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We were a couple, with our 13 years old daughter. During all the time, Jon took care of all the details, and made sure we are getting the most out of our trip. Jon introduced us to local culture, food, and populations. He is very knowledgeable and tells the story of the local minorities with lots of examples and small stories.

We are happy to recommend his services. We left Yunnan feeling that our experience was exceptional.

a very very recommended guide for you. He is very responsive when I contact him in the first place and he's also fluent in english, friendly, helpful, & handy. he knows his way around Lijiang and also a lot of the history of places. He even prepared things we didn't know we would need when we visited some of the places. two thumbs up!

A group of 6 of us travelled with Jon Zhou in late April 2015 covering Lijiang, Shaxi & Dali. We had a good time with Jon and his driver, He.

Jon took good care of us throughout the trip. He was attentive to the elderly and their needs and tried his best to meet our needs. He is very knowledgeable about the history, cultural and the life of the people and tribes. We had good food recommendation and pretty good accommodations.

The group truly enjoyed ourselves. We are happy with Jon and his service and would recommend him to friends who will be planning to tour Yunnan.

I contacted Jon after reading the reviews and he (always) responded promptly, compared with several others on this site.

His rates were reasonable and he is clearly knowledgable, in offering good advice. I travelled with my parents on a day trip to jade dragon snow mountain and the Impressions show, then the next day from Lijiang to tiger leaping gorge and shangrila/zhongdian via baishui tai terraces. Jon arranged for Mr Nian to drive us on both days. He spoke a little English but conversed with my parents in mandarin. As I wanted to see the baishui terraces, then on to shangrila, our route from tiger leaping gorge was along the long and less travelled mountain road (instead of the expressway). Mr Nian was the perfect man for the job, who brought us safely to our destination with time to spare. He even drove back home after dropping us off (the last leg was 3 hours on winding mountain roads).

i wouldn't hesitate to recommend Jon to others and can see why he has many glowing and well deserved reviews.

thanks Jon and Mr Nian!

Wishing you all safe and enjoyable travels in Yunnan.

It is a please to review Jon, we just spend 5 days with him, around Kunming.  He took very good care or our family of 11, organizing all the tours, meals etc.  He also worked so hard to meet all of our extra requests.  We plan to do another trip to Shangrila next year and we definitely book him again.

We booked our tour with Jon as our guide from the 3rd of January up to the 7th of January 2015. Until then we only knew Chinas big cities as Nanjing, Shangahi and Beijing. As we wanted to get to know the countryside as well we decided to visit the highly recommended Yunnan Province.

Jon really helped us with organizing our trip. He gave us lots of clues what’s nice to see there and also helped us with finding nice accommodations.

We started our tour in beautiful Lijiang. When we arrived in the early morning, Jon picked us up from the train station and brought us to our first Hotel. He arranged an early check-in and a breakfast for us and even found a way to get us some coffee from somewhere. During the day he guided us through Lijiang and told us everything about it: not a single question was left unanswered. He also brought us to a nice restaurant where all of us could find some tasteful lunch.

The next day we visited a small town close to Lijiang where Jon introduced us to one of his friends who showed us how the people live their daily lives there. After that we moved on into the mountains and went to an old Buddhism temple which was really nice. In the evening Jon brought us to lovely Shaxi Old Town where he booked a simple but really outstanding accommodation for us. We had a very good overnight stay there and really enjoyed everything (the location itself, the rooms, the friendly staff, the dinner and breakfast…).

The next morning we left for a two day hiking-trip at the Tiger Leaping Gorge. What can I say? It really just was amazing!

After the two days we returned to Lijiang again where we stayed the last day of our trip.

We are really thankful for Jon’s help. He really is a nice guy and a very good guide. If we return to Yunnan one day, we definitely would like to be guided by Jon again.