Qingcheng Travel Guide

 mke1963 Says:  The streets are definitely worth wandering - in any season. This is a wonderful town, with something marvellous at every turn, and marvellous people to tell you about it all.Just take any turn,down any lane, and stop to talk with the people of Qingcheng. 

 mke1963 Says:  The same home-stays that offer food are, rather obviously, the same places that offer accommodation for around RMB20-30 per person full board (three meals). The accommodation is in late Qing courtyard houses, restored to one degree or another. Most have a kang bed, which is... 

 mke1963 Says:  Qingcheng has a few restaurants along the main street, but it also has a large number of home-stay accommodation places. These all serve food at lunchtime and in the evenings.Look for the signs and ask inside – just go in, as usually there is no bell.As these places do not... 

 mke1963 Says:  This is not a shopping tip but a plea to avoid buying them from small villages and towns in rural areas.Old towns like Qingcheng are a storehouse of antiques, like a great many rural places in China. Every house contains objects and features that you look at and think “That... 

 mke1963 Says:  Just north of the town, between the houses and the Yellow River is an old orchard with pear and walnut trees. The trees here are around 200 years old, and their gnarled tweisted trunks could tell a few stories if they could talk.Today, the small orchard has been fenced in to...