A village which has been isolated for hundreds of years, all sufficient by itself, and the only channel to connect with the outer world is a cave, where you have to take boat in and out. Is there anything like this, at all? Yes, it's Bamei, about almost 8-10 hours drive from Kunming. Recently, this village was discovered, and soon it becomes the top destination for crazy travellers who're searching for antient, untouched villages. Can  you imagine how interesting, and how striking for the people who resides there for centuries by themselves, now receiving different visitors everyday? Wow,what a shocking thing!

Baimei Village is situated in Guangnan County. Surrounded by mountains around and without available roads, the village can be only accessed by waterways in two Karst caves in the back and front of it respectively.  you need to take boat for 3 times for the whole journey ,  a 15-minute journey along the winding River would lead you to unveil the hidden village. 

Situated in remote areas and isolated from the outside world due to the inconvenient traffic conditions, Bamei is seldom known to people as a pastoral Zhuang ethnic village shrouded among mountains.    The Zhuang ethnic members in the village have kept the orthodox traditions of their own,  such as the March 3rd Festival, the Dragon Sacrificial Ceremonies, the Ancestral Worship Ceremony,the Colored Rice Festival,  etc.

For some one who is tired of the singing and dancing “minority” girls at the commercialized tour villages, Baoba is the ideal place to see the real life form of rural Chinese.  The local people here looked as if still lived in the 1980’s as for its housing, street, and their life pace. The food and accommodations (but up to standard) are cheap. Babao is not a popular tourist attraction yet. You still can touch its intact pristinity.

Babao is located southeast in Yunnan province, 400km away from Kunming with a High way link. A tour to there often combined with 2 other places, Puzhe Hei (water land) and Baimei (an isolated village accessed through cave and river), and it could also combined with the  Luoping rape flower tour in spring.