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Huh? Did you hear that? "Due to the pandemic, a large number of homeless refugees have emerged in China, setting up tents in parks and wastelands, struggling to survive."
Stop! What's that look? We're camping! According to Tongcheng's "2022 Qingming Festival Travel Consumption Data Report," searches for "camping" nationwide during the just-concluded Qingming Festival holiday increased by 98% month-over-month! Camping, as an outdoor sport, is completely on fire!
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It's not just during the Qingming Festival. Every weekend, if you look around, you'll find that everyone is looking for open space and setting up tents, and the parks and green belts are filled with people.
They even moved their home outdoors, "filling the wooden table with fruit, drinks, and snacks... Soft music played on a Bluetooth speaker, and they lay in the spacious tent, gazing at the blue sky, daydreaming." Enjoying the moment of freedom brought by nature, the feeling of "stealing a half-day of leisure" is so refreshing!
Indeed, the recent outbreak of the epidemic not only put a stop to all our interprovincial travel during the Qingming and May Day holidays this year, but it also left us feeling a bit anxious as we struggled to make ends meet. Short trips to the outdoors have become a great way to alleviate our anxiety and overcome the barriers to travel!
Here, You Xiaoxia has also prepared 14 fun, stress-relieving and nature-friendly camping sites around Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
✔Ecological countryside✔Secret mountain forest✔Private lakeside
Experience camping! You might find that life is more than just the present, and there are more wonderful things waiting for you!
You don't have to go far. In the beautiful Jiangnan region of Huzhou, there's a popular online paradise hidden away. It's a 1-hour drive from Hangzhou, and only 2 hours from Suzhou and Shanghai!
Outdoors, children can feed cute pets, draw, do handicrafts, take a train through hundreds of acres of flowers and grass, and embrace nature!
Adults can go to the coffee shop or bookstore to read books, set up a marquee on the lawn, and spend a relaxing afternoon with a cup of coffee. It is not only suitable for taking photos, but also delicious.
At night, enjoy a picnic and barbecue under the banyan tree, the sizzling sounds of the barbecue and the lights of the stars. Enjoy the evening breeze with family and friends, drinking and eating skewers, the stars and moonlight as your companions, dispelling the hustle and bustle of the city.
This time, let us live in nature, take the forest as our home, dream under the starry sky, and listen to the background music of nature on a beautiful spring day.
Anji Campsite is located in the secret place of Tangkou, Anji. It has a private location and a lively lake. Every breath of air you breathe is mixed with the fragrance of bamboo and tea.
You can go kayaking or SUP boarding whenever you want, participate in refreshing river tracing activities, experience plaster painting rubbing, or just swing leisurely on the swing. This is what "the life we yearn for" is all about.
Enjoy a super romantic candlelight Western meal in the breeze and the mountains, full of ritual sense. The Instagram-style forest dinner provides a fairytale dining experience.
As night falls, the camp lights come on, and looking up, I see only the stars. Lying in the ultra-comfortable Nordic-style luxury tent, at this moment, I feel isolated from the world and my mind is empty.
Waking up the next day and enjoying breakfast in the forest while listening to birdsong, I really felt like I was in a secret place.
This is a super comfortable city tour. Starting from Hangzhou, you can reach the Huyuan River in Fuyang within a 2-hour drive.
There is also a large outdoor camping site here, with gurgling streams by the lake and fresh air. You can set up a canopy and tents, and enjoy a beautiful afternoon tea in the aroma of hand-brewed coffee.
The campsite also provides lawn football, fishing, barbecue, and unplugged music, which is guaranteed to keep you entertained for 2 days and 2 nights!
At night, gather a few friends to light a bonfire, watch an open-air movie, and liven up the camping atmosphere. A beautiful fireworks party will become an unforgettable memory in your life!
Spring is the perfect season for traveling, and more and more people choose to return to the fields and approach nature. The Four Seasons Rose Camp is a Nordic pure white tent camp with large lawns and a view every ten steps!
This beautiful and mysterious rose manor is home to ponies, goats, and swans, where people and animals live in harmony. If you get tired of strolling around, you can have some brewed coffee, toast, etc.
Now that you are at the Rose Manor, you can also experience the pure rose essential oil SPA to completely relax your body and mind.
Immerse yourself in the valley, enjoy a delicious and sumptuous buffet dinner, and feel the healing journey of embracing nature under the warm starlight.
The forest camp is carefully designed with exquisite camping tent accommodation areas, picnic areas, campfire movie areas, BC wilderness activity areas, outdoor cabins, vegetable gardens, archery ranges, etc. It is a unique niche camp that combines Glamping exquisite camping and Bushcraft wilderness experience.
The tent accommodation area has a natural camphor tree forest, which naturally repels mosquitoes and blocks direct sunlight. The sunlight shines through the gaps in the leaves, casting mottled light and shadows, which is very comfortable.
The semicircular lawn is a holy place where everyone sits around the campfire, watches movies, and chats every night.
Let go of the fatigue of the day, sit together with friends and family, accompanied by the starry sky, the bonfire to dispel the cold and darkness, and chat together!
Move in with just your luggage and drive there yourself, so plan your first camping trip of spring!
How long has it been since you looked up at the stars? Do you still remember the smell of nature? This time, we'll take you away from the boring cubicle of the city and promise you a "night in utopia."
Pass through the minimalist geometric steel building starting point, walk slowly along the trail, and feel the pure natural atmosphere deep in Daming Mountain.
The cloud-top viewing platform, the forest swing, the ins cabin living room, put down your phone, find a corner, drink alpine afternoon tea, and try to integrate into this secret place. The distant mountains are quiet, with only the sound of wind in the pine forest.
As night falls, everyone gathers around the pot, the hot pot broth bubbling, the barbecue sizzling, and the din of sizzling meats making everyone salivate. Let the breeze and the trees heal all your unhappiness, and cast all your anxieties and worries under the starry sky!
Deqing Campground is located at the foot of Mogan Mountain, just a one-hour drive from Hangzhou. Surrounded by bamboo forests, the campground offers tranquility and privacy.
There is a washing area here that cost 600,000 yuan to build, with new equipment and complete facilities. The extra-large space inside the exquisite tent can accommodate a family of three.
The interior of the tent is also quite well equipped. There is a small wooden table next to the bed where you can place personal items. The lights are bright enough and the brightness can be adjusted at will. The linens are also of five-star hotel level. The sleeping experience is not inferior to that of a hotel, and every detail is full of texture.
It also has its own cute pet park and a wooden park with the theme of the 24 solar terms, which is suitable for the whole family to experience exquisite camping.
In the afternoon, you can make a pot of tea, take a walk in the tea garden on the back mountain, and have a delicious and safe dinner with the internet-famous Sukiyaki pot with rich ingredients.
Here, you can have an intimate contact with nature and experience a leisurely life that is completely different from that in the city.
This time, we will take you away from the crowds in the big city and into the mountains. There is a whole mountain for you to run wild and breathe in the long-lost fresh air!
Dig bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, make a bamboo tube rice by yourself, and experience the fun of cooking outdoors with a fire in the afterglow of the sunset.
After nightfall, experience a unique starry sky dinner, elegant red wine + barbecue platter, and special dishes to satisfy your appetite.
Here you can definitely experience the authentic Zhejiang mountain feeling.
The pure white Nordic tent camp also has bonfires, fireworks and open-air movies. You can listen to the chirping of insects and frogs in the tent and hear fireflies lingering around the tent.
Entering Dajianshan in Haining is like stepping into a fairytale world from Hayao Miyazaki. The blue sky, white clouds, distant mountains, nearby fields, lakes, unknown small flowers, and roadside grass—everything is so beautiful!
Enter the camp and, under the guidance of professional players, learn how to set up tents, make fire by drilling wood, and distill water, starting a small camping skills class.
Hand-ground coffee, seasonal fruits, BBQ, and a delicious meal surrounded by beautiful scenery make outdoor life different.
As night falls, we light fairy wands and fireworks, exchange stories with each other, and enjoy the rare warm bonfires and open-air movies in the city here!
Tongzhou Island is an island in the middle of the Fuchun River. It is surrounded by clear water and reflected by green mountains. The island head is shaded by green trees and there are willows along the coast, like an emerald inlaid in the Fuchun River.
The island is filled with the breath of spring. Invite a few friends to cycle around the island, experience the pastoral joy of picking fruits along the way, and get close to nature.
Or you can make an appointment to experience outdoor activities such as paragliding, kayaking, barbecue, picnic, etc., which will definitely be an unprecedented novel experience.
At night, the camp is lit up with star lights and each tent is equipped with a small bonfire, making the night more special. This time on the island must be unforgettable enough.
Camping on an uninhabited island is an experience I can remember for a lifetime.
As the boats shuttled across the lake, overlooking the distant mountains, you were surrounded by the brilliant spring scenery. Passing through the water maze was like straying into a fairyland.
The climax came during the dinner on the isolated island. A bonfire was lit, a pot of Qiandao Lake fish head soup was stewed, and a bowl of delicious local chicken was cooked. The crayfish gradually turned red under the flames, and the light and refreshing Qiandao Lake beer made the night gradually become intoxicating.
The sky is full of stars, music is playing, and friends are sitting around the campfire, chatting or playing games. How long has it been since you felt such happiness?
There is a quiet campsite in Meihuazhou, Jiaxing, a thousand-year-old historical relic that carries a splendid civilization. It is backed by the West Street of the ancient town in the south and a thousand-acre peach forest in the north, bringing a modern Instagram-style camping accommodation experience that is different from the past.
With independent tents and canopies, it is private and comfortable, with a comfortable space of about 10 square meters and independent air conditioning, which can break the sense of discomfort in unfamiliar environments and make you feel like having a second home outdoors.
There are swing hammocks, exquisite afternoon tea, and outdoor photo shooting. On the move, there are rapid-fire arrow shooting, tree climbing experience, African drum practice, band party, open-air movie, and the weekend should also have a sense of vacation ritual!
Enjoy a basket breakfast in the tent, as well as a forest barbecue and hot pot dinner.
The meat skewers are sizzling on the charcoal fire, and red wine and beer are already on the table. The beautiful scenery and delicious food need good wine to go with them!
It only takes 1 hour to drive from the city center to the countryside. No need to carry heavy luggage or worry about trivial itinerary arrangements, we have arranged everything for you!
We set up camp at Dianshan Lake, standing by the river. The lake water flows slowly, and the warm sun and breeze blow across the blue lake, making the waves sparkle. The small woods not far away are reflected in the silhouette in the sunset.
Sleep in the scenery, chat heartily under the canopy, and the INS-style picnic tables and chairs give you a brand new wild luxury camping experience.
Enjoy fun afternoon games like jungle archery, where you can see who can shoot the arrow through the heart from a hundred paces away. Enjoy kayaking, where you can quietly enjoy the beautiful lake scenery. See who can outsmart you in Werewolf, where you can see who can outsmart you in sophistry. Experience the feeling of flying with Ultimate Frisbee.
Bonfire party, a carnival under the starry sky in the middle of the night, singing and dancing around the bonfire, and blessed by fairy wands.
Life should be free and easy. It is appropriate to escape from the city and find peace and comfort in the lakeside and jungle!
On the remote shores of Lake Taihu lies a beautiful island, both mysterious and understated. Located west of Suzhou, it's part of the Wuzhong East Mountain area, a scenic area known for its beauty and breathtaking mountain scenery. The only way to reach the island is by boat.
The indigenous people on the island make a living by fishing. They smile as soon as they see people and are very simple and cheerful.
This undeveloped, pristine island is pollution-free and away from crowds. Come here to experience outdoor barbecue, camping aesthetics, light luxury tents, and fun activities, and embark on an adventure of beautiful scenery and delicious food!
This May Day holiday, due to the pandemic, I'm afraid I can't travel far and wide. Why not go camping together, let the mountain breeze take away your worries, and let the stars at night illuminate your dreams.
