For a unique travel experience this Labor Day, consider visiting these lesser-known national treasures!
🚄 Zhangzhou Ancient City in Fujian
Just an 18-minute drive from Zhangzhou high-speed train station. For travelers who are fond of folk culture, intangible cultural heritage crafts, and delicious food, Zhangzhou Ancient City is a treasure not to be missed! The ancient city is filled with various traditional craft shops, and the mouth-watering local cuisine is everywhere to be found. There's also a heritage museum that showcases hundreds of Zhangzhou's intangible cultural heritage projects, making it hard to leave. 🎭🍜
🏞 Daimi Ancient Village
About a 40-minute drive from both Zhangzhou high-speed train station and Zhangzhou Ancient City, it is known as "the first village of Southern Fujian." The village's continuous ancient houses are outstanding representatives of the Min-style red brick architecture. The 276 ancient buildings are arranged in a central axis symmetrical layout, with uniformly curved hard-mountain-style swallowtail ridges on the roofs, creating a rhythmic beauty. It is famous for the saying, "One planning map governs five hundred years." 🏛️🏰
🏰 Qianyang Ancient City in Hunan
A 45-minute drive from Huaihua high-speed train station, it has over two thousand years of cultural history. Once a bustling border city rich with merchants, it is known as the "Gateway to Yunnan and Guizhou." Walking through the ancient city's T-shaped alleys, hanging feet gatehouses, stone slab streets, pit houses, and ancestral temples feels like being in a museum of southern ancient architecture. 🚶♂️🏯
🌴 Jianshui Ancient City in Yunnan
A 20-minute drive from Jianshui high-speed train station, it was founded during the Tang Dynasty's Yuanhe period, formerly known as Lin'an. It has been known as the "Famous Cultural City" and "Zoulu of South Yunnan," and is a national historical and cultural city. Jianshui is also a paradise for foodies, with the "Eighteen Tastes of Jianshui" each worth trying, offering a feast for your taste buds! 🍲🍜
📚 Shiping Ancient City
A 50-minute drive from Jianshui high-speed train station, it is one of Yunnan's four famous cultural cities. Since the Yuan Dynasty, it has emphasized education and culture, with 10 academies and hundreds of private schools and charity schools during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The residences of historians, scholars, generals, inspectors, clan mansions, and private gardens are all over the place, making it a museum of Ming and Qing residential architecture. 🏛️🏠
🏞 Chengzi Ancient Village
Once one of the political, economic, and cultural centers of Southeast Yunnan, it boasts the most distinctive Yi-Han combined earth fortress landscape in Yunnan. About a 3-hour drive from both Jianshui and Shiping, visiting these three places together allows you to experience different local customs and cultures. 🚗💨
🍵 Puer
As the name suggests, it is one of the important origins of Pu'er tea and the starting point of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, known as the "World Tea Source" and "Coffee Capital of China." In addition to the World Cultural Heritage-listed Jingmai Mountain ancient tea forest cultural landscape, Pu'er is also a grand garden of ethnic cultures, with the Dai's Nuogan ancient village, the Blang's Wengji ancient village, and the Lahu's Laodabao all located within Pu'er. 🌿🏕️
🌳 Menglian
Officially known as "Menglian Dai, Lahu, and Wa Autonomous County," it is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er. In Menglian, you can see Thai-style pagodas and temples, and visit different coffee plantations to taste a variety of authentic hand-brewed coffees. Menglian is also the county with the largest scale of avocado cultivation in China. Visit an avocado plantation to experience the free-spirited atmosphere! 🍒☕️
It is relatively close to Pu'er City, and it is quite leisurely to play in a circle. There are many small animals interacting throughout the whole process. Pay attention to the sun in Yunnan. It is really too poisonous to ride horses. Be prepared for sun protection.
I took the train from Xishuangbanna to Pu'er on Qingming Festival. I had a very late breakfast at the hotel and set off. I saw our leader with a ticket. The leader thought that he would only give the ticket and leave, but he went together and explained the situation in detail. As soon as Pu'er tea horses arrived at the ancient road, the cool river breeze greeted us, and the grass was fragrant. Pu'er I didn't know this coffee was famous, because there was a coffee shop, so I bought a box of coffee as a souvenir. On the way to the tour bus, overlooking the mountain where Pu'er tea tree is located, the scenery is beautiful, the wind is refreshing, I like it very much. The place where you arrive after getting off the bus is like the name of the ancient capital of tea and horses. It shows the history of tea and horses very well, and the leader also explained it well. In the place where tea was experienced, I experienced the experience of drinking tea in a way that I had not experienced. From here, I felt amazing and amazing to be able to transport a car to Beijing or Hong Kong. On the way down, the small train was very fast and although a little scared, it was fun. When we arrived at the entrance, it was beautiful and we didn’t want to leave.
From Xishuangbanna to Kunming, through Pu'er, I didn't expect that it was really a treasure city. The tea horse ancient city scenic spot was really great. It completely exceeded my expectations. There were very few people in the off-season, but it was my 22 days in Yunnan. It was the most comfortable and best feeling. Boating in the middle of Dingbo Lake, Osprey catching fish, The big brother of rowing is really superb. Then watch the performance, the fountain starts 20 minutes before the performance, and the fountain is also a great one. It is very hard to share the electric at the door. With children, riding electric, crossing Pu'er City. It is really super good. You can also pass the Ximahe Reservoir. Looking at it from a high place, the scenery is picturesque and I will go to Pu'er next time. Such a good city, offended, thought there was nothing, in fact, there was everything
Historical tea change horses, business road, by the horse help stamped out, real scenes, vivid, walking and feeling, very shocking.
The staff is very professional, the explanation process is very patient, and many questions are answered. I played very well today.