“Set amongst rice, tea and tobacco fields the Tulou are earthen houses. Several storeys high, they are built along an inward-looking, circular or square floor plan as housing for up to 800 people each. They were built for defence purposes around a central open courtyard with only one entrance and windows to the outside only above the first floor.”

From UNESCO World Heritage Site:
whc.unesco.org/en/list/1113/

Tags:   oldtown travel unesco ancient worldheritage ecotourism china

© All Rights Reserved

Fujian countryside, Tulou area.

Tags:   oldtown travel unesco ancient worldheritage ecotourism china

© All Rights Reserved

Fujian countryside, Tulou area

Tags:   oldtown travel ancient ecotourism china

© All Rights Reserved

Hakka restaurant in Xiamen.

Tags:   oldtown travel china

© All Rights Reserved

Xiamen is a port city on China’s southeast coast, across a strait from Taiwan. It encompasses 2 main islands and a region on the mainland. Formerly known as Amoy, it was a British-run treaty port from 1842 to 1912. Many Europeans and Japanese lived on Gulangyu, today a vehicle-free island with beaches and meandering streets lined with old colonial villas.

Tags:   oldtown travel road ancient streetscene china

© All Rights Reserved