Expected itinerary for Yangshuo, Guilin in 2016

The 21st bullet train D28038: 08-10:30, lasting 2 hours and 22 minutes

Prepare to play: Night tour of the two rivers and four lakes of Li Zongren's former residence in Guilin Museum in Xiangshan Scenic Area

Half-day tour of Gudong Waterfall at around 8 a.m. on the 22nd

Afternoon Duxiu Peak Wangcheng Scenic Area

At 7 a.m. on the 23rd, Yangdi-Jiuma Huashan River Drifting Day Tour

On the 24th, Yangshuo Cycling Shili Gallery Scenic Area

Yeyou West Street

25 Longjing River Drifting in Yangshuo Park

Return to Guilin on the 26th and return to Guiyang

D283819:35-22:09 It lasted 2 hours and 34 minutes

The real journey:

On the morning of July 21, since the alarm clock was set at 5:30 on the previous day, the family of three had already left at 6:10. They spent 26 yuan in front of their home to take a taxi to North Railway Station. At 6:50, they were already in the 15 waiting room of North Railway Station. It was time to have bread and breakfast! One hour later, the ticket was checked in at 7:56 and the train D2803 left on time at 8:8. The train stopped at three stations on the way-Congjiang, Sanjiang South Railway Station and Guilin West Railway Station. The train started very quickly and in less than 5 minutes, the speed of the train has increased to 190 kilometers per hour, and the top speed of the train has reached 248 kilometers per hour. The scenery outside the window flashed by, and my ears felt swollen. My son fell asleep as soon as he got on the bus. I kept looking at the numbers displayed on the speed meter. I didn't feel too excited when I took the train for the first time, but it felt different from riding a train. There was no obvious deceleration of the train and no other train cars appeared outside the window. The scientific and technological progress of the times was too great!

Arrive at Congjiang Station at 9:35, 2 minutes early.

Arrived at Sanjiang South Railway Station at 9:59, 1 minute late.

Arrived at Guilin West Railway Station at 10:32, 2 minutes late. Guilin West Railway Station has not been completely built yet. Compared with Guiyang North Railway Station, it is nothing compared to the same. The road entering the city has not been repaired, and the bumpy and uneven highlands along the way are recommended. Friends who are traveling to Guilin choose Guilin North Railway Station.

At 10:46, take Guilin No. 22 bus to Guilin Station. It takes 1 hour and 10 minutes. It takes 20 minutes to walk from Guilin Station to Xingjinxi Town-Mermaid Princess Love Family Fresh Two Rooms (268 yuan/day). Rice noodles are served 500 meters away from the hotel. Eat Guilin rice noodles, a total of 20 yuan, two bowls of three taels and one bowl of two taels, cheap!

Arrive at the Mermaid Princess Love Family Fresh Two-Bedroom Inn at 12:40. After a short rest, we will take a taxi for 10 yuan to Gate 2 of Elephant Trunk Mountain. Collect the ticket and enter the scenic area (45 yuan per person). Gate 2 should be the most convenient door to appreciate Elephant Trunk Mountain. As soon as you enter the gate, you will directly enter the entire Elephant Trunk Mountain. After taking a photo, you will cross the bridge 200 meters to the right to the foot of Elephant Trunk Mountain, and climb up the stairs to the top.

After descending the mountain from the other side, you will reach the nose of Elephant Trunk Mountain. At about 3:30, I left the scenic spot and came to the Central Square of Guilin. The square is a bit like the original People's Square in Guiyang. There are two triangular vertebrae, with a door in each of the vertebrae entering the ground floor of the square. The ground floor is very spacious, with one facade after another, just like the West Road of Guiyang City sells clothes, which is quite cool when it comes to it. I thought there was a restaurant under the central square, but I was disappointed to find a spicy seafood pot for dining near the central square. It tasted good. I also visited Li Zongren's former residence on the way.

At 7:20, board a boat at Wenchang Wharf in Guilin to visit the two rivers and four lakes (The ticket price is 143 yuan/person). If Elephant Trunk Mountain is the city emblem of Guilin, then the two rivers and four lakes are Guilin's business cards. The Li River, Taohua River, Ronghu Lake, Shanhu Lake, Gui Lake and Mulong Lake form Guilin's ring-city water system. It passes through 36 scenic spots such as the Sun and Moon Twin Towers, Glass Bridge, Big Banyan Tree, Laorenshan Mountain, Mulong Tower, and Fubo Mountain. I disembark at Guilin Jiefang Bridge Terminal at 9 o'clock. What impressed me more is that the lake is high and the river is low. There is a drop of about four meters, which makes it like the Three Gorges Dam

The landing and landing aircraft, as well as all the scenic spots under the illumination of the lights, are gorgeous and complement each other, which is pleasing to the eye. Return to the hostel at 9:30

At 8:10 am on July 22, get on the bus at Guilin Railway Station and head for Gudong Waterfall (90 yuan per person, shuttle bus). After an hour and a half to arrive, the waterfall is divided into two sections. The first section is not for people under the age of 14 and over 60 years old. Before climbing, you need to purchase safety suits, which are divided into two types. One is straw sandals, helmet, mobile phone waterproof bag. The price is 10 yuan, and the other is the first three items plus raincoat (It is recommended that friends who go in the future buy a raincoat, otherwise their clothes and pants will be all wet.) The price is 15 yuan. Except for the helmet that needs to be returned after climbing, everything can be taken away. Although the attraction is called Gudong Waterfall, it is actually a mountain and water flowing down from the mountains.

After passing two large rocks, cut some steps on the rocks for easy climbing. It takes about 40 minutes to climb the entire waterway. After going up the mountain, you have to pass a sling bridge. The number of people crossing the bridge is limited, and the shaking is severe. After crossing the sling bridge I spent 20 yuan playing with a zip line, and then followed the stone brick road

Down the mountain, some words are engraved on each brick to teach tourists Guilin dialect. The pronunciation and meaning of Guilin dialect are very interesting. The whole journey will be completed in about three and a half hours.

It is nearly two o'clock when I returned to Guilin, and I rushed to Duxiu Peak Royal City Scenic Area without stopping.(Tickets are 55 yuan per person). In addition to boarding

In addition to the deep impression on Shangfeng, the entire attraction is a scam. They want to trick tourists into buying the so-called "Taisui" rubbings of their destiny. They are speechless!

Eat wild fish and spicy crab at a food stall near the hotel in the evening.

Get on the bus and head to Yangshuo at 7:30 a.m. on July 23. Originally, she planned to take a car to Yangshuo, but Yang Di felt that it was convenient to join the tour group halfway between Guilin and Yangshuo, so she booked a one-day group tour online for pure tours such as the Lijiang River, Yangdi-Jiuma Huashan Bamboo Raft Rafting, Yinziyan Scenic Area, etc., at 555 yuan per person. However, due to the raft strike at Yangdi Wharf, the travel agency adjusted the itinerary and changed the bamboo raft rafting to Yangshuo Shutong Mountain Wharf, so she missed the most beautiful scenery of the Li River, which is worthy of its reputation. Sitting on a bamboo raft and enjoying the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, like crazy

I was drunk and had a queue for about 30 minutes on the raft. There were many people. If I didn't take a bamboo raft, it would be a waste of my trip. Only Shutong Mountain Wharf in the section from Guilin to Yangshuo could open rafts, so it was crowded with people. Go to Xingping Ancient Town and the Twenty-Yuan Pattern Attractions at 10:30, and eat at your own expense halfway.

As a farmhouse, Xingping Ancient Town is very small, not even one-tenth of the size of Qingyan Ancient Town, let alone Dali Ancient Town! After that, we went to Yinziyan. Yinziyan was named after the glowing stalactites on the wall. It was well developed. Some warm warning signs appeared from time to time during the game, such as "Upstairs

Ladder." "Be careful about your head", the guide is also very professional. The maximum drop in the cave is 48 meters, and unknowingly it has climbed to a height of 48 meters in 50 minutes. After the group tour, we stayed in Yangshuo and booked the parent-child room at Yangshuo West Street Jingwei Huakai Inn on Tujia. com (RMB 674 for three nights). The room was clean and fresh. The owner was a painter.

He also made some self-made postcards to send to guests. For dinner, we had Yangshuo's most famous Third Sister Xie Beer and Lipu Taro Buzz Pork. After eating, we visited Yangshuo

West Street was still possible at first, but then there were more and more people. Anyway, we still had time to come again, so we returned to the hotel first.

On July 24, the departure was relatively late because only riding at the Shili Gallery was arranged today. I started at 9:00 for breakfast and rented three bicycles for 40 yuan (I rented a mountain bike for 20 yuan, which can be used for one day). There are many cycling routes in Yangshuo. Starting based on the pre-determined routes,

The weather was really hot. After riding for about five kilometers, my wife felt unwell. She stopped and stopped riding all the way. After two and a half hours, I finally arrived at the Da Banyan Scenic Area. After that, my son rested with my mother. I rode the Shili Gallery alone, and then turned back to meet in the Urban area and back to the hotel. The whole journey lasted about three and a half hours. Under the scorching sun, three bottles of 1.5L water and two bottles of 500ml water were all drunk. After a three-hour rest, we set off for Xijie to play.

Arrived at Yangshuo Bus Station 5 minutes away from the hotel at 8:30 a.m. on July 25, and boarded the special bus that runs directly to Longjing River (159 yuan per person, including pick-up and drop-off), we leave at 9 o'clock on time and arrive at the gate of Longjing River in nearly 50 minutes. Transfer to a battery car and arrive at the mountaintop rafting point in 10 minutes. The feeling of floating down from the top of the mountain is something that cannot be experienced in Guizhou. It is thrilling and exciting. When you encounter a place where you can't drift, there will be an artificial slide. The artificial slide has a big drop. It's really exciting to drift for an hour!

Back in Yangshuo, I went to Xu Beihong's former residence (under renovation), Sun Yat-sen Memorial Statue, and Yangshuo Lijiang Wharf.

I ate a famous local beer fish every day for three days in Yangshuo (23rd-Xie Sanjie Beer Fish-Sword Bone Fish, 24th-Master Beer Fish-Zhi Yi Sword, 25th-Fisherman Beer Fish-Carp)

I left for Guilin at noon on July 26. After arriving at the Guilin Museum, I realized that the entire museum had to leave regrettably during the relocation. The weather was too hot and the Guangxi

Lin has no good place to go but to Guilin West Railway Station. After sitting at Guilin West Railway Station for 3 hours, I finally set foot on my way home, 10:09

Arrived at Guiyang North Railway Station on time. After exiting the station, I went straight to the No. 261 bus. At 10:30, I got the last bus and returned home after a six-day departure!

In general, tickets to Guilin Park are generally too expensive. They may be specially booked for foreign tourists. Elephant Trunk Mountain is a must-visit to Guilin. The night tour of the two rivers and four lakes is a cruise ship with a guide to explain it. The attractions under the light are particularly dazzling! You can also travel by yourself, but you can't cover the two rivers and four lakes. Personally, you think it's enough to visit Shanhu and Ronghu Lake. There is no point in visiting Duxiu Peak in Wangcheng, and the palace does not allow you to enter. Then I will take you to a cave saying that 60 portraits of Tai Sui were made by the Ming Dynasty prince. I will find your zodiac portrait of Tai Sui, and then I will take it to a room and close the door for you to buy Tai Sui portraits or jewelry. It feels like you are in Sanya. Gudong Waterfall is more fun. Human nature likes to go up against the water. The feeling of being hit by the current when climbing the waterfall and the need to step steadily and grasp each step with both hands is also a test for the climber! While rafting on the Li River, I really felt the significance of "Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world"! Beautiful mountains and clear waters! Xingping Ancient Town is very small, less than one-tenth of Qingyan Ancient Town. There is no need to go. However, if the 20-yuan background picture is not taken by boat, it is still recommended to go to Xingping Ancient Town. The Yinziyan Cave is different from the Guizhou Cave. The Guizhou Cave is mainly long, but the Yinziyan Cave is unknowingly rising 48 meters. Looking back, the previous attractions are right at your feet. There are multiple routes to choose from for riding Shili Gallery. If you come in July and August, you can ride the Shili Gallery from Yangshuo to Yueliang Mountain, otherwise you will suffer heat stroke! Yangshuo West Street is a bustling pedestrian street, a street for shoppers, and a paradise for young people to drink! Dragon neck river warrior rafting is very exciting. Even if you fully use your imagination, you can't imagine what it feels like to rush from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain with a drop of 240 meters! Yangshuo Park is free, but it is actually like a leisure square. During the renovation of Xu Beihong's former residence, the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Statue is a statue. The Guilin Museum has a rich collection online, but unfortunately it was not appreciated during the relocation! Yangshuo has a high-speed rail station, and there are tourist buses to Xijie from the high-speed rail station. It is recommended to go directly to Yangshuo to play!

The commercial atmosphere of Yangshuo attractions in Guilin is too strong, which is what I learned from this trip.

Written in August 2016