Beautiful ancient Chinese town

Getting There - Furong ancient town located in Furongzhen City （芙蓉镇). To get there you can easily take a train, railway station is located in 5 km from this sight. The place divided into two areas: inner area and outer area. Outer area is free to visit, inner area requires ticket. The ticket is valid for 3 days, and the price is 108 RMB per person. It also includes watching shows (16:00, 19:30 and 20:30) : two of them is in the same place and the third one in another. Hotels - many various places to stay in, but if you’re booking hotel with waterfall view, it means that you need to buy a ticket to the inner area as well, and taxi cannot bring you right under the entrance of your hotel (he’ll drop you off at the ticket office, and then you can call to the reception desk of your hotel and ask them to pick you up, because to find yourself the place you need is quite tricky for the first time). Food & Restaurants - at the first glance you have a big choice of restaurants (all of them Chinese cuisine obviously), but variety of foods in them not really wide. From place to place everything pretty much the same. And prices of course a bit higher than usual. No western food whatsoever (what else you’d expect, lol). One sad aspect is absence of groceries stores. All of them located behind the inner area, and if you’re not leaving near the exit, then it can be quite irritating, especially because they don’t work until 9-10 am. Not much bars in the area as well. Attractions - 1) Shows: They are free to watch for people from inner area. I didn’t see the one at 16:00, but I saw one at 19:30. It’s not usual show at the same stage all the time, first part starts behind the sitting area and then moves to the stage, after 15 minutes or so the act moves to the next stage (and the whole crowd is moving too, I can’t imagine how dangerous it is during any holiday, because I was there in November where’s no holidays, I anyway almost got injured in the crowd) which is near the first stage. After another 15-20 minutes the act moves to another stage which is in 10 minutes walking and people are racing to the next stage, some of them literally running. I didn’t want to be smashed in the crowd, so I didn’t follow to the third part. Overall impression of the show: not worth going. It might be dangerous, especially for kids. 2) Waterfall: you can get there from both inner and outer areas, there is also a path behind the waterfall, fun to walk there. 3) Road along the mountain. 4) Mmmmmmany photo studios with national costumes for rent. 5) Ferry from one riverside to another (5 minutes ride with nice overall view of the area) Shopping - variety looking alike souvenir shops, nothing special to the area itself. #freehotelstay#falltrip #historicallandmarks #localguides #mytravelhacks #furongzhen