The "Great Wall" of Southwest China---The Golden Dragon Wall, and the ancient town of Luodai.

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January 22nd 2011

Published: January 22nd 2011

Today, we USAC students took a bus trip to the ancient town of Luodai, which is about an hour away from Chengdu. And on the way, I (for the first time) got to see some of China's rural areas! I'm definately planning on visiting some remote villages when I go to Guilin (southern China) during the New Year break. Most of the houses were very old, and surrounded by beautiful wet red dirt, vegetables ... Read Full Entry

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Lindsay Dillon

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Graduated in 2011, in anthropology, Japanese and Chinese at Kansas State University. I also somewhat study Tibetan. I have a keen interest in Korean, Thai and Yucatec Maya language, dont ask why. :)) I'm constantly in awe of where these small hands have taken me, and of where my feet might be swept off to. And how such powerful everlasting messages of love and life, instilled in these opportunities, present themselves as an enormous gift to such a small frail and mortal body. I now better understand and appreciate the world's people, through my time as an expat overseas. I have traveled arou... full info

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23rd January 2011

travelchina0086
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luodai
Even most of chinese do not Luodai ,but it's really a nice place when you go there in srping .most of such places will dispear ...like Hutong in Beijing .it's shame for us .

27th January 2011

Inga
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Guilin
I think if you are looking for something which is NOT touristy you need to avoid Guilin and surrounding area. It is very beautiful but unfortunately completely geared towards tourists, Westerners and Chinese, backpackers and tour groups. I think a better option is the Guizhou and Hunan provinces. The capital cities in both (Guiyang and Chansha) see very few tourists. In Hunan you can visit the cute Phoenix (Fenghuang) town in Hunan, touristy but tourists are mainly Chinese and the neighbouring town Jishou (which I visited briefly) should be a nice place to visit, with guaranteed no tourists. In Guizhou you can travel out from Guiyang into the countryside and visit both "normal" villages, and minority villages, some of which are interesting, some are turned into spectacles. It is easy to get from Chengdu to these areas.

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