#HERB VILLAGE Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
I've wanted to visit the tea garden homestays around Chengdu countless times
Ya'an is a very treasure-filled travel destination
Here has a sense of déjà vu of Sri Lanka
The sufficient slope makes the tea garden look like terraced fields with a strong sense of hierarchy
It's very photogenic no matter how you shoot!
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Starting from Chengdu, it takes 1.5 hours by car to reach Qilong Village in Ya'an.
Through the winding country roads, the bamboo forest and tea garden are scattered,
The small courtyard built by the mountain, small bridges and flowing water, stone plank roads,
Here the scenery is beautiful, the price is low and there are few people
The life you long for in the hustle and bustle of the city is just outside the window
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🏠Homestay: Ya'an Caoyan Shushu
🚗Depart from downtown Chengdu and arrive in about 1.5 hours by car
🚄Get off at the Mingshan station of the bullet train, then take a taxi for about 20 minutes to arrive
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🏠About the homestay
Located on the tea mountain in Mingshan District, Ya'an, with a tea garden of ten thousand mu
The small courtyard with the characteristics of wooden beams and citron tiles of western Sichuan dwellings
Looking around, there are terraced fields and green tea gardens
Away from the hustle and bustle
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🛏️About the room
The house is made of wood, with a grey tile roof, and has a unique ancient charm. The homestay has a total of 10 rooms, each named after a poem, which is really romantic. It's quiet and comfortable to sleep in the tea garden!
Each room has many windows, and the scenery of the four seasons can be changed. As long as you open the curtains, you can embrace the sun, moon, stars, mountains and seasons.
Welcome fruit is provided at check-in, and the imported snacks and Foss water from the mini bar also make me feel it's worth the price
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🍴About meals
The homestay provides Chinese and Western breakfast | afternoon tea.
You can choose the soup pot for dinner.
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🌈About play
🍵Tea picking: Carry a basket, roll up your sleeves, and pick tea in the tea garden to get close to the rural life.
♨️Private soup: Empty yourself, soak in the soup in the mountains, the terraced tea fields are like a picture in front of you, with panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows, each place and each scene is good for sleep
🔥Tea cooking around the stove: Suitable for all ages. Roasting fire, chatting, cooking tea
👦Children's quick fall: Riding a bicycle, reading books in the book bar
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⛰️Surroundings: Mengding Mountain. It used to be the starting point of the Tea Horse Ancient Road. As soon as spring arrives, tens of thousands of tea trees grow wildly here, and the greenery covers the entire mountain.
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This is the correct way to spend the weekend
Escape from the city, return to the slow-paced life of the mountains and countryside, it's really leisurely
taryn_0315
Escape the city to take a walk with the kids | Move into the slow life you yearn for
After staying in the city for a long time, you always want to escape the hustle and bustle,
Looking for a secret place to relax, taking advantage of the weekend, and experiencing the slow life that people yearn for with the children.
We accidentally found a healing homestay in the tea garden to avoid the crowd,
Hidden in the tea garden, the birds and flowers are like a paradise.
Enjoy a pleasant afternoon tea with the children ☕️, read some books in the book bar, sit on the swing and listen to the birds and smell the flowers, this is not only the poetry and distance that city people yearn for, but also a good place for children to experience childhood fun.
Drink a warm stomach soup pot at night, and then take a bath 🛀,
It's really the slow life in yearning!
🍃: Cao Yan Su She
🍃: Group 6, Qilong Village, Hongxing Town, Mingshan District, Ya'an City
Logan.Peterson@53
I've found a healing cloud-top cabin around Chengdu!!
It takes 1-2 hours to get there from Chengdu, and then a 30-minute drive from Ya'an Mingshan. Visiting in spring, you can experience tea picking and tea frying. The guesthouse offers hot spring baths♨️, and the scenery is really comfortable. It's easy to feel relaxed in such an environment, enjoying tea and coffee is truly delightful. The staff at the guesthouse are very enthusiastic, and the soup pot for dinner is quite good. Some rooms also have kitchen facilities for cooking.
The guesthouse has a total of 4 courtyards, one with nearly 20 rooms for hot spring baths♨️.
There's a fireplace that creates a great atmosphere and is also very warm.
Staying here for a weekend with friends for one or two nights is a great choice.
❤Recommended because:
. ✅The hotel's location is really convenient.
✅Pure white ins style is super photogenic, and you can take pictures in the room with your best friend for as long as you want. Seeing it with your own eyes, it feels like a real bargain. The pictures are all real shots, and it's exactly the same. Moon lamp✨, bathtub✨, river view✨, night view✨, hanging chair are all photogenic📸. It really has a great atmosphere.
✅The panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows let in great light～ The sun can fill every corner️. At night, cuddle on the sofa with your best friend, chase dramas or watch movies with a projector🎞. After a bath, lying in bed watching the river view and cruise ships slowly passing by is too cozy🥳.
. ✅The hotel's facilities are very nice! Latex mattresses, very soft and comfortable! Super good sleep. The latest Xgimi projector, very clear for watching movies. The washbasin is very clean, not a single water stain. The facilities are on par with a five-star🌟 hotel.
Emily Edwards
Weekend Parent-Child Trip | A Courtyard on Ya'an Tea Mountain
| A Courtyard on Ya'an Tea Mountain. Homestay: Cao Yan Shu Design, which means a lodge in the tea garden.
This homestay is excellent both in terms of overall design and the experience of staying. It can be said that one night's stay leaves a lasting impression. Here you can daydream to your heart's content, watch the mountains, pick tea, set off fireworks at night, watch damdam movies, and children can catch butterflies. In short, there's a variety of fun to be had, all in a relaxed and comfortable setting.
The homestay is very friendly to children and pets, offering private courtyards and loft accommodations. The meals here are unanimously praised; every meal is thoroughly enjoyed, comfortable, and full of happiness.
Courtyard Experience:
Damdam movies, tea room, mahjong room are all available
Surrounded by tea mountains, the homestay offers tea picking and tea frying experiences, a book bar, swings, and afternoon tea. The itinerary for taking children out is also very appropriate.
Homestay Offers:
Welcome fruit upon check-in, rooms come with complimentary drinks and snacks
Rooms are equipped with oil-paper umbrellas and yoga mats, and there are canvas bags available to take away
Definitely try the bagels for breakfast, they are especially delicious
Driving Route:
Depart from Chengdu, about an hour and a half's journey.
Be cautious and drive slowly on the mountain roads
M@s0n Turn3r
A hot spring guesthouse that is 'straight to the point'
The scenery of this guesthouse is too good, located on a hillside, opening the door is a small valley, and opposite is a tea mountain. It is also surrounded by tea gardens. The air is so good, my rhinitis got better instantly as soon as I arrived.
The stay was also very comfortable, our several families just packed a relatively independent courtyard, with a dedicated kitchen and mahjong room. There is also a huge hot spring pool, it is very cozy to enjoy the mountain view while taking a bath.
The comfort level of the room is also ok, the bedding is good. The heating uses air conditioning, the free mini bar is very rich. The hotel's meals have hot pot and home-cooked stir-fry, not far from the town, if you want to eat some local specialties, you can also go to the town to eat.
It is about 100 kilometers away from Chengdu city, 90 of which are highways, it's quite fast, if there is no traffic jam, it will take about an hour and a half.
JASPER DOUGLAS
The comic courtyard around Chengdu! It's already so beautiful!
It's like stepping into Hayao Miyazaki's animation, with Japanese-style cottages built against the mountains, small bridges and flowing water, bamboo forests and hills, stone paths...
This place is like a fairy tale book that has been flipped open, dreamy and beautiful, so beautiful that it's indescribable!!
After leisurely strolling around the entire courtyard, whether it's the endless mountain view, the stone path, or in front of the cottage, every shot is a relaxed holiday blockbuster, hundreds of them are not exaggerated at all!
You can chat over tea, or you can daze and read a favorite book, and when you're tired, you can soak in a hot bath in the mountains. Who doesn't yearn for this kind of life in the mountains? All the fatigue in life has disappeared at this moment!
"If you're tired, go live in the mountains for a few days! Rest well, then set off again~"
Ya'an Caoyanshu She
About 1.5h drive from Chengdu city
Get off at Ming Mountain Station by high-speed rail, then take a taxi for about 20min to arrive
FORD HALE
The name alone reveals the taste of the host, guaranteeing you a quality experience
Ya'an, a city known for its tea, is also the hometown of pandas. With attractions such as Mengding Mountain and Bifengxia, it's a great place for a two-day leisure trip around Chengdu, just an hour and a half drive away. This time, simply wanting to find a homestay where I could pick tea and relax, I didn't choose to go to the scenic area, but the itinerary for the two nights was super satisfying and comfortable because of this homestay.
Design
The homestay is called 'Cao Yan Shu She'. The hosts are a couple who said when they created the homestay that they wanted to break many people's fixed ideas about homestays. They wanted to have super high-end configurations, whether in terms of building materials or soft furnishing brands. From bathrobes and slippers to aromatherapy mineral water, everything must be 'classy'. They want all guests to spend every minute and second at the homestay in the most comfortable way.
Room
There are a total of ten independent rooms, with courtyards that can accommodate two, four, or ten people. Each room type basically has a large lawn in front, all facing the tea mountain. Who can resist the laziness of lying in bed watching the mountain and listening to the crows! Different room types are equipped with Sony TVs, Boss and Siemens appliances, Wedgwood coffee cups, DeLonghi water heaters, German hansgrohe in-wall bathrooms, Balmain toiletries, Mi Guang makeup mirrors, Voss guest room drinking water, etc.
Food
The high-end kitchen team at Cao Yan carefully prepares mountain and wild food, seeking the true taste. Breakfast offers a selection of Chinese and Western dishes, full of ceremony; the main meal selects seasonal ingredients to provide guests with a high-end gourmet experience. Professional bakers, baristas, bartenders. Quality afternoon tea, the restaurant and coffee bar on the edge of the tea garden have beautiful views, enjoy a perfect sunrise or sunset breakfast dinner.
Entertainment
Actually, you can have afternoon tea at the homestay, read books in the library, play games in your own yard, play mahjong, etc. If you want to go around, there are many choices. In the tea picking season, you can choose to pick tea, fry tea, and make tea in the tea garden. You can go to the Earth Fingerprint Scenic Area nearby, and you can also go to Mengding Mountain or Bifengxia Scenic Area on the return day.
Features
They have also created their own cultural and creative products. The toiletry bags and canvas bags in the rooms can be taken away for free by the guests. In the future, more cultural and creative products will be added to enrich the guests' choices and experiences in the homestay.
ADELYN SANDOVAL
Amazing! A secluded small courtyard hidden in a tea garden of ten thousand acres
After a busy week, I just want to find a place to unload all the fatigue and pressure on the weekend. Do nothing, enjoy the joy of idleness. ·