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liveyourvision
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If you want to see a more rural side of China, including mountain scenery, minority villages and ricefields, but don't want to do it alone, you might want to consider the "Backroads of China" tours. The regular tours involve a group of up to 10 foreigners travelling for 11 days with an English speaking Chinese guide who is responsible for all of the travel arrangements along the way (accommodation, transportation and food). The travel is very basic, staying in family run hostels and using public transportation most of the time.
Each tour member pays a guide's fee of 800 yuan, and the group shares the travelling expenses along the way (around 1300 yuan).
The tour takes in Zhangjiajie and Fenghuang in Hunan Province, and the Dong villages, the Dragon Backbone Rice Terraces and the backpacking mecca of Yangshuo of Northern Guangxi.
For more information, see our website: www.backroadsofchina.com |
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comradeA
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Location: in the old house behind Plaza 66
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Aug 26, 2004 - 06:47 PM |
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Studied the Dong & Miao vernacular buildings in southern Hunan and northern Guangxi... embarrassed to say... through books... Did the paper entirely out of library books and the internet... Would love to go if I was in town... but 2000+ RMB is kind of a lot... One could do quite a few watertown trips already... Saw your site... Is the lodging actually in those old wooden houses? or in newly built wooden houses made to look like the old ones? Also are the bathrooms still located outside the house?... Just thought I'd ask someone who'd gone...
... Will keep your group in mind... for the day when I return, and when I am rich... In the mean time... Bon Voyage! |
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liveyourvision
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You studied Chinese minority architecture....what degree were you doing?
Some of the lodging is in old wooden houses, however, most of the families have either extended their houses or built new ones to accommodate for travellers who are (mostly) looking for better accommodation. The bathrooms at hostels are inside the house but often down several flights of stairs. If we stop in to someone's home for lunch when we're walking, then the toilet will usually be outside. Last time our host tried to tell us there were no toilets in the village, but eventually we managed to get her to take us to one about 10 minutes walk away which was under a wooden house next to the pig pen.
I hope one day you'll get the chance to see the culture of this area first hand. It really is fascinating. |
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liveyourvision
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Aug 27, 2004 - 05:29 PM |
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You studied Chinese minority architecture....what degree were you doing?
Some of the lodging is in old wooden houses, however, most of the families have either extended their houses or built new ones to accommodate for travellers who are (mostly) looking for better accommodation. The bathrooms at hostels are inside the house but often down several flights of stairs. If we stop in to someone's home for lunch when we're walking, then the toilet will usually be outside. Last time our host tried to tell us there were no toilets in the village, but eventually we managed to get her to take us to one about 10 minutes walk away which was under a wooden house next to the pig pen.
I hope one day you'll get the chance to see the culture of this area first hand. It really is fascinating.
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comradeA
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Aug 27, 2004 - 05:45 PM |
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That was... or is... an Architecture degree I am still moving through... The wind and rain bridge of the Dongs, the Stilts of the Tujia, and the poorly reconstructed "new house" by Tsing Hua for the Miaos... and yes, after my time in Shanghai, there are many more places on my to-see list... Really would love to go sleep in an original old house...
In my research, the toilets are/were often located out there over the fish ponds (go ahead and guess the relationship... heehee)... another way to keep the homes from the "fragrance"... 10 minutes sounds about right... and you walk between houses on narrow laneways up and down steps, right?... in fact, which village was that?... I still have loads of pictures in the computer of villages in ZuoLong, TianTouTuan and ZengDuo... Man! This is really whetting my appetite... I want to go!!... Oh well... Good for you to have gone... (BTW: Are you the guide?)... Cheers... |
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