My wife's annual leave, and we went on a self-driving tour. Due to the impact of the epidemic, he was unable to run too far, with a total distance of 917.8 kilometers in 6 days. Taizhou and Gaoyou, which we visited during this trip, are among the cities we have not visited in the Yangtze River Delta. The last day of climbing Langshan Mountain in Nantong was nearly 10 years away from the previous visit.

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

At 11:40, we set off from our home in Pudong, Shanghai.

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

At 12:30, we arrived at the Hujia Toll Station of the Shanghai Ring Expressway and drove a total of 42.3 kilometers.

At 13:01, I arrived at the Shaxi Service Area of Shenyang-Haiyang Expressway to rest and drove a total of 80.8 kilometers.

The expanded Shaxi service area has introduced many restaurants.

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

Due to the traffic jam on the highway ahead, we drove on a section of the surface road.

Hailan Flying Horse Water City. Man-made attractions, large-scale, and European-style buildings bring novelty. What is convenient for self-driving tours is that there are no tickets for shopping in Pegasus Watertown and there are many parking spaces. Even parking in an underground garage is free.

When visiting Pegasus Water City, the main purpose is to walk around the artificial lake.

Under the promenade along the lake, drinking coffee and watching the lake view is a kind of enjoyment of slow life.

Feima Water City has good catering facilities.

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

The museum has a large underground garage.

At 15:27, I arrived at Xinqiao North Toll Station of Shanghai-Wuhan Expressway and traveled a total of 151.2 kilometers.

Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge.

At 16:09, I arrived at the Guangling Service Area of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway to rest, and drove a total of 201.7 kilometers.

At 16:43, I arrived at the Taizhou Toll Station of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway. I traveled a total of 242.0 kilometers and charged 61.75 yuan for the highway.

There is an elevated expressway from the expressway entrance to Taizhou urban area.

Stay at Taizhou Hotel, listed as a five-star business twin room, 318 yuan (excluding breakfast). The facilities are older, like a government guest house, but the sanitation is good, the carpet is clean, and the bathroom is clean. The sound insulation is inaccurate, and you can hear the voices next door. The location of the hotel is not in a busy city and it is very quiet at night. The hotel has many open-air parking spaces.

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

Morning tea is served in the food street morning market, including steamed buns, wontons, etc. In the evening, we mainly order a la carte at affordable prices.

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

The hotel sells Taizhou specialty snacks on the street.

As of that night, a total of 259.6 kilometers had been driven, with an average fuel consumption of 5.8 liters/100 kilometers.

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

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

Morning tea at the hotel food court. The meat buns are 4 yuan and the meat filling is very big. For some unknown reason, the business in the food street is not good and there are not many customers. But I also saw that some local people came here to buy breakfast and pack it home to eat.

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

Wuyi Road Parking Lot. Parking in Taizhou is very convenient, and there are many free parking spaces along the street.

Walk from the parking lot to Guangxiao Temple.

Guangxiao Temple in Taizhou, a key Buddhist temple in Jiangsu Province, admission is 20 yuan.

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

The Chongru Temple next to Guangxiao Temple is the Taizhou School Memorial Hall, which is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. Wang Gen, founder of the Taizhou School, learned from Wang Shouren, a famous thinker in the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, the renovation of the memorial hall was not open.

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 (Meiyuan) and Taoyuan.

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

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

Ctrip discount tickets are 15 yuan.

Mei Lanfang was born in Beijing in 1894 in the 20th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. Her ancestral home was Taizhou, Jiangsu.

Fengcheng River.

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

Bufeng Lotus Supermarket at the corner of Dongfang South Road, Yingchun East Road, has now closed for business.

KFC is my favorite food.

Parking lot opposite Taizhou Old Street.

Taizhou Old Street. Group guests come to Taizhou the most, but in fact it is of little significance.

Hailing North Road in front of Risheyuan.

In the Rishiyuan parking lot, I saw an old couple driving an RV to play. This lifestyle is enviable.

Taizhou Rishhe Garden, the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units, is in the category of ancient buildings, dating from the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China.

Japan-related Garden is also known as Qiaoyuan, and has a discount ticket of 15 yuan for Ctrip.

Fengcheng River Wanghai Tower, Ctrip discount ticket is 17 yuan.

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

Parking lot near Wanghai Tower.

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

Dinner is still at the hotel food court.

As of that night, a total of 274.6 kilometers had been driven, with an average fuel consumption of 6.1 liters/100 kilometers.

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

For morning tea in the hotel's food street, you can get a 10% discount on WeChat.

Perm and dry the silk.

Fish soup wonton.

Outside the window of the hotel room.

Taoyuan, Taizhou, has Kong Shangren's former residence. Kong Shangren was a poet and opera writer in the early Qing Dynasty. He was the sixty-fourth grandson of Confucius. He lived here and completed the writing of the second draft of "Peach Blossom Fan." Taoyuan is located on the edge of Taizhou Old Street, with a discount ticket of 17 yuan for Ctrip.

Kong Shangren lived in his former residence.

Fengcheng River.

Overlooking Wanghai Tower.

Stay at Metropark Taizhou International Hotel, elegant twin room, 318 yuan (excluding breakfast). The hotel is located in Gaogang District, Taizhou, about 15 kilometers from the city center where Fengcheng River is located. This is a newly opened hotel, very nice and has reached a 5 star standard. There is a swimming pool and a gym. There is a 2-story underground garage for easy parking. With a strong sense of service, I opened the door and met the waiter. I took the initiative to ask if I wanted to add mineral water. The room facilities are good, and the bathroom has atomized glass. The only regret is that the room type we stayed in did not have a bathtub. Although it faces the street, the glass is soundproof and it feels quiet to sleep at night.

In the underground parking lot, there are multiple dedicated parking spaces for charging new energy vehicles.

The bathroom uses atomized glass.

The hotel provides guests with alcohol wipes.

Outside the window of the hotel room.

Port Diaohua Building Parking Lot.

The Port Carved Building in Gaogang, Taizhou, is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. Carved buildings are buildings featuring wood carvings and brick carvings. There are only three places in Jiangsu, located in Jinting Town (Xishan), Dongshan Town of Suzhou City and Gaogang District of Taizhou City.

Port Diao Building, Ctrip discount ticket is 23 yuan.

Outside a wall of the garden.

Chaixu Waterscape District where the Port Diao Building is located.

There are also several old houses in the block that need to buy tickets and have not been visited.

In the Temple of Guandi.

RT-Mart in Gaogang District.

Give me a bucket of KFC.

KFC faces the entrance of RT-Mart Supermarket. In the era of online shopping, there are few customers in hypermarkets.

There is a Home Inn across the street from the Metropark Taizhou International Hotel.

Chaixu Waterscape District at night.

Dinner was at Fuchun Hotel and the cost was 117 yuan.

There is a big family hosting a birthday party in the hotel.

Night view of the hotel.

Supermarket across the street from the hotel

As of that night, a total of 310.8 kilometers had been driven, with an average fuel consumption of 6.4 liters/100 kilometers.

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

At 10:49, we arrived at the Taizhou Toll Station of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway and drove a total of 318.4 kilometers.

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

Gaomin Temple in Yangzhou is a national key Buddhist temple in Han nationality areas. Unfortunately, due to the need to prevent and control the epidemic, opening up was suspended.

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

Jinwan Expressway.

Provincial Highway S237.

At 12:38, we arrived at the S237 Gas Station on PetroChina Provincial Highway and traveled a total of 409.2 kilometers. Add No. 95 oil for 200 yuan, 5.9 yuan/liter.

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

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 ship lock on the north side slowly opens.

The whole picture of Shaobo Ship Lock.

There is also an old neighborhood in the ancient town, and the residents have basically relocated.

Shaobo Ancient Town has many Grand Canal heritage sites.

Driving to Gaoyou, there is a provincial road close to the Grand Canal.

Switch to National Highway G233 and head for Gaoyou.

Construction is under way on Pinghuai Road in front of Gaoyou Bosideng International Hotel.

Stay at Gaoyou Bosideng International Hotel, a superior twin room, 383 yuan (including double breakfast). The hotel is in a good location, opposite a large shopping mall. There is an underground garage for easy parking. There are many varieties of buffet breakfast, including a variety of Gaoyou specialties. The freshly made wontons are very good.

Salted duck eggs are a specialty of Gaoyou.

The front desk arranged a room for us on the back street, which was very quiet.

Go to Zhangji Restaurant on Cultural Palace Road for dinner and spend 74 yuan.

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

Milk tea.

As of that night, a total of 456.9 kilometers had been driven, with an average fuel consumption of 6.5 liters/100 kilometers.

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

Hotel buffet breakfast.

Coffee maker.

Drive to Zhenguo Temple.

Gaoyou Zhenguo Temple is located on the island in the heart of the Grand Canal. The Zhenguo Temple Pagoda inside the temple was packaged and included in the "Grand Canal" and is one of the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Zhenguo Temple does not accept tickets.

Parking lot in front of the temple.

Antique neighborhood around Yucheng Posthouse in Gaoyou.

Gaoyou Yuchengyi, the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, is in the category of ancient buildings and is in the Qing Dynasty.

Ctrip discount tickets are 25 yuan.

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

Parking by the ancient canal.

Wenyoutai is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. He got his name after Su Shi went to Gaoyou and gathered here with local villagers Qin Guan (Qin Shaoyou), Sun Jue and Wang Gong, who drank alcohol and wrote essays.

Ctrip discount tickets are 20 yuan.

Qin Guan (1049-September 17, 1100), known as Shaoyou, was born in Zuoxiangli, Wuning Township, Gaoyou Army (now Shaoyou Village, Sanduo Town, Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province). The poet of the Wanyue School of the Northern Song Dynasty was respected as a generation of Ci scholars and scholars of the Wanyue School.

Gaoyou Jingtu Temple Tower is 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, we arrived at the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway Baqiao Toll Station and drove a total of 493.9 kilometers.

At 15:39, I arrived at the Guocun Service Area of Qiyang Expressway to rest and drove a total of 536.5 kilometers.

At 16:08, I arrived at Qintong Toll Station of Yanjing Expressway. I traveled a total of 570.3 kilometers and charged 34.97 yuan for the highway.

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

Qintong Ancient Town is a fee-paying attraction. We only stroll around the town along Qingshiban Road.

At 17:29, we arrived at Qintong Toll Station of Yanjing Expressway and traveled a total of 582.5 kilometers.

At 17:55, I arrived at the Xuanbao service area of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway to rest, and drove a total of 629.4 kilometers.

At 18:07, I arrived at the Taixing North Toll Station of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway. I traveled a total of 636.7 kilometers and charged 26.33 yuan for the highway.

Stay at Taixing Jinling International Hotel, a superior twin room, 404 yuan (including single breakfast). Newly opened hotel with brand new facilities and a large bathtub in the rooms. The service was great, we were given a free upgrade to a luxurious twin room with city views on a higher floor and a free late check-out. Unfortunately, a large group of singers in Gulou Square did not disperse until 9:30 p.m., which affected the rest of hotel guests. In addition, noise from the street after 6 a.m. has a certain impact on guests who have poor sleep.

Outside the window of the hotel room.

Drum Tower Square next to the hotel.

Renhe Building, 200 meters away, is a well-known time-honored breakfast chain in Taixing, and it is also good to order at night.

Snacks such as crab roe soup dumplings are not served during dinner time.

I ordered 2 dishes and spent 174 yuan. The picture below shows West Lake beef soup.

Bullfrog.

Huangqiao sesame seed cake is a specialty of Taixing.

As of that night, a total of 647.7 kilometers had been driven, with an average fuel consumption of 6.7 liters/100 kilometers.

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

Hotel breakfast.

Xuanbao small wontons from Renhe Building.

Huangqiao sesame cakes in Renhe Building, 4 yuan/piece.

Outside the window of the hotel room.

Look at the other side of the hotel.

In front of the hotel.

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

Take the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway.

At 13:33, I arrived at the Pingchao Toll Station of the Nantong Branch of the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway. A total of 721.3 kilometers were traveled and the high-speed toll was 28.4 yuan.

Exit the highway to Langshan, which is mainly an elevated road.

Nantong Langshan, Ctrip ticket is 63 yuan.

Langshan East Gate Parking Lot.

Tomb of King Luo Bin.

Langshan Mountain is known as the first of the eight small famous mountains of Buddhism, and Guangjiao Temple is a national key Buddhist temple in Han nationality areas.

Guangjiao Zen Temple, the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units, belongs to the ancient building category, and the period is from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty.

Huangong Tower was built in the 45th year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1566) to commemorate the wisdom of the eminent monk of the Song Dynasty. It was renovated around 1980.

Futai Pingwo Monument is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province.

Take pictures down on Wolf Mountain.

Outside the East Gate of Langshan Mountain, there is no change from when I came 10 years ago.

At 15:53, we arrived at Xiaohai Toll Station of Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway and traveled a total of 755.5 kilometers.

At 16:11, I arrived at the Qilin Service Area of Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway to rest and drove a total of 785.8 kilometers.

Cross the Chongqi Bridge.

Two cars collided.

At 17:05, I arrived at the service area of Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway Port and rested, driving a total of 855.3 kilometers.

At 17:30, I arrived at the Changxing Island Service Area of Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway to rest, and traveled a total of 890.1 kilometers.

At 17:58, we arrived at the Gaodong Toll Station of the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway. We traveled a total of 902.3 kilometers and charged a high-speed toll of 122.25 yuan.

Passing by Gaohang in Pudong, I tasted my century-old pickled cabbage fish and ordered a 3.6-pound black fish for 180 yuan.

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