Our tour guide and driver will pick you up from Kunming Changshui Airport. Then transfer to your hotel.

Stay overnight in Kunming downtown.

After breakfast,you will drive 1.5 hours to Shilin County to enjoy different kinds of activities will be held there.

Gui Mountain National Forest Park, located in southeastern Yunnan Province.

The Torch Festival or Fire Festival (Chinese: 火把节; pinyin: Huǒbǎ Jié) is one of the main holidays of the Yi people of southwest China, and is also celebrated by other ethnic groups of the region.It is celebrated on the 24th or 25th day of the sixth month of the Yi calendar, corresponding to August in the Gregorian calendar. It commemorates the legendary wrestler Atilaba, who drove away a plague of locusts using torches made from pine trees.Since 1993, the government of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan has sponsored a modernised celebration of the festival, featuring wrestling, horse racing, dance shows, and a beauty contest. Different groups set the festival at different time.

You could choose the preferable activity and time to enjoy today.

Activities as follow:

9:00-10:00 Torch-light Ceremony by Bimo at Gui Mountain National Park
13:00-22:18:30 Bull Fighting Match at the bull-flighting village of Yi people.
13:00-18:30  Asia Traditional Bull Fighting at Gui Mounrain Hai Yi Asia bullring
14:00-18:30 Carnival Activity of Chang Hu A Shi Ma's Culture at Changhu Scenic Spot
14:00-17:00 Folk Customs Show at Danuohei Viilage of Gui Mountain Town.
14:00-17:00 Miao's Flower Festival at Dake Town

Stay overngight in Shilin downtown.

After breakfast,you will head for Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture.

Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture is the largest Yi’s settlements inYunnan area. The annual Torch Festival is as grand as the Chinese New Year. People will celebrate this Torch Festival Carnival together from all over the world.

Yis Ancient Town began to be constructed in 2005, covering a total area of 245 Mu (Chinese acre). The ancient town takes the style and the sentiment of Yi Minority as principal factors, adopting features of other minorities of Yunnan and the gardens of Jiangnan (China’s south part of Yangtze River). Visitors could enjoy the Yi’s primitive customs, delicious food, songs and dances and the torch festival, etc. The courtyard inns would also be great experience of Yi’s living style. 

After breakfast,drive to join in the Torch Festival with local residents and visitors who from home and abroad.

Activities in Chuxiong Torch Festival:  horse racing, bullfighting, sheep fighting; dongjing concert; Yi ethnic sheep soup pot; Yi ethnic long street banquet; ethnic instrumental music, song and dance performances, Yi original ecology dance, bonfire party, sacrificial fire ceremony, Yi dance costumes performances, folk songs, ect.
Celebrating places:Chuxiong Ethnic Group Town,Peach Garden Lake.Re

Relax yourselves in Chuxiong until 10am,then you will drive back to Kunming.

After arriving in Kunming, stroll in the most picturesque park in Kunming urban area .

The Green Lake Park,a charming area of teahouses and small boutiques selling handicrafts and beautiful local paintings.. Here you can share the happiness of local people’s doing tai chi, performing local opera, and other vibrant activities. If you visit the park in November or December, you will see the grandeur of huge flocks of red-beaked seagulls that migrate there from Siberia.

Transfer to Kunming Changshui Airport for returning.
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