preface

I heard that autumn began half a month ago, but while we are in Guangdong, we are still thinking about how to find a good place to escape the heat with our children on weekends at the end of this summer vacation. On the one hand, of course, it is to escape the heat. On the other hand, it also allows us to put aside our work and return purely to the joy of family life without any stress.

Just after the last weekend, I was already planning where to go for the next weekend. After surfing various tourism APP platforms, I chose the Sembola Resort Forest in Qingyuan, a place with mountains, water, and fun places. It is only an hour and a half away from Guangzhou. It is also suitable for a two-day and one-night trip for the weekend. The road time will not be too much and the travel time will not be too tight, so you can really relax. Come a weekend trip.

Day 1: Departure from Guangzhou → Arrival at hotel → Jungle Restaurant (lunch) → Hotel break → Glacier Water Valley → Volcano Hot Spring → Western restaurant (dinner buffet) → Walk in hotel park or → Volcano Hot Spring

Day 2: Western restaurant (buffet breakfast) → Wonderful world → Return journey

Tip: If you stay at the Sembola Hotel, you can have unlimited access to the Wonders World, Glacier Water Valley and Volcanic Hot Springs with your room card. It is recommended to order a set meal including morning and evening buffet when booking, which is more cost-effective!

The Sembola Resort Forest is a veritable resort located in the forest, surrounded by mountains; there is a water park with the theme of "Glacier Culture", which includes a variety of thrilling water amusement and leisure projects; it covers an area of more than 800 acres. The Wonderful World of Sembola contains a variety of amusement projects and themed landscape facilities; there is also the Sembola Resort Hotel built to a five-star standard, known as the royal palace in the ancient forest.

It takes about an hour and a half to drive from downtown Guangzhou. After we arrived at noon, we stayed directly at the Sempola Resort Hotel. The hotel is a low-rise building located on the "mountainside" and "hidden" under many large shade trees. In front of the main entrance of the hotel is an artificial rockery and running water. There are also various goldfish raised in the pool. Children like to watch fish here!

The hotel lobby is antique yet luxurious and noble, spacious and bright, with exquisite Alsophila spinulosa totems on volcanic rocks, milky white pottery carvings in the shape of horns, and ancient boat wood reception front desk and resting seats with yellow and black. Stone and wood are full of ancient atmosphere, all showing you the most ancient natural charm. The two children like to chase and fight in this lobby!

The hotel room follows the style of the lobby, and also has an ancient design. It is simple but not simple. The room is not large, but it feels clean, fresh and tidy. Because we have two children, we stayed in a standard room with twin beds. The beds are tatami style design. This is the first time the two children have lived in this tatami style bed and are very excited. They especially like to sit on the bed board between the two beds and watch TV.

Push the door or open the curtains to see the green scene. There is a wooden recliner on the balcony. Lie down and rest, and look at the scenery outside. It is like being in the jungle. The branches and leaves on the side are within reach. The lush green has a panoramic view, and cicadas sing and birds sing endlessly. Listen to the sound of birds and wind in nature, let yourself go, and feel the rare tranquility.

The sky is so blue and the trees are so green. I fall asleep in the chirping of birds and fragrance of flowers, and wake up in the chirping of birds and fragrance of flowers.

【Play]--Glacier Water Valley Water World

Summer is the time for water to flow, and how can you miss the Glacier Water Valley, known as the "Breathing Forest Water Park"?!

There are more than 20 water events in Glacier Water Valley, and we don't want to play every one of them. It's too fast and the children won't be able to enjoy them, so we just chose a few of the children's favorite events and let them enjoy it!

Of course, the Glacier Tsunami Pond is a project that must not be missed. The Tsunami Pond covers an area of more than 5000 square meters. The water transitions from shallow to deep to meet the needs of people of different heights, ages and preferences.

The tsunami pool is equipped with enough life jackets. You must wear life jackets when entering the tsunami pool, so that no matter adults or children, you can enjoy the moment of relaxation with peace of mind.

It is said that this tsunami pool is the first 3-meter-high tsunami surfing pool in the country. Every hour, the tsunami pool will start to make waves with the accompaniment of music and radio. The originally calm water surface will begin to roll, with different wave levels and directions. Water waves can let us surf to our heart's content, which is really better with the waves.

The single wave-making time can last for half an hour, and the waves will get smaller and smaller at the end. The two children actually like the subsequent process. The waves are small and relatively stable, and they are very happy.

Iceland's Lost City is a swimming pool specifically for children's age groups. It is another happy paradise for children. Various shapes of water slides, high-altitude buckets splashing water, etc. are both fun and relieve the heat.

Iceberg Children's Fun is also a swimming pool specially designed for children. It has facilities such as "Apple House","Rainbow Gate", and "Rain Mushroom". Compared with Iceland's Lost City, it is suitable for younger children.

Glacier adventure scene rafting is located next to the lost city in Iceland. When children play the lost city in Iceland, they ask why the boat can go from the bottom to the top. Glacier adventure is such a feeling of "the boat floating high" and feeling the boat passing through the jungle in the water. Scene, they didn't dare to play before playing, but after playing, they all said it was fun and wanted to play it a few more times.

Ice-sky rainbow is another more exciting event. Five sets of water slides of different shapes can be seen from the slope and length of the slides. It is also the only event in the entire scenic area that requires height. Children below 1.3 meters cannot play.

For adults or good swimmers, there are also good places here. The ice lake swimming pool has a minimum water depth of 1.8 meters, a wide swimming pool and clean water quality.

Although midsummer is not the golden season to soak in hot springs, it is also a good option to go to the volcanic hot springs to soak comfortably after being tired during the day! The Sembola Volcano Hot Spring, known as the pioneer of "China's fifth generation themed hot springs", has more than 70 special hot spring baths of various types. It is the first hot spring in Guangdong with the theme of volcanic wonders.

Walking up the mountain from the Glacier Tsunami Pond a short step, you can come to Binghuo Hot Spring to enjoy the rare selenium-rich and low-sulfur hot spring at home and abroad. It covers an area of 120 acres. The hot spring water flows out of granite 600 meters underground, which has good physiotherapy, health care and health care. effect.

The hot springs are divided into fragrant flower area, volcanic activity area, and bamboo forest medicinal bath area. Because it is now summer, the fragrant flower area is open. There are many soup ponds in Xianghua District, such as lotus soup, milk bath, ginseng soup, angelica soup, etc. In addition, there are also low-temperature ponds, etc.

Sembola open-air soaking pools are scattered in the quiet valleys of towering ancient trees, flowers, plants and bamboo forests. The green mountains and springs are good for health and nourishing the heart. In addition, they are backed by tens of thousands of acres of forest parks. They are actually a beautiful place for leisure and health.

It is really very interesting to soak in the hot springs in this beautiful environment. If you soak in the water leisurely, the scenery in front of you and the sound of nature bring comfort.

Moreover, the hot spring employees insist on cleaning and disinfecting every day. After the end of business every day, drain the hot spring water from all soaking pools to carry out comprehensive cleaning and disinfection. They can soak with peace of mind and soak in Sembola. It's really right.

It was getting late, so we simply took our children to experience it for a short time, and took the opportunity to let them learn some knowledge about hot springs, the functions of various flowers and trees, etc., so that they could be taught for fun. After all, in Guangdong, it is common to soak in hot springs.

After breakfast early the next morning, we arrived at the Wonderful World of Sembola as planned. It consists of four parts: Poppy Sheep Paradise, Fantasy Jurassic, Wonderful Wetland Island, and Ancient Forest Castle Waterfall. One word is used here to describe it as "playing", and two words to describe it as "joy".

There are about 30 groups of mobile game equipment in Bobby Sheep Park. Everyone can freely choose what to play with according to their different ages and preferences. Some exciting ones, such as free fall, shark roller coasters, rocking flying chairs, insect bumper cars, etc., and some are relatively mild ones, such as a carry-go-round, elephant park, colorful Ferris wheel, etc.

Each item is charged separately, and you can also buy a set of cards for more cost-effective! We played the shark roller coaster, merry-go-round, elephant park, bumper cars, etc., and also rode the colorful Ferris wheel.

When you are tired from playing, you can rest while swinging under the shade of the trees next to you, and also take advantage of the opportunity to replenish some moisture for the children.

After playing Bobbi Sheep Paradise, we followed the colorful forest road to the fantasy Jurassic. In the largest Shaleng rainforest kingdom in South China, the fantasy Jurassic has the current giant simulated dinosaur group in Asia ~

I don't know if every child, especially boys, has dinosaurs in their hearts. It seems that all babies are looking forward to dinosaurs. Before setting off here, they told him that they would see dinosaurs, and they kept talking all morning. I want to see dinosaurs.

As a veteran dinosaur lover, my child can remember the names of most dinosaurs. As soon as he came in, he shouted: Tyrannosaurus rex, Tyrannosaurus rex.

A plank road surrounds the mountain, and various dinosaurs can be found in the forest from time to time. There are more than 30 kinds of dynamic and high-simulation real-life dinosaurs, with nearly a hundred of them. All of them have introduced the world's top technology. Accompanied by the shocking cries, the dinosaurs can move their necks, heads, eyes, mouths and tails, restoring the true appearance of the dinosaurs to the greatest extent.

The two giant dragons on the roadside excited the child.

On the way from the Jurassic to the Wonderful Wetland Island, there is a forest theater, which coincides with the performance on the whole time. It is fun to watch acrobatics, werewolf stage plays, Sichuan opera face-changing, etc.

The last stop, we came to the Wonderful Wetland Island. The Wonderful Wetland Island is connected by several independent islands in the center of the lake. The entire wetland island has the theme of "environmental protection" and is connected by small wooden bridges permeated with elegant ancient charm., and various carefully designed water and land expansion projects are flexibly distributed.

Wetlands are the areas with the richest species of animals and plants. Various waterbirds live happily here, and the blooming flowers and greenery all year round are pleasing to the eye.

After dinner, it was still early and the weather cooled down, so we took the baby to go for a walk in Sempola Square. Sempola Square at night presented a dreamy scene.

Bright lights, fire trees and silver flowers, different colors of lights, and different scenes created by different trees and flowers are simply works of art. It is like walking into a beautiful and dreamy fairy tale forest and starting a dream journey...

"Eat, drink, have fun and stay","eating" is definitely the highlight of the journey! With our two children, we didn't want to eat outside the hotel and chose to eat directly at the hotel. But I have to say that there are two restaurants in the Sembora Resort Forest that you can't miss!

Here are two favorite Western restaurants of the little mythical beasts.

The restaurant is located on the first floor of the hotel. It not only provides nutritious and a wide variety of Chinese and Western buffet breakfast in the morning, but also provides a dazzling array of dishes for the evening buffet dinner.

There are many desserts, which are very exquisite and appetizing. Sushi, salad, and desserts are so sweet that you can taste it.

The cooked food area mainly contains all kinds of meat, including chickens, geese, ducks, fish, etc., which is the gospel of the meat eating party.

The current order is fried steak, which is tender and tender. You can tell how popular it is by looking at the queue. The most popular one is seafood. How can it be so fresh! A large plate was consumed in seconds, but fortunately, the waiter immediately replenished a large plate before I ate it. There are also many fruits, with diverse varieties, each choosing what it likes. Hami melons, watermelon, help yourself.

Another restaurant is the Sembora Jungle Restaurant next to the Wonderful World, which can be directly accessed from the scenic area

The restaurant has a unique design style, the lobby is super-high and pillarless hall is magnificent, and the private rooms are natural and elegant!

It is mainly based on local specialties. Qingyuan's cuisine is still very famous. Of course, you will have a feast when you arrive here.

The meat quality of Qingyuan white-cut chicken becomes more tender and juicy through this cooking method, and it is so delicious that it can't stop!

Roast chicken baked in volcanic mud: Roast chicken is often eaten, but roast chicken baked in volcanic mud is probably only available in Sempola

Mustard cowboy bones, stewed tofu, stewed goose, chopped pepper fish, etc. are all good recommended dishes!

In two days and one night, I finished visiting the core scenic spots dominated by Sempola. In fact, if I have enough time, I can still play more in-depth. I have played many places and many projects once and still want to play it a second time. I shouted that I would stay for a few more days before going home. haha. But it doesn't matter. If there are regrets, there are expectations. Good things are worth experiencing and pursuing again, right?