A trip to Fujian Province

The holidays are coming soon, actually in two days for me, so I have planned a trip with some friends in the Fujian Province . Fujian is a province down south and as for capital Fuzhou but I am not actually going there. With 4 friends we are taking the plane on Saturday morning to Xiamen and we’ll be staying there for one afternoon, after that we’ll be  going 200 kilometers further south to visit what is known as the Tulou (also know as the Hakka houses).

The Hakka are a Chinese minority originally coming from the north who have migrated toward the fertile land of Guangdong and Fujian . Their earth houses are some kind of fortified community where there were protected from the outside. There were apparently hundreds of families living in those houses (you can find some pictures on http://www.withyana.com/photo/Index.asp?ClassName=MagicHakkaBuilding).

So there you go at least you’ll know where I’ll be next week and I will put some pictures on the blog to share my week with you.