Langde Miao village

Day 2

The way it works in most places in China (and maybe other parts of the world?) is that they make these historical areas/villages part of a park. So you arrive at a big gate, pay your entrance fee and then the hotels, villages, transportation and everything is inside the park. It’s actually a pretty nice way to do it, the park usually provides buses to all the spots inside the area, it pays for cleaning, and so on.

Anyway, the gate area always looks kind of the same, so it feels like arriving at Jurassic Park but a Chinese version, filled with tasty food and mostly smiling old people. The point I want you to take from this is that the “check-in” procedure gets generic pretty fast, after that there’s always a short bus ride on some non-descript road, then from nowhere BAM!

Something amazing appears!

This was our first view coming down from the bus, not too shabby.

Then this was the second thing we saw…

Haunted snakes, damn Miao people.

The village wasn’t very eventful but it was pretty and very nice to just pace around in the heat, picking up some cold water along the way and enjoying nature.

That’s it for the first village in the area. This was the smaller, less touristy one. It felt like it too, more everyday things going on and not so catered to tourists.

Onwards we go, to the touristy village. A short bus ride later we get to the second village, this is also where we spent the night.

And that’s the end of day 2.

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