4-Day Private Tour to Hakka Tulou,Xiamen and Mount Wuyi

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Yongding Hakka Tulou. O/N Xiamen.
3 stops
1
Xiamen
In the morning, your tour guide and the driver will pick you up from your hotel at about 08:00. We will drive 3 hours to Yongding County to visit the renowned Hongkeng Hakka Tulou Cluster, which is listed as a World Cultural Heritage Site.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free
2
Along the way, your guide will give you a brief introduction to Hongkeng, a village with a long history in the Yongding District of Fujian. There are more than 30 Tulous, a kind of Hakka earthen dwelling, arranged in an orderly fashion inside this tranquil village. Most of them were created in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1911). It would be rewarding to join this Xiamen day tour to Yongding Tulou to see such rare culture heritage sites. Upon arrival, you will be led to the Zhencheng Building, known as the "Eight Diagrams Building". It is famous for its magnificent outside and delicate inside design. Then, pay a visit to the palace-like Kuiju Building featuring distinctive quadrate construction. Later, our guide will accompany you to the Rusheng Building - a small compact round tower. Fuyu Building will be the last stop of this Xiamen Tulou tour.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
3
Xiamen
After lunch,then you will be escorted back to your hotel in Xiamen.
17 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 2
Xiamen City. O/N Xiamen.
5 stops
4
Xiamen
In the morning, your tour guide and the driver will pick you up from your hotel at about 09:00. We will transfer you to a ferry for the 10-minute boat trip to Gulangyu Island to start this private Xiamen day tour.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free
5
Gulangyu Island
The first stop is Shuzhuang Garden in the southern part of the island. With an ingenious layout designed around the natural terrain, the park includes two parts: the Garden of Hiding the Sea (Canghaiyuan) and the Garden of Making-Up Hills (Bushanyuan). Then, you will be guided to the Piano Museum, which houses a large assortment of historic and modern fine pianos from the collection of Hu Youyi. Gulangyu Island attracts a lot of tourists for its pleasant climate and picturesque views. Seen from a distance, it is like an enchanting garden floating on the sea. Roaming leisurely about the island, you will be amazed by buildings constructed in the Chinese as well as foreign styles, blooming flowers and lush trees, plus the fascinating coastline scenery. As a private garden once, the villa-style Shuzhuang Garden on the island owns many beautiful buildings such as pavilions and houses. In the Piano Museum within Shuzhuang Garden, visitors can also have a nice glimpse of the history of this musical instrument.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
6
Nanputuo Temple
After lunch, your Xiamen day trip will be extended to the South Putuo Temple, a temple well-known throughout China and the location of the Buddhist College of Minnan. The South Putuo Temple is an ancient Buddhist temple originally built during the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907). With large and imposing scale, it is composed primarily of four buildings: Devajara Hall, Mahavira Hall, Dabei Hall and the scripture library. If you are interested in Buddhist culture, you won't be disappointed admiring the sacred Buddhist statues and treasures inside the temple.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
7
Huli Mountain Fort
After that, your guide will accompany you to the Hulishan Battery Scenic Spot which was a military outpost constructed during the latter part of the Qing dynasty. Today it features cannonry from the Qing dynasties. If time permits, you'll be able to walk along the Island Ring Road to view the spectacular seascape and man-made scenery.
50 minutes • Admission ticket included
8
Xiamen
At the end, you will be escorted back to your hotel in Xiamen
18 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 3
Xiamen - Mount Wuyi by train. O/N Nanping.
5 stops
9
In the morning, your guide and driver will meet you at the hotel then drive you to the Xiamen railway station and take the bullet train to Mount Wuyi, you may take the G1652 09:00--11:55. The train takes around 3hrs.
50 minutes • Admission ticket free
10
Upon arrival at Nanping, you will be picked up on time and transferred to the hotel.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free
11
After lunch, you will head to Mount Wuyi and board the unique featured bamboo raft to cruise 2 to 3 hours the Nine-bend River in Mount Wuyi. The 62.8-km (40-mi) long river snake winds along the mountain foot, and the landscape of mountains and rivers changes accordingly. Rafting down the river amongst the picturesque landscape is standard fare for tourists on a Mount Wuyi tour.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
12
After the scenic rafting, you will get to Wuyi Palace, where emperors used to make ritual offerings to the gods. There are two standing thousand year old osmanthus trees to bear witness to the ancient events that took place in the palace yard, in addition to four stone steles with relevant inscriptions.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
13
At the end, your guide will escort you to your hotel.
18 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 4
Mount Wuyi. The tour end.
2 stops
14
In the morning, you will visit the Heavenly Tour Peak(Tian you feng), the most beautiful portion of the Nine-bend River overlooking the spectacular steep Danxia land formation. You also get a panoramic view of the fairyland Mount Wuyi in a sea of clouds and jagged peaks. After lunch, you are guided to the Dahongpao Scenic Area canyon to watch the three authentic Dahongpao Tea Trees on the precipitous rock. Due to its rarity, Dahongpao Tea is considered as the King of Tea. Many famous part nature and part man-made landscapes are within sight. A trek to the waterfalls in Water Curtain Cave will wind up today's Wuyishan private tour.
4 hours • Admission ticket included
15
At the end, your guide will escort you to your hotel or Wuyi airport/train station. End of the tour services.
2 hours • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Specialized infant seats are available
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

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