This Chinese village has no road access - Only a giant elevator 🇨🇳

This is a cliff, but the escalator is double the size. Good afternoon everyone and hi from the beautiful Enshi in Hubei province. So I have been staying here for a few days. Oh and you can see the beautiful mountains from the glasses. I just got my luggage sorted, three pieces, kind of heavy. And today I'll be leaving to a mysterious village said to be China's last village that is not accessible by car. Because ever since China had this Cuncun Dong project, every village has a paved road and you can drive in. But this village is different because it locates at the bottom of a big sinkhole. Luckily I live somewhere near the scenic zones so I can still take a taxi. It's about one hour drive until the driver dropped me at some point at the entrance of the sinkhole and from there I have to walk. The road is winding and we've been driving in the valley for a while. I wish that I had a driving to a road trip myself. I'm still starting for it. The last time I went back home I took some classes. I finished the written test but I still have the real driving classes to take. Hopefully I can get it by the end of this year because it would be so nice if I can just rent a car and do a road trip myself. Can I have a stir-fried pork with cabbage and shredded pork? Sure. I'll have one of these and rice. Can I leave my luggage here for a while? Sure. I'll come back this afternoon or tomorrow noon, okay? Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Thank you. Hello, sir. Do you live inside? Yes. Then come up, right? Yes. Wow. How long does it take to get down there? One and a half hours. One and a half hours? Okay, thank you. I haven't run into many people. I saw a couple of old grandpas and grandmas. Perhaps they are from the village down in the valley. And at the entrance there are two roads. And this is a way going down on foot. But there is also another way which is behind me. That's the elevator. So well, let me move slowly. When you're here, you'll realize how immense this escalator is. Look. So this is a cliff. It's about this much. But the escalator is double the size. Man, this is crazy. There's a big canyon. And there, there is a waterfall. They told me that when that elevator was built, it was the world's longest inclined escalator. So I don't know what's their ranking right now. Because every year new records are being broken. Finally, I almost reached the bottom. Now I see a few more households there. There is also a way going to the back of that mountain. Perhaps there are some more people living in this valley. Oh, my legs are so sore right now. Hidden at the bottom of this canyon is one of China's most isolated villages. Today an elevator connects it to the outside world. But what was life like before? And what is it like today? Now there are more than 30 households. More than 30 households? More than 1,070 households. More than 1,070 households? Yes. Did they all move out? They left first. Where did they go? They went to places like Jinzhou, Wuhan, and my home. Oh, they just moved out. It's not convenient to take kids with you. If you make money outside, you can buy a house outside. How many years ago did you start living here? More than 300 years. More than 300 years? More than 300 years. We came from Hunan. We are from Hunan. Hunan? We are from Changde, Hunan. Oh, Changde. Chiyi. Why did you move here at that time? It's a hide-and-seek war. In Hunan, it's a place of war. Oh, war. It was a war at that time. The old man called and said, Oh, I can't stand it. He sacrificed himself in Hunan. Find a cheap place to hide. How did you get in and out when there was no elevator? There was no elevator. Did you come down from the war? Yes. You came down from the war. Isn't there a small road across the war? Is it a small road? Yes. It's also a 48-lane road. If you turn right at some point, it's also a new field. Oh. It's also at the gate of the city. This place. Can you drive up there? I can't drive. There is no road. So did you run up there in the morning? Go up. The people below us. You call oil, salt, firewood, rice, ginger, vinegar, tea. These things are different by person. Now we are good. In the past, we raised our own pigs and pigs. Oh. Land chicken, chicken, vegetables. Yes. We grow them ourselves. Can you take the elevator when you go in and out now? Yes. 30 yuan for one person. Don't they give you free? No. It's expired. Can you go out and do it? But if there is something, if there is something too urgent, I have to do it. Oh. Yes. It's not easy to go out. It's not easy. Look, I built a house. Yes. Now it's the fire station. During the epidemic, I built this house. The epidemic is the most important time. Yes. Because we used to do foreign trade. Foreign trade means there is no business. Yes. Because of the epidemic, Yes. I went to build a house. Oh. I took the old house. It's like this old house. Yes. I demolished it all. Is this also yours? This is my brother's. Brother's. Yes. We are three on the earth. Oh, three. The middle is the boss. Oh, this is the boss's. This side. I am 276 square meters. This is the second. The second. This is the third. The third. Yes. What about the one in front? The house in front is the boss's. Oh, the boss's. Yes, the boss's. Oh, three on the earth. There should be more than three people on the earth in one yard. A family lives here. Wow. You have to live here for two nights. Just one night. Yes. How much is it here for one night? It was originally 188 yuan. Yes. I'll give you 150 yuan. That's my today's room. 150 yuan. I got an inn. He told me secretly don't tell anyone else that I got a special price. It's going to be a very quiet night. So the brother is also a wood artist. Oh, this is what you carved. Yes, I carved it. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Wow. Oh, this is a turtle. Wow. Ha ha ha ha. Wow. Welcome to Chinese guy's liquor library. There are so many different kinds. So they basically mix different Chinese medicine with alcohol. He definitely has a lot of passion for life. That's one of his first works. Ha ha ha. That brother is so happy with what he has. His positivity is contagious. I thoroughly enjoyed his library journey. And also his wife opened a small shop like a food stand here. Ha ha ha. Here you will see two very interesting attractions. One is called Chun Yang Feng. And the other is called Yi Nu Dong. That's a big cave on that cliff that you can see from here. And the other one is a peak. So basically one symbolizes the vagina. The other symbolizes the penis. It's pretty straightforward. Let's also visit their garden. Oh, as he said, they have their own chicken. Duck under the big tree. And the granny is harvesting. She's weeding. The garden is just next to their house. If I walk a bit further, I see a few more households. What I want to get close to is a waterfall. But I decided to explore a bit further. There are a few more households in the valley. Oh, wow. You know, when I get retired, I also want to live in a place like this. Get a small house, a garden, a cat, some free-roaming chickens. I pick up the eggs every day. And I watch my tomato and chili pepper grow. Wonton. Oh. Now I've moved to a second table because I found a group of hikers here. I want to hear them sing because apparently they have their folk singing. Yeah The moon is full of red The little girl is holding her hand Yesterday the guesthouse owner told me that this used to be a sulfur factory, sulfur mining area and that house over there, that used to be the factory site and all those areas are the mining areas so it was very polluted but it's so hard to imagine the industrial past of this place because now it's so green Nowadays they are developing tourism in this small village so there is even a shuttle bus that you can just hop on and hop off and there is also a deer garden Where did you get the plums? We got them from Jinmen Oh, from Jinmen, so you brought them here to raise them If you don't eat them, you can't eat them One day when I go to my house in the countryside and big yard I'll buy one of those I just took the elevator up and now I'm saying goodbye to this beautiful village It felt so otherworldly, it felt so unreal This village is one of the most unique villages I've visited and I hope you enjoyed this video Thanks for watching and now I'm going back to the city of Enshi Bye bye