator
5.00Even 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!
Great experience in great scenery even under suboptimal weather
Stoffelchecker,
May 14, 2019
- Tripadvisor
5.00We 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.
Amazing, wonderful rice terraces
Jeanine S,
May 13, 2019
- Viator
5.00This 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.
This tour was the highlight of our trip to Guilin
Stephen H,
May 7, 2019
- Tripadvisor
5.00We 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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