Staying in the MIAO ETHNIC MINORITY village of LANGDE, GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA 

This is such a unique documentary of one of the cultures of China. Very enjoyable and educational.

Looks very clean.

Very informative video! Thanks.

I'm American. I know it's touristy, but thank you for the video. These are my ancestral lands, which I've never visited. Respect for for mentioning the history at 07:16, heard it from the older folks as a child. Thank you, Nick.

great video, great channel, respect and thank you for sharing your experiences with us. Great how you can see in the video the instruments in traditional use, I think these are Qeej/Lusheng 蘆笙 and a very big Mangtong pipe 芒筒, these instruments are played with a free reed technique, similar to the Sheng. unique and very beautiful

Love to visit my Hmong aka Miao people someday. Nice video.

Yes, miss you channel Nick. It is always so difficult for impoverish rural areas to balance not being too touristy either in the setup or performance. At normal times one would not have the chance to see them in their traditional costume and hence missed the chance of the experience. On the other hand, with the put on performance it can be seen as being stagey, you know what I mean. Perhaps one has to bear in mind that as long as it is not harming anyone in the performance, they have to earn an honest day's living to survive. Good on you for eschewing the blatant effort to cash in on the tourism of their culture. But nevertheless it would still be nice to see the place you did not want to visit.

Appreciate yr video. Keep it up yr good work.

As always , interesting with good comments. You are right Enjoy while you can as in 5 years places like this may be very different . I always like the sound of bird life and roosters .

The only way such old villages can survive is to operate B&B and with government funding. Maintenance of the old wood buildings can be expensive as young people all left for big cities. Natural elements such as fire and storm can easily wipe out a village. To promote tourism more work is required. (3:58) the traditional skirts worn by the Miao women are seen in older Cantonese operas, typically in the skirt of a female militia. As they dance in the opera, the strips of colourful fabric look exactly like the dancers on the village square. Check some Cantonese opera movies from the 50's with heroine such as Fan Lihua (樊梨花) or The Young family women generals (楊門女將). Even the head-gears worn by women generals might be a modification of the silver head-wear of Miao women. Not sure where the connection came from. Perhaps Cantonese opera buffs might know.

I do hope they get to stop the microphones too. You're not the only one who dislikes them.

Lovely lovely wooden houses with that amazing dining room, the chirping birds and roosters. I love the ancient feel and the rural vibes of these villages. Always a sad reminder that such places would soon be rare, soon to be overtaken by commercial progress. I used to travel widely in Thailand and chance accidently upon a miao village in the mountainous north. In Thailand these Chinese looking miao people are denied citizenship by the Thai authority, they are not allowed to travel out of certain perimeter from where they live hence they remain in poverty. With no support from the local government, I remain in awe by their resilience and creativity.

Fascinating! Very much enjoyed this video. Great work!

Very tranquil and exotic place, I gonna return to China after my pension to visit these places.

Such an amazing documentary! Thanks for posting!. Quick question, how would you get there from Beijing? Or what's the biggest city around that we can reach by train from Beijing? Thanks and hi from Galway Ireland 🇮🇪☘️🙂.

Awesome video, great drone shots. I really learned a lot. 😊😊😊

Great drone shots. Good job.👍👍👍.

Amazing! What is the name of the guesthouse and how to book it, please?

The town certainly looks genuinely authentic (tautology?). Aside from necessary refurbishment and run of the mill maintenance plus retrofitment of modern plumbing and electrics it looks like the town hasn't undergone any major facelift or reconstruction. In this sense it probably still resembles what it was in the Qing or even Ming period.

Absolutely agree about the megaphone thingy. I think they will learn to enjoy the silence down the road though since I tend to think of it as a generational thing.

Imagine the miao folks having to put up with the bloody loud-speakers day in day out because they happened to lived there. Ahh...well hopefully as china's tourism becomes more mature these things fade away to the past:)

Lang de seems to have few tourists. I hope there will not be too many people during the national day.

Hi dear your doing good VDO, but need improvement in sound lil louder 👍

Did you use the squatting toilet, Nick?

I once turned off a guy’s audio equipment in a park. But I would recommend against it especially if you have a foreign face.😂