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UNESCO Watchtowers World Heritage Ancient Villages Private Tour 20% OFF
Guangzhou, Southern China, China
$408
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Overview
The Kaiping Day Trip from Guangzhou showcases the region's remarkable architectural and cultural heritage, including UNESCO World Heritage sites. Experience the unique blend of Chinese and Western influences in this picturesque countryside.
- 🏰 Visit the renowned Kaiping Diaolou and Villages, a UNESCO World Heritage Site featuring multi-story tower buildings that reflect the rich history of overseas Chinese architecture.
- 🌿 Explore Zili Village, home to the impressive Watchtower Group, comprising traditional dwellings and stunning watchtowers, surrounded by scenic lotus ponds.
- 🐄 Discover Jinjiangli Village, a pastoral haven with a harmonious blend of traditional Chinese and Western architectural styles, complete with picturesque farmland and flowing rivers.
- 🌸 Marvel at the Li Garden, a breathtaking man-made landscape that combines elements from the Grand View Garden and European villa architecture, creating a unique architectural masterpiece.
- 🏞️ Visit the Ma-Xianglong Towers Group in Majianglong Village, featuring well-preserved Diaolou buildings nestled among lush bamboo groves and fruit trees.
- 🎥 Stroll through Chikan Movie Town, known for its Cantonese-style Qilou street buildings and Western villas, a favorite spot for filmmakers and photographers.
- 🚗 Enjoy a private car ride with air conditioning, ensuring a comfortable journey through the countryside.
- 👨💼 Benefit from a local English-speaking tour guide who will provide insights and assist with your itinerary, including visits to ancestral homes if desired.
- 🍽️ Lunch and admission fees are included, allowing you to savor local flavors while exploring.
- 👶 The tour is pram/stroller friendly, making it accessible for families with young children.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
Basic Package Private Tour
Duration: 5 hours: For 5 hours tour to visit Zili Village UNESCO Diaolou/Watchtowers only
Pickup included
Duration: 5 hours: For 5 hours tour to visit Zili Village UNESCO Diaolou/Watchtowers only
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Availability depends on seasonality and number of participants. Bookings can not be made for the same day. Please read our TnC’s.
When giving as a gift, your recipient can choose a date at their convenience during a booking process. Otherwise, you can choose one after checkout and voucher redemption.
When giving as a gift, your recipient can choose a date at their convenience during a booking process. Otherwise, you can choose one after checkout and voucher redemption.
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The experience offers several options, check yours above
- Professional driver
- Private car with air-con
- Local English speaking tour guide with full escort
- Hotel pick up and drop off in downtown Guangzhou
- Gratuities
- Admission fee and lunch(for you and the guide)
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Kaiping Diaolou and VillagesThe Diaolou Cluster in Zili Village and the Diaolou Cluster in Majianglong Village in Guangdong’s first World Cultural Heritage Site, and Li Garden, which is known as “a masterpiece of gardens built by overseas Chinese”. It’s a comprehensive tourist attraction integrating many elements, such as overseas Chinese culture, garden art, Chinese and Western architecture, cultural relics, five-country customs. Kaiping Diaolou is a special type of native architecture in China. It is a kind of multi-story tower building integrating defense, residence, Chinese and Western architectural art. It is also the fruit of Chinese rural people’s active acceptance of Western architectural art and its integration with the local architectural art, embodying the typical open, inclusive, conflicting and integrated development between overseas Chinese culture and Western culture with unique artistic charm, becoming a masterpiece of overseas Chinese culture and a unique world architectural art landscape.
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Watchtower Group of Zili VillageFounded in the 17th year of Daoguang’s reign in the Qing Dynasty(1837), it is comprised of Anheli, He’anli, and Yong’anli unincorporated villages all with the surname of Fang. In the early days after the founding of new People’s Republic of China, all three villages were combined into Zili Village, implying “self-reliance”. The entire village has 92 houses in total, including 77 “three-room-and-two-corridor” traditional dwellings, 9 watchtowers, and 6 cottage-style villas. Apart from the finest building Mingshi Building, there are another characteristic buildings named Yesheng Mansion, Lansheng Mansion and Guansheng Mansion. The traditional dwellings and watchtowers in the village are well distributed and proportioned. Dotted with the lotus ponds, its unique country lifestyle and the stories behind the watchtowers have attracted visitors from all over the world.
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Jinjiangli VillageJinjiangli Village Diaolou Cluster, surrounded by mountains, with crisscross paths on the farmland and river flowing through away before it, lies in the Xian Gang Township, Kaiping City. Water buffaloes and geese appearing on the riverside from time to time, the granite-paved road leading from the pier to the village, and women carrying water coming and going, that is a pastoral life painting of Jinjiangli Village. 3 diaolou stand among traditional old houses, which gives you a sense of beauty of harmony in combination of western and Chinese traditional style. Ruishilou and Shengfenglou are 2 out of the 3 diaolou that forms the most beautiful diaolou cluster in Kaiping.
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Kaiping GardenBuilt in the early 20th century by Mr. Xie Weili, a US-based Chinese, the Li Garden is based on the Grand View Garden depicted in the Dream of the Red Chamber and skillfully combines the classical garden features with popular villa architectures in Europe and America, which presents a unique form of architectural art and boasts a breathtaking man-made garden landscape. Known as the “Small View Garden”, the Li Garden focuses on the conception of “bridge, brook, and household”. Divided into grand garden, small garden, and villa clusters, the garden layout forms a style of its own: separation with the artificial river or walls, connection with pavilions and bridges or corridors, contributing to the pattern of gardens within gardens and landscapes within landscapes. With profound culture represented by the couplets by famous calligraphers and substantial romantic and legendary sculptures and murals, it will turn back the clock to make you feel like being in the early 20th century.
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Ma-Xianglong Towers GroupSituated at the flatland on the eastern coast of Tanjiang River, the Majianglong Village is under the administration of Baihe Township. It is composed of 5 villages: Yong’an and Nan’an Village of the Huang family and Qinglin, Hedong and Longjiang Villages of the Guan family. Yong’an Village was established during the Qianlong period(1736-1795). In the early years, it was known as “Fengsuilang” which bears the symbolic meaning of “good harvest every year”. They renamed the place “Majianglong” after 1949. There are seven Diaolou buildings and eight Western-style villas in Majianglong Village, which are all unique in design and well preserved, hidden in the dense ancient woods and bamboo groves, perfectly blending into the surrounding natural environment and folk houses. Standing among them, surrounded by luxuriant and well-spaced green bamboo, dense fruit trees, chirping birds and fragrant flowers, you will wonder if you are stepping into a fairyland.
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Chikan Movie TownEstablished in early Qing Dynasty, next to Tan River with convenient transportation for surrounding rural villages, Chikan Old Town is famous for its many Cantonese style Qilou street buildings as well as western villas. It is also an ideal and popular place for film makers and photographers for wedding celebration who'd like to take advantage of its traditional architectural background and atmosphere. Delicious local food and snacks are a plus to this site.
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UNESCO Watchtowers World Heritage Ancient Villages Private Tour 20% OFF
Guangzhou, Southern China, China
$408
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!