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!

Travel in China - Guizhou, Shuanghe Caves

Day 1

We arrived at our hotel late at night so we never saw it in daylight so waking up and getting a glimpse of this amazing place in the early morning light was a really good start to the vacation.