Feng Huang Ying Chuan Inn
Travel Blogs from Fenghuang
That is enough adventure for one week
This is the second day in Feng Huang and I highly recommend a visit here. However if you wish to come you need to be very keen as there is no airport in or out so it is an absolute mission to get here! We took two different trains and about 2 hours to get from Hong Kong to China in Guangzhou. It is a very very unusual sight to see a westerner in …
It is just different from what YOUR used to
... remember, I barely speak Chinese. Ugh was that stressful. I eventually figured it out and we hopped on a little bus to Dehang ( it is a one lane road to Dehang through mountainous terrain....the bus driver had no mercy, yikes!) Dehang is gorgeous, as you can see in my pictures, the village is set along a river and is composed of traditional Chinese wooden structures. It is nestled between some very interesting and ...
Dehang
... the valley past rice paddies and canyons to a waterfall and then atop a hill to look out over the valley. Unfortunately it was misty so didn't see much. My guide dogs didn't leave me until we arrived safely back in town.
The second day I climbed Pangu peak and then went up the Jiulongxi valley to see the largest waterfall in China - Liusha. Walked in behind it and got soaked.
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Las Vegas
Fenghuang is a little river village with houses on stilts bordering the banks. However, it's far from quiet. They've turned it into a major tourist attraction with streets of stalls selling food and trinkets of all kinds. At night, lights magically turn it into a Chinese Las Vegas with strobe lights blinking in the stilted houses all down the river as discos and bars open up and ...
Fènghuáng and journey to Xingping
... at least we've experienced all types of travel in china now!' How wrong was I. The only way I can describe this journey is - imagine Mr Bean going over loads of bumpy road, with cheeks and jowls wobbling all over the place (this was what our whole bodies felt like), then add in the fact that on hitting a pot hole you would literally take off from your bunk, neither of us could fit in the beds, and it felt like the full cast of Stomp was playing in the background. James ...
Location
Other places to stay in Fenghuang
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Phoenix Grand Hotel
Downtown, Fenghuang | Hotel -
Jinxiu Fenghuang International Hotel
Downtown, Fenghuang | Hotel -
Phoenix Zhengfu Hotel
Downtown, Fenghuang | Hotel -
Huofeng Hotel
Fenghuang Folk Garden, Fenghuang | Hotelfrom $72 -
Great Wall Hotel
No.17 Hongqiao Road, Fenghuang | Hotel -
Wanyi Hotel
No.4 Huilongge, Fenghuang | Hotel -
Jian Dao Ping Inn
No.004 Deng Ying Street, Fenghuang | Hotel -
Fenghuang Xiaoyuan Hotel
25 Juyuan Road, Fenghuang | Hotel -
Qingsharushilou Hostel
No.6 Ximenpo, Fenghuang | Hotel