Xizhou Ancient Town Travel Guide

⭕️Xizhou Ancient Town can be fully explored in just half a day, but here's a guide summarized from a year and a half of living here that you'll definitely want to bookmark! ⚠️Specific route: Enter the ancient town through Xizhou's Justice Gate ➡️ Yan Family Courtyard ➡️ Corner Tower ➡️ Wheat Fields ➡️ Ancient Banyan Tree ➡️ Haise Park 🔲Xizhou Ancient Town Check-in A thousand-year-old Bai ethnic town, it boasts the most and best-preserved Bai residential buildings. The layout is a classic example of the 'three rooms and one screen wall' and 'four sides and five courtyards' Bai courtyard pattern. These residences feature carved beams and painted rafters, overlapping brackets, upturned eaves, gate towers, screen walls, and gable wall decorative paintings, all vivid and colorful, fully reflecting the Bai people's architectural talent and artistic creativity. 📷Yan Family Courtyard Museum: A Bai ethnic folk customs tourist spot, an ancient Dali merchant's mansion. Tickets: 18r Time: 8:30-18:00 📷Corner Tower: A must-visit spot in Xizhou, the best time for photography is before 8:30 when there are fewer people and it's easier to get good shots. 📷Wheat Fields: Early March for rapeseed flowers; April for green expanses; June to October for rice paddies; by mid-September, it turns golden! 📷Ancient Banyan Tree: The ancient banyan tree where Liu Yifei shed tears, the same spot from 'The Place with Wind'. The tree is outside Xizhou Ancient Town, navigate to 🧭【Hetianli Boutique Homestay】, a 10-minute walk will get you there. 🍘Xizhou Ancient Town Cuisine: Dali's special Xizhou baba, available by the side of National Highway 214, 5r each, cheap and delicious!! 🙋🏻‍♂️There are salty and sweet ones, and the freshly baked ones have the best wok flavor and are very tasty! Friends 🉑 choose according to their own taste! Transportation Guide: ⚠️Dali Ancient Town ➡️ Xizhou Ancient Town 1️⃣Self-driving🚗: About 25 minutes 2️⃣Bus🚌: Take a bus from the Cangshan Gate of Dali Ancient Town to Xizhou's Justice Gate, 20r/person 3️⃣Minibus🚌: Minibus from March Street to Xizhou, about 7r/person, departs when full. But the drop-off point is 1km from the ancient town 4️⃣Taxi🚗: Can go directly to near Justice Gate, about 60r 5️⃣Electric bike🛵: About 1h 6️⃣Xizhou to Haise Park: It's about 3km from Xizhou Ancient Town's wheat fields to Haise Park, take a taxi or a small yellow tricycle. For more travel and living notes, friends please 👀➕👍➕⭐️