good morning everyone it's a little bit after 8 a.m. and we are on a bus to Ya'an because in Ya'an
is another ancient village that we're going to check out and it's a little bit different I'm really
excited about because at least by all appearances it seems to be a at least semi-legit ancient and
like and what in buildings it's pretty rustic nothing to developed because you know if you go to
a lot of ancient towns here in China none of them were really ancient maybe they were but they're
not ancient and they're not towns anymore for example in Dujiangyan it's just a shopping street
there's a lot of new buildings that just happen to look old or maybe that qiang fortress stony village
thing that we were to you know like half of it was just brand new newly built hotels and stuff and
then in the back yeah maybe those might be legit, or Luodai in Chengdu everything's new if you
go to Ciqikou in Chongqing everything's new it's all shopfronts this one I'm actually kind
of excited about is it look like looks like it may be legit. It's called Wangyu..so, we'll see! If you want to
go to this ancient town - this little village - you have to first go to the main bus station and then just
outside of the main bus station you get on bus number four can you take the route straight south
all the way down to the end and then once you do that you can get on i'm guessing it's just like a
little bread van that you have to bargain down for and then you can take that down to the the village
so it's not an easy place to go but we're hoping it'll be worth it all right here we go let's do it
I gotta say I really enjoyed the ride up here it was beautiful the road follows the river
just there along the mountains it's all it's a constant up and down kind of winding through it
and this part of switch one is really really green because the climate is pretty wet you
can tell rain earlier today there's just bamboo everywhere trees everywhere big wide river it's
really nice but we are actually here at Wang Yu village and the village itself is just right there
there are a couple of really small streets alleyways I don't know if you can call them
streets and then if you go up those stairs just there and then the ancient towns right right there
hidden in all that bamboo somewhere I'm really excited let's just go see what there is to see
man this place is a freaking ghost town there's not anyone up here as far as I know I think I've
maybe saw a couple people down that way like someone with the dog but other than
that it's really just us but it is interesting to look at anyway because like you do not see
wooden buildings like this very much in China like everything now is all concrete and steel
everything looks about the same unless you're in certain minority villages but yeah these these
old kinds of buildings with the wooden doors that have chains on them like this you know you just
don't see very much so this is actually quite cool I think this is probably where people used
to live and then now they're down they live down there in the village and this is just for bringing
travellers in and stuff so like I said like most ancient towns are not towns anymore people don't
really live in them they are solely for tourism but it's really really rare to come across one
like this that is actually empty okay I see one two three four people five people and three of
them are tourists so that's that's very very different so that's what you get when you go
into places that are not whoa that are not really on TripAdvisor this is what you get when you have
to like actually work for your destination Wow look at that because that's where they
used to cook because when you get out into these places like this this is the real deal like this
this is cool this is special this is different which is exactly what you're looking for right
then it's slippery what is up here whoa what is all this
oh yeah
Oh whoo that's a bit shaky well that's interesting here's some roof tiles yeah this is just this is
just abandoned right here nothing here but Birds and weeds and corn don't forget about corn I think
this used to be the school or something because there there are all these little paintings about
you know learn well and study hard and stuff this is like study culture and science and
obtain knowledge and then you know obtain your dream and whatever whatever oh that's actually
Jiang Zemin - that's Jiang Zemin's name so he's been out for a little while yeah maybe this
was a school or something oh yeah this this was definitely an old school like blackboard
over there my board right here Hao Hao Xue Xi, Tian Tian Xiang Shang
definitely old school so it seems like the area in front of this place is just now being used
for uh for farmland hmm you do I do see like hose pipes and stuff for water and there are
obvious signs of cultivation I mean they're playing stuff up here but that's interesting
well we got beans here these are almost ready to take off snap people actually do live here
there's an old lady eating lunch or something as we started kind of walking into the town
itself like a long down the street right here I actually am seeing some people here so it seems
that people actually do like still live here to an extent especially like a lot of older people the
older people I think may stay here because it's more traditional it's more like what they grew
up with and things like that this is their home you know so yeah not a lot of older people buddy
doesn't care at all you know was wondering what that noise was hey guys how's it going you're
gonna be dinner Tim said that this place right here is actually for rent so you could actually
rent this out if you were into that kind of thing come up here for a week or however long
they lease to you for it's got electricity looks mostly complete that's kind of open but that's uh
I didn't expect that let's head down there you go all right keep going keep going okay I think I've
reached the top I think we've seen everything here what an interesting trip and I think that
this here is the end because right here it just goes all into mountains and farmland I think yeah
I think that's about it we can walk a little bit more and see but I think hmm if you're ever in
the area definitely take that opportunity and go to one you it's a whole different kind of ancient
town experience because you'll actually get a quiet snapshot of what life was like years and
years ago in old China no crowds no shop fronts no BS it is what it is in that simplicity of one
year village ancient and modern is the strongest memory and impression I've been left with if you
like this just wait until you see my upcoming video and got me out village it's gonna blow
you away so we finished exploring the ancient village here and we're just sitting down in
this little empty restaurant tea house kind of thing and just enjoying quiet enjoying the view
a little bit just having some tea so I think this is where I'm gonna in the video so we're
gonna head back to Chengdu in just a little bit so thank you all very much for watching I'll see you