[2025 Leishan Stay] Travel Guide for Xijiang Boyun·Inn (Qianhu Miaozhai Branch) (Updated Apr)

Spend your Qingming Festival holiday at Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, where you can experience the unique Miao culture and capture stunning scenery! Here are the must-visit spots and practical tips I've compiled for you. Save this guide👇: 🌟 Classic Photo Spots 1. Panorama Viewing Platform (A must for your cover photo!) Location: Mountain top opposite the village 📸 Photo Tips: - Use a wide-angle lens during the day to capture the stilted houses and terraced fields. Arrive early in the evening to capture the blue hour night scene (lights are on from around 19:00-24:00). - The popular 'Cloud Pavilion' is right next to the viewing platform. You can pay for a photo session (💰50-100 RMB/hour). 2. Wind and Rain Bridge Boardwalk (near Bridge No. 4) 🌉 Must-take photos: - Stand at the bridgehead in the morning mist with the village and its rising smoke in the background for a perfect atmospheric shot! - Capture reflections in the shallow water under the bridge. Wearing a light-colored long dress will enhance the fairy-tale vibe. 3. Terraced Fields with Rapeseed Flowers (Spring exclusive!) 🌼 During Qingming, the rapeseed flowers are in full bloom. Head to the terraced fields near 'Bridge No. 1' and take idyllic photos in Miao costumes (costume rental is about 30 RMB/hour). 🎋 Hidden Gems 1. Rooftop Café (Feel like you're in Spirited Away) ☕️ Recommended: 'Yimu Caotang'. Climb to the top of the mountain to enjoy coffee on the terrace with a panoramic view of the village. The wooden window frames make for perfect compositions! 2. Drum Tower Head's House (Home of the Miao King) 🏮 An ancient stilted house halfway up the mountain, with corn and ox horns hanging at the entrance. It's perfect for documentary-style photos. 3. Riverside Stone Path (Avoid the crowds) 🌿 Walk from the old street to Youfang Street. Capture the stone path and flowing stream in the early morning when there are fewer tourists. The forest filter effect is very healing. 🎉 Immersive Experiences 1. High Mountain Flowing Water Toast Ceremony 🍶 Recommended: 'Jiubazi' Restaurant. Enjoy sour fish soup while experiencing Miao girls singing and toasting. The videos are very captivating! 2. Intangible Cultural Heritage Batik DIY 🖌️ Experience making your own batik handkerchief at 'Gage Ancient Alley'. Capture the process and keep the finished product as a souvenir. Great for your notes! 📌 Qingming Travel Tips - 🚌 Transportation: Take a direct bus from Guiyang (2.5 hours). The scenic area shuttle bus costs 5 RMB per ride. - 🏠 Accommodation: Choose a mountainside guesthouse (e.g., 'Xijiang Boyun Inn (Qianhu Miao Village Branch)'). Enjoy the view from your window without the crowd at the viewing platform. - 👗 Outfit: Light-colored or ethnic-style outfits with simple silver accessories. Avoid overly colorful patterns. - 🌧️ Weather: It often rains during Qingming. Bring a transparent umbrella, which can be both a rain shield and a photo prop.

"Transportation" 🚄 High-speed train to Kaili South Station → Direct shuttle to the scenic area for 35 RMB/person 🚗 Self-drive to Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village (North Gate Parking Lot) 🌈 Tips for Exploring the Miao Village in April: ❶ Morning Mist and Terraced Fields 🌱 Take the sightseeing bus to Dongyin Viewing Platform at 7 AM The stilted houses shrouded in morning mist look like an ink painting The terraced fields begin to fill with water, reflecting the sky. ❷ Unlock the 12 Gate-Wine Ritual 🍶 Every day at 11:00 AM/3:30 PM at the North Gate Square Miao girls in traditional attire offer horn wine The slightly sweet rice wine goes down smoothly with the sound of lusheng music. ❸ Intangible Cultural Heritage Handicraft Experience 🎨 The ancient street "Gage Ancient Alley" houses Miao embroidery/batik workshops Recommended: Experience plant-based indigo dyeing for handkerchiefs (98 RMB/person) Making a unique souvenir by hand is very meaningful ❹ Late Night Food Plan 🍲 After dinner, check out the snack street: ▪️ Freshly made glutinous rice cakes with soybean powder (5 RMB/piece) ▪️ Firepit roasted pork skewers (1 RMB/skewer) ▪️ Hand-made rose ice jelly with prickly pear juice (15 RMB/bowl) 📸 Best Photo Spots: ✔️ Stone piers in the river between Wind and Rain Bridges No. 4 and No. 5 ✔️ Boyun Inn (reservation required) ✔️ Wooden corridor beside the Lusheng Square ✔️ Bluestone road and rapeseed fields in the rural sightseeing area 🏡 Accommodation Guide: ▫️ Hillside View Rooms: Boyun Inn (a picture-perfect view from the window) Xijiang Boyun Inn (Qianhu Miao Village branch) 💦 April Weather Tips: Average temperature: 18-25°C, frequent showers Recommended to bring waterproof Martin boots and a clear umbrella (for photo props) ✨ Hidden Activities: Daily at 2:00 PM: Lusheng Square performance Nightly at 8:00 PM: "Beautiful Xijiang" performance 🌙 When the night is gentle: Stroll along the Baishui River, with 1,300 stilted houses gradually lighting up Like fireflies scattered in the mountains, enjoy a drink of "Leigong Mountain Red Tea Special" at a riverside bar for a perfect buzz April is not yet crowded It's the most poetic time to encounter the Miao Village Among the green-tiled wooden houses Awaiting an unexpected springtime encounter",

Going to Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village in April is like entering the world of Hayao Miyazaki’s animation! Every shot you take is a movie-like blockbuster! I just came back and stayed up late to organize the guide. Sisters who want to go can just copy the homework👇 🚗【Transportation + Tickets】 ✔️ High-speed rail party: Guiyang North → Kaili South (30 minutes), turn right after exiting the station and take the scenic area through bus directly to the north gate of Miao Village (35 yuan/person, 45 minutes). ✔️ Self-driving party: Navigate to "Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village", park at the north gate, the parking fee is 40 yuan/day. 🎫 Tickets: 110 yuan (including 4 sightseeing buses), there are many preferential policies at present (free tickets) 📸【Exceed the movie check-in position】 1️⃣ Panoramic view from the observation deck (must go❗️) 🌅 Arrive half an hour before sunrise! The morning mist and stilt houses look like an ink painting. Use a telephoto lens to capture the layered effect of the terraced fields. Wearing Miao costumes will make you look even more beautiful! Accommodation: When you open the window in the morning, you will feel like you are in Spirited Away. (The view from the "Boyun Inn" where I stayed was amazing!) 2️⃣ Terraced rapeseed flowers 🌼 In April, the rapeseed flowers are about to bloom and the seedlings are just beginning to grow. Wear a light-colored skirt and a straw hat, and take a photo against the light to make your hair glow! 🚶♀️ The ridge of the field is narrow, don’t wear high heels! Bring mosquito repellent! 3️⃣ Gage Ancient Lane Humanities 📷 In the batik workshop and silver jewelry store in the alley, I captured the scene of the old lady making handicrafts (politely asked the price before taking the photo). The 50mm fixed focus is very story-telling! 🏠【Accommodation suggestions】 ✅ For sightseeing: Choose a spot near a museum. We recommend the large public area of ​​"Boyun Inn". Any photo you take will look like a movie! Free photo shooting on the rooftop! ✅ Quiet party: Live halfway up the mountain, away from the noise of the main street, but climbing up the hill is tiring. ⚠️ Book your room in advance! April is not a peak season, but B&B prices will increase on weekends! 🍜【Foodie List】 🌶️ Caotang Teahouse: Fish in sour soup + fried bamboo shoots with bacon, a seat by the second floor window overlooking the Miao village, and you can finish three bowls of sour soup with rice! 🍢 Iberico pork barbecue: 1 yuan per skewer grilled by an old lady on the street, with spicy chili powder! 🍶 Glutinous rice wine: sweet, low alcohol content, girl-friendly, and cute in bamboo tubes for photos~ ⚠️【Avoidance Guide】 ❗️ Only take the sightseeing bus 4 times, use it sparingly! You must take the bus from Beimen to Xiaobeimen, and it is more interesting to walk to other sections. ❗️ Drones can fly to avoid high-voltage wires and crowds! ❗️ Cold in the morning and evening! A jacket is a must, and bring sunscreen with you, as the ultraviolet rays are very strong! ✨Tips: Miao Village is commercialized but still worth it! Avoid the main street and walk up the mountain. The smell of fireworks is hidden in the old lady's backpack and the dried peppers. The wind in April is always gentle, quickly @your photo partner and be a Miao girl together!

1️⃣ Core Features of the Room: When Loft Meets Miao Aesthetics 1. Space Design - Modern Interpretation of Stilted House DNA ✔️ Three-dimensional Cube Structure: Duplex with upper and lower levels, the ground floor serves as a living room (sofa can be converted into a 1.2-meter children's bed) + separate wet and dry bathroom, with a steel-wood spiral staircase leading to the upper floor with a 1.8-meter bed + 1.2-meter bed, comfortably accommodating 2 adults and 2 children. ✔️ Safety Design: Anti-slip strips on the stairs + tatami beds, making it more suitable for young children compared to traditional stilted houses. 2️⃣ Real Stay Experience: The Joys and Challenges of Staying with Kids ✔️ Pleasant Surprises Space Magic: A 24-inch suitcase and a stroller can be laid out simultaneously, with the private area on the upper floor separated from the activity area on the ground floor. Parents can enjoy the night view of the Miao village in the living room after the kids fall asleep (a rare benefit for family rooms!). ⚠️ Potential Challenges Staircase Test: The spiral staircase is about 65cm wide, requiring close supervision of children under 3 years old. Warm Air Conditioning: Dual-layer air conditioning ensures warmth in the tatami area, even in cold weather! 3️⃣ Horizontal Comparison: How Does It Compare to Scenic Rooms/Basic Rooms? ✔️ Child-friendliness: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ✔️ Scenic Value: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4️⃣ Is It Worth Staying? Three Types of Families to Consider ✔️ Curious Elementary School Students (6-12 years old) (High cultural experience absorption) ✔️ Families with Two Children/Three Generations Traveling Together (Space separation saves parents' sanity) This is not just a room, but a miniature Miao museum. The duplex Loft family room at Boyun Inn tells a story through its space, making the stilted house more than just a background in a scenic postcard, but a tangible cultural classroom during a family trip. If you are willing to pay a premium for such magic, it is definitely worth being a highlight of your trip to the Miao village. Xijiang Boyun Inn (Qianhu Miao Village Branch)

Geographical location: Hidden away from the world but not away from it, overlooking the lights of thousands of households, the stilt houses are stacked with green, and the terraced fields embrace the sea of ​​clouds. Boyun Inn is hidden on the hillside of Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, avoiding the hustle and bustle of the main street, but enjoying the "God's perspective" - ​​a 4-minute walk to the Lusheng field and the museum. In the early morning, mist lingers in front of the window, and at night, the stars fall into the world. This location "away from the world but not away from the city" can be called the "ceiling" of accommodation in the Miao village. 💁Service: Miao-style tenderness, detail-oriented ecstasy From the moment you step into the Miao village, the butler will provide "seamless service" throughout the whole process: shuttle instructions that avoid the crowds, and the most touching thing is that they will quietly give you the travel guide you want most! Living here, it feels like there is another "Miao village family member" here. 🌿Environment & Hygiene: Natural symbiosis, cleanliness becomes poetry. The pure white gauze curtain brushes across the original wooden beams, the mountain breeze passes through the hall, and the whole house is filled with the fragrance of plants and trees. There is no extravagant decoration in the guest rooms, only the Miao flower windows frame the sea of ​​clouds and terraced fields into a dynamic mural. Perfect marks for hygiene details: fluffy bedding that has been soaked in sunlight, making your life in the mountains as exquisite as ever. 🛏️Facilities: Small but beautiful, blending wild luxury with humanities - literary teahouse, library, free KTV, Miao costume experience😎 More than 25 rooms are available for reception, and the public area is always as quiet as a private courtyard. ✨Suite privilege: Exclusive cloud picture frame. It is strongly recommended to pay for the "270° panoramic suite"! Compared with the basic room type, this room has a whole wall of beautiful viewing windows where you can lie down and watch the stars, as well as - undisturbed romance. When you open the window in the morning, you will see waterfalls of clouds flowing over the green tiles of the Miao village. You can take National Geographic blockbusters without using filters! 📌Blogger's thoughts: If you are tired of standard hotels, Boyun will let you understand the true meaning of "mountain luxury": it does not pile up expensive things, but turns the clouds, moon, and fireworks of the Miao village into an experience more moving than a five-star hotel. Even the picky photography equipment will succumb to the light and shadow here~🚩Location: Boyun Inn, Qianhu Miao Village, Xijiang, Guizhou Xijiang Boyun Inn (Qianhu Miao Village Branch)🔥Reasons to stock up: Sleep in the center of the scenery and be a "Miao family in the cloud" for one night

Having been used to staying in hotels in big cities, have you ever stayed in a homestay designed as a stilt house? ❤️Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village features stilt houses as its architectural feature! 98% of the hotels and homestays in the scenic area are converted from stilt houses. 💡Characteristic structure: The original Miao house itself is not very spacious, and the stilt house is at most four stories high. The floors are very particular! Livestock are raised on the first floor: black pigs 🐷, chickens 🐓 ducks 🦆 buffaloes 🐃. The second floor is for living: living room, kitchen, and activity area. The third floor is mainly bedrooms and resting areas. The fourth floor is used to store grain and rice. Do you know why the Miao people store grain on the fourth floor? ❓ Xijiang Boyun Inn (Qianhu Miao Village Branch)

❤️Recommended reason: As one of the representative Miao villages in Guizhou, Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is the most historical and cultural street in the Miao Village. This street has witnessed the life of the Miao people for generations! It contains countless unique cultures! 📸Highlights: Xijiang Old Street is also a pedestrian street, with unique food on the roadside. It is the street where you can get in touch with the locals the most, and the Miao people do business here😀 🍉Special food: 🔥Black pork skewers (1¥/skewer) 🍥Handmade glutinous rice cake (5¥/piece) 🥓Smoked sausage (8¥/section) 🥩Smoked bacon (10¥/piece) More food is waiting for you to explore... 🍺Nightlife: The most representative street of nightlife, the Miao people live a very leisurely life. Every day at the rest point, the local Miao people will come to the old street for supper and have a drink🍻. ☀️A street suitable for slow travel with your partner, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, enjoy the tranquility of this moment... 💡Lie on the bed at night, watch the lights of the Miao Village fall asleep, and end a day of exhaustion. Xijiang Boyun Inn (Qianhu Miao Village)

How much courage and wisdom does it take to build a house on a mountain? The layers of stilt houses in Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village all demonstrate the wisdom of the Miao people. Guizhou is beautiful and famous for its "mountains". How can stilt houses play their value advantages? 💯【Advantages】① Stilt houses are moisture-proof and dehumidifying. ② A summer resort that is warm in winter and cool in summer, without the assistance of air conditioning✌🏻️③ No formaldehyde, pure green log building. ④ Relying on aging, the houses are all spliced ​​with mortise and tenon joints, and can be lived in for a long time. Now there are hundreds of years of history records. The "century-old house" in Miao Village can still be seen now. Xijiang Boyun Inn (Qianhu Miao Village Store) The new brick-wood mixed decoration style makes the building more distinctive, retains the most innocent stilt houses, and also has rich Miao elements. Entering the inn is like a living Miao museum! Here you can not only enjoy the real version of Spirited Away, but also empty your mind, and your whole body and mind seem to be integrated with nature.

🚗🚗🚗 Travel Route: Day1: Tongren Fenghuang Airport → Tongren Guobin Hotel Day2: Tongren Guobin Hotel → Fanjingshan → Shiqian Buddha Top Mountain Hot Spring Town·Yutangsheng Hot Spring Resort Day3: Shiqian Buddha Top Mountain Hot Spring Town·Yutangsheng Hot Spring Resort → Gao Guo River Rafting → Ancient Alleyway → Zhenyuan Ancient Town → Yuping Mountain → Zhenyuan Shiping Mountain → Qinglong Cave → Zhenyuan Huazhiyuan River View Hotel Day4: Zhenyuan Huazhiyuan River View Hotel → Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village → Xijiang Boyun·Inn (Qianhu Miao Village Store) Day5: Xijiang Boyun·Inn (Qianhu Miao Village Store) → Yuanyang Lake → Wolongtan → Water Forest → Laya Waterfall → Xiaoqikong Ancient Bridge → Libo Xiaoqikong Scenic Area → Libo Qikong Home Day6: Libo Qikong Home → Libo Daqikong Scenic Area → China Sky Eye Science Popularization Base Day7: Doupotang Waterfall → Tianxingqiao Scenic Area → Huangguoshu Waterfall → Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area - Shuilian Cave → Heyi Atour Hotel (Anshun Huangguoshu Street Darunfa Store) Day8: Heyi Atour Hotel (Anshun Huangguoshu Street Darunfa Store) → Longdongbao Station