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.

1. Wild Guizhou

2. Wild Guizhou is all about Making Memories ...
by getting involved with the land and the
people

3. 3 focus points of the trip
1) Hiking to a secluded village

4. 2) Getting to know a local family

5. 3) Working with the Community

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

7. Hotel in Kali

8. Share hotel with roommate

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)

10. Start Hiking at one village

11. Through the Main
Street of Town

12. On the well traveled path to
the joining village

13. Rugged Country to Hike
Our village is south of Kali

14. On our hike we
will see unique
plants found
only in this area

17. Our hike will go through some very special
habitat where Endangered Animals live.
Snub
Nosed
Monkey
only in this
isolated
part of the
world

19. Final Destination of our
Hike on Day 2
Hike on Day 2

20. village welcoming ceremony

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

27. Working in the fields with your host families

28. Working to build a terraced field

29. Picking Vegetables for
supper

30. Evening Farewell Banquet by Hosts

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)

34. Volunteering at the local School

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.

37. Culture show
• Drive
to
Jidao
• Long
Skirt
Miao
village

38. QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

39. Rice field irrigated by
wooden water wheels

40. end of day 4
•back to our hotel in Kali
for a supper and a shower
(maybe not in that order :
)
•join in traditional
dancing in the city square

41. Day 5: Travel Day
• Check out of Kali
Hotel
• Drive to Airport
• Flight to Shanghai

42. Wild
Guizhou

43. Questions?
• Questions contact trip leaders
Mr. James Manning (Grade 7 Science)
or Ms. Amy Smith (Grade 7 Math)
• james.manning@saschina.org