Month: December 2018

Jiuzhaigou Scenic Spot

The beauty of the scenery in Jiuzhaigou varies from season to season, especially in autumn, the scenery is colorful and is the best. To savor the charm of Jiuzhaigou, you can enter the ditch in advance to avoid the peak of the flow in the high season, and choose to enter the ditch in the off-season.

Official telephone number of Jiuzhaigou: 0837-7739753

Visiting time needed for reference: more than 1 day

How to go to Jiuzhaigou

Chengdu-Jiuzhaigou

Passenger transportation:

  1. Chengdu Xinnanmen Station has a shuttle bus to Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area at 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:10 in the morning every day. The fare is 145 yuan/person, and the journey time is about 10 hours. Phone number is 028-85433609
  2. Chengdu Chazidian Bus Station has 3 shuttle buses to the Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area before 8:40 a.m. every day. The journey takes about 10 hours. The fare is 120 yuan/person (the bus with good condition is 170 yuan/person)

Chartered bus: The price from Chengdu to Jiuzhaigou is between 1200-1500 yuan.

Self-driving: Jiuzhaigou’s important land transportation is the Jiuhuan Line, which is about 920 kilometers long.

  1. The west line of the Jiuhuan Line starts from Chengdu and passes through Dujiangyan, Wenchuan, Maoxian and Songpan to Jiuzhaigou. The whole journey is about 440 kilometers.
  2. The Jiuhuan East Line starts from Chengdu and passes through Mianyang, Jiangyou, Pingwu, Jiuzhaigou County to Jiuzhaigou. The whole journey is about 480 kilometers.

Jiuhuang Airport – Jiuzhaigou

Jiuhuang Airport is located in Chuanzhusi Town, Songpan County, Aba Prefecture, about 88 kilometers from Jiuzhaigou Mouth. Jiuhuang Airport’s telephone number is available at 0837-7243770.

Passenger transportation: 1.5 hours’ drive, and the fare is 45 yuan / person, but the number of shifts is less.

Chartered bus: about 88 kilometers away, the fare is about 200 yuan. If you want to go to Huanglong to play and then go to Jiuzhaigou, the whole package charter price is about 500 yuan.

Huanglong Scenic Area – Jiuzhaigou

Passenger transportation: Huanglong Scenic Area has a shuttle bus to Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area at 7:00 and 7:30 in the morning every day. The fare is 45 yuan/person and the journey takes about 1 hour.

Tickets:

Tickets: 110 RMB (from Monday – Sunday during April 1st – November 15th)

Tickets: 40 RMB; sightseeing tickets: 90 RMB (from Monday – Sunday during November 16 – March 31 of the following year)

Opening hours:

08:30-18:00 (from Monday – Sunday during November 16th – March 31st of the following year)

07:00-18:00 (from Monday – Sunday during April 1st – November 15th)

Tips:

Sightseeing car operation time: 07:00-17:00.

Gulangyu Island

When you take a visit to the Gulangyu Island, buy the ferry ticket in advance, take a taxi to the ferry station, and you must remember to buy the ticket in advance, now you need register an account on Alipay together with the WeChat registration first, then after the Alipay registration you can login to WeChat to buy the ticket. You can be in advance as more as 15 days in advance to buy the tickets, which is 35 Yuan/person, and it is round-trip, you only need to show the ID card to go to the island, and you do not need to buy a ticket for the return, and also do not need to pick up the ticket.

It is said that in the morning of that very day, there are more tickets will be released, but when you catch up with the peak season, it is safer and better for you to buy tickets in advance for your Gulangyu Tour, and check the ticket half an hour in advance and wait for the boat to board the ship. There will be ferry for every 20 minutes. Go to Sanqiutian Wharf and Neicuoao Wharf. Remember to see which wharf is closer to your hotel in advance, don’t buy the wrong ticket. The whole ferry trip is only 20 minutes. The scenery of the whole Xiamen can be seen on the boat, which is really so beautiful. The sea breeze is very comfortable. Of course, the Gulangyu Island is full of expectations.

The snack street on the island is considered to be the most pleasant snack street. The service attitudes are super good and the street is very neat. You can taste all kinds of snacks there, including herbal tea for you to taste. There are all kinds of web celebrity stores, such as Miss Zhao’s shop, Zhang San Feng’s milk tea shop, Lin’s fish ball shop, Yip’s hemp Ci, Turkish ice cream and the like.

Gulangyu is very small, but the buildings on the island are very beautiful. You don’t need to go to any scenic spots. Just walk along the path, enjoy the evening sunset, or take a look at the distant Xiamen, Twin Towers, or enjoy the old building of the surroundings. With the quietness at this moment, you will relax yourself and enjoy the most beautiful journey.

Lijiang Ancient Town

The Lijiang Ancient Town is an alive place, where you can revel in the night; Lijiang Ancient Town is a quiet place too, where you can sit in the sun-filled courtyard for a while.

Featuring blue sky and white clouds, snow-capped mountains, smokers, or style bars, Lijiang Ancient Town is worth going.

Precautions:

1, Don’t go to places that you shouldn’t go, such as chaotic streets, such as chaotic bars. Go back and rest at night, don’t go to those messy places, don’t go to see the fun when there is noisy scene, don’t stay long, and leave as soon as possible and return to the inn.

2, Don’t argue with others. Don’t try to endure others. There is truth, but sometimes you can’t advocate heaven, but you can protect yourself. That is, don’t think that you can use justice to preside over justice.

3, Keep safe all the time when you are in Lijiang Ancient Town.

4, Don’t think that you have spent money, then all the requirements are reasonable. People should think about the problem from the perspective of others, so that’s fin e, and it will make your tour there more enjoyable.

5, There are many foreigners, most of the shops are opened for foreigners, and they are hospitable, and good to contact, so don’t be afraid, there are not so many bad people.
6, Anti-fraud guide:

Low-cost inn: Unlicensed drivers use the reason that their relatives open an inn in the Ancient Town to cheat you. Usually, such inns feature low prices and poor conditions, with the main purpose of earning high rebates.

Low-cost chartered car: The Unlicensed drivers uses the low-cost chartered car as a bait to attract you to take the car. After getting on the car, he has enough time to flicker you to go shopping, go to bad scenic spots, and eat high-snap local specialties. So you should keep an eye on this kind of unlicensed car drivers.

Black Dragon Pond Park and white sand murals need to pay 80 Yuan for the maintenance of the ancient town, which is generally collected by the inn, hotels, etc., and it can also be purchased at the gates of the ancient town and the ticket offices of various scenic spots (when playing Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Scenic Area, Mufu, Black Dragon Pool Park, etc., generally You will be asked to show the receipt of the maintenance fee of the ancient town).

Li River

The landscape of Guilin is the best in the world, and the landscape of Yangshuo is the best in Guilin. The length of the Li River section is 164 kilometers. Most of the riverbeds along the river are watery pebbles with small amount of sediment and clear water. Most of the straits are karst landforms. The tourism resources are abundant, and the famous Guilin landscape is on the Lijiang River. The scenery of the Lijiang River is known as “gree mountain, clear water, odd caves and beautiful stone”. The 83-kilometer Lijiang River section from Guilin to Yangshuo is the essence of the Li River, as well as the wonderful scenery of “Deep pools, rapids, springs, waterfalls”. It is a typical, rich and concentrated area of karst topography, which concentrates the essence of Guilin landscape. It is a feeling of “the boat is on the blue waves, people are in the middle of the painting.”

It will be a big pity without visiting the Li River when you are travelling in Guilin. The upper reach of the Li River is Guilin-Yangdi, and the lower reach is the area of Yangshuo. And the main attractions of the tour are the two places of Jiuma Mountain and the back of the 20-yuan banknote.

There are two ways to visit the Li River. One is to take a trip on a three-star or a four-star cruise. The price is moderate. There is also an electric bamboo raft for 4 people. Some people may feel that it is very noisy and it will be very cold. But it is more fantastic as you can experience the Li River much closer. And you will feel that the water surface is wide, the mountains on both sides are plunging. The water under the boat is green and the mountains are strange.

The landscape of Guilin, which has been extolled throughout the ages, is the most beautiful in the world. Perhaps it is the marvelous peaks and beautiful waters of the Li River that made the ancient people intoxicated with it and then recited this beautiful sentence for thousands of years. If you have read some verses that praise the landscape of the Lijiang River, you will feel it really beautiful. But when you are in this beautiful scenery, you will feel that the poems still can’t fully depict your mood at this moment. Perhaps it is because of people’s state of mind, and the time to enjoy the beauty is different, it is difficult to describe the beauty of this wonderful Li River. It is really worthy your visit.

The Terracotta Army Museum

When having a tour in Xi’an, you must take a visit to The Terracotta Army Museum where you can know more about China’s history.

After you arrive at the Terracotta Warriors, there are a lot of parking lots and the management is good. The tour guide also has their special place, and there is no fake tour guide. Qin Shihuang at the gate is still very domineering. From the gate to the Terracotta pit, you can take car or walk. What you enter into the first is the No. 1 pit, from where you can firstly see the black Qin army. Every sergeant has a strong eye, just like it was three thousand years ago. The striker, the scorpion shooter and the standing shooter alternate, followed by the famous cavalry phalanx, through the millennium, waiting for the sleeping monarch. The No. 3 pit features the highest level, as the decision-making, and sacrifices are all in the square inch. The four-horse carriage behind the door is ready to go.

There are a lot of things that need to be explained when visiting the Terracotta Warriors, otherwise you will not see too much content and cannot explore more history here. The exhibition hall is very large, and it will introduce the process of excavation and repair of terracotta warriors in detail, and you can spend some time to appreciate it. As soon as you see the Terracotta Warriors, you will be deeply shocked by the imposing terracotta warriors. Even if you have seen them on the screen for countless times, when you see it with your own eyes, you will be shocked to say nothing, the excitement is that you can’t described in words. They stand quietly here for thousands of years, showing you the power of a generation of empire.

There are still many archaeological workers in the site who are responsible for cleaning and smashing the pieces. It is said that it takes at least 2 years to piece together a terracotta warrior. It is recommended to reserve enough time for visiting the terracotta warriors. If you arrange visiting the terracotta warriors on the first day or last day of the trip, you can take a free shuttle bus between the high-speed rail station and the Terracotta Warriors Museum with a high-speed rail ticket.

Qutang Gorge

The Yangtze River gathers thousands of rivers in her process of more than 6,300 kilometers, crosses the deep mountain valleys, and plunges into the East China Sea. When she passed through the Sichuan Basin and accepted several major tributaries of the Minjiang River, Jialing River and Wujiang River, the amount of water suddenly increased, and the unstoppable momentum opened up the mountains, forming the world-famous Three Gorges.

The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, from Baidi City in Fengjie County, Chongqing in the west, to Nanjin Pass in Yichang City, Hubei Province, consists of Qutang Gorge, Wu Gorge and Xiling Gorge, with a total length of 193 kilometers, including 8 km long in Qutang Gorge and 44 km in Wu Gorge and 76 kilometers long in Xiling Gorge. The remaining 65 kilometers are two sections of the hilly valley connecting the three gorges.

Qutang Gorge is also known as the Kui Gorge. It starts from Fengjie Baidi City in the west and Wushan Daixi in the east. It is famous for being powerful in the Three Gorges. Guo Moruo has a poem: “If the scenery is different, the Qutang Gorge is the leader in Three Gorges.” On the north and south sides of the Kuimen in the gorge narrow, there are thousands of cliffs, such as knives and axe cuts. The river flows in a narrow river course with a width of only 100 meters. It shows a spectacular scene of “the waters will be tens of thousands, and Qutang Gorge will compete for one”. Down the river, the water rapidly flows, when the boat flows over there, tourists will feel it amazing.

On the cliff of the North Shore, there is a man-made ruin of the ancient plank road. On the top it is the cliff, and the foot is a turbulent river. This is the only way for the ancient boatman, military transportation and merchants. Next to the plank road is a seven-door deep hole with a depth of more than 100 meters. Between the cliff rocks, there is the window facing the river. Looking up at the skylight, the twin peaks are inserted into the clouds, and the blue sky is on the line. Looking down, the river is running and the boat is like an arrow. When you enter into the hole, the stalactites stand like a bird and beast, which are very vivid.

Yu Garden

Yu Garden is located in the northeast of Shanghai’s old city, with Fuyou Road in the north, Anren Street in the east, and Shanghai Old Town Temple in the southwest. It is a classical garden in the south of the Yangtze River. It was built in the Jiajing years of the Ming Dynasty in 1590s and covers an area of more than 30 acres. In the garden, there are the three famous stones in the south of the Yangtze River: The Jade Linglong, the command post of the 1853 Small Knife Uprising, and the tourist attractions such as the Chenghuang Temple and the shopping street. Yu Garden was opened to the public in 1961 and was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council in 1982.

Yu Garden is more tasteful among the high-rise buildings in Shanghai. It was said that Yu Garden was originally a private garden in the Ming Dynasty. It has a history of more than 400 years. After the tour to Yu Garden, your impression will be that the rich people will play various things, and there are gardens in the garden. After crossing the rockery group, you will see a different garden. The design of the Yu Garden really makes people feel very happy and wish you could live and enjoy yourself there. There are many small sculptures on the top of the building in the Yu Garden. The patterns carved on the eaves are also endless. It can be said that this design is really meticulous.

Being one of the four famous gardens in China, the Yu Garden enjoys the same reputation as Humble Administrator’s Garden and the Lingering Garden in Suzhou. The winding path in the park is very typical, and it is the typical Jiangnan Art Garden, which is worth a visit. If you visit there in December, it is “colorful” Season and really beautiful. And the fish there is fat and big and colorful, and the fountains bloom like flowers.

Yu Garden’s green is very naughty, which is climbing everywhere. It’s still so beautiful even on a cloudy day, just like the beauty of a beautiful girl who is angry. The style of the tree in the Yu Garden also imitated the style of ancient buildings, and is more and more upturned, and the strange mountains and rocks of the Yu Garden are also worthy of appreciation.

The Potala Palace

The Potala Palace is a palace, not a temple. It is politically similar to the Forbidden City and is the political center of the Tibetan region in history, not a Buddhist center. The building is divided into three parts: Snow City, White Palace and Red Palace. At this stage, there are only the East Side White Palace and some of the main halls on the east side of the Red Palace open for visiting. The west side has never been open to visitors. The tour route of The Potala Palace is very fixed. There is no turning way back. After the tour, you will leave from the mountain in the back. Here are a few things to keep in mind:

a) According to the regulations promulgated by the Tibet Autonomous Region, tickets for all star-rated scenic spots before April 31, 2018 were free of charge. The Potala Palace has a daily limit for traffic, and tickets must be taken only 1 day in advance to queue up by yourself with your ID card for a free visit reservation ticket (need to be queued before sunrise), the next day according to the designated time of the reservation ticket to queue for entry.

b) Normal off-season tickets are 100 yuan/person.

c) On the day of the visit, the time for the appointment ticket is 9:00 a.m., and the security check is 10:00 a.m.

d) It is said that during the peak season, a ticket can be raised to 1,000 Yuan. It is recommended to purchase the ticket online in advance, which is economical and convenient.

e) Although the Potala Palace is only over 100 meters high, it is a plateau area after all. When climbing a mountain, don’t be too fast.

f) The tour guide starts timing from the time of entering the White Palace and they must bring the group out of the Potala Palace within 1 hour.

g) Photographs-taking are forbidden in the White Palace and the Red Palace.

i) Potala Palace ‘s Treasure – Pabarakan avalokitesvara.

j) The world’s first decoration – the spiritual tower of the Fifth Dalai Lama.

k) The place to take a photo of 50 Yuan RMB with The Potala Palace, is the Yaowang mountain across the road.

Just enjoy your tour in the Potala Palace.

Victoria Peak

The Victoria Peak is one of the must-see attractions for your travel to Hong Kong, and the mode of transportation to go there is by Central MTR Station (No. 5), take the No. 15 double-decker bus.

It is really recommended to take the double-decker bus directly, because there is no need to buy tickets for the Victoria Peak. Unless it is on the Motianling Observation Deck. The double-decker bus experience is superb excellent. Do remember to sit on the right side of the bus. When going up the mountain, the viewing angle is better.

Compared to the cable car, the fare will be higher. The round-trip package ticket bought online is 55RMB. You can refer to it. However, the queue of people waiting for the cable car is long and it takes a long time. However, if you have not taken the cable car, you can try it.

The night view of Hong Kong is really beautiful. It’s a good experience to have a relax at the top of the Victoria Peak at night after a busy day at work. In fact, the viewing the scenery is not necessarily on the viewing platform, and there are also places on the side that look at the night scene.

The deeper experience is that on the Victoria Peak there are really so many foreigners nearby. It may be Korean or Japanese etc., and many Indian friends are met there. They all like to take pictures collectively. It is very lively. At about 19:30 p.m., people are already full, and you need find a good location to take pictures.

At the top of the Victoria Peak, there is a special experience recommended for everyone: In addition to watching the scenery at The Peak Tower, you can take a walk along the top of the mountain to enjoy the different Hong Kong Island scenery. The starting point of the Peak Loop Walk is Luji Road and the end point is Xiali Road. Along the way, you will be able to enjoy panoramic views of Victoria Harbour from various angles, as well as the Tsing Yi Bridge and Pokfulam Reservoir, all make your tour there worthwhile.

The Elephant Trunk Hill

At night, the Elephant Trunk Hill is dressed with colorful costumes. Under the background of the fisherman’s lights, a legend of Elephant Trunk Hill is staged, and if the slightly higher fare of this attraction is ignored, the night view of Elephant Trunk Hill is one of the best in the night view of Guilin.

Highlights: Guilin’s iconic sights, panoramic views of Guilin at the top of the mountain, and light show performances at night

Precautions:

1, The Xiangshan Park needs to buy tickets to enter the park during the day and night;

2, the ticket is very expensive, whether it is day or night, the cost performance is low in some people’s view;

3, at night, ” Legend of elephant mountain ” performance starts at 20:00, only lasts for 15 minutes, 19:45 is a fisherman show, the laser show performance is more general, some people buy the ticket purely for the night scene;

4, Xiangshan Park attractions are more tasteless and it is expensive, the trip can be skipped directly.

After the beautiful sunset in the evening, the gorgeous sunset glowed the giant elephant into pink. The Xiangshan udakacandra on the west bank is opposite to the lunar cave on the east bank of the Li River. One hangs in the sky and one floats on the water, forming a peculiar landscape of the “Lijiang River Double Moon”. In an instant, the sky is dyed into dark red, like a magnificent red ocean, which is very spectacular, it is really as “this scene should only be in the sky, the world can get a few views.” In the Elephant Trunk Hill encounters the most beautiful sunset, you will feel it really worth it for your Guilin tour.

Generally speaking, everyone goes to Xiangshan Park to take a picture of the elephant’s nose. However, as a park that is squandered by locals and tourists, Xiangshan Park’s ticket price has so far stood up, and the official website has a price of 70 Yuan for it. If you plan to shoot the elephant’s nose, go directly to the 2nd entrance and exit after entering the park, the elephant trunk is there, don’t climb the mountain, because there is nothing on the mountain. Although basically everyone understands that there is no such thing in the park, it does not stop the obsession of tourists.