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On August 2, I drove to Chengdu
At7 a.m., my colleagues and I set off on a double American tour of Chengdu and Jiuzhai as scheduled. The so-called double beauty is food and beautiful scenery. In fact, I once visited Chengdu for 1 month, but that was 20 years ago, when my mother took me to my uncle's house in Chengdu, and 20 years later I took my mother to travel to the province.
At 7 o'clock, 9 people from the three families (Chen Peng's family of three, our family of 4, Liu Jing and his daughter) gathered at the Hu spicy soup shop opposite the Xida New Area of the High-tech Zone.
7:30 Departure on time. Get on the high-tech entrance of the Ring Expressway, and then go to the Beijing-Kunming Expressway. After passing Huxian, there are many fewer vehicles on the road, and many people who drive around Xi'an on weekends have left the highway. My husband's nervous state also relaxed. After a while, we arrived at the Qinling Tunnel Group, one tunnel after another, more than 4,000 meters long, and you can see the exit at a short glance. Looking at the endless Qinling Mountains and the lush green mountains, it feels good to leave the city.
At 10 o'clock, we arrived at the first larger service area - Ningshan Service Area.
Move your legs and feet in the service area at intervals, add water, and release water. In the middle, China-TravelNote's customer service also called to confirm whether the hotel I booked online could be checked in as scheduled, and then the hotel also called to confirm, very responsible.
At 6:48 p.m., I arrived at the North Toll Station in Chengdu. Finally entered Chengdu at 7 o'clock, fortunately, the hotel we booked was not far from the intersection of Chengbei Expressway, and it was convenient to have navigation, and it was convenient to navigate directly to the door of the hotel. Check in at Ginza Jiayi Hotel, 24 Taisheng North Road. Finally settled in Chengdu.
My uncle held a reception banquet at the Kempinski Hotel in Chengdu, which was called a tall one, which made us who were going to plunge into the alley to find local snacks a little misplaced.
The schedule on August 3 is: panda breeding base in the morning, hot pot food in the afternoon.
Leaving the hotel at 7 o'clock, there was a Yibin burning noodles and another snack bar opposite the hotel, and the children were still thinking about the deliciousness of the Yibin burning noodles they ate in Zhuhai in southern Sichuan the year before last, so they decided to eat noodles. Mushroom rice noodles ordered by a few of our girls. The difference between Chengdu's rice noodles and Xi'an is that Xi'an is on the share, and Chengdu is on two, starting from one or two. This way, you can eat several snacks at the same time by ordering one or two each. Can Xi'an also learn from it? Breakfast was very satisfying, the soup was full, and I went to visit the panda's house.
Itonly takes half an hour to drive from the hotel to the panda base, and you have to pass the gate to the parking lot.
Panda's home is very convenient to park and is not far from the gate. The car was parked, and when they came to the door, the soldiers were divided into two routes, all the way to buy tickets, and all the way to the queue at the door, which could save a lot of time. The adult ticket for the Panda family is 58 yuan, and the student ID card is half price.
When you enter the door, the bamboo is made into an arch, and the eyes are full of green. It is much cooler than the sun exposure at the gate. There is a place to buy tickets and ride the sightseeing bus at the entrance. We decided to visit on foot, after all, it was a free trip, and it counted wherever we went.
The weather in Chengdu in August was hot, so I went to several panda villas and the owners were not in the courtyard, and I finally saw a panda named Qiubin sitting in the shade, lazily leaning against the wall. We were screaming and teasing again, and they finally enjoyed their faces and slowly slipped up to us, seeing that they could take pictures up close, but they turned their buttocks and rubbed their itches against us, which also amused the tourists.
Behind is the villa of the juvenile panda and the juvenile panda, and there are too many people to go in. The people who came out were sweating, the pandas were leisurely eating bamboo in a house with a constant temperature of 26 degrees, and tourists had to wipe the water vapor on the window glass to photograph the pandas. This host's hospitality is too ...... Hey, who made people a national treasure?
Coming out of the panda's house, it was already 2:00 p.m., rushed back to the hotel where I was staying to rest, and decided to go to the Rongcheng Lao Ma Hot Pot Restaurant on North Street to start our first meal of Chengdu food. Because I missed the meal, there was no one in the lobby. The 8 of us ordered a mandarin duck pot, the meat and vegetarian dishes of the shabu-shabu hot pot were randomly ordered together, and the spicy hot pot at Rongcheng's mother's house was butter hot pot, fragrant but not spicy, suitable for outsiders who don't eat spicy food. It cost a total of more than 500 yuan, which is considered to be over the hot pot addiction.
August 4, the first day of the Jiuzhai Huanglong group tour
My cousin in Chengdu said that there are often rolling stones on the road to Huanglong in Jiuzhai, which are mountain roads and complex road conditions, so it is recommended that we do not drive there. So I signed up for a four-day tour of Huanglong in Jiuzhai, 960 yuan for adults and 1,050 yuan for children. I took my uncle, aunt and mother to set off as a tour group of 11 people.
The tour guide is a little girl surnamed Yang, who is full of anger as soon as she drives, and she is a full Sichuan hot girl. The first day was all about rushing to Jiuzhaigou in the car, and I watched the scenery in the car all the way. Along the way, through the center of the 08 earthquake, Wenchuan, Yingxiu, and Maoxian, there are basically no traces of the earthquake except for the large-scale landslide zone where grass has not yet grown on the mountain. All buildings are newly built.
At 17:30 in the afternoon, we arrived in Jiuzhaigou County, and the tour guide took us to the collector's house as a guest. This is a self-funded project, which is included in the tour fee, and other tourists volunteer. Everyone sat around the table, and there were Tibetan guys and girls entertaining us, and everyone was in front of them with braised yak meat, highland barley cakes, butter tea, highland barley wine, wild vegetables, and oil barley. Let's drink and eat meat like Tibetans. They explained the customs and habits of collectors, there were song and dance performances, and a young man named Zeldan was said to have appeared on a CCTV talent show and sang really well. Then go downstairs to jump the pot, the music actually has little apples, we just have fun, this is too much with the times.
At 22:00 in the evening, we stayed in Jiuzhaigou County, lived in a place like a farmhouse, and divided us into different families. Directly speechless. Friends from Jiangsu were unwilling and stalemateed with the tour guide. Because I still brought the elderly, I asked for a house to settle the three old people, and we young people lived in another private hotel. Finally, there is a place to sleep.
August 5 Jiuzhai tour
Thetour guide said that the number of people who will enter the ditch today is more than 40,000, and we have caught up with a big gathering. Well, wake up at 4:00, eat at 4:30, and leave at 5:00. Rushing to the gate of Jiuzhaigou at 7:00, there were already many tourists queuing up to enter the door, and they couldn't help but sigh, "Don't say that Jun is early, and there are more early pedestrians." Fortunately, it was not as scary as the colleague who came back said, I entered the door after queuing for about ten minutes, and I was not happy, I entered the door and continued to queue, taking the sightseeing bus, and the queue was called a winding and twisting line. As a result, 11 people were squeezed into two small teams. A car was sent directly to the center of Norilang, and we were miserable, and we had to take another car to Norilang. Finally got on the bus, but was told that Nuo Rilang would not stop and go all the way to the primeval forest station in Rizegou. When will the two teams be able to gather, quickly contact them and take the car to the primeval forest to gather. After some twists and turns, it was already past 9 o'clock, and finally the group members gathered together and began to tour one lake after another outside the ditch. Swan Sea, Arrow Bamboo Sea, Panda Sea, Five Flowers Sea...... The sky is beautiful, under the sunny day, the sea is blue or green, like a high-quality jade gemstone embedded in the jungle, and it can be used as a screensaver desktop with a single shot.
Jiuzhaigou didn't care about lunch that day, we brought our own dry food to eat and drink, and arrived at another ditch in the afternoon, the main attraction of this ditch is the apex of Changhai and the colorful pool. When I went up to Changhai, the weather was cloudy, and it seemed that it was going to rain soon, Changhai was a fairly open body of water, because of the dark clouds, the color was not as beautiful as it was seen in Rizegou. Hurriedly traveled all the way with the flow of people, walking for almost 30 minutes, before reaching the colorful pool, when the clouds cleared and the fog dispersed, and the sun just shone on the colorful pool, which was the most beautiful sea we saw today, integrating all the green and blue into a lake.
Then I queued up to go down the mountain to the Nuorilang Visitor Center to transfer, I feel that today is a day in addition to watching the sea, I don't know where so many people came, the descendants of the "dragon" are worthy of their name.
At half past 4, according to the guide's requirements, after some twists and turns, we finally went down the mountain and gathered in the parking lot. At 7:30, the tour guide took us to see the large-scale performance "Jiuzhai Eternal Love" rehearsed by Songcheng Group, which is also a self-funded project, with a ticket price of 220 yuan, which is said to be very good-looking. Through three-dimensional images, three-dimensional activity stages, realistic sound effects, actors walking on cornices and walls, and carefully arranged stage effects, the audience was shown scenes such as the ancient Qiang village, the legend of Jiuzhai, Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet and the 5.12 earthquake. It is indeed a performance worth watching, and the 1 hour seems to be a bit unfinished.
August 6 Tibetan Village in the morning and Huanglong Scenic Area in the afternoon
Finally, we got up at 4 o'clock, and after breakfast at 6 a.m., we came to a Tibetan village in Aba Prefecture, where each tour team had a dolma reception. Dolma, who received us, led us to her house, which was a small building with a total of 3 floors, the first floor was where food, livestock, etc. were stored, the second floor was where their families lived and cooked, and the third floor we could only look at it from a distance, because it was a place where collectors worshipped the Buddha, and only their family members could enter. Dolma said that their house was also damaged in the earthquake, this is a newly built house, and all the columns and murals on the walls on the second floor were drawn by her brother one by one in two years, and this painting skill was learned in the temple. I think the temple is like a comprehensive university for Tibetans, they can learn a lot of knowledge and professional skills, and when they grow up, they can return to the secular world or become monks directly according to their wishes, and it is the supreme honor of the collector that their children can be lamas in the temple. Collectors donate their savings from their labor to temples to support living Buddhas and lamas, believing that the fewer material things they carry, the simpler and easier they will be to be happy. I can only sigh at the greatness of religious belief, which is unimaginable to the Han people.
Coming out of the Tibetan house, there is a market set up by the villagers at the entrance of the village, which sells roasted yak meat and Tibetan silver jewelry, Dolma talked about a lot of Tibetan silver jewelry to treat diseases when he was at home, it is estimated that it is to pave the way for these stalls, many tourists choose to buy suitable silver bracelets or trinkets, the silver price is 19.8 a gram.
After lunch, we headed towards Huanglong, and the tour guide said that to go to Huanglong, we had to climb over the mountains at an altitude of 4,200 and then walk on foot at an altitude of 3,800 feet, if you are afraid of altitude sickness, there is a medical station before entering the no-man's land, you can buy 5 rhodiola rosea in case of emergency. My uncle and aunt are older, they say that Si Girl Mountain is higher than this altitude, and they have also been there, nothing happened.
It is already more than 1 o'clock in the afternoon to Huanglong, and all tourists who go to Huanglong basically take the cable car up the mountain and hike down the mountain. So we started a long queue to take the ropeway again, and the winding line couldn't see the head at a glance. After nearly 40 minutes of waiting, it took ten or twenty minutes to get on the ropeway to the scenic spot, and then I had to walk a long wooden road, today is gloomy all day, the road is lined with towering pine trees and other trees, saying that the oxygen on the plateau is thin, looking at these lush trees, like walking in a natural oxygen bar in the Qinling Mountains.
Climb all the way up the hill and finally reach the highest point, the colorful pool. My husband said that the current yellow dragon is not as abundant as he used to be, some pools have no water, and today is a cloudy and foggy weather, and the colorful pond is not as dazzling as when it is sunny, but the clouds and mist floating in the mountains add a bit of fairy atmosphere. Just like a beautiful woman, heavy makeup is always appropriate.
After seeing the beautiful scenery of Huanglong, I started to walk back, and I was going to stay in Maoxian County tonight, and the tour guide got the news that there was a section of the road that would be restricted before 7 o'clock, so I had to pass through that section of the road before 7 o'clock. Master Zheng, the driver known as the pangolin, took us on the mountain road. When I reached the top of the mountain, a thick fog shrouded me, and visibility dropped sharply, as if I was driving in the clouds. More than 20 minutes later, suddenly a ray of sunlight shone down, and as the altitude dropped, we broke away from the clouds and mist, looking at the white clouds swirling on the top of the mountain, and the sun in the west passed through the gaps in the clouds, which was really a rare beauty. This scene should only be on the mountain, how can I see it a few times in the city.
I fell asleep all the way, it was already past 7 o'clock in the evening when I arrived in Demao County, and after eating the same bad group meal as always, I stayed in a small hotel in Maoxian County, and I was speechless and depressed.
August 7 Yak Comb Processing Base Qiangzhai
Today's itinerary is the easiest, starting to have breakfast at 7 o'clock and departing at 7:30. The first location is in Maoxian County, which is a processing base specializing in wool horn combs. According to the tour guide, Mao County is a small county town built on the mountain, during the earthquake in 08, the factory building collapsed, and the director of this factory did not care about the equipment and products in the factory, so that people could clean up the factory area, because this factory was the only relatively flat and large open space, as a temporary relief point for disaster victims, and also donated 5 million yuan for disaster relief in the later stage. As a result, after the disaster, his company became a private enterprise strongly supported by the county government, and his horn comb also registered the trademark "Gesang Flower". I saw in the factory area that this factory is the setting enterprise of the production standard of wool horn combs. Good people should be rewarded, and we each bought a horn comb here. It's a part of our heart.
Then we arrived at the Qiang village, where the Qiang king and queen (actors) welcomed guests from afar at the gate of the city tower, and with the grand initiation ceremony, we were led by a Qiang girl to visit the rooms of the Qiang village one by one, and the Qiang people recreated the life scenes of the Qiang village in the rooms. In the middle, I talked to the tour guide girl, and she said that they used to use peppercorns as their main economic income, but after the earthquake, the peppercorn forest was destroyed, and now the government has introduced them to a cash crop called maca. Usually, they also have to learn the intangible cultural heritage of the Qiang people, such as weaving, dancing, and Qiang flutes, because these crafts are in the hands of the elderly, and few young people know how to do it, and the Qiang people have no writing and can only rely on word of mouth to inherit the national culture.
On the way back, I checked the introduction of the Qiang people on my mobile phone, and there was a report that the Qiang people lost a lot of population in the 08 earthquake, and several villages were still flooded under the dammed lake, and I am afraid that there will be no more day. The Qiang people are known as the people on the clouds, because their settlements are mainly high mountains, and they are also a disaster-prone people affected by mudslides, landslides, earthquakes, etc.
At 2:00 p.m., return to downtown Chengdu. The four-day trip to Jiuzhai Huanglong came to an end.
We took a seat on our phones, found a main street, and blocked two taxis back to the hotel. Taxis in Chengdu are slightly more expensive than in Xi'an, but they are easy to block and are not as tight as Xi'an car rentals.
Back at the hotel, after experiencing the stay in Jiuzhai Huanglong, I felt that the Ginza Jiayi Hotel was so clean and tidy. There is no difference without comparison. After cleaning up and washing, I decided to treat my stomach and intestines that were tortured by the group meal. Isn't it a violent thing to eat when you go to Chengdu?
First take the bus to Kuanzhai Alley, "Kuanzhai Alley" is one of the three major historical and cultural reserves in Chengdu, consisting of three parallel urban old-fashioned streets and the courtyard community between them, Kuanzhai Alley is composed of 45 courtyard courtyards in the style of the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, garden western-style buildings with both artistic and cultural heritage, and newly built house-style boutique hotels and other distinctive building communities. It is a compound cultural commercial street focusing on tourism and leisure, with distinctive regional characteristics and a strong Bashu cultural atmosphere. It is similar to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda Square Scenic Area in Xi'an.
It's okay to go around, but I'm afraid it's expensive and inauthentic. There are several food stalls in the alley, and the children taste the taste next to each other. I am afraid that eating will affect the dinner at night. So we took the subway three stops to the most famous Chunxi Street, where it is said that there is an old shop of Long Chaoshou. When you enter the store, there are a lot of people, and the first floor is full of snacks, and you can queue up to buy at each window. There are a lot of us, it's not suitable to sit at the small table below, go up to the second floor, good guys, it's overcrowded, and you have to wait. After waiting for a while, it was finally us, here is not an order, but a set meal. The cheapest is 68 yuan a set, and the most expensive is a few hundred yuan a set.We chose a set meal for 78 people, with classic Sichuan cuisine and 10 classic snacks per person. When the dishes first came up, they said that this was a bit too much, and it was estimated that they couldn't finish eating, but they didn't expect that the combat effectiveness was not generally strong, and in the end there was nothing left, and the empty operation ended directly. Everyone eats and drinks and eats. The stomachs and intestines finally avenged the group meal.
After eating enough, we had a meal on Chunxi Street, let my husbands look at the Yaomei in Chengdu, and we walked in and out of various small shops. See if there are any fashion gadgets to pick up. Youyou Dada took the subway to Tianfu Square in the center of Chengdu, took a few night views, and Chairman Mao waved to us. It's almost 11 o'clock when I look at my watch, so let's hurry back to the hotel to rest, and I have to get up early tomorrow to play in a new place.
August 8 Dujiangyan Qingcheng Mountain
Chengdu has begun to restrict travel, Friday limit the tail number of 5, 0 car travel, our two cars tail number is exactly 5 , the number limit time is from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., prohibited in the second ring road and the third ring road. In order not to delay the trip, we had to get up early again, pick up my mother at my uncle's house in the south of the city, and hurried out of the city, leaving the third ring road before 7:30. In fact, Dujiangyan is not far from Chengdu, and it took nearly 1 hour to arrive at the gate of Dujiangyan, which is still early, and there are uncles and aunts playing Tai Chi in the square at the gate of Dujiangyan. We bought a bowl of wontons for breakfast at a nearby snack bar. I bought a ticket at the door and walked slowly into Dujiangyan. It is said that Dujiangyan is "three points to see, seven points to talk ". There happened to be a tour group in front of us, so we automatically joined as supernumerary members, following the tour guide all the way and watching and listening to lectures, which made a lot of profits. God also helped, the weather has always been gloomy, otherwise the trees on the embankment will not be lush and will not be scorched.
From the pile park to the mouth of the treasure bottle to the fish mouth to divide the water, listening to the explanation is more profitable than you see, when the later tourist souvenir shop bought yak meat for colleagues, the cashier asked which group it was, the husband pointed to the guy and said it was his group, the guy smiled understandingly, haha, it can be regarded as a small compensation.
After leaving Dujiangyan Park, where to solve lunch became a problem. There is a restaurant in the scenic spot next to it, and anyone with a little common sense knows that the food there is not delicious and expensive. We decided to try our luck ourselves. As we were walking, a man on a bicycle asked us if we wanted to eat, and we hesitated to send him away. Turn right from the Dujiangyan gate, next to the roadside there are several low bungalows, with a fence to make a small courtyard, and there is a light box at the door, home-cooked side dishes. It looks a bit like a farmhouse. We decided to take a look at the first place, the proprietress warmly greeted us to take a seat, the dishes on the menu were indeed home-cooked dishes, fish-flavored shredded pork, mushroom meat slices and so on, one of the wild vegetables attracted me, I asked what wild vegetables there were, this little girl took me to see, several I didn't know, one of the bamboo leaf vegetables turned out to be a kind of spider orchid I had planted, I asked if this could be eaten? The little girl said that it was delicious to stir-fry with garlic. That's it.I ordered seven dishes first, the vegetables were fresh, salty and delicious, I saw the chopsticks flying, a few dishes bottomed out in a while, everyone said that the taste was delicious, especially the garlic bamboo leaf vegetables, ordered two more dishes, and the boss sent a soup. This time, the soup and rice were full, and I sat down and boasted that I was lucky to come across such a delicious small restaurant made of home-cooked food. Finding the boss to settle the account for 180 yuan is simply too cheap. I immediately recommended it on WeChat, if you go to Dujiangyan, you must go to his house to try. When I went out after eating, I saw that the chef was also riding out in a car, haha, it turned out to be the man who rode a bicycle to eat with us just now, fate.
Driving towards Qingcheng Mountain, the sky has been cloudy and began to drizzle, to the
Qingcheng Mountain parking lot, we do not plan to do sightseeing cars up the mountain, the weather is very comfortable, Drizzle, let's take a walk in the rain.
It is said that Qingcheng is secluded in the world, and you can appreciate it from the sightseeing route, there are towering trees on both sides, the water is gurgling under your feet, the drizzle seems to be there, and the sidewalks are paved with wooden strips, which is very comfortable to walk. As I walked, I saw several tea houses and teahouses along the way. I have long heard that Qingcheng Mountain is a summer resort for Chengdu people, and it seems to be well-deserved. There are mountains and waters, eating wild vegetables, playing mahjong, drinking tea and setting up a dragon gate array, which is really envious of the leisure blessed land of Chengdu people. Unconsciously walked to the gate of Qingcheng Mountain, at this time the rain started to get heavier, we felt that it was not safe to go up the mountain at this time and we couldn't see any scenery, so we simply took pictures at the mountain gate and visited here, and then found a teahouse that we passed by just now to enter the countryside and set up the dragon gate array.
One person has a cup of flower tea, talking around the table, surrounded by a clump of bamboo, the eaves of the corridor are dripping with rain, and from time to time there are a few crisp birdsongs. It's a good place.
At almost 7 o'clock, we got up and walked towards Chengdu, but we didn't expect it to be less than 8 o'clock on the edge of the Third Ring Road, so let's wait. There are also many convoys waiting here because of the limited number. Finally, I can go into the city, go straight to the hotel to drop off the car, and then go to the Bashu Mansion Hot Pot Restaurant that I was optimistic about on the first day, starting from hot pot and ending with hot pot. The hot pot business at the gate of the mansion is really hot, and it is still full after 9 o'clock. We ordered three dishes before and after, and only then did we eat one by one. It cost more than 400 yuan.
I can't forget my relatives and friends in Xi'an when I eat well, and go to the 24-hour supermarket to buy some hot pot bases to take back to them. I went back to the hotel at almost 12 o'clock, which was my last night in Chengdu.
On August 9th , I returned to Xi'an
Early in the morning, I heard a sparse noise outside the window, and it was raining heavily. It is said that people do not keep guests, and God knows that we don't want to leave. If it weren't for the limited vacations, I would have stayed like this. After checking out in the lobby, I recalled the saxophone song "When the Lord Comes Again" on the stereo, hey, it was too appropriate. Chengdu, I will definitely come back.
After passing through Mianyang, the weather slowly cleared up, and when it reached the boundary of Shaanxi, a lyric could be summed up: "White clouds floating in the blue sky". It's good to go home!
Arriving in Xi'an at 8 p.m., Zhao Peng picked up the roast duck at the old high-tech shop, hehe, at the beginning of Chengdu cuisine and the end of Xi'an food, it was really a successful double beauty holiday.
Looking forward to the next holiday season!
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