Xishuang Banna
Xishuang Banna 3 days 2 nights $ 169/person
Day 01
Airport pickup.
Accommodation: Daiyuan hotel
Day 02 Accommodation: Daiyuan hotel
Day 03 Airport drop
Scenic spots: (Tickets and transportation
provided)
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::Scenic Water splashing Festival
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The
Water Splashing Festival is held by the Dai Nationality in the sixth month
of the Dai calendar (in the middle of April) is the grandest ceremonial
occasion for the Dai, the De'ang and the Achang nationalities who believe in Theravada Buddhism.
It is also known as the Festival for bathing Lord Buddha. The festival is
related to the Buddhist legend of dragon sprinkling fragrant showers on
Lord Buddha at his birth. The Buddhist legend has gradually been mingled
with the customs of the Dai people since their conversion to Buddhism.
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::Scenic Manting Park
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::Scenic Tropical Botanical
Garden in Menglun
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It is called the " Green Gem on the Crown of the Kingdom of Plants " and is the first embryo
of the " Biological Society of Multi-levels and Multi-varieties
". The garden was established in 1959 under the leadership of the late
famous botanist Cai Xitao. In the garden's area of 860 ha.
, thousands upon thousands of varieties of tropical and subtropical plants
from home and abroad are growing there. Visitors can admire many precious
plant varieties here, such as the dragon tree, the mayten
wood,the poisonous up as-tree, the cement wall
like big root, the thirst relieving " carrying pole vine " and
the " strelitziaceae ", the "
clock flower " opening and closing along with the sunrise and sunset,
the " dancing grass " in response to sounds, the " king
lotus " able to hold a sitting child, and the " miracle fruit
" able to turn sour to sweet, etc..
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::Scenic Ganlan (Oliver) Sandbar
in Manghan
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Ganlan (Oliver) Sandbar Known in the
language of the Dai people as Menghan, the Ganlan Sandbar on the Lancang
Rivers a world-famous " peacock tail ", meaning the most
beautiful part of Xishuangbanna. " No trip
to Xishuangbanna is complete without a visit to Ganlan Sandbar ". as the
popular saying goes.
Situated at the end of a 37-kilometers trip down the Lancang River from Jinghong,
and covering an area of 50 square kilometers at an altitude of 530 metres (the lowest point of Xishuangbanna),
the Ganlan Sandbar derives its name from the fact
that its forever clothed in greenery and that it takes the shape of an
olive. A total of 64 Dai-inhabited villages are found on the sandbar, and
bamboo abodes gleam in the verdure of coconut trees, with water flowing
past them all the year round, and flowers in full bloom in all four
seasons. Thus the phrase " Bamboo pavilions
under coconut trees ". becomes synonymous to
the Dai people's dwellings. The Ganlan Sandbar,
its tropical landscape looking sylvan in the ethnic Dai tradition, evinces
an air of classic sanctity and natural repose.
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::Scenic Buddha Temple, Flower Garden and Dai minority village
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