WESTERN ETHNIC TOUR

MILEAGE

 Jinghong 50km Menghai 16km Menghun 16km Octagonal Pavilion 66km Return Jinghong via Nannuo Area

TOUR DESCRIPTION

In the morning, drive in the west to Menghai, a small town surrounded by rice fields and vegetable gardens, first see a lively and noisy market, where local people buy all kinds of stuff everyday, meat, fresh vegetable, chicken, fish, fruits and various native produces ethnic people brought from mountains. Further move to Menghun, visit village of Bulang people, the third largest ethnic group of Xishuangbanna, they are farmers mainly engaged in planting tea and sugar cane, as well loyal Theravada Buddhists. After visit a village of Dai, where villagers are still making paper with tree bark traditional way, it was used a lot in the past to record Buddhism sutras by monks, now mostly adopted by businessmen for packing tea product. Continue driving to Jingzhen to see Octagonal Pavilion, a meeting hall of senior monks originally built 300 years ago, one of 3 most famous Theravada Buddhism buildings of province. Get on back way, en route pay visit to village of Aini people near Mount. Nan Nuo, a place reputed for tea of good quality, local Aini is good at tea planting and production, big number of ancient tea trees aged several hundred years are scattered around, and still bearing buds to benefit villagers. Return Jinghong and tour ends.