[Play Time] July 30-August 5, 2016

When my son was in the second semester of first grade of primary school, he began to figure out where to go during the summer vacation. I remembered that when I was a child, I read many scenic spots in my Chinese textbooks, but I didn't have the opportunity to play. So an idea came to mind: to follow the textbook and take his son on a trip. Firstly, it can deepen his son's understanding of the text, and secondly, it can also make up for his regrets.

Then first start sorting out the scenic spots in primary school textbooks. There are no ready-made ones on the Internet, so I have to download e-books to sort them out. Beijing has the most scenic spots, but he had already been to Beijing the year before when he was still in kindergarten.

I originally wanted to go to Taiwan, but because summer is the season with high incidence of typhoons, I had to put it aside for the time being.

My colleague introduced me to go to Qinghai Lake to see rapeseed flowers, but there were no textbooks and I was worried about altitude reaction, so I ruled out it. I also wanted to join a group to go to Hulunbuir to escape the summer, but I drove hundreds of kilometers every day. My son used to travel freely and never tried to go out early and return late, so I was ruled out. My son wanted to go to Huangshan himself, but he also ruled out heavy rains and floods in the Yangtze River Basin and Sichuan this year. After thinking about it, I finally considered going to Guilin.

Since you are traveling with textbooks, you have to read the text first. I printed out "Guilin Landscape" and followed my son to read it several times, so that he could combine the text with the scenery and deepen his impression of the text. At the same time, prepare the itinerary, this time adopt the form of group + free travel. The online routes basically go to the Longji Terrace for a day, which is too tiring. I happened to see an overnight stay on a travel website, so I signed up for this group

Everything is ready. When the time is up, we will set off immediately. Because the air ticket was relatively expensive, I chose the bullet train to travel. Start the journey on July 30, 2016

This is the Xiangjiang Hotel booked by the tour group. It was not as good as expected, and the shower room was not independently isolated. The entire bathroom floor was filled with water every time I took a shower. Fortunately, I only stayed for one night.

The weather in Guilin was so hot on the first day. After putting down your luggage, you quickly find something to eat. I went to a Xiaonanguo hotel near the hotel introduced by the tour guide.

After ordering a few dishes, the pork with taro and taro is very delicious, especially the taro. Sword bone fish are also good.

Breakfast at Xiangjiang Hotel is particularly simple

We left after breakfast. Our regiment has eight families, 21 people, from all over the world

After more than two hours of bumpy travel, I finally reached the entrance of the attraction. Changing vehicles in the scenic area, I took another half an hour to detour the mountain road, and I almost got carsick.

After walking for another half an hour, I finally arrived at the hotel. The hotel has four floors, with room options on the third and fourth floors. Because the weather was hot and we were afraid that the temperature on the top floor would be high, so we chose the third floor, which later proved to be wrong. Because it is a bamboo building, people living downstairs are always disturbed by the sound of walking upstairs.

Had a farm meal for lunch.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the weather became cooler, and we began to set out to find terraces. First, we went to the Kowloon Five Tigers Scenic Spot.

This season, everything is green and not very beautiful. It is said that the most beautiful seasons are May Day and National Day. You can see Shuijing terraces on May Day, and golden terraces on National Day.

The weather was cool when we left, but it was already cloudy. Not long after arriving at the Five Tigers in Kowloon, it began to rain heavily.

After the rain subsided, we continued to set out and arrived at the Seven Stars Accompanying the Moon Scenic Spot. I felt not as beautiful as the Five Tigers in Kowloon

When I went to Huangshan in 2005, I was so tired that I just wanted to sleep, so I didn't get up to watch the sunrise. In 2007, Meili Snow Mountain couldn't climb up. I thought I must watch the sunrise this time. The day before, I asked the local villagers that sunrise was around 6:35, but when I checked it online, it was 6:06, thinking that the villagers might have made a mistake. I woke up before five o'clock the next day. I went to the Kowloon Five Tigers Observation Platform and saw the sea of clouds first.

The sunrise time is really as the villagers said. It only appears around 6:35. It is indeed spectacular! The next time I travel to other places and have the opportunity to watch the sunrise, I must pull my son out of his bed and watch it.

After watching the sunrise, I finished breakfast and set off without stopping.

My son was in good spirits during the journey. However, I suffered from insomnia in the middle of the night and watching the sunrise, so I was seriously deprived of sleep. This time, I really felt carsick on the way back to Guilin

After a four-hour drive, I finally arrived at Yangdi Wharf and had lunch first

Due to the previous strike, the terminal has been suspended for a long time and has just resumed navigation. However, the villagers were still emotional and kept silent on the boat, refusing to give him money to speak. It is said that they would rather make less money than destroy the dock.

Still because of the disagreement between the government and the villagers, the bamboo raft did not go directly to Xingping Ancient Town as before, but turned back to Yangdi Wharf before reaching Jiuma Huashan. Nine Horse Painting Mountain could only be seen from a distance, and he couldn't even count a horse.

Sitting on a boat and starting to officially appreciate the mountains and rivers of Guilin, of course, you have to compare it with the text. The mountains are really beautiful and dangerous, and the water is indeed still and green, but it is clear... However, sitting on a boat, there is indeed the feeling of "a boat is traveling on the blue waves, and a person is swimming in a painting."

After getting ashore, we came to Xingping Ancient Town. I didn't know how to appreciate this ancient town at all, so later I didn't want to visit Dawei Ancient Town, which was called one of the "Four Dawei Towns" in ancient Guangxi, nor did I want to visit Hezhou Huangyao Ancient Town recommended by many travel friends in Ctrip Travel Notes.

In Xingping Ancient Town, it is actually purely to make up for it by looking at the reflection of the yellow cloth. In the afternoon, the observation deck was backlit, and it was impossible to take a good group photo with a mobile phone, so I had to spend money to buy a photo of the family.

After leaving Xingping Ancient Town, I finally came to Yangshuo and really had my first meal of Guilin rice noodles.

Then I hurriedly went to see the impression of Third Sister Liu. The stands are very stuffy.

I am still hesitating whether to look at Third Sister Liu's friend. If I ask for my opinion, it will be very clear: Don't look! No matter how the tour guide coerces and lures, you should not go to see it unless the ticket price drops to less than a few dozen yuan. Because after watching it, you won't know what it is performing and which act it is. If a large screen was added to the scene for interpretation, it might be worth watching.

This morning, I first went to Da Banyan Tree

Nothing much, just a banyan tree

Then we came to Yinziyan. At first, it felt very ordinary, just like an ordinary cave.

But later, it gradually became better, and the overall feeling was not bad, much better than Third Sister Liu

Free exercise in the afternoon. We rented an electric car, which saves more energy and allows us to go to more places. I originally wanted to rent a four-wheel battery car, but I couldn't find it. Riding a little donkey, I first visited the Shili Gallery, and the scenery was very ordinary. Then came to the Yulong River.

Drifting again. The bamboo rafts of the Li River are electric, while the bamboo rafts of the Yulong River are purely manual. There are many sections of the Yulong River rafting. You can do your homework first and choose one of them. Of course, if it's a one-way trip, you have to consider going back to riding an electric bike.

A bamboo raft could only accommodate two people, so they had to be separated from their mother and son. The scenery along the way feels similar to that of the Li River

Yulong River came back and came to West Street. The sky began to rain, and it became heavier and heavier. Just as I walked to the chef's beer fish door, I decided to have a meal first.

This is beer fish. It tastes good, but the price is quite low

This is field snail brew, which is also good. This time we have experience and only ordered two dishes, but we still almost couldn't finish them

After eating, I came to the famous Xijie Pedestrian Street, but I felt very disappointed, because it was similar to those pedestrian streets across the country that bought "three pieces for ten yuan". But we accidentally entered an alley and when we saw Bar Street, we realized that the real West Street should be here. If it weren't for the rush and having to get up early the next day, I would really like to find a bar here to sit down.

This day is the last day of traveling with a group because some group members have to catch a plane and a train. So we set off early in the morning and came to Huixian Wetland. When we got there, it started to rain again.

The scenery was very ordinary at first. I was a little complaining to the tour guide. Why did you bring us to such a remote place in this kind of bad weather?

But like Yinziyan, it is also getting better

Arrived at a hill, climbed it up, and saw the beautiful rainy Guilin landscape

After the group broke up, we came to the hotel we booked ourselves. After comparing the Falls Hotel with the Vienna Hotel (Xiangshan Park Branch), we chose the latter. After checking in, I found that I had made the right choice and it was quite comfortable.

After putting down your luggage, you have to solve your belly problem quickly. Go to the Chunji Roast Goose near the hotel and try it. Although it was nearby, it took about ten to twenty minutes to walk with an umbrella.

Although I knew I couldn't order too much, I didn't expect that a bowl of noodles costing more than twenty yuan would be so big! I didn't order any other dishes, but this bowl of noodles was enough for the three of us to eat for a long time. If I had known, I would have only ordered a bowl of noodles and a plate of roast goose

The roast goose is not bad, a little better than Chang Jude in Beijing, and similar to our ones in Shantou. After dinner, we went to the hotel to sleep. We slept soundly all afternoon and completely bid farewell to the insomnia sequelae of the previous few days.

In the evening, I went to Zhengyang Pedestrian Street. When it was close to 8:30, I took a look at the waterfall at the Waterfall Hotel

Zhengyang Pedestrian Street is similar to West Street Pedestrian Street. It feels better than West Street. I wonder if it is because expectations have been lowered

I ate Guilin rice noodles again

After traveling freely, the itinerary was relatively leisurely. Because I had a nap in the afternoon, I found a place to listen to music, drink water, and feel a little like Lijiang again.

Sleep until you wake up naturally, get up and have breakfast, and the scenery is the same as Ctrip commented

You can see the Twin Towers of Sun and Moon from the terrace outside.

Elephant Trunk Mountain can also be seen. This hotel is generally not bad, but the sound insulation is poor. You can always hear the noise from the corridor outside, and the river view room will also be noisy by the noise from the road.

After breakfast, we came to the famous Elephant Trunk Mountain. I used to think it didn't look much like an elephant's trunk, but when I came here, I realized that it really looked like an elephant's trunk. The most difficult thing to understand in primary school textbooks is the Sun Moon Lake. I can't figure out how it can be half like the sun and half like the moon. I recently looked at the satellite map, and it really looked a bit like it.

Come to Elephant Trunk Cave and have a look

Before coming to Guilin, I also listened to the old song "I want to go to Guilin". The scene of Camel Peak appeared repeatedly in the MV, so I had to come and take a look. But after looking at it, I felt quite disappointed. It looked like an artificially piled rockery. Fortunately, after searching, it was confirmed that it was not a man-made attraction.

After playing Elephant Trunk Mountain and Camel Peak, it was only noon, so I had to temporarily increase my afternoon schedule. How should I arrange it? I wanted to play real-life CS, but it felt boring. I searched the Internet and found that Gudong Waterfall was good, so I set off immediately. After arriving there, start with a quick lunch.

Change into a hydrophilic suit and start climbing the waterfall. There was no rain that day and the weather was very hot. Playing with the waterfall is just a good way to cool off the heat.

There is a pair of straw sandals in the hydrophilic suit, which is really good. Climb the waterfall without slipping at all!

The left picture was taken at the Night Zoo in Singapore during the 16-year winter vacation. I hope that every time I travel in the future, I can leave a "footprint"

My son also played with a cableway. When I came to Gudong, I was most afraid of not being able to find a car when I went back. Fortunately, when I came out, I saw a car soliciting customers. After cutting the price, I gritted my teeth and got in the car. But in fact, the price is not too outrageous, just a little more expensive than the drop from Laicheng.

Back in Guilin, I quickly collected my ticket first. I randomly found a rice noodle shop on Zhengyang Pedestrian Street.

I had never tried Guilin fried rice, so I wanted to try it, but of course I regretted it

Get on the boat and start two rivers and four lakes. Looking up, the yacht is a bit like an undersea tunnel in an aquarium.

Tickets for the two rivers and four lakes, no matter which terminal you board the boat at, it is impossible to pass through Elephant Trunk Mountain. For some reason, are you afraid that tourists will not buy tickets for Elephant Trunk Mountain?

This is Fubo Mountain

This is Diecai Mountain. I don't have time to go to these two mountains, so if the yacht passes through these two mountains, we can be considered here. Let's comfort ourselves. There are no scenic spots in the Taohua River with two rivers and four lakes. It is just a passing through.

After getting off the boat, there was a long line to try the hottest grilled oyster shop in the area, but found that it was not much different from other oyster shops.

Back at the hotel, I ran to the top-floor cafe to see Elephant Trunk Mountain under the night view. Hehe, if you don't pass by here, show me the yachts from the two rivers and four lakes. Do you think I won't see them?

The next day, he slept until he woke up naturally, had breakfast, and leisurely went to the station to take the bus home. Originally, I went home the day after booking the bullet train ticket so that I could make up for some attractions when the weather was bad. Unexpectedly, it went quite smoothly. So I bought a new ticket and came back one day early. This can be regarded as the advantage of bullet trains over plane tickets (but it is actually to save money). After getting off the train, I looked for food again. This is a beef offal restaurant recommended online

It tastes good. This bowl of beef offal soup powder also successfully ended our seven-day trip. In terms of expenses, the group fee is 4220 yuan for two large and one small (1680 for adults and 880 for children. There is a discount for the first order, plus some self-paid lunch and dinner, which is about 5000 yuan), the bullet train is 1500+ yuan, accommodation is 1000+, and other food and play expenses are 4000+