Live Your Best Lives
Perhaps the life at work is too busy, and the pace of life in the city is always fast. I've always wanted to find a quiet place where life is full of slow pace and fireworks to spend some time in.
Originally, many ancient towns near Chengdu were the objects of my initial comparison, but then I saw Bajiaogou in the Jiayang Xiaolu Lake Tourist Scenic Area, and I felt that it was more in line with my expectations, one of the reasons was the purer original ecology.
Jiayang Xiaolu Lake is located in Leshan City, many people think of Leshan, Sichuan, and the first thing that should come to mind is the Big Buddha and Emei Mountain, but in fact, Jiayang Xiaolu Lake is also very good.
day1: Chengdu - Bajiaogou - Jiayang National Mining Park Museum - Zhongying Street - Soviet Expert Building Hotel
day2: Huangcunjing - Jiayang Train - Jurassic Adventure Valley
day3: Xiaolu Lake - Return
: 300 kilometers round trip fuel + self-driving in the scenic area, about 500 yuan.
Accommodation: 498 yuan for the first day of the Soviet Expert Building Hotel, 228 yuan for the standard room of the Auditorium Hotel on the second day, a total of 726 yuan.
Tickets: I happened to encounter the "Jiayang Train Short + Jurassic Adventure Valley" package activity, two together 39 yuan, Huangcunjing 80 yuan, time problem did not save 80 yuan by boat, two people are (39 + 80) * 2 = 238 yuan.
I don't remember the food, two people eat Dongfanghong canteen, two dishes and one soup for a meal, which is about fifty, and it is about 200 yuan together.
Total: 1664 yuan.
We wanted to experience the Expert Building Hotel because it was really beautiful! The living environment is also very comfortable. If you use public transportation and then stay at the Grand Hall Hotel (which is also very comfortable), the cost should be within 1000.
It is relatively convenient to drive from Chengdu to Bajiaogou, although my girlfriend and I are not very good at driving, but in the mentality of practicing driving skills, we still drove the car.
Because the scenic spot is very large, it is recommended that AutoNavi Map directly search for "Jiayang Xiaolu Lake Tourist Scenic Area Visitor Center", and after arriving at the visitor center, continue to walk forward for a while to the parking lot of the scenic spot, opposite the parking lot is the destination of this trip - Bajiaogou.
If you are a friend who takes public transportation, you can go to the official public account of their scenic spot to take a look, there is a guide post that introduces the specific bus frequency, which is written very carefully.
Day1
Due to the severity of bedridden, my girlfriend and I drove very slowly, and it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at Bajiaogou, and we missed the train schedule, so we could only change our travel plans slightly.
We passed through Dongfanghong Square, and the Dongfanghong canteen next to it was very eye-catching. Walking into the store, the murals, decorations, and furnishings feel like an instant return to the scene of eating a big pot of rice in the last century. Seeing the dishes ordered at the table next to us, one serving seemed to be a lot, and we were afraid that we wouldn't be able to finish eating, so we ordered two dishes, but we still ate and endured... It's so delicious that it supports the wall!
1. The first stop of the trip - the museum
If you want to know a place, it is definitely right to go to the museum first.
The same goes for the Jiayang National Mining Park Museum.There are many rooms inside like mazes, like a big house cut into many compartments, fortunately, the guidance system is done well, and it will not let us get lost~
The content displayed in different rooms is different, there are written records, there are old objects from the past, and they look very old, especially like what I saw in my grandparents' house when I was a child. There are also real ores, and some exhibition halls are still playing multimedia, and after reading it, I feel that "my geography has been returned to the teacher" hahahahaha.
There are a lot of things, it takes more time to understand it carefully, if you are interested in history, you should be able to see it hahaha~
2 , the second stop of the trip - Zhongying Street
Coming out of the museum, Zhongying Street is our next stop.
Zhongying Street was built in the forties and fifties of the last century, and was once the most prosperous commercial street in Bajiaogou, and the former smoke hall, watch shop, post and telecommunications bureau and other ruins are still preserved. It is known as "the first street of Jiayang Coal Mine".
There are still some residents living on Zhongying Street now, living here, the style of the Republic of China and the fireworks complement each other, as if they are repeatedly jumping in time and space in the past and present. And it can be especially filmed!
Day2
Finding a good accommodation is the first step. For the two of us who like stories, we struggled for a long time in the Soviet Expert Building Hotel and the Great Hall Hotel, and decided to stay for one night each.
On the first night, we stayed at the Soviet Expert Building Hotel, a small western-style building with a Soviet style, which completely grew on my aesthetics. Standing on the Internet celebrity bridge, you can see the whole picture of Bajiaogou, and there is a railway next to it, which is especially like the feeling of a Republic of China drama.
3. The third stop of the trip - Huangcunjing
Early the next morning, from the Soviet expert building to Bajiaogou Railway Station, You can take a bell car to Huangcunjing.
Huangcunjing is a tourist mine transformed from a real coal mine, and you can really experience the experience of being a miner. We put on our miner suits at the door and headed towards the "copy".
It was a bit dark inside the mine, and the faint light made us instantly enter the character.
The monkey car is really quite novel, like a monkey holding a tree trunk, and then glides down slowly, similar to a simple version of the cable car. All the way deeper, there are miner sculptures that suddenly appear, there are miner tools expos, and there are gantry arrays that can be placed~ Of course, since it is a real experience, then mining must be experienced, holding a pickaxe to hit the coal seam, and digging out a small piece of coal when the hands are sore, remembering that the miners used to dig a few baskets all day long, and admiration arose spontaneously.
The most wow of Huangcunjing is still behind, when walking through the groundwater area, the colorful light show is very dreamy, it feels like you have come to the world of light and shadow, bulingbuling everywhere, and the photos taken are also immortal.
4. The fourth stop of the trip - Jiayang Train
From Huangcunjing and back to Bajiaogou, if you walk, there are two roads to choose from, one is to take the same railway as the bell car, and the other is to pass through the parking lot, both roads have their own unique scenery.
After lunch, the Jiayang train at two o'clock in the afternoon is about to start~ What my girlfriend and I are most looking forward to this time is to take a small train, and we must understand the train timetable before coming, otherwise it will be a pity to miss it.
The train short-distance sightseeing train departs at two o'clock in the afternoon, but you need to buy a ticket a little in advance, and then wait for the train to enter the station, and you can get on the train. Nowadays, taking the high-speed rail is an electronic ticket, and the experience of manual ticket inspection on the Jiayang train is still very ceremonial in the era.
Popular science (show off) Let's talk about the little knowledge that the staff told us when I took the small train," The Jiayang train is the only passenger narrow-gauge steam train in the world that is still in normal operation, so it is called the "living fossil of the industrial revolution".
In the Liangshuituo train will stop to let passengers get off, watch the steam show, the weather is good to see the rainbow, my girlfriend and I instantly turned into screaming chickens when we saw the rainbow, and went to buy lottery tickets on the same day, always feeling that the rainbow will bring good luck, I hope I will get rich next year! Hahahaha~
After watching the steam show, I also found a lot of magical Jiayang original ecology on the way to continue driving, and some farmers next to me were raising bees, with a net cover to collect honey, I plan to come next time to buy some native honey (foodie original), and there are tea growers, that is, sitting on the small train, watching the smoke of farmers on the roadside, and occasionally a little native dog shooting around the chickens and ducks, which is very idyllic. Along the way, my girlfriend and I were frantically imagining our pastoral life after retirement.
5. The fifth stop of the trip - Jurassic Adventure Valley
Although you come to the Jiayang Xiaolu Lake tourist attraction by car, you don't need it here at all, and there is transportation everywhere.
For example, our next stop, Jurassic Adventure Valley, can take a classic car directly next to the visitor center.
Jurassic Adventure Valley has been a bit popular recently, and when I wrote this travelogue, Jurassic Adventure Valley was already the first place on the Douyin Eat, Drink and Play list, It surpassed Mount Emei and the Giant Buddha of Leshan in one fell swoop.
The first place on the hot list is not worth it, first of all, the first feeling is that there are few people, many times the most afraid thing to go out to play is that you want to see the scenery, but in the end it is to go to the scenic area to see the sea of people. And then I haven't really felt it for a long time, me! At! Call! Suck! Finish! The air here is really good, you can smell the soil, the green trees, the blue sky, and feel like you have been washed by your lungs! There are no cars, no exhaust, no noise, the green is green, the green mountains and alder forests on the left, the small crabs in the mountains and streams on the right, are you in this place, naturally not an adjective, but a verb, or an immersive kind of verb.
And the most amazing thing is that there are many dinosaur models in the Adventure Valley, I think it can be so realistic before I come? After coming, a dinosaur brain shell appeared in the oak forest at the corner, and I pulled my girlfriend and kept pulling her sleeve, "Look!" Dinosaur eh! "My girlfriend's sleeves were pulled up by me, hahahahaha.
It is recommended that adults bring their children to play, or they can play with good adults like me and my girlfriends~
Dinosaurs + alder trees are really a perfect match!
Day3
Back to Bajiaogou, the sun is about to set. When I witnessed the process of the sun slowly setting, it seemed that I could no longer feel the fatigue of my body, so I wanted to stay here quietly, and I hoped that time could pass a little slower~
The feeling of living in the auditorium is different from that of the expert building, which is the exquisite of national dramas, and the auditorium has more fireworks of slow life. Outside the auditorium hotel, there will be the aborigines of Bajiaogou, playing mahjong on the street corners, eating melon seeds on the benches at the entrance of the square, and dancing in the square. In the words of my best friend, when I get home in the city, I have to swipe my phone until 1 or 2 o'clock before going to bed, and there seems to be a different time in Bajiaogou, like going back to when I was a child, and I will fall asleep at 11 o'clock.
6. The sixth stop of the trip - Oak Lake
Todaywe are going to Oak Lake, So we packed up and didn't prepare to go back to Bajiaogou, and after waving goodbye, we went to the Ma Miao Wharf,
The lake is connected to the Jurassic Adventure Valley, and patches of oak trees also surround the lake.
Seeing the magnificent Xiaolu Lake, I have only one word in my heart: beautiful mountains and rivers. The turquoise lake and the emerald oak trees blend together, so that the heart can also calm down, close your eyes, you can stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city and feel the magical charm of nature.
7. The seventh stop of the trip - Chengdu East Railway
Station The train station is completely clever hahaha~ After all, my family lives near the East Railway Station.
From the Xiaolu Lake, we can go home directly, and we have to continue to work step by step. Perhaps, when I earn enough money one day, I will also think about coming to Bajiaogou, which is far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, to live for a while and live a real slow life.
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