Customize Your Tour
Customize Your Yunnan Journey
At Yunnan Eco Tours, every trip is thoughtfully handcrafted by our local team with care, cultural insight, and sustainability in mind. We don’t do cookie-cutter travel. Instead, we work closely with each guest to design a journey that’s personal, meaningful, and deeply rooted in the real Yunnan.
On our website, you’ll find several example itineraries—but think of them as inspiration, not fixed packages. Each one reflects the kinds of experiences we love to share, but your final tour will be unique to you.
How To Get Started
Browse our site
Take some time to explore our website and learn about our values, past journeys, and what makes Yunnan such a unique destination. Our sample itineraries are a great starting point to understand the kinds of experiences we offer and the spirit of travel we believe in.
Reach out to us
Send us a message with your travel dates, group size, interests, and any ideas you already have in mind. The more context you share, the better we can understand your travel style and begin shaping a journey that truly fits you.
Tell us what you love
Whether you’re drawn to food culture, tea and coffee traditions, ethnic villages, festivals, nature, crafts, or simply slowing down and living like a local, we want to know what resonates with you. Understanding what inspires you helps us design experiences that feel meaningful rather than rushed or generic.
Receive your custom plan
Based on everything you share, we’ll craft a tailored itinerary with thoughtfully chosen routes and experiences. We’ll refine the details together until it feels just right, and once you’re happy, we’ll move forward with confirming your trip.
Sample Tours
Yunnan Coffee Culture Trip
Journey into the highlands of southwest China, where Yunnan produces over 98% of the nation’s coffee and is rapidly gaining global recognition for its specialty beans. On this trip, you’ll explore lush plantations in regions like Pu’er, Baoshan, and Lincang, meet the growers shaping China’s coffee future, and discover how altitude, microclimate, and tradition come together in every cup. From hands-on harvesting and roasting to tastings of rare micro-lots and sharing meals with coffee-farming families, this immersive journey offers a deep connection to Yunnan’s rising coffee culture.
Yunnan Vegan Culture & Cuisine Trip
Join us for an immersive, 100% plant-based adventure through Yunnan’s villages, forests, and markets. Designed by our founder Leo, a long-time vegan with deep local connections, this trip takes you into the heart of Yunnan’s seasonal, foraged, and traditional food culture. Cook with local families using wild greens and heirloom tofu, explore colorful ethnic markets, and enjoy nourishing meals like wild mushroom hotpots and freshly made stone-milled soy snacks. From hands-on fermentation workshops to plant-based feasts in mountain homes, this journey is about more than food—it’s about connection, community, and culture.
Discover the Roots of Tea in Yunnan
From ancient mountain paths to mist-covered tea gardens, Yunnan is where tea’s story begins. For thousands of years, communities here have cultivated and consumed tea not merely as a beverage, but as medicine, ritual, and a way of connecting people to land and lineage. Tea is woven into daily life — from morning bowls shared in village kitchens to ceremonies that mark seasons, harvests, and relationships.This is more than a tea-tasting journey. It’s an invitation to walk the landscapes where tea was born, to learn directly from farmers and tea makers, to pick leaves from centuries-old trees, roast and press your own pu’er cake by hand, and sit around open fires listening to stories and songs carried through generations — all while experiencing tea as a living culture, not a commodity.
A Culinary Journey of Conscious Indulgence
The vegan scene in Yunnan — and across China — is blossoming, with Kunming and Dali leading the way. These two cities have become vegan-friendly havens, offering everything from cozy local eateries to high-end fine dining experiences that redefine plant-based cuisine. On this journey, you’ll experience Yunnan’s vibrant vegan culture through thoughtfully curated meals crafted by passionate chefs and food visionaries. Each dish highlights the province’s natural abundance — wild-foraged vegetables, mushrooms, mountain-grown herbs, artisanal tofu, and locally sourced ingredients — transformed into artful expressions of health, sustainability, and creativity. From tranquil courtyard restaurants in Dali to innovative vegan kitchens in Kunming, this trip celebrates how plant-based dining can be both exquisite and deeply connected to the land.