Keyi Ancient Village | Travel Guide
Mile-Keyi Ancient Village, a quiet small town🍃
Mile Keyi Town, 'Keyi' in Yi Axie language means: 'A place of good luck'🌱
🌿It's a simple and quiet mountain village with a natural and simple folk style, suitable for relaxation and leisure. The town has a strong ethnic minority life atmosphere, as if returning to the childhood home. There aren't many people, suitable for friends who like to take pictures to check in or come for careful recuperation.
🧩The scenic area is divided from outside to inside as follows:
✅1 Mizhi Wonderland: On the left side of the entrance of Keyi Town, there are fun projects such as rainbow slides and jungle suspension bridges, especially the jungle suspension bridge. After experiencing the beautiful scenery that comes after crossing the mountains, everything is just right.
✅2 Tiger Roaring Mountain Forest: A huge stone tiger statue in the mountains. The statue is 17 meters high. It's really shocking to stand underneath. To go to Tiger Roaring Mountain Forest, you need to take the 'Flying Carpet', which is also very interesting.
✅3 Keyi Ancient Village: A Yi ancient village with a history of hundreds of years. The murals in the ancient village streets are very suitable for taking pictures. There is a three-story Yi Axie Museum in the town. The content of the museum is very rich, with pictures and texts, detailing the history, culture, religious beliefs, life, folk customs, etc. of the Yi Axie people. Going down the stairs in front of the museum, is the song and dance performance show of Keyi villagers, which is very worth watching. There are two shows a day at 13:30 and 15:30.
📍Address: Keyi Town Scenic Area, Mile City
📃Tour Notes
⛳1. No ticket is needed to enter the village. If you want to play projects, enter the museum, and watch performances, you need a ticket
⛳2. You can choose not to take the sightseeing car, 20 yuan/person, a bit expensive
⛳3. The bus stops when you wave, from the village entrance to the ancient village, 2 yuan/person, you can also go from the ancient village to the city, 5 yuan/person
⛳4. The streets of the ancient village are very suitable for taking pictures
⛳5. In the restaurants in the ancient village, be sure to ask the price before eating‼️
Ecology and environment: The town has a beautiful ecological environment and a forest coverage rate of more than 80%. It is known as a natural oxygen bar. The air here is fresh and the scenery is pleasant, and it is a great place to get close to nature. 13 Culture and heritage: As the hometown of the national intangible cultural heritage "Axi Jumping Moon", Kexuan Town has fully excavated and inherited the cultural resources of Axi with the goal of creating an authentic ethnic style and characteristic village. In addition, Yi song and dance culture such as "A Xianji " have also been widely disseminated and developed here.
Very good, unique humanistic hotel, compared to many net red towns, here is a bit more flat and calm, neither the arrogant disgust of foreign visitors, nor the pit of digging up the mind of tourists, more like coming to a world-defying paradise, The management and maintenance of the town are good. It has been said a long time ago that looking at the level of civilization in a city, the public toilet can explain the problem. This is not a city, but a small village where ethnic minorities have lived for more than 300 years. The bathroom is cleaner than many places in Beijing. The streets of the town are clean and tidy, and the painted murals can be seen everywhere, silently witness the happiness and peace of the town residents, just as the meaning of the town's name: auspicious place, a small town, worthy of the name.
After the tour, the personal preferences for the four scenic spots are ranked as follows: Taiping Lake Forest Park, Oriental Rhyme, Jinping Mountain, Keqian Town, maybe you pay more attention to natural scenery. Service ranking: Keqian Town, Oriental Rhyme, Taiping Lake Forest Park, Jinping Mountain.
Keyu Village is located 22 kilometers from Maitreya County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and is a settlement of the Yi tribe of Ash people. "Keyu" is the "auspicious place" of the Axi language, here is also one of the birthplaces of the famous Yi song and dance "Axie Jumping Moon", the epic "Axie Xianji" of the Yi nationality is the most widely circulated place.
The Yi cultural town integrates ethnic characteristics and natural scenery, and the entertainment is also very participatory. Adults and children like it. Sightseeing cars can save physical strength and time, fly the magic carpet for free experience, and really take the elevator.