Jingmai Mountain Tea Plantation Village Retreat

About This Retreat

A tea culture retreat in the ancient villages and tea forests of Jingmai Mountain, with yoga, hiking, ritual dance, tea ceremony, and village life.

Jingmai Mountain is one of the most extraordinary places in the world for tea culture and cultural heritage travel. Its ancient tea forests, old villages, temples, and mountain paths preserve a rare way of life where people, forest, tea, and spirit have lived together for centuries.

The mountain is home to traditional villages of the Bulang, Dai, Hani, Lahu, and Wa communities. Because transportation was difficult for many years, ancient customs remained vivid here: tea ancestor legends, forest-tea symbiosis, village temples, seasonal offerings, and the warm presence of elders who still carry the memory of the mountain.

We visit the Tea Ancestor Temple, the Tea Soul Platform, the princess tomb legend, Wengji ancient village, and the 2,250-year-old cypress tree. Every April, the Bulang people hold mountain offerings in the tea gardens, as if the gods of the forest descend among the old tea trees. Walking through the thousand-year-old tea forest, time feels layered: temple bells, wind moving through cypress branches, and the stories of Princess Rong and Nuogang village seem to travel with us.

The feeling here is both Chinese and Southeast Asian, with echoes of Bali's sacred village life and the Lanna culture of northern Thailand. It is a retreat into a paradise where human beings, nature, and spirit are still in conversation.

During the retreat, we dance offering dances on the Tea Soul Platform, practice yoga in ancient villages, hike through old tea forests, share tea ceremonies, and slow the body and mind into the rhythm of the mountain.