Your own car and driver in Yunnan.
We plan your trip day by day around your family — kids, elders, halal food, your pace. You get a private car, a clear price, and a local friend on WhatsApp.
We reply with a day-by-day plan.
The price is for the car, not per person — kids don't change it. Fuel, tolls, parking and the driver's meals and hotel are included.
Plan first. Then a price you can check.
Car prices depend on days, car size and cities. So we never guess — we plan your route, then quote it line by line.
Tell us about your trip
Dates, how many of you (kids' ages too), which cities — or "not sure yet". Halal food, a baby, a wheelchair, an easy pace? Tell us.
Get a day-by-day plan
We build your trip one day at a time: what to see, how long it takes, where to eat halal, when to take the train instead of the car.
Get a clear price
We match the right car and send an itemised quote. A 30% deposit locks your car and dates. The rest is paid on your first car day.
We only charge for the car and our time.
What we charge
- Your private car and driverFuel, tolls, parking, driver's meals and hotel included
- Airport and train station transfers
- Local friend serviceOptional — ¥300 a day
- Overtime, only if it happensA car day is 9 hours; the first extra hour is free
What you pay directly, at the real price
- Tickets and activities
- Trains and flights
- Hotels
- Meals and coffee
- Travel insuranceWe recommend you bring your own
We can book any of these for you — and we never add a markup. No commissions. No shopping stops. What you see in the quote is everything.
Just the car, or the car plus us.
Not a guide who talks at you — a local friend who gets things done for you.
Classic Yunnan in 8 days.
2 adults and 2 kids, 7-seater car, outside peak season. This is exactly how we'd price it.
- Day 1 Land in Kunming — airport pickup to your hotel
- Day 2 High-speed train to Dali · Erhai Lake by car
- Day 3 Dali Old Town, Xizhou and the lakeside
- Day 4 Dali → Lijiang
- Day 5 Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
- Day 6 Tiger Leaping Gorge → Shangri-La
- Day 7 Pudacuo & Songzanlin Monastery · evening train to Kunming
- Day 8 Stone Forest · airport drop-off
About ¥286 per person per day for A, ¥361 for B. Tickets, trains, hotels and meals are paid directly at the real price.
Tiger Leaping Gorge, high trail. This is where we spend our days off — and where we'll happily send you.
We plan halal food ahead, not on the spot.
Every city on your route gets pre-researched halal restaurants and the nearest mosque, sent to you with the Chinese name and a map pin — so any driver or taxi can find it.
Kunming
Lots of choiceThe most options in Yunnan. Mosques and halal restaurants right in the city centre around Shuncheng — Chinese dishes, Dai-style, Middle Eastern, beef noodles.
Dali
PlentyMosques by the Old Town's south and west gates, with halal hotpot, noodles and Chinese dishes nearby. More in Xizhou and Weishan.
Lijiang
PlentyMany halal restaurants around the Old Town, Shuhe and Baisha, a mosque near the Old Town — and a halal restaurant up at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
Shangri-La
Fewer — we plan aheadA handful of halal places in Dukezong Old Town and near Songzanlin Monastery. We plan these meals before you arrive.
We say "pre-researched", not "guaranteed". Restaurants open and close, so we check before we send you — and we'll always tell you honestly when an area has fewer choices.
Hi, we're Eric and Sandy.
Eric came to Yunnan in 2012. Apart from 2 years working in Kuala Lumpur, he's been here ever since — a hiker at heart who spends his days off on mountain trails, from Tiger Leaping Gorge to Meili Snow Mountain. Sandy, his wife, is from Thailand.
Friends from Singapore and Malaysia kept asking us the same thing: how do we see Yunnan properly — with the kids, with halal food, without a tour bus?
ES Journey is our answer. A small team based in Kunming plans every trip by hand, works with drivers we know, and stays on WhatsApp with you until you're home.
Good to know.
Is the price per person? Do kids pay?
The price is for the car, not per head — kids don't change it. We show a per-person number only so you can compare.
Does the driver speak English?
Honestly, no. Our drivers are local and use a translation app. That's exactly why Option B exists: we're on WhatsApp in English for your whole trip.
Is the food 100% halal?
We pre-research halal restaurants in every city and book ahead. We'll always tell you honestly when an area has fewer choices, so you're never guessing on the spot. For halal families, we brief the driver too: no pork in the car.
Can we change the plan during the trip?
Of course — it's your car. Small changes are easy. If a change makes a day much longer or adds a city, we'll tell you the cost before anything happens.
Can you book hotels, trains and tickets?
Yes. You pay the real price — we don't add anything on top.
How do we pay?
A 30% deposit locks your car and dates. The rest is paid by the end of your first car day. We accept Alipay and WeChat Pay — both work with foreign bank cards.
What if we need to cancel?
Cancel 7 days or more before your trip and you get everything back. Inside 7 days, we only keep costs already paid out for you — like the driver hold — and refund the rest, with the breakdown. Flight cancelled, road closed, someone gets sick? Tell us and we'll sort it out fairly; usually that's a full refund. You can change dates once for free within the same season.
Is there a peak-season charge?
During China's Golden Week (1–7 October), summer holidays (July–August) and Chinese New Year, there's ¥200 per car day. It's always shown in the quote.
Tell us your dates. We'll do the rest.
Send us your dates, how many of you, and which cities you have in mind. We'll send back a day-by-day plan and a clear price.