Swan Travel invented the adventure program for travelers to discover the off-the-beaten path.

For our adventure program, we run small groups from 4-22 people. We provide more flexibility for traveler. Such as our half-board service during the journey, which means that we arrange breakfast and lunch for the group, but client can either join the daily dinner with group or arrange on their own.

Swan Travel offers a total of four adventure programs which include “Exploring Ethnic Groups in Guizhou and Guilin”. This program will show you the real ethnic group’s life. We will arrange village stays, soft walking tours as well as attending festivals and local markets. Program two is named “A Sacred Buddist Land”. In this journey, we join pilgrims on their pilgrimage trail around the Taer and Longwu monastery, two very well-respected monasteries in Tibet. We admire some of Tibet’s most respected art-work at the Wutun and Nanliandu monastery, spending time with master painters and lamas as we understand the process to draw such beauties. We drive and hike through Tibetan villages, unusual danxia terrain, to reach Nanzhong nunnery, a spiritual retreat far removed from the materialistic and daily chores of today’s world. In the midst of nuns and monks, we understand how Tibetan Buddhism was maintained here in the face of hostility and through our discussions, understand the meaning of Buddhism and peace. Program three is about the famous “Silk Road”. The tour is classified as intense touring with various activities, such as camping, moderate hiking, birding, local family visits, and cave art studies. It can be moderately physically demanding though anyone in good health and fair physical shape should be able to complete the program. The tour involves some long drives and long days which are tiring. A moderate amount of steep slope walking will be done (very slowly). It will be quite hot during the day on our two days on the edge of the Tarim Basin, and cool in the evening. Accommodation ranges from excellent in Xi’an and Urumqi, to modest and basic in other towns and county. Our last adventure tour is “Pushing China’s Western Frontier-Western Sichuan.” This is the heart of China’s Wild West, a region perfectly described by the Chinese proverb “The sky is high and the Emperor is far away.” We will experience the rough-and-tumble market outposts and stark, peaceful wilderness of the plateau, joined on our journey by local Tibetan villagers, Buddhist pilgrims, and nomadic Yak herding cowboys. Leaving Sichuan’s provincial capital in the Yangtze River valley for one of the world’s highest and most remote regions, we visit an area where few Han Chinese and even fewer international travelers have ever set foot.

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