Hongcun — Attraction in Huangshan

One of the nicest historical City in China. The world Heritage City is open for public. You can enter most of the areas. The old City is closed and you need an access ticket. On weekends is it very crowded. I recommend to purchase the ticket ahead. You can also book English tour guides. The City goes back to Song dynasty (11 AC). Current city had been built 1403-23 in the Ming Dynasty under emperor Yongle. The city footprint looks like an Ox. Recommend to visit with an overnight stay in closeby modern Hongcun. You can reach the city...

This place is overrated in my opinion. An ancient village is now just full of tourists. Most of the food is basically just tourist trap food. The reflections in the water actually are quite nice though the pictures look better than what it looks like in reality. For some reason foreigners with a passport have 50 percent off their tickets. It’s also not a big place you can probably finish the entire area in about an hour to an hour and a half. Unbelievable that this is 5A tourist destination, definitely not a top tier tourist...

Hongcun (Chinese: 宏村; pinyin: Hóngcūn; lit. 'Hong village') is a village in Hongcun Town, Yi County, Huangshan City in the historical Huizhou region of southern Anhui Province, China, near the southwest slope of Mount Huangshan. Together with Xidi, the village became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, because of its exceptional preservation of the architecture and city plan of a rural village in feudal China. Scenes from the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon were filmed on...