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Use your free time and holidays in June and July to travel by car to Longsheng Rice Terraces in Guangxi, Chengyang Fengyu Bridge in Sanjiang, Libo, Kaili, Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Zhenyuan Ancient City, and Fanjing Mountain at Tongren River Estuary in Guizhou Buddhist holy place. We traveled to Phoenix, Zhangjiajie, Changsha and other places, covering a total of about 5,000 kilometers of "wild travel", feeling the ethnic customs, exploring the history and culture of ancient cities, and enjoying the natural scenery.

Two travel routes:

June: Foshan - Guilin - Longsheng (Dazhai) - Sanjiang Chengyang Fengyu Bridge - Yangshuo - Foshan. 1600KM in three days.

Longsheng in early June is the season for water release and rice transplanting, and it is also the time when the scenery of the Longsheng terraces is the most beautiful. It is a good time to take advantage of the lack of crowds during the college entrance examination period and go to Longsheng and Sanjiang.

D1 Foshan - Guilin - Longsheng (Dazhai) 670KM

Depart early in the morning, take the Guangsan Expressway and transfer to Provincial Road 263 via Sihui, Guangning and Huaiji. From Xindu, Guangxi, turn onto National Highway 207, go to Hezhou Expressway, turn off at the Miaoling intersection in the direction of Guilin Airport, then turn onto National Highway 321, and turn into Longsheng Rice Terraces in Heping Township. The road conditions were good throughout the whole journey, there were few cars, and we were familiar with the road (I had traveled there last year). We drove almost the entire journey at high speed and arrived at the parking lot of Longsheng Dazhai Terraces at 2:30 pm (Ping'an Terraces is mainly occupied by tour groups, so we gave up). After entering the mountain gate, you have to climb the mountain for 1.5 hours to reach the Tiantou Village residence. This place is very close to the three scenic spots and is the best place to stay. You can watch the sunset in the evening and the sunrise in the early morning. The accommodation fee is 60 yuan and the entrance fee is 50 yuan.

D2 Longsheng - Sanjiang Chengyang Fengyu Bridge - Yangshuo 350KM

The whole wooden building started to move at six o'clock in the morning, and everyone went to the observation tower on the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise and Panoramic view of terraced fields, 20 minutes away. After returning from sightseeing and having breakfast, the mountain road was lined with people who came down the mountain. At about 10:30, they went out to the intersection of Heping Township and transferred to Sanjiang County, 70 kilometers away. This section of the road passes through Longsheng County and Piaoli Township, following the river valley. The road is good, but there are many landslides during the rainy season. There is a sign at the intersection of Sanjiang County and you will reach Fengyu Bridge 18 kilometers away, with the most beautiful pastoral scenery along the way. Arrive at Fengyu Bridge at noon, park your car next to the bridge, cross the bridge and enter the village, the ticket is 60 yuan. There is an ethnic museum halfway up the bridge, with an inn and a restaurant on top. It is also the best place to appreciate the Wind and Rain Bridge, and you can eat and watch it at the same time. After dinner, I walked around the village and saw a few foreign girls living here. They really know how to find a place! I left at about three o'clock, arrived at the Yangshuo Fuqian Street Inn at seven o'clock, and ate at the Havana bar owned by my friends from the off-road E family on West Street at night. The accommodation fee is 80 yuan.

D3 Yangshuo - Xingping - Foshan 520KM

Driving through Fuli Town to Xingping Town early in the morning. Xingping is much more pastoral and quiet than Yangshuo, and it is also the most beautiful section of the Li River. We rented an electric bamboo raft at the pier for a swim in the Li River, and visited the small fishing villages that Clinton visited. At noon, we went to the Lijiang Shuimoju Inn on the peninsula opposite the pier for a meal of Lijiang style. This inn has long been famous and has a first-class environment. After dinner, return to Foshan to end the three-day leisure trip.

July: Foshan - Beihai - Nanning - Nandan - Libo - Kaili (Qianhu Miao Village) - Zhenyuan - Fanjing Mountain - Phoenix - Zhangjiajie - —Changsha—Foshan. 3300KM in eight days.

D1 Foshan - Beihai - Nanning - Nandan (980KM, toll 383 yuan)

Meet your companions at the Zhangcha Expressway entrance at 7:15 am and enter the Foshan Expressway, passing by Yangjiang is catching up with the landfall of a typhoon. It is windy and rainy, and almost nothing can be seen in front of us. We drive away carefully and slowly. At noon, we go to Beihai Tieshan Service Area for dinner, take a break and continue on our way. At 2:30, we passed through Nanning and arrived at Du'an. The highway has ended. We turned to the G210 line and gradually began to climb over the mountains and ridges. The road condition was very good. The scenery along the way was like the Three Gorges Gorge. We stopped to take pictures and enjoy the scenery. Arrive at Nandan County Yingbin Hotel at around six o'clock and check in. The accommodation fee is 120 yuan. Not far from the county seat, there is a branch of the Yao ethnic group, Baiku Yao Village, which you can visit.

D2 Nandan - Libo - Kaili (350KM, toll 50 yuan)

Leave the city at 8 o'clock in the morning, pass through Xiaochang and Lihu Township and climb 55KM over the mountains to Libo. Xiaoqikong Scenic Area (This road is a county road. Although it is small, it is an asphalt road and there are no cars. It is half the distance than taking G210 through Mawei).

The entrance fee to the scenic spot is 110 yuan, the environmentally friendly car is 20 yuan, and boating in the Yuanyang Lake in the Water Forest is an additional 15 yuan per person, plus 30 yuan for the boatman. The water and waterfalls here are very beautiful and worth a visit. If you have time, slowly walk up the river and enjoy the 68 large and small waterfalls. It will take 5 hours to travel by eco-friendly car. 3:30 Head to Kaili. There is a provincial highway from Libo to Dushan, an expressway is under construction from Dushan to Duyun, which can run in both directions. There is an expressway from Duyun to Kaili, and the toll is 45 yuan. Arrive at Kaili, the capital of southeastern Guizhou, at 7:30 and check into the New World Hotel in the city center. The accommodation fee is 138 yuan. Opposite the hotel is the pedestrian street. The prosperity and modernity of Kaili are unimaginable! Kaili is most famous for its fish in sour soup.

D3 Kaili - Qianhu Miao Village - Sansui - Zhenyuan (250KM, toll 50 yuan)

Leave Kaili City early in the morning and go to Sanskeshu Town via G320 The road condition in Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang is very good. There is a landslide 18km before entering the village, and a small car can pass it. Xijiang Qianhu Village is the largest Miao village, with more than 1,300 households and a history of thousands of years. The entrance fee is 60 yuan, and the one-way eco-car is 5 yuan. You can enter the village and take the eco-car to the highest point of the village to overlook the entire Miao village. It is very spectacular. There is a river in the village, five wind and rain bridges, and a central square beside the river. Song and dance performances are performed at 11:30 every day. . A group of us happened to meet a married woman serving wine and took the initiative to join in the congratulations. As a result, we were so drunk that the three of us fell drunk on the Wind and Rain Bridge. In the afternoon, after a few people woke up, they returned from the original road to the Kaili East Expressway and got off at the intersection of Sansui County, then turned to the county road and crossed the mountain into Zhenyuan. This section of the mountain road has many twists and steep slopes, making it easy to get motion sickness. There is another 10KM road under construction down the mountain, which is difficult for ordinary cars to pass, and the dust is flying all the way. At about six o'clock, the car, covered with thick red soil, finally arrived at the Mingcheng Hotel on the side of Zhenyuan County Government and checked in. The accommodation fee was 130 yuan. The ancient city of Zhenyuan has a history of about 2,200 years. The Wuyang River surrounds the ancient city. The Qinglong Cave, which integrates three religions, is built on the other side of the river. Climb up the Qinglong Cave and overlook Zhenyuan City - the mountains and rivers are like Guilin, and the small town is like Phoenix, but there is no Phoenix or Yangshuo. of noise and business. There are many ancient houses of large families that have been preserved in modern times on the slope behind the street. Zhenyuan is quaint and peaceful, but it is uninhabited in the depths. Tickets for Qinglong Cave are 25 yuan.

D4 Zhenyuan - Qingxi - Dalong - Tongren - Jiangkou - Fanjing Mountain (240KM, toll 20 yuan)

After lunch at the ancient city riverside, head there Fanjing Mountain in Tongren. There are two ways to go to Tongren. One is to go back to the old road to Sansui and turn to Tongren Expressway. The other is to take the highway (50KM) that is under construction through Qingxi and go through the valley to get on the expressway. We chose the latter way. When we drove in, we found that apart from the road construction vehicles, we were the only two off-road vehicles. It seemed like we had entered a cross-country training venue. The second gear was bumpy all the way and the car was bottomed out many times. It took us two hours to reach the highway intersection in Qingxi Town. Turning onto the expressway, a sense of relief and happiness arose spontaneously. I was just happy for a while before arriving at the Fish Market Dalong Expressway Exit. I turned to the provincial highway to Tongren. The road condition was very good. I passed through Tongren City and took the county highway for 50km to Jiangkou County. After entering the county, I At the intersection, turn towards Zunyi and go to Fanjing Mountain for about 30km. We had the most sumptuous dinner at a riverside farm in Jiangkou and stayed at an inn at the foot of the mountain. The accommodation fee was 100 yuan. This is the peak tourist season, so there are only a few self-driving cars and almost no other tourists. At night, you can play in the river next to the inn and look up at the stars in the sky.

D5 Fanjing Mountain-Tongren-Fenghuang (160KM, toll 10 yuan)

In the early morning, the foot of Fanjing Mountain was covered with clouds and mist, and there were more than 8,000 stone steps to climb from the foot of the mountain to the top. The mountain is 2,572 meters high. You can only go up and down by cable car. The mountain ticket is 50 yuan, the cable car is 160 yuan for a round trip, and the environmentally friendly car is 20 yuan. It takes about an hour to go up the mountain by eco-car and cable car. The cable car on Fanjing Mountain is the most dangerous one we have ever taken. It takes half an hour one way. There are several sacred places such as mushroom rocks on the top of the mountain. After going down the mountain to have dinner, we headed to Phoenix City. We arrived at 6 o'clock and checked into a view room at Linjiang Inn. The accommodation fee was 160 yuan and the parking fee in the square was 20 yuan. Phoenix City no longer resembles the quaint little town it was when I arrived ten years ago. The whole place feels dirty, chaotic, noisy, smelly, and has a strong commercial smell. It's like a rural girl ten years ago has turned into a prostitute full of copper odor. I'm glad I saw her true face ten years ago. I had no interest in traveling at night, so I went back to my room to rest and prepare to escape early in the morning.

D6 Phoenix - Zhangjiajie (270KM provincial highway free of charge)

Walking along the riverside at around six o'clock in the morning was still a bit of the past, so I took a few photos to go back with To compare with ten years ago, I ate a bowl of rice noodles and rushed to Zhangjiajie (because I had to send a travel companion to Zhangjiajie to catch the train back to Guangzhou). The road is good and there is no toll. After lunch, we saw off our friends and went straight to the scenic spot. Since we have booked to spend the night at a farmhouse on the mountain, cars are not allowed to go up the mountain and can only be parked in the parking lot of Zhangjiajie Forest Park. Parking fees are charged day and night. If we arrive in the afternoon, we will be charged 20 yuan for the day and 30 yuan for the night. The next day, they charged 20 yuan for a daytime stay, and 70 yuan for a one-night stay. It was a steal. The entrance fee is 248 yuan, the outside elevator is 56 yuan, the farmhouse on the mountain is also dark, the house price is 60 yuan, which is very simple, an extra bed is 30 yuan, the air conditioner is 30 yuan extra and the owner controls the on and off time, and the meal is 30 yuan per person. The mountains are quiet at night, with nowhere to relax and go to bed early.

D7 Zhangjiajie-Changsha (340KM, toll 140 yuan)

In the morning, we visited the central scenic area of ??Yuanjiajie. The weather was clear, the sun was shining, and the mountain scenery without rain and fog looked very ordinary. In addition, there are people everywhere, it is crowded, there is no place to take pictures, and it takes a long time to wait for the eco-friendly car, and I have lost interest in playing. At noon, we took the cable car down from Wulingyuan (52 yuan). We had to take a taxi (50 yuan) to another mountain gate to pick up the car and then return to the city. After finishing our meal in the city, we left in a hurry and headed to the Tianma Hotel on the Hunan University Campus (198 yuan) on the side of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha to meet up with another rider. In the evening, visit the Pedestrian Street and Fire Palace to taste Hunan cuisine.