Time: 8:30 A.M. start from Jinghong to Menghai, 1 hours on the highway by public-bus, visit local daily market in Menghai.. After the market we continue the trip to a village, a 30 minutes bus ride on a good road. We walk to visit the Aini village, take a walk in the jungle to a typical, fairly traditional Bulang village which takes around 40 minutes. After the Bulang village we walk down the hill crossing a huge tea plantation. Along the way you will enjoy breathtaking views of valleys studded with rice fields.Totally walking time is about 3 hours.
Around 5 P.M. we will be back in Jinghong.
Option: If the day of your choice is Sunday, we can visit the Sunday Market.If you like we can also visit a small home-style tea factory, JingEn temple or the 300 years old Jingzhen temple. 2012 photos on this trek

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Departure time: 9:00 A.M.
Half an hour mini-bus ride to the old Aini village near Nannuoshan, visit Hani(Aini) cultural exhibition which is free to visit and show Aini people's clothing, farm tools, life custom and Pu'er tea culture in Yunnan province.Then 20 minutes driving to the Aini vellage where we start to walk. 2 hours walking on a jungle path to see the old Pu er tea tree plantation. All the tea trees are between 300 and 800 years old. At noon, we drink local tea and have lunch with an Aini family or at an Aini restaurant. If you like the tea, you can also buy some from local people for the best price. The whole experience lasts 5 to 6 hours.

2011 photos on this trek tour

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This trek starts with a 1 hours journey by mini-bus to a big Dai village north of Jinghong. From there there is a jungle footpath parallel to a small mountain river that we will follow for about 1.5 hours. We will have a break midway and then continue to the waterfall where you will encounter a lot of ancient trees and fascinating rainforest plant species. This trip s particularly worthwhile during the rainy season (May to October). Afterwards we walk downhill along the rocks (in the dry season) back to the Dai village and get the bus back to Jinghong. The whole experience lasts about 5 hours.

NOTE: with more and more tourist go to the forest, more and more rubbish was left in the forest. Please take away the rubbish and leave your love in the beautiful forest!
Related Trekking Story :Come across a snake in forest - 27th, July, 2010
Related Photos :2012 April 1 days forest trekking

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We will leave Jinghong around 8:30 AM by public bus. After 1,5 hours we get off in Mengkuan and walk for about 5 hours along a track that allows for beautiful views of rice paddies, pineapple and tea plantations. Along the way we will cross six different villages populate by Ake, Aini and Dai tribes. There will be a steep uphill climb at the beginning that might be a little demanding, but later the track is fairly easy to walk. Only the last 40 minutes are more taxing, because the path leads steeply downhill. We return to Jinghong in the late afternoon.

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This trek kicks off with a 2 hour public bus and pravite bus ride to a Ake village beside Mekong river , followed by 4 hours walking in a valley with rice fields ­- a lot of up & down walking to be more precise! The second day also demands 4 to 5 hours of walking, albeit at a much more relaxed pace and less uphill. The path we follow on both days allows us beautiful views of the stunning mountain panoramas of the China - Burma border region. We will see many rubber and tea plantations as well as mountain rice fields. Ethnic groups that settle in the area include Dai ,Aini and Ake people.
The night will be spent in small Dai village ( bedroom and bathroom in Dai people's family house) 2010 photos on this trek

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At 8:30 AM we take a minibus to Galanba .The drive takes approximately 1 and a half hours, our destination is a medium-sized Dai village. From there it's a beautiful 4 hours walk along a small trail to an small Aini village inhabited by only 17 families. The first night we will rest in the traditional home of a very hospitable Dai people's family.
2nd and 3rd day: On both days we face uphill and downhill 5 or 6 hours walks through dense forests, rubber plantations and mountain rice fields. The night of the third day will be spent in a hillside Aini people's village that offers ravishingly beautiful views down into misty valleys. Before reaching our overnight destination we will cross the Mekong by ferry boat and then walk along the confluence of the Mekong and Luoshuo rivers.
4th day: An easy 3 hours walk downhill to a riverside Dai village. From there we will get a private ferry boat for a 3 hours upstream ride on the Mekong to Ganlanba. Our journey ends with a 1 hour drive by public bus back to Jinghong.
vernight village. ethnic groups: Dai ,Aini ,Ake
original forest, cloud sea

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2012 ,4 days Mekong River & mountains trekking

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Related Trekking Story :Impressive 4 days trek Feb. ,2010

The sky became quiet hazy after without any raining, it was merely over a month now.None of us expecting a spectacular sunset while we were walking along Meikong in a dusty tractor path. The high up path gives a great view of the river that stretching, motionless, emerald snake between the 2 hills. The left side of the bank is abundant bamboo forest, the right side is rubber seeding, it is equally to a money rocking tree, the price of rubber is 30 Yuan per kilogramme at this moment.
The sun rays was descending slowly, I was enthralling with the gold-plating Meikong. I stood there, dumbstruck with the stunning view, somehow I lose words at this moment, is this a piece of flawless satin dropping off by fairy during her leisurely roaming？There was no way to tell where the satin like starts, the rubber seeding and bamboo forest became nearly pitch dark green, it againsts this fabulous gliding river quiet.
This spot is located to the sign of 10 kilometers.Bookworms were reading books here, 2 hours reading flew away without knowing, beer tastes better in this location.
Another unforgetable view was popping up in my mind now, it was in december in 2007.A fogy morning, the cotton like mist was floating fully above the meikong river, where we were walking along the same tractor path, the mist reached the edge of the path, we felt as we were walking on the top of the clouds in a minute.
As trekking guide, I am very lucky, lots of stunning views might only appear once, never be the same.People often ask me：“ how many times have I done this trek？”. It can be the same, diffirent clients, to be the same spot in diffirent season or difirent time of the day, small evens change too, encounting new villagers....Unfortunetely if person is not very intereted in nature, his or her obeservation is poor.I often say“ if you think tree is tree, I won‘t recommend you go to the Botanical garden in Menlun” half jokingly.

Edited by Sara,on 2012 March

1rt day, time: leave at 9:00 AM, This trek begins with a 1 hour bus ride to Mengkuan. From there its a 3 hours walk to a Dai village where we spent the night with a hospitable Dai people's family. Our accommodation includes hot water shower and toilet (something that can not always be taken for granted on treks like this!).
The second day we will walk along a small, winding forest path following a small stream. There's a lot of up and downhill climbing involed! The night will be spent in a big Aini people's village that houses 80 families.
On the third day our track leads us downhill for about 1 hours. There's some vantage points where we can enjoy truly breathtaking views of the rolling Xishuangbanna mountainscape. After that the terrain is more even and we will walk for another two hours until we reach the Ake village where a mini-van will come to pick us up and takes us back to Mengkuan. From there's its a 1.5 hour bus ride back to Jinghong.
Ethnic groups:Dai ,Aini ,Ake
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2012 january. 3days trek to see jungles & villages

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Yao
Time : leave 8:30am ,2hrs bus ride to the place start trek
1th Day : 1 hour go-up walking on a limestone hill. 2 hours up and down walking through the forest.
2th Day : 6 hours hard walking on small parth in the forest&jungles, top three high mountains, cross one river.highest mountain is about 1200 meters.
3th Day : 4 hours up and down walking on small parth in the forest&jungles
Note: the 2th day & 3th day , maybe can see wild animals in the forest but can not garantee
Ethnic groups :Yao , Dai
Overnight :Yao village.
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2009. Dec.3 days forest trekking

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1st day, a 3.5 hours ride to the Aini village with 170 familys near the Myanmar border by public and private bus. We'll pass a beautiful forest for about 3 to 4 hours in the afternoon of the first day, as well as an ancient tea tree nearby the Aini village where we'll spend the night.

2nd day, about 5 hours(If we walk slowly, it takes 7 hours) hard trekking by road and foot path. We'll traverse a stretch of jungle to a Bulang village that is home to 200 familys. The night will be spend in this village.

3rd day, 3 to 4 hours walking through sugarcane fields, tea fields, a Bulang and an Aini village . We finish the trekking at the nearest town, then have lunch there and take a private and a public bus back to Jinghong. The ride will take 2.5 hours.

Look nice picture on this trek: 2012,January villages & forest 3 days trek

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