5 days 4 nights "Guizhou Autumn Charm Special Line"

[○] Total cost 5000 RMB
📍 Highlights of the itinerary:
✅ Explore uncommercialized Miao villages
✅ Golden picturesque Jiabang Terraces during the autumn harvest
✅ Stay in designer homestays in Zhaoxing Dong Village
✅ Taste authentic sour soup fish, pickled fish, and glutinous rice wine
✅ In-depth dialogue with intangible cultural heritage inheritors (batik, silver jewelry)

🗓️ Day 1: Arrive in Guiyang → Congjiang Zhaoxing Dong Village (1.5h by high-speed train)

🚄 High-speed trains arrive at Guiyang North Station from major cities nationwide
🚄 Then take a D-series high-speed train to Congjiang Station (ticket price 54.5 RMB)

🚗 15-minute taxi to [Zhaoxing Dong Village] (China’s largest Dong ethnic village)

🏨 Stay: Jiji·Shange or Moshang Huakai designer homestay (riverfront room + drum tower night view)
💰 About 600 RMB/night

🍽️ Dinner: "Dong Family Flavor" in the village - sour soup fish + glutinous rice + homemade rice wine (80 RMB per person)

🌙 Night tour: Listen to Dong grand song performance (free plaza show)

💰 Expenses for the day: about 900 RMB

🗓️ Day 2: Tang’an Dong Village hike → Jiabang Terraces sunset

🚶‍♀️ Morning: Hike the [Tang’an Terraces Trail] (6 km, about 3 hours)
A candidate for World Cultural Heritage, misty along the way, villagers harvesting rice is so healing!

🚗 Afternoon: Charter a car to [Jiabang Terraces] (2.5h drive, carpool 150 RMB per person)

🏨 Overnight: Jiache Miao Village hillside homestay (floor-to-ceiling windows facing tens of thousands of terraces)
💰 About 500 RMB/night

🌅 Evening: Climb the viewing platform to watch the sunset spread over layers of rice waves, 100 photos on your phone won’t be enough!

🍽️ Dinner: Miao firewood chicken + stir-fried pickled meat with bracken (60 RMB per person)

💰 Expenses for the day: about 1000 RMB

🗓️ Day 3: Jiabang in-depth experience day

🌞 Early morning: Open the window to misty terraces, can’t stop taking photos!

📌 Activities:
Visit Miao autumn drying scenes (pumpkins, corn, chili hanging from eaves)
Learn to make Miao handmade glutinous rice cakes (experience fee 50 RMB)
Talk with silver jewelry craftsmen, learn about Miao totem culture

🚗 Afternoon: Drive to [Basha Miao Village] (China’s last armed tribe)
Watch Basha coming-of-age firing ceremony (mysterious and solemn)

🏨 Overnight: Kaili city four-star hotel (convenient for next day travel)
💰 About 400 RMB/night

💰 Expenses for the day: about 900 RMB

🗓️ Day 4: Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village (light play) + intangible cultural heritage handicraft experience

🚗 Morning: Head to [Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village] (2h drive)

📌 My approach: Buy sightseeing bus ticket to enter the village, do not stay inside!
Avoid high-priced accommodation (over 1000 RMB in peak season inside the village)
Visit 6 museums during the day, see embroidery and batik workshops
Climb to the top viewing platform to overlook thousands of lights (most beautiful at dusk)

🎨 Special experience: Join [Miao Batik DIY] (198 RMB/person, take home your own scarf)

🚗 Return to Kaili city for overnight stay in the evening

💰 Expenses for the day: about 1100 RMB (including transport + tickets + experience)

🗓️ Day 5: Kaili → Return to Guiyang

🚗 Morning: Kaili ethnic market for handicrafts (silver jewelry, embroidered patches, indigo cloth)
🛒 Recommended purchases: small silver earrings (under 100 RMB), batik canvas bags

🚄 Afternoon: High-speed train back to Guiyang (1 hour), can stop by [Qingyan Ancient Town] or leave directly

🍽️ Last meal: Must-eat Qingyan braised pig’s trotters + rose ice jelly (25 RMB)

💰 Expenses for the day: about 600 RMB

✅ Total budget reference (per person):
Item Cost
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Major transport (round trip nationwide to Guiyang) 2000 RMB
Local transport (high-speed train + charter + carpool) 800 RMB
Accommodation (4 nights quality homestays/hotels) 1800 RMB
Meals + tickets + experiences 1000 RMB
Souvenirs + contingency 400 RMB
Total About 5000 RMB

🎯 Just right on budget, but the experience is fully packed!

📌 In-depth Tips:
Guizhou has many mountain roads, bring motion sickness medicine if needed;
Respect ethnic minority customs, ask permission before taking photos;
Best time for Jiabang Terraces: late September to mid-October;
Want to save more? Skip Xijiang, add a primitive Miao village (like Xiaodanjiang).

Guizhou is not only a geographical highland but also a spiritual home.
Along this journey, what I saw was not just scenery, but living culture.