Tag: ancient town
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Pingyao Ancient City: Inside China’s Best-Preserved Ming Dynasty Time Capsule
Pingyao is China’s best-preserved walled town – 2,700 years of history, the world’s first bank, and streets that haven’t changed since Marco Polo passed through.
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Fenghuang Ancient Town: China’s 1,300-Year-Old Riverside Time Machine
A 1,300-year-old riverside town in Hunan with wooden stilted houses, Miao ethnic villages, blood duck, and the kind of misty mornings that make a four-bus-loads-a-day tour feel very far away.