Jiangxi Nanchang + Lushan + Jingdezhen + Wuyuan: 5-Day, 4-Night Private Tour · Dedicated Vehicle, In-Depth Visits Beyond the Usual Stops · Wunuzhou, a Huizhou Town That Never Sleeps, with Molten-Iron Flower Displays | Mountains on Three Sides, Water on One; a City of Porcelain and Kilns · Ceramic Museum: Encounters at a Slower Pace | Year-Round Harvest Drying at Popular Huangling + Mountain Wonderland and World Heritage Lushan | One Booking, 1 Private Group

08:00

We will agree a time with you in advance and take you to the hotel. Departure can be earlier or later to fit your schedule; station transfer service is arranged only once per booking.
[1] Pick-up and drop-off locations: Nanchang Transfers are available within the city, at Nanchang Railway Station, Nanchang West Railway Station and Nanchang Airport. Please state your transfer location and time in the booking notes.

[2] Sightseeing times: chartered vehicle service forms 1 private group for 1 booking. The itinerary can be adjusted to your schedule. If you need an early or late departure, tell us in advance so that we can discuss minor adjustments.

Reminders:

(1) Staff will telephone before 20:00 on the day before departure with specific trip arrangements. Please keep the telephone number supplied in your booking reachable.

13:00

Sightseeing time: approximately 3 hours.

[Free-time tips] Attraction opening arrangements may change. The first day includes only the station pick-up; vehicle use during free time is not included.

1. August First Uprising Memorial Museum: free admission with an identity card. Morning: 09:00–11:30; afternoon: 13:00–16:00. Closed on Mondays. Please make your own online reservation one day in advance.

2. Bayi Square (Monument): free admission, in the centre of Nanchang's old city, and one of its landmark attractions.

3. Qiushui Square: free admission. When it is not raining, the musical fountain runs at 19:30; opening times may vary by season. It is beside the Gan River in Honggutan.

Bayi Square

Wanshou Palace Historical and Cultural District

Qiushui Square

Star of Nanchang Ferris Wheel

08:00

Activity time: approximately 2 hours.

Tengwang Pavilion Tourist Area

(First-entry admission included)

10:00

The driver will wait at the hotel entrance to take you to Wuyuan 。

13:30

Activity time: approximately 3 hours.

1. [Adult admission includes the Huangling return cableway.]
If the cableway is under maintenance or suspended, scenic-area sightseeing buses will be used up and down instead, with no change in price. Queues may occur on weekends, during Golden Week, public holidays and peak season. Thank you for your understanding.
2. [What to see at Huangling]
1) In spring, admire ten thousand mu of terraced rapeseed flowers.
2) The Chinese tradition of harvest drying, or shaiqiu. Viewing points: 1. Sun-Drying Workshop; 2. Shaiqiu Homes; 3. Viewing Platform; 4. Photography Bar.
3) Wuyuan Folk Culture Exhibition Hall — Ancestral Hall.
4) Tianjie, an old street of Ming- and Qing-style shops.
5) Examples of Huizhou architecture: Zhuxu Hall, with its intricate woodcarving; Wugui Hall, a Huizhou mansion with a young ladies' building; Yixin Building, a ‘Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio’ filming location and bridal chamber; and Shuhe Hall, an official hall.
6) The thrilling glass walkway at Leixin Bridge.

Wuyuan Huangling Scenic Area

(First-entry admission included)

Wuyuan Huangling Scenic Area — Water Street

(No admission ticket required)

Suspended Earthen House

(No admission ticket required)

Sun-Drying Workshop Viewing Platform

(No admission ticket required)

Discovering the Terraced Flower Fields

(No admission ticket required)

16:30

Your dedicated vehicle will take you to the hotel.

18:00

Activity time: approximately 2 hours 30 minutes.

Regular evening activities, for reference only; actual availability depends on the scenic area's arrangements.

❶ Floating Golden Pavilion

A curtain of water pours down as the evening lights come on.

An evening boat ride feels like returning to a Tang-dynasty night banquet.


❷ Baoyu Pagoda: ‘The Exploitation of the Works of Nature’ Fireworks Show

Suggested viewing point: Nuo Dance Square in front of Baoyu Pagoda.

After the crowds leave, take a group photograph with the pagoda in the background.

Tips

Intangible cultural heritage molten-iron flower display: view from the Jinshui Pavilion water stage.

Fireworks show / fireworks waterfall: view from the Golden Pavilion at Wuxian Lake.

Rent hanfu before the performance and explore the traditional Huishi Street at night.


Sights to visit

❶ Wenchang Pavilion: Wuyuan's most beautiful bookshop, with a striking geometric space filled with books.

❷ Lianli Hall: experience traditional Chinese wedding customs from old Huizhou.

❸ Menghua Art Museum: a gallery combining creativity and fun.

❹ Wuxian Hall: a local place of worship for the Wuxian Gods of Wealth.


Other recommendations

❶ Jin Yong Hall: an exhibition space themed around martial-arts fiction and culture.

❷ Huizhou Merchants' Guild Hall: home to six hundred years of Huizhou merchant culture.

❸ Tea Sage Museum: the history of Chinese tea and Wuyuan green tea.

❹ Ancient Theatre Stage: architecture showcasing traditional Chinese mortise-and-tenon woodworking.

Wunuzhou Resort

(First-entry admission included)

08:30

Your dedicated vehicle will wait in the hotel car park to take you to Jingdezhen

09:30

Activity time: approximately 2 hours.

Unlike the Jingdezhen China Ceramic Museum, the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum stands out for its design. Its exterior uses arched, openwork forms of different sizes, with red bricks constructing the whole space.

Reminders:

1. Admission to the Imperial Kiln Museum requires a ticket for Taoyangli Scenic Area.

2. The museum is closed every Monday.

3. You must make your own advance reservation for the Imperial Kiln Museum through the ‘Changyou Jingdezhen’ mini programme. A real-name reservation 6 days ahead is recommended.

Taoyangli Tourist Area

(First-entry admission included)

Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum

(No admission ticket required)

13:00

Activity time: approximately 2 hours.

Reminders:

1. Museum opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 9:00–17:00; last admission at 16:30.

2. You must make your own advance reservation through the ‘Changyou Jingdezhen’ mini programme before visiting. A real-name reservation 6 days ahead is recommended. If you cannot obtain a reservation and therefore cannot visit, the visit will be replaced with Jingdezhen's Sanbao Village. Please take note.

Jingdezhen China Ceramic Museum

(No admission ticket required)

Sanbao International Ceramic Art Village

(No admission ticket required)

15:30

Activity time: approximately 1 hour 30 minutes.

The Jingdezhen Sculpture Porcelain Factory has ceased production and is now a gathering place for young ceramic artists, as well as the location of a well-known market. Its comprehensive pottery facilities make it easy for artists to obtain clay and send formed pieces to kilns for firing, greatly reducing both production and labour costs. Taoshe also has pottery shops, cafés and workshops. Whether you want to try throwing a pot or study ceramics more systematically, this is one of Jingdezhen's best options. The Saturday market is also recognised locally as one of the city's highest-quality pottery markets.

There are many small pottery shops within Jingdezhen's Sculpture Porcelain Factory, each with its own distinct style. It is worth taking time to browse and find pieces that appeal to you.

Jingdezhen Sculpture Porcelain Factory

(No admission ticket required)

18:00

Activity time: approximately 2 hours.

Jingdezhen's map once showed many porcelain factories and ceramics-related businesses, which were the city's pride at the time.

Today, those porcelain factories have closed, replaced by ceramic creative parks rebuilt on their former sites. Taoxichuan Creative Park, for example, was converted from the Jingdezhen Universe Porcelain Factory and compares favourably with art districts such as Beijing's 798.

Markets are the stage on which the ‘Jingpiao’—people who have moved to Jingdezhen to pursue ceramics—show their talents.

Examples include Taoxichuan Market, Taoyang New Village Night Market, Mingqing Garden Market, the early-morning ‘Ghost Market’, and informal markets that have not yet developed a brand.

The markets offer varied, inexpensive bracelets; spoons, bowls and jars in muted Morandi colours; and fine little ceramic crafts…

There are so many goods, designs and affordable prices that it is no wonder people online say, ‘No one can leave Jingdezhen empty-handed.’

Taoxichuan Cultural and Creative District

(No admission ticket required)

08:00

Your dedicated vehicle will take you to Lushan Scenic Area. On reaching the entrance, change to the scenic area's sightseeing bus; admission and the sightseeing bus, valued at CNY90 per person, are included. The journey takes 2 hours to the foot of the mountain, followed by approximately 40 minutes on the winding mountain road.

Sightseeing within the scenic area also requires these buses. They are centrally managed and dispatched, so some waiting may be necessary. Thank you for your understanding.

By default, the journey up Lushan uses the scenic area's environmentally friendly bus and takes approximately 40 minutes.

[Ways to go up the mountain] You may upgrade to the Lushan Cableway for the ascent and descent, then use Lushan's sightseeing buses at the summit. Select the cableway upgrade under additional services when booking.

[Journey time] Lushan Cableway is a welcome option for those prone to motion sickness, turning an hour of jolting roads into eight enjoyable minutes.

[Cableway introduction] Lushan Transport Cableway is a transport cableway within Lushan. Its upper station is on Huiyuan Road in Guling Town, Lushan City; its lower station is at Lushan Yunwu Tea Plantation in the Balihu New District of Jiujiang City, beside the ancient Donglin Temple. Lushan Transport Cableway took 3 years to build, with a total investment of CNY610,000,000, and opened on 2017-7-28.

Lushan Transport Cableway is 2,864 metres long, with a height difference of 873 metres. Each cabin is designed to carry 30 people. The whole route has only 4 support towers, with a single span reaching 1,567 metres, and a designed operating speed of 7 metres per second.

Once your Lushan admission ticket has been validated on entry, the scenic area will not refund it except for force majeure. A paper ticket is considered used once collected and is non-refundable. If some attractions are closed because of weather, traffic controls or other special circumstances, this is not grounds for a refund. Please take note.

10:00

Activity time: approximately 1 hour 30 minutes.

Lushan Scenic Area, a World Cultural Heritage site and 5A-rated scenic area, has long been praised for ‘the finest extraordinary beauty under heaven’. Admission is included, and adults include the full-fare Lushan environmentally friendly bus ticket.

Sightseeing buses depart from Guling Town on Lushan to the attractions, divided into eastern and western routes.

Eastern route: Transport Administration Office, Meilu Villa, No. Fifteen Bridge, Former Lushan Conference Site, Lulin Bridge (Museum), Lulin Car Park, Yangtianping Junction, Hanpokou, Botanical Garden, Wulaofeng and Sandie Spring.

Western route: Conference Centre, Main Street, Huanshan Road Junction, Flower Path Junction, Flower Path, Immortal's Cave, Great Heavenly Pool and Power Station Dam.

Departure times:

1. Peak season: 4/1 to 10/31. The first departure from the terminus is at 7:00; the last return bus from the scenic area is at 19:00.

2. Low season: 11/1 to 3/31 of the following year. The first departure from the terminus is at 7:30; the last return bus from the scenic area is at 18:00.

Departure frequency at the eastern and western route termini: every five minutes in peak season and every ten minutes in low season.

Ticket offices: South Mountain Entrance, North Mountain Entrance, Transport Administration Office Stop, Sandie Spring Stop and Lulin Car Park Stop (peak season).

Ticket checks: check card and fingerprints → check paper sightseeing-bus ticket → check the group's computer-printed receipt if necessary → board the bus.

Tip: the two bus routes operate separately. To travel from the eastern route to a western-route attraction, change buses at the Conference Centre.

Lushan Scenic Area

(First-entry admission included)

Lushan Flower Path

(No admission ticket required)

Ruqin Lake

(No admission ticket required)

13:30

Activity time: approximately 2 hours.

This section connects several attractions and is one of Lushan's highlights. Walking into Jinxiu Valley feels like becoming part of the mountain: elegant peaks rise ahead, while a seemingly bottomless valley lies below. At that moment, I felt I understood Li Bai's feelings when writing, ‘I cannot see Lushan's true face, because I am within this mountain,’ and experienced a sudden sense of clarity. Travel let me feel emotions absent from school textbooks. The next time I read that verse, I think I will smile knowingly, because I have experienced it.

If you are lucky, you may meet the mountain's ‘little tyrants’, squatting on steps, climbing handrails or sitting on a branch above you: Lushan's wild macaques. If you have food, remember to hide it, or you may not get away easily.

Some feelings can only be understood through personal experience. That may be one of the meanings of travel.

Reminders:

1. This section is a mountain path with some steps up and down. Please take care while walking.

2. Do not touch wild plants or animals, to avoid injury.

Jinxiu Valley

(No admission ticket required)

Lushan National Key Scenic Area — Heavenly Bridge

(No admission ticket required)

Jinxiu Valley — Good Luck Stone

(No admission ticket required)

Jinxiu Valley — Xianfeng Peak

(No admission ticket required)

Jinxiu Valley — Negotiating Platform

(No admission ticket required)

Immortal's Cave

(No admission ticket required)

Jinxiu Valley — Imperial Stele Pavilion

(No admission ticket required)

15:30

Activity time: approximately 20 minutes.

Hanpokou

(No admission ticket required)

Wulaofeng Scenic Area

(Exterior view)

16:20

Activity time: approximately 1 hour.

Depending on the sunset time on your travel day, you can make your own way to Wangjiang Pavilion to watch the sunset.

Lushan National Tourist Scenic Area — Wangjiang Pavilion

(No admission ticket required)

08:00

Activity time: approximately 3 hours.

Reminders:

1. An optional return train operates at Sandie Spring. You may walk the whole route or take the return train at your own expense, CNY80 per person. Note: the train saves only one section, approximately half an hour of walking; there are still steps to walk, with more than 3,000 steps on the return route. Please judge what is suitable for your physical condition.

2. If Lushan experiences dry weather, the administration's forest fire prevention headquarters may close the scenic area or forest according to actual conditions to prevent forest fires. Closures also sometimes occur because of icy roads. The administration's notice determines the exact closure period.

Sandie Spring

(First-entry admission included)

12:00

Meet according to your return travel time and take the sightseeing bus down the mountain. Your dedicated vehicle will then take you to Jiujiang /Nanchang to conclude your enjoyable trip.