The Spring Festival of 2020 is as special as its year numbers. Look at the long holiday. It's 11 days. I plan to go around Kunming, Yunnan, look at the map, check the route, and determine the driving route: Mianyang--Zhaotong--Dongchuan Red Soil--Shilin--Jianshui--Yuanyang--Fuxian Lake--Zhaotong-Mianyang.

As we approach the departure, the epidemic in Wuhan is getting worse and worse, and the girl is backing out. I think it will not have a great impact on our travel. First, we are driving by ourselves and will not have too much contact with other people during the driving process. We will try to have less contact with others during the break in the service area halfway. Second, we are going to Kunming, Yunnan. As long as we don't get together when we go to the scenic spots, the problem will not be too big. Pay attention to news reports at all times along the way. If the situation is bad, go back immediately. After I communicated with the girl, we decided to leave on schedule.

On January 21st, my girl and I made an appointment to go to the supermarket to buy food. While waiting for the bus, I did a very wise thing. I bought three medical cotton masks from the nearby pharmacy to prevent smog. They were a box. Buy one get one free. There were no other types of masks in the pharmacy. At that time, I thought I should buy them first. Half an hour later, when I still wanted to buy them, I asked many pharmacies, but they had no masks anymore.

My girl and I bought a lot of food in the supermarket, including six buckets of instant noodles, some bread, beef jerky, pastries, etc., plus four boxes of self-heating rice bought online in advance, which exceeded the purchase of any trip. When we set out, we also moved a box of apples, some rock sugar tangerines and a grapefruit. Maybe I was reminded to prepare more. Hehe, we also bought two boxes of alcohol cotton tablets and a bottle of VC from the pharmacy.
D1: January 22, Mianyang-Zhaotong, stayed at Zhaotong Ziguang Hotel

On the morning of the 22nd, we set off on time. Today's task is to drive. In order to save time, we ate instant noodles in the high-speed service area at noon. While driving at high speed, I passed through Laodianzi Tunnel No. 1 and No. 2. The navigation showed two large spiraling circles. This was the first time I saw this kind of high-speed shape. There was also a name called Spiral Extension Line. Driving also felt like it was circling upwards. We arrived in Zhaotong at 5 p.m., and when we got off the highway and crossed ETC, the amount displayed on the ETC was actually 0. It may not be that the highway has waived the highway fees in advance, hehe. When I arrived at the hotel and settled in, I had dinner in the hotel because of the strong wind. At that time, we only had two tables, so it was good to have fewer people.

D2: January 23, Zhaotong-Dongchuan Red Soil, stayed at the Red Soil Summer Hotel

After breakfast at the hotel, we followed the navigation. After walking a section of highway and provincial roads, we began to go uphill and uphill again. At 3 p.m., we reached the highest point of the mountain and arrived at the Dongchuan Red Soil. Because the scenic spots in the red soil are scattered, the road signs are not very clear, and we are new here, so we can't touch the east, west, and west for a while. We went to the hotel first and happened to pass Luoxia Valley on the way. We went in and walked around first. We waited at the hotel (actually it's a farmhouse, but the conditions are not bad). After asking about the east, west, and we drove out for a stroll. The land here is wide and there are few people and scattered, so you don't have to worry about crowds. If you drive between the various attractions, you will be more than ten minutes away. Personally, I think that what you admire is the color level of the red clay terraces. I was also lucky enough to meet an Internet celebrity, a kind and happy old man, I don't put it up because it's a photo, hehe. I had dinner in the hotel. I stewed half a hen. It was miserable. We finished all the soup. If we want to eat it, we had better tell the store in advance. You can eat it when you come back after playing. If you cook it now, it will take a long time because the stove is limited.

D3: On January 24, I stayed at Shilin Park Inn in Shilin, a red clay land in Dongchuan

I still had breakfast in the store, because the noodles only had tomato and egg noodles. The girl didn't eat eggs and didn't want to eat porridge steamed buns. The store didn't know how to make other noodles. I personally made a bowl of oily and vinegar noodles for her. The only seasonings were soybean oil, vinegar, a little dried chili noodles and some pepper oil brewed by the boss himself. I was worried that the taste was not good, but the girl said it was okay. Maybe it was the boss's pepper oil aroma and the taste good, because my girl has liked pepper since she was a child. The taste. Breakfast was finally over. After breakfast, we set off for Shilin. We arrived at Shilin around 1 noon. Because Shilin is a popular attraction and must be crowded, we went there after lunch, hoping to miss the crowd. The fish in sour soup we ate in a food shop near the inn tasted okay. After lunch, we drove to Shilin and parked the car in the parking lot. We asked the staff where the gate of the scenic area was. The staff reached out and helped us stop a passing scenic area sightseeing bus and told the driver that we would buy tickets at the gate of the scenic area. We got on the sightseeing bus and were blindly dragged to the gate of the scenic area. We got off the bus and bought tickets. After 4 o'clock we walked into the scenic area. There were not many people, but we still put on masks, because many roads in Shilin were very narrow, only one person wide. Easy to collide with people.

We wandered inside for more than 2 hours, and we didn't leave the gate of the scenic spot until after 6 o'clock. We could be regarded as the last few people to leave the scenic spot. A dramatic scene began. At the beginning, it was not that we arrived by sightseeing bus in a daze. When we bought the ticket, we only bought tickets, thinking that the ticket included the sightseeing bus. When we left the scenic spot and wanted to take the sightseeing bus to the parking lot, the staff told us that we couldn't take the sightseeing bus without buying a sightseeing ticket. Moreover, all the ticket sellers were off work at this time. Fortunately, the parking lot is 2 kilometers away and we can still reach it on foot. The three of us are quite strong, so let's go. After a long journey, we finally arrived at the parking lot by dark, and we were lucky enough to be the last car to leave the parking lot that day.

Because I came back a little late, and today is the 30th anniversary of the Chinese New Year, the restaurants where I ate closed early. Tonight, only instant noodles are celebrating the New Year.

D4: January 25, Shilin, staying at Shilin Park Su Inn

Today, on New Year's Day, I got up until 8 o'clock and opened the curtains. It was actually heavy snow outside. There was a thick layer of snow on the roof and road. Is this Kunming, Yunnan? Why is it snowing? It was still shining brightly yesterday. Later, I asked the innkeeper that it hadn't snowed in more than ten years. We happened to catch up. I hope the snow will usher in a bumper year. According to the plan, we should go to Jianshui today, but we saw news last night that Yunnan had begun to close some scenic spots. Dali was already clearing out foreign tourists, and epidemics were emerging one after another in various places. We decided to cancel the trip and go home early.

After eating our own bread and cakes in the inn, we checked out and set out. Unexpectedly, when we reached the entrance of Shilin Expressway, the highway was closed due to heavy snow, and the provincial highway took a short distance. The snow on the road was too thick, making driving difficult. We decided to return to the inn and stay in Shilin for another night, waiting for the snow to stop before leaving. We drove back to the inn. Because there were many cancellations today and the inn still had rooms, we went back to our original room. Later, we learned that the Shilin Scenic Area was temporarily closed due to heavy snow.

D5: On January 26, Shilin-Luzhou, stay at Luzhou Four Seasons Lanting Hotel

The snow on the road has melted today, but the entrance of Shilin Expressway is still closed. We checked several highways leading to Mianyang and felt that it would be safer to take the Hangzhou-Swiss Expressway to return to Mianyang via Qujing, Liupanshui and Luzhou. After eating bread and cakes in the inn, we set off again. I hope everything goes well today! We followed the navigation for a section of the provincial highway, bypassed the entrance of Shilin Expressway, and drove on the highway at a highway entrance near Qujing. We arrived at Luzhou via Liupanshui. At noon, we stopped at the highway service area to eat self-heating rice on our own car. We saw that many self-driving cars resting in the service area were wearing masks. When we got off the highway in Luzhou, the medical staff measured our body temperature at the exit. We navigated to the hotel, and the hotel front desk had also put on masks. The hotel restaurant has been closed. Fortunately, breakfast is still open as usual the next day. The air is already filled with the smell of the worsening epidemic. It's better to go home quickly.

D6: January 27, Luzhou-Mianyang

After breakfast, we set off immediately and successfully returned to Mianyang at noon. When we got off the highway, because it was a local bus, we did not measure our body temperature. There was not much left of the lot of things we bought when we set off, and we finally got home.