Panny and I were on an all day tour of the Earthen Buildings in the Fujian Province of China. After going inside the highly impressive “King of Tulou” (Chengqi Building), we decided to walk up the hill behind it to get a view of the town. We didn’t realise the actual town was so big Read more about Fujian Tour Part 6 – Gaobei Hamlet, Gaotou Village[…]
Arrival at the Chengqi Building was just before noon and this area is known as the Gaotou Village in Yongding County. The sun was beating down hard. Panny and I had already decided to stay here for ages to annoy our rude driver. He was very rude to me here when we got off and Read more about Fujian Tour Part 5 – Chengqi Building: King Of Tulou[…]
After seeing a village used for multiple film sets, Yun Shui Yao, it was onwards to yet another Earthen Tulou Building on the Fujian Tour. This one is called Hegui Lou Building and is situated in Pushan Village in Meilin Town in Nanjing County in the Fujian Province. Though it’s actually on the edge of Read more about Backpacking in China: Fujian Tour Part 4 – Hegui Lou Building[…]
Essentially these three “hamlets” or whatever are all the same place, yet this is China don’t forget and they like to confuse you. So in one small area they manage to call the area at least three different names. We arrive in the main square on the village. For the purpose of this part of Read more about Fujian Tour Part 3: Yun Shui Yao, Won Soy Yiu and Guan Yang Cun[…]
After going inside our first Earthen Building of the Fujian Tour, our driver dropped us off for a few minutes to capture the small settlement of Tian Luo Keng. We had two stops in total for Tian Luo Keng, the first one was from below where we could gaze upwards at this mountainside settlement of Read more about Fujian Tour Part 2: Tian Luo Keng Tulou Cluster[…]
Our tour of traditional Fujian Earthen style buildings started properly at the Yuchang Earthen Building. Although we had already checked into our hostel for the night – a cosy wee room in Qing De Lou building in Taxia Village nearby. So this is the first part of the tour of Fujian. Bear with these posts Read more about Fujian Tour Part 1 – Yuchang Earthen Building, Xiaban Village *[…]
The joys of night trains continues. I love them. This one was organised by my girlfriend Panny as we planned a weekend in China in March this year. We arrived in Shenzhen after crossing the border into China from Hong Kong and were booked on the 21.23 pm night train north east to Yongding Read more about Chinese Trains: Shenzhen to Yongding Night Train (Guangdong to Fujian Province)[…]