Siping Zhejiang

Without its homestay program, the few visitors to the miniscule village of Siping would miss out on its collection of brick and wood carvings. Siping lies 30km west of Jinhua and is out of the way enough to stay uncommercial, preserving Qing dynasty ancestral halls arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper for those willing to make the trek to this 700-year-plus town.