My Kid Turned the Entire Canyon into a Slide! Discovering a Primitive Tribe at a Guizhou Homestay
by Foster Elijah 31
Jun 12, 2025
Sisters! Dragged my 5-year-old "cave kid" to Liupanshui for 3 days, where our homestay overlooked a bottomless abyss, and the little one used rice terraces as a trampoline🌾! This mom chased coffee beans and tumbled into a creek... Stayed up all night writing survival tips in my tent—read this to avoid three pounds of mud baths!
♦️Cave Explorer Chronicles
Day1⃣️: High-speed train to Pu'an County👉Homestay turned cave exploration👉Counting houses like building blocks👉Lulled to sleep by waterfalls at night
Day2⃣️: Playing cave dwellers at the canyon café👉Jumping in muddy terraces👉Secretly learning to make glutinous rice cakes from the Buyi people
Day3⃣️: Climbing like monkeys at Gesuo River👉Hunting for "dinosaur eggs" in canyon crevices👉Heading home with coffee bean "grenades"
✅ Pillow & Stream Canyon Homestay
An 18-cave primitive den! 7 cliff-hanging houses⛰️ Kid waved a stick yelling: "The chief’s here to collect protection fees!" Saw clouds over terraces and screamed: "The gods are steaming cotton candy!"
✅ Valley-in-Valley Campsite
Primitive happiness! Tents under the Milky Way🌌 Kid wriggled in a sleeping bag, claiming to be "knitting a sweater for the mountain god," then got hair stuck in the zipper—instant lion mane!
✅ Canyon Café
Cave kid charging station! Fresh coffee aroma☕ Kid "stole" beans to "brew dinosaur wake-up soup," scattering powder everywhere—farmers died laughing...
💣Hilarious Hazards:
1⃣️Don’t sprint on cliff walkways! Kid chased butterflies and nearly became "Canyon Flying Man"—rescue ropes cost more than a year of tutoring!
2⃣️Creek rocks are slippery! Kid wiped out in a "mud eel triple roll," then blamed a crab: "It pushed me!"
3️⃣Air mattress leaked! Midnight pile-up, kid wailed: "The mountain god farted us away!"
🍜Wild Cooking Hits & Misses:
✔️Sour Fish Hotpot: Spicy enough to blow your mind, kid gnawed bones like a "cannibal prince"
✔️Five-Colored Sticky Rice: Rainbow rice balls—"dessert for the mountain god"
✖️Fishy Herb Salad: So pungent we buried it as "snake bait"
📸Savage Photo Ops:
1️⃣Cloud Ladder (hold coffee cups as cliff dwellers)
2️⃣House Eaves (hang kid like cliff decor)
3️⃣Creek Stones (mud-slinging tribal war)
4️⃣Buyi Firepit (corn-cob tribal feast)
🏨Sleeping on Dragon Veins:
✔️Pillow & Stream: Count fireflies to waterfall lullabies, wake to cloud deliveries☁️
✔️Kid’s "Chief Chair": Swing dizzy in a vine hammock, wrap in tie-dye as "mini mountain god"
✖️Crazy temp: Noon ice cream vs. midnight quilts—"Mountain god has malaria!"
⚠️Survival Kit:
✔️Non-slip shoe covers (mossy steps = ice rink)
✔️Snake-repelling sachets (bamboo vipers love visits)
✔️Portable dryer (creek play = 5 outfit changes)
Kid smuggled a coffee spoon home: "For digging dinosaurs at kindergarten!" Though I fished out shoes 800 times, finding "Buyi grandma’s embroidery thread" in his bag made the ruined Hermès scarf worth it.
Post by Foster Elijah 31 | Jun 12, 2025














