Thanks James, lets see if I can go there alone by public transport since I do not speak any Chinese at all. To Luiz garzon, here is the expat site of Hefei, hope it helps http://www.hefeiexpat.com/forum/. Btw about Hefei in my experience (ive been here for 2 weeks), at first I thought it would be like a very small village where you cant find anything there, but it turns out Hefei has hilton (junior suite for 430rmb with corporate deal), walmart, carrefour, etc, and its not as bad as i heard from other foreigners. I think in the city center u can find many apartment although Im not sure about the price, maybe its good for u to check the website that I gave u. Also if I may know, what kind of business opportunities r u looking 4? So far the downside of Hefei for me are: hard to find english speaking people here, taxi also kind of hard from train station (long queueu), outside city center its hard to find european food, people in hefei still staring at you if you are white or african. Lucky for me I look Chinese and I do eat every Chinese food, also I do not mind to take public bus.
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May. 12,2009 04:00
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Mr.Ronald(Netherlands) said:
Hi there, Im currently in hefei for internship, i would like know how to get to Xidi or Hongchun village from hefei city center by public transport or by local tour. Thanx
May. 12,2009 20:55 Mr.James replied:
Hi, Ronald. There is my answer: By bus: Hefei Long-distance bus station has two buses a day (7:30am and 12:30am)running to Yixian County, then shift to regular buses to Hongcun. The last bus from Yixian leaves at 5:30pm. Or you can take buses at Hefei East Bus Station to Tunxi of Huangshan City where you can find direct tourist buses to Hongcun. Buses from Hefei to Huangshan leaves about every one hour from 7am to 4pm and 6 tourist buses from Tunxi to Hongcun from 8am to 4pm. By train: No trains to Yixian, so you should get to Huangshan first, then change buses to Yixian (the last at 5:30pm), finally get to Hongcun from Yixian. Xidi is in the opposite direction of Yixian County, easy to get from one to another. Enjoy!
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May. 13,2009 01:28 Reply
Mr.Ronald(Amsterdam) said:
Thanks James, lets see if I can go there alone by public transport since I do not speak any Chinese at all.
To Luiz garzon, here is the expat site of Hefei, hope it helps http://www.hefeiexpat.com/forum/.
Btw about Hefei in my experience (ive been here for 2 weeks), at first I thought it would be like a very small village where you cant find anything there, but it turns out Hefei has hilton (junior suite for 430rmb with corporate deal), walmart, carrefour, etc, and its not as bad as i heard from other foreigners.
I think in the city center u can find many apartment although Im not sure about the price, maybe its good for u to check the website that I gave u.
Also if I may know, what kind of business opportunities r u looking 4?
So far the downside of Hefei for me are: hard to find english speaking people here, taxi also kind of hard from train station (long queueu), outside city center its hard to find european food, people in hefei still staring at you if you are white or african.
Lucky for me I look Chinese and I do eat every Chinese food, also I do not mind to take public bus.
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May. 12,2009 04:00 Reply
Mr.Ronald(Netherlands) said:
Hi there, Im currently in hefei for internship, i would like know how to get to Xidi or Hongchun village from hefei city center by public transport or by local tour.
Thanx
May. 12,2009 20:55
Mr.James replied:
Hi, Ronald. There is my answer:
By bus: Hefei Long-distance bus station has two buses a day (7:30am and 12:30am)running to Yixian County, then shift to regular buses to Hongcun. The last bus from Yixian leaves at 5:30pm. Or you can take buses at Hefei East Bus Station to Tunxi of Huangshan City where you can find direct tourist buses to Hongcun. Buses from Hefei to Huangshan leaves about every one hour from 7am to 4pm and 6 tourist buses from Tunxi to Hongcun from 8am to 4pm.
By train: No trains to Yixian, so you should get to Huangshan first, then change buses to Yixian (the last at 5:30pm), finally get to Hongcun from Yixian. Xidi is in the opposite direction of Yixian County, easy to get from one to another.
Enjoy!