Longnan 1-Day Tour｜Stay in a Millennium Hakka Walled Village! Explore the "Eastern Ancient Roman Castle,"

While everyone rushes to Wuyuan and Jinggangshan,
at the southernmost tip of Jiangxi, on the border with Guangdong,
lies a seriously underrated "Heart of Hakka Culture"——

📍 Jiangxi · Longnan

It’s not a 5A tourist attraction, but it’s the hometown of Chinese walled villages,
with 376 well-preserved Hakka walled villages,
like a series of "Eastern Ancient Roman Castles,"
standing tall among green mountains and clear waters.

Here you will find:
✅ Guanxi New Walled Village — the most exquisite and largest existing square Hakka walled village, known as the "King of Walled Villages"
✅ Yanyi Walled Village — four-story high walls and numerous watchtowers, once withstood bandit attacks for a century
✅ Qianxin Town — ten thousand acres of bamboo sea + handmade tea + cliff waterfalls, like a martial arts world
✅ Plus authentic fermented tofu, Aimi fruit, lei tea, hot skin noodles... a bite takes you back to childhood by the stove

🚆【Itinerary · Day 1】Departure → Arrive in Longnan → Visit Guanxi New Walled Village + Stay in a Walled Village Homestay
- 🚄 Morning: Most convenient departure from Ganzhou/Guangzhou/Nanchang
- ✅ Recommended high-speed rail:
- Ganzhou → Shenzhen North (passing Longnan Station), buy tickets and get off at 【Longnan East Station】
- If no direct train, transfer at 【Ganzhou Station】
- ✅ Transportation after arrival:
- Taxi to Guanxi Town
- Or take the urban-rural bus "Longnan—Guanxi" line

> 💡 Tip: It’s recommended to arrive at Longnan East Station before 7:30 AM to allow enough time for afternoon sightseeing.

- 🌇 Afternoon 2:30 PM start the 【Longnan Walled Village Cultural Tour】
> Free entry to the outer streets of the walled village, ticket required for core attractions
Must-visit👇
🔸 Guanxi New Walled Village:
Built during the Qing Jiaqing period, five groups of buildings, seven courtyards,
See the defensive structures, ancestral halls layout, carved beams and painted rafters, and feel the wisdom of "clan living together"
🔸 Xichang Walled Village (free entry):
More original and residential, still home to dozens of Hakka families
🔸 Stroll through the ancient walled village street:
Old tailor shops, blacksmiths, oil-paper umbrella stalls line the bluestone road, full of local life atmosphere

- 🌌 Evening free activities——
- Join the homestay’s "Learn to Make Lei Tea" experience (free)
- Or sit in the courtyard of the walled village, drink tea and chat, listen to the landlord’s legendary story of "how bandits never breached Yanyi Walled Village"

🌄【Day 2】Climb Yanyi Walled Village Watchtower → Explore Qianxin Town → Happy Return
- ☀ Check out at 7:00 AM, taxi to 【Yanyi Walled Village】

- Four-story high walls + four watchtowers, survived three large-scale sieges without falling
- Climb to the top for a panoramic view of the town, feel the imposing spirit of "one man guards the pass, ten thousand cannot break through"

- 🍃 9:00 AM depart for 【Qianxin Town】
- A comprehensive scenic area integrating ecological agriculture, Hakka culture, and forest wellness

✅ Highlight route (about 3 hours easy hike)
1. Sightseeing bus to 【Jingxin Lake】—a green lake surrounded by bamboo forest, like an emerald set in the mountains
2. Walk to 【Wangyou Valley】—babbling streams, swaying suspension bridges, bursting with negative oxygen ions
3. Visit the 【Handmade Tea Workshop】—experience tea picking, frying, and tasting (free)
4. Climb to 【Tianpai Mountain Viewing Platform】—overlook ten thousand acres of tea gardens and rolling sea of clouds

- 🚘 2:00 PM depart for Longnan East Station
- Taxi to the high-speed rail station
- It’s recommended to buy a train ticket after 3:30 PM, expected arrival in Ganzhou before 5:00 PM
🌿
We always think walled villages are just buildings,
but in Longnan,
they are family letters written by Hakka people with bricks and stones.

Every blue brick is engraved with memories of migration,
every courtyard holds the moonlight of reunion,
standing under the watchtower,
what you hear is not the echo of history,
but how a people, in wandering,
built a city for themselves.

Stop chasing trendy spots,
go to Longnan,
and be a Hakka who "sleeps in the center of the walled village."