Basecamp Travel | Guiding, Transportation, Accommodation, and much more

Besides the trekking we take care for you on several ways. Like professional guiding, tickets for transport and entertainment, hotel reservation, pick up service, boat-, car- and bicycle tours. Even car rental with driver and or English speaking guide is possible. We do all this in every city of touristic importance.

Our guides are very well trained and have many years of experience. Most of them speak the local language and they are licensed and certified English-language guide.

History and culture: Our guides tell you everything about the historical and cultural places in the Yunnan province.

Minorities: There are living many minorities in the Yunnan province. The guides can lead you to these

minorities and see their costumes and houses. Most of the time they belong themselves to a minority. They can tell you about the living of the minorities.

Adventure: The guides can lead you into the mountains and explore the beautiful scenery and nature.

Relaxing: The guides can lead you to several places where you can swim in hot springs. Also a medical massage is very relaxing. Also for entertainment (like traditional music concert or a show) you can ask them.

It is possible to arrange your whole trip in Yunnan including a car with driver, accommodation, transport and guiding.
For example you arrive in Kunming and you want to see the places of interest around there. After you want to go to Dali, Lijiang and Zhongdian (Shangri-La) or perhaps you want to go to the sub-tropical part of Yunnan Xishuangbanna with its capital Jinghong.

We work together with Yunnan Minority Travel Tailor-made travels in the beautiful Chinese province of Yunnan

We translate all kind of documents or letters into and from Chinese - English - German - Dutch.

The Butterfly Dream is truly a visual feast, which is conceived based on the rich ethnic customs and scenic beauties in Dali. It boasts the strong local colours, the fancy and illusory stage scenes, the brilliant lightning effects; the fashionable background music, the fantastic choreography and the distinctive and gripping scenario.

The Butterfly Dream is aimed to sing the praise of the harmony between people and nature, between people and people, between people and gods and between today and future.

The Butterfly Dream, by presenting the colourful butterflies and the touching love songs, is a paradise for dreamers and ethnic culture lovers, as well as poetic depiction of the beautiful future life of people in Dali.

In Dali it is possible to organize a special concert with traditional Bai music on demand. It is also possible to arrange this concert in your hotel or in a place of your choice.

The Dongba culture is the traditional culture of the Naxi nationality. It is manifested in the Dongba religion, a kind of primitive religion based on the worship of nature, as well as the exploration of the harmonic relationship of man and nature. The Dongba Palace Folk Troupe of ancient town of Lijiang was founded in 1998. The program evolve around the ancient cultural legacy called Music-cum-Dance of Dongba, thus providing insights into the cultural and history of the Naxi people.

Two ancient forms of Naxi musical expression have remained virtually intact over the centuries and you must enjoy a demonstration. Of particular note (pun intended!) are the unusual wind and percussion instruments mastered by the performers.

We can book every hotel reservation you want. But also we can find a suitable hotel or guesthouse for you.

In Dali we can pick you up from bus- or train station or airport and bring you to your hotel of your choice.

Also we can take you from your hotel to the bus or train station or the airport.

We organize all kinds of sightseeing tours in and around Kunming, Dali, Lijiang and Zhongdian. There are more places of interest than can possibly be mentioned.

Yulong Xue Mountain (Jade Dragon Snow Mountain): Within this 13-peak range flows the northern hemisphere's southernmost glacier. Our tour of the mountain includes the option of a chairlift ride to the top of the peak. At 14,750 feet, it's Asia's highest chairlift!

Black Dragon Pool Park: Check your camera's memory card before visiting this park! You'll be taking lots of pictures here, both of the park and the mountain vistas in the distance! Located just north of town, Black Dragon Pool Park (or, Heilong Tan Gongyuan) is stunning. Within a pond swimming with colourful carp is a rustic-looking three-level pavilion connected to the shore by a simple, five-arch bridge. But it's the majestic Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (or, Yulong Xue Shan) rising in the distance that captures your attention.

Tiger Leaping Gorge: As legend has it, a hunted tiger escaped certain death by leaping across the River of Golden Sands ("Jinsha Jiang"), smartly choosing the gorge's narrowest point. Hiking trails line the gorge, providing breathtaking views - and breath-taking climbs! (trekking in the Tiger Leaping Gorge).

· March Fair, which falls between March 15 and 20 of the lunar calendar, is a grand festival of the Bai. It is celebrated every year at the foot of the Diancang Hill to the west of Dali city. It is a fair and an occasion for sporting contests and theatrical performances. People gather there to enjoy dances, horse racing and other games.

· Torch festival is on June 25. On that day, torches are lit everywhere to usher in a bumper harvest and to bless the people with good health and fortune. Streamers bearing auspicious words are hung in doorways and at village entrances alongside the flaming torches. Villagers, holding aloft torches, walk around in the fields to drive insects away.

We can arrange a car for you with driver (most drivers don't speak English). The price for a car with driver is about 600 rmb per day. Of course this price depends Rent a car with driver

on the size and brand of the car and the distance he have to drive (and the backway). The mentioned price is based on driving in the Erhai lake- and Dali area. If you want to go to other places (Kunming, Weishan, Lijiang, Zhongdian), or rent a car for a longer period - for example a week - prices are on demand.
We can arrange a guide who speaks English, Chinese and the local language.

From Dali you can make a fine bike tour around the Erhai lake.
Bicycle- and boat tour

Within this tour we also make a boat tour with beautiful views at the Changshan mountains. We use good bikes (mountain bike or city bike).
Using narrow roads (sometimes half paved) we bike to the old men house at the shore of the lake, where we can play mahjong with them. By boat we go to Wase where we have lunch and visit this small village and we can visit a small school. From there we bike to the south and after a few hours the boat is waiting to take us to the direction of Dali. We bike to the Three Pagodas who we can visit. After we bike to Dali Old Town where we, tired but with a good feeling, can drink together.