Important: Wikitravel is exploring a license upgrade to CC by-sa 3.0, please give your consent or refusal here.

Kaiping

From Wikitravel

Asia : East Asia : China : South East : Guangdong : Pearl River Delta : Jiangmen : Kaiping

Jump to: navigation, search

Get in
Get around
See
Do
Buy
Eat
Drink
Sleep
Get out

Kaiping (开平: Kāipíng) is a city of about 700,000 in the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong Province in China. It falls under the administration of Jiangmen and is famous for its castle-like dwellings built by overseas Chinese in a mixure of western and eastern style.

[edit] Get in

From Guangzhou it is easiest to take a bus form Fengcun bus station (芳村汽车站) at Kengkou Metro Station. The ride takes about 2 hours and should cost ¥45.

[edit] Get around

Kaiping has two long distance bus stations, Yicizhan (义祠站) and Lechongzongzhan (勒冲总站). Former one is more modern and is most likely the starting point for your journey into the surrounding villages of Kaiping town. Kaiping itself has bus lines numbered from 1 to 8. Number 1 connects the to major bus stations and passes the city center.

[edit][add listing] See

Villages. Very close to the town of Kaiping there are a number of small villages and small houses that have been built by oversea Chinese during the beginning of the 20th century. Most buildings resemble the style of western or middle eastern culture mixed with traditional Chinese elements. Often there were designed to defend against bandits. The buildings have not been taken care of since, but the government started to restore and preserve them recently. The style of these buildings is often cheaply copied by many "modern" buildings throughout Guangdong. edit

Liyuan (立园), (about an hour away from Kaiping Town), [1]. The best preserved and renovated of all the villages and hosts a museum about overseas Chinese culture. edit