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The heart is far away, but the step stops!
The epidemic is still around us...
I have to go to different countries and cities every year to experience walking experiences,
Now, he can only be forced to stay in Beijing
I believe many friends who love to travel are like me...
Then, the surrounding areas of the city, such as Beijing·Miyun Gubei Water Town (Simatai Great Wall) International Tourist Resort, have become the preferred destination for weekend vacations! Christmas and New Year's Day are coming. What is the festive atmosphere of this fairy tale town under the Great Wall? Follow my footsteps quickly and find out for everyone!

itinerary

Consider the issue of travel time first. Based on my personal experience in self-driving travel, the highway leaving Beijing on weekends is the most congested between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m.. We calculated from Sanyuan Bridge that it takes us to drive to Gubei Water Town in about 2 hours, and the journey is about 140 kilometers. The return trip was arranged on Monday morning... So I made the following itinerary arrangements for reference only:
[DAY-1] Arrive at Gubei Water Town from 09:00 to 11:00 to check in;11:30 to 12:30 for lunch;13:00 to visit;17:00 to 18:00 Afternoon tea in the Hilltop Church;19:00 to 19:30 to participate in Christmas cruises and drone performances;19:30 to 20:30 for dinner;21:00 to soak in the hot spring
[DAY-2] 09:00-11:00 Dengsimatai Great Wall;12:00-14:00 Check-out and change hotel, lunch;14:00-18:00 Visit Tangshi Street;18:00-19:30 Dinner;20:00 Return to the hotel to soak in the hot spring in the room
[DAY-3] Sleep until you wake up naturally; pack up and prepare for your return journey.

The delicious food you eat in Gubei Water Town

Winter Limited Theme Banquet [Beijing Ancient Roast Duck Banquet]
Roast duck has always been my favorite. Every time I travel back to Beijing, I have to go to the roast duck restaurant for a meal as soon as possible. I feel strangely full of vitality! When I arrive in Gubei Water Town, I go for a roast duck at noon. The environment is ancient and the taste of the dishes is also excellent!

Beijing ancient roast duck is different from ordinary roast ducks. The ancient roast duck is roasted using charcoal fire of fruit wood such as jujube wood and pear wood, so the duck meat has the aroma of fruit wood in the hot weather. In terms of selection of materials, Gubei Water Town selects the most precious varieties of Beijing ducks with the best meat quality in the world, and invites the inheritors of 8 generations of ancient roast ducks to come out to make their own unique and secret roast ducks.

The ducks on the table are ruddy in color. When you eat them, the meat is tender and crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. They are fat but not greasy. Eating more ducks is indeed a must-miss online celebrity check-in food for tourists in Gubei Water Town.

Stir-fried and roasted golden trout: This is another delicious way to make golden trout. It is recommended to try it in your own kitchen.

Beijing-style braised pork: Exquisite pork belly is matched with exquisite firing methods. Each piece is a top grade and has a true Beijing flavor.

Braised old goose with soju: The heat of the stew is just right, not firewood. When you bite into the goose meat, you will feel a little springy.

Duck meat-scented sesame cake: Golden yellow in color, duck meat is sandwiched inside. Take a bite and leave a fragrance on your lips and teeth! Endless aftertaste! Winter Limited Theme Dinner [Jianlou Steak Dinner]
Steakhouse, to be precise, is a romantic dining place! But we can spend time together, and we can have private parties for dining. Today, the environment we are dining in is also a good place for steaks to get drunk. Through the window, we can have a full view of the entire Riyue Island Square. The strong Christmas atmosphere suits the occasion!

In this dreamy long table feast with candles lit, if you pay a little attention, the tablecloth on the table is stacked to look like a Christmas tree, which shows the care and attention of the restaurant.

Pre-meal bread, seasonal vegetable salad, soup... everything is in order. This grilled main course platter also shows a little magnanimous in this Christmas atmosphere, including beef filet, deep-sea snapper, Argentine red shrimp, Frankfurt crispy sausage, turkey leg, buttered corn, organic seasonal vegetables, etc.

Host: Gaelic steak. It is said that this steak is the favorite of Queen Elizabeth of England! Today, I have the honor to taste such delicious food, and I have no regrets on my trip. Food is so easy to give people a sense of satisfaction!

Winter Limited Theme Banquet [Miyun Reservoir Cold Water Fish Banquet]
As we all know, Miyun Reservoir is the largest and only source of drinking water in the capital Beijing. The water quality remains above the national surface water level II standard all year round. Good water! Reservoir fish are naturally fat and nutritious.

Gubei Water Town invited famous chefs to cook the fish banquet, using different techniques such as steaming, boiling, frying, and mashing to present the different flavors of a table of cold water fish from Miyun Reservoir, so that every visitor who comes to Gubei Water Town can taste it. Miyun Cold Water Fish King Food Banquet.

Steamed Miyun Reservoir Fish: This one should weigh more than ten kilograms. It takes two people to carry it to the table. As far as I am concerned, I prefer to eat big fish, which is delicious and fat!

Soup Laotan pickled cabbage fish: sour and sweet! Soup and rice are a good combination.

Braised yellow spicy diced with garlic sauce: Yellow spicy diced is a middle-priced fish among freshwater fish. It is rich in nutrients, delicious in meat, and has no small bones. It is a kind of fish that most people like to eat!

There is fish cake every year: There is fish cake in it, and it is not fishy. The chef handles it very well. Recommended! Winter Limited Theme Banquet [Miyun Roast Meat Hometown Banquet]
This is a gourmet restaurant where you can come back once you eat it, and the dishes with local characteristics are also very popular among people! Although the door is not big, the inside is actually as deep as the sea... There are also private rooms on the second floor. The roast meat restaurant is very close to Simatai Great Wall Cableway Station. If you are tired from playing on the Great Wall, you can order a large plate of meat to replenish your strength.

Miyun people make good use of maltose wrapped pulp and color roast meat. The meat is made of particular materials. The pork belly is about three fingers thick, three parts fat, and seven parts thin. It is fired in the pan with various Chinese medicine attributes. When served, it is served with vegetables, honey sauce and fire. It is full of color, aroma, and flavor, creating the Miyun roast meat with a long New Year flavor. This plate of roasted meat in front of you is here! Remember to eat it with dipping sauce + lettuce + cucumber strips + buns!

Steamed pork in chestnut farmer's bowl: Large pieces of steamed pork with the aroma of chestnut make people drool!

Guzhai soybean meat jelly: This is a common dish in the suburbs of Beijing, but this is the first time I have seen it in this way, and it tastes good.

Stewed with local chicken with mountain mushrooms: Relying on mountains to eat mountains, Miyun's wild mountain goods are stewed with local chicken. It is a very delicious dish to eat in winter. Stay at the most characteristic hotel in Gubei Water Town. Recommended! [Recommendation 1] Gubei Zhiguang Hot Spring Resort Hotel
Perhaps most people still prefer this place for parent-child tours or family tours. The overall specifications are still a very suitable environment for a vacation. The rooms are easy to book, the prices are relatively friendly to the people, and you can also soak in hot springs. At this moment, the moment I entered the hotel lobby, my eyes were filled with the festive atmosphere of Christmas.

Surrounded by mountains and rivers, the environment is beautiful. The hotel takes the elements of the Great Wall as its theme and uses the design technique of "city wall interior" to highlight the concept of symbiosis between architecture and interior, nature and humanities, history and modernity. The standard star-rated standard room is equipped with welcome fruits, and there is no mineral water in the room. That is because the tap water can be drunk directly, which is especially great!

The hotel has a unique style of Yuquan Western Restaurant and a unique Meixi Tea House Restaurant. It also has an 800-square-meter multi-purpose hall and various Chinese food boxes, offering Huaiyang cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Miyun local specialties, etc.

Special dry goods are here: Although the hotel has direct access to the hot spring hall, it is a bit around, so it is recommended that you put on your cotton-padded clothes and soak it 3 minutes before walking out of the main entrance of the hotel. The outdoor hot spring is very comfortable if you encounter snowy days. The indoor wet and dry steaming is really good.

[Recommendation 2] New Youth Art Hotel
Located opposite the Gubei Light Hotel, this new youth art hotel sounds full of curiosity and should be very suitable for the environment of young people. The moment I enter the lobby, the color reminds me of old Shanghai instantly. If I hang some famous paintings here, it will really be more interesting!

The hotel has a construction area of about 4000 square meters and has 36 guest rooms, including 17 queen beds and 19 twin beds. It is divided into 7 different room types. The hotel has a Chinese restaurant that can accommodate more than 200 people. It has 2 special meal packages and 1 tea room. The main cuisine is Hangbang cuisine. Although the above are all standard expressions, I finally saw the words "Hangzhou cuisine", which shows the boss's feelings in designing this hotel!

[Recommendation 3] Thirteenth Sister Women's Theme Hot Spring Hotel
The hotel is located on Wangjing Street in Gubei Water Town Scenic Area, close to Wangjing Street Snack Street and Music Fountain. With the theme of "Celebrity Culture" and intimate hot spring experience, the hotel is a comprehensive boutique themed hotel tailored for high-end consumer groups that integrates accommodation, catering and hot springs. This is also the second time I have stayed here. Everything is quite familiar with it. What I look forward to most is the open-air hot spring in the room.

When I opened the door, it was full of warm yellow tones. It was spacious and the space was reasonably divided. The desk was very long, and the small things full of luggage would not appear too much if they were placed on it. The large bed with moderate softness was my favorite! As a traveler, sleeping until you wake up naturally is always such a luxury, which can only be achieved when you encounter a suitable big bed! This is it!

The space in the bathroom is also quite spacious. Different functional areas pay special attention to the control of details. You can reach what you need with your hand. The innermost room is the hot spring pool. This time, we live in a roof. In fact, it will be safer. After all, drones are too common nowadays and privacy is very important!

Facing the first ray of morning sunshine, we start breakfast. The order meals are divided into Chinese and Western dishes. Each serving contains more than a dozen nutritious foods. This nutritious breakfast is full of vitality!

Traveling in Gubei Water Town, Yongshun Dyeing Workshop, which is a must-miss check-in spot
The founder of Yongshun Dyeing Factory is Zhang Jukui, which was founded in 1900. It is reported that when Zhang Jukui was a boy, he learned the unique skills of dyeing craftsmen in his hometown. He could make his own tutu indigo fuel. The colors dyed were bright and lasting, stable, and durable to washing and drying. His business slowly flourished, so he opened this "Yongshun Dyeing Factory".

Compared with the archway at the main entrance, everyone prefers to take this alley and take its west gate to enter the courtyard. It has become a good place for Internet celebrities to check in and take photos! You have light and shadow, you have color, but only your creative posture...

From a photography perspective, I prefer the sunshine around 3:00 in the afternoon. I can also borrow more warm light when shooting in the dyeing workshop, so that the picture has more room for composition design and more creative colors. Looking here and thinking about Jiangnan, going to Jiangnan next summer to see the work scenes of the dyeing workshop should be more interesting and capture more first-view materials.

There are three-story exhibition halls in the dyeing workshop. They are not industry people. They can see all the design decorations and colorful decorations! Looking at the introduction of wall panels, I feel ignorant, but I am also praised by the development of this printing and dyeing industry! Craftsmen will always be respected!

There is an experience room on the second floor, where you can experience learning carving skills and feel the beauty of printing colors. The indoor space is large, which is suitable for various parent-child experience course activities and industry exchange activities.

Sima Xiaoshao
Although he is not a drinker, there is always a concept that one side of water and soil supports one side of people, and one side of good water makes a pot of good wine! Sima Xiaoshao has actually heard about it for a long time. Grain is brewed with a high degree of alcohol, but it tastes soft and smooth. Even if you drink too much wine, you will not feel a headache when you wake up the next day.

This is also an intangible cultural heritage handicraft workshop. Sima Xiaoshao belongs to Miyun Sanshao's shochu species. Miyun has a long tradition of wine-making dating back to the Qing Dynasty. "Miyunmei Farmhouse" is a representative of Miyun's traditional pure grain wine making. Wuliang wine brewed with sorghum, rice, glutinous rice, wheat and corn is very popular. Wuliang is a guarantee of quality! There are tastings and sales indoors, which are the best gifts to relatives and friends when visiting Gubei.

kite shop
In terms of self-experience, this kite shop has a strong sense of experience. The owner is also the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage. Although he is over fifty years old, his spirit is no less than that of a young man. He is also very talkative and enthusiastic. He will help if he sees anyone who is doing a bad job and praises him repeatedly! The price of making a kite is not expensive, only a dozen yuan.

Simatai Great Wall
When you come to Gubei, you must climb the Simatai Great Wall. There is a round-trip cableway. It is safe to ride and the view is very good! During the day, it will be open directly to the No. 8 beacon tower to climb the Great Wall. Special reminder: When winter is cold, the Great Wall will be colder and the wind will be stronger. You must pay attention to keeping warm and walking safety.

It has been very dangerous since the No. 7 beacon tower, the artificial ladder is almost straight up and down, and the steps on the Great Wall are much less... but! Climbing and looking far away, the breadth of vision is quite shocking! No matter how hard I climb such a beautiful scenery, I feel that everything is worth it!

Shuangdan is coming, how is the festive atmosphere here? Usually, I park my car in the parking lot of the Gubei Water Town Hotel. It is faster than ground and underground parking spaces, and more importantly, entering Gubei Water Town to check in for accommodation. Shuangdan is coming, what kind of costumes do you have here to attract visitors from all over the world? Come in with me and feel it together!

The casual sightseeing shuttle bus has made its debut! The ornaments full of Christmas elements and the red body highlight the festive atmosphere!

The festive atmosphere in the accommodation hall is even stronger. The story of the Nutcracker opens just like this and waits for you to read. It has become a small bookstore and a place where tourists compete to check in and take photos.

Don't miss the Christmas Fairy Tale at 4 p.m. next to Riyue Island Square. There is only half an hour of wonderful performance time. There are performances and interactive games on the field. After the show, you can also take photos on the stage with clowns and Santa Claus.

The Christmas parade on the weekend was even more exciting. Last weekend, it was the second heavy snowfall in Beijing, and the experience in the snow was interesting! Starting from Nantianmen Gate at 7 p.m., polar bears, gorillas and performers dressed in various costumes welcomed the eyes of everyone everywhere they passed, competing to take photos with them.

At night, Riyue Island Square has been decorated with bright lights, and the arc of the city wall entrances is full of flashing colorful lights. Walking through it also gives a sense of solemnity and the illusion of time traveling! Anyway, the photo shoot must be very beautiful!

The huge Christmas tree has also become the central symbol of the fairy tale town under the Great Wall! The listener's cheerful music, accompanied by the dancing of snowflakes... It was as if he was already in the world of Andersen's fairy tales, and he had become a child, playing willfully and feeling the festive atmosphere!

Share the more important things during travel here! Be sure to "visit the market" to discover the beauty of local life, craftsmanship, and soul! Find a few favorite little items, take them home to share with family and friends, and tell about all the interesting discoveries you made in the market.

The Hilltop Church and Cloud Cafe are believed to be something that every friend who comes to Gubei Water Town will not miss! Experience the process of watching the entire Gubei Water Town go from night to bright lights! That moment! It seemed to ignite the fire in his heart!

The top of the mountain is still a bit cold at this time. It is recommended not to stay outdoors on the top of the mountain for too long. You can sit in the Cloud Cafe and taste the seasonal special cakes and desserts, paired with a cup of latte. Several friends sit around and chat endlessly!

It is not an exaggeration to say that Gubei Water Town is a "peach blossom garden" in winter! If you can encounter a heavy snow, the snow will not melt the next morning, and the scenery will be more charming! This winter is still going on, and there is still the same chance to encounter snowy days as me! Everyone says that Japan is a neon city. If I ask you, Gubei Water Town is a neon town. It is a high-quality resort integrating nature, history, humanities and culture.

If we soak in the hotel hot springs too much, we can also go outdoors and enjoy the foot soaking hot springs here. It's free! At the same time, I would also like to tell you about the best place to soak in hot springs and enjoy the scenery of the Simatai Great Wall. On the top floor of the Yushe Hot Spring Boutique Hotel, there are two outdoor pools and one indoor pool. You can see the Simatai Great Wall in a panoramic view!

Let's say goodbye if we don't want to finish it. We have recommended everything that should be recommended! Although I still have some unfinished desires, there is a time when my trip ends. I believe this front-stop guide will add a boost to the upcoming Shuangdan Festival in Gubei Water Town! It also provides some pure dry goods to share for friends who want to go to Gubei Water Town for double drinks this winter! However, more discoveries, from a traveler's perspective, are still your own heart. Follow your heart and discover, and that's right! I wish everyone a happy double in advance! 2021 is about to usher in a new year, and I also wish you all the best and everything goes well!