This 4-day trip to Guizhou, China involves hiking to a remote Miao village, living with a local family, and participating in farming activities. Students stay 2 nights in the village, learning local customs, playing with children, and helping with tasks like building walls and picking vegetables. The trip also includes cultural shows featuring Miao traditions like long skirts, as well as time volunteering at a village school. Participants experience beautiful natural scenery during hikes and gain an inside look at rural life and culture in Guizhou.
6. Day 1
• Is a travel day
• Fly to Guiyang in Guizhou
• Short break at a beautiful park in
Longli to hike/zipline/stretch
• 1.5 hour bus ride to Kali
• Check into 4 star hotel
9. Day 2: Hiking to our Village
• Breakfast at Hotel
• 4 hour hike through amazing
nature trail... from village to
village, over the mountain and
through the woods
• (Bus meets us there with
suitcases and bottled water)
21. Indigenous Miao People
welcome us into their Home
Hostels
•
Basketball
game with
local children
• English lessons
for family
• pick vegetables
from garden
for supper
22. Each Miao village has its
own customs and traditions
There was a wedding taking place when I was
there, all the village was invited, lots of gifts
(quilt, pig, rice bags), and fireworks
23. • Evening: Learn to
play local
instrument
• locally made
reed
instrument
• Reed pipe instruction
• bonfire celebration
with host children
• Sing songs, roast
marshmallows
24. End of Day 2, time for bed
-will be staying in a home hostels in groups of 4-6 students
-the village has taken in school groups of 100 before so
they will easily accommodate our small group of 20
students, 2 teachers, school nurse, local guide, and China
Flavors Guide
25. -the village has taken in school groups of 100 before so they will
easily accommodate our small group of 20 students
Map of village with
each hostel labeled
26. Day 3: Volunteer work
• Miao Breakfast
• English class
• Farm work (field plowing, building
retaining walls, carp-fishing,
digging potatoes)
• Pick vegetables for lunch and
supper
31. Traditional Hot Pot Soup
• The cat fish raised in the rice fields are
said to be the most delicious fish ... a
real treat
32. group of four to
six students in
your Miao Village
hostel
-to bed with your
group of four to
six students in
your Miao Village
hostel
-to bed with your
33. Day 4:
• Breakfast with your hostel
group
• Volunteer at local school, say
goodbye
• Drive to another village (long
skirt Miao People) for cultural
show (called long skirt tribe because of the length of
their traditional dress)
35. Teaching our favorite Art, Music, Sports lesson while incorporating english vocabulary
36. - The children in the village are in grades 1
to 6 as the older children have to go to
boarding school, as the roads are too
difficult for a daily school bus.