3 Days Tengchong Hot Spring Vacation Tour with Heshun

Full Itinerary Day by day

Day 1 Tengchong Arrival - Heshun Ancient Town - Hot Spring Hotel Accommodation

Welcome to Tengchong! Upon your arrival, you'll be greeted by our local guide at the arrival hall of the airport who is holding a sign which says your name. Then the guide and driver will transfer you directly to your hotel in Heshun Ancient Town by our comfortable private car (non-smoking), and the guide will help you with the check-in procedure. After a short rest, you will follow your guide to explore this "China's Most Charming Town".

Heshun Ancient Town was once a significant town on the Ancient Silk Road, while nowadays it is more popularly known as a tranquil 600-year-old ancient town full of elegant architectures and alleys, charming caravan culture and history and peaceful and idyllic countryside landscape to explore. Here, you will stroll around the alleys and the streets paved with slab stones to admire this relatively large town with over one hundred of old buildings and designs, including the beautifully chiseled memorial archways, ancestral halls, temples and former residences of the area's celebrities. You will never miss the must-visits, like Heshun Museum - China's Largest Rural Library, Big Caravan Museums - a cluster of museums to tell you the glorious trading history and legends and the immortal spirit of caravans on the Silk Road, Shadow Play Museum - a tiny but interesting museum that will introduce you over 600 different types of shadow play items, etc. If you like, you can also enjoy a 25-minute boat tour (optional experience with extra fee) to indulge in the peaceful atmosphere of the northeastern part of this charming town.

After the ancient town tour, enjoy a joyful dip in the hot springs in your hotel before going to sleep! Have a good night!

Arrival ideas: Tengchong Tuofeng Airport has frequent flights from Kunming and 1~2 daily flights from Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, etc. If you drive from Dali, the car ride takes about 4.5 hours.

Day 2 Beihai Wetland - Geothermal Scenic Area - Hot Spring Hotel Accommodation (B, L)

Today, in the early morning after breakfast, you will stroll around the ancient town on your own pace and interests. This charming town has more lovely dwellings and lakes waiting for you steps. After the ancient town visit, you can enjoy a leisure trekking in the lush rice terraced fields in front of the town to admire the amazing rural scenery, get close to the farming life of the locals and meet with adorable animals! Lunch is served in the town.

In the afternoon, your guide and driver will escort you for about 20 kilometers and 0.5 hours to Beihai Wetland. The secluded Beihai Wetland is composed of a large plateau volcano dammed lake and a large scale of unique meadow pieces dotted on the lake. Those floating meadow pieces, or called grassland islets, are made up of multi-layers of the roots of grasses. When the wind blows, some of the small islets may move on the water, which is really impressive. The lake view, with lush hills standing by all directions at a distance, mysterious fog floating in the air and beautiful flowers and grasses swaying in the wind, is also breathtaking. Upon arrival, first enjoy a wooden boat tour to smoothly wind through the meadow pieces. Then, walk along the wooden trails built on the lake to immerse into the stunning scenery and listen to the echo of the Mother Nature.

After the lake tour, be driven to Geothermal Scenic Area (about 26 kilometers and 40 minutes away by car). Geothermal Scenic Area, or called Hot Sea, is located in the center of the entire geothermal area in Tengchong, and thus there gathers most of the hot springs of the city. Upon arrival, your guide will help you to check in at your high-end hot spring hotel. Then, you will enjoy a walking in the scenic area. There are altogether over 80 hot springs, and the temperature of about 10 of them reaching up to 90℃. While walking along the trail by the stream, you will find yourself wandering in the fairytale world with beautiful sunshine lighting on the white moving fog. And when you stand on the bridge over the water and listen to the lingering sound of the water flows, you will find a bit of peace in your Heart. What an impressive experience. Along the way, your guide will introduce you the name and the legend of each hot spring. After returning, ending your day with a dip in your very own hot spring before going to the bed. Enjoy your sleep!

Day 3 Tengchong Departure (B)

Today is for your free exploration of Tengchong before your guide and driver escorting you to the Tengchong Tuofeng Airport to catch your flight from leaving or to the next destination! Service ends!

Departure Ideas: Tengchong Tuofeng Airport has frequent flights to Kunming in the morning, afternoon and at night. And there are 1~2 daily flights to Chengdu, Guangzhou, etc. If you want to make a further tour to Dali from Tengchong. The car ride is about 4.5 hours.

The quotation for this trip is from Request Per Person

1. This price is for one person, based on a group of 2 adults sharing one standard double-bed room in 4-star hotel and traveling with our private tour in low seasons.
2. This price is subject to change according your traveling season, group size, hotel class, change of activities in your itinerary and possible fluctuation of currency exchange rate. If you want a lower price, you can get more people to join you, or use economy class hotels.
3. This price is only valid to March 31, 2026.
4. Reference exchange rate of USD 1=RMB 7.00. The final quote is based on current exchange rate. It may change according to the currency fluctuation, while the RMB quotation will be remained the same.

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Eveyone in our company is working hard for only one goal, which is to ensure the highest level of service, luxury, and attention to detail from the minute you begin planning your trip, to the day you return home.

1-on-1 Travel Consultant

Our travel consultants are professional, experienced and responsible, helping you from the very beginning to the end of your China trip!

After sending us an inquiry, one of our travel consultants will get back to you within 0.5~23.5 hrs. In the next few days, he/she will be working closely with you to formulate a customized tour plan, as well as providing professional suggestions based on your travel interests, time, and budget.

Beside, he/she will keep in contact with you during your entire tour in China, continually checking if everything is going well as planned.

We're working at Chengdu Bamboo International Tours, local based in Chengdu.

Local Tour Guides

Our local guide in every destination is not only very friendly, enthusiastic but also very informative and knowledgeable.

Once you arrive in the destination, the patient and punctual guides will pick you up and take you to get under skin of the city at your own pace. By in-depth discovery and explanation, they’ll show you more about the history, culture, customs and authentic local life. Throughout the journey, they're not only expert guides who take care of all the details but also fellow travelers who are dedicated to help you explore in comfort and style.

Our guides are passionate about what they do, and it shows all the way!

Local Drivers & Vehicle

Using our private transfer service makes you comfortable, relaxed and worry free all the way!

Our private service includes licensed drivers with many years’ driving experience and air-conditioned, non-smoking, clean and well-maintained cars/vans. Drivers are local, polite, friendly and helpful, taking you to your tourist sites, hotels, airport/train stations in safety. All kinds of vehicle are offered, and yours depends on the size of your group. Usually, we offer sedan cars, SUVs, business vans (MPV) and different types of buses, all with extra space for your luggage.

Our private transfer service guarantees you the highest comfort!

Comfortable & Homelike Hotels

In each destination, you’ll enjoy a comfortable stay in a great location!

The hotels we choose are based on star rating, great locations, well-equipped facilities, cozy bed, high quality service and guests’ feedbacks. Choices are a lot ranging from luxury 5 star, comfortable 4 star to budget 3 star. You could decide where to stay to best suit for your budget and likes. Generally, the hotels have both Western and Chinese breakfast with a wide choices.

If you have already got an ideal hotel, please feel free to tell our travel consultants and they'll book the hotel for you.

Have good sleep in our well-selected hotels in all the destinations of China.

Meals & Dining

We can satisfy all the dietary requirements no matter you want Chinese local food, western food, vegetarian food or muslin food.

The restaurants we will take you for lunch or dinner are all designated tourist restaurants approved by local tourist administration bureau. They have very good sanitary conditions and the food is prepared fresh and clean.

There will be some meals excluded in your itinerary as you like, and your private guide will be delighted to give you some suggestions and take you to the local restaurants to taste like Beijing Roast Duck, Xian Dumpling Dinner, Sichuan Hotpot, etc., if you are interested in local food tasting.

All the dining options will satisfy your stomach!

Check What our delighted customers are saying about our services

Hello Juliet,

We had an excellent trip and our tour guide and driver were exceptional. Beijing was beautiful and historical and everyone we met were happy and very friendly.

Thank you very much!

Martino

Martino‚ Canada, December 19, 2024

Hi Rita,

The best experience ever!!!! I fell in love.

I received your lovely card and cute gifts, thank you so much.

Done it! As always it’s my pleasure to hire your company services, see you in the next adventure.

Emmy

Emmy‚ Mexico, December 15, 2024

Hi Rita,

Please kindly see the feedback below.

We are a family of 7. This private tour package definitely met our expectations! Both tour guides (Chengdu- MAY & Chongqing-DAVID) provided us a very good service, both friendly and very flexible despite the change in our tour schedules. They were also very responsible and ensured our safety, meals and transports were well taken care of, especially since we have elderly and kids in our group. Both tour guides are very fluent in English too so it is very convenient for some of the non-chinese speakers in our group.

We will look for the same tour agent again in our next trip to China!

Best Regards,

Victoria

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Victoria‚ Singapore, December 14, 2024

Hi Shirley,

Thanks for the tour, and the itinerary that you planned for us was very comprehensive and detailed. We enjoyed it very much. The tour guide was also very friendly and experienced. He followed your itinerary closely and brought us to all the sites and explained in detail. He also recommended and brought us to enjoy some of the local cuisines during lunch.

Overall, we are impressed by the excellent service, reliability and quality that yourself, the tour guide and the driver has provided us. We would like to visit China again and we will not hesitate to engage your services again. Thank you!

Regards

Chun How

Chun How‚ Singapore, December 14, 2024

Hi Shirley,

I'm writing to provide some feedback on our recent Xian and Beijing trip that you put together for us.

We travel a lot, in the past year to Japan, New Zealand, China, Turkey, Africa, China, and finally this Xian/Beijing trip. I bring this up to highlight that we deal with a lot of travel professionals. You are easily the best travel professional we have dealt with through all of those trips. My wife, who happens to be Chinese asked me to make sure to keep your contact information for future China trips, with the intention of replacing the China based agent her brother usually uses for our trips.

Please let your manager know that we would probably not have used your company if not for you. Bamboo Travel is new to us and in a foreign country, so we had doubts as to what to expect. Your service was excellent from start to finish which really gave us confidence in your company. We had a little bit of an unusual itinerary and some constraints related to our other China travel prior to this tour. You were able to work through all of our issues with fast responses to our questions.

You also went what I would say was above and beyond expectations. The final example of that is a friend in the US was shipping some things to our hotel in Beijing for me to bring home to her. I contacted you to confirm the hotel name before they shipped the items, expecting I would then have to figure out the shipping details. Your reply not only confirmed the hotel, but you provided the shipping info in both English and Chinese, which saved me the hassle of trying to figure which address to use. Not a huge thing, but it's those small things that add up to a big difference in customer experience.

Thanks again for everything!

Xian:

Our guide was Waldner and we liked him from the start. We were just coming off another tour with another company which had maybe the best tour leader we've ever had. Even though we were always comparing Waldner measured up well. He was great at explaining the history of places we visited as well as answering our cultural questions. The restaurants/food were very good. He and the driver also modified the itinerary somewhat to optimize the driving based on our arrival and departure times and locations. We liked the hotel in Xian. The car (van) was very comfortable. Waldner also helped arrange tickets for a night show for us.

Beijing:

Pickup was great; even though we got in late the guide that picked us up was there and actually met us at the track. Cindy was our guide and we really liked her also. She is very knowledgeable and willing to answer (a lot of) questions. This was my 3rd time in Beijing and it was amazing what a difference having a good guide made. Cindy and the driver also modified the itinerary to optimize the driving. She also helped us book tickets to two shows, one of which was not on your list of optional items (Lao She tea house). Cindy was concerned about us ordering a cab so she stayed at the show to make sure we got back to our hotel ok. The restaurants/food were very good. The hotel was good but not great; for example we had hot water issues every day, and when I went to pick up a package that was shipped to me they just left me to dig through a pretty large pile of packages all addressed in Chinese.

To wrap up, I would rate the overall experience of looking for a trip, picking a company, and traveling 9.5 out of 10. Shirley, your service was 10 out of 10.

See you next trip!

Terry

Terry ‚ USA, December 11, 2024

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Reviewed on December 13, 2024