Guilin: Longji Rice Terraces & Bamboo Rice Cooking Day Tour

Discover the Longji Rice Terraces on a relaxed day tour with easy access and scenic hiking. Enjoy rice field views, visit minority villages, and learn to make bamboo tube rice in a local family home.
Explore a side of China where culture is not preserved behind glass—it is still lived every day in the mountains.

Your day begins at 9:00 AM, when your guide meets you at your Guilin hotel lobby. From there, you will travel into the breathtaking Longji Rice Terraces, home to the traditional Zhuang and Yao ethnic minorities, who have shaped this dramatic landscape over centuries by carving rice terraces into the mountains by hand.

Upon arrival, take an electric cart up into the scenic area, making the ascent easy and comfortable so you can save your energy for exploring and enjoying the views.

Next, enjoy a scenic ridge hike between two iconic viewpoints: Seven Stars & Moon and Nine Dragons & Five Tigers, where layered rice fields stretch across the mountains like flowing natural patterns.

The Longji Rice Terraces change beautifully through the seasons: mirror-like waters in spring, lush green fields in summer (June–October), golden harvest views in autumn, and peaceful misty landscapes in winter. Each season offers a unique and dramatic mountain scenery experience, making the terraces stunning all year round.

you will walk through traditional Zhuang and Yao wooden stilt houses, built with local timber and adapted to steep mountain terrain. These are not reconstructed tourist displays—they are real homes where local families still live today. Inside one of these family homes, you will join a Bamboo Tube Rice experience, a traditional cooking method still used in mountain communities:

Learn how locals prepare bamboo tubes and fill them with pre-soaked rice (20–30 minutes hands-on activity)
Understand how this dish connects to farming cycles, harvest traditions, and village life.

After preparation, the bamboo tubes are placed over an open fire for around 40–60 minutes to cook. This process is smoky, rustic, and fully authentic. Most guests choose to observe and enjoy the atmosphere due to heat and smoke.

Once ready, enjoy a local countryside lunch at a family-run mountain restaurant, where you taste the bamboo rice you helped prepare along with simple traditional dishes—truly a “from fire to table” experience.

After lunch, enjoy free time for photos before returning to Guilin in the afternoon.

Para garantizar la disponibilidad de la reserva lo antes posible. Vale la pena reservar con antelación, especialmente si planeas el viaje durante la temporada alta, como los días festivos o los fines de semana.

Esta excursión se puede cancelar sin costo alguno hasta :tiempo de cancelación horas antes del inicio del viaje. Si lo cancela después de 24 horas o no se presenta en la excursión, se le cobrará el precio total de la actividad. El retraso en la recogida o en la salida se considerará como no presentarse.