Walking Down Tunxi's Old Street 老街
The city of Tunxi isn’t particularly attractive, although I probably was already staying the most atmospheric part of the town. Like many Chinese cities, Tunxi has an old district, theirsi appropriately called Old Street 老街. Most of the Old Street was designed with Huizhou 徽州 architecture much like how it is in this area of Anhui province. In fact, this feels like a more modern version of Xidi and Hongcun. The street is usually busy, it really comes alive at night when the street is filled with visitors.
A Lot of Tourists Here in Old Street 老街
The Huizhou houses are lit up at night and shops on the ground floor come to life. Most of these shops sell Anhui tea which it is famous for. I bought a few packs to bring back home. As for dinner, my British companion and I had gotten sick of Chinese food so we decided to have some “Western” food, this means fried chicken and hamburgers and fries, at a place called Dico’s, yes, that its name. The food wasn’t that great and I’d rather have a McDonald’s any time over this. At around 10 in the evening the street shuts down and the lights are turned off. I recalled seeing an eerie darkness when Old Street shuts down. It was pitch black with only our hostel still awake.
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