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If you've always dreamed about walking through the ancient tea gardens of Jingmai Mountain or meet the farmers who've made your tea for years, we can help you.
This is a 5 days/4 nights private tour that will take you on a loop in South-Western Yunnan.
You will travel in a comfortable SUV, driven by Ai Ni Pa, a professional English-speaking guide from Bada Mountain. At night, you will stay mostly in the tea villages (Nannuo, Jingmai, Bulang Shan), in simple but comfortable accommodation.
This tour aims to give you an understanding of the Pu-erh tea production in Southern Yunnan. You will get to visit large and small factories, ancient tea gardens and modern tea plantations. You will learn how Pu-erh tea is made, from cultivation to cake pressing. Finally, you will drink good tea from many prestigious areas with both traditional and modern brewing style.
The tour can be organized for one to three people. Feel free to join up with a tea friend!
Here is the program:
Day 1
Meeting in Jinghong with Ai Ni Pa
Visit of the Ba Gongli industrial area where all the major tea factories of Menghai are located
Visit of the Nannuo Mountain
Stay in one of the villages for the night
Day 2
Visit of Nannuo Mountain
Lunch in Menghun, a typical large town of Xishuangbanna with great market food
Travel through Southern Menghai with the possibility to stop in famous places such as Hekai, Lao Banzhang, Ba Ka Noy, Lao Man E.
Overnight stay in Meng Noy village in Bulang Shan
Day 3
Heading back to Menghai, another opportunity to stop in the villages and gardens
Arrival in Jingmai Mountain in the afternoon (it's a 4 hour drive from Meng Noy to Jingmai, you can stop along the way).
Possibility to meet us in our factory if we're in the mountain
Day 4
Visit of the main tea gardens and villages of Jingmai Mountain (Da Ping Zhang, Ai Leng Shan, Mangjing, Jingmai main village, Weng Ji, Nuo Gan)
Travel to Pu'er city (it's a 3 hour drive from Jingmai)
If we're in the city, we can spend the evening together in our tea shop
Stay in the main tea market of the city.
Day 5
Visit of the pressing factory we work with near Pu'er City.
Have a look at ripe pu-erh production
If we are available, we will show you a few things in the area.
Going back to Jinghong (1h30min drive from Pu'er).
The tour will cost you:
1560 usd if you go alone
1140 usd per person for two people
860 usd per person for three people
Payment is done through Paypal at the time of booking.
Accomodation from day 1 evening to day 5 morning, all the meals, guide fees, tasting fees and transportation costs are included in this price.
You'll just need to buy a plane ticket to Jinghong, book a hotel for the day before the tour start and for the last day, and a travel insurance. You can also bring some cash if you want to buy tea from the farmers.
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We can organize a trip once a week, starting from May 2024.
If you would like to team up with other people, you can discuss it on our Discord server.
You can check the availability on this Google Sheet
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