On the weekend of April 18, my friend who was running a marathon WeChat account has been in Shenzhen since the Spring Festival and wanted to come and relax. I happened to see an inn in Yangshuo that I had visited before posting a circle of friends. It was very attractive and there was no one in Yangshuo. I said, why not spend it together in Yangshuo to relax?

One Yangshuo County. Inn. West Street

So I drove 450 kilometers and arrived at Yangshuo County at 5 p.m. that day. As soon as I entered the intersection in the center of the county-Shima Panpan, I arrived at the thought-provoking inn-Huanghe Boutique Hotel. The hotel is only more than 700 meters away from Yangshuo High-speed Railway and County Station. It is the best choice for high-speed railway or self-driving tourists.

The hotel is decorated in a post-modern style, simple and return to nature. The inspiration of the designer suddenly appears. The room facilities are equipped according to standards. The building materials, furniture, and bedding are pure natural and environmentally friendly. Each room has a balcony and tea set. The beds are designed in a user-friendly manner to provide high-quality sleep mode. Branded bathrooms and complete toiletries, hot water supply 24 hours a day, and smooth WIFI coverage.

On the first floor of the hotel, there is a coffee and music bar. Self-baked coffee, German beer, homemade juice yogurt, and local seasonal specialty fruits are fragrant, creating a lazy leisure space and petty bourgeoisie feelings. You can accidentally encounter music, food, tourism, photography, design, and IT enthusiasts who drink slowly may be able to make a good story.

You can relax completely after a day of play, or you don't want to go anywhere. Overlooking the mountains from the balcony or having a cup of coffee on the first floor, reading in a daze and drinking afternoon tea are all good choices for your comfortable journey.

In the evening, the coffee music bar has lyrical music and various drinks to accompany you late into the night. The small shop is a door for you to open up more beautiful mountains and rivers. It is both quiet and noisy, literary and fireworks. Let the worldly dust flow slowly and enjoy your pleasant and lazy journey.

After checking into the hotel, my friends and I went for a stroll on West Street. I came out and found that locals did not wear masks, and only foreign tourists were fully armed. This place is simply a paradise!

Walking for more than ten minutes, you will reach West Street. Unfortunately, the bamboo rafts built on the street of Laoxi Street Bar are lined with mountains of construction, and old signboards are being demolished and renovated. Walking towards Yitian West Street, the night is fading, the lights are dense, and the handsome little brother Playing on the tambourine still conveys warmth and dreams, making people linger.

Listening to the song, when we saw exquisite ornaments, we stuck them in and played with them carefully. When we encountered novel gadgets, we also looked at them for a long time until we sat down to order order and drank Guilin local beer. We found that it was already past eight o'clock.

Erxingping Ancient Town. Twenty yuan scenic spot. Laozhai Mountain

The next day, the fog was hazy. After I started to move and stand on the pile again, my friend had already come back from a 16-kilometer run from the Shili Gallery. She excitedly showed me the pictures she took. She said it was so fun that no one was on the way. I met a tourist runner halfway down the road and ran from the Yulong River. The two of them also ran for a while together. The greenway was beautiful, the river course and river scenery were beautiful. I simply had no words, so let's go straight to the picture. There is a rice noodle shop right in front of the inn. Two liang rice noodles cost six yuan, three liang rice noodles, and seven yuan. You can add cabbage, peppers, and fried soybeans as you please. Unfortunately, the rice noodle shop did not fully "resume work" and did not eat stewed vegetable powder, only soup powder, but it does not prevent us from experiencing the delicacy of Guilin rice noodles. Please leave a little regret when we come back next time.

After eating the noodles, we set off for Xingping Ancient Town, which is the 20-yuan Internet celebrity check-in spot scenic spot.

After leaving the county seat, it only takes more than 20 minutes to follow the navigation to Xingping Ancient Town. The road is full of horseshoes with pink flowers. Coupled with the drizzling rain and fog, it's like a fairy. The car is cruising among the flower trees in the mountains. It's so beautiful, and then I remembered that we had forgotten to take pictures. Fortunately, the closer we get to the ancient town, the smaller the rain, and the rain stops when we get to the ancient town.

The roads in the ancient town are clearly marked. As soon as we entered the archway with the ancient town written, we saw road signs pointing to the bamboo raft terminal and the parking lot. We drove the car into the free parking lot under the market opposite the police station nearby. Later, we found that this might be the only free parking lot in the ancient town, and the parking space is very abundant, but it is relatively dark. Be careful when driving in, and just pay attention to the electric vehicles around the market when driving out. It's actually very close to the dock from here, about 600 meters, so there's no need to drive in.

The early morning in the ancient town is very quiet. People who get up early have already opened their shops. The stone roads, cornices, and house numbers are all so interesting. Passing through the streets of the ancient town, we came to the bamboo raft dock by the Li River. The Yangtze River is close to the mountains. The 20-yuan mountain stands across the water. The wind is blowing and the warm air calls us. Bamboo raft tours are currently subject to an isolation system, which means that it is not that people who come together cannot build a raft (the smallest raft can accommodate 4 people). Single tourists have to pack the entire raft and buy 4 seats. So we abandoned the boat and climbed the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain on the left hand side of the dock, a stone brick with a height of thirty to forty centimeters is engraved with an upward red arrow, which leads to Laozhai Mountain. Laozhai Mountain is a stalagmite mountain next to the Li River at the cruise terminal in Xingping Town, with an altitude of more than 300 meters.

In 1996, a Japanese named Lin Kezhi came to Xingping Town. He is a travel enthusiast. When he came to Xingping, he saw Laozhai Mountain standing beside the Li River and was deeply fascinated by the beautiful scenery here.

Friends who have been to Yangshuo all know that the mountains here are tall and steep, and there is almost no place to climb. Lin Kezhi and the local construction team rented ropes and equipment and spent a day climbing to the top of Laozhai Mountain. The moment he reached the summit, he was shocked by the scenery in front of him. After descending the mountain, he decided to live in Xingping Town and guard this mountain. He returned to Japan and raised 100,000 yuan. The 100,000 yuan in 1996 was not a small amount, but it was still difficult to build a winding road. So in the following year, he and the workers used their shoulders to carry cement, sand, stones and various materials up the mountain, smashed the stones with a hammer, and laid 1159 steps up section by section. A pavilion was built at the top of the mountain, named the Friendship Pavilion. He opened an Laozhai Mountain Hotel at the foot of the mountain. Another sign was the Xingping China-Japan Cultural Exchange Center in Yangshuo County, Guilin City. The international column soldier who "traveled around the world to help the poor" eventually settled in Xingping, married a Chinese wife, and gave birth to his child Lin Xitoro.

Everyone in Xingping knows that this stubborn old Japanese man has a lovely Chinese son. However, the business of Laozhai Mountain Hotel has not been good in recent years. Because the road up the mountain was built by Lin Kezhi himself, Lin Kezhi went up the mountain every few days to collect all the garbage left behind along the road. Each cleaning up would take more than five hours. It would take more than an hour for most people to go up and down the mountain.

Many people lived in his house when they came here. When they left, they would leave messages on a stone board. Lin Kezhi carved down and preserved all the messages written on the stone board. Many years later, many people could still find their original memories when they returned there.

He originally thought that Mr. Lin would stay in Laozhai Mountain to retire as he wished. However, when he visited Mr. Lin again four years ago, he wanted to sell the home he had worked hard to build here for 19 years. Due to competition caused by the explosive growth of tourism, more and more hostels are being built in the town, because the 69-year-old needs to return to Japan for medical insurance and elderly care.

Now Mr. Lin no longer lives here, but this mountain, as well as the mountain road, remembers the old man's wish at the moment on the mountain.

Climbing Laozhai, you will see mountains, deltas, the division and confluence of the Li River, and the most beautiful karst landform.

Going down the mountain at noon, I had pot rice in the ancient town and bought five or six kinds of chili sauce and beef sauce. The consumption in the ancient town was lower than that in Yangshuo County, and the folk customs were simple and enjoyable.

Sanxingping Xitang. tianhu

After a short rest, we navigated to Xitang Village, Xingping, and wandered around the east bank of the Li River, the Tianhu hidden among the mountains.

Xitang Village is a small village on the east bank of the Lijiang River in the peak forest depression. The newly built Yangxing Highway passes through the side. Although it is remote, it is convenient to enter and exit. There are three natural lakes in front of the village, covering an area of nearly a thousand acres and a water depth of 8 meters. Mountains stand tall and densely covered with peak forests. Tianhu is about 4 kilometers away from the Li River. It is a karst lake hanging 100 meters above the Li River. Such a rare geological landscape is actually rare in Yangshuo, where the karst landform is the most well-developed.

Since we are enjoying the beautiful scenery on the winding mountain road, we don't consume much physical strength. The observation deck has been repaired on the bus, which is very beautiful and convenient. Looking at the scenery from above is often particularly spectacular and beautiful, and the towering peaks and forests around it further highlight the beauty and tranquility of the lake.

These unconventional routes are very suitable for interesting friends who like to play outdoors.

Starting from Yangshuo County to the front line of Xitang Tianhu (now called the east bank of the Li River), it is worth seeing including the essence of the Li River, the lawn tourist town, Dawei Ancient Town, Gudong Waterfall, Guanyan, etc. Not far further forward, Xitang had just entered Caoping Township. There was a mountain canyon that was quite majestic and magnificent at a glance.

Take advantage of the occasion and return late. A fighter who completely abandoned the depression of isolation and returned home the next day was full of blood.