This Place CAN’T BE REAL! China’s Fairyland In Jiangxi Province
this video is brought to you by Squarespace wow where do you even begin that is so spicy but it's so good that's insane crazy how they built it look on top babe oh my God thank you thank you thank you [Music] will we be okay I don't know they let us in I guess so the door is still open we got to go got to go let's go in the nearest door first is it this one 20? oh my goodness oh my God I read the time wrong I thought it was 32 it was 23 10:23 okay we got to find our spot Carriage 15 well this is not how we intended to start the video I'm so happy she let us on she didn't even check my passport yeah because keep going keep going oh because the screen actually said that they stopped boarding already this is it yeah the train is leaving now we found our seat I guess no one's sitting next to you oh it's quite spacious actually you think our backpacks will fit up there yeah now that we're settled let me tell you where we are going today we have quite an epic adventure planned because we going to this beautiful fairy tale village in the mountains called Wangxian Valley and it's in another province called Jiangxi so right now we are taking a highspeed train from Hangzhou all the way to another city called Shangrao and then from there we still need to hop on a bus for another hour and a half to take us to that scenic spot and we will stay two nights as well just outside of there in a nice guest house to enjoy the area a bit more and then show you guys what it looks like when we did some research about this village we didn't find a lot of information online because it's so new so we thought we would put this video together and show you exactly how to get there and what it's like at the village because once you see how beautiful it is you're also going to want to go there how much did we pay for the train tickets again for this one which is Hangzhou East to Shangrao is $22 per person and it takes an hour and 41 minutes to get there and this is second class so second class is like these type of seats so two and a three seater one thing with the tickets is that the tickets are only available for booking 15 days before the departure of the train so you cannot book too early unfortunately you got to you know remind yourself to go and book the tickets once they open for booking especially if you're trying to book a first class or a business class ticket cuz those ones sell out really really fast how does the China high speed train compare to the Japan bullet train for you so far this one is a lot faster we're going at 294 km per hour right now I guess the one in Japan that we took can also go as fast but because of the route that we took there are more stops in between so it couldn't go to with max speed but this train can go up to 350 I think this is one of the biggest accomplishments for China in the last two decades because they started building the highspeed rail around I think the mid 2000s and it was only in 2007 or 2008 where they first opened the first high speed train that people can take I think in Beijing but now they have 45,000 km worth of tracks around the country and it connects all the major cities in the country and I read that it cost 25 million USD for every kilometer of the railway they built that times 45,000 that's crazy that's an insanely huge amount of money hi welcome to Shangrao we're here for a few minutes yeah we have to find the bus stop I think go downstairs we'll see where it is does it feel kind of cold here yeah so that was a little bit of a walk but now we are here at the East Coach Station and I think we can purchase our tickets here let's check it out unfortunately you can't choose English so it's all in Chinese well that was a bit tricky so we had a problem with purchasing the tickets by ourselves so she had to scan you see this board over here so she had to scan that to buy the tickets for me and then I pay her back through Alipay because I cannot buy my ticket directly we don't have a local number but we have the tickets and I paid her she sent me the two QR codes that we need to show the bus driver so we're good and how much are they ¥30 each it's not easy going to this village I mean you can hop on a taxi it might take a couple hundred yuan to get there but I thought we would take the ¥30 bus I mean it's not that inconvenient because most of the time when there's a problem with that people are so willing to pay first and then you transfer to them right away it happened to us quite a few times ready even at West Lake when I couldn't buy the ticket because of the number problem the ticket seller like she just scanned and bought it for me and then I paid her right away it's a bit chaotic here you kind of have to go ask the counter cuz there's no signs or anything I think this site is so new that it's not officially on the boards or anything like that but they have a direct bus is everything okay back there they have a problem with their ticket or something so they don't have a QR code we're this bus okay that's it yeah it's definitely not as like a developed spot so it feels more chaotic this is the most chaotic we have felt so far since being here in China why does it keep beeping he said because some people don't have their seat belts on yet so the sound is going to keep going until everyone has their seat belt on come on guys teamwork or else we have to listen to the sound for the whole hour and a half I think he might be the last one come on come on let's hope it's him oh it's him yeah the lady behind me also pointed at him and was like I knew it was him real quick once again thank you to our longtime partner Squarespace for supporting our channel when it comes to building websites Squarespace is the most user friendly and intuitive platform not only can you pick from hundreds of award-winning templates but you can also try Squarespace Blueprint which uses AI to personalize your website from the ground up just by answering a few questions no matter if 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watch movies or TV oh that's awesome let's see the washroom yeah washroom is nice I love that all of the washrooms here they give you a hair dryer it's so convenient this is so hi-tech look at that the lady is so sweet she just came and uh delivered some fresh juice for us for free for free I guess looks like fresh squeezed orange juice and there's a little change of plans so when we first checked in she said she wanted to see if we're interested to go to see the what is it called the canola flower field which is a very famous attraction in the spring for this area but the other two couples um they're they're not going they say they're a little bit tired so then she wanted to see if we wanted to go to the valley today and then go see the flowers tomorrow or if we want to go see the flowers today and then go to the Valley tomorrow so we need to decide Valley today yeah mhm so we'll go to the valley today then I'll let you know and we can go there as late as we want and then just ask them to pick us up sounds good can you believe it we are going to the Valley now I know 4 minutes away and we will get to see it in real life I think it won't be too busy because it's what is it today Wednesday or Thursday but we're going to stay there for quite a few hours because the highlight of it he's going to bring the car out yeah I was going to say we're going to be there for quite a few hours um because the night view is super epic but there are snacks and stuff that you can eat and places to walk around so it'll be really fun that's already part of the valley yeah wow look it's all surrounding the cliff like that I wonder how high you can walk up like if it's only open for people who are staying there or anyone can walk all the way up good thing we got our passports with us because you need it to buy the tickets oh so it was ¥120 each here's your ticket wow we're here where do you even begin look at how high we have to climb up to get to the hanging houses on the cliff it said this is the reverse route so we should go this way first across the beautiful Red Bridge wow this is like a giant theme park yeah with no rides though you have to walk so from what I understand people used to come here just to do tubing or rafting down the river and they've been doing it since I think 1989 or something like over 30 years ago but it was only in the last couple years where they started to develop this Valley even more for tourism so the houses they built on the cliff side and this whole valley is built for tourism and to bring economic impact to this area you can tell that a lot of people working here are actually elderly like the security guards the people doing maintenance they are older people who probably have been living in this area and then this provided a job opportunity for them and they're still building it it's not done yet they still have a lot of work to do now will you look at that it's like straight out of a fairy tale wow it's pretty neat isn't it that's insane it's crazy how they built it how do you even build a structure when it's on the side of the cliff like that I heard the tour guide say there is one hotel up there that's only ¥899 but you need to stay quite a few nights so in the end it's still a couple thousand to stay up there and everyone in her group was like oh my goodness so expensive are they like real waterfalls or are they manmade I think that part of it is natural and they built around it but I'm not 100% yeah look at that yeah that's insane they must have some sort of water source to do that are you a bit surprised to see all these 60 70 80 year olds here yeah there are a lot of older people here and in big tour groups as well I think one of the main reasons is because they get a special discount if you're over 70 years old you have free entry and if you're 65 or above you only pay ¥80 per person so I think if you were joining a tour group basically this is like a must go to destination that doesn't increase any cost for them but there's a lot of stairs so that's why I'm surprised that they're still coming here do you want to try this yes what is it this is a very uh a cool thing to do it's called um breaking the bowl wine so after you drink it you smash it let's do it how much is it ¥15 for three bowls so after you drink it you [break it] rice wine I guess so they said it's only 3.3%
alcohol okay let's do it you want one for six or three for 15 three it's like those Chinese old movies you know you drink it like this like we are brothers now let me drop some blood into it Cheers Cheers that's delicious the lady's looking at me oh that's delicious wow in the old Chinese movie I see them holding this this whole thing yeah and they go like this she said you smashed it good we have one more I'll drink half you can drink half but I'll let you break it okay you did it with style she was clapping it's actually quite delicious we got the trend starting now people are looking what are they doing I can drink that whole jug it's delicious it's really yummy oh that's not good I didn't quite smash it you can do it one more time this whole street smells really nice I think it's this tofu it's a some sort of soy -braised tofu I love tofu should we try it yes please I'm getting hungry now mhm this was only ¥20 for 15 pieces that looks spicy I think you dip it in both the powder and the sauce that's good that is so spicy but it's so good now that we started eating I'm very hungry I want to go to that street down there there's a lot more food this is just a snack yeah so what do you think about the valley so far I think it's quite interesting somehow I don't know why I expected it to be less busy because it's not as easy to get to but I forgot to take into account that a lot of China tours are by tour buses so of course it's easy if you join a tour group and you come here and the population is huge so even if a place is not super popular it's still going to be busy I honestly didn't think it's mainly made for tourists I thought they're actually villagers living up here did you think that you read about it before right I knew that there were hotels but I didn't think they would have all these shops or a stage for performances all the cafes I didn't expect that but I can see why they have it though because then people come in here and they can spend quite a long time in here and it's worth it for them because the ticket is ¥120 it's still a very very beautiful place I can't wait to see it at night you can already see some of the lights turning on and it looks really beautiful it seems like we found the food Street there's lots of little Street stalls in this alley here and a lot of things I've never seen before there's like dumplings there's noodles there's different skewers but not exactly the types I've seen oh this looks so good what is this one I want to try this one this one is spicy and sour noodles you want to do this one yeah okay you want to share one yeah and then we can try something else this one says ¥12 for one bowl wow it's called [ ] which is sour spicy noodle I've never had this before too me too the sour taste is very nice sweet and sour spicy though so good the noodles are so good I'm actually surprised the price is so decent it was only ¥12 I thought maybe because it's a touristy spot it would have been more I've never had these noodles before they look like potato starch maybe like the Korean japchae noodles but thicker quite tasty I don't like these noodles that much no but I really like the soup and I like the crunchy soy beans a lot oh it's hot got it it's so hot it's good wow it's so interesting that a lot of things here are made to order that is so fresh the meat inside is so nice and sweet I think inside is braised pork belly shredded and then also this like dried vegetable wow this is the best thing I had so far on this trip what okay I have to try it it's so good so talented to be able to control the heat inside just using charcoal and he only check it once if it was me I would be like oh is it done oh oh no it's burning he's busy making the other ones so he's like so efficient he's just by himself and he makes everything fresh like made to order [Music] look on top babe oh my God look at the lights so beautiful wow you can walk all the way up there should we walk all the way up there yes got to see it from the top right this is so stunning I'm speechless I'm thinking my right knee hurts how's everyone doing this finally there's no crowds up here the trick is to go as high as possible cuz everyone got tired and just stayed down there and there's a huge concert going on at the square right now you can hear it all the way from there what do you think about this view this is crazy this is so crazy it's its own village yes it's humongous and we started from that little red bridge there walked all the way on this side of the cliff turned around walked down the other side the food Street up now we're here I think this is the highest point and I didn't find any of the walkways scary at all it is so sturdy and safe but I don't think I need to stay here overnight it's pretty cool to explore it daytime and enjoy the nighttime cuz night time is a vibe but I'm happy to go back to our homestay how did they come up with this and it's not even finished that's the crazy thing that whole side is going to light up as well I heard someone walk by and said this is this is out of this world I've never seen anything like this before it truly is though but his girlfriend was like this is too much I think most people will either feel like wow this is amazing or feel like this is very artificial yeah I actually quite enjoyed it I mean the food was really good the views were nice and nighttime is really really fun well I'm glad we came me too another one off our bucket list yep but make sure if you come though wear comfy shoes because there is a lot of walking and maybe come around 4:30 because then you get to see it in the daytime and also the night time I think the nighttime is the highlight of this place like you have to stay for the food for the lights for the view don't come and walk up here too early because it's so so much more grand at night yeah and more quiet too well thank you for joining us all the way from Hangzhou to Wangxian Valley as always have a wonderful day and we will see you in the next city bye-bye
2024-04-24 00:17
