{"product_id":"yunnan-ethnic-tapestry-private-tour-2026","title":"Yunnan Ethnic Tapestry — 11 Days","description":"\u003cp class=\"ct-product-lead\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEleven days through China's most ethnically diverse province — 26 distinct minorities, rice terraces carved into mountains over two millennia, and a town the Nazis actually documented before China did.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYunnan borders Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam, and looks like it can't quite decide which country it belongs to. That ambiguity is its charm. The Naxi people of Lijiang developed one of the world's only pictographic writing systems still in active use. The Hani people of Yuanyang built the Honghe Rice Terraces over 1,300 years. The town of Dali was once a kingdom. This itinerary spends real time in each place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eItinerary Highlights\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDays 1–3 — Kunming \u0026amp; Arrival:\u003c\/strong\u003e Stone Forest UNESCO site. Yunnan Provincial Museum — bronze culture of the ancient Dian Kingdom. Evening: local cross-bridge noodles in a restaurant that has been open since 1946.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDays 4–5 — Dali:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ancient walled city. Erhai Lake by bicycle — flat shoreline road, fishing villages, no traffic. Tie-dyeing workshop with a Bai minority artisan family.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDays 6–7 — Lijiang:\u003c\/strong\u003e UNESCO-listed old town at dawn (before the souvenir shops open). Naxi pictographic script workshop. Tiger Leaping Gorge — one of the world's deepest river gorges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDays 8–9 — Shangri-La:\u003c\/strong\u003e Songzanlin Monastery — Yunnan's largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery. Prayer wheel courtyard at evening prayers. Napa Lake grassland.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDays 10–11 — Yuanyang Rice Terraces:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sunrise over 3,000 hectares of flooded terraces — the most photographed landscape in China. Overnight in a Hani guesthouse. Return to Kunming, departure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePricing\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cstrong\u003eUSD 5,280 per person\u003c\/strong\u003e (based on 2 travelers). October–April best for rice terrace water reflections. Avoid Golden Week (Oct 1–7).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e✏️ \u003cstrong\u003eHow to edit:\u003c\/strong\u003e Products → Yunnan Ethnic Tapestry → Edit. Update itinerary, guesthouse names, and pricing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eLiving Heritage Encounter — Mosuo Matrilineal Family Weaving\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Lugu Lake you spend an afternoon with \u003cstrong\u003eMrs. Gemu Lhamu\u003c\/strong\u003e, the matriarch of a Mosuo grandmother-led family and an inheritor of \u003cem\u003eMosuo shouzhi maoyi\u003c\/em\u003e — the Mosuo backstrap-loom weaving tradition on Yunnan's provincial intangible cultural heritage list. The Mosuo are one of the few remaining matrilineal societies in the world. Mrs. Gemu weaves on a backstrap loom strapped to a beam of her family house and dyes the wool yarns using local plants. She explains how the geometric patterns encode family lineage and seasonal events, and guides you through a small weaving exercise on her own loom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- ct-cache-bust-route-map-20260611 --\u003e","brand":"ChinaTourly","offers":[{"title":"Pay full","offer_id":55454148690088,"sku":null,"price":5280.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Pay deposit (20%)","offer_id":55596121522344,"sku":null,"price":1056.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/7419\/2040\/files\/c97a17fe502dfd77a9be68fcbf58c80e.webp?v=1780886868","url":"https:\/\/chinatourly.com\/products\/yunnan-ethnic-tapestry-private-tour-2026","provider":"Chinatourly","version":"1.0","type":"link"}