Hidden Villages in Hubei: Time to Visit the Countryside!

As the summer clouds fade away, the autumn breeze brings a coolness to the air. 🍂 As the summer heat fades away, it's time to travel. 🍵
This is a collection of hidden villages around Wuhan. 🍁 There are small villages surrounded by rice fields, ancient villages with unique features, and small mountain villages with green mountains and clear waters. Where to go on the weekend to relax? Why not take a stroll in the village? 👒 Spend two days as a villager, calm your mind, and find peace. 🧑🏻‍🎨
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📍Caidian Changhe Village/Fishing Village
🕓 30 minutes by car, easy parking
🌾 There is a coffee shop at No. 32 Dengjia Gate, which was transformed from an old village house. Behind the ancient wooden door is an artistic space. 🎨 There are also large rice fields and lotus ponds next to the village. 🪷 It is very suitable for a weekend in nature. 6 km away is Wuhan's "Little Jeju Island", where you can see a purple sunset by the lake on a good day. 🌅
✔️ Things to do: Songyang Temple, Muchuan Slow Life Parent-child Park, Jiuzhen Mountain, Wildlife Park
✔️ Accommodation: Xieyang Laizhu Suohe Store, a 5-minute walk from the coffee shop, with a swimming pool, restaurant, and courtyard
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📍Ezhou Yueshihong Village
🕓 1 hour by car, easy parking
⛰️ A village hidden at the foot of Dongfang Mountain, with an ancient house moved from Jiangxi, with a courtyard. 💯 The best part is the nearby Muxi Coffee Shop, which is beautifully decorated with a courtyard and green plants. The coffee is great. The real thing is much more beautiful than the picture. ☕️
✔️ Things to do: Dongfang Mountain Scenic Area, Juren Valley Stream Trekking
✔️ Accommodation: Muxi Coffee Shop is also a homestay, with eight high-end rooms for a quality vacation. ⛱️
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📍Luotian Cangjia Village
🕓 2 hours by car, with parking lot
🌰 A historic natural village with well-preserved traditional buildings (ancestral halls, academies) and renovated new villages.
🗺️ The whole village is like a local cultural museum, with coffee shops, old crafts, fields, mountains, ancestral halls, and a shallow beach at the entrance of the village for sand digging and water play.
You can not only pick chestnuts and persimmons, but also experience traditional crafts such as tofu making, woodblock printing, winemaking, pottery, and paper cutting. It is not commercial at all, and you can experience the pure rural life.
✔️ Things to do: Coffee shop, chestnut picking, sweet potato digging, sand digging, river water play, camping, stream trekking, fishing
✔️ Accommodation: The village has basic accommodation, and there is a private hot spring homestay 14 minutes away by car, with a comfortable and elegant environment
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📍Suizhou Taoyuan Village
🕓 2 hours by car, easy parking
🍑 A stream runs through the village, with stone houses and small bridges. The interesting thing here is to ride an ATV off-road vehicle to tour the whole village, through large rice fields and peach orchards (the yellow peach variety here is super delicious~) for an immersive experience of the rural scenery.
✔️ Things to do: Coffee shop, Heilongtan Waterfall Stream Trekking, Yellow Peach Picking, ATV Off-road Vehicle, Fishing
✔️ Accommodation: Xingyun Homestay, Chinese-style Zen, with a courtyard. It is highly recommended to stay for one night for a high-end micro-vacation.