“Green, Oxygen, Light, Friendship” in Spring City
Kunming, known as "City of Eternal Spring", lies at an almost-tropical latitude but its 2000 meters altitude gives it a very temperate climate with an average temperature of 16.5 ℃. Hence, it is an awesome choice to play golf in Kunming where offer excellent golf courses, like Spring City Golf & Lake Resort, Lakeview Golf Club, Sunshine Golf Club, with breathtaking scenery, very leisure atmosphere and luxury accommodation. Unlike golf courses in other cities, Kunming golf courses give you more than enjoyable golf experience, but sunshine, blue sky, white clouds, lake view, wild, fun, imagination, quality...
This 5-day golf tour is well designed for travelers who want a relaxing pace to play golf as well as enjoy highlighted attractions in Kunming. You’ll enjoy 18-hole both at Mountain Course and Lake Course every day and pay visits to Stone Forest, Green Lake, Yuantong Temple, Flowers & Birds Market, Western Hills & Dragon Gate, and Yunnan Nationalities Museum to fully understanding about Kunming.
Tips: To fully suit for your arrangements and meet your requirements, this 5-day golf tour is customizable that our travel consultants can adjust the itinerary and golf courses based on your likes and time. All you need to do is to tell us your plan and enjoy, and we’ll do the rest.
Welcome to Kunming, the Spring City of China! Upon arrival at the Kunming airport / train station, the local tour guide and driver will meet you in the arrival hall and drive to Kunming Spring City Golf & Lake Resort for accommodation.
Arrival Ideas: You can take a direct flight from more than 110 domestic cities and some international destinations including Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, San Francisco, Tokyo, London, and Los Angeles. Also, you can take a bullet train from Chengdu (5.5 hours), Chongqing (4 hours), Guilin (8 hours), Guiyang (2 hours), Guangzhou (7 hours), Beijing (11 hours), Shanghai (11 hours), Hong Kong (7.5 hours), etc. with convenience!
In this morning, enjoy fantastic time and play golf at the Mountain Course of Kunming Spring City Golf & Lake Resort (around 3~4 hours).
Spring City Golf & Lake Resort is a premier integrated golf course in Kunming, located 48 kilometers east of Kunming city with about 1 hour’s driving. Reputed as one of the best golf courses in China, Spring City Golf & Lake Resort includes Mountain Course (designed by Jack Nicklaus, one of the greatest players and course designers of all time) and Lake Course. The 18-hole Mountain Course is set on high grounds overlooking the Yang Zonghai Lake, offering spectacular views of the picturesque lake and the verdant hills.
In this afternoon, your guide and driver will pick you up at golf course. Later, drive 50 km to the typical Karst landform - Stone Forest. As the “Essence of World Karst Landform” Kunming Stone Forest has been listed as the UNESCO World Natural Heritage with the incomparable coverage of 12 square kilometers’ stone pinnacle groups. Take the sightseeing bus to visit the Greater Stone Forest Scenic Area to admire the typical concentrating cinerous stone pinnacles by walking through the maze of stone peaks and jumping high for the panorama of the forest of protruding stone peaks. Also, you will see the famous peak on many photos and even stones towering over 40 meters. Then, continue to ride the bus to explore the Lesser Stone Forest to closely look at the iconic stone “Ashima” like a young lady, listen to the touching love story of Ashima, and fill your eyes with the emerald garden-like park of wilder stone peaks surrounded by lush green plants and blossoms. Take the sightseeing bus to exit the scenic park.
After the tour, drive back to Kunming Spring City Golf & Lake Resort for accommodation. Have a good rest tonight.
After breakfast, enjoy your memorable time and play golf at the Lake Course of Kunming Spring City Golf & Lake Resort (around 3~4 hours). The 18-hole Lake Course, set on the banks of Yang Zonghai Lake, is world-renowned for its narrow fairways, crisscrossing trenches, green terraces and breathtaking lake views. Enjoy amazing golf experience with your partners this morning.
In this afternoon, drive to Kunming downtown to explore Kunming Flowers & Birds Market. Walk along the narrow paths lined with various shops selling birds, fishes, flowers, antiques, fishing gear, etc. and watch local people finding their best things to buy with sounds of bargaining, chirping, etc.
Next, go to enjoy a cultural visit to Yuantong Temple that is one of the top oldest Buddhist temples in Kunming with more than 1,200 years’ history. Take your stroll there to feel the rich Buddhist atmosphere of three Buddhist sects filling the antique halls and houses specially designed into a traditional Chinese garden layout for a quite different appreciation of temple in China.
Then, walk to Kunming Green Lake nearby. This pretty park with a lovely lake, old-styled pavilions, corridors, flowers, etc. is the most popular place for an authentic feeling of local Kunming people’s leisure life with citizens singing, dancing, talking, exercising, etc. During November to the next March, Black-headed Gulls from Siberian will never be late to fly there for their expecting comfortable warm winter holiday. Do not miss playing with those adorable and vigorous elfin during your relaxing roam!
Stay overnight in Kunming downtown.
In this morning, drive to Kunming Lakeview Golf Club to play golf (around 3~4 hours). Lakeview Golf Club is located at the banks of Dianchi Lake where you can enjoy panoramic view of the vast lake. Lakeview’s par 72 courses boast four sets of tees, playing 7,222 yards from the tips. Its dramatic terrain, lakes, streams, and superb landscaping and maintenance make it both mentally challenging and visually stimulating. Enjoy amazing golf experience with your partners.
In this afternoon, your guide and driver will pick you up at the golf course and enjoy a tour to Western Hills which is called “Sleeping Beauty Hills”, looking like a beautiful young lady lying beside Dian Lake (the largest freshwater in Yunnan and famed as the “Pearl on the Plateau”). It is a particularly pleasant experience to walk in such verdant forest mountain park with elegant sightseeing and a series of cultural relics and sites, including some old temples. You will not miss the symbolic visit to the magic Dragon Gate as it says “If you do not visit Western Hill, you haven't visited Kunming; if you do not come to Dragon Gate, you haven't been to Western Hills”, where to admire the colorful old grottoes on the wall and catch the panoramic view of the large peaceful Dianchi Lake and Kunming City. (You can visit the temples if interested. Huating Temple and Taihua Temple are included in the ticket.)
After that, drive back to Yunnan Nationalities Museum for a wonderful understanding of the 25 ethnic minority groups in vast Yunnan. This largest minority museum in whole Asia boasts a collection of over 20 thousand pieces (units) of precious cultural relics to show you the beautiful costumes, diverse ethnic festivals, daily life scenes, exquisite musical instruments, brilliant cultural texts, and so on to know the essence of Yunnan culture!
On this day, you are free until your guide and driver escort you to airport / railway station for your flight or train to next destination!
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