Kaiping 开平 (extended edition)

It s always fun to travel but it s even more when you are with friends. This time we went to Kaiping, a nice village located in Guangdong, together with Michela and Juri, aka Jurit or Jurisdiction. It s easily reachable by train from Guangzhou and it s famous for its particular buildings called Diaolou, fortified multistorey towers. They were built from the early Qing Dynasty to the early 20th century, reaching a peak in the 1920s and 1930s, with the financial aid of overseas Chinese, when there were more than three thousand of these structures. Today, approximately 1, 800 diaolou are still standing, with the most in the towns of Tangkou (塘口镇), Baihe (百合镇), Chikan (赤坎镇), and Xiangang (蚬冈镇). We were lucky to find a restaurant owned by a Chinese guy who lived abroad for years and serves delicious International cuisine, another good reason to go back there. If you want to know more abou