I want to go to Guilin I want to go to Guilin

But when I have time, I have no money

I want to go to Guilin I want to go to Guilin

But when I had money, I had no time

When I was on campus, I dreamed of going to Guilin

Go to the Yangshuo Wonderland with the best mountains and rivers in the world

The water of the Li River always flows in my heart

Going to that beautiful place is my lifelong wish

There was an old grandfather who retired and had money and time

He painted me that beautiful picture

Third Sister Liu's singing and touching legends

Being there in person was the wish of the old man's life

How many people have gone to Guilin because of this song...

Highlights of this travel note

1. Thousands of beautiful pictures and tens of thousands of characters create Guilin's latest and comprehensive tourism information in all aspects.

2. Each scenic spot in the scenic spot is detailed, and it is comprehensively introduced based on my status as a tour guide and my inner world. Those who have been there are regarded as a review, and those who have not been there are regarded as a preview.

3. Most of the online strategies are "poor travel" and classmate travel. For the first time,"luxury travel" and parent-child travel are created-of course, we actually save money, and luxury is also a true feeling of ourselves.

4. Most of the scenic spots with poor reputation or few introductions on the Internet (such as Totem Ancient Road, Butterfly Spring, Gudong Waterfall, etc.) will be re-installed online to give you a more realistic understanding.

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Why choose these attractions?

Attractions forecast:

Recommendation index, personally feel very objective...

■ Guilin City:

1. Xiangshan Park: It is a symbol of Guilin, just like you must go to Tiananmen Square when you arrive in Beijing. Our impression of Guilin in our elementary school textbooks is the photo of Elephant Trunk Mountain.

Recommended ★★★

2. Seven Star Park: It is the largest comprehensive park in Guilin. Some people say that it is the essence of Guilin's mountains and rivers.

Recommended ★★★★

3. Jingjiang Palace: One of the three 5A scenic spots in Guangxi. Regarding the 5A scenic spot, there is no need to say much about its significance and scenic spot management standards.

Recommended ★★★

4. Gudong Waterfall: The only waterfall that can be climbed is still very exciting. The scenic area is much bigger than imagined, quite fun and highly entertaining. As a result, there are few comments and pictures online. In fact, the main reason is inconvenient transportation.

Recommended ★★★★

■ Yangshuo:

Recommended ★★★★

4.1 Totem Ancient Road: 90% of people on the Internet are scolding a cheating attraction, but individuals don't think so. First of all, the scenic spot does not force consumption, but there are many places to set up consumption. You can completely spend nothing. He will never force buying and selling such a large scenic spot; Secondly, it is said that artificial attractions and savages are boring, but think about it, are you still able to find real savages now? Others are just showing the current situation of people living here thousands of years ago. Everyone knows that those are actors. Relax and interact with them.

Recommended ★★★★

4.2 Butterfly Spring: 90% of people on the Internet say it is boring. Personally, I think it should be viewed dialectically. First of all, don't think you can see butterflies all over the mountains in the scenic area. The biggest advantage of this attraction is that it is a large-scale performance that comprehensively displays Miao culture."Anti-Pai Wood Drum Dance" has also been included in the world cultural material heritage. Imagine, if you watch such a performance at the Chang 'an Theater in Beijing, the average seats will cost 500 to 600.

Recommended ★★★

4. Gudong Waterfall: The only waterfall that can be climbed is still very exciting. The scenic area is much bigger than imagined, quite fun and highly entertaining. As a result, there are few comments and pictures online. In fact, the main reason is inconvenient transportation.

Recommended ★★★★

■ Yangshuo:

1. Li River: Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world, and Yangshuo's mountains and rivers are the best in Guilin. In fact, one sentence should be added: The mountains and rivers of the Li River are superior to Yangshuo. I can guarantee that 99.999% of tourists going to Guilin must go to the Li River. Its beauty and reputation are beyond doubt.

Recommended ★★★ ★★

2. Yinziyan: I can only say that if you go to Yinziyan, you don't have to go to all the caves in the country. Among the dozens of caves in Guilin, Yinziyan must be the best, NO1.

Recommended ★★★ ★★

3. West Street: When you come to Yangshuo for tourism, 90% of the accommodation is in Yangshuo County. It seems that there is no place you can't go.

Recommended ★★★ ★★

4. Shili Gallery: If you just play in the water, climb mountains, and visit caves in Yangshuo, I'm afraid it will be a bit monotonous. Riding a tour of the Shili Gallery is recognized as the best way to travel.

Recommended ★★★★

4.1 Totem Ancient Road: 90% of people on the Internet are scolding a cheating attraction, but individuals don't think so. First of all, the scenic spot does not force consumption, but there are many places to set up consumption. You can completely spend nothing. He will never force buying and selling such a large scenic spot; Secondly, it is said that artificial attractions and savages are boring, but think about it, are you still able to find real savages now? Others are just showing the current situation of people living here thousands of years ago. Everyone knows that those are actors. Relax and interact with them.

Recommended ★★★★

4.2 Butterfly Spring: 90% of people on the Internet say it is boring. Personally, I think it should be viewed dialectically. First of all, don't think you can see butterflies all over the mountains in the scenic area. The biggest advantage of this attraction is that it is a large-scale performance that comprehensively displays Miao culture."Anti-Pai Wood Drum Dance" has also been included in the world cultural material heritage. Imagine, if you watch such a performance at the Chang 'an Theater in Beijing, the average seats will cost 500 to 600.

Recommended ★★★

4.3 Da banyan tree: 90% of people on the Internet say there is no need. I don't object to this. It's really unnecessary. The scenic area is very small, just a tree. It's just that I think it's cheap. The store is 20 yuan. In fact, everyone must have bought it for 10 yuan. After all, the size and area of this tree... Anyway, I haven't seen it before in my age. It's 10 yuan. Why should I regret it when I passed by? Even if you have to pass through the door, come in and have a look.

Recommended ★★

5. Yulong River: 100% reviews online. Individuals also think that Yulong River is the most beautiful of all attractions. Must go!

Recommended ★★★ ★★

6. Impression of Sister Liu: The scene is grand, Lao Mozi's works are very sensational, the picture is very beautiful, and it is quite worth it!

Recommended ★★★★

7. Xanadu: Listening to the name, you want to go, but facts prove that you will not regret it at all.

Recommended ★★★★

■ Long Sheng:

Longji Terrace: Needless to say, I highly recommend it. When I arrive in Guilin, I suggest going first, so as not to say that I didn't have enough time and couldn't go.

Recommended ★★★ ★★

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The itinerary is specially marked.

D1: Flight to Beijing-Guilin in the morning, check into Vienna Hotel in Guilin at noon, visit Xiangshan Park in the afternoon, have dinner at Chunji Roast Goose, and cruise on two rivers and four lakes in the evening. Stay at Vienna Hotel Guilin.

D2. In the morning, Guilin-Yangdi, drift Yangdi-Xingping, have lunch at a farmhouse along the Li River, and then go to Yinziyan and stay in Yangshuo Hongguan.

D3. Visit Shili Gallery all day long (attractions include Ancient Totem Road, Butterfly Spring, and Big Banyan Tree), and watch "Impression of Third Sister Liu" at night. Lives in Yangshuo Hongguan.

D4: Xanadu in the morning, a local chicken restaurant at noon, and rafting in the Yulong River in the afternoon (reverse drift in the first half of the day), and staying at Hongguan in Yangshuo.

D5: In the morning, Yangshuo-Guilin, at noon, at Guilin's Agan Restaurant, and in the afternoon, go to Gudong Waterfall to stay in Longji Terrace

D6; One-day trip to Longji Terrace, return to Guilin to stay at Vienna Hotel in the evening

D7; Jingjiang Palace in the morning, Qixing Park in the afternoon, back to Beijing

pre-departure preparation

1. Clothing, shoes

Because when we went there, it was the summer rainy season in Guilin, and the weather was quite sultry. Even I, who lives in Beijing all year round, couldn't stand it. Although it rains often, it usually does not rain for more than 20 minutes. In this process, it is the most fatal thing. As we all know, when it's about to rain, the air is like a steamer. What about it after the rain? It's direct sun again... It is strongly recommended that you must bring quick-drying clothes, preferably one piece (or set) a day, and only a pair of beach shoes are needed.

2. Hat, sunglasses, shawl, sunscreen

It is best to wear a hat to protect you from the sun. Girls should remember to wear a shawl or headscarf and wrap it up. It can not only protect against sun, prevent sand and resist cold. Be sure to wear sunglasses. Too strong sunlight will hurt your eyes. Apply sunscreen well before going out. Remember to apply it every few hours.

Trip cost

■ Eat:

1. Be sure to buy some vacuum-packed cooked food in the supermarket and carry it with you (such as roast chicken, ham, canned fish, etc.). Eat wherever you go. It can save you a lot of money.

2. Breakfast is about 30, lunch is about more than 200, and dinner is about 150. There are less than 400 people per day and less than 100 people.

3. Xijie must buy a group purchase, and then bring some cooked food yourself and order drinks at the restaurant. Generally, large drinks are 12 yuan, beer is 6-8 yuan, and white wine is 15-20 yuan.

4. I bought two group purchases in Yangshuo. One was worth beer fish at 199 yuan/10 dishes, and the other was Liangji beer fish at 218 yuan/11 dishes. I strongly recommend Liang Ji Beer Fish. It's better to not know it, but to be shocked! The service is enthusiastic, the quantity is large, and the taste is also positive. Liang Ji's wine prices are also much lower.

■ Accommodation:

1. Guilin Vienna Hotel 239 yuan, 2 nights (arranged by Che Li)

2. Yangshuo Red Restaurant 120 yuan, 3 nights. (You can buy a group at Meituan)

3. Longji Terrace Ethnic Hotel 100 yuan, 1 night. (Friend of Yangshuo Red Rice Owner) This room is great value!!!

■ Line:

1. Air ticket: A family of three, two big and one small, with a round-trip ticket of 40% off, totaling 7022 yuan. There is a brother-in-law pick up and drop off in Beijing. Guilin Yangshuo Longji Terrace Car Rental and Attractions: All recommended by friends are Guilin tourist pickups and reservations. Choosing a tourist chartered car must be clean and secure. We got along very well throughout the trip. If we needed a chartered car, we could + his v or q: Demon Dance Hungry Mountains Hungry Season Demon Wine

■ Total: A family of three spends about 12000 yuan.

★ Attached ★

Background music: The theme song of "Impression of Third Sister Liu","The Vines Entangling the Tree"(sung by Qi Qin and Qi Yu)

about photography

It was a backpacking trip from Beijing to Guilin. It was summer again, so I decided to streamline my operations and only bring camera lenses.

I personally carry a Nikon D7000+16-85 lens (90% of my travel notes are taken with this camera)

Wife is carrying Nikon D90+18-105 lens

After I came back, I organized everyone's photos together, and later I only used PS RAW software for simple processing, and then used light and shadow compression to add watermarks. All operations are basically batch operations, so please also tap the bricks lightly for factors such as improper watermarks, excessive colors, and improper white balance in some photos. Photo related shooting information is attached below the photos. In addition, my wife is also a rookie in photography. Sometimes, the ISO was adjusted to 1600 for night scenes the first day, but the next day she forgot to change it, and many photos showed a lot of noise or color.

food

Rice noodles, Chun Kee Roast Goose, Beer Fish, Soulon stuffed, Mugwort leaf cake, Shrimp cake, Quicksand bun, freshly squeezed mango juice, mango, yellow-skinned fruit, Thai lychee

Day 1:

After arriving at the airport, everything went smoothly. I picked up the ticket, handled the hauling, and entered the waiting room. I had a busy work. Looking at the time, I realized that there were still 40 minutes before boarding. During the time, stroll around and play with your mobile phone.

My wife is waiting for the opportunity, never forget to swipe Weibo, and she is dedicated!

I finally boarded the plane. Early flights are usually not late, just a little harder.

↓↓↓ My son lost his vitality as soon as he got on the plane and started playing mobile games.

It's a pity that I'm sitting right at the wing. Alas, I can't shoot it, and it's good to take a break.

↓↓↓ The flight took about three hours. At about 10:30, the plane landed at Guilin Liangjiang Airport. This was the trouble of hauling luggage, and it took more than 20 minutes to wait.

Two days before departure, we sent the flight number and landing time to Li, who came to pick us up at the airport. Li called me before the plane took off. He would wait for us at the airport in advance. The pick-up ticket was stamped in my name. At that time, he would pick us up at the exit with the pick-up ticket. Just pay attention to the name when leaving the station. After meeting, we introduced each other, and he helped us get on the bus with our luggage. He was very sincere and we talked and laughed along the way

↓↓↓ Guilin Xiongsen Bear Tiger Villa is the world's largest diversified wildlife base integrating the viewing, wild, scientific research and breeding of rare animals such as tigers, bears and lions. The villa is located at the large circular plate of Shatang Road, Liangjiang International Airport Road, which is more than 500,000 square meters in Guilin. It contains the only four tiger species in the world that are endangered. There are more than 300 Siberian tigers, South China tigers, Bengal tigers, and white tigers, more than 400 black bears, more than 100 lions and world-class protected animals such as leopards, snakes, monkeys, and birds. It is the world's largest scientific research, breeding, wild, viewing and amusement base for black bears and tigers. It is also the teaching and research base of the School of Wildlife Resources of Northeast Forestry University of China, and the Rare and Endangered Wildlife Rescue Research Center and feline breeding base in Guangxi, China.

We were just passing by... (The following was taken from the car)

Wuming Tower

↓↓↓↓ Sanhua Liquor, one of the "Three Treasures of Guilin", is a representative of Chinese rice-flavor liquor. It is known as the king of rice wine and the pride of Guilin people. Guilin Sanhua Liquor is favored by Chinese and foreign tourists due to its long history, unique craftsmanship and excellent quality. It is a rice-flavored Xiaoqu liquor.

This is the entrance of the winery, we were just passing by...

↓↓↓ Guilin Chuanshan Park is located in the southern suburbs of Guilin City, with Chuanshan as its axis and covering an area of about 2 square kilometers. It is one of the parks with beautiful mountains and rivers in Guilin City. Chuanshan faces Elephant Trunk Mountain across the Li River. The Guishan Mountain on the west bank of the river is shaped like two roosters fighting each other. It is collectively called Douji Mountain. There is Tashan in front of the mountain, and on the top of the mountain there is the Ming Dynasty Shou Buddha Pagoda. The Xiaodongjiang River meanders between the two mountains, and the mountains reflect the river, giving excellent scenery. There are moon rocks and rocks across the mountains. The Moon Rock is located on the mountainside, penetrating through the mountain wall. It is high, wide and clear, like a fairyland of the Moon Palace. Standing in the cave and overlooking the north and south, you can see the winding of the Li River and the scenery is endless. Chuanyan is located at the bottom of the mountain and is more than 500 meters long. In addition to stalactite, there are also rare transparent crystals in the cave-stone branches, goose pipes, etc., which are a wonderful karst landform. Chuanyan is the third large-scale karst cave opened in Guilin in recent years.

At the entrance of Guilin Chuanshan Park, we were just passing by.

Vienna Hotel 4 points

↓↓↓ Driving for about 40 minutes, at about 12 o'clock, we arrived at the Vienna Hotel (Convention and Exhibition Center) we had booked before

What a comfortable bed

↓↓↓ After we briefly washed up, the master began to drive us to lunch again. Of course, the food in the hotel is not inferior. At Guilin's ultra-luxurious Joy Club Hotel,

↓↓↓ This meal lasted more than an hour. After dinner, we returned to the hotel, simply packed up, and walked forward lightly to the first attraction on our trip to Guilin-Xiangshan Park.

Xiangshan Park

There are two reasons why I choose Xiangshan Park as my first choice. First, Elephant Trunk Mountain is after all the symbol of Guilin city, so we have to visit first, just like going to Tian 'an when we first came to Beijing; Second, it was our first time to Guilin (or to Guangxi for the first time), and our impression of Guilin still stayed on the picture of Elephant Trunk Mountain in our Chinese textbooks when we were young. This feeling arose spontaneously. Master Li helped me get the tickets in advance. He doesn't have discount children's tickets, so I have to go to the scenic spot to buy them myself. It's 37.5 yuan, and there's a change of 50 cents for the scenic spot tickets...

↓↓↓ Xiangshan Park, Fubo Park and Diecai Park are collectively known as Xiangshan Scenic Area. In December 2000, it was listed as the first batch of 4A-level scenic spots by the country. Xiangshan Scenic Area is a long-standing scenic spot in Guilin. It gathers the essence of Guilin's mountains, rivers and cultural landscapes. It is a must-visit for Chinese and foreign tourists to visit Guilin.

There are many beautiful and moving legends in Guilin's mountains and rivers, and of course Elephant Trunk Mountain also has its legends. The camel team continued to move forward. The divine elephant was taken care of and treated by people along the Li River and quickly recovered. In order to report the kindness of the people of the Lijiang River and see the beautiful mountains and rivers of Guilin, the divine elephant vowed not to return to heaven. The hilt of the sword is still exposed on the elephant's back. People who come to Guilin for tourism in the future also want to see the divine elephant.

↓↓↓ A small bridge connects...

I thought what fruit grew on the tree would be so red, but in fact... you know

↓↓↓ The back of the main entrance of the scenic area seems to be more atmospheric than the front.

↓↓↓ Elephant Trunk Mountain is also known as Xiangshan. Kong Yong, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, once described it as follows: the elephant trunk is clear to drink the Jade River, and the west wind absorbs water to respond to the waves. The green mountains are naturally unique, and you never get tired of looking at them in the daytime.

↓↓↓ Xiangshan Park is mainly composed of Elephant Trunk Mountain, located at the point where the Taohua River flows into the Li River in the city. At the southern end of Binjiang Road, it is named because its mountain shape resembles a giant elephant drawing water from the river.

Elephant Trunk Mountain is 200 meters above sea level, 55 meters higher than the river surface, 108 meters long and 100 meters wide. The mountain covers an area of 13,000 square meters and is composed of limestone dating back 360 million years.

The main attractions include Shuiyue Cave, Elephant Trunk Rock, Elephant Eye Rock, Puxian Pagoda, Yunfeng Temple and Sili Pagoda.

↓↓↓ (Sanhua Cellar)

Guilin, Guilin, cinnamon trees are forest. It is said that when osmanthus blossoms, it smells fragrant for ten miles.

In Xiangshan, Sanhua wine is fragrant and fragrant for thousands of miles. Although it is a bit exaggerated, do you smell the tempting aroma now? That's right, this is the aroma of Sanhua wine.

↓↓↓ Shuiyue Cave is 12 meters high, 9.5 meters wide and 17 meters long. It is a transparent and round hole. Whenever the river ripples in it, it is like a bright moon floating on the water, hence the name Shuiyue Cave. Whenever it is a bright moon night, you can sail on the river and enter the cave. The moon rocks on the mountain, the moon in the sky, plus the elephant's trunk and the water and moon, the March months compete, the water and moon blend, and silver sprinkles on the walls of the cave. It is so beautiful. Just as a scholar in Jibei of the Song Dynasty wrote in "Harmony Water Moon Cave Rhythm": There is a bright moon on the water, and the bright moon floats on the water. The water flow does not go away, but the water flows still when the moon goes away. In addition, the entire Shuiyue Cave is also a natural calligraphy and stone carving exhibition hall. In the cave, there are more than 50 precious stone carvings from past dynasties. Most of them were carved by people in the Song Dynasty, and the most famous of them are of course the poems and handwritten notes by the patriotic poet Lu You. In addition, Zhang Xiaoxiang's "Preface to Chaoyang Pavilion" in the Song Dynasty and Fan Chengda's "Inscription of Fushuiyue Cave" also triggered a dispute over the name of Shuiyue Cave, also known as Shuiyue Cave in history.

Seeing someone selling mangosteen, he quickly came forward. Mangosteen should be the best fruit in Guilin.

My son loves it most...

Are there many people strong?

↓↓↓ Elephant Eye Rock is located on the north and south sides of the mountainside of Elephant Trunk Mountain. It runs through each other. It is about 2 meters high, 5 - 10 meters wide, and 52.8 meters long. It is in a flat and long shape with an area of about 274 square meters.

The Elephant Eye Rock was originally an ancient underground channel that was not as long as the Elephant Trunk Rock. It was formed earlier than the Shuiyue Cave and got its name because its location happened to be at the Elephant Eye.

From the South Pole Cave at the southern foot of Xiangshan, you can climb the South Eye along the stone steps. Out of the Elephant Eye Rock, the winding mountain road leads to the top of the mountain.

In the north, there are cliffs and no steps to pass through.

The north and south holes of Elephant Eye Rock are a pair of wonderful windows from which to view the scenery.

Looking from your left eye, you can see the towering Lijiang Hotel at hand. The Urban area is lined with buildings and markets, and half of the city's mountains and bays can be vividly seen; looking from your right eye, you can see the sails of the river waves, flashing and looming among Zizhou, Tashan and Chuanshan.

Between the elephant trunk and elephant legs of Elephant Trunk Mountain, about 12,000 years ago, the earth's crust rose and the Li River shrank, accelerating the development of Shuiyue Cave and forming a round hole that is transparent from east to west.

It is 17 meters long, 9.5 meters wide, 12 meters high, and has an area of about 150 square meters.

"The Story of Xiangshan" records,"There is a stone cave that can look at each other. It is round and long in shape. Half of it enters the Li water. The water is sometimes higher and lower, so the cave is sometimes of size."

↓↓↓ Elephant Mountain is fascinating for its lifelike image. It is viewed by people as the representative of Guilin's mountains and rivers. It is the first scenic spot in Guilin and the symbol of Guilin City. The central pattern of the city emblem of Guilin City is Xiangshan.

↓↓↓ This beautiful woman's clothes are good, so she took a secretly picture of her.

↓↓↓ The misty rain of Zizhou

Across the river from Xiangshan, Zizhou is covered with green bamboos, with fruit trees and green onions, and bamboo fences and thatched houses.

In the rainy season, clouds and fog are steaming, and cottages and green trees seem to be covered with a light gauze. The ancients called it "Zizhou Yanyu".

It is listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Guilin

↓↓↓ Walking up the stairs, we have to climb the peak-to put it bluntly, a 200-meter slope.

But this damn sultry day still made me suffer. I was soaked and I couldn't stop sweating... The most miserable day in Guilin's seven days

↓↓↓ The scenery climbing up was really different, and I suddenly felt that I had gained something from hard work.

I named this photo "Meet on the Narrow Road", but my wife thinks it should be named "Passing by". What do you think?

The higher the scenery, the more beautiful the scenery!!! worth it

Looking at the road I came here, I suddenly felt a sense of conquest.

The Samannah Pagoda is located on the top of Elephant Trunk Mountain. It is a lama-style stupa built in the Ming Dynasty. The tower is 13.6 meters high. The base of the tower is a double-layered octagonal Shumi seat. Just north of the second floor, there is an image of "Nanwu Samannah Bodhisattva" carved with bluestone lines. The body of the tower is in the shape of a garden bottle, which looks like an elephant carrying a treasure vase or a sword hilt inserted on the elephant's back. Therefore, it is also called the "Treasure Bottle Tower" and the "Sword Helt Tower."

It was too hot, so I didn't go to the Puxian Tower. I just had to look out from the Jiangduiyan in a while. (Self-comfort)

Chunji Roast Goose (Qixing Store)4 points

Chunji Enterprise is located in Guilin, with the best mountains and rivers in the world. It was founded in September 1999 and is mainly engaged in Chinese catering operations. Adhering to the principle of "scoring with details? The business purpose of treating people with integrity "," understanding needs? The service concept of "Beyond Satisfaction"; represented by the brand Chunji Roast Goose, it is a high-quality dish that combines Hunan and Cantonese cuisine with local flavors. The market positioning of mass consumption has won the favor of diners.

He has successively won the title of "National Green Catering Enterprise" and "China Emphasizes Integrity? Keep the contract? Honors such as quality model enterprise "," citizen's favorite restaurant "," hygiene demonstration unit ", and" famous Chinese catering store ".

This restaurant is highly recommended. It has a level of public consumption, excellent service attitude, and the dishes are definitely the standard of a large hotel. It's a bit like Beijing's Golden Millions and Jiutouniao...

Roast goose is definitely indispensable. I ordered a Choulu Mustard Soup, two stir-fried dishes and half a dozen quicksand buns. I ate it well. Haha, the price is quite affordable. The food tastes really good

Guilin's two rivers and four lakes refer to the ring-city water system composed of the Li River, Taohua River and Rong Lake, Shan Lake, Gui Lake and Mulong Lake.

You can visit three main scenic spots with different characteristics by boat: the Chinese classical garden-Rongshan Lake Scenic Area, the ecological garden of the unity of man and man-Guihu Scenic Area, and the Song Historical and Cultural Park-Mulong Lake Scenic Area. You can also enjoy the famous mountains such as Xiangshan Mountain, Fubo Mountain, Diecai Mountain, Baoji Mountain, and Lao Manshan Mountain around the water system. You can take a small boat to enjoy the many scenic spots in the city.

As Liu Kezhuang, a poet of the Song Dynasty, described it: "Thousands of peaks stand around the countryside, and a river supports the city and flows." It fully embodies that "the city is in the scenery, and the scenery is in the city."

Guilin is a typical landscape city, and natural landscapes are the basic elements that make up Guilin's city. The newly built and dredged "Two Rivers and Four Lakes" project truly embodies the wonderful scenery of "thousands of peaks standing around the wild, and one water embracing the city flowing" and the poetic meaning of "the city is in the scenery, the scenery is in the city".

The Two Rivers and Four Lakes Scenic Area refers to the ring-city scenic belt composed of the Lijiang River (urban part), Taohua River, Ronghu Lake, Shanhu Lake, Gui Lake and Mulong Lake.

Three themed scenic spots have been developed in the scenic belt, namely: the Mulong Ancient Waterway Scenic Area, which takes the Mulong Ancient Ferry and the Ancient City Wall as the main scenery, with Baoji Mountain and Diecai Mountain as the background, and embodies the urban culture; the Guihu Scenic Area, which is characterized by the natural wild interest of mountains and forests; and the Ronghu Scenic Area, which is characterized by the urban spatial characteristics of the landscape that "the city is in the scenery and the scenery is in the city".

The landscaping of the three scenic spots, including pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions, garden buildings and celebrity sculptures, or famous flowers, famous grass, famous pavilions and Guilin Landscape Poetry Corridor, can make people feel the natural beauty and profound cultural heritage of Guilin.

The Rong Lake and Shanhu Scenic Areas are located in the center of Guilin City, adjacent to the central square in the north and facing the Li River in the east. The prosperous Zhongshan Road runs through the lake area and is an open leisure walking park in Guilin.

The history of Ronghu and Shanhu can be traced back to the Tang and Song Dynasties: at that time, there was a artificially dug canal to protect the city in the south of the city, called Nanyang River, and was called Jianhu in the Yuan Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the city was expanded to become an inner lake. Since the Ming Dynasty, Guilin has become the center of cultural activities. It has successively built the Wumeitang Villa of Taiwanese governor and celebrity Tang Jingsong, the ancestral residence of Wang Pengyun, the ancestral residence of the Qing Dynasty's great poet, the official residence of Li Zongren, the official residence of the Kuomintang acting president, Bai Chongxi's Guilu, and the residence of educator Ma Junwu.

At 8 o'clock on time, we boarded the cruise ship-an air-conditioned luxury cruise ship. The three of us sat down. Tickets were booked by the master before,

↓↓↓ Let's set sail...

By the way, I would like to talk about the photography of night cruises in the two rivers and four lakes.

The ship is moving, and there are many ships passing by, which is very uneven, which means that you are on a moving object

Neon lights change quickly, and the strong light is a little dazzling, so the photos taken are inevitably overexposed.

There are glass around the cruise ship, so you have to take pictures through the glass, which makes me even more depressed...

Occasionally I will let you go to the deck, but that is in batches. I can't even stay for 5 minutes and let you come down, alas...

So, in this case, regarding camera settings, it is recommended to:

ISO: 1600 or above

Aperture: Adjust as large as possible. You'd better have a large aperture lens (above F2.8), so that your shutter speed can be guaranteed to be above 30.

Speed: Be sure to ensure that it is at least 1/30 or more, but remember that you cannot use flash for night shots, unless you can use the flash back curtain to synchronize when shooting portraits.

Focus: Wherever it is bright.

Format: RAW, white balance automatic, optimization standard automatic (can also reduce noise later)

There are indeed very few photos taken on cruise ships on the Internet. I am now uploading all of them and willing to share them with you.

If you really want to take a good night picture of the two rivers and four lakes, then it's simple. Bring a tripod instead of taking a cruise ship. Take pictures slowly on the shore, and you'll definitely take a big picture.

Tip: There is a tour guide on each boat explaining the pictures and texts of the following attractions. I remembered them clearly at that time, but I forgot them when I came back. The pictures and texts did not match, so everyone only used them for reference.

The most interesting thing about night cruises on the two rivers and four lakes is this. Whenever the boat passes by a place, the shore will sing, sing, or dance to welcome tourists. This scene can be seen everywhere in Guilin.

glass bridge

Located to the west of Yangqiao, it is the sightseeing bridge in Ronghu Scenic Area. It is the first practical bridge in my country with a special crystal glass frame. The bridge is 22.4 meters long and 2.64 meters wide. Whether it is the external facade, the roof of the rain corridor or the bridge deck, crystal glass with exquisite craftsmanship and sophisticated shape is used as the building components. Bridge components and ornaments such as pillars and railings are also made of crystal glass. Specially cast. The bridge corridor is in European style. Whether you look from afar or close, the crystal glass bridge looks crystal clear, lovely and charming.

Furong Lang

It is located on the bank of Rongnan Lake, opposite the big banyan tree. In the Qing Dynasty, this place was the tomb of Luo Chen, a famous painter in Guilin.

Living in the location of "Furong Chi Pavilion". Rongxi Bridge is located to the east of Ronghu Restaurant, close to Bai Chongxi's former residence, and on the west side it is adjacent to Guilin Library. The bridge type is born out of the famous ancient bridge in China, Zhaozhou Bridge. It is simple and calm. The railings and arches are carved from white marble. The dragon head sculpture in the center of the bridge arch is meticulous and extraordinary. The bottom of the bridge is carved with flying phoenixes, surrounded by auspicious clouds, pursuing the traditional realm of echoing the dragon's wind.

The Twin Towers of Shanhu were built on the southeast side of Shanhu. A 41-meter-high nine-story copper tower rises into the lake, and a 35-meter-high seven-story glazed tower stands on Shanhu Island. The two towers are connected by an 18-meter-long underwater aquarium. All components of the copper tower, such as tower brakes, tile surfaces, angled corners, bucket arches, etc., are cast and forged from copper, creating three tallest in the world, namely, the tallest copper tower, the tallest copper building, and the tallest underwater tower. The decoration technique of the glazed tower is full of traditional Chinese charm. The twin towers complement each other, becoming a new tourist landscape in the center of the city.

invitation platform

On the bank of Dongrong Hunan, there is a sculpture of Wang Pengyun from the Qing Dynasty. The stone platform on which he stood, called the invitation platform, was built on the site of Wang Pengyun's ancestral residence in Xiyuan (Qing Dynasty-Da Private Garden).

There is sound under the bridge and murals on the bridge walls. It's amazing and enjoyable.

Lake heart Island

Located in the center of Dongrong Lake, it is connected to the ancient south gate through the Beidou Bridge. The creek in the island divides the island into two islands. The water system is stacked with stone ecological embankments. The white marble dragon boat on the island, as well as lake center pavilions, corridors, small flying rainbow, small pavilion, etc., elegant and exquisite, with a configuration of up to 5 . A 6-meter moon gate made of a whole piece of granite and many viewing stones.

The island is picturesque all the time, like a beautiful mountain pavilion. Tang Jingsong Sculptures On the southeast of the island in the center of the lake, a bronze carved figure shines into the eye; this is a sculpture by Tang Jingsong, a famous scholar in Guilin who was once the governor of Taiwan. Tang Jingsong is one of the top ten operas in China and an admirer of Gui Opera. He once built a Wumeitang Villa on the bank of Rong Lake.

yangqiao

It is located in the middle of Zhongshan Middle Road, crossing the Rong Lake and Shan Lake. It is the main road leading the ancient city of Guilin from south to north. It was built in the Song Dynasty and was called Qingdai Bridge, also known as Tongji Bridge. During the Xuanhe period, Luyuan was rebuilt and rebuilt many times later. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Jiao Zhongcai, the prefect of Guilin, built it out of stone and changed its name to Yangqiao.

Today's Yang Bridge was rebuilt at the end of the 20th century. It is designed based on the Vitmar Bridge in the Vatican Cathedral. It is 37 meters long and 50 meters wide. The bridge style is dignified and elegant, concise.

The two bridge holes in the north and south of Yangqiao are underground street crossings, with embossed pictures reflecting Guilin's historical figures carved inside.

yingbin bridge

It is a special welcome bridge from Yiwu Road to Ronghu Hotel and State Guesthouse. It is 35 . 5 meters. Width 6 . The 5-meter-high steel box girder deck is made of white marble and steel cables. The design is influenced by the Budapest Lock Bridge. It is also said that this bridge is the perfect combination of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and the traditional Chinese suspension bridge, which well expresses the master's triumphant and home away from home.

The center of the door arch is carved with the Guilin emblem, and the embossed on the door top is carved with Guilin's history.

The bridge is simple and simple in shape and has a long charm. It echoes the quiet and profound guest house, reminding people of the history of the castle and has a strong European classical style.

Gurongshuang Bridge

The span is 5 . 7 meters, the single-hole bridge is 4 meters wide and the bridge length is 22 meters. 6 meters, located in the middle section of Rongyin embankment in the middle of Ronghu Lake, like a ribbon tying out the beautiful curve of Ronghu Lake. Standing on the bridge and viewing the scenery, the former residence of Tang Jingsong in Nantong, gazing at the ancient south gate in the north, and the Beixing Bridge in the east. It is like a moon, looking west at the top of the Monkey Mountain, the lake on both sides is clear and green, and the camphor forest is surrounded by green. The bridge draws on the Tianbao Bridge in Yuanmingyuan. It is a three-hole double-arched white jade bridge. It is bright and peaceful and has an elegant posture, recreating the elegant situation of "two rivers sandwiching the bright moon, and two bridges falling on the rainbow".

Guilin landscape poetry inscriptions

From the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the present, literati and literati have come to Guilin for various reasons, been fascinated by Guilin's mountains and rivers, and wrote countless praising poems. Many of them carved poems and poems on the rocks of Guilin, forming a long-standing cliff stone carving culture. There are 37 such poem inscriptions around Rong and Shan Lake.

These inscriptions have two contents: one is ancient poems chanting banyan trees, the scenery of fir lakes and poems with historical connections with surrounding scenery; the other is a famous masterpiece praising Guilin in ancient and modern times.

day 2

Vienna Guilin Qixing Store

D2 Lijiang River, Yinziyan, Yangshuo West Street

It was just 7 o'clock in the morning, and he was still asleep when he was awakened by Da Bao. He may have to wake up at 7 o'clock every day because of going to school. Okay, get up. The breakfast buffet at the Vienna Hotel was okay. After a crazy meal, I felt the famous "Guilin rice noodles" for the first time. However, the driver told me that authentic Guilin rice noodles should be eaten at a roadside stall. That would be authentic. 3.5 yuan/bowl. I hope I have a chance.

We are going to Yangshuo soon. We are bidding farewell to Guilin and Vienna for the time being and are about to check out.

It is estimated that the owner of this hotel is a football fan and it is during the World Cup period. The entire hotel lobby is filled with the World Cup atmosphere. Hehe, it is also a feature and scenery.

At 8 o'clock, we drove on the road on time,

Lijiang River Rafting (Yangdi-Xingping Section)5 minutes

On the way to Yangdi, the scenery on both sides is beautiful, but the road conditions are terrible... After 7 days in Guilin, I discovered Guilin's infrastructure-especially the road conditions-and I really wanted to complain.

yinziyan

Construction everywhere... That was a bump. Fortunately, the master drove steadily and tried to avoid the pit. In order to thank the master, his wife deliberately got off the bus and bought some ice water, and went directly to the next destination-Yinziyan.

After driving for about 1 hour, we arrived at Yinziyan Scenic Area. Someone rode a bicycle online from Shili Gallery. Personally, I felt that it was worth it to be young and energetic, otherwise don't try to be brave. The distance from Shili Gallery to Yinziyan is all mountain roads. It will be very tiring to ride a bicycle, and there are many motor vehicles...

What a big parking lot. Xiao Deng walked around but couldn't find a parking space... You can see the popularity.

Xiao Li went to buy us tickets. We waited at the door. In about three minutes, he was done. There are really many people. I can't believe what it will be like after going in.

Entering the cave, it feels cool...

The Yinziyan Cave is a typical karst landform. It runs through twelve peaks and is a storied cave. The cave contains stalactites developed and grown in different geological ages. It is crystal clear and white, like the Milky Way in the night sky leaning down and shining. It shines like silver and diamond-like light, so it is called "Yinziyan".

Guilin Lipu Yinziyan Tourist Scenic Area is located on the east side of Ligui Highway, Maling Town, Lipu County, Guilin City, next to National Highway 321, 85 kilometers away from the center of Guilin City, the world's tourist pearl, and 3 kilometers away from the boundary of Yangshuo County, a famous tourist county in China. It covers an area of 1500 acres. It was opened to the public in early 1999. It is a national AAAA scenic spot and the first batch of "Guilin City Civilized Tourism Scenic Spot Demonstration Site." It is a new shining pearl in Guilin's tourism circle and the largest cave in Guilin. There is a saying that "After visiting Yinziyan, you will never lack money for the rest of your life."

Questions about taking photos of caves:

The lighting in Yinziyan is very strong, and the strong light parts of most photos may be overexposed. It is recommended that when setting up the camera, you should use RAW format, automatic white balance, optimize the standard basic or automatic as much as possible, and reduce highlights later.

Don't use a flash (it will change the color tone)

Legend of Yinziyan:

Legend has it that during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, a general of King Pingxi, one of the three vassals, was stationed in Guilin. When the Qing army was suppressing chaos, his rebels were defeated one after another and were unable to take away the large amount of gold, silver and jewelry they had plundered, so they secretly hid in a nearby cave.

Over the past century, the story of "Yinziyan" has caused countless treasure hunters to travel through thousands of rivers, mountains and deep rock cliffs, but they have failed. Only a local jingle that evokes our endless reveries: "Open Yinziyan (Guilin Yin An), feed Guangxi and Hunan."

In the 1980s, perhaps because of its white and clear clarity, stalactites suddenly became a decoration treasure used by wealthy families, at 10 yuan per catty. This was simply a pie in the world for poor people. So a mining boom sweeping through caves spread in Guilin, and one caves after another were discovered and destroyed. The Yinziyan entrance was very small and hidden. In addition, the complex ravines in the cave blocked the path of the cave explorers, so they were finally spared, leaving them "unknown to those raised in the boudoir."

Nanguo Ice City What we have just enjoyed is only the prelude to the beautiful scenery of Yinziyan, and the real beautiful scenery of Yinziyan begins here-Nanguo Ice City. Let's first look above. The top of the rock is milky white. We seem to be in a charming world of ice, snow and frost. This Ganoderma lucidum fairy grass in front of us is proudly standing in this ice and snow.

After appreciating the snowy world above, please turn around and lean on the railing to look down. This columnar stalagmite next to the ditch and gorge below has a peculiar shape. As the saying goes: "Three parts of image, seven parts of imagination, the more you think about it." Can you see what it looks like? As you may see, it seems to be the source of human life.

There is only one road in Yinziyan, so you don't have to worry about not being able to find your way.

If you have a large group of people, it is recommended that you not walk together. Just make an appointment to gather at the entrance of the cave, because some places are particularly narrow. If there are many people, you can easily get lost. (Of course, children must hold their hands tightly. Some places are very dark and can easily be lost.)

There are many tour guides in Yinziyan, so you can completely follow them and enjoy the explanation process...

Huaqingchi first invites everyone to look up above. This rock seems to be a huge honeycomb. The top of the cave to the upper right of the honeycomb is the highest relative space currently developed by Yinziyan, with a height of 48 meters. The row of iron railings opposite the honeycomb is our only way to get to the entrance of the cave. Later, we will circle up and enjoy the strange and dangerous scenery below. Here we can see that the Yinzi Rock is a cave with a storied structure.

Please turn around and look at the lower level of the cave. The water here is clear and the scenery is warm. It seems to be the Huaqing Pool where Imperial Consort Yang, one of the four beauties in ancient China, once bathed. At this time, the bath is full of spring. If you look closely, you can still vaguely see the charming figure of Imperial Consort Yang.

Huaqingchi is geologically called Liushi Dam. It is formed because dissolved calcium carbonate bicarbonate contained in water is recrystallized on the ground. Liushi dams are formed quite slowly, only 1-2 centimeters long every 100 years

There are "Three Treasures" and "Three Wonders" in the Golden Key Yinziyan. If you want to appreciate these "Three Treasures" and "Three Wonders", you have to pass through the Xianyuan Gate in front, so let us find the golden key that opens the Xianyuan Gate. Everyone, please look at the top right. Have you found it? (Found it) After finding the golden key and passing through the Fairy Garden Gate, the first thing we appreciated was the first treasure among the "Three Treasures"-"Buddha's Sutra".

If you look ahead, you will see the solemn and sacred Buddhist hall. Buddha Sajiamuni is sitting cross-legged on the Buddhist platform and preaching Buddhist scriptures. Below are the disciples who have come to listen to the scriptures and worship them. It is said that making a wish in front of Buddha is quite effective. If you believe in Buddha, you may wish to listen to the Sanskrit sound here and silently make your wish. Here, I also wish everyone all their wishes come true and everything goes well! (Pause for a few seconds) After appreciating the first treasure of Yinziyan's "Three Treasures"-"Buddha's Theory of Sutra", let us appreciate the first of the "Three Wonders"-"Musical Stone Screen". (What you will pass through is the Holy Water Cave. It is said that anyone who is hit by a holy drop here will bring you good luck. Don't miss this opportunity. We have already mentioned that our Yinziyan is a storied cave. According to expert inspections, it is divided into four floors. Currently, only the second and third floors have been developed. There are also the first underground underground river and the fourth floor that have yet to be developed. After the development is completed, you are welcome to visit Yinziyan again. In front of us, we can immediately enjoy the first of the "Three Wonders" of Yinziyan-the "Musical Stone Screen".)

Music stone screen Now please look ahead. This stone screen is composed of countless stone curtains. Its beauty is that the stone slices on the stone screen are of different depths and thicknesses, and can emit various different notes after being gently tapped. How did such a strange landscape form? It is formed by moving water dissolving calcium carbonate in the limestone, permeating through the cracks in the wall of the cave, and recrystallizing. (Introduction to photo taking) At this point, we have ended our journey to the lower hole. What we will visit ahead is the lobby.

As the saying goes on the Great Wall,"No one is a hero who has not reached the Great Wall." Today we can be heroes without going to the Great Wall in Beijing. Please look at the lower right. This is the epitome of the Great Wall that starts from Shanhaiguan in the east and ends at Jiayuguan in the west. Such a unique natural landscape and the terraces I have admired in front of are also known as Liushi Dam in geology, and are both masterpieces of nature.

Yangshuo Hongguan Hotel

After playing for a day, we started to check into the Yangshuo Hotel we had booked before-Yangshuo Red Hall. It was already 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and the boss, A Lian, welcomed us at the door, helped us carry our luggage, asked about the cold and warm weather, and even cut our own watermelons. I suddenly felt very cordial... She asked us to rest and take a bath in the upstairs room first. The room had already been prepared for us...

West Street

The streets are crowded with traffic and extremely prosperous...

There were signs of beer fish everywhere along the way...

Looking back on the road we have traveled...

This is Yangshuo West Street, taken on the only overpass crossing the street...

The black crowd indicates the prosperity and popularity here.

Yangshuo County has successively won honorary titles such as "Famous Tourism County in China","Strong Tourism County in China" and "China Tourism Standardization Demonstration County".

There is a good saying in Tang poetry: "The city is not as big as two miles, and everyone is in the mountains. The mountains embrace the river, like a lotus flower in full bloom."

I still recommend that you not buy the fruits on the roadside. 1. The taste is poor. 2. The price is expensive. 3. The portion is small.

Let's talk about the weight. We bought 10 kilograms of mangosteen. The seller said it was nearly 11 kilograms. I went back and used the scale in the inn to weigh it, and it was 7 kilograms and 8 taels... Sweat!

As the saying goes: "If you don't visit the foreign streets, you won't come to Yangshuo." "If you don't live in the global village, tourists 'interest will be reduced by three points." Today's Yangshuo West Street is no longer a tourist street in the simple sense, but a well-known brand at home and abroad. Don't underestimate this street, which is 1180 meters long and only 8 meters wide. It is no less famous than Wall Street in New York, Downing Street in London, Champs Elysees in Paris, or East and West Chang 'an Street and Wangfujing Street in Beijing. With its unique style and endless charm, it attracts countless guests at home and abroad.

Let's not rush to go shopping first. We need to do something important, dinner. Before setting off, I used my mobile phone to buy a group purchase of popular online "pay-off" beer fish for 199 yuan/. The beer fish is located about 30 meters away from the west street entrance and is easy to find.

The front desk received me very warmly, but was sorry to tell me that there were no updates online and the dishes had been changed. I said it didn't matter if I changed it, as long as I had a lot of big dishes, but she said it wouldn't be less, it would be better than before.

Okay! Originally, the group purchase was to sit on the first floor (without air conditioning) and a food stall. I made a request. Since there were children, could we arrange them in a private room upstairs? Firstly, we were afraid that the heat would burn out and the children's noise would affect other guests.

The front desk agreed, and I excitedly went to the private room on the second floor. When the waiter knew that we were a group purchase, she wouldn't let us sit. Just like this, I talked to the front desk on the first floor

Turn around in the private room and you can see the scenery downstairs... It's so cozy.

We have enough wine and food to start our shopping journey...

On West Street, foreigners of different nationalities, different skin colors, and different voices can be seen at all times, either holding arms in hand, or carrying backpacks, walking side by side, leisurely. They were unrestrained and laughed and laughed. Drinking beer in bars, looking for information in Internet cafes, chatting cordially on the streets, and bargaining in Ministores to buy favorite Chinese goods. The layout of all bars, restaurants, and hotels is almost different and full of exotic atmosphere. Many foreigners come to "study" and learn Chinese from Yangshuo people; some come for leisure and vacation and stay for ten and a half days or half a year; others come to "work" to help the boss do things and learn to cook Chinese food. Hundreds of thousands of foreigners come and go every year, sightseeing, living, working and studying on West Street, which is nowhere in China. Therefore, people call China's unique West Street "Foreign Street".

20 yuan for a song...

West Street is the intersection of Chinese and Western cultures, where traditional Eastern culture and modern Western civilization are integrated, exchanged and combined. This is an ideal classroom for Chinese people to learn foreign languages and foreigners to learn Chinese. There are dozens of foreign language schools, training centers, oral training camps and computer training classes on West Street. Those bars and restaurants facing the street provide not only catering, but also allow Chinese and foreign friends to teach and learn from each other, exchange information, and learn from Chinese and Western cultures. As long as you can say "Hello","Good morning","Good night" or polite Chinese terms, you will soon find a soul mate. People say that Yangshuo is the "No. 1 English County in China" and "Earth English Corner", worthy of its name

The exchange of Eastern and Western cultures has enabled Xijie people to gradually change their conservative traditional concepts, especially their views on marriage and love. Many young people on West Street have accepted the concept that "love has no borders." Also because more Westerners come and come into contact with more people, the people of West Street seem to have gradually diluted the difference between "natives" and "foreigners." More importantly, many Westerners often come to West Street or live in West Street, which gives girls and boys in West Street the opportunity to contact and understand Western boys and girls, and has the conditions to cultivate their feelings, and even frequently produces stories of transnational marriage and love. Since the 1990s, there have been more than 300 pairs of transnational mandarin ducks in which young men or working in West Street have married foreign wives and girls have married foreign husbands. Several of them have come to West Street as door-to-door sons-in-law.

The West Street, full of exotic taste, has become the finishing touch of Yangshuo's landscape. This old street with a history of more than 1400 years is adjacent to the Li River in the east, Gaoze Peak in the west, and Bilian Peak next to it. The more than 2000-meter long street is paved with betel nut grain marble. On both sides of the road, there are blue brick wooden houses with flying eaves and low buildings. The small stream, stone bridge, banyan shade and laurel trees complement each other, revealing the elegance and simplicity of Lingnan architecture. There are more than 1000 tourist stalls, cafes, bars, and restaurants on the West Street, forming a comprehensive food, accommodation, shopping, entertainment, The "one-stop" service pattern integrating appreciation into one body has gathered tens of thousands of ethnic handicrafts, including batik, hand-painted, talc, bamboo ware, stone carving, etc. Here, you can not only appreciate the ethnic craftsmanship and culture, but also experience the unique characteristics of the ancient Oriental town. Folk customs. In the evening, Chinese and foreign guests with their families and young children sit around the table to taste the local flavor of Yangshuo and admire the strange customs of West Street. They are happy and affectionate

There are tens of thousands of ethnic handicrafts gathered here, including batik, hand-painted, talc, bamboo ware, stone carving, etc. Here, you can not only appreciate the ethnic craftsmanship and culture, but also experience the unique folk customs of the Eastern Ancient Town. In the evening, Chinese and foreign guests with their families and young children sit around the table, tasting the local flavor of Yangshuo and enjoying the strange customs of West Street. They are happy and full of emotion, making people happy and not miss Shu. In West Street shops and bars, there are usually computers that allow guests to access the Internet for free. Beer is not much more expensive than what is on the market. Bars on West Street will not issue eviction orders. As long as there are guests, the owner will accompany them no matter how late they are, whether they are regular guests or passers-by, they can quickly blend in and merge into a group. "Donald Duck" is one of the more famous among the "big-nosed Yangshuo people" who live on the West Street. He may be famous because he gave himself such an interesting name. This businessman from Germany is very talkative and has made many friends in Yangshuo. He likes to drink beer, often for four or five hours at a time. Whenever you ask about him on West Street, someone will point to a table in front of a certain bar and tell you: "He sits here every day or at the one diagonally opposite." "Donald Duck" became a living advertisement for the two bars.

The most interesting photo...

I'm not allowed to shoot inside, but I should be able to shoot outside...

If you want to be affordable, don't buy it here. If it's for a souvenir, then buy it...

Special snacks are still worth trying...

There are people walking, there are food, flowers are blooming, so lively...

In fact, I am not interested in most of these stores. I just need to take a few photos at the door... But the few ladies who were traveling with me were really shopping, and I was really shopping.

Protecting the children and not getting lost is the most important thing...

Guilin's peppers are really good...

The children watched very seriously...

Day 3 Totem Ancient Road

It was 7:30 when we got up. After washing and coughing, we went to a fast food restaurant in front of Hongguan for breakfast. Guilin rice noodles, fried rice noodles, various noodles... Anyway, I'm full. 12 yuan per capita.

Today's itinerary is to ride the Shili Gallery. The driver had already purchased e-tickets for the three attractions before. Yangshuo Shili Gallery is located on Yueliang Mountain in Yangshuo. It is called Yangshuo Shili Gallery because of the beautiful scenery along the road. It contains many attractions (such as the Totem Ancient Road, Butterfly Spring, Big Banyan Tree, Moon Mountain, etc.) The Totem Ancient Road is located in Yangshuo's famous "Ten Mile Gallery". It is not far from Guilin. The scenic area displays primitive life scenes such as stone tools, pottery, natural totem poles, ancient bows and crossbows, and body language that makes people incomprehensible and full of wild temptation. It reproduces the historical features of Guilin's ancestors 'residence, life, religion, hunting and steaming skin culture 12,000 - 7,000 years ago, opening an ancient door for the world!

The tour of the Totem Ancient Road is taken in by a tour guide from the scenic area and cannot move around freely (of course, it is okay for you not to mix with him after entering). However, listening to the tour guide is quite interesting, and you can't tell anything by looking at it.

With about 20 people together, we entered the scenic spot with the guide...

in the yanyu peak mountain, the dark-skinned tiner-skinned people associate themselves with the li river, accompany the green mountains, fish, hunt or collect, and still use simple stone tools and bone utensils,"primitive pottery and mussel utensils.

Under the lively rhythm of the "demon drum", wearing colorful animal skins and holding sharp spears, hunting in the mountains and forests, burning snakes and roasting clams for food, and singing the Lijiang River fishing song and Guishan hunting ballad of harmony between man and nature.

The word "totem" comes from the transliteration of the Ojibwa dialect of the Algunqin tribe of North American Indians, meaning "his kin." Ancient totems of Yangshuo Ancient Totem Road originated from early human witchcraft and etiquette activities. Totem is the emblem and is a strict ethnic symbol.

When primitive people settled in a place, something closely related to their lives in the place, either because it was beneficial or harmful, caused it to worship. This was the primitive totem. The natural totem worshipers at this time were symbols that distinguished different human groups. In the process of coexistence with them, primitive people regarded them as protective gods.

At the end of primitive society, tribal chiefs and aristocrats in slave society used the lofty position of totem gods among the people to present themselves as representatives of ancestral gods in the world. As a result, ancestral symbols appeared, that is, a large number of artistic images of the unity of people, animals and plants.

When saying hello to the retort people, for example, saying hello means putting your hand on your mouth and making a sound like yawning, and saying goodbye means putting your hand on your left chest and saying "ni mo" again.

At home, almost everyone is naked, with ancient fables written on their dark skin.

The tour guide said that women are respected, and women walk in front, hehe...

Shortly after entering the door, I have to pass through a cave...

Modern archaeologists have discovered that a race called Zengpi people lived and lived here 12000 years ago. At that time, this was the 100,000 Mountains in Guilin. This race is far away from modern civilization. The reason why we say this is because the retort leather people still use bows, arrows, spears, etc. to hunt and live.

Through a large number of stone tools, pottery, natural totem poles, ancient bows and crossbows, and ancient people's living scenes, the Ancient Totem Ancient Road Scenic Area reproduces the historical features of Guilin's ancestors 'residence, life, religion and retort culture.

The entire scenic spot has the dynamic nature of the story, the visual aesthetics, contains profound cultural content, and has the sacred and original beliefs unique to the retort culture. From these beliefs, it is not difficult to capture that since ancient times, Guilin ancestors have shown their worship for life and the philosophy of pursuing harmonious coexistence between man and nature in their daily lives. The entire scenic area condenses the wisdom of their ancestors and expresses our love for our ancestors. The passion for thinking morality has enabled the ten-thousand-year-old retort leather cultural brand to regain the value of life.

"There are Xiongnu in the north and Nanman in the south." Zengpiyan culture is a representative of the birth of Nanman culture and one of the origins of Lingnan culture. Stepping into the ancient totem road and interpreting the mysteries of the ages, let us experience extended life from another perspective and expand our spiritual territory!

Cows are animals worshipped by the retort skin people and are also a symbol of the tribe, so decorations made of cow heads can be seen everywhere throughout the scenic area.

During the visit, we had to learn some of the language of the retort people, such as saying "ah-" with our mouths and tapping our mouths with our hands, which means "hello"; gently tapping our right chest with our left hand and saying "you Momo", which means "goodbye"; if you want to take a photo with the retort people, just say "click" with them and make a photo gesture. They will take a photo with you very friendly and pose various "pose".

In the casino, when dancing with them, touch you with your hips in a friendly manner while dancing. If you are touched more times, it means that you are the most popular. Although the movements are quite mechanical, they are very primitive. Black-skinned beauties danced in hula skirts while waving their long hair. Walking into the Ancient Totem Road, they stood one person on each side of the road, holding an environmentally friendly light yellow color in their hands, like a cosmetic cream liquid, and drew a line on everyone's face with branches. Don't erase this color, which means that you are here. Noble guest. In primitive tribes with many trees, it is said that they can also insect and mosquitoes. Everyone should show their love when you walk in, and someone will take photos of you. In the local area, there is a custom of "favoring women over men". Women are very noble, but men have no status at all. In the scenic area, when entering the gate guarded by the scorpians, women can take the spacious road and enter grandly. The men could only crowd along the narrow path and enter with their heads lowered.

A martial arts competition for a spouse?

The house inhabited by primitive people reappears...

The ancient totem road artificially built a strange totem between the mountains and forests, forming an ancient road that looks like a long time ago. Friends who like adventure can visit here. to experience different excitement and pleasure.

Arriving at the performance venue is also a highlight of the Totem Ancient Road...

The venue is not big and can accommodate 2,300 people...

"There are Xiongnu in the north and Nanman in the south." Zengpiyan culture is the representative of the birth of Nanman culture and the origin of Lingnan culture.

The beautiful woman came on the stage and her eyes lit up...

The Zengpi tribe belongs to a matriarchal society. During the visit, the tour guide introduced to us that in the Zengpi tribe, the female is called "Ali", which means they have power, and the male is called "Abu", which means they are manipulated by others. I don't know if this is true.

Tianlai·Butterfly Spring

Butterfly Spring is located in the elite tourist area of the "Shili Gallery" of Yangshuo Moon Mountain Scenic Area. It has Yangshuo's only original suspension bridge, alpine music and flowing waterfalls, and the best viewing platform with bird's eye view of Yangshuo's "Shangri-La" Yulong River and Yangjiao Mountain., bee garden, butterfly garden Attractions such as (currently China's largest living butterfly viewing garden), as well as "Ballet on the Rock Wall"-the most fashionable outdoor sports event for rock climbing, and live performances of Liang Zhu's song and dance, allowing you to escape the hustle and bustle and return to nature.

The giant butterflies on this stone wall are called "monarch butterflies", also known as golden swallowtail butterflies. It is the largest butterfly in China. This "butterfly" has an area of about 280 square meters, making it one of the best in the world. Mr. He Jingzhi, former vice minister of the Ministry of Culture and a famous contemporary poet, happily wrote an inscription after visiting Huadian Spring Scenic Area: The world's first butterfly.

In Yangshuo Butterfly Spring Scenic Area, there are colorful peaks, shining caves, splashing waterfalls, gurgling springs, winding mountain roads, and winding paths lead to secluded scenery. Climbing to the observation platform of Nantianmen Gate is like looking at the world from the sky, and you can have a panoramic view of the Shili Gallery. Playing in the water by the spring and climbing in the mountains, it is no exaggeration to say: "If you don't visit Tianlai Butterfly Spring, you don't know the beautiful scenery of Shili Gallery." In addition to these wonderful natural and cultural landscapes you have never seen before. What is rare is that the scenic area is injected with national cultural elements. Mr. Wu Jinmin, the 101st generation village master of the Dong Wu successor, joined the scenic spot and brought the original, original flavor and original Dong songs and Miao dances, which greatly enriched the ethnic cultural connotation of the scenic spot.

There are also holes in the cave, attracting people to win. The milky stone groups have different shapes: the mushroom groups are lifelike and vivid, like the stalactite forest in a forest park. Each tree stands and has its own characteristics.

Walking into the "Tianwei Butterfly Spring", it turns out that there is no spring water in the Butterfly Spring, but just a stalactite cave given to humans by nature after hundreds of millions of years of extraordinary craftsmanship.

Butterfly Cave is a natural cave about 400 meters long. There are stalactites in it, crystal clear, and different shapes. They are like the Eight Rings, Wukong, Bodhisattva and other gods, like melons, vegetables and flowers, and like the stars and moons. There is a "love channel" that makes people stop and think about it, and there is a "butterfly spring" that makes people want to trace their roots... However, the most vivid ones are the many stalactite "butterflies", especially the two scenic spots "Zhuang Zhou Dream Butterfly" and "Liang Zhu Transformation Butterfly", which are vivid and give people endless reverie, marvel at the miraculous craftsmanship of nature.

Walking out of the cave entrance, he carefully walked onto the swaying iron chain bridge. This is the most primitive iron chain bridge in Guilin.

The scenic spot is mainly composed of seven parts: Butterfly Cave, Butterfly Bridge, Butterfly Mountain, Butterfly Bamboo Show, Orchid Bee Garden, Butterfly Edge, and Butterfly Hall. It is named after a spring water gushing out from the mountainside cliff in the Butterfly Cave.

Here you can see Sun Wukong waving a large fan to put out the fire, Jinxiu Pastoral, and "Wine Bottle Mountain"... The mountain peak facing the Butterfly Cave is particularly strange. The whole mountain is shaped like two humps of a camel. There is a strange rock protruding from one hump, just like a turtle. The turtle has a head, feet, back and back skirt.

After crossing the Butterfly Bridge, you will reach the other peak opposite the peak where the Butterfly Cave is located-Butterfly Mountain. Dieshan was originally a "forbidden mountain" behind the local village, Longyanmen Village. Cutting firewood, taking stones, etc. from this mountain has been prohibited for a long time, so the ecological environment is primitive and natural. There are two reasons why it is called Dieshan: first, wild flowers bloom all year round, attracting thousands of butterflies to fly over; second, the mountains are full of strange rocks, with strange shapes, some like divine turtles, some like crowns, some like ancient clocks, and many are as vivid as a butterfly. This gave rise to many beautiful folk stories, myths and legends. There are countless stones on the surface of this Butterfly Mountain, as if they fly from the sky and are not connected to the mountain. They are placed horizontally and vertically without any rules. They are basically fixed by the roots or vines of shrubs, or can be taken away with machinery or manual labor. However, no matter which piece is taken away, it will be a work of art.

Overlooking the performance square

Another wonderful thing about Dieshan is the Range Rover Platform on the top of the mountain.

What a treasure mountain! The climbing path was created among these stones. It is winding, sometimes up and down, with varying widths. Sometimes it has to be sideways to pass, and sometimes it has to bend down to climb. Most of the mountain road has been covered by rattan plants and small shrubs. The fragrance of flowers and pleasant atmosphere always pervades the mountains. While walking, you are in a real green channel and integrated with nature. It is very comfortable and I have been reluctant to go down the mountain for a long time.

When you come to Huadian Spring to travel, you must master the performance time! When we arrived, it was 11:40, just as the first game had just ended, and the second game was 13:20. What a sweat. But I was hungry too, so we made do with eating in the scenic area...

There are not many things to eat in the scenic area, just cold rice noodles and the like, but the ice porridge is very delicious, so we settled it in this small pavilion...

In addition to Dieshan and Diedong, Huadian Spring Scenic Area also has about 40,000 square meters of green space and water surface. Being in it is actually in an ecological park with an elegant environment and fresh air. Dieshan Waterfall has a drop of about 40 meters. It jets out of a cave in the cliff on the mountainside. It is majestic and impressive. "Dieyuan" is a special garden for breeding and appreciating live butterflies in Huadi Spring. It covers an area of nearly 4000 square meters. It is currently the largest living butterfly ornamental garden in China. There are more than 60 kinds of exotic flowers and grasses, precious trees, and nearly 100 species. Tens of thousands of butterflies flew in groups, making me feel like I was entering a fairy tale fairyland. My light body seemed to be dancing with these butterflies. More than 300 varieties, tens of thousands of butterfly specimens and works of art are displayed in the Butterfly Museum. Butterfly is a symbol of beauty. The patterns presented on its wings are all-encompassing, including sun, moon and stars, mountains and rivers, landforms, characters, flowers, birds, insects, fish, etc. Visitors can appreciate the world's rare butterflies and China's precious butterflies in the museum.

Unfortunately, it was so hot that I didn't go shopping much. After all, time was almost up.

The official performance began, and a euphemistic and melodious singing sounded...

Toast song joint singing

"Our village is very happy that our distinguished guests have come to our Dong Village. There is nothing to entertain our guests, but offer a glass of wine to express our friendship for you...

Duet Dance "Jiazuan"

The Dong family has lived by mountains and rivers for generations. Mountains and rivers, fields, and bamboo slacks have created beautiful and touching love stories one after another. The gurgling water, the trickle of love, flows with two passionate hearts.

Dong custom-singing and sitting on the moon

Communication and love activities among young people of the Dong nationality in China. Also known as Xingge Sitting Night and Zuomei,"Niaowang" in Dong language, and are also called Wanshan or Zouzhai respectively in different areas. Playing mountains is popular in the northern Dong region. After working, young men and women meet in groups to sing love songs on the slopes and under the trees. Zouzhai, also known as Zougni, is popular in the southern Dong area. The girls were spinning and doing needlework together in the house, and young men from the guest village came to accompany and sing duet with musical instruments. Pour out love for each other through singing. When the relationship is deep, men and women exchange memories (sending gifts) to make a connection and make an appointment as husband and wife.

Anti-Pai Wood Drum Dance

The "Anti-Pai Wood Drum Dance", which has been included in the list of representative works of national intangible cultural heritage, is spread in Fanpai Village, Fangzhao Township, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province. It is a Miao sacrificial dance passed down from generation to generation. It reflects the heroic deeds of the Miao ancestors who overcame difficulties and obstacles, overcame obstacles, migrated long distances, opened up territory, hunted in fences, and created a better life. This kind of dance is the symbol of "Mother Butterfly", the god of making humans in Miao mythology. It was created by Jiang Yang, the ancestor of the Miao nationality, and began to pay tribute to it, and has been passed down to this day. In the past, the wooden drum dance could only be performed during the 13-year Ancestral Sacrifice Festival and was performed in solemn and solemn ceremonies. It has now evolved into a national dance for fitness. The dance is divided into five chapters, with exciting drums as the main rhythm, and consists of basic movements such as stepping, leaping, crossing, and swinging hands on the same side.

The wooden drum dance is a grand anti-choreographed ancestor worship dance. With the beating of the wooden drum, people use the large swings of their heads, hands and feet to change with the changes of the drum. The movements are rough and unrestrained, free and harmonious, elegant and vigorous, exciting and heroic, passionate, showing the tenacious temperament and strong vitality of the Miao people in the mountainous areas. She is the essence of Miao dance, a living fossil of Miao cultural activities, and a wonderful flower of the world's national culture. In 1990, the anti-platoon wooden drum dance performance team performed in Zhongnanhai, which was highly favored by party and state leaders. Later, it performed in more than ten countries and regions including Britain, the United States, Canada, Italy and Southeast Asia. It was praised as the "Oriental Disco" and was well known overseas.

Wu Jinmin, the 101st generation master of Yinshui Dong Village, performed.

Dong songs "People with Heart" and "Ga Xie"

The Dong song is a unique and charming non-conductor and unaccompanied multi-part chorus in Dong song and dance. In the long-term production and life, the Dong people have cleverly integrated various sounds of nature into the song, including wind, rain, lightning, or birds singing cicadas singing. With the perfect combination of her soft style, subtle and euphemistic, beautiful and elegant lyrical melody and her coordinated harmony, she formed a folk polyphonic music that led the masses and sang high and low. The voice part changes endlessly, and the sound is beautiful and pleasant, like the singing of birds in the vast sea of forests, like the running of water in a long mountain stream.

Darongshu Scenic Area

Da banyan Scenic Area is located in Chuanyan Village, Gaotian, 7.5 kilometers south of Yangshuo County. Jinbao River passes through it. It is named because there is a strange big banyan tree along the river that was said to have been planted in the Sui Dynasty and was about 1,500 years old. It is a thousand-year-old tree with a tree circumference of more than seven meters and a height of seventeen meters. It has luxuriant branches and leaves, and the sky is shaded. It covers an area of more than 100 square meters. It is a famous attraction in Yangshuo, Guilin.

Tickets here are 20 yuan, but people buy a group for basic 10 yuan or even free...

Once you enter the gate, you can see a lotus pond, which is very beautiful.

Emptiness: The mind is as deep as a valley and is very modest and can accommodate other people's opinions.

Unfortunately, my son and eldest nephew actually quarreled and cried here. Leave a footprint and wait until they grow up to commemorate...

The tree circumference of the big banyan tree is more than seven meters long and 17 meters high. It has luxuriant branches and leaves, thick shade and covers an area of more than 100 square meters. Although the trunk is old and intertwined, it is still full of vitality.

In the movie, Sanjie Liu confided her feelings to Brother Niu under this tree and threw out a love ball.

The crown of the big banyan tree is round, looking like a green umbrella from a distance, and at a close distance, it is riddled with luxuriant leaves covering the sky.

It is said that this tree was planted in the Jin Dynasty, more than 1500 years ago.

Historically, Da banyan is the same age as Yangshuo County and has a history of more than 1500 years. In the movie "Sanjie Liu", the scene where Brother Niu and Sanjie Liu sang dutifully, threw hydrangea balls, and made love for life was filmed under a tree.

This big banyan tree witnesses their life-and-death love. Da banyan tree receives as many as 800,000 tourists a year.

Under the ancient trees, the Jinbao River flows slowly, as clear as a mirror. A small rocky mountain was uprooted on the flat ground across the bank. There is a hole in the middle, like a giant stone door opening. It is colorful and called through the rock.

There is a stone on the left side of the rock top, like a hook; a stone at the entrance of the cave is facing the water, like a frog; and there are two stones on the south cliff, like a bear climbing a mountain. A local folk song sings: "Golden hooks hang on the mountains, frogs float on the water, bears run all over the mountains, and ancient banyan trees accompany the clear stream."

The Jinbao River flows slowly and is as clear as a mirror. The nearby Orangutan Mountain, Water Lion Rock, Camel Peak, and the surrounding cottages form a peerless pastoral scenery.

After entering Gulong Park, when you are under the huge shade of trees with canopy, you will slowly look at it and taste it carefully. At this time, you are refreshed and calm physically and mentally. You can feel the comfort and comfort of this tree of gods like a mother. You are deeply immersed in this green love and warmth. The worries and troubles in the world will disappear.

When you look at the thousand-year-old banyan tree in front of you, with strong roots, tall and vigorous branches, it is like looking at a centenarian with black hair and a peaceful face. Your heart is full of respect and emotion. When you think of the joys and sorrows in the world, the ups and downs in life, and the vicissitudes and emotions of time, you may think of many, many more.

Tour guides or simple local villagers will tell you that it is said that ancient banyan trees were planted in the Tang Dynasty and have a history of more than 1,400 years. The ancient banyan tree is seventeen meters tall and has a tree circumference of more than seven meters. It can cast 1,260 square meters of shade.

Think about it, what kind of spiritual realm this is and what tenacious vitality it has. There is also the tree trunk that is more than ten meters long and more than one meter thick, stretching out across the ground. It is like a giant stretching out an arm that can lift tens of thousands of kilograms, or like a giant dragon ready to take off. The winding branches with intertwined vines and the fibrous roots fluttering like beads in the breeze all make your heart shake and create endless reverie.

Walking among the beautiful waters of this Lingshan Mountain, you feel like a lifetime ago! It is no wonder that many literati and literati are very fond of poetry and describe some places:"Golden hooks hang on the mountain, Frog Mountain floats up, bears run all over the mountain, ancient banyan trees accompany the green flow, camels cross the river, orangutans are worried, beautiful women are dressing up, third sister throws hydrangea balls, green bamboos welcome guests, and people are swimming in the painting."

If Yangshuo is a big bonsai, then the Yangshuo Big Banyan Scenic Area is a must-see decoration in this bonsai. It is no exaggeration to say that the entire Big Banyan Scenic Area is like a natural, natural, form, spirit, and full of artistic appeal. Chinese landscape painting.

The big banyan tree is old and simple, surrounded by woven paths, clear rivers, peaceful ferries, and mountains. The large banyan tree of the Sui Dynasty, which is more than 1400 years old, has a tree circumference of more than seven meters and a height of seventeen meters. It is a forest with a single tree, quiet and solemn.

The roots are intertwined, like a python circling a dragon disk, the thick shade covers the sky, and only wisps of sunlight penetrate through the gaps.

Liu Sanjie threw hydrangea balls to Brother Niu, and secretly made a lifelong bond with Brother Niu. She was a matchmaker made of banyan trees.

At first, Third Sister was in love, but Brother Niu had no intention of it. Third Sister used folk songs to express her feelings, but Brother Niu still couldn't understand, so Third Sister asked Brother Niu to go under the banyan tree and threw a hydrangea to Brother Niu. Brother Niu did not dare to pick it up, so Third Sister asked the banyan tree to secretly tell Brother Niu what she was thinking, and Brother Niu picked up the hydrangea and made a lifelong bond with Third Sister.

The seduction scenes in classic romance films of the early 1960s were filmed here. I think back then, this film once made many young people feel excited and have their first love. The big banyan tree is a symbol of pure love and records the emotional journey of the world.

The dinner for the real-life performance of "Impression of Third Sister Liu" was a gift from Master Li-the master took us to the edge of the Li River to eat. This restaurant is a restaurant frequented by locals, which shows that the taste, price and environment are extraordinary. As expected, for less than 200 yuan, we had satisfactory beer fish and other chicken, fish and eggnog... Back against the Li River, watch the gurgling river flow by under your feet, and the river breeze blowing... That feeling, the level of luxury comes naturally again... (No picture, no truth, embarrassing) We ate this meal for 2 hours. I drank half a kilogram of Guilin flowers and seemed to faint... Take the bus to the performance venue of Impression Third Sister Liu...

I didn't get up until 9 a.m.. Needless to say, I seemed a little tired after playing for three days. Hehe, after all, women and children account for nearly 70%... After washing up and eating breakfast (the one turning right at Hongguan Crossing has steamed buns and fried dough sticks, which is more suitable for our Beijing entrance), the driver, Xiao Li, has been waiting for half an hour. It is already 10:30 when we set out. He is refreshed and set off happily-Xanadu, and all the lesbians are happy to hear the name... The picture below is not the entrance to Xanadu. It is just a billboard. It used to be a toll station. After the country canceled Level 2 highway tolls, it became a channel for checking large trucks...

As a national AAAA scenic spot, the first batch of agricultural tourism demonstration sites in the country and a recommended tourist destination by the World Tourism Organization, Yangshuo Xanadu Scenic Area shows us a wonderful picture of ancient bridges, flowing water, pastoral areas, old villages and aquatic ethnic villages. Yangshuo's "Xanadu" is mainly composed of lotus ponds, Yanzi Lake, Yanzi Cave, Dong Township customs and primitive tribes.

I thought AXA Tianping was some big shot, but it turned out to be an insurance company, oh...

The driver, Master Li, helped me find Person A and said hello-

Person A found Person B for me and said hello--

Person B found Person C for me and said hello--

Person C found me another person and said hello--

The people directly asked me to bypass these queues that were lined up for dozens of miles and enter through the side door...

Come to the shore and get on the boat directly...

The boat was sailing, and when I looked back, the scenery behind me was actually quite good...

Each cruise ship is equipped with a tour guide. Perhaps it is because the children are too noisy in front of them. This intern tour guide basically does not explain the way, but just supervises everyone not to reach out to the outside of the ship, pay attention to safety, etc. Well, when chatting with her, they are also quite hard, making dozens of trips a day, and the remuneration is just 100 yuan (excluding lunch). Sigh...

Suddenly, a clear song floated over. It turned out that it was the girl on the singing and dancing upstairs on the shore. They are dressed in bright national costumes and welcome guests from afar with songs and dances full of strong ethnic customs.

This is a forgotten hometown, a paradise for relaxing and happy life! Ships came and went along the way, and it was very lively, but this kind of boat seemed to have a very low motor sound and was quite quiet.

Since Tao Qian, a litterateur and poet of the Jin Dynasty (also known as Yuan Ming, about 376-427 AD), wrote an article that has been passed down through the ages,"The Story of Peach Blossom Spring", people have been constantly looking for the scenes described in the book. The ideal country in their minds-a paradise.

As early as more than 2,000 years ago, the location of Xanadu was once the ancient posthouse area since the Han Dynasty. There are still many Han tomb sites there. Villagers have the habit of planting peach trees. In March every year, peach blossoms bloom like clouds. Add golden Camellia oleifera flowers and snow-white cauliflower flowers, and inlaid with purple-red clovers. At a glance, it is simply a colorful world.

On both sides of the Turtle River and Swallow Lake, hundreds of thousands of peach blossoms of various colors dye the foot of the green mountains and the roads of the village red...

Of course, this is a phenomenon described in the book.

Visiting Yanzi Lake by boat is undoubtedly a pleasure.

When the small boat cuts the waves and slides leisurely on the green silk lake, the hearts of tourists will be as comfortable and happy as a bird that "has been in a cage for a long time and has returned to nature."

The sky is wide and the clouds are near, the banks are broad and the waves are flat, and the fresh and broad embrace of nature will make people feel completely clean and vulgar thoughts disappear.

Turning around Getai, the small boat sailed into the narrow and long waterway. I really couldn't see how winding the back of Swallow Lake would turn so slowly, with winding paths leading to the secluded scenery.

--Xanadu is an open scenic spot with no walls or piles.

The pastoral mountains and rivers and the road and bridge cottages are seamlessly and naturally integrated, absorbing the beauty of heaven and earth.

The channel is getting narrower and narrower. After the small boat passed through the Swallow Cave, which had no lights and was like sailing at night, and the small pass that was "narrow at the beginning before it could pass through people", it seemed that "the mountains and heavy waters were restored and there was no way out." I didn't want my eyes to suddenly become bright and the willows were dark and flowers were bright-Peach Blossom Island was here.

The island is not big and surrounded by water on all sides, but it is lush with lush vegetation, mixed trees and flowers, and red peaches are smiling warmly. It is a poetic beauty of "the flowers on the river are as red as fire at sunrise, and the river is as green as blue in spring."

After passing Peach Blossom Island, you can experience the charm of the primitive tribe.

But listen to the sound of sirens and drums on the hillside ahead. It turned out that the indigenous ancestors of the primitive tribe discovered foreign strangers and rushed down the hillside with spears and fishing forks in their hands, dancing a cheerful national dance. These indigenous ancestors were all covered with bark and feather leaves. They were fierce and strong, with dark skin. At a glance, you can see that they were tribes with extremely tenacious vitality. Through them, you can imagine how intelligent and tenacious the ancestors of the Chinese nation were.

It's a bit like the dances on the Ancient Totem Road. The children can't help but shout and say hello, while the aborigines on the shore danced more passionately...

Crossing the waters of the primitive tribes, the boat slowly sailed back along the scattered villages. This is a real countryside, with blue tiles and mud walls, bamboo hedges and vegetable beds, and the sounds of chickens and dogs can be clearly heard. From time to time, village women in twos and threes can be seen washing clothes by the river, their clubs beating the ancient rhythm on the bluestone boards.

Farmers carrying buckets walked through the fields barefoot, naughty children played in the empty flat in front of the house, and old fishing men, holding a pipe in their mouths, sat leisurely on a bamboo raft, drifting with the wind in the shadows.

From a primitive tribe to the village in front of you, history spans hundreds of thousands of years. It really makes people feel doubtful and confused.

Most of the tours of Xanadu are carried out on the water, and about one-third of them are to admire the buildings and living habits of the Dong, Zhuang and Miao nationalities, while these tours are carried out on land. If you want to understand everything here, you might as well go to the Xanadu and experience it for yourself.

After finishing the water trip and landing, you can also listen to folk songs and throw hydrangea at the Hydrangea Tower, inspect folk customs at the Folk Grand View Garden, visit unique buildings such as totem poles and wind and rain bridges, and watch and buy handmade fabrics made by ethnic minority women.

However, as the old saying goes: benevolent people enjoy mountains, and wise people enjoy water. For most tourists who love nature by nature, perhaps a landscape and countryside is enough to comfort the soul.

We will land here...

The ways to visit Xanadu are mainly divided into water tours and hiking tours.

Tours on the water take a light boat around the lakes and mountains, pass through pastoral villages, pass through green trees and jungles, and go out through the mountains. Along the way, you can go through the primitive form of welcoming guests, offering sacrifices, and hunting, and you can also enjoy the wild singing and dancing with national characteristics and border villages. customs;

The folk villages viewed on foot are a microcosm of the buildings of various ethnic minorities in northern Guangxi. The Drum Tower, Wind and Rain Bridge, Duet Terrace, Flower Tower, Promenade, and Totem fully display the glorious characteristics of the national culture of the people of all ethnic groups.

[Miao Embroidery]: It combines the memory of traditional patterns and combines modern styles. It is embroidered casually based on memory without drawing. Each piece requires more than 60000 stitches. It takes a month to embroider a tie, and the fastest is 26 days. They embroider the front from the back., one stitch down and two sides are formed. It is a unique thing in China.

[Zhuang Zhuang Brocade Production]: It is woven with plain spun yarn as warp threads and silk threads as weft threads. General Zhuang brocade patterns are based on geometric patterns or the shapes of animals and plants, among which the geometric patterns are infinitely varied and colorful. The colors used in Zhuang brocade are bold, and they are all red, big green, big yellow, big blue and other colors rich in national characteristics. Colored dyes are made from the roots, leaves and flowers of plants and are colorful. Traditional patterns include water, clouds, birds, animals, flowers, grass, insects, fish, etc., as well as complex double dragons playing with beads, lion rolling hydrangea, fish leaping over the dragon gate, mandarin ducks playing in the water, etc. The woven brocade can be used as quilt coverings, bedspreads, curtains, wall hangings, brocade screens, tablecloths, etc.

There are performances everywhere...

It was around 12 noon, and the sun was shining and the temperature was high. I mentioned at the beginning that even people who had been in Beijing all year round couldn't stand it. I was really afraid that I would have heatstroke at one moment...

At noon, the driver, Master Li, took us to a local chicken shop next to a paradise he was familiar with for dinner (estimated to be less than 1 kilometer away). Xiao Deng was really nice. There was a restaurant here. It was really real, what a quantity... I ordered a few dishes, three people, and barely ate 2/3... There are more than 150 yuan in total for food and drinks, which is so worth it... The key is that the boss's attitude, we really feel like God...

After drinking and eating, go to the Yulong River for rafting... We booked the first half of the Yulong River reverse drift (Fuliqiao Wharf-Jiuxian Wharf). If children need to buy water guns, it is recommended to buy them in advance. The stalls at Fuliqiao are quite expensive, costing 20 (50% more expensive than outside), as if you like it or not...

The Yulong River is located in Yangshuo County, Guilin City, Guangxi. It refers to the section from Baisha Xanadu to Dayongnong Bridge. It is about 16 kilometers long, 38-61 meters wide, and 0.5-2 meters deep. The water quality is clear all year round and the water flow is slow. The mountains on both sides of the Yulong River are beautiful, undulating, and have myriad shapes. The river banks are green with green grass, lush green bamboos, and shady trees.

The water of the Yulong River is like green emerald, clear and translucent. Fish swimming leisurely and water rafts swaying can be seen one by one. The breeze blew across the water, creating ripples, like notes played by a violin, quietly and gently.

The Yulong River is the longest tributary of the Li River in Yangshuo, with a total length of 43.5 kilometers and a drainage area of 158.47 square kilometers. It flows through 5 towns and more than 20 villages in Yangshuo County, including Jinbao, Grapes, Baisha, Yangshuo, and Gaotian. It is called the "Little Li River". It is not that the Li River is better than the Li River.

Especially for the 15.36-kilometer water journey from Yulong Bridge to Gongnong Bridge, there are 28 dams and more than 100 scenic spots. The entire Yulong River Scenic Area does not have any so-called modern buildings, no traces of artificial carving, and no urban hustle. Everything is so primitive, natural, simple and pure. It is actually the largest pure natural landscape garden in Guilin.

If the Li River is compared to a "big family girl", then the Yulong River is a heart-warming "little family jade", and people also call it the "Little Li River."

Compared with the Li River, the Yulong River is peaceful...

Experts at home and abroad have unanimously confirmed that "the Yulong River is the world's first-class natural heritage shared by mankind." The pastoral scenery on both sides of the Yulong River is pleasing to the eye.

Tianping Oasis, couples hugging, reflection on Pinghu, Xiatang Scenic Spot, Shuangliu Ancient Ferry, Dream River Valley, etc., make people seem to have entered the poetic realm of the unity of man and nature, and a free world of return to simplicity.

In ancient times, it became Anle Water, but later changed its name due to the famous Yulong Bridge in the middle reaches.

The Yulong River originates from Baizhanling, Lingui County. It flows through Jinbao Township, Putao Town, Baisha Town, Xinyangshuo Town and Gaotian Township in Yangshuo County. It finally meets with the Jinbao River at Qingedu, and flows into the Tianjia River downstream together.

The Yulong River flows through Xincun, Lixue, Dali, Yulong, Jiuxian, Chuanyan and other villages in Yangshuo, and meets with the Jinbao River at Gongnong Bridge. It has a total length of 43.5 kilometers and a rain-collecting area of 158 square kilometers.

Among them, Yangshuo has 12 square kilometers, a width of 38 to 61 meters, a depth of 0.5 to 0.9 meters, a flow rate of 0.6 cubic meters per second, and a normal flow rate of about 5 cubic meters per second. A barrage has been built in the river to divert water and irrigate fields, making it impossible for navigation.

The Yulong River is a beautiful river. The Yulong River is known as the "Little Li River". Especially from the Yulong Bridge to the 12-kilometer section of the Heshan River where it joins the Jinbao River, there are stacked peaks and lush green trees. The fields are crisscrossed and dotted with villages. You can watch the Yulong Bridge, the rhinoceros and the moon moon, the ancient village of Chuanshan, the ruins of Guiyi City, Wuzhishan, Shuangliukou, and the horses in the sky. It is another beautiful scenery in Yangshuo.

The main tourist attractions of the Yulong River include: Fuli Bridge, Yulong Bridge, Guiyi Ancient City Ruins, Xiangui Bridge, Jiuxian Residential Complex and the scenery of the "Little Li River".

Dr. Carl, a well-known landscape expert at Harvard University in the United States, once lamented after hiking the scenery of the Yulong River: "This is the most beautiful place I have ever seen in China."

The Yulong River is a beautiful river, and the Yulong River is known as the "Little Li River".

If you think of the Li River as a lady from a big family, then the Yulong River is a small family.

In addition to traveling on a big boat to the Li River, you also have to travel on a bamboo raft to swim the Yulong River to make the trip worthwhile.

Take a bamboo raft to visit the section of the river from Chaoyang Wharf to Gongnong Bridge. This is a condensation of the essence of the Yulong River.

It is a pity not to visit the Li River when you go to Guilin; it is even more a pity not to visit the Yulong River when you go to Yangshuo.

Yangshuo's scenic spot Yulong River is known as the "Little Li River" and is the essence of Yangshuo's landscape.

It is famous for its beautiful mountains, green waters, green bamboo, green bridges and strange villages. It is a rare beauty in Guilin's mountains and rivers and the best reflection of Yangshuo's scenery.

The Yulong River originates from the Guli River in Lingui County, but most of the basin is in Yangshuo.

It is clear and charming, flowing all the way through Jinbao Township, Grape Town, Baisha Town, Xinyangshuo Town, Gaotian Township in Yangshuo, and finally meets with the Jinbao River at Qingzuan Ferry (Gaotian sunrise), then flows into the Tianjia River together, and then flows from the Tianjia River into the Li River.

In ancient times, the Yulong River was called "Anle River". Later, a stone arch bridge was built on the river and named it "Yulong Bridge". Later, people simply called this Anle River the Yulong River.

"Living" when encountering a dragon, it can be seen that people have great intentions for this clear water.

The Yulong River is generally 30 to 60 meters wide, its length is about 44 kilometers, and the water depth is up to seven or eight meters. The shallow part can only reach the calves. Hiking the Yulong River and appreciating the beautiful Yangshuo scenery is the best way to enjoy this "Little Li River"

On both sides of the Yulong River, green mountains are continuous, with different shapes and various shapes; along the way, green trees are lined with green bamboo roads, and lush grass is lush; on sunny days, blue skies and white clouds, clear water and green grass are bright and bright; on rainy days, it is also fog surrounding the clouds to cover it, and it is charming and charming, vividly expressing the scenery of Yangshuo. If the Li River is compared to a lady from a family with a variety of customs, then the Yulong River should be a small family.

It was nearly 6:00 p.m., and the driver, Master Li, had already picked us up at the dock.

As usual, we went back to Yangshuo Red Restaurant and took a bath. In the evening, we went to Yangshuo West Street and bought Liangji Beer Fish (as mentioned earlier, 100% recommended). After a big meal of wine, fish and meat, we went shopping because we were leaving early tomorrow morning, so just buy what we needed...

Day 5 Lijiang Ancient East Scenic Area

According to the plan, we should leave Yangshuo this morning and return to Guilin. We got up at 7:30 in the morning, had breakfast at 8:00, and said goodbye to the owner of the Red Pavilion at 9:00. The driver, Xiao Li, took us to Guilin... I passed the road I had walked yesterday... From Guilin to Yangshuo, the road conditions along the way are okay locally, but in fact they are not very good... The key is that I can't afford to drive at the speed. It's difficult to reach 80... Finally, it took two and a half hours to drive to Gudong Waterfall

Gudong Forest Waterfall Tourist Area is located 8 kilometers away from Butterfly Foot in Gudong Village, Dawei Town, on the other side of the Lijiang Foreign Affairs Pier, and 25 kilometers away from Guilin City.

The Gudong Waterfall stream is clear and never dries all year round. The average sediment concentration in the river water is only 0.1 g/cubic meter, and the average annual flow is 5 cubic meters/second.

The waterfalls are divided into 13 levels, with a total drop of 90 meters and an average width of 20 meters.

The forest coverage rate of the Gudong Forest Waterfall Tourist Area reaches 96%, covering an area of about 300 acres, including 2000 acres of original growing forest.

Ancient trees in the forest area are tall and red maples are attractive.

The vines wrap around the trees, the trees wrap around the vines, making it full of wild fun. The scenery is beautiful, with birds singing and flowers fragrant, and the air is fresh.

It is the forest park closest to the urban area of Guilin, with the widest area and the most distinctive waterfalls. It is also a good place for mountain climbing exploration and forest search.

The scenic spot is a multi-pole cascade of waterfalls formed by gathering underground springs. The waterfalls are 180 meters higher than the water level of the Li River and can still spout.

It is the only multi-level cascade waterfall in China formed by underground springs; it is a waterfall that can gradually grow taller and change the scenery due to calcium activated deposition; the nine-level waterfalls have different shapes, some are like mandarin ducks playing in the water, some are like dragons spraying water, and some are on the mossy rock wall. The waterfalls are like cloth, and the water patterns are clear and clear, white and transparent, like spraying clouds; Some of the water is concentrated and poured into the deep pool, splashing layers of water mist and spray, like drizzle. The trees on both sides of the waterfall are lush, the shade is quiet, and the water quality is clear, cool and sweet.

As an ecological and environmentally friendly scenic spot, it mainly consists of Butterfly Xiang in Qianyuan, Lingshui Gorge where the waterfalls are located, the vast red maple forest and the Thousand Vines Dangerous Trail Jungle Area. The tour takes two to three hours.

People who have been to the Gudong Forest Waterfall Group have said that there are four unique attractions such as spirit waterfalls, secluded ponds, strange vines, and red maples. There are also various tricks to enjoy butterflies by listening to the waves, walking waterfalls and playing waves, stepping on red leaves, drilling rattan nets, washing ice springs, and smelling maple fragrance.

Here, the mountains are lined with green mountains in early spring, and the maple leaves are like fire in late autumn; Tonggu is the Lingwaterfall Water World, and Manshan is the green ecological park.

This navigation map at the door is meaningless...

The subtropical zone at the foot of Gudong Forest Waterfall is rich in tropical rainforest, with vines hanging from the walls and dangerous jungles. More than 3,000 acres of maple trees and masson pine trees are blowing by the wind, and the singing of birds and flowers are fragrant, giving people a sense of familiarity with returning to nature.

Fresh air with high content of negative oxygen ions forms a natural ecological tourism and sightseeing scenic spot in the Greater Guilin tourist circle. The red maples in late autumn are waiting for tourists to visit. You can feel the beautiful scenery of the frosted forests, the mountains are red, and the red leaves are covered with mountain paths.

The tour guide walked so fast that I was at the bottom of the list. I couldn't hear anything she said...

The Gudong Waterfall is clear and never dries up all year round. When you visit the Gudong Forest Waterfall Group, you can't help but see the water. The average sediment concentration of river water is 0.1 g/cubic meter, and the average annual flow rate is 5 cubic meters/second. The waterfalls are divided into 13 levels in total, with a total drop of 90 meters. The average width is 20 meters.

As a scenic spot that has just begun to develop, the overall pattern of the waterfall group has begun to take shape. The biggest feature of the scenic spot is that it integrates humanistic and environmental protection publicity throughout all scenic spots in the entire scenic spot. It is well conceived and has a sense of forward-looking. The words and publicity methods are also integrated with profound cultural foundation. It uses very appropriate methods and means to publicize the important role of nature on mankind, and reminds tourists to be kind to nature and love nature. The Gudong Forest Waterfall Tourist Area is also an environmental protection publicity base at the level of Guilin City and autonomous regions. When tourists come here, they can not only get close to nature and breathe fresh air, but also feel the publicity atmosphere of environmental protection here and master some knowledge about environmental protection. It is really beneficial.

Not long after entering the door, I passed a wooden bridge, which was very pleasant to walk on...

We leisurely sat at the end of the line... Hehe.

Singing came from the distance...

Several young beauties, dressed in national costumes, sang and danced to us...

What a grand welcome ceremony...

To be honest, it seems like it has been nearly half an hour since I walked in from the gate... I can't see the shadow of the waterfall yet..

Cross another small bridge...

After passing through here, we rented equipment for the scenic area: straw sandals, hard helmets, waterproof bags. Of course, you can also rent rain ponchos... Your backpack can be stored here, and your own travel shoes can be kept by the tour guide you lead...

So, wearing uncomfortable straw sandals and hard hats, we continued to move forward...

It's bustling, and we seem to have reached the waterfalls... (It's 1 kilometer from the door to here)

Look at the straw sandals I wear...

Gudong Forest Waterfall has such beautiful scenery and natural interest, and it feels like time flies. After arriving at the shore, prepare straw sandals and take photos. Because most tourists are wearing straw sandals for the first time, they are curious and feel fresh; As the tour guide guides tourists to march towards the waterfall, educational themes of protecting nature are introduced along the way; Let tourists remember the importance of protecting the environment in their hearts; follow the gurgling sound of water in the distance.

Two long queues were formed...

Seriously, the spring water is really cool... Suddenly, he was soaked through...

You don't have to rent a poncho at all. It's troublesome and doesn't do anything at all. In the end, you're still soaked. There were people throwing away rain capes all the way...

You don't have to worry about safety issues, as long as you hold the chain tightly and there are hand-cut roads on the stone wall...

After passing a hurdle, I came to a small waterfall and continued to GO...

The waterway ends here. Everyone here returned their safety helmets (If you have someone accompanying you who doesn't climb waterfalls, ask him to bring your own shoes here to change on. Walking on mountain roads with straw sandals is painful... The mountain road behind is still very long...

It seems to be a wild waterfall. The tour guide said that the water is so deep.

From here, you have to climb a hillside hundreds of meters high... The guide leads the team in front.

Under normal circumstances, it only takes 2 hours to get 100 kilometers from Guilin to Longji. Because we had so much fun at Gudong Waterfall, we had forgotten the time and started to rush to the Longji Terrace at the last 5 o'clock. Fortunately, our driver was very skilled and had high driving skills. We arrived at the parking lot of the scenic spot at 20:30 p.m., and the owner of the Minzu Hotel was already waiting for us in the parking lot with a flashlight... So, we followed him and walked for 20 minutes, taking seven turns and eight turns. If he hadn't come to pick him up, we wouldn't have been able to touch him for two hours... Arriving at the hotel, I was greeted with steaming fish...

Day 6 Longji Terrace

Early in the morning, I was staring blankly and was awakened by the child's cries... Opening the curtains, I seemed stunned...

The scenery you can see by lying on the windowsill or even lying on the bed...

The air is really fresh...

What I see is a different world...

Wife and son also joined in... Very affectionate...

There are no traffic here, and there are only two means of transportation for all items (including building houses): shoulder carried and donkey pulled!

It's time for breakfast. We were in the house, the environment was extremely beautiful, and we had a good time eating...

After breakfast, there was a local specialty selling Longji next door, so I bought a big bag (that mushroom is really great. When I wrote here, I was still eating it ten minutes ago, mushroom and small rapeseed)

After shopping, we started to set out. Following the suggestion given to us by the hotel owner, we went to Scenic Spot No. 2 first, then to Scenic Spot No. 1, and then returned to the hotel. We would return to Guilin in the afternoon...

Note:

Longsheng Dazhai and Ping 'an are both in the Longsheng Terrace Scenic Area. The ticket you buy is a general ticket. As long as you don't leave the terraced scenic spot, you can change to the shuttle bus in the scenic spot where you want to go. The only bus costs money. Any pass to the stockade is free. The ticket you purchased (85 yuan) There is a map of the scenic spot behind it. You can refer to it. The terraced scenic spot is very large, and it is surrounded by mountains and ridges. It is difficult to get out without taking the main road.

Simple map...

Let's go up the mountain from this relatively gentle stone road...

Note:

Ping 'an Village is Zhuang Village, and his terraces are called Ping' an Terrace.

The stockade became famous early. The costumes of the villagers inside are all Zhuang costumes with Guangxi characteristics, mainly blue and black (you can imagine). It has the famous terraced landscape of Seven Stars Accompanying the Moon, and the Zhuang Family Bamboo Tower. Ping 'an terraced fields are famous and developed early, so it is more comfortable and comfortable to live there. It is better to relax. The neon lights shine at night, which feels like Xiaoshuo West Street in the mountains. Foreigners also prefer to go there to have barbecues and drinks in the bamboo buildings.

The terraced field in Dazhai Village is called Jinkeng Terrace. Because standing on the mountain and watching, the terraced field is like a big pit stepped on by a god. When the rice matures in autumn, it is a big golden pit, hence the name (of course, there are many legends, this is one of them).

Dazhai is Hongyao Yao Village, which is the difference between it and Ping 'an.

The female villagers in the stockade all have long hair, and the colors of their costumes are mainly peach and black.

The famous landscapes inside are the Thousand Layer Terrace and the Four Seasons Jinkeng.

Dazhai's terraces and natural scenery are relatively safe and natural, but leisure and entertainment cannot keep up.

Many photography competitions are held in Jinkeng. Especially on summer nights in Jinkeng, if you live on a mountain higher than the stockade, you can see the stars and the Milky Way clearly on summer nights. If you are lucky, you can see 3 or 4 meteors in one night.

At first, it was a little steep... Boss Lu told us that the road here may not seem easy to find, but it is actually easy to find: you just have to keep going up...

You can choose the stockade you want to visit according to your travel purpose. If you spend 3 days and 2 nights, you can stay in both stockades. The accommodation price is also affordable. Depending on the conditions you live in, in general farmhouses in the stockade, the aunts are warm and hospitable, and the price is fair and cost-effective for one night. You can also eat fresh wild vegetables, farm-brewed glutinous rice wine and sweet potato wine... The higher you go, the higher the price of living will be. It is because it is not easy to build a house at a high place, and the scenery at a high place is better.

Dazhai and Ping 'an are both suspended buildings, and it is very difficult to find brick houses in the terraced scenic area.

This kind of house is really warm in winter and cool in summer... The temperature of the dragon's spine itself is 2-3 degrees lower than Guilin... The night is lower...

Note: There are two ways to take the shuttle bus to Longji Terrace. The first is to take the shuttle bus for about 1 and a half hours to Longsheng County, and then get off at the bus station of the county, where there is a shuttle bus to Longji Terrace (15 yuan). It takes about 1 hour to transfer the shuttle bus to get to the terraced scenic area (you will pass the ticketing point on the way to Longsheng County Station. An aunt will greet you to take you into the terraced fields, or go to her house to stay. If you are afraid of trouble, you can follow the aunt).

Another method is to take the shuttle bus for an hour. Before getting on the bus, tell the driver to get off at the intersection of Longsheng Terrace. After getting off at the intersection, just wait for the shuttle bus (10 yuan) that passes through the road to enter the Terrace along the way, wave and catch it. If there are many people, it is recommended to go to the station to catch a bus. The bus fares are the same anyway.

The roads are narrow and the houses are dense...

After walking for about 10 minutes, our eyes lit up... Finally I saw the terraces... Seven Stars Accompanying the Moon viewing point!

Seven Stars Accompanying the Moon actually belongs to Ping 'an terraced fields. The reason why it is mentioned separately is because it is very famous and is the most popular place for most tourists and photography enthusiasts

Note:

"Longji Terrace Seven Stars Accompanying the Moon" is the essence of Longji Terrace.

The Seven Stars Accompanying the Moon is composed of seven small hilltop terraces and one large hilltop terraced field.

The entire mountain is covered with narrow terraces, and the ridges of the fields seem to be contoured.

There is also a Jinkeng Terrace above the Longji Terrace. There are four Yao people there, and it takes 3 to 4 hours to walk from Ping 'an No. 1 Scenic Spot. The accommodation conditions are not as good as Ping 'an, the scale of the terraces is slightly larger than before, and the folk customs are more honest.

Note:

The Longji Terrace was built in the Yuan Dynasty, formed in the Ming Dynasty, and completed in the Qing Dynasty. It has a history of nearly 700 years.

Longji Terrace is 22 kilometers away from Longsheng County and 103 kilometers away from Guilin City. The scenic area has a total area of 66 square kilometers. It is mainly a terrace group with Ping 'an Zhuang Terrace and Jinkeng Hongyao Terrace as the main body radiating to surrounding villages.

My son's expression is very unnatural... He disliked taking pictures the most... It's okay for a big one. At most, the performance is unnatural. When I was young, I had to coax me for a long time before I was willing to take a photo...

Note:

Terraces are distributed at altitudes between 300 and 1100 meters, with slopes mostly between 26 and 35 degrees, with a maximum slope of 50 degrees.

Vienna Guilin Seven Star Store 4 points

Objectively speaking, it only took us two and a half hours to return to Guilin City from the Longji Terrace. Along the way, the car drove very fast and was stuck in the city for half an hour, and we came to the Vienna Hotel again... It was already 6 o'clock, so we walked to the old place Chunji for dinner...

Tomorrow is the last day of the journey. By this time tomorrow, I will be on the soil of Beijing. Ten thousand people are reluctant and nostalgic... Enter the dream...

Day 7 Duxiu Peak Wangcheng

Maybe, maybe I'm tired after playing for 6 days, or maybe it's because Guilin is so hot that my wife and children are reluctant to move... Plus, I'm leaving at night, so I want to stay in the hotel and rest... With my repeated mobilization, our family finally went to visit Jingjiang Royal City together... The tickets are still the group list arranged and signed by Master Li. Jingjiang Royal City is one of the three 5A scenic spots in Guangxi. I have always had a strong impression of 5A and must go there after passing through!

Jingjiang Royal City is one of the three 5A scenic spots in Guangxi. I have always had a strong impression of 5A and must go there after passing through!

Jingjiang King City is located in the center of Guilin City. It was built when Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and his nephew Zhu Shouqian, was granted the title of King Jingjiang. It is a group of splendid and large-scale buildings and has been rated as China's 5A scenic spot. Jingjiang Palace is one of the few comprehensive scenic spots in China that integrates universities, scenic spots (Duxiu Peak), complete historical buildings, and historical backgrounds. The famous writer Mr. Zhu Qianhua gave a detailed account of the Jingjiang Palace in Guilin in his garden culture book "Rain hits plantains and falls to the idle court: Lingnan Painting Boat Record".

The weather is really hot... Chengyun Gate: The main gate of Jingjiang Mansion is the main gate, which means "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor's edict".

A tour of Jingjiang King City is similar to Gudong and Totem, and requires a guide to lead the team. This is good! It's really strange. In Gudong, we were in the 107th Regiment, but in Jingjiang Wangcheng, we were still in the 107th Regiment. What a fate... Wang Dao: The blue stone road paved by the royal palace more than 600 years ago was a symbol of identity, power and status in the past. Only noble princes and princesses could walk. Wang Dao is the central axis of the entire royal city and the central axis of Guilin City. Guilin City takes it as the center and radiates to all directions.

The tour guide said: Dear princes and princesses, follow me! Hehe...

Ancient Chinese palace buildings paid attention to axial symmetry, with the ancestors on the left and the right, and the former dynasties and the latter sleeping. The architecture of Jingjiang Palace reflects these characteristics. Although most of the buildings were destroyed, the layout of the entire palace could still be seen. The original main building of the palace was the Chengyun Gate in the front, the Zhongyun Hall in the middle, and the dormitory and imperial garden in the back. On the left is the ancestral temple, and on the right is the state. The entire building is large in scale and covers an area of 18.87 hectares.

Chengyun Hall: Built in the fifth year of Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty (AD 1372), it is the main hall of Jingjiang Palace. During the Ming Dynasty, it was the place where King Jingjiang handled important military and political matters, and later became the office building of the Guangxi Provincial Government. The tall carved railings on the foundation of the platform and the jade steps are all original objects of the Ming Dynasty, seemingly silently telling the prosperity of the year. There is now an exhibition hall of "Spring and Autumn in the Royal City", which perfectly interprets the changes of Guilin's history and culture.

The moire embossed royal road in the middle of the cloud steps in front of the Chengyun Hall that we can see today is very exquisite in craftsmanship and very completely preserved.

Female security guard!

Male security guard!

In today's Jingjiang Palace, it is still the headquarters campus of Guangxi Normal University. Basically, many subjects of Guangxi Normal University have been transferred to other branch schools. Nowadays, there are not many departments in the headquarters, i.e., Wang Fu, probably the Department of Music, the Department of Fine Arts, the School of Social Culture and Tourism, the School of Business, and the School of Law, etc. are still here.

The trees here are also quite special. They are tall and dense, and they are all surrounded by a kind of parasitic plant. It is also a major feature of the royal palace. I wonder if they have witnessed the hundreds of years of history of Jingjiang Royal City.

Husband and wife tree: The dragon horse is hidden, and yin and yang coexist; the locust and banyan trees hug each other, making it full of strange interest.

Classmates Hall...

When I first saw Duxiu Peak, some people said that it was also called "Nantian Pillar"? However, you must know, in ancient times, where were there so many high-rise buildings? In the entire city of Guilin, this lonely peak rises from the ground. What is it if it is not a pillar?

Duxiu Peak is about 120 meters long from east to west and about 50 meters wide from north to south. From the perspective of Xiaobian's photo, does it look like a pillar? This mountain can be climbed, but the steps are very steep and we didn't climb it.

Zhongshan Memorial Tower. At that time, Bai Chongxi, Liu Weizhang, Li Yaoxuan, Li Renren and other well-known Kuomintang figures established Zhongshan Park centered on Duxiu Peak in order to commemorate the establishment of the Guangzhou Revolutionary Government and the unification of Guangxi. The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Tower and Yangzhi Pavilion were built here. The original tower was destroyed during the Anti-Japanese War and was rebuilt on its original site in 1981

Come on with a beautiful face to relieve boredom, haha...

The place where Guilin's landscape poetry has been sung through the ages is Duxiu Peak located in the center of the city. The author of this poem is Wang Zhenggong. Wang Zhenggong, to be fair, in terms of official positions and literary names, he cannot be compared with those literary leaders. However, one song from the ages is enough to make this upright old man join the list of cultural celebrities. This old man from Ningbo was named for his integrity and integrity as an official all his life. He was not afraid of offending powerful people. Therefore, although he entered the bureaucracy from the age of 20 and had been an official for decades, he had made quite a political achievement, but he did not make any progress. He was transferred many times, all of which were flat and slightly increased, and he never succeeded. When he was in his 60s, he served as a general judge in Chaozhou. He once built Xiangzi Bridge on the Hanjiang River to facilitate exchanges and was praised by local people. Later, in the sixth year of Qingyuan (1200), at the age of 68, he went to Guilin to serve as the prefect of criminal and prison power on Guangnan West Road. It was a slight promotion

Wang Zhenggong Wang Zhenggong first arrived in Guilin. He was already an old man and a new official. He was just following the rules. Logically speaking, he would not have any passion. Soon, the first year of Jiatai (1201) coincided with the year of value (the year of the provincial examination). That year, a total of 11 candidates were selected for the Guangxi provincial examination. Wang Zhenggong has long heard that Guilin students often perform well in the imperial examinations, which makes people dare not underestimate them. The results of this provincial examination also made him happy for the students, so he followed the Lu Ming banquet practice and, as a local official, hosted a banquet for the students who were in the middle of the examination. Drinking with students and talking about studying hard and serving the court, it is indispensable to write poems to encourage each other.

Wang Zhenggong waved his pen while slightly intoxicated and wrote two poems:

In ancient Guizhou with hundreds of mountains and thousands of peaks, people have always been difficult to match.

Eguan jointly responded to the edict of the virtuous and talented people to determine who was not the best person in the arts.

Economic talents are long-term, and etiquette and music are in front of each other.

The three gentlemen and eight handsome people have their hometown shows, and they are steadily at the top of Tianjin.

Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world, and the jade and the Luo green are very impressive.

The morale of the army was not relieved, and the atmosphere of the literature seemed to be full of excitement on the battlefield.

Tigers and leopards from nine passes watch the enemy, and Peng from thousands of miles wait for dramatic talks.

The old eyes rub each other and feel refreshed. You are the south of the battle.

The sentence in the poem,"Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world", spread throughout China from this wine table and has been sung for a long time.

There is a cave to the east of Duxiu Peak. After Yan Yanzhi, a writer of the Southern Song Dynasty, became the prefect of Shi 'an in the second year of Song Jingping, he very much liked to read and compose here, praising "those who are not as unique as those who are in the mountains of E'e." This is why Duxiu Peak got its name. This cave is also called the "Reading Rock".

gongyuan

This Fengshui treasure place, which was once famous all over the world for winning the top prize in the imperial examination era, has now been restored according to the old system for tourists to participate. You can not only imagine the grand occasion of the imperial examination that year, but also feel the hardships of the students during the "ten-year cold window" and the joy of being awarded the golden list.

This officer read out the emperor's imperial edict, and we began to enter the house for the provincial examination...

The invigilator…

I haven't used a brush for a long time... There is a sign in the upper right corner with the answer on it, haha...

Coming out of the examination room, we smiled proudly... It is quite interesting to experience the ancient provincial examinations for yourself...

The imperial edict was read out and the results were announced...

These two guys passed the exam (randomly selected) and put on official uniforms...

Enter the house and kneel down to Confucius... What happened next was very interesting. The examiner said that when the imperial edict is announced, it needs to be done! These two brothers had no choice and each gave 20 yuan. He then said that according to custom, people who pass the exam have to treat everyone to drink at 99 yuan per bottle, and each person bought another bottle, hehe...

Qixing Scenic Area

Guilin Seven Star (Rock) Scenic Area is located on the east bank of the Li River in Guilin City, on the bank of the Xiaodongjiang River, a tributary of the Li River, and 1.5 kilometers away from the city center. Covering an area of about 134.7 hectares and a green coverage rate of 84%, it is the largest comprehensive scenic spot in Guilin City with the longest history, the most concentrated scenery. The depth and breadth of history and culture converge at the seven stars, and the perfect integration of nature and humanity is displayed at the seven stars. It can be called the epitome of Guilin's mountains, rivers and culture, and the green lung of Guilin's city. It integrates the achievements of Guilin's mountains, waters, caves, stones, courtyards, buildings, and cultural relics. It is the epitome of the essence of Guilin's landscape.

Arriving at the park gate, the tickets are still led directly by Master Li...

Seven Star Park combines natural and cultural landscapes, and also includes a zoo. It is a masterpiece of Guilin Park.

Viewed from the sky, the seven mountains in Qixing Park are like the Big Dipper in the sky. There are three peaks in front of them, like Doushou, called "Yueya Mountain"; there are four peaks in the north, like Doushao, called "Putuo Mountain".

The two mountains and seven peaks are like the "Big Dipper" of the Tianshan Mountains, collectively known as the "Seven Stars Mountains". Qixing Park and Qixing Rock are also named for this.

In addition to the famous Qixing Rock, there is also a national key cultural relic protection unit-Guihai Stele Forest Museum.

Famous attractions include: "Big Dipper","Huaqiao Rainbow Shadow","Crescent Wonderland","Dragon Hidden Miracle","Putuo Stone Forest","Qixia Zhenjing","Hushan Chixia","Guihai Stele Forest","China Light","Bonsai Art Garden", etc.

The entire park has a beautiful environment, is empty and open, and has become a tourist attraction as early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

I am used to taking a navigation map first when I enter the door... But this time, I still seem to have taken a detour...

Huaqiao is the oldest bridge in Guilin. It was built during the Jiaxi period of the Song Dynasty. It is located at the main entrance of the park, spanning the confluence of Xiaodongjiang River and Lingjian River, with a total length of 135 meters.

There is a wind and rain corridor on the bridge deck, and the bridge pavilion is covered with green glazed tiles. The bridge is a rock and has a strong national style.

Every spring and summer, flowers bloom in full bloom, and flowers bloom along the bridge. Peach blossoms and green bamboos are planted on both sides of the bridge. The small bridge is hidden among "flowers full of streams and half streams", hence the name of the Huaqiao.

Looking at Huaqiao, you can see the mountains and water, elegant and beautiful, making people relaxed and happy. However, the most eye-catching thing is to watch the moon. If there is a moon, you can see the moon reflected in the water, and if there is no moon, you can see the moon reflected in the bridge hole. The four holes are adjacent to the water, and the full moon is counted. This is exactly the case: there is always a moon on the flower bridge, and the discerning eye counts reunion.

Looking at the scenery on both sides from the bridge...

There are many cultural relics and historic sites in Putuo Mountain. There are more than 200 stone carvings alone. The most precious ones include Yan Zhenqing's "Xiaoyao Tower" in the Tang Dynasty, Fan Chengda's "Bixu Ming" in the Song Dynasty, and the "Tortoise and Snake Unity" embossed in the Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Fengdong:

In ancient times, it was called Xuangdong Tunnel, commonly known as Labor Volume Xianxiang Rock. At the western foot of Putuo Mountain, the entrance of the cave faces west, 3 - 24 meters high, 2 - 15 meters wide, 250 meters deep, and an area of 1945 square meters.

The Yuantong Tunnel is connected with other caves in Putuo Mountain, forming air convection. There is a strong airflow at the entrance of the cave, and the air inside the cave is fresh.

Due to the sunshine and the accumulation and dispersion of heat in the mountain, the temperature in the cave remains at around 20℃ all year round.

The temperature outside the cave reaches a maximum of 39℃ in summer and a minimum of-5℃ in winter. The temperature difference between inside and outside the cave is about 15℃.

The "Different Conditions of Warm and Cool" inscribed in the cave and the records in Tian Rucheng's "Travel Notes" that "Winter is warm as fire, which is a sign of the sun being low" accurately summarize the characteristics and reasons of the Yuan Wind Tunnel being warm in winter and cool in summer.

Zhao Shaoyin, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once built a "Laifeng Pavilion" at the entrance of the cave, and Lu Tiaoyang in the Ming Dynasty built a "Seven Star Temple". In the Qing Dynasty, it was changed to "Daxian Temple", but it no longer exists.

It's so cool here, and I don't want to go out while I stay inside...

Citizens gather around and play cards-this park is free of charge for locals and 130 yuan for foreign tourists.

Arrived at Leshui Waterfalls, which is arguably the most beautiful place in Seven Star Park...

Leshui Waterfall Group:

In Leshan, the benevolent people enjoy the trickle of water flowing from the mountains and forming jungle waterfalls and clear streams. It is a very pleasant thing to be able to be in it and experience the fun of playing in the water for yourself.

Leshui Waterfalls form a unique small park model...

Places with a lot of water seem to be much cooler. While I was taking pictures, I couldn't be bothered to move... Under the sun, what a pain...

Moving on, the two couples in front of us stayed more than ten meters in front of us, sometimes I was in front, sometimes he was in front, for more than two hours. I just left, but I can meet you again in the blink of an eye. This is also fate...

Camel Mountain:

Camel Mountain (Camel Mountain) is located behind Putuo Mountain and looks like a camel squatting on the ground.

Because it looks like an ancient wine pot, it is also called pot mountain or wine pot mountain. Because its condition resembles a camel, it is named. In the late Ming Dynasty, celebrities from Jiangnan lived in seclusion here and planted peach blossoms everywhere.

Every spring, peach blossoms flourish and the flowers bloom like red clouds, as if to cover Camel Mountain with red clouds. The scenery is extremely beautiful. The ancients called it the "Hump Red Sunset" landscape and is one of the top ten scenic spots in Guilin.

Calm down and take pictures, you can slowly set the aperture shutter... Slow shutter, the waterfall still has a bit satin feeling...

The huge rock hanging, I really admire the extraordinary craftsmanship of nature...

We have arrived at the gate. There are four gates in Seven Star Park. I suggest you never turn back... I did take a detour. In fact, on a normal route, I should just walk around the mountain...

We came out of the Gelaoqiao gate and spent 2 hours the whole time. It was really walking while resting, and I even fell asleep on the chair, so that I only played 1/2 of the Seven Star Park. It is recommended to visit Seven Star Park normally and prepare for 3 hours (without climbing mountains).

Vienna Guilin Seven Star Store 4 points

Back at the hotel, we began to check out... Feel the luxury of this hotel again... The seven-day trip to Guilin ended like this... What is left for everyone is memories and expectations for the next trip...