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Take a bus and go to Fenghuang, a very nice little town where Chinese like to get married. A green rive flow slowly through the old town and little boats offer the opportunity to see the town from the river. You can walk along narrow pedestrian lanes. The athmosphere is very pleasant even if the place is quite touristy.
Written Sep 10, 2007
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Visit the old river town of Fenghuang, two hours by bus from Huaihua. Fenghuang is described elsewhere on VT. The bus station is on the west side of the City center. Going to Fenghuang is a must! You should stay in Fenghuang a minimum of one night. When you arrive at the bus station, there will be a lot of people approaching to offer a place to stay. Just follow and inspect what's on offer. Probably you'll get an acceptable room at an acceptableprice, and the landlords will most probably give lots of good advice about what to see, where to go, etc.
While you're there, you can visit a Miao-village some one hour away by bus.
Also, going to the nearby town of Zhijiang is a good idea. One day is enough. The Sino-american war memorial and museum is located there. (The old airfield has just recently been renovated to become a civilian airport).
In Zhijiang proper, there's a famous Dong minority "wind-and-rain bridge." It's quite impressive! Inside the brigde there are numerous shops, and four or five dentist consultancies. All the passers-by can stop and look down your throat and chat with the dentist while she fixes your tooth problem. The equipment is up-to-date.
Written Jan 1, 2006
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To love Huaihua, you would need to be an afficionado of small Chinese cities. The city keeps its charms well hidden, and the Huaihua Museum was closed (seemingly indefinitely) when we were there.
The riverside area (actually there are two of them) is very rundown and infested with rubbish along the banks. Huiahua has well and truly turned its back on the waterfront: one stretch of recent speculative apartment buildings, painted bright pink, sits completely vacant alongside the main agricultural equipment market and the city power station. To the south, Huaihua's steel mill belches smoke. It's not the prettiest place in China!
However, the valleys to the north of Huaihua, on the road to Fenghuang and Jishou rapidly become pretty, descending down a long winding valley, past several derelict templesto wards Maiyan. This long valley would make excellent walking and desrves to be explored. The wooden buildings, many belonging to Miao and Tujia people, are mostly in good condition and one village is even built completely out of adobe brick - strange how just one village can be totally out of synch with neighbouring communities.
Written Apr 3, 2005
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To love Huaihua, you would need to be an afficionado of small Chinese cities. The city keeps its charms well hidden, and the Huaihua Museum was closed...
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Q: My tour ends in Changsha, but I was told that the town of Zhenyuan is worth seeing, so I want to stop at Huaihua on the way the...
A: I saw there are 3 turn of buses to Huaihua. One 11:50 Second:15:40 Thired:17:40 And there is another: Statation time South Huaihua —South Changsha...
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Huaihua is a small city with a big influnce over western Hunan, as it is a huge railway junction - seemingly the 21st biggest station in China (these statistics are easy to come by in China!). The...
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I doubt people go to Huaihua as tourists, but there's a chance you'll pass through it because it's a train hub city. Trains from Beijing and Shanghai to Yunnan will pass through, as well as trains...
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Good bus and trains connections
Huaihua has nothing but good connections. It is near from Fenghuang, Hongjiang, Kaili or Zhangjiajie. But few trains initiate in Huaihua and you can't book a seat or a berth. You just take a ticket......
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I love this area, this is the first place i lived alone withour my parents around me! this is the first place where i have make friends with foreigners This is the place where i became stronger and...
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