Guizhou Minority Community Service Program
Day 1 Fly to Guiyang—Kaili
Take morning flight to Guiyang, meet your guide at airport and drive to the restaurant nearby for lunch. Drive 1.5 hours to a a village lived by Buiyi people, walk to visit a local Buiyi family and learn to make sticky rice cake for team building up. After that, drive another 1 hour to kaili, the capital of Maio and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Southeast Guizhou.
After dinner, go to super market to prepare gifts for your host families in the village.
Day 2 kaili—Miao village
Check out the hotel, drive 50 minutes to the hiking tail Point and hike 4 hours to Baibi village. (snacks will be prepared on the way: banana, chocolate bar, cookie)
Have lunch at chef’s house after the welcoming ceremony given by local Miao people . After that you will
meet your host families and check in your home stay families. Pay a visit to local primary school, teach the local kids English and play sports with them or teach them games prepared by our students .
After dinner with your own host family, you will learn how to play Miao people’s traditional musical instrument called Lusheng, local traditional dance will be taught as well.
Day 3 Miao village
Meet at chief ‘s house for breakfast, have a debriefing about our community service. Walk 20 minutes to the service site and help local farmers to build s fish pond in the rice paddy. After lunch, continue building the fish pond and try our best to wrap up all the work before we go back for dinner.
After a farewell dinner called “Long Table Banquet” together with all of your host family members, we will
have a bone fire party of singing and dancing with locals.
Day 4 Miao village --Hotel
Farming works by groups in the morning will be experienced including catching fish in the rice paddy and plowing with the aid of water buffllao. After lunch ,walk to local tea plantation and learn how to process green tea by steps of picking the fresh tea leaves, frying tea leaves to dry and brewing the tea. Check out the miao village in the afternoon and take bus back to hotel in Kaili. Dinner will be Miao people’s famous specailty “Sour Soup Fish Hotpot”.
Day 5 Kaili-Guiyang--Fly back
Check out the hotel at 9 am and drive 45 minutes to visit the village of Green Miao called stone bridge that is named after the limestone arches surrounding the village.It is famous for the paper making from the mulberry bark with traditional way dated back to 2000 years ago, you will learn the paper making history from locals and make your own paper by given a lesson by local masters.
After lunch, drive to 2.5 hours to Guiyang airport for you flight back home. Trip ends.
