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The most beautiful travel destinations to set off in January
Picture 1-2 Sailimu Lake
In January, Sailimu Lake is more tranquil without the hustle and bustle of the peak tourist season. The movement of ice blocks makes the ice bubbles rise and fall.
It is known as the last tear of the Atlantic, with very clear water. When the lake is completely frozen, it will stage a blue ice scene that is no less than Lake Baikal.
Picture 3-4 Changbai Mountain
In January, Changbai Mountain seems to be in a fairy tale world, covered in silver and beautiful. You can enjoy the excitement and fun brought by snow sports such as skiing and snowboarding; you can also appreciate the magical rime landscape and feel the magic and grandeur of nature.
Picture 5-6 Yunnan · Yuanyang Terraces
Every year in December, the water is filled, and by January of the following year, it is the most beautiful time. Climbing to the top of the terraces, you can see the changing sea of clouds, the half-mountain villages that are looming, and the majestic view of the terraces. The scenery will change with the ethereal light and fog at any time, forming a beautiful landscape of mountains and fields.
Yuanyang: a photographer’s dream...providing the weather cooperates! From November to early spring, the incredible rice terraces are flooded with water in preparation of the next harvest. Crafted by hand by the Hani people in Yunnan, these rice terraces are an amazing feat of hard work, and are now recognised as a UNESCO heritage site.
📍 Yuanyang, Yunnan Province, China
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Michaela (@uncoveringcities) Yuanyang is a photographer’s dream...providing the weather cooperates! From November to early spring, the incredible rice terraces here are flooded with water in preparation for the next harvest. It took around 3-4 hours driving from Kunming to reach these gorgeous rice terraces, but it was definitely worth it if you have the time to spare.
Top tip: If travelling as a group, I would recommend hiring a private driver to take you there and back in order to save as much time and energy as possible! The sightseeing platforms for the rice terraces are quite far apart, and there are some gorgeous villages you can visit in the area too, and navigating public buses and time schedules to hit all of the locations you’ll want might be a bit of a pain...
📍Yuanyang, Yunnan
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Michaela (@uncoveringcities) its very easy to access and you still can enjoy the feeling of being with Hani people. They are still working on their rice fields and living their normal life. Even though can be overcrowded at the view points. we avoid all that crowded place and take a walk on trails along the rice field. It makes so much sense, less people and able to enjoy the whole view on our own.
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The Twelve Manor Terraces Hostel Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Mar)
Go to the place with wind | Stay in the Hani folk hotel
I finally came to experience the Yuanyang Hani terraces🪜 personally, it is indeed listed in the World Heritage List, the great masterpiece of the Hani people generation after generation
Choosing a hotel is very important, I have always adhered to the principle of wanting to deeply integrate into local life and live comfortably in selection
✨Environmental highlights:
The hotel is built in Quanfu Village, and it is in the same village with the local indigenous residents. The floor-to-ceiling windows of the room I chose face the terraced fields of ten thousand acres. In the morning🌄 or afternoon, you can feel the different color changes of the terraced fields. Sitting by the window drinking tea🫖 and daze is too enjoyable. The overall shape of the hotel maintains the original simple texture, and villagers will pass by to go to the fields or herd cattle (I also experienced it😌)
💁Room type service:
The room facilities are fully equipped, and the ethnic elements are retained as decoration. You can see that the boss is very attentive. In March, Yuanyang is a bit cold in the morning and evening🌬, and the floor heating is turned on as soon as you enter the door, and the floor is warm in a while
💰Average consumption:
The double bed room is about 500, two people can be together, the average is very suitable
🌲Surrounding play:
You can stroll around the village, take a look at the local people's life, the hotel can also organize to go to the terraced fields to touch fish, we felt it in the afternoon and the harvest was full, the dinner at night has crispy fried carp🐟, go to the top of the mountain Hani Elementary School, watching the sea of clouds in the morning is really beautiful.
Yuanyang is now a fairyland, with its peak beauty only in this season
Yuanyang, Yunnan, has entered the "best viewing period". The terraces filled with water are like a paradise at every moment. They are colorful when the sun shines, misty when the clouds are foggy, and changeable when the breeze blows. Don't miss the fairy-like beauty of Yuanyang this season~
👀Best viewing location
⭕️Duoyi Tree Terrace: The best place to watch and shoot the sunrise and sea of clouds⭕️Tiger Mouth Scenic Area: Strong three-dimensional sense, rich color layers, best for watching the sunset
⭕️Badada Scenic Area: The largest and most concentrated terraced fields, starting from an altitude of 800M, farming up to nearly 3000M high mountains, reaching more than 3700 levels, it is breathtaking
Surrounding recommendations
⭕️Azheke: A minority village surrounded by forests, with mysterious mushroom houses, wildflowers everywhere, ancient roads with camel bells, and "Mountain God Water" gushing out💃Local specialties
⭕️Market: Don't miss the market when you come to Yuanyang. You can see villagers in Hani traditional costumes, grandmothers selling fresh local produce with their babies on their backs, "Yuanyang Rice Noodles" for less than 5 yuan a bowl, roadside grilled tofu made by traditional methods, various mountain delicacies, fresh ginger, melons and fruits, etc. Market time can be consulted at the hotel, recommend 【Niu Jiao Zhai】market~
⭕️Hani Dance: When the dusk falls and the bonfire rises, the villagers will dance with a cigarette box in each hand, which is spectacular. You can join in, dance a cigarette box dance, learn the ancient song "Hani Haba" with the enthusiastic villagers, and gain an unforgettable novel experience~
⭕️Hani Medicinal Bath: The special mountain climate has created the custom of Hani people soaking in medicinal baths for health preservation. The unique hot spring resources have also become a fresh experience and challenge for tourists~
Public transportation
Method one: Take the high-speed rail from Kunming to Mengzi (about 2 hours), and then share a ride or ask the hotel to arrange a ride to Yuanyang
Method two: Take the high-speed rail from Kunming to Jianshui (about 2 hours), and then share a ride to Yuanyang🚗Self-driving Kunming➡️Mile➡️Kaiyuan➡️Gejiu➡️Yuanyang (about 400 kilometers in total, driving about 5.5- 6.5 hours, it is recommended to rest halfway) To have a better experience in Yuanyang, choosing the right hotel is also key. A hotel with a good location and high cost performance can make you feel the charm of Yuanyang terraces better~
Recommended hotel: Yuanyang Twelve Manor·Xiangdian Hotel
Hotel highlights
1⃣️Backed by the forest, overlooking the terraces, the view is excellent. The hotel lobby is the best viewing platform, and every room has a view when the window is pushed open
2⃣️The hotel is also a "Hani Folk Culture Experience Center", and every detail reflects the culture of Hani terraces
3⃣️Enjoy delicious food in the garden restaurant, enjoy the scenery while drinking exquisite afternoon tea
4⃣️The hotel has a starry sky terrace, allowing you to not only sit in the mountains and wild, but also enjoy the starry sky👍Recommended package Double exquisite breakfast + Double afternoon tea + Double dinner (dry pot duck) + Terrace hiking + Welcome fruit + Special cooking pot (💰Only 980) to go on holidaytravel guideterraces
Yunnan Red River Yuanyang Twelve Manor Xiangdian Hotel recommendation
📍The inn is located in the natural village within the core scenic area of the Yunnan Red River Hani Terraces, a World Cultural Heritage site, and is built close to the terraces. As you enter the lobby of the inn, the strong ethnic characteristics hit you in the face. The fire pit for barbecue, the hand-woven items on the wall, the wooden structure of the building frame and furniture, the lampshade modified from a chicken cage, and the wall filled with rice grains with a full concave-convex texture, all highlight a kind of primitive color and texture.
🏡The vast terraces are close at hand. The inn has sixteen view rooms, each with large floor-to-ceiling windows. Pull the curtains, and the vast terraces are right in front of you. Each window has a different terrace view. Different terrace views are presented to you in the morning, noon, and evening. You can order a cup of tea, flip through a book, and sit for a whole day. Of course, you can also lie in bed and watch; you can even watch while taking a bath.
🎬There are many fun places to play around, so you don't have to worry about where to go tomorrow. The inn can recommend a lot to you: take a walk early in the morning to watch the sunrise, come for a sunset in the evening, find a morning to go to the village fair, eat rice noodles and tofu, if you are not satisfied, put on a waterproof suit to touch fish and catch shrimp in the terraces, have a fire pit barbecue in the evening, and do you want to go to the rooftop to watch the stars at night?
With Yunnan, there is always a fate to go around, just like the winding mountain road, eighteen bends, this time finally came to Yuanyang. The universitys good girlfriends come from an old, lively and straightforward Sagittarius girl. The memory still retains her first cloud-leg mooncakes and cattle dry bar, which is my first impression of Yunnan. When the car passed the fruit market, I took a photo of Jackfruit, Plantain, Dragon Fruit, Rambutan. Send, she replied: Eat more fruits and vegetables~
arrive at the destination before dark. The enthusiastic Hani people greeted the already well-prepared boutique hotel - Twelve Manor and Fragrance.
The warmth of the hall is warm, and the room has fresh fragrance from the mountains and the fragrance of the earth. The decoration of the wood-colored bamboo and wood makes people unload all the exhaustion and looks out the window. Terraced fields.
There is a bathtub in each room, you can soak yourself in the water, soothe fatigue, it is very comfortable. I can't help but get tired. It seems like it's easy to fall asleep here, and it's very quiet outside.
Azheke Village Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Mar)
A Zhe Ke is a stunningly authentic village in the Honghe area of Yunnan. While here, we learned that locals will hold an annual banquet called the Long Street Banquet - every family will cook a dish or two, dress up and gather together with their neighbours to eat and celebrate.
📍A Zhe Ke, Yunnan, China
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Michaela (@uncoveringcities) When you go to Yuanyang Terraces, I won't allow you to miss this ancient village
There is a mushroom house town in Italy called Alberobello, and there is also such a mushroom house village in China. What's more fascinating is that there is also a spectacular terraced landscape here.
Azheke is a very "vibrant" village in Yuanyang. There are no noisy folk performances or brightly lit commercial streets here, nor is it hollowed out as a whole like Wuzhen, and the houses have all become homestays. Here, you will feel that Azheke is indeed a "living" village, and those mushroom houses and the spectacular terraces behind them are examples of the continuation of this traditional way of life.
Azheke is also a poverty alleviation project recognized by the United Nations World Tourism Organization. The proposer of the "Azheke Project", Professor Bao Jigang from Sun Yat-sen University, also won the "Nobel" of the tourism industry - the Ulysses Award this year. There is an introduction to the "Azheke Project" on the sign at the entrance of the village, the content is very detailed, and those who are interested can learn more.
Azheke is a village that charges a fee - 30R, and it also offers some local lifestyle and cultural experience activities, such as paddy field fishing, which are charged separately, but need to be booked in advance, and there is a minimum order number, which is about three or four. According to the Azheke Project, there is no foreign capital here, and the tourism income will be pooled into the village collective enterprise, so the ticket can be regarded as direct poverty alleviation.
Azheke Village is actually very small, with only more than 60 households in total. If you are fast, one hour is enough, but the houses and terraces here are worth slowing down to experience.
Must-see viewpoints:
Many tourists go directly into the village after checking their tickets. Pay attention not to enter the village first, turn right and there is the best photography point for shooting the whole view of the village! Walking along the stone path in the terraces to the distance, you can enjoy the full view of the terraces and the unique village of Azheke.
The mushroom houses of the same color as the earth stand in the magical terraces carved by time, and the sounds of geese, ducks, chickens and dogs come from the distant village from time to time. For people who have lived in the city for a long time, the rural countryside is presented in an extremely concrete form in front of their eyes, ears and even smell.
U-shaped terraces: At the back of the village, you can see it through the square! You can take pictures standing on the lower ridge, it's very spectacular.
Canyon viewing platform: Walk down from the village for ten minutes, here you can see the spectacular terraces, the layered textures spread out on the earth, and you can't even see the end. But unfortunately, when I arrived, the clouds in the mountains gradually rose, and the scenery was a bit blurry.
Cross the mountains to see the most beautiful village rated by National Geographic! Surrounded by mountains and terraces
Cross the mountains to see the most beautiful village rated by National Geographic!
Surrounded by mountains and terraces
Located above the terraces at an altitude of 1800 meters, not only is the beauty of the earth's palette
World Cultural Heritage 'Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces'
And the Hani traditional village-Azheke that has continued for 200 years
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A photographer who drives from Qingdao to Yunnan for the winter, discovers a small village with a story every day. Friends who like nature and humanities must not miss Yunyang Terraces
The ancient Azheke village
Azheke village is a most representative place of the Hani people, still retaining the original mushroom house residential life of the small village. The whole village has only more than 60 households, self-sufficient, without the injection of foreign capital, very backward, the 30 yuan paid by tourists can be regarded as support for the villagers to improve their living conditions! These simple residents are still using their hardworking hands to plow and sow, using thousands of years of work and rest habits to carve out the magnificent terraces with world cultural heritage!! Cultural treasure!!
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It's the perfect time to make tea around the stove | Yuanyang Terraced Fields B&B
The mysterious nature can sketch such beautiful scenery like a poet, it turns out that poetry and the distance become so close at this moment. Instead of choosing the hustle and bustle of big cities, coming here with friends seems to have opened the door to another world🚪.
▫️Duoyi Tree Terraces: A natural masterpiece of nature, especially the color reflected by the morning sun on the water surface, it's really beautiful. The sunrise here is also known as the 'most dreamy sunrise in the world'🌄, because there are golden clouds, sea of clouds, the nearby Five Finger Mountain is too high, often shrouded in fog, and the sun must come out from there, immediately forming a spectacular view of the rosy clouds🌈, the colorful clouds reflected in the terraces are really beautiful~
Accommodation:
The fairyland in the photo can be seen as soon as the curtains are opened in the morning, the clouds are lingering like being wrapped in clouds☁️, the early clouds, the sunrise can be seen in the room, because here you can enjoy a 270° floor-to-ceiling window view, the design is simple and Nordic style gives a feeling of home, very warm.
There are quite a few room types, four types of rooms can choose large bed rooms and twin rooms with large balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows, if you like lively, you can go to the lobby downstairs where there is a bar, karaoke, coffee☕️, if you don't like lively, you can also enjoy quiet alone time in the room.
🏞️Here, feeling the beauty of nature, the adjustment of mentality is really healed here, here is full of electricity, you can go back and fight for eight hundred rounds.
🔖There are many small mountain villages around, it's really high mountains and deep valleys, quiet enough to hear the birds singing, the difference between the mountain peaks and the river valleys here is several kilometers.
▫️Jianshui Ancient City Little Train
After coming here, I didn't see the golden rice in autumn, but I saw the sparkling paddy fields, sitting on the tourist train, the scenery on both sides of the route changes with the seasons, slowly spending a day here, each stop will stay for 30 minutes, get off the car to visit the local scenery and take a short break, it's quite worth experiencing.
B&B: First Sight·Distant Mountain B&B
Address | Yuanyang Xinjie Town Sheng Village Village Committee Hetaozhai Village Fish Pond Next
From afar to the distant mountains, the troubles of escape are released here
Escaping from the big city to here, experiencing the beautiful scenery preserved by the Naxi people for generations, speaking the local dialect that everyone doesn't quite understand, but it seems to be understandable, they are hospitable~ Seeing everything here makes me return to the most simple time.
▫️Duo Yishu Terraces: It looks spectacular from a distance, and it's even more beautiful when you walk in. The moment you watch the sunrise here, the dawn light hits the terraces, surrounded by clouds and mist, only when you come here you know what it can be like, it's already beautiful on TV, and it's even more amazing on the scene.
Accommodation:
Four types of rooms🛏️ It's okay for one person or multiple people to come, there are multiple types of rooms such as double bed room, twin room and 270-degree sunrise sea of clouds panoramic double bed room🛌, the scenery is right outside the window here. This time I saw someone brought their kids, it's really good for kids to see this kind of natural beauty, they have been in the city for a long time and don't know what nature is like, it made the kids very happy.
Here I saw the boss's intentions, the decoration also took a lot of thought, the simple Nordic style also has a dining area🥯, book bar📖, bar area, self-service barbecue🍡, if possible, I really want to spend a lifetime here, invite three or five friends to retire here, you can breathe the freshest air every day and see the most beautiful scenery🌅
The viewing platform on the 4th floor is my favorite place to stay, just sitting there quietly by myself, letting go of everything, feeling like everything can be put down, my mind can really be empty, surrounded by clouds☁️, it's really comfortable.
▫️Azheke Village: The filming location of 'Forever Young', the scene is exactly the same as in the movie, as if being in it, I re-watched the movie on the way here, just to find those scenes in the movie, to achieve a high degree of restoration, it's really spectacular and impressive, you must come here when you come to this side.
📝There are many terraces around, they all seem to be quite close, I heard that you can see different beautiful scenery in different seasons, experience the changes of the four seasons, each season has beautiful scenery worth looking forward to.
🔖Tips: The temperature difference between morning and evening is still quite large, remember to wear more.
Homestay: First Sight·Distant Mountain Homestay
Address丨Yuanyang Xinjie Town Sheng Village Village Committee Hetaozhai Village Fish Pond Next
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Beautiful Hani people and their works of art
This was an experience l will never forget. I suggest taking the public transport bus from Kunming. It is cheap and the views are spectacular. I stayed in Green Hostel, rustic, but I felt like a part of the family. Hired a driver for the day. Visited the market, the Mushrooms village, hiked along the Bada terraces, and marvelled at the Hani ingenuity. Must see it.
Terraces without water injections, like ridiculous mountains.
The yellow of the land overshadows the greenness of the earth.
Why didn't I still get water? I muttered.
This is no more than a tree, almost no water.
Its hard to imagine that the Hani ancestors who were preparing to build terraces at the beginning are such wisdom
Its hard to imagine the world where the mountains are everywhere, how the local residents go from top to bottom, and how to grow from the bottom up. , irrigation.
Working people, the most valuable.
I have never known much about the plants in the fields.
The field here is probably the weed left after the harvest.
is probably the least time for farming, so I can't see one person in the wild.
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