Guiyang >> Stone Village

	Attraction Typ: Minority, Culture and History
	Location: about 140 km from city
	Recommend: 5 Star
	Stone Village
	Stone Village is a Buyi Ethnic village, the home of 200 families, totally some 1000 Buyi ethnic people.
Stone Village (Chinese: 石头寨；pinyin: shítóuzhài): Stone Village is a Buyi ethnic minority village, the home of 200 families, totally some 1000 Buyi ethnic people, which is a quite big minority in the southwest of China. It is a village in deep mountains with graceful karst hill surrounded and famous for stone houses. It is named as Stone Village for all the houses in the village are made of stone, stone houses, stone walls, flagstone roofs, flagstone roads, stone bridges and stone banks. The houses are built of skillfully laid dry stone walls, with roofs tiled in hand-cut slates, overlapping like fish scales. These Stone Houses are two-storied houses: people live upstairs; the cattle are kept downstairs. It is also famous for its batiks, as the Birthplace of wax painting. More than 80 percent of the women in the village are good at making intricate patterns with indigo for their traditional clothes.

Stone Village