And then Transfer to Chikan which is a historical town in the County of Kaiping. It is also a convenient hub for visiting the villages of diaolou in the area.From Kaiping City, we took one of the many local buses to reach Chikan in about half an hour.Out of the bus window, the well preserved colonnaded buildings or qilou took us by surprise. The vintage atmosphere of the streets and lanes in Chikan made us imagine that we were going back in time, to the early 20th century.Streets after streets of qilou buildings, two to three storey high, lined along the main thoroughfare.Rusty metal doors, broken window panes, darken plaster walls, most of the qilou buildings looked well past their prime. From the occasional stained glass windows and ornate plaster motifs, Chikan must have seen its splendid moments in the first half of the 20th century. Despite some were fenced off, on the ground floor of qilou we could still find all sort of local shops serving the remaining population of this historical town.