Published on April 4, 2014 10:36

When it comes to Xiangxi, people's impressions at that time are as follows: the first is the place where the Miao people lived, the second is the place where the bandits lived, the third is that the women are often tricky, the fourth is that men love to kill people, the fifth is that the road is extremely bad, the place is extremely dangerous and the people are extremely savage. It's almost an adventure to travel, and the sixth is that if you have a good eye, you may have a chance to see a group of dead bodies being driven on the road by the corpse chasers, and there are cars approaching, Also know to avoid, just like living people, of course, these are just stories, to the beautiful Xiangxi create a mysterious color.

First of all, I would like to thank Ctrip for the opportunity of this trip. For the first time, many people have fun together when they take part in group travel. It's just that they are in a hurry on the way. Due to the business trip, Hunan has been to many places, but the scenic spot in Western Hunan has not been very much. In particular, the ancient city of Phoenix was famous for its ocean going before, so it has never had the chance to go. I finally saw it this time.

Itinerary: Day1 --- Shanghai, Zhangjiajie

Day2: Hongjiang Ancient mall and Fenghuang ancient city

Day3 -- Fenghuang ancient city, Xibu Street

Day4: Tianzishan and Huanglongdong

Day5 -- Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, Shanghai

The first night I arrived in Zhangjiajie was very late. My friends all washed and slept. The next morning, I took a bus for more than five hours to visit Hongjiang Ancient shopping mall. Although the sky was not beautiful and there was continuous drizzle, it had a unique flavor to cooperate with this ancient city.

Hongjiang Ancient shopping mall is located at the confluence of Yuanshui and Wushui. It originated in the spring and Autumn period, formed in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the best preserved ancient architectural complex. It is famous for distributing tung oil, wood, white wax and opium. It is the material distribution center of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan and Sichuan provinces. It is the economic, cultural and religious center of Southwest Hunan. It is known as the "Pearl of Western Hunan", "little Nanjing" and "metropolis of Southwest China". Now, according to experts' research, there are more than 380 well preserved Ming and Qing ancient buildings in Hongjiang Ancient shopping mall, such as yinziwu, temple, escort agency, bank, firm, foreign firm, workshop, shop, inn, brothel, newspaper office and cigarette shop, with a total area of about 200000 square meters.

Ticket price: 120 yuan for adults, free for special groups, free for children under 1.2 meters; Before September 1, students under the age of 18 are free of charge with relevant certificates. Opening hours: 8:00-17:00. The browsing time is about one hour.

This ancient city has the flavor of Huizhou architecture...

There are so many alleys and stairs...

Like a wooden balcony in a small attic...

Tea and antiques are also common in ancient cities...

The actors are performing the scene of escorting...

Don't get it wrong, it's not actors, it's hard-working people...

In the ancient city, there are all kinds of performances at every point...

After touring Hongjiang Ancient City, I drove to Fenghuang ancient city for more than 2 hours. After dinner, it was dark. Then I went to watch the premiere of Yanyu Fenghuang, a large-scale stage play with a cost of 180 million yuan. The stage, lighting, plot and actors are all worth seeing.

Admission: as this is the premiere, we are also invited. The price of admission is unknown. The performance lasts about an hour.

No one is absent from the premiere...

The beauty of the dance is very dazzling...

After 10 p.m., Phoenix is occupied by bar music, and all kinds of high songs are rippling along the river. I don't know when the nightclub has become the characteristic product of the ancient town. Fenghuang is not like an ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River. Being close to mountains and rivers brings another charm to Fenghuang. Relatively speaking, I prefer an ancient town like Fenghuang. When I'm tired, I'm very happy to have a drink in a teahouse where I can see the scenery outside the window.

If you want to see the real Xiangxi style, you have to go to Phoenix. Fenghuang city is the county seat of Fenghuang County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. It is located 53 kilometers south of Jishou City. It is built close to Tuojiang River, with wooden buildings covered with hillsides. This is the hometown of the literary master Shen Congwen, who once described its simple and charming style in the border town.

Fenghuang is rich in natural resources, mountains, water and caves. Nanhuashan National Forest Park covers an area of more than 30000 mu, with beautiful ecological environment and over 98% forest coverage. There are more than 100 kinds of rare animals and plants, which are lush everywhere. Qiliang cave is known as the second wonder cave in China. It has the characteristics of seclusion, strangeness, beauty and preciseness. In the 12 km long cave, it is strange, unpredictable and fascinating. The beautiful tunliang mountain scenic spot has a variety of mountain shapes and waterfalls. Scenic spots decorate the fantastic land of Phoenix and add infinite charm to it.

Ticket: This is a controversial ticket. It was very popular on the Internet before. On April 10, 2013, the ancient city of Fenghuang in Hunan Province began to implement bundled ticket sales. Tourists need to buy 148 yuan tickets to enter the ancient city. After the implementation of the policy, many people paid attention to it, the number of tourists dropped sharply, and the local individual businesses suffered a great impact. From April 20, the Fenghuang county government launched a new policy for students, reducing the ticket price from 80 yuan to 20 yuan. Of course, when we went shopping, we didn't see anyone checking the tickets, sometimes there was no one. If you want to enjoy it carefully, it will take you two or three days.

There are few Phoenix people in the middle of the night. Maybe it's because of the rain. There are only a lot of people in the bar. After shooting for a while, we went back to have a rest. The next day we were going to shoot the Phoenix in the morning.

The next day, I thought that there would be fog by the river, giving people a hazy feeling. I was not lucky, but it didn't appear, but it was good that there was no rain.

I haven't seen this kind of scene for a long time, and there isn't much water to wash clothes by the river.

It's good to walk on this kind of stone bridge, but it's a little slippery due to the rain. You have to be careful when you walk and fall into the river carelessly.

If you are tired of walking on the shore, you can also take such a boat to visit and watch the tall buildings on both sides. It's very delicious.

Local people make peanut candy. It's a fierce hammer...

There are many snacks in the town. If you are interested, you may as well try them, especially ginger sugar. They are sold everywhere.

Very lovely straw sandals, and very characteristic, beauty can enter a pair...

Bandits and A-Mei, is not very harmonious... ha-ha...

Do you want a group photo? Ten bucks a piece...

Matchmaker's mole shines in my eyes...

This is a living person. Is it performance art???

From the upstream to the midstream, and then from the midstream to the downstream by boat, this beautiful scenery is all collected.

Attractive bottle pile in front of the bar...

A small shop selling drums...

After visiting Fenghuang ancient city in the morning, I drove back to Xibu street in Zhangjiajie for more than 4 hours, stayed near Xibu street in the evening, and prepared to go to Tianzi mountain the next day.

Xibu street is located in Wulingyuan District of Zhangjiajie, opposite to Wuling Avenue District government. It is adjacent to Wuling Avenue in the north, along the riverside waterscape of Suoxi River in the south, Zhangjiajie Grand Theater in the East and Baofeng bridge in the West. The project covers an area of about 100 mu, with a total construction area of about 70000 square meters. It is the only compound tourism commercial pedestrian street integrating water bar street, Chinese famous snack street, Xiangxi Folk shopping boutique Street, Leisure Inn and creative workshop. It is an unrepeatable cultural tourism collection in Wulingyuan core scenic spot.

Admission: free. The tour time is 30 minutes.

Tianzishan was named after Xiang Dakun, the leader of the peasant uprising in the early Ming Dynasty. It is one of the four scenic spots in Wulingyuan District, which is adjacent to SUOXIYU, Zhangjiajie in the South and Sangzhi County in the north. The beautiful scenery of Tianzi mountain is different in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and in the morning, dusk, afternoon and night. The Tianzi mountain in the glow is like a splendid and colorful oil painting; Under the moonlight, the misty mountains are scattered in order to form an ink landscape. In spring, the mountain flowers are bright and green; In winter, it is covered with snow and ice. When it turns sunny or rainy, or when it turns wrong in the morning, Tianzi mountain is shrouded with clouds and smoke, or covered with clouds and smoke, or curling, like gauze, and moving, like snow. Tianzi mountain is located in the highest part of the "Golden Triangle", known as "expanded bonsai, reduced fairyland". The highest altitude of Tianzi mountain is 1262.5 meters (kunlun peak), and the lowest is 534 meters (shilanyu). The total area of the scenic spot is 67 square kilometers, and the tour line around the mountain is 45 kilometers. The annual average temperature is 12 ℃, the annual rainfall is 1800 ml, the annual frost free period is 240 days, and the annual freezing period is about 60-80 days. From the perspective of Geology and geomorphology of Tianzi mountain, except that there is a layer of limestone and a very small amount of Moire stone more than a few hundred meters above the top of the mountain, most of the scenic spots are composed of quartzite, belonging to the landform of sandstone peak forest, which is basically the same as SUOXIYU and Zhangjiajie. It is a sedimentary rock (hydrogenetic rock) gradually sunk from a vast ocean 380 million years ago, Because of the complex and long diagenetic process, the quartz sandstone with a total thickness of 500-600 meters, which we see today, was formed, forming a variety of exotic landscapes

When it comes to Tianzishan, maybe the first impression is Avatar. Some scenes in the film are very similar to Tianzishan, and of course, there is no lack of publicity about avatar on the mountain. Fingerprint card is available in and out of the scenic area within three days. It takes about 20 minutes to get up the mountain from the gate of the scenic area by green car. You have to take Bailong elevator to get to the top of the mountain. It looks spectacular. The construction cost is 120 million RMB, the vertical height difference is 335 meters, and the operation height is 326 meters. It is composed of 154 meters shaft in the mountain and 172 meters steel structure close to the mountain. Three double-layer fully exposed sightseeing elevators are used for parallel and separate operation. Each machine can carry 47 passengers at a time, and the running speed is 3 M / s. The three machines can run at the same time, and the round-trip traffic volume is up to 3000 person times per hour.

Admission: 248 yuan for adults, including all the scenic spots in yuanjiajie, of which Tianzi mountain is only one. Bailong elevator ticket price: single line 56 yuan, double line 112 yuan. Tianzishan cableway ticket price: 67 yuan for one way and 134 yuan for two way.

If you want to visit all the scenic spots in yuanjiajie for at least one or two days, if you only want to visit Tianzi mountain, the whole tour will take about two hours.

It was taken when I was on the bus. I was a little busy. I queued for half an hour to come in.

It's incredible to imagine the fantastic nature with the peculiar mountains...

Elder master, you don't give me face or smile when you come around...

You can also choose the cableway to go down the mountain...

Huanglong cave is a famous Cave Scenic Spot in Wulingyuan scenic spot of Zhangjiajie. It is famous all over the world for its top honors such as "world cave wonder", "world cave all-round champion" and "China's most beautiful tourist cave". The total area of the bottom of the cave has been proved to be 100000 square meters; There are four layers in the cave: cave in the cave, mountain in the cave, cave in the mountain and river in the cave. According to the investigation of geological experts at home and abroad, the large scale, complete content and beautiful scenery of Huanglong cave include all the contents of karst cave science. Huanglong cave, with its huge three-dimensional structure, cave space, rich cave landscape, water and land tourism routes, is unique in the world, with natural air conditioning.

The ticket price of the scenic spot is 100 yuan per person. Preferential ticket price: 60 yuan / person (for children less than 1.3 meters in height, for the disabled who meet the "practical assessment standards for the disabled", and for the elderly over 70 years old, tickets are free with ID card or "preferential treatment card for the elderly".

It takes about 20 minutes to drive from Tianzishan in yuanjiajie. It takes about an hour and a half to complete the whole tour of the cave. There are many steps in the second half of the journey, which requires a certain amount of physical strength. It's a little cold in the cave. It's suggested to add a thin coat.

The scenery outside Huanglong Cave...

The idyllic scenery outside is wonderful...

After about 20 minutes' walk into the cave, you need to take a boat for about 10 minutes to get to the other side...

Wait in line for the boat...

After visiting Huanglong cave, I can only sigh that nature is amazing...

After visiting Huanglong cave, the evening activity is to watch "charming Xiangxi". The charming Xiangxi Grand Theater is the oldest theater in Wulingyuan scenic area of Zhangjiajie. It was founded in March 2001. After 11 years of development, it has gradually become a famous tourism and cultural performance entity in China. Xiangxi has strong ethnic characteristics, and it is popular in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and other Chinese regions, as well as in South Korea, Japan, Japan Southeast Asia and other places enjoy high visibility and reputation. The charming Xiangxi Grand Theater, which can hold 2800 people, is located in Zhangjiajie World Geopark and Wulingyuan scenic spot with beautiful scenery and Qifeng. It is simple, elegant and thick, and complements Wulingyuan natural landscape. The program is divided into on-site and off-site. There are Miao drum dance, border town dance, climbing tower dance, Maogusi dance, masang Shuer's Lighthouse dance, gathering banquet, daughter's meeting, weeping wedding and corpse chasing in Xiangxi. There are bonfire performance, Tujia hard Qigong performance, Xiangxi three big Gu fan sorcery performance (including going up daoshan, walking iron plow, going down the sea of fire), large Tujia hand waving dance performance.

The whole performance time is about 1.5 hours, and the ticket price is 228, 268, etc., depending on the front and rear seats.

Climb the stairs...

Chasing corpses in Xiangxi...

Shangdaoshan in legend...

The legendary sea of fire...

Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon is located in sanguansi Township, Cili County, Zhangjiajie City, close to the world natural heritage, World Geopark, Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan scenic spot. Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon is a newly developed tourist attraction. Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon originally has two names, one is called the rotten boat gorge: it comes from Shenquan river. The water of the whole Grand Canyon and the southern red flag canal all comes from here. It is said that many rotten boat boards gushed from the spring before, and the local people can't know where the rotten boat boards came from, so it's called "rotten boat gorge"; Another name is luanquan gorge: it refers to the stone walls on both sides of the gorge. There are many streams and springs, and the gorge is full of flying streams.

The scenic spots inside include a line of Tiantian ladder plank road, a three fold tour road, wuwangpo platform, a crack in the stone wall, a family photo, a woman singing and following, a thousand year old rattan, a forest on stone, Cihang Pudu, tianxianshui waterfall, Qujing Youlin Chuangwang Pavilion, southern red flag canal, Tianhe viewing platform, cuitan waterfall, Yilu Ping'an bridge, soundproof stone, zhuxianquan, Xianren washface, butterfly spring waterfall, etc Strange mystery cave, Buddha's hand covering the sky, rotten boat rock, bandit cave. In addition, some recreational facilities are under development and are expected to be completed by the end of this year, including bungee jumping and cliff glass bridge.

Ordinary ticket: 118 yuan, children's ticket: 70 yuan for children between 1.2 meters and 1.5 meters, free ticket for people under 1.2 meters, senior citizen's ticket: 70 yuan for people over 60 years old with senior citizen's certificate. It takes about two hours to complete the tour.

It's exciting to walk to the foot of the mountain. Some stairs are 90 degrees vertical, so you need to pay attention to safety.

After walking about 10 minutes, you can take the artificial slide. You need to wrap a piece of cloth on your butt and wear gloves. It's very exciting and interesting to slide down.

The waterfalls all flow out from the crevices of the high mountains. They look like fairyland.

However, some roads need to take umbrellas. There is too much water flowing down.

After about an hour's walk, you can take the slide rope.

The last part of the journey is by boat.

When you meet these eaters, you must pay attention to that when you have some fruit in your hand, such as dazzling handbags or bananas, they will come to grab it. In the picture, you are eating the loot.

--------------------------------------------Thank you for your visit-------------------------------------------------