Xiamen Yunshuiyao and Tianluokeng Tulou Day Tour

Weekday first-class seating 9-seater vehicle; regular vehicle models may be used during major holidays such as National Day, Spring Festival, and May Day, please note.

Chinese

40 min(s)

1 hr(s) 50 min(s) • Guided • Tickets included

Yunshuiyao is located in Nanjing County, Zhangzhou City, and is part of the Fujian Tulou World Cultural Heritage. The scenic area consists of millennia-old cobblestone ancient paths, ancient banyan tree clusters, stream waterwheels, Hegui Building, Huaiyuan Building, and other landscapes. Hegui Building is a square tulou built on a swamp, and Huaiyuan Building is a well-preserved double-ring circular tulou.

20 min(s) • Guided • Tickets included

It is a Tulou museum that you can walk into, touch, and understand folk customs. It is a rare four-story Tulou with three observation balconies, allowing visitors to climb up and overlook the entire panoramic view of Yunshuiyao. The courtyard is filled with tile cats (known as the guardian deities of the Tulou), housing old Hakka artifacts and an exhibition area for rammed earth techniques.

30 min(s) • Guided • Tickets included

Hailed as the "Princess of Tulou," it is an exquisitely crafted and well-preserved double-ring round tulou among the Fujian Tulus. Stepping into the round building's patio, the compact and delicate "Sishi Room" on the inner ring is particularly captivating. Named "Huaiyuan"—derived from the phrases "cherish with virtue" and "strive with benevolence"—it embodies the Hakka people's aspirations of keeping distant horizons in their hearts, esteeming virtue, and aspiring toward goodness.

30 min(s) • Guided • Tickets included

It is a famous square Fujian Tulou, hailed as the "First Strange Building under Heaven." It is a square earthen building constructed on a marshland. Using pine logs as rafts to float on the wetland, stamping one's feet makes slight movements of the ground perceptible, and it has remained stable and upright for over two hundred years. Inside the building's courtyard, two water wells—one clear and one turbid—are full of mystery.

1 hr(s) • Guided • Tickets included

Affectionately known as the "Four Dishes and a Soup," it is the iconic business card of the Fujian Tulou. Consisting of five tulou in total—the square Buyun Lou, three circular tulou, and the oval Wenchang Lou—they are scattered layout-wise along the mountains, concealing the Hakka people's wisdom of adapting to the landscape and living together in harmony among these mountains and terraced fields.

40 min(s) • Guided • Tickets included

Tianluokeng features two viewing platforms, upper and lower, making them classic spots for viewing the World Heritage Tianluokeng Tulou cluster. The upper viewing platform overlooks the panoramic view of the "four dishes and a soup": one building in the center surrounded by four others, resembling plum blossoms blooming in the mountains; the lower viewing platform looks up, where the tulou are layered against the mountain with a majestic momentum, known as the "Potala" perspective.

20 min(s) • Guided • Tickets included

Known as the **Dongwaixixie Building**, it is the oldest surviving circular tulou in Fujian, built between the end of the Yuan dynasty and the beginning of the Ming dynasty, and is hailed as the "Mother of Tulou." Dating back over 700 years, it is the oldest existing circular tulou in Fujian. Although it looks precarious, it has stood safely through 700 years of storms and earthquakes without falling.