Visited the village as part of a school program. The students loved the authenticity of the village. As you begin up the uneven steps, you are stopped and welcomed with local rice wine - not pleasant but fun to try. Keep heading up, stop and check out the ancient tofu making apparatus, try some of the local foods, pick up a gift. Don't forget to bargin. The temple at the top has a great view across the kaste mountains. The woman push you to buy their incense and fire crackers. Careful if you do, they wont stop trying to get you to buy more. Very pushy and can ruin the temple moment for you. Keep heading around the path for more stalls and offers to buy more food. Our local guide was great in giving us a tour and explaining the different parts. There is a performance hall on your way down, definitely worth a stop and check out if the performances are happening. I am told they run regularly. Lots of Chinese tourists who found us Westerns more interesting with plenty of requests for selfies. It was my third time here, and each time I have noticed some thing new or different.

What do you do in a AAAA scenic spot in China?! Trying to avoid tourist groups that want to take a photo with you instead of the minority people living there. On one hand it's nice that these places get this title and the government spends some money on preserving it. On the other hand most of that money lands in the pocket of local governments. The locals (Yao Zu) try their best to do business, selling dried herbs, nuts and the like. I felt a bit harassed by some vendors, trying to sell their goods by saying "help me - buy something from me - I haven't sold anything today". Anyways, upon arriving - we drove by car - we were welcomed by a young girl trying to get us to sleep at their families house. We preferred to walk around and try to find our own stay. As I always say, the best things happen when you go to a bar, said and done. The owner of "Golden Stone Bar" (得金石酒吧) is a pure and honest person who happens to have a guest room too, so that's were we stayed for two days. We asked him and his family to eat together so we could sample more of their local dishes - and their Mijiu too ;) It's a bit more complicated to arrive with public transport as mentioned by another reviewer. But if you decide to go, you should definitely stay over night, sit down and breathe the history of the village. There's a minority dance going on but it's done for Chinese tourists and none of the dancers looked like they're enjoying this. Instead we paid two cool old guys sitting somewhere hidden, smoking their pipes and they happily performed their drum dance. Awesome mountain formations, similar to Guilin and beautiful mountain roads. Very good place to shoot rural live of Yao people's lives! Go there - support them to keep this alive. Because nobody else seems to care!