26 May 2019
Apart from seeing the many sovereign splendour monuments in Beijing, visiting Cuandixia Village is a great off the beaten track activity to experience the livelihood of ordinary folks living in an uniquely beautiful natural habitat. The village is small with a couple of hundred families residents inherited from ancestors from the Ming dynasty, enveloped by a surrounding naturally sculptured high mountain range with patches of human carved over the ages terraced planting fields providing food for the village and also when married with the varied green surrounding natural vegetation provides a serene and isolated setting of a scenic background to a hidden old village set in a valley. Furthermore, after reaching the outskirt of Beijing and on entering the mountain range area towards the village there are scenic vista of mountain scenes enroute.