Happy Wa Valley

Happy Wa Valley

Conghua’s Happy Wa Valley is home to Guangdong’s only existing primitive tribe — a Wa community from Yunnan. The Wa people are kind-hearted, simple, and passionate. Their bold and unrestrained nature makes them a people who can sing when they speak and dance when they walk. People of all ages here are incredibly musical and agile, even their hair seems to dance. With their brown skin, black hair, wooden drum dances, hair-swinging dances, cattle sacrifices, and ox-head totems, the Wa vividly showcase their cultural characteristics, forming a uniquely distinctive Wa culture.

Happy Wa Valley offers a rich variety of colorful and delightful experiences: there’s the thrilling Canyon Adventure Zone, the awe-inspiring Ethnic Performance Area, the captivating Leisure & Entertainment Zone, and the flavorful Game Meat Culinary Zone, among others. Tribal members eat live snakes, swallow soil, chew leaves, walk on knives, and brave fire pits. They also perform daring acts such as walking on burning coals, lying on scorching steel plates, and crushing glass underfoot. There are song and dance performances including the “Hair-Swinging Dance,” “Wa Wine Songs,” and “New House Wine Songs.” Large-scale interactive events invite visitors to join in the fun, such as the “Bamboo Pole Dance” and “Dance of the Windy Wa Mountains.” If you’re still full of energy in the evening, a fiery bonfire party awaits you, complete with roast whole lamb, beer, and non-stop revelry with your Wa brothers and sisters.

Transportation: Drive from Conghua City along National Highway 105, turn into Yuanshan Village at the Gaosha Village Committee on the east side, and go straight for 2,500 meters.

Ticket Prices | Opening Hours

Tickets cost 128 RMB, and the Bonfire Party is 68 RMB (available from 19:00–22:00 in the evening; advance booking required one day prior).

Guangzhou, Guangdong