1 Day Li River Cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo with Private Guide & Driver | 8 hours to 9 hours

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Li River Tour
2 Adults x $349.00
$698.00
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$698.00
Essence Li River Cruise and Yangshuo countryside visit escorted by private guide and driver.
Pickup included

Inclusions / Exclusions

  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English
  • Air conditioned car with chauffeur
  • Centrally located hotel pick-up and drop-off
  • Lunch on board
  • Private English-speaking tour guide
  • Li River cruise ticket
  • Gratuities to guide and driver (recommended)
  • Hotel accommodation with breakfasts

Overview

The locals sometimes refer Guilin as the "Paradise on Earth" in view of its stunning natural beauty and Li River cruise is a highlight among all the Guilin tours. Take this private day tour to enjoy the beauty of Li River cruise to Yangshuo, which lays in the shadow of amazing Karst formations along the River. And you will be transferred through the countryside with all the eye-catching views during the day.

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Itinerary

  • Li River

    Your guide pick you up at your hotel lobby at about 08:30 am. Enjoy the 1-hour drive to Zhujiang Dock to board one of the best cruises on the Li River. As the ship departs from Guilin at about 9:30 am your fantastic cruise journey starts. Your guide will escort you on board and give you an introduction to the different sites along the way. Once you are there, you would find out what it means by "picturesque"! Around noon, have a simple lunch offered onboard by the cruise company and continue the cruise. The cruise will arrive in Yangshuo after approx. 4 hours. After disembarking at around 2pm, take a stroll on the famous West Street, and then tour around the countryside of Yangshuo. You will also visit a local farmer's house. You could also take a bike tour to enjoy the landscapes.

    7 hours

  • Guilin

    After the tour, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Guilin by an approx. 1.5-hour drive.

    1 hour 30 minutes

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Additional Info

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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June 13100% refund
June 14No refund

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Our Trip to guilin and youngshuo

Published on Jan, 2025

Out Trip in guilin and yangshuo was very buityful. Tom knew exactly where to go to avoid the most amount of the other tourists and Showed us some amazing spots. We hat a lot of time to take pictures ans enjoy the view. He was alle to Tell us so man Things about the history and more. I would bock him everytime again. Amazing guide.

Relaxing tour with scenic landscape

Published on Nov, 2024

Sam is an informative tour guide and a good singer too. She gave the group enough time to explore the point of interest we went too. The cruise in Li River was the highlight and the landscape just looks like a painting.

Outstanding views of the Li river mountains, spectacular evening show in Yangshuo

Published on Nov, 2024

The views of the mountains around the Li river were amazingly beautiful. The evening in Yanghuo was fun, especially with the addition of an evening show recommended by our guide featuring local community fishers as well as water buffaloes and cormorants :). Our guide Lily Cao was super helpful, kind, knowledgeable. A real pleasure. Thank you!

Great experience

Published on Oct, 2024

The tour agency does a great job helping organize tours in various places and cities in China. This river cruise was no exception. The scenery is spectacular, unlike anywhere else in the world. The boats are quite comfortable, and the upper deck is large enough to accommodate all the tourists willing to spend time outside to soak in the magnificent panorama. Lunch provided on the boat is quite decent, with an option to purchase some extra items, which I greatly enjoyed local freshwater snails. Our tour guide spoke very good English, was mostly attentive and helpful.

Utterly awesome trip down the River Li

Published on Oct, 2024

So part of our our wonderful China trip involved a trip to Guilin for a cruise down the River Li and as I am a splelunker, the flute caves. Our awesome guide Samantha took over from the lovely Lola in Xi"an, and picked us up and took us to an absolutely incredible hotel. It was gorgeous, like drop dead gorgeous. We had a chandelier, a chaise longe, balcony, the mattresses and bedding were like clouds, bathroom incredible, and I say all that that as a person in a cast with a newly broken leg! It was like being a film star in a film set. Breakfast was amazing, especially for me as a vegan. The food was incredible. Took a tiny bit of explaining and a chat with the chef, but then once we all understood each other, there were more wonderful things to eat than you could imagine. Vegetables and tofu cooked in sumptuous ways. All for way, way less than a night than any travel lodge in the Uk. So then we got picked up in the morning and off to the boat cruise. Like I am from New Zealand. Takes a lot to impress me with scenery obviously, right? But this was astounding. And we cruised the shores with bathing water buffalo, if I had not had this cast, I would have jumped in and swum with them. Water buffalo have exceptionally beautiful nostrils. I know this as a vet. There were cruising birds of prey, eagles, cranes, huge butterflies. Enormous fish leapt in the river. I thought they were dolphins, but they were gone by the time I got my binoculars out. Local people from the villages tootled around in sadly plastic versions of traditional bamboo boats, but navigated big currents and river challenges with huge boats and only a bamboo pole, that me as a kayaker with a kevlar paddle would have really worried about. They have and will always adapt. Water people. And you would think there would be lots of people. There very few people we saw were tending water buffalo, although the water buffalo were so off doing their own thing, people fishing in traditional boats( drawing a veil over that as a vegan!) I saw horses swimming in the river, all alone, no bodily constraints, just paddling for pleasure with each other. Those amazing spectacular limestone mountains looked untouchable but our guide told us that there are climbing clubs there. I so want to join one of those clubs and climb one of those incredible spires to heaven. Back at home, Samantha told me to watch The Painted Veil, 3rd time watching it! Thank you Samantha.:-) it was mostly filmed in the River Li years ago, and it's still untouched. This is such a beautiful untouched, remote, easily accessible and accessible in a relatively eco friendly way, beautiful part of China accessible even with a broken leg!

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