Yunnan Tropical Garden Tour 2009 October 7th – 16th, 2009

02-09-2009

ICanGarden.com is offering another unforgettable China Tour – to southern China. As a poem goes, ‘The spring lasts the entire year and the flowers bloom in all seasons’. No wonder Kunming is known to visitors from home and abroad as the Spring City.  Here you will see a diversity of plant material. 

We are including visits to minority villages on this tour as well, to give you a better understanding of the people and their way of life. They are truly wonderful, warm and friendly people.

Kunming – the City of Eternal Spring.  Kunming is the largest flower supplier in the world and we will visit the largest flower market, Botanical Institute and Horticultural Expo Garden, Magical Stone Forest, Minority Village including silk weaving and factory, West Hill with Dragon Gate, Bamboo Temple and Green Lake Park.

Lijiang – old city laced with canals and bridges. Visits to Black Dragon Pond, Moon Embracing Pavilion, Dongba Museum, Naxi music concert, Yak Meadow of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain with chair lift ride to see the famed 13 peaks, Jade Peak Monastery, Baisha and Longquan Minority Villages.

Xishuangbanna – Ganlanba Dai Minority Village, Menglun Botanical Garden, Menghai Tea Plantation, Bada Wild Tea Tree, Tropical Flower Institute.

Your land package will include:

• 9 Nights Hotel 
• All Breakfasts 
• All Lunches
• All Dinners 
• Cultural Show, Musical Concert and Dance Show 
• Visit to Special Silk Factory 
• Visits to Minority Villages 
• Visits as indicated on itinerary 
• Jade Dragon Chair Lift Ride 
• 3 Domestic Air Tickets - Kunming -Lijiang, Lijiang - Xinshuangbanna and Jinghong - Kunming 
• English Speaking local guides and National Guide for entire tour 
• Tips for National Guide, Local Drivers and Guides 
• Incredible memories

We will again have great air fares from Vancouver, BC with Air China if you want to take advantage of our group rates.

LAND ONLY only $3,275 Cdn - per person sharing SINGLE Supplement $575 Cdn

Full day by day itinerary at www.gardeningtours.com  

Email  donna@icangarden.com  or call toll free 1-866-642-7120  

ICanGarden.com is Canada's largest Internet gardening resource site providing free information to gardeners of all experience levels from amateur to master gardeners. In addition to Canada, ICanGarden.com has contributing writers from other countries. The web site contains thousands of articles, information on gardening books, garden clubs, garden suppliers, hundreds of public gardens and thousands of pictures of famous gardens around the world. Donna Dawson, formerly of St. Albert Alberta Canada, now residing in Panama City, Panama is a co-author of three gardening books. Donna also writes for an international travel/lifestyle magazine.
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