Fangshan has always been the best tourist destination in the suburbs of Beijing. Ten crossings, each crossing is like a pearl scattered between every landscape in Fangshan! The secret realm I want to talk about this time is a beautiful place hidden among mountains that can be evaluated as a newly promoted Internet celebrity attraction! Here is Xitaiping Village, located 16 kilometers north of Fangshan Shidu Tourist Area.

Xitaping Village also wins with water like most other scenic spots in Shidu, but it is even better! The name of the scenic spot is also named after the village name and the magnificent scenery of Tianchi. Taiping Tianchi is a quiet small mountain village that has never been disturbed during the war! "Taiping" is worthy of its name; and "Tianchi" is a city-level small-2 reservoir with a storage capacity of 170,000 cubic meters embedded between the two mountains. At an altitude of 500 to 900 meters, it can be called "a piece of green among thousands of green trees." The beauty of "green" is even more worthy!

As for why this can be called a newly promoted Internet celebrity scenic spot, we must carefully count the unique natural resources here and the beautiful scenery formed after transformation and development based on our own advantages. The Taiping Tianchi Natural Scenic Area has lush vegetation, hundreds of springs, silver streams, ponds and waterfalls, clear water and blue skies, and the valleys on both sides are green and beautiful and the air is fresh!

Just as soon as the scenic area enters the door, a nearly 4000-square-meter playground for parent-child water-playing "Tailang Square" has been built. As the name suggests, if you wear a swimsuit or wear cool clothes on the hot summer day (now), you can stroll through the water and play in the colorful pool with your bare feet... Of course, there is absolutely no need to worry about safety. According to the height of a child, there are no knees at the deepest point, and the shallowest point will reach the ankles. The flat and colorful bottom of the pool gives you the feeling of being in Huanglong Jiuzhai! The treading pond is stacked down and slowly flows down to form a pool relying on the water potential of natural gravity waterfalls. There are small fish in the pool for tourists to fish. It can be said that it is a scenery with multiple ways to play!

It was also from the "Talang Square" that the secret tour route of Taiping Tianchi Lake was opened. Walking along the alternate path of stone steps and plank roads, climbing the sluice gate, you will see a pool of clear water in front of you. This is also the true body of Taiping Tianchi Lake. Of course, from a parallel perspective, it is impossible to see how thorough and vast this pool of clear water is. But judging from the fish swimming in the water and the flocks of wild ducks and geese, there is no doubt that the water quality here is excellent. No wonder the downstream Xiping villagers drink water from here!

Walking further inside, you will truly realize what it feels like to be cool as a natural air conditioner. The rumbling mountain spring gushed down, naturally forming a pool of water. This is what the pool and waterfalls rely on each other. The air is filled with cool water splashing and a thin mist, which does not make people wet but is full of coolness. Right here at the relocated Dragon King Temple, you only need to stay here for a while, and you will feel cool all over your body. The sticky and hot feeling will dissipate immediately, and you will feel extremely comfortable all over!

If you stay here for a little longer, you may even feel cold. Therefore, enjoying it a little and continuing is the best choice. After turning around Longwang Temple and walking along Qingxi Stone Road, a mountain road with stone steps from bottom to top and streams from top to bottom appeared in front of you. The mountain road is not long or steep, about 100 meters long. The mountain spring sometimes jumps down the steps on the ground, and sometimes disappears under the stone steps and sprays out from the mouth of the dragon head on the ground! The gurgling and gurgling of the stream is like jumping notes, making your hiking trip not boring at all."Symphony Waterfall" is the name here. Isn't it very appropriate!?

After walking through the "Symphony Waterfall", another coolness hit. Sure enough, another pond waterfall appeared in front of us! Because it is the rainy season, the injection of rainwater and the already abundant water resources here make the flow rate of discharge from this waterfall faster and the amount of water is larger! The cold mountain spring water meets the sultry air, and there is often fog lingering here, especially after 1 o'clock in the afternoon. I believe this is the best explanation. At the same time, this is also a shoal. Playing in the water and touching small fish must not be missed.

Parallel to this waterfall is a peach forest. It runs along the peach forest corridor and the stream on the side. In the stream that almost overflows the corridor, lush aquatic plants and water plants are densely covered. In addition to the chirping of frogs and cicadas, various small creatures in the mountains and forests appear one after another. Butterflies of different colors and insects appear one after another. I accidentally caught such an insect. It is said to be called "Yan Niang". I don't know if it is.

If you continue to move forward, you will almost reach the end of the Taiping Tianchi Natural Scenic Area. First, I passed by a mountain that looked like a squatting frog. It is said that this place is called the Golden Frog Watching the Moon. It is really similar! The scenic area was also very enthusiastic and specially marked the locations to watch the golden frogs. After passing the Golden Frog, you will see mountains on three sides and another waterfall flying down. After this, there is no more road. Is this the end of the scenery? That's really not true. If the journey is the A side of Taiping Tianchi, then you can enjoy the B side of Taiping Tianchi on the way back!

The route on Side B is to walk to the commanding heights of Taiping Tianchi Lake, the "Fulu Observation Deck"! The gourd is big enough, and the scenery from the observation deck is spectacular enough! The meaning of gourd is also the introduction of Beijing's intangible cultural heritage "Old Beijing Fire Painted gourd", leveraging the traditional "Fulu" culture represented by gourd and combining the name of Xitaiping Village to create the "Taiping Fulu" article. IP, isn't it very clever to achieve more in one fell swoop?

In short, in the Taiping Tianchi Scenic Area, you can enjoy the fairyland scenery and the beautiful wind. It is far from over here! However, the theme of "viewing mountains, enjoying water, and enjoying peace in peace" is spread all over the Taiping Tianchi Natural Scenic Area from the inside out. The same is true for the Happy Macaque Valley, which is adjacent to this and belongs to the Taiping Tianchi Scenic Area!

Happy Macaque Valley is less than ten minutes 'drive from Taiping Tianchi Scenic Area and belongs to Xitaiping Village. The scenery of the scenic spot is almost the same as that of Taiping Tianchi Lake. There are many ponds and waterfalls and vegetation features here. The difference is that there are more (nearly 500) Taihang macaques here, which makes the Macaque Valley more lively and more spiritual!

You can understand how happy the macaques are here from the moment you enter the gate of the scenic area. As soon as you walk into the gate of the scenic area, you can turn around and see macaques in twos and threes starting to jump up and down around you at a distance of five or six meters or watch the changes. They have only one purpose, whether you have brought delicious food. But don't worry, the macaques here are not as anxious as monkeys in other places, and they will not snatch things from tourists. Because the scenic area feeds regularly and at fixed points, when it's time to eat, the monkeys will know that it's time to eat! Therefore, the monkeys here are not hungry, so they will not "rush" to snatch food from tourists.

What macaques here love most is peanuts. There are also various snacks sold to tourists in the scenic area. Of course, peanuts are the most sought-after ones. Look at the macaques everywhere they go and what they hold in their mouths. Even their cheeks are bulging. They are all peanuts they like to eat. The monkeys here are also dispatched, one wave up the mountain and one wave down the mountain. The shortage on the mountain eats less and are often driven away by the current monkey king. But don't worry, the staff of the scenic area feed them at fixed points no matter who the king is, so most of the macaques here are toot!

In short, whether it is the Taiping Tianchi Scenic Area or the Happy Macaque Valley Scenic Area, everything here allows visitors to enjoy this excellent mountain and beautiful place hidden in the mountains in the suburbs of Beijing! At the same time, I will also marvel at how Fangshan has not discovered this long-hidden Internet celebrity attraction sooner after coming and going so many times! No matter whether the purpose of this trip is to play or explore, the poetic and picturesque mountains and rivers in the Taiping Tianchi Lake and Happy Macaque Valley Scenic Area will always give you the freedom of "staying in a cage for a long time and returning to nature". Wild fun...

TIPS:

If you are tired or hungry, there are not only 12 resting and viewing pavilions here，There are also self-operated "ecological restaurants" in the scenic area that serve a variety of mountain delicacies. Among them, the most recommended thing to taste must be Taiping Small Moon Cake, also known as Taiping Small Shaobing.

Although there are no sesame seeds and no layers! There are only two ingredients: brown sugar and walnut kernels. Spring water and dough are mixed, brushed with ordinary salad oil, and baked in five minutes on the electric cake stall! That taste ~ Only after eating it will you know what it means to be crispy, fragrant, soft, sweet and smooth... If you haven't eaten, it's not a problem if you eat it while it's hot! If it weren't for this delicious food, even if I tasted wild vegetables in the mountains and rivers or had a glass of wine, the feeling would not change if I gave it to a god...

Self-driving route: Map navigation Taiping Tianchi Scenic Area, drive from Shiduyan Laibao Road, then follow the road sign and turn right. It takes about 40 minutes to reach this Yosemite.

Bus route: Bus F17 is direct to you, get off at Xiping Station, and walk 2 kilometers.

Warm reminder:Taiping Tianchi Scenic Area, open every day from 7:30 to 18:00 (ticket sales stop at 16:30.)