Hongkeng Earthen Folk Culture Village — Attraction in Longyan City

This is the famous UNESCO site of a Hakka village. The location on the satellite view is a bit off, but it's easy to locate it. I arrived by car with a local and there are good signs in English on the way and huge car park. Luckily, I was visiting it during the Spring Festival, I can imagine why the car park is so big - must be a rather popular spot. Better to get a combined ticket for other Tulou (called King of Tulou - you'd need to drive another 3km down the road to get there) and I ignored the local tourist guides and just bought a ticket at the ticket office. There's a walkway that leads to the village or you can take a taxi in a golf car (for extra charge). There are lots of Earth Houses and all of them are really authentic with real people still leaving. A local grandpa approached us at one of the main buildings and offered to let us upstairs (we paid 10 RMB per person and he didn't speak any English and I don't understand why is it not regulated in a UN site, but hey) and take pictures. Otherwise, there are local who don't let you go up (signs say you can't go up). There's one square shaped building where you can actually go up and it is designed to be a museum, there are some rooms with paintings and models, make sure you don't miss it. Amazing site if you like to explore history, really lets you to feel the life at the...

This village has several interesting Tulous. The one called Fuyulou is a unusual tripartite rectangular one. There is also a large round house called Zhenchenglou. We stayed in a guesthouse called Changdi Guesthouse within the Fuyulou. I think it was the best way to experience life in the tulou as well as to enjoy home cooked Hakka food. There are all kinds of interesting agricultural activities in the village. You can enjoy the local vegetables, mushrooms, tobacco, tea and fruits, all at very low cost. There is even a rice wine maker. For less than $9 we got a 2 hour tour of the roundhouses. Visiting this village was a highlight of our two weeks...

theres a lot of tulous to the village, you cant see all of it in one day. if you want a guide, there are a lot of them. if you start exploring, you will probably be approached by a lot of them. if you want to go up the tulou, there will be locals who will allow you to go up to their part of the tulou for a certain price, as it is illegal to go up the tulou. the whole village is beautiful, its a...