Visiting Ancient Town in Chongqing: Ciqikou — China Travel Vlog

soft. So, we are just outside the main gate. This is when you walk in Starbucks. Yeah. Being greeted being greeted by a Starbucks in a 1,700 year old ancient town. Starbucks. one of the originals. So, we want to get we want to get some breakfast, which is going to be donuts and tea, right? Yes. So, it's famous here for tea houses. Also famous for some snacks. So, you can try some snacks around here. But this old town is around 1,700 years old, so it has a long history. And it's a port town. So, the actual name Suiha directly translates to pottery port.

cuz this place is also well known for pottery. So, let's go and explore. They've got escalators if you're too lazy to walk up the stairs. There is a little alleyway over there. Maybe we can check it out. I don't know where to go. So, we're just going to walk through here. It looks really busy. Oh, look how many people is there. Oh, yeah. So, there is like a little map here where to go, right? Ten food is this way. So, let's go. Busy, busy. Oh, the smell of the sichu everywhere. Oh my god. Hot pot. Wow. Loads of past everywhere. Love tastes. That was

sweet and warm. Shame about the weather today. But yeah, it's a bit cold and miserable. But I think hot tea will sort that out. I think hot tea somewhere. Tea. Flower tea. Oh, flour tea. Wow. Oh, that is so nice. Wow. Oh, it's like a fresh fresh flour tea. Wow. Baking some pork jerky. Beef. Yeah. Oh, beef jerky. Beef jerky here. Bula. Bula. Bula. Bula. Bula. Another tip for you. New word. Bula. No. Spicy. Oh, that's really good. Nice. Yeah. This one. I like spicy. Spicy. Spicy. Spicy. Spicy. So good. Look at that. I love these shops with all the candied

fruit. Look at that oranges. I'm not sure if we mentioned already, but uh Chung Chin is famous for its oranges. Wow, look at that. Oh, grab it. Let's try. Nice. Really good. Oh, wow. Ha. M. Oh, this is so good. This looks amazing, though. They're like the squash oranges and they with candies with honey. Candy with sugar and honey. No, honey. Oh, it's honey, is it? Yeah. Lady told me yesterday it's with honey. Oh, this a not sure what this is, but this is like a rice crispy with honey. Something like that. No, it's basically like um something like

marshmallow, I think, but it doesn't taste like marshmallow. So, consistency is like marshmallow with rice krispies. It's so good. The smell of the hot pot in this town is everywhere. Sugar cane juice. Oh, let's try some of these. Baked goodies. Yeah. Uh, can I have a this one? One. And this one when this one for 10 each. Oh, 10 for four. Okay. I'm not sure if I mentioned to you, but uh entry to this town is uh completely free. Well, even if you not buy anything, I I feel bad because everyone wants you to try things and I'm more than happy to try

everything, right? It's just Yeah, it's just like you cannot buy everything, especially that we're traveling with a small rat sack now, right? So, yeah, we don't have much luggage. I can't tell you what this one is, right? So, this is like a baked kind of patty, right? I'm not sure which one I'm trying, but this is basically like a baked very very light dough. Oh, that's nice. Which one you got? One you wanted. It's p like puffy inside. Loads of air. Very thin layer of pork, but it's really, really light. Right. I don't know what I've got. I'm going to

try one. This was tenuan for four of these. Mhm. Surprise. Ready? Oh, I think this is a meat one as well. Sure. Yeah. As Dicky said, it's so light. I was expect to be heavy in doughy, but super light. I think this is a maybe a pork with some kind of herb. It's definitely pork. That's nice. Yummy. Just to tell you quickly how to get here. We just got a taxi. DD taxi. Uh 30 minutes and it cost us 28 y. This is the tofu skin. We need to try this. Danny. Yeah, we have to try one before we try fresh one. You see they make them fresh. I want to eat something.

Yeah. I want a tea house. I want to stay and have a tea. This is really good. This is like a super thin crispy paper. This is like I think like a duck skin. So good. Baby, would you like to get your ears waxed? Cleaned? Yeah. I think that would help our relationship a lot. Look how pretty is in the air. That's if you can see anything from those umbrellas. Really pretty. I thought it' be less busy during the week cuz now what day is it today? Monday. It's a Monday. So imagine this in the weekend. I think it' be super busy. But it's so pretty here

actually. Is it really? It's really pretty. And I think with this weather is actually actually looks really nice. Yeah, it does actually with all the wet ground and scores. It looks really nice. I love this. I love the smell of these places with all the like a dried and cured meat. So much going on. I just love the smell like Diggy said, that mala smell. You can smell it everywhere. And the actual flavor is so good. It's not too spicy. It's just a nice mellow Yeah. mellow peppery spice flavor. So good. Hey. Okay. Yeah. 47. But this is very, very tasty.

This is going to be good train snack tomorrow as well. Ooh, noodles. Yeah, noodle. Wa. It's just crazy around here. There's so much noise going on. So when you're walking around, he's looking in all directions. People hitting things, slamming things, saying, "Come and try this. Come and try that." So I thought it' be a peaceful ancient town, but so much to see as normal in China. Stuff everywhere. You told me this place is famous for donuts. I haven't seen one donut yet. We got a lot more to look for yet. There'll be some around somewhere. I love places

like this. There's so much to look at, so much to do. So many new things as well we haven't seen before. No idea what all of these are, but check it check it out. Oh, some vegetables. Pickled vegetables. Oh, it smells really good. Danny, where are the donuts? I don't know. I'm not going to let go. I came here for a donut. Where is it? Yeah, probably a donut. Maybe. Maybe that's what you what it's these things that are famous. I think it's like the crispy crunchy twisted bread. I think bread. Okay, let me show you. Can you try rock sugar? Oh, it's like

biscuit. It's done with like brown sugar. So, it's like deep fried in brown sugar. That's probably what they famous for then. Everyone got this here. Yeah. So, we just came here down to the water to the river and we found a tea house. Yes. We're going to warm up and have some tea. Yeah. So, this town is actually situated on the Jing River. So, just down here is actually where the main port is. So, maybe go down and have a quick look at the port. But I'm not staying there long cuz it's windy, it's rainy, and it's cold. Yeah. Let's get Let's get tea first,

baby. Maybe it will stop raining. Hello. Oh, wow. So, this is how it's made. No, we're going to drink hot tea, baby. little tea house. Yeah. So, this is like a nice little tea house right by the river here uh at the end of the ancient town. You can also get like a tea which is cooked on a stove with loads of like oranges. I can see different herbs. Maybe you put it inside. I'm not sure how it works. But this is not what I expected. I thought we going to get like traditional tea with like a pot. But it is nice and warm. Nice and warm, right? Oh, that's

really good. Yeah. Yeah, that is really nice though. Bit more expensive, but tasty. I don't need that straw. Right. So, we went for pomegranate and apple. This is so good. This is so so good. Wow. This is the best fruit tea I ever had. Nice. It's so nice. Oh, the apple is so fragrant. It's like sweet but not too sweet at all. This was uh 38 y just for one cup, but okay. It's a prime location. We are in ancient town touristy place. Totally worth it anyway. Cheers. So good, right? Oh, cheers, dude. Keep my hands warm. Cheers. Cheers. Oh, it's good tea.

Really nice. N just say what you just said. So, I said even though this town is like 1,700 years old, they step back to it doesn't feel old because of all these new like shop fronts and new buildings. But I like it myself. Really like it. Look at the size of those cats. This one is huge. Danny, stand next to him. Wow. He's so cute. We just walked into the quieter park. It's really nice here. I do enjoy it. Then he can't stop taking pictures. I don't know what's wrong with him. He never takes any pictures. I'm sorry. Looks really cool. This looks like a

bit more older buildings. Look at that. It's just like a maze here. Yeah, I think so. This is the exit. But don't go anywhere because we are going back to Chongqin now and we want to show you another location in Chongqing. Apparently place you cannot miss. So let's go and check that out. We couldn't leave Chongqin without seeing at least one iconic uh places. This is basically one of the most iconic places in Chongqing. You can't say you've been here without coming to see this. Yeah. So, we're at Hong Yaong Cave. Hongong Cave. No, Hongyadong Cave. Yeah,

it's called Yeah. And basically, it's a set of old stilt houses built up onto the river's bank. So, the main reason people come here is for the views. Oh my god. Wow. This looks nice. Wow. Check out this view. So, we're currently like 11 floors up from the river basically. So, what we want to do, we want to go down and then look at the view going up. So, this view is wicked, but I want to show you guys the view from down the bottom. So, somehow we got to make our way down. Let's go. So, let's go, guys. Guys, guys, guys, guys, let's go. It's raining.

Yeah. So, 11 floors done. Let's go. If you don't know where to go, follow the crowd. Yeah. Danny, anywhere you want to go down. Look how many steps is there. Let's go down. But all the floors here are so slippery. Our shoes are not made for this weather either cuz we've got like a flat bottom. Then you could wait for me and you could give me a hand. Now he can look. Oh my god. How busy is down there? Just people taking photos. Hello people. Hello fans. Hello. It's us. Hello. You want to try rice wine? No, you have to try. Yes. Is it good? This smells

nice. Yeah. Oh. Oh, that's nice. Nice. Yeah. Nice one. Nice English. Okay. English. Okay. Oh, nice. Nice. Yes, sir. Yes. Yes. Good. Yes, sir. You like this one? Oh, wow. Amazing. Yes. It's okay. Oh, everything looks so beautiful as well. Yeah. Okay. Flowery as well. Flowery. Yes. Yes. We cannot buy any cuz we have only one luggage. Have to fly. Uh, we cannot we cannot buy anything unfortunately cuz we But look at look at this shop. Look at this shop. That looks so cool. What is it? I don't know. There's loads of restaurants. The thing is I've seen this

online and you always see pictures from the bottom coming looking up, but you never see it much from at the top looking down. It's cool from up here to the top then walk down. Right, let's go down then. We're going elevator. Elevator. So, we're taking stairs down and it's quite warm in here as well. Can warm up, right? So, this is fourth floor food street. You know us. We like food. We like food, don't we, Daniel? Toilet. Oh, toilet. So, I think what I'm going to do, I'm going to get some yogurt for Danny. I really want to try these. These are very, very

popular. It's like a yogurt and a really pretty really pretty glass. Plain yogurt. Uh, one. Oh, you drink it. How much? Uh, no. No, I scramble. Ah, okay. Hi. Okay, try it. Everyone probably wants to see you try. Ah, and then you pull. Shake it first. You have to shake. Shake or shake. Shake. Just pick a straw and you said Oh, it's really pretty box, isn't it? Drink. Good. Oh, that's quite creamy. That's nice. That's good. That's good. It's really creamy. That's good. Let me let me let me really creamy. Oh, sorry. That's really creamy, right? Wow. Look at

that. Super creamy. Oh, wow. That is so good. You have to try this yogurt when you're here. Wow. Yummy, right? M. I was a bit put off with the first taste, but after like another drink. Super thick. Yeah. Bit sour and sweet, but creamy. Very creamy. I love that. Look how cold it is. How red my nose is. I'm not taking this off. Look at all the people down here. Oh, wow. Look at all the people. Oh wow. It's insane how busy is down there. We're going down into the madness. Go. Let's go. Give me a hand, baby. Super slippery, man. So, why they call it cave? I

don't know the reason why they call it cave. I didn't look it up. It's got nothing to do with cave. Maybe it's just made up tourist attraction. We weren't really planning to come here because so busy and, you know, Instagram spot and all that. Um, but we thought, well, if we're not going to come and see most of the iconic views in Chongqing, we're going to regret. So, we thought, yeah, we have to come here. But not be funny. Look at the buildings in front. Yeah. This is Menu. But nice view. Look at the other side. Oh, Danny, look at that. You see? Yeah.

Oh, nice. Yeah. So what I read about basically this is like old stilt houses and basically it's 11 floors high and also what I read this actually used to be a fort here but you're talking many many many years ago like originally it was a fort built here right by the river so yeah it's interesting to come and look at this is way too busy not to my liking definitely that's why we love yeah that's why we uh sometimes miss those touristy places cuz it's too busy. Hey, it's It does look beautiful. Is it worth it coming here? Would I come here again? Probably

not. It's too busy. I don't know where to go, Danny. Let's try. There's literally so many people here. You cannot see where you're going. Just few people around. can literally take a picture cuz the hands are everywhere and umbrellas. Right. Let's go down. Yeah. Let's go and show you the view. Let's go and show you the thing we came here for. It took a long time to get here. It was faster to come here by taxi than walk around to the other side of the street. Also, what I wanted to point out is like the bridges are so well designed here. Like all of the

city of Chongqin. Basically on the top you have a road and pedestrian side, but underneath it there you've got a train train line as well. How cool is that? And there you go. This is the famous view. Right. So, what we're going to say goodbye from here. Yeah. Yeah. That's it from Why? Because I'm cold. I want to go home. I'm cold. All right. Thanks guys for watching. We're going to see you next one from the video. We're going to be catching the train uh tomorrow morning to Changdu. So, make sure you hit that bell button uh not to miss any other videos

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