The latest Dongguan rural tourism routes

Among the 128 national rural tourism quality routes in 2022, Dongguan also has a route shortlisted, which is the rural tourism route in Mayong Town, Dongguan - the "Riding Water Town Tasting the Harvest" tour. For details of the tour route, see Let’s take a look below! Traveling to the countryside and celebrating the harvest, the Mayong "Riding Water Town to Taste the Harvest" tour combines the original water town scenery with the fruits and warm sunshine of autumn, forming an intoxicating atmosphere. Unique landscape. The two-day and two-night tour covers ecological leisure, parent-child entertainment, farming experience, food exploration, night view tours, sports competitions and other elements, from flower sea wetland to field entertainment, from parent-child interaction to farming experience, from rural fun to competition in the field. , you can not only enjoy the original ecological scenery of the water town, steal half a day's leisure, but also enjoy the beautiful scenery of the harvest, have a fun labor experience, and can also switch perfectly to experience a fast and passionate kart competition, allowing tourists to Wherever your heart goes, go wherever you go.

Itinerary: Huayang Lake National Wetland Park → Gumei Ecological Agricultural Park → "Gumei Township Charm" rural tour → Pearl River Delta Automobile Expo Center → Chuangyi Ecological Agricultural Park

Best Travel time: October to the end of November every year

Main rural tourist spots (projects):

Huayang Lake National Wetland Park

The park has about 22 kilometers of water With a greenway, a 10-kilometer cycling greenway around the lake and a 500-acre lotus pond, it is the first national wetland park in Dongguan City. Relying on natural and cultural resources such as rivers, ancestral halls, dragon boat pavilions, and ancient villages, the park has built ecological leisure landscapes with the characteristics of Lingnan water towns such as rural leisure waterfronts and green banana forests along the coast. Flowering plants such as Lihua, peach blossom, big-leaved crape myrtle, and yellow-flowered campanula. Pavilions and pavilions are scattered in an orderly manner, and small bridges and flowing water can be seen everywhere. Under the clusters of flowers, the scenery is romantic, charming and colorful. Just take a photo and it will become a watercolor painting.

Note: From now until October 31, citizens and tourists entering the Huayang Lake National Wetland Park scenic area must hold a 72-hour nucleic acid test negative certificate

Gumei Ecological Agricultural Park

The park covers an area of ??about 500 acres. It is a "beautiful countryside" that integrates farming culture display, modern agricultural science popularization, parent-child entertainment, and group development. The rice field paintings planted in the park attract a large number of tourists every year. , the Harvest Festival is held every year from October to the end of November, when the rice is ripe and the grapes are fragrant. It is the first choice place for parent-child entertainment, farming experience, and vegetable and fruit picking.

The "Ancient Mei Xiangyun" rural tourism project covers the four villages (communities) of Mayong Town: May 1, May 2, May 3, and May 4. 16 kilometers of water and land greenways have been built, connecting Kui Lou Wanwang, Xiyuan Night Market, Baihe Banyan Tree and other characteristic cultural attractions, realizing the interconnection of water network, road network and green network, showing that "water and water are connected and roads follow the water" "Ecological characteristic landscape.

Pearl River Delta Automobile Expo Center

The new business card of the benchmark automobile industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The park has built the Guangdong Racing International Circuit. The circuit is in accordance with the international F3 track standards. The design includes "0-400 meters" straight-line racing, car drifting, car and motorcycle competitions, go-kart entertainment and related event supporting facilities. It covers a total area of ??about 258 acres and is 2.36 kilometers long. It has karts, motorcycles, cars Various sports and competitive experience projects such as this are emerging sports tourism internet celebrity check-in points in recent years.

Creative Art Ecological Park

Covering an area of ??about 150 acres, the park has more than 20,000 blueberry trees planted. It is the largest blueberry picking base in Dongguan City, with natural ecology and environmental protection as its core. , derived from the modern ecological park with natural education, blueberry culture, ecological environmental protection, parent-child play, farm picnics and other sectors, and developed amusement projects such as Blueberry Kingdom, Children's Dream Paradise, Cute Pet Paradise, and Misty Rain Jungle.

Harvest Festival

Mayong is a famous land of plenty, with a long history of planting bananas, rice and other crops.

In recent years, Mayong Town, with the theme of "Harvest Festival", has organized rice field painting viewing, rice harvesting, vegetable and fruit picking, special agricultural product exhibitions and other activities in many agricultural parks in the town to share the joy of harvest with tourists and celebrate the first bumper harvest. feast.

Special delicacies:

Banana Feast

Mayong has grown bananas for more than 800 years since the Song Dynasty. Mayong bananas are fresh in color, rich in fragrance, sweet and delicious, and have delicate meat. In addition to being enjoyed as a fruit, bananas also have a place in Mayong’s traditional recipes. Mayong people give full play to their imagination and combine bananas with various ingredients to create banana feasts. There are more than ten dishes including banana bud omelette, banana braised goose, plantain keel soup, seaweed raw banana syrup, banana thin meal, etc.

River fresh food banquet

As a land of plenty, Mayong is rich in river fresh food resources, and there are endless cooking techniques for all kinds of river fresh food. Mayong people use local materials to create a Mayong specialty river food feast. The dishes of the Hexian Banquet embody the Mayong people’s dietary concept of “eating from time to time and not eating until it is fresh”. Freshness and plumpness are a major feature of the Hexian Banquet. Dishes include rice porridge, grass worm eggs, grass carp rice, pan-fried pigeon fish, pan-fried anchovies, boiled river shrimp, steamed hairy crab, etc.

Mayong Cultural and Creative Souvenir Gift Box

The design of the Mayong Cultural and Creative Gift Box is based on the characteristics of Mayong Water Town and inspired by traditional craft aesthetic elements, integrating the distinctive Mayong Water Town The style is embedded into cultural and creative products, exploring the infinite possibilities under the collision of national style and trend, and creating "Mayong cultural and creative gifts" with stories and warmth. The Mayong Cultural and Creative Gift Box includes Mayong special gifts such as Fatty Autumn Sausage, dried winter melon, dried banana, fried rice cakes, and jujube glutinous rice cakes.

Creative products

Mayong tourism IP image - Longbao and its derived cultural and creative products: Mayong tourism IP image "Longbao" incorporates dragon boat and folk arts in its design , bananas, Huayang Lake and other iconic elements of Mayong, which vividly express the lively and cheerful character of "Long Bao", good at making friends, and positive character. Mayong Town has also derived various cultural and creative products based on the image of "Long Bao", such as clothes, mugs, key chains, mouse pads, refrigerator magnets, canvas bags, etc.

The Four Treasures of Dragon Boat: Mayong is based on the unique water town characteristics and inspired by traditional craft aesthetic elements. Through creative design, handicrafts with distinctive Mayong water town style are produced, representing the stories and stories of the water town. The emotions and warmth of the people in the water town inherit the Mayong people's spirit of unity, hard work, and striving for the top, and also record the collective memories of generations of Mayong people.

Dragon Boat Festival: Every year on May 16th of the lunar calendar, the "Dragon Boat Scene" is a traditional festival that Mayong people attach great importance to. In the hearts of every native Mayong person, the Dragon Boat Scene has a unique meaning. The dragon boat rafters are like the arms of the dragon boat. The speed of the dragon boat is closely related to the quality of the boat rafters. The exquisite appearance requires the craftsmanship and patience of the carpenter. A small dragon boat raft is an exquisite handicraft, and it also confirms the dragon boat spirit of tenacious struggle and forging ahead in the hearts of Mayong people.

Transportation mode:

Self-driving: 20 kilometers away from Dongguan City, about 30 minutes by car; connected to the Guangzhou High-tech Development Zone by a bridge, self-driving from the main tourist attractions in Mayong Town About 10 minutes; about 100 kilometers from Shenzhen, about 80 minutes by car; about 90 kilometers from Huizhou, about 75 minutes by car; about 70 kilometers from Foshan City, about 70 minutes by car.

Public transportation: City bus No. 601, 630, and 616 and get off at Huayang Lake National Wetland Park Station; city bus No. 613 and get off at Mayicunkou Station; city bus No. 616 and get off at Chuangyi Ecology Get off at Yuanyuan Station. Take bus No. 369 outside the city and get off at M_he (Huahai Diaoyou) stop.

Tourist line in the town: Mayong Town has set up a full-area tourist shuttle bus to provide tourists with free travel bus transfer convenience.

Cycling service: Mayong Town has set up 115 public bicycle service points at the main scenic nodes of the line, and put 2,500 public bicycles into service, connecting 30 public bicycle service points such as Huayang Lake and Gumei Xiangyun. Multiple nodes provide tourists with leisure and slow cycling services.

Warm reminder:

The content is exciting and epidemic prevention cannot be relaxed. In the recommended routes, please abide by the on-site epidemic prevention and control guidelines. Make reservations in advance, travel during off-peak hours, and take personal protection. From now until October 31, citizens and tourists entering the Huayang Lake National Wetland Park scenic area must hold a 72-hour nucleic acid test negative certificate.