Qingkou Hani Customs Village
Qingkou Hani Customs Village, eight kilometres away from the former county seat (Xinjie Town). It was located in Yuanyang Terraces National Wetland Park and the core area of the World Cultural Heritage.It is boasts a complete ecological system jointly composed of the "forest, water system, cottage and terrace." The Hani nationality can be felt thanks to distinctive folk customs, distinctive national culture and unique production and lifestyle. The terraced fields' cluster of clouds and ancient “mushroom houses” are integrated, contributing to a model for rational use of natural resources for agricultural development.
Laohuzui Terraces Resort
Laohuzui Terraces Resort, located in Yuanyang Terraces National Wetland Park
and it’s the core area of World Cultural Heritage, which is 20 kilometres away from the former county seat (Xinjie Town). There are more than 850 hectares of magnificently-terraced fields. With various shapes, the terraced fields present different view especially on sunny days.
It is also like a thousand-year-old turtle resting at the bottom of the valley and seems to tell people the ups and downs in the history of the Hani ancestors' exploration of terraced fields. These are the most steep and magnificent terraced fields in Yuanyang Mountain, deserving the nickname of “earth sculpture.”
Duoyishu Terraces Resort
Duoyishu Terraces Resort, located in Yuanyang Terraces National Wetland Park and the core area of World Cultural Heritage, is 23 kilometres away from the former county seat (Xinjie Town) with an altitude of 1,900 metres.
650 hectares of terraced fields are distributed in Duoyishu and Aichun, Dawazhe and other bay-shaped hillsides from 25° to 50°, being the best resort for viewing and photographing the clusters of clouds, terraced fields, sunrise and sunsets.
"Yunnan Story", the well-known famous scenery film, was shot and presented with these terraced fields and village as main scenes.
Bada Terraces
Bada Terraces Resort, located in Yuanyang Terraces National Wetland Park and the core area of World Cultural Heritage?, is 14 kilometres away from the former county seat (Xinjie Town), boasting more than 950 hectares of magnificently-terraced fields. Bada Terraces Resort features spectacular and beautiful displays as well as strong three-dimensional sense.
Bada Terraces Resort starts from Malizhai River at an altitude of 800 metres. There are thousands of terraced fields stretching continuously, extending to the top of the mountain at an altitude of 2,000 metres, and aloft holding up Hani-featured villages including Malizhai, Bada, Shangmadian and Quanfuzhuang into the clusters of clouds. More than 3,700-step terraced fields directly stretch to the sky-like ladders.
Xinjie Resort
Xinjie Resort, located at 30 kilometres south of the county seat and 303 kilometres away from Kunming, is a place mainly for appreciating natural scenery and cultural landscapes. It is a place where Hani, Yi, Han, and Dai people live, and where the diverse cultures are reflected. It is the hub for watching clouds and terraced fields and studying the folk customs of ethnic groups.
Malizhai Resort
Malizhai Resort, located at 43 kilometres to the south of the county seat and 15 kilometres to the east of Xinjie, is a site to appreciate the Hani terraced fields, cloud plains and Hani architecture, for example. It is also the central site to understand and experience the culture of the Hani people.
Duoyishu Resort
Duoyishu Resort, located at 55 kilometres to the east of the county seat and 25 kilometres to the east of Xinjie, is entangled with clouds during two hundred days of the year. The clouds can linger in the bay without dispersing, can rise and fall, suddenly disappear and then descend into a blanket of fog. They can flood the layers of terraced fields and villages and, when the lift, they can reveal the layered landscape. With each motion, the clouds unleash different presentations, making it a place to view and picture the landscapes.
Mengpin Terraces Resort
Mengpin Terraces Resort is located 50 kilometres south of the county seat and 20 kilometres to the south of Xinjie. It is like a giant blooming white flower overlooked from the Laohuzui. Over 3,000 acres of terraced fields present various view. Mengpin Terraces Resort is commonly known as the most magnificent rural scenery in the world by photographers, having been listed by a French newspaper as one of the seven newly discovered human landscapes in 1993.
Red River Valley Resort
When you travel across the Red River Valley to the Nansha Bridge, you’ll be surprised by a mesmerising new view.
You will find straight areca trees, a modern city surrounded by flaming branch climbing flowers, a dark green lychee forest, tall mango trees, a graceful tamarind forest and other tropical trees as well as pieces of rubber plantations.
Nansha is the centre of politics, economy and culture in Yuanyang and a beautiful tropical city. During the year, Nansha only has spring and summer. Nansha is not only an ideal tropical tourist city, but also a desired tourism spot in winter.
Habo Resort
Habo Village is located by a hill along the Chujiao River and Hageng River, converging to the Longpuheduo and Laihaigaima Mountains, forming a rather unique place.
Habo buildings are built by leaning against the mountain and along the terrain. The architectural styles of branches of the Hani ethnic minority are gathered here. You can find the four-bedroom & one-courtyard style buildings from Luobi Branch. The Luomian Branch boasts wooden balconies while the Dunhong Branch has a rectangular bungalow style. The modern buildings in the village also show obvious mushroom house prototypes.
Habo Terraces envelops into a round shape. While standing on the east side of the village and overlooking, hundreds of terraced fields climb from the valley level on the dozens of semi-circular ridges with the slope of 45 degrees in the east. The terraced fields on dozens of ridges appear red under the shining of the sun and become spectacular.
Haqian-based Terraced Fields Resort is the steepest site, with a maximum stereoscopic impression of Yuanyang Terraces and is the best destination to enjoy the sunrise on the terraced fields resort.
Recommended Foods
Once in Yuanyang, you can’t miss one of these meals: drink a simmered pot of wine, taste the carp growing in the terraced fields, and eat wild vegetables, wildflowers, insects, and oysters growing in the mountains.
Field Snails
The clear water flowing in Yuanyang Terraces, and the soil in the fields, is soft and deep, being a perfect homeland for the field snails to grow up. The field snails grown under such conditions are sweet and delicious with high calcium levels and good medicinal value.
Fried Bamboo Worms
Bamboo worms, also known as bamboo bees and bamboo maggots, are parasites living in the bamboo tubes. They mainly eat tender bamboo. They eat down from the bamboo tip, section by section, until they finally hide themselves in the root tube. They stop eating by November, which is the right time to catch the bamboo worms, before they disintegrate.
Bamboo worms are not only favoured by Hani people, but also liked by the Zhuang and Buyi people. In the valley with dense bamboo trees where the Buyi people live, the bamboo stem may be taken when the bamboo tip is seen to become yellow. Once they are fired, the bamboo worms turn to golden, becoming crispy, aromatic and boasting high protein content.
Pickled & Dried Beef Strip
For the production of pickled and dried beef strip, here are the steps: take the fat from pieces of fine meat, cut into stripped beef loafs and add salt, hot pepper, pepper, star anise, black cardamom powder and liquor, pickling for one to two days. Then add bamboo strips or thin bamboo arrows and hang those above the stove or fire pit to keep it smoked and dried with the fire. When it is time to eat the pickled & dried beef strip, steam it with hibiscus or wrap it with banana leaves in the firewood ash.
Cooked with ginger, garlic and green pepper or cut into thin slice to dried, all of it has different teast.
Terraced-Field Red Rice for Long Street Banquet
The terraced-field of red rice for Long Street Banquet is grown in the well-known Yuanyang Hani Terraces, boasting a 1,300-year history planted by the Hani people in Yuanyang. Yuanyang Hani Terraces are at over 1,800 metres in altitude on the Tropic of Cancer. The terraced-field is rich in minerals and anti-cancer red pigments. Long-term consumption of terraced-field red rice will bring health and longevity.
Roasted Meat in Bamboo Tube
The roasted meat in bamboo tube is a famous dish for Hani people to serve guests. The bamboo tube used for roasting the meat is a local bamboo with unique fragrance, and the green bamboo selected has grown for approximately one year, with one end left with a knot and the other end opened.
Fill the opened end with meat loafs or slices, and then cover the open end with lemongrass or banana leaves. Finally put it on the charcoal fire for roasting and baking. The dish has a nice smell, awakening all your senses!