preface

Even though autumn has already begun, the scorching summer has not ended here. The sun is still shining high outside, and escaping the heat is still the top priority for summer travel! Where to travel around Chongqing? After much consideration, going to Jinfo Mountain is a great choice. Whether it's a family trip or a scenic shoot, it can be called a fairyland!

In summer, Chongqing is often referred to as the "furnace". I never imagined that the temperature in the mountains would be so cool, especially on the night of shooting the Milky Way, which was shivering with cold. I regret forgetting to bring my down jacket! This is also the Milky Way that I have lived in the city for a long time and have never seen again, with stars all over the sky visible to the naked eye. Placed elsewhere, such weather is truly rare, but in Jinfo Mountain, it's like this every night

Due to the lack of advance reconnaissance during the day, one could only search in the pitch black at night. The Golden Buddha Temple is considered a landmark building of the Golden Buddha Temple, hence these two photos, one in the south and one in the north.

The unique tree of the Golden Buddha Temple course has also been forever frozen by me under that starry sky. If I can't find a good prospect, people are the best prospect. The photo of holding my baby standing under the brilliant starry sky should be her first photo with the Milky Way. I hope there will be more opportunities in the future to take her to see a bigger world, experience richer natural landscapes, and personally experience something more real and appropriate than what is taught in textbooks!

scheduling

Day 1: Chongqing - Tianxing Town - Check in at Tianxing Holiday Hotel

Day 2: Tianxing Town - Shenlongxia Scenic Area - Check in at Tianxing Liangjiang Holiday Hotel

Day 3: Tianxing Town - Jinfoshan Scenic Area - Check into Liangjiang Holiday Mountain Top Hotel

Day 4: Jinfoshan Scenic Area - Check in at Liangjiang Holiday Mountain Top Hotel

Specific attractions - Tianxing Town

Every year's holiday is a time for children to have fun. This time, choosing Jinfoshan Scenic Area in Nanchuan District, Chongqing for summer vacation is also the first time to travel to Tianxing Resort. "Healthy and slow life" is the most authentic slogan here. Tianxing Town is located at the foot of Jinfo Mountain and is also the first stop for many tourists to visit Jinfo Mountain. There is a commercial street in the elegant and quaint primitive town, where entertainment and food fill every corner.

In addition to strolling around Tianxing Town, you can also taste various delicious foods featuring square bamboo shoots. If time permits, you can visit the Karst Museum, experience Tianxing Hot Spring City again, or experience starry sky camping. This is the most perfect vacation life!

The evening glow drifted by, the lights lit up, and the simple and quaint town became colorful. The performance of the waterfront camping music season was passionately staged, and the liveliness of the Tianxing Town had just begun. Compared to the ordinary daytime, the night came here as if it was a different place.

The Waterfront Camping Music Festival is a unique theme held during this period. While strolling through the town, you can also listen to music and dance with your children on this leisurely weekend, adding a different color to the ordinary holiday life! Don't forget to wake up from your nap the next day and experience the unique drifting of Shenlong Gorge again.

Karst Museum
The museum is located next to the town, interpreting the typical Taiyuan karst landform type and unique ecosystem of Jinfo Mountain. 260 million years ago, the vast ocean was formed by the collision of the Eurasian Plate and billions of years of geological tectonic movements, forming the Jinfo Mountain we see today.

Rare high-altitude karst caves, long history and culture of nitrate boiling, karst landscapes such as stone forests, rock pillars, waterfalls, canyons, and single-sided mountains, were all learned from the tour guide here. Various weather wonders, such as ice and snow, rime, sea of clouds, sunrise, etc., are also good subjects for filming. It is surprising that Jinfo Mountain has such charm when first introduced!

By the way, the artificially simulated caves in the museum are realistic and natural, and the designed knowledge games must be played with children. Not only can it enhance their interest in geography, but it can also learn a lot about nature.

Tianxing Hot Spring City
The Tianxing Hot Spring City at the end of the commercial street in Tianxing Town is definitely not to be missed. The environment inside is clean and tidy, and there are many entertainment facilities.

Music, wave making, bubble show... It's simply a paradise for children. Keeping this holiday in the Star Town is indeed the right choice, and soaking in the children's entertainment pool with children is also without any sense of discomfort.

When you're tired from playing, go to the real mountain spring water and hot springs, relieve yourself of fatigue, feel the gentle breeze and Buddha face at night, and the warm spring water wraps around every cell of the body. This moment is the most beautiful enjoyment!

Town Tour - Shenlongxia Scenic Area
Shenlong Gorge is the most exciting drifting experience I have ever had, without a doubt! 2.8 kilometers, with a total drop of 76 meters, the entire drifting process takes about 40 minutes. Especially in the first stage, it was so sudden that it caught me off guard. The cold spring water instantly penetrated my heart, and the splashing water directly hit my face. The desire to give up was so strong that I wanted to pause in an instant! Now thinking about it, luckily I persisted for a while, otherwise I wouldn't have experienced the enjoyment after adaptation! For Xiao Duomi, it should also be a profound experience. From the initial fear to the lingering desire to float again later on, it can be considered a form of exercise. If you don't do some things, you will never understand

Tip: It is recommended to bring your own slippers, change clothes, and toiletries. Taking a hot shower after drifting is the perfect ending

The Shenlong Gorge Scenic Area is located west of Jinfo Mountain, a primitive ecological canyon with drifting as its biggest feature.
Shenlong Gorge ticket: 40 yuan/person, drifting ticket: 130 yuan/person during weekdays, 150 yuan/person on weekends, sightseeing bus one-way 15 yuan/person, round-trip 30 yuan [Drifting ticket does not include admission fee]

Small town cuisine
Square bamboo shoots are a characteristic of Jinfo Mountain, belonging to the autumn bamboo shoot season. The bamboo shoot season is from August to September every year, and they grow on mountains with an altitude of over 2000 meters. Due to climate and other reasons, they are round on the outside and square on the inside, like copper coins, so they are called square bamboo shoots.

Don't miss out on the Fangzhu bamboo shoots and lamb trotters soup pot, be sure to taste it. The medium portion is about two sheep's hooves cut into 10-20 pieces to make a pot, with a delicious taste and no overheating! The Quanzhu Banquet is made by stewing ingredients such as free range chicken and wild mushrooms into a pot full of rice fragrance, which can be smelled from afar!

There is also Fangzhu Bamboo Shoot Lamb Noodle, priced at 15 yuan per serving. Grandma copied the hands and divided them into clear soup and red soup, one or two for seven, two or two for 15, three or two for 20 yuan

Jinfo Mountain is also known as the Chinese Medicine Bank. The free range sheep grew up eating Chinese herbs. It is conceivable that such mutton is naturally more delicious. In summer, Roasted whole lamb is also a special dish that must be enjoyed here!

The stargazing pavilion located across from the hotel is also great for enjoying a barbecue or cooking. As night falls, the cool summer breeze blows, delicious barbecue is enjoyed, and exciting performances are watched. How can we not love this kind of small town life!

Jinfo Mountain is known as a summer resort. As soon as I arrived at Tianxing Town at the foot of Jinfo Mountain, I already felt that the temperature was about ten degrees lower than that in Chongqing city. I stayed at Tianxing Liangjiang Holiday Hotel and turned on the air conditioning on the first night, causing me to shiver in the morning. The first thing I did when I got up was to quickly turn off the air conditioning, put on my bathrobe, open the window, and finally found that the temperature outside the window was similar to that inside the room

Jinfoshan Scenic Area

We are very lucky to have first encountered the Jinfo Mountain Scenic Area, because of the continuous good weather, which can freeze the beautiful scenery of Jinfo Mountain in our memory. The sunset on the cliff plank road, the composition of the fairyland at the mouth of the swallow cave, and the visible Milky Way at eleven o'clock at night... These inadvertent beauties are the best and precious natural scenery of Jinfo Mountain.

Jinfo Mountain is a typical karst geological landform. Due to its special geographical location and climatic conditions, it has relatively intact preserved the primitive natural ecology of ancient and different geological ages. The mountain terrain is magnificent and beautiful, and the scenery is deep and charming.

The subtropical humid monsoon climate has the characteristics of short winter, early spring, long summer, rain and heat in the same season, and obvious vertical climate changes. The special climate conditions make the weather here unpredictable, sometimes with rolling clouds and waves, and sometimes with clear skies after rain. This also creates the unique beauty of Jinfo Mountain, as well as the cool and comfortable summer weather. Walking in the mountains, you can't feel a trace of summer heat.

Golden Turtle Rising Sun

Standing on the Golden Turtle Chaoyang Viewing Platform at an altitude of 2100 meters, one is greeted by a world-class karst tundra, high-altitude caves Lingguan Cave and Yanzi Cave, as well as magnificent cliffs that perfectly blend exquisite natural beauty with superb geological evolution.

The mountain stretches for dozens of kilometers and has been shaped by heaven and earth to form a natural sleeping Buddha, lying on top of the highest peak of Jinfo Mountain, Jinfo Peak. It is a wonderful landscape composed of a western cliff and a gentle slope on the mountain. Whenever the sun sets, the slanting rays of the sun shine on the long cliff, casting golden light, hence the name Golden Turtle Sunrise.

The bamboo forest under the feet is the favorite food of giant pandas. The bamboo pole is slender, only the size of a finger, solid and flexible. Because this bamboo shoot grows in a windward area, every time a gentle breeze blows over it, it undulates like the sea level, so it also has a beautiful name called the bamboo shoot forest sea.

Cliff plank road

The boardwalk hangs on a cliff, with clouds rising from the feet, drifting through the void, and perhaps encountering a fairy. "The tour guide's words are still vivid in my memory, and the Jinfo Mountain Cliff Boardwalk is just as she said. The entire boardwalk is 3500 meters long, like a ribbon, hanging on the Jinshan Cliff at an altitude of 2100 meters.

The 3500 meter cliff plank road connects various scenic spots in Jinfo Mountain, including Jingui Chaoyang, Yanzi Cave, Ecological Stone Forest, Ancient Buddha Cave, and more, which are also boutique tourist routes that cannot be missed in Jinfo Mountain. But I think the most essence of the whole cliff plank road is the Swallow Cave, and the cliff on the west slope. The mountain rises straight up while the cliff has no line of sight! Standing here, you can still feel the artistic conception of overlooking the mountains and small places!

This is also the best place to watch the sunset, with layers of mountains stretching infinitely to the sky in front of me. Even my little baby took out her phone and kept taking pictures, saying to me, 'Mom, I will be a photographer like you in the future. Can you teach me how to take photos?' No wonder she envies me for such beautiful scenery.

Standing in the Yanzi Cave and taking photos outside, the sunset glow, small figures, magical starry sky... A photo of a place where immortals live came out. I have been to many places, and such mountain cave openings really surprised me. The beauty of Jinfo Mountain is indeed worthy of its reputation!

Ancient Buddha Cave

There are dozens of mountain ranges stretching across the valley, with over 100 steep peaks standing tall. This area is dotted with natural karst caves, and the Ancient Buddha Cave is one of the most representative cave entrances.

Xiong Da Shen is our most genuine response! There are mountains, rivers, and dams in the cave, and there are caves in the cave. They are layered and intertwined, and there will always be awe in the next moment

Through the winding and sometimes only one person can pass through the "72 turns", one suddenly enters a hall that can accommodate tens of thousands of people. The grandeur and grandeur of the process are breathtaking!

Thousands of Buddha statues are even more awe inspiring, and the infinitely extending holes are even more mysterious. Occasionally, bats flying overhead instantly bring me back to reality, freezing and doubting life. Am I really in summer? Once again, it proves that when coming to Jinfo Mountain, you must bring a thick coat!

Continuing forward for four to five hundred meters, you can reach another even more magical cave entrance. The high contrast between the top and bottom, as well as the unique scenery outside the cave entrance, may be the most amazing in geology in the country! And what impressed me the most was when I first saw the fairyland under the white light mist after turning

Yaochiba

Yaochiba is very close to the ancient Buddha Cave, and the clear lake water is my first impression of this place. The name Yaochiba is related to the clear water in this pool!

In order to solve the difficulty of water supply on the mountain, this place was initially used for water storage. Later, medicinal farmers also brought their hard-earned herbs into this pond to clean. The pond was also surrounded by various herbs used to treat common diseases, and the name "Medicinal Pool Dam" came from this.

The Jinfo Mountain on the cloud is not only a world natural heritage site, but also a world-renowned biological gene bank. Among the more than 5800 varieties of traditional Chinese medicine in Chongqing, Jinfo Mountain has as many as 4000 varieties, making it a treasure trove of Chinese medicine. It accounts for one-third of the Chinese medicinal herbs in the country, and there is a saying that goes, 'When people travel, they dye their sleeves with golden yam, and when the wind blows through the southern Sichuan, they smell the fragrance of medicine.'. The reason why the medicinal lamb here is so famous is precisely because the lamb grew up eating various herbs from a young age, and its nutritional value is naturally different from other places!

Walking on the grassland reminds me of Nalati, Xinjiang. The beautiful scenery here is like grassland scenery. Lying here, watching the rolling clouds, waiting for a pot of medicinal lamb hotpot, this is the biggest happy time of travel!

Golden Buddha Temple

The Golden Buddha Temple is built on the mountain, with a magnificent and majestic atmosphere. The Buddhist culture of the Golden Buddha Temple is also reflected here, making it a holy land for meditation and enlightenment of Buddha!

Along the way up the Temple of the Heavenly King, the Shakya ManiHall, the Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and the Sutra Pavilion, each hall has to climb a flight of stairs to reach the top of the highest Sutra Pavilion attic. It is also a pleasure to climb high and look far. If you have a Buddha in your heart, you must come here to pray for blessings.

This is about 200 meters away from the mountaintop hotel of Liangjiang Holiday, which is very convenient to walk to. It can also be used as a foreground for night photography of the Milky Way, and it is also a standard building in Jinfo Mountain.

Ecological Stone Forest

All the stone forests in the world are karst products, and the stone forests here are very different from the bare ones I have seen before. A large amount of carbonate rocks and sandstone have been deposited here. Due to various crustal movements and climate influences, lower plants on the stone forest continue to die, forming humus soil, which later led to the survival of some dwarf forests and trees here. Although there is soil with very high humus content, there are more stones and less soil. In order to survive, the tree roots here are very developed!

These magical root systems extend completely into the crevices of the stones, surviving tenaciously to form the lush scene we see today. This is also the magic of the Jinfo Mountain Stone Forest, where trees coexist with stones, and stones and trees are naturally formed

The phrase 'trees grow on rocks, trees embrace rocks' is also the most vivid expression in the mouths of tour guides. Walking among them, the trees are covered in moss, cool and comfortable. Choosing this place for summer travel with babies is indeed the right choice! Looking at the unique landscape of trees and stones harmoniously coexisting here, it's like natural potted plants!

Recommend experiencing the Two Rivers Holiday Hotel on the mountaintop, watching the sunset and stars shining brightly! Experience the cool breeze in the mountains and the cold of summer... Don't miss out on the mountain top specialty cuisine at the large bowl restaurant next to the hotel!

The medicinal soup pot on the northern slope, even after visiting the ancient Buddha cave and the medicinal pond dam, must be tasted. The delicious taste that beats on the tip of the tongue, and the nutrition rich little goats who grow up eating Chinese herbs, is delicious and not too hot!

Warm travel tips

Scenic spot ticket: 80 yuan/person

Xipo Cableway round-trip: 80 yuan/person, round-trip bus: 20 yuan/person

North Slope Cableway Round Trip: 70 yuan/person

Round trip sightseeing bus on the north slope of Xipo: 10 yuan/person

Package: 170 yuan/person [Ticket, Cableway, Shuttle Bus]

North Slope Cableway:

The Beipo Cableway Station is located at an altitude of 1570 meters and serves as the main passage for visitors to and from Jinfo Mountain in the scenic area. It is not only a key facility for solving the problem of mountain transportation, but also a flowing corridor for enjoying the scenery outside the window as the cableway travels.

Location of the scenic area:

Nanchuan District, Chongqing City, about 100 kilometers away from the city center. It takes about 2 hours to drive by car. Remember to stop entering the park at 4:30 pm!

Opening hours: 8:00-17:30