Most beautiful villages
Chengyang Dong village
In Guangxi Province, there are several different ethnic minorities, including the Miao, Zhuang, Dong and Yao. Each lives in a different area of Guangxi. Sanjiang in particular is famous for the stockade villages built by the Dong ethnic minority. The Dong people also erect covered bridges with porches and pavilions which provide shelter even when [...]
Yongding Hakka village
The Hakka are a subgroup of the Han Chinese people who live predominantly in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian. From China’s Fujian coast, it’s a grinding drive up narrow roads through villages built around exhausted coal mines to reach the remote mountains of Yongding. Morning mist clings to the slopes of dense trees [...]
Wuyuan village
Wuyuan is a county endowed with rich ecological and cultural beauty eulogized by some as the most beautiful village in China. Although the accommodation and transportation conditions are not good in some places here, you can’t be too critical when traveling in this sort of tourist attraction, with well preserved ecological and cultural relics. Wuyuan [...]
Zhaoxing Dong village
Zhaoxing Dong Village, the largest Dong village in China, is also called Qianhu (meaning a thousand households) Dong Village because about 1,000 households of Dong people live here. There are five sections in the village, namely ren (meaning benevolence), yi (meaning justice), li (meaning courtesy), zhi (meaning wisdom), xin (meaning faith). There lives one clan [...]
Tuwa village at Kanas Lake
Over 1,400 Tuwa people live by the beautiful Kanas Lake. Before Kanas was opened to tourists, they lived in an almost isolated world. Some scholars believe the Tuwa to be the descendents of old, sick or disabled soldiers left behind by Genghis Khan when he led his troops west. The inhabitants customarily live in Mongolian [...]
Dayangjie Hani village
Standing on a high mountain above the east bank of the Honghe River, you will be swathed in the rolling magic cloud sea of the Ailao Mountains. In the brief gaps when the clouds disperse, you can see the Honghe River in the deep valley below, thin as a winding thread, weaving its way through [...]
Rongchag Tibetan village
Rongchag is located in the west of Sichuan Province. The area is characterized by towering mountains, deep valleys and swift-flowing rivers. Scattered among the mountains below the snowline are Tibetan-inhabited villages such as Zhonglu, Pujiaoding, and Dazhai with their own distinct architectural styles. The stepped-back red stone houses, shaded by many different kinds of tree, [...]
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