My wife is on vacation, so we go on a self driving trip. Due to the impact of the epidemic, I was unable to run too far, covering a total distance of 917.8 kilometers in 6 days. Taizhou and Gaoyou, which we visited on this trip, are one of the few cities in the Yangtze River Delta that we have never been to before. On the last day, I climbed Langshan in Nantong, nearly 10 years after my previous visit.

October 25, 2020 (Jiangyin weather: partly cloudy, 12 to 21 degrees)

Departing from my home in Pudong, Shanghai at 11:40.

The brief traffic jam on the Shanghai Jiaxing Expressway was caused by a collision of three vehicles.

At 12:30, arrived at the Hujia toll station on the Shanghai Ring Expressway, and traveled a total of 42.3 kilometers.

At 13:01, arrived at Shaxi Service Area of Shenhai Expressway for rest, and traveled a total of 80.8 kilometers.

The expanded Shaxi service area has introduced many restaurants.

At 13:45, arrived at Gushan Toll Station on the Shanghai Wuhan Expressway, traveled a total of 134.8 kilometers, and charged 42.66 yuan on the highway.

Due to traffic congestion on the highway ahead, we drove on a ground level road.

Hailan Feima Water City. Artificial scenic spots, with large scale and European style architecture, bring a sense of novelty to people. What is convenient for self driving tours is that Feima Water City does not charge admission fees for shopping and has many parking spaces. Even if parked in an underground garage, it is free.

Strolling around Feima Water City mainly involves circling around the artificial lake.

Drinking coffee and enjoying the lake view along the long corridor is a leisurely way of life.

The catering facilities in Feima Water City are very good.

There are many young people, and the business of milk tea shops is very good.

The art museum has a large underground garage.

At 15:27, arrived at the Xinqiao North toll station on the Shanghai Wuhan Expressway, and traveled a total of 151.2 kilometers.

Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge.

At 16:09, arrived at Guangling Service Area of Beijing Shanghai Expressway for rest, and traveled a total of 201.7 kilometers.

At 16:43, arrived at the Taizhou toll station on the Beijing Shanghai Expressway, traveled a total of 242.0 kilometers, and charged 61.75 yuan on the highway.

There is an elevated expressway from the highway entrance to Taizhou city center.

Stay at Taizhou Hotel, listed as five-star, business twin room, priced at 318 yuan (excluding breakfast). The facilities are relatively old, like a government guesthouse, but the hygiene is good, the carpets are clean, and the bathrooms are clean. Sound insulation deviation, you can hear the voices of the neighbors. The hotel is not located in a bustling city and is very quiet at night. There are many outdoor parking spaces in the hotel.

The hotel's food street is very good, with affordable prices and delicious local specialties.

The food street has breakfast tea in the morning market, including steamed stuffed buns, Wonton, etc. In the evening, we mainly order dishes at affordable prices.

Grilled black fish, 78 yuan, not as delicious as expected.

The hotel sells Taizhou specialty snacks on the street.

As of that evening, the accumulated mileage was 259.6 kilometers, with an average fuel consumption of 5.8 liters per 100 kilometers.

October 26, 2020 (Taizhou weather: cloudy to cloudy, 11 to 20 degrees)

Take a photo outside the hotel window from the guest room.

Morning tea at the hotel food street. The meat bun costs 4 yuan and the meat filling is very large. For some reason, the business of the food street is not good and there are not many customers. But I also saw that some locals came here to buy breakfast and pack it up to eat at home.

The decoration style of the lobby does not match the level of a five-star hotel.

Wuyi Road Parking Lot. Parking in Taizhou city is very convenient, with many free parking spaces along the streets.

Walk from the parking lot to Guangxiao Temple.

Guangxiao Temple in Taizhou is a key Buddhist temple in Jiangsu Province, with a ticket price of 20 yuan.

The Most Auspicious Hall is the only temple name in the country.

The Chongru Temple next to Guangxiao Temple, also known as the Taizhou School Memorial Hall, is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. The founder of the Taizhou School, Wang Gen, learned from the famous Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Shouren. Unfortunately, the memorial hall has not been opened for renovation.

There are multiple free parking spaces on Taoyuan Road on the east side of Taizhou Old Street. From here, you can walk to Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall (Plum Garden) and Taoyuan.

The Chunlan State Guesthouse next to the Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall has a four-star standard and provides very quiet accommodation.

The Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall is located on Fenghuangdun in the urban area of Taizhou, surrounded by water on three sides, shaded by green trees, and with elegant scenery. In February 1985, then President Li Xiannian inscribed the name of the museum.

Ctrip offers a discounted ticket of 15 yuan.

Mei Lanfang was born in Beijing in the 20th year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty (1894), with ancestral roots in Taizhou, Jiangsu.

Fengcheng River.

There is a parking lot in front of the memorial hall.

The Bee Lotus Supermarket at the corner of Yingchun East Road and Dongfang South Road has now suspended operations.

KFC is my favorite food.

The parking lot across from Taizhou Old Street.

Taizhou Old Street. Team guests visit Taizhou the most, but in reality, it has little significance.

Hailing North Road in front of Nisshin Garden.

At the Nisshin Park parking lot, I saw an old couple driving an RV to play. This lifestyle is enviable.

Taizhou Rishe Garden, the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units, belongs to the category of ancient architecture, dating back to the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China.

Nisshin Garden, also known as Qiaoyuan, offers a discounted ticket price of 15 yuan on Ctrip.

Fengcheng River View Tower, Ctrip discounted ticket for 17 yuan.

There is a section of state city ruins in the park.

The parking lot near Wanghai Tower.

Stay at Taizhou Hotel, listed as five-star, business twin room, priced at 318 yuan (excluding breakfast). The Chunlan sculpture in the hotel lobby.

Dinner is still at the hotel food street.

As of that evening, the accumulated mileage was 274.6 kilometers, with an average fuel consumption of 6.1 liters per 100 kilometers.

October 27, 2020 (Taizhou weather: cloudy to cloudy, 15 to 20 degrees)

The hotel's food street offers a 10% discount on morning tea and WeChat ordering.

Hot dry silk.

Wonton in fish soup.

Outside the window of the hotel room.

There is a former residence of Kong Shangren in Taoyuan, Taizhou. Kong Shangren was a poet and playwright of the early Qing Dynasty, and a descendant of Confucius of the 64th generation. He lived here and completed the writing of the second draft of "Peach Blossom Fan". Taoyuan is located on the old street in Taizhou, and Ctrip offers a discounted ticket of 17 yuan.

Kong Shangren's former residence.

By the Fengcheng River.

Overlooking the Sea Tower.

Stay at Taizhou Weijing International Hotel, elegant twin room, 318 yuan (excluding breakfast). The hotel is located in Gaogang District, Taizhou, about 15 kilometers away from the city center where Fengcheng River is located. This is a newly opened hotel, very good, reaching a five-star level. There is a swimming pool and a gym. There is a 2-story underground garage for convenient parking. Strong service awareness, when I opened the door and met the waiter, I proactively asked if I wanted to add mineral water. The guest room facilities are good, and the bathroom has frosted glass. The only regret is that our room type does not have a bathtub. Although facing the street, the glass insulation is good, making it feel very quiet when sleeping at night.

The underground parking lot has multiple dedicated parking spaces for charging new energy vehicles.

The bathroom uses atomized glass.

The hotel provides guests with alcohol wipes.

Outside the hotel room window.

Port carved flower building parking lot.

The carved tower at the port of Taizhou Gaogang is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. Diaohua Tower is a building characterized by wood and brick carvings. There are only three locations in Jiangsu Province, located in Jinting Town (Xishan), Dongshan Town, Suzhou City, and Gaogang District, Taizhou City.

Port Carving Tower, Ctrip discounted ticket 23 yuan.

Outside the wall of the garden.

The Chaixu Waterscape Block where the Port Carving Tower is located.

There are still several old houses in the block that require additional tickets and have not been visited.

Inside the Guandi Temple.

RT Mart in Gaogang District.

Have a bucket of KFC.

KFC faces the entrance of RT Mart supermarket. In the era of online shopping, there are few customers in large supermarkets.

There is a homely hotel across the street from the Taizhou Weijing International Hotel where we are staying.

The Chaixu Waterscape Block at night.

Dinner is at Fuchun Hotel, costing 117 yuan.

There is a big family holding a birthday banquet in the hotel.

Hotel night view.

The supermarket across the street from the hotel

As of that evening, the accumulated mileage was 310.8 kilometers, with an average fuel consumption of 6.4 liters per 100 kilometers.

October 28, 2020 (Gaoyou weather: cloudy with light rain, 14 to 21 degrees)

At 10:49, arrived at the Taizhou toll station on the Beijing Shanghai Expressway and traveled a total of 318.4 kilometers.

At 11:21, arrived at Yangzhou South Toll Station on the Shanghai Shaanxi Expressway, traveled a total of 271.3 kilometers, and charged 25.3 yuan on the highway.

Gaomin Temple in Yangzhou is a national key Buddhist temple in the Han ethnic region. Unfortunately, due to the need for epidemic prevention and control, the opening has been temporarily suspended.

Drive to Shaobo Town in Jiangdu. There is a section of Ninghai Line, which is the old Shanghai Shaanxi Expressway, a closed road with good road conditions.

Jinwan Expressway.

Provincial Highway S237.

At 12:38, arrived at the S237 gas station on China Petroleum Provincial Road, and traveled a total of 409.2 kilometers. Adding 95 oil costs 200 yuan, 5.9 yuan/liter.

Shaobo Town, Jiangdu District, Yangzhou City, is one of the fourth batch of famous historical and cultural towns in China. Free admission.

The biggest attraction of Shaobo Ancient Town is the Shaobo Ship Lock on the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The ship lock on the south side of the canal slowly closed, and the water level on the south side was significantly low.

The lock on the north side slowly opens.

The overall view of Shaobo Ship Lock.

There is still an old block in the ancient town, and most of the residents have already relocated.

Shaobo Ancient Town has multiple Grand Canal heritage sites.

Driving to Gaoyou, there is a section of provincial road closely following the Grand Canal.

Switch to G233 National Highway to go to Gaoyou.

The Pinghuai Road in front of Gaoyou Bosideng International Hotel is under construction.

Stay at Gaoyou Bosideng International Hotel in a deluxe twin room for 383 yuan (including double breakfast). The hotel is in a good location, with a large shopping mall across from it. There is an underground garage for convenient parking. There are many varieties of self-service breakfast, including a variety of Gaoyou specialty foods. The small Wonton is very good.

Salted duck egg are a specialty of Gaoyou.

The front desk arranged for us to stay in a quiet room facing away from the street.

Go to Zhang Ji Restaurant on Culture Palace Road for dinner and spend 74 yuan.

I saw an advertisement for the Wang family banquet in the hotel elevator.

tea with milk.

As of that evening, the accumulated mileage was 456.9 kilometers, with an average fuel consumption of 6.5 liters per 100 kilometers.

October 29, 2020 (Gaoyou weather: cloudy to cloudy, 11 to 19 degrees)

Hotel buffet breakfast.

Coffee machine.

Drive to Zhenguo Temple.

Guosi Temple in Gaoyou Town is located on the island at the heart of the Grand Canal. The Zhenguo Temple Pagoda inside the temple has been included in the "Grand Canal" and is listed as the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Zhenguo Temple does not charge admission fees.

The parking lot in front of the temple.

The antique style neighborhoods around Gaoyou Yucheng Post.

Gaoyou Yucheng Post Station, the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, belongs to the category of ancient architecture, and dates back to the Qing Dynasty.

Ctrip offers a discounted ticket of 25 yuan.

In the ninth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, Pu Songling managed the Yucheng Post Office in Gaoyou.

Parking by the ancient canal.

Wenyoutai is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. It was named after Su Shi's gathering here with local scholars Qin Guan (Qin Shaoyou), Sun Jue, and Wang Gong, who gathered in Gaoyou to drink and write essays.

Ctrip offers a discounted ticket of 20 yuan.

Qin Guan (1049-1100 September 17), also known as Shaoyou, was born in Zuoxiangli, Wuning Township, Gaoyou Army (now Shaoyou Village, Sanduo Town, Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province). The poet of the Northern Song Dynasty's Wanyue School is revered as a master of the Wanyue School and a great scholar.

Gaoyou Jingtu Temple Pagoda, a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. The tower is located on an open square in the center of Gaoyou city.

At 14:57, arrived at the Baqiao toll station on the Beijing Shanghai Expressway and traveled a total of 493.9 kilometers.

At 15:39, arrived at Guocun Service Area on Qiyang Expressway for rest, and traveled a total of 536.5 kilometers.

At 16:08, arrived at the Qintong toll station on the Yanjing Expressway, traveled a total of 570.3 kilometers, and charged 34.97 yuan on the highway.

There is a KFC store across the street from the entrance of the ancient town.

Qintong Ancient Town is a paid attraction, and we only took a stroll along the bluestone road in the town.

At 17:29, arrived at the Qintong toll station on the Yanjing Expressway and traveled a total of 582.5 kilometers.

At 17:55, arrived at Xuanbao Service Area on the Beijing Shanghai Expressway for rest, and traveled a total of 629.4 kilometers.

At 18:07, arrived at the Taixing North toll station on the Beijing Shanghai Expressway, traveled a total of 636.7 kilometers, and charged 26.33 yuan on the highway.

Stay at Taixing Jinling International Hotel for a deluxe twin room, priced at 404 yuan (including breakfast). The newly opened hotel has brand new facilities and large bathtubs in the guest rooms. The service was very good, and we were able to upgrade to a deluxe twin room with city view on a higher floor for free, as well as receive a free late check-out. Unfortunately, a large group of singers on Gulou Square did not disperse until 9:30pm, affecting the rest of hotel guests. In addition, the noise coming from the streets after 6am has a certain impact on guests who have poor sleep.

Outside the hotel room window.

The Drum Tower Square next to the hotel.

Renhe Building, located 200 meters away, is a well-known breakfast chain in Taixing. It also offers good options for ordering at night.

Crab roe soup bag and other Dim sum are not available at dinner time.

I ordered 2 dishes and spent 174 yuan. The following picture shows West Lake Beef Soup.

Bullfrog.

Huangqiao Shaobing (Baked cake in griddle) is a special product of Taixing.

As of that evening, the accumulated mileage was 647.7 kilometers, with an average fuel consumption of 6.7 liters per 100 kilometers.

October 30, 2020 (Nantong weather: sunny to partly cloudy, 10 to 21 degrees)

Hotel breakfast.

The small Wonton of Xuanbao in Renhe Building.

Huangqiao Shaobing (Baked cake in griddle) in Renhelou, 4 yuan/piece.

Outside the hotel room window.

Look on the other side of the hotel.

In front of the hotel.

At 12:53, arrived at Taixing East Toll Station on the Beijing Shanghai Expressway, and traveled a total of 658.8 kilometers.

On the Shanghai Shaanxi Expressway.

At 13:33, arrived at the Pingchao toll station on the Nantong branch of the Shanghai Shaanxi Expressway, traveled a total of 721.3 kilometers, and charged 28.4 yuan on the highway.

The main way to reach Langshan on the highway is through an elevated road.

Nantong Langshan, Ctrip ticket is 63 yuan.

Langshan East Gate Parking Lot.

Tomb of King Luobin.

Langshan is known as the top of the eight famous Buddhist mountains, and Guangjiao Zen Temple is a national key Buddhist temple in Han areas.

Guangjiao Zen Temple, the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units, belongs to the category of ancient architecture, dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The Huan Gong Pagoda was built in the 45th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1566) to commemorate the Song Dynasty monk Zhi Huan. It was renovated around 1980.

Futai Pingwo Stele, a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province.

Shoot from above on Wolf Mountain.

Outside the Wolf Mountain Gate, there hasn't been much change from when I came 10 years ago.

At 15:53, arrived at the Xiaohai toll station on the Shanghai Shaanxi Expressway and traveled a total of 755.5 kilometers.

At 16:11, arrived at Qilin Service Area on Shanghai Shaanxi Expressway for rest, and traveled a total of 785.8 kilometers.

Crossing the Chongqi Bridge.

Two cars collided.

At 17:05, arrived at the Shanghai Shaanxi Expressway Gangyan Service Area for rest, and traveled a total of 855.3 kilometers.

At 17:30, arrived at the Changxing Island service area of the Shanghai Shaanxi Expressway for rest, and traveled a total of 890.1 kilometers.

At 17:58, arrived at the Gaodong toll station on the Shanghai Shaanxi Expressway, traveled a total of 902.3 kilometers, and charged 122.25 yuan on the highway.

Passing Pudong Gaoxing, I tasted the centenarian family's pickled Chinese cabbage fish and ordered a 3.6 kg black fish for 180 yuan.

At 19:34, I returned to my home in Pudong, Shanghai and traveled a total of 917.8 kilometers with an average fuel consumption of 6.5 liters per 100 kilometers.