preliminary preparation

Be prepared to protect yourself from sun damage!!!!

It's best if the neck can cover the hat with a wide brim, otherwise the back of the neck cannot be taken care of. It's also sun-dried and delaminated skin, sunglasses, ice sleeves, sunscreen, mosquito repellent, water cups, and sun umbrellas.

I passed in April, and the temperature difference changes a lot ~~ It's very cold in the morning and evening, and the wind is very strong ~~ Only a thick coat can withstand it, and it's very hot at noon, just a short sleeve will do

booking hotels

The earlier we book a hotel, the cheaper it will be. If we want to experience Dali's customs up close, we book all B & Bs. The water here is very deep. The price fluctuates greatly with time. We booked 2 months in advance, and the price at that time was around 200. Later, when we checked in, the prices of those B & Bs had increased several times. The most expensive one was more than 800 a night. We wanted to take our time this time, one hotel a day and experience various room types, including sunrise rooms. A sea view sunset room, a classic Bai residential building complex, a modern light luxury room, and I also stayed in the ancient city of Lijiang for one night.

Dali is a city surrounding the Erhai Lake. If you want to watch the sunrise, you can live on the west side of the Erhai Lake with your back facing Cangshan Mountain. If you want to watch the sunset, you can live on the east side of the Erhai Lake, facing Cangshan Mountain.

In the sunrise room, you don't have to get up early and run to the crowded Internet celebrity spot. Make a cup of tea in the room, open the curtains, watch the sun slowly rise, the birds stay on the branches, and watch with you. Looking at this rare beauty, compared with my busy and anxious work before, I suddenly feel that I am so luxurious now, especially when this kind of comfort can be satisfied as long as the house price of less than 200 yuan, it's really relaxing.

I booked the sunset room in Shuanglang Ancient Town, a food street, and a line near the Erhai Lake is full of art shops. Many young ladies were taking photos. We were embarrassed to grab seats, so we bought a bunch of snacks and took them back to the hotel to eat. Accompanied by the sound of the waves, watch the sun slowly set. This is a beautiful scenery that you can enjoy for 180 yuan.

This is a light and luxurious modern house in the center of Dali City. The landlord's sister is so beautiful. She bought a duplex building of more than 500 square meters directly in the city center and renovated it into a B & B. The fully electronic interior decoration is complete. A pool is built as soon as the door opens, and a lot of fish is raised. There is also a game room on the roof, which is particularly petty. The rent is not expensive either. She also has a house with the same size next to her family. She comes over to have tea and chat with us at night. The little lady who is not under the pressure of life can escape the erosion of time and looks very young.

travel tool

We rented a small car. The driver added the car for 350 yuan per day. There would be no additional charges during this period. We set the time ourselves and drove for a total of 8 hours. The driver was a local and had to go home from work until 7 o'clock in the evening at the latest. It was equivalent to half a tour guide and took us to many scenic spots with few people.

diet

The season is wrong for us to go to fight, so what we eat is frozen fungi, which is very expensive.

We had rolled rice cakes in the morning,

It seemed to be cooking rice, then beating it constantly, and then rolling some ingredients to eat. The driver took us to eat two kinds of Er cakes. Some were made by hand and others were pressed by a machine. The taste was really different. They would bounce it by hand. Some, but look at the fact that they were kneading it with their bare hands without gloves, and then adding some vegetables and delivered directly to my hand without heating it, which gave it a unique flavor.

Roasted milk fans are really delicious, and they are available everywhere. They range from 8 to 12 yuan. The charcoal-roasted ones are better and more fragrant than the electric ones.

This was the first time I ate salad pine needles. The taste was amazing, and there was also crispy vegetarian chicken.

Yunnan barbecue with north and south

The driver took us to eat Dali home-cooked dishes

Just in time for the market and bought blueberries bigger than fingernails. It was a big box of only 20 yuan. It was quite sweet. The driver thought it was worth it.

The first stop is to go to a windy place to shoot, the ancient town and village of Chama, which is ancient and has a small difference, which is the difference between ideal and reality.

At the entrance of the small courtyard where the female owner lives

It is a long path, with small shops on both sides of the road, selling some seemingly handmade products, small plastic ornaments, jewelry made of rattan branches, or some fruits with Yunnan characteristics. Not only are you passing by on the road It is tourists, but also may be tall and powerful horses, with a scent of body and mines floating in it.

Then when we arrived at the meal time, we wanted to go to Chongsheng Temple to eat vegetarian food. Later, the driver said that vegetarian food was actually similar. It might take a long time to eat at the big temple at the meal time. In the end, we ate vegetarian food at another small temple in Cangshan. After entering the temple, we learned for the first time that meat plants can be used as garden plants. They are all kinds of meat plants of all sizes, colorful, with small thorns, and have a beauty that we dare not touch.

I think the taste of vegetarian food in the temple is okay, but our driver said that he wasn't used to it. He lined up with a large bowl and scanned the QR code on the wall with WeChat to pay for it at 10 yuan per person. Five staff members took turns digging a spoonful of vegetables. In your bowl, the vegetables are a little spicy, but I can't taste it. My husband is from Guangzhou, and he said it was a little spicy. After you finish the meal, you can find a seat to eat. There are still many seats around the courtyard. After everyone finishes the meal, they will take the bowl room to the kitchen. Volunteers will clean it. When queuing, everyone should see clearly whether the canteen or the coffee shop is at the end of the line. There is a small coffee shop opened in the temple without a sign. Some people miss the meal time because of the wrong queue.

In the afternoon, we went to Chongsheng Temple. Guangzhou ID cards are free of charge, and there seem to be ID cards in several cities that are free of charge. I don't know why, but we just need to show the check-in staff to see their ID cards and we can enter. We don't want to walk, so we buy a round-trip guide car, which makes it easier to go shopping. I heard that this temple is very functional. My husband even specially bought a lottery ticket to go in and scratch it, so ~~~

Then in the evening, we went to Dali Ancient Town. Forgive me, a country bumpkin who has not visited the night market much. This ancient town of Dali shocked me. It turns out that TV dramas in windy places still have real places. The bars are really connected to each other. Across the wall, a guitar and a singer are the singing assistants of a bar. In a larger bar, you can see a row of young ladies dancing on the table outside, and those singing inside can also see the situation outside. Singing while attracting customers.

We went to Cangshan the next day and were extremely lucky. There was no wind that day. The driver said it would be very cold up there. We each rented a cotton-padded jacket. Later, we found that we didn't have to use it. We had been climbing the mountain and were extremely tired. It seemed to be the highest cable car in China. After going up, it would take half an hour to climb to the top of the mountain

Then I finally climbed up with difficulty just to see Ximatan, but then I found that it was dry.

We could only go back the same way we came. We were unwilling to climb up the stairs without seeing anything, so we chose to take another road to see wild animals. Then, there was nothing again, so we could only go down the mountain.

Then I went to Xicun and looked at the rice fields. It was a good place to find an open-air cafe to sit there for a day. Seeing tourists coming and going on the rice fields, the staff shouted around them with their loudspeakers, I see you, your little sister, ignore the rice fields. I thought it was personal at first, but after listening for a long time, I found that it was playing on a loop, hahahaha

Then, because it was still early, we met students sketching in Weishan, which originally had few tourists. We sat in the cafe all day.