Day 16 – Going to the countryside visiting unique Fujian Tulou structures

By bogaert

As the trip to Wuyi mountain was not going to happen we moved to plan B. I still feel very sorry for my colleagues, but hope the alternatives will bring them an enjoyable weekend. We have chosen to organize a daytrip to the most beautiful and oldest Fujian Tulou site, which is the Yongding Tulou. Half of our team and three interns decided to go for this plan B with a small bus. The other half of the team remained in town. It took a bit more then three hours getting there. The fist part of the trip was highway, but most of the journey was secondary roads. These housing structures were built in the eary 1700’s. It was a really nice place, a very unique architecture, and still unbelievable how people are used to live here. We visited a few of these structures on the same site. The largest Tulou we visited was the Chengqilou Tulou, this one has the nickname "the king of tulou". The place we visited is amazing and very unique, this was an exceptional daytrip, many thanks to my colleagues and inters who joined. I wrote most of this in the bus, but now back and sorry, don’t feel much on writing tonight. This will be a short blog. Enjoy the photos below to get an impression of the day. #ibmcsc china

Along the road