Anhui Yangchan Tulou, the most complete group of original Tulou in southern Anhui!
👏The earthen buildings are built on the mountain, staggered and harmoniously integrated with the surrounding natural environment. 👆When overlooking the entire village,💗they are not only buildings, but also a cultural and spiritual heritage. ⏮The architecture is quite distinctive, and the well-arranged houses are really photogenic. It is very beautiful when the sun shines on the whole village. 👉It is very quiet and comfortable. The whole village is not big. You can stroll between the streets and alleys and feel the fireworks‼ ️
📍Address of scenic spot: Yueyuan Village, Shendu Town, She County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province
Opening hours: 08:00-17:30 in off-season, 08:00-20:00 in peak season
🎟️Ticket related:
The scenic spot is free all year round, but there are attractions
🚗Scenic spot transportation: The scenic spot shuttle bus is 28 yuan round trip
💁From She County Passenger Transport Center Station, take bus No. 951 to Chakou🚌, one bus departs every hour, and the journey takes about one and a half hours. After arriving at Folingtou Station, you need to walk about 1.3 kilometers to the Yangchan Tulou Visitor Center.
🚙If you drive by yourself, navigate to the Yangchan Tulou Visitor Center and park your car in the visitor center parking lot🅿️, which costs 10 yuan and has no time limit.
It takes less than 10 minutes from the parking lot to the earth building. The road is narrow and there are many cliffs, so you need to take a shuttle bus up the mountain.
🌟Highlights:
👍Yangchan Tulou, "Yang" means facing the sun, "chan" is the local dialect, ✔️ means steep, this is a sunny place among the mountains, so it is named "Yangchan". The ochre-colored earthen buildings are densely packed together, built against the mountain, in an orderly manner and with unique shapes.
👍The Zheng family settlement, ⏩ migrated to Yangchan during the war and has lived there for more than 300 years. They used local materials, chiseled stones to build the foundation, 👀rammed earth to make walls, collected bamboo to make tendons, cut wood to make beams, and burned earth to make tiles. It has become a typical representative of Huizhou Tulou.
👍Bluestone is used to pave roads and build bridges, ⏫Red soil and wood are used to build nests. It is a well-preserved group of earthen buildings. The whole village is built on a hillside. The mountain road leading into the village is very steep and winding, and a bit thrilling, especially when going down the mountain.
👍️Must-visit attractions:
💁The Hundred-Step Cloud Ladder is a great place to overlook the entire village and is the iconic check-in point of Yangchan Tulou. Climbing up the ladder, you can overlook the beautiful scenery of the entire Yangchan Village.
💁The autumn sun drying platform is a great place to watch the sunset 🌅 and the starry sky 🌌↪️ and is also a good place to overlook the entire Tulou complex. After 10 o'clock in the evening, it is a great place to watch the stars, and you can see a sky full of stars.
💁Most of the people in the village are left behind by the elderly and children. During the autumn harvest season, ☑️ you can see every household drying various crops, and the autumn drying activity is quite spectacular. There will also be a lot of grains decorated and laid out to dry in the sun. ↙️Looking at the earthen building on the top of the mountain from the platform is very spectacular and special.
💁Currently, there are basically three types of business entities in the village: homestays, restaurants, and coffee shops. 🈶The rest are for villagers to live in and use for themselves. There are very few places to eat, and they are all farmhouses run by locals. ▶️The staggered yellow rooms make the scenery unique and very easy to take pictures. Every angle of view is a blockbuster.
💁There is a coffee shop in the "Pentagon", ☑️ the taste is pretty good, you can take a break, the price is a bit high, you can slowly taste the coffee and enjoy the scenery of Yangchan Tulou.
💗Other tips:
✅The whole village is free, but there will be many old ladies at the entrance who will give you tour guides and take you around the village. If you don’t need it, you should decisively refuse.
✅It is recommended to take good sun protection in summer and bring sunscreen, sun hats and other sun protection products. There are many mosquitoes in the mountains, so be sure to prepare mosquito repellent products and take measures to repel mosquitoes.
✅You need to take a car to go up the mountain, or you can hike. It is recommended to take a car, as some places are still very steep and it takes a while to climb up.
✅When going up the mountain by car, the driver drove very fast, and some turns were 180 degrees. If you are prone to motion sickness, it is recommended to take motion sickness medicine in advance.
✅There are not many shops and places to eat, so it is recommended to bring some food with you.
✅It's full of steps, so it's recommended not to bring a stroller. It's recommended to wear comfortable shoes, not high heels, and comfort is the priority.