Kaiping Tour

Tour Code: GZT-PGODT4

Tour Departure/ Pick-up: Pick-up is between 08:00AM and 08:30AM at your hotel daily.

Tour Duration: 8 hours

Tour Highlights: Kaiping Diaolou, Li Garden, Chikan ancient Town

Itinerary

Pick up at your Guangzhou hotel lobby and drive to Kaiping. You will visit the famous Kaiping Diaolou in Zili Village, the world's architecture heritage, the beautiful skyline of Kaiping is composed of many stand-alone diaolou in versatile styles and different heights. You will also visit the Li Garden, a wealthy family residential house at the early beginning of last century. In the afternoon, visit the Chikan ancient town and then drive back to Guangzhou.

Kaiping Diaolou -- Kaiping Diaolou and Villages feature the Diaolou, multi-storied defensive village houses in Kaiping, which display a complex and flamboyant fusion of Chinese and Western structural and decorative forms. They reflect the significant role of émigré Kaiping people in the development of several countries in South Asia, Australasia and North America, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Li Garden: Constructed in 1936 by a Chinese emigrant to the United States, it demonstrate the fusion of western and Chinese designs, and the gardens flourish with a variety of flora, including the Chinese redbud, kapok, cypress and other precious flowers and plants. This exquisite combination of architecture and wildlife makes Li Garden both idyllic and panoramic.

Chikan Ancient Town:a home to some of the first Chinese nationals to find employment overseas – and who brought back foreign architectural styles. Strolling on the town’s ancient streets, tourists will feel themselves being transported back in time, into an exotic place that could almost be oceans away.