In August 2019, I came to Enshi Prefecture for the third time! I still remember that I was still in Qianjiang in 2015. At that time, Enshi Grand Canyon was the first choice when it came to traveling around. The canyon was shocked! However, the time was not arranged well, and many scenery was left behind. In September this year, I will come to Enshi again and have a 5-day in-depth tour, which will fulfill the regrets left behind~

Just like some people are not only happy at first sight, but also never tire of being together for a long time. And Enshi is like this to me, it is worth coming here again, and the scenery scattered among the mountains, rivers and forests is really endless. The 5-day itinerary is still in a hurry. Enshi Prefecture is a place where you should slow down to get a better understanding. The love hidden in the stilted buildings, the simplicity of the Tujia brothers and sisters, and the delicious snacks in the streets and alleys, all these can disturb the heart. The stagnant water in the water.

During this 5-day tour in Enshi Prefecture, I went to Daughter City, Grand Canyon, Tenglong Cave, Shennong Creek, and also went to the Earth Center Valley. Looking back on the whole journey, I feel a little pity in my heart. Every place is worth spending two or three days to appreciate it, so I think, if you want to come, I sincerely hope that you can slow down and exchange with the mountains and rivers, listen to the birds and insects in the forest, and say hello to the flowers and trees! Rather than being like me, coming and going in a hurry~Although I also encountered the beauty in it, but vaguely feel that there are still a lot of misses~

Day1. When I first entered the Children's City, the food here is impressive

The first thing I did when I arrived in Daughter City was to have lunch, and I found Zhang Guan He Zha, a well-known local stir-fry restaurant. The combination of dregs is their specialty, and the taste is really good, but it is not as good as the delicious taste buds left by the sour pork and potato chips. The small kang potatoes here in Enshi are really unique. They are golden in color, and the appetite is soaring when you look at them. The potatoes are soft and sweet, and the memories at this moment are full of fragrance.

Enshi Prefecture is a Tujia autonomous prefecture. Daughter City has a relatively strong Tujia style here. The beautiful stilted buildings stand on both sides of the street, and you can have a panoramic view of various ethnic brands with Tujia style.

Daughter City is not a big place, so it’s almost enough to have a meal in the afternoon and then go to the market and drink tea at night. The pace of life here is not fast, and the small days are leisurely. Every time I come to a minority-inhabited area, I feel a little bit emotional. If I chose to stay in my hometown back then, would my life be completely different now?

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Day2. Re-entering the Enshi Grand Canyon, the cliff plank road seems to be seen for the first time

The Grand Canyon is divided into two parts, including "Seven Star Village" and "Yunlong Ground Fissure". The Yunlong River ground fissure is 7.5 kilometers long and the deepest is 75 meters. The walking plank road is dug in the middle of the mountain, and visitors cannot go directly to the cracks at the bottom of the valley.

Along the walking plank road, there are several waterfalls and springs on both sides of the cracks in the ground, and the waterfalls flying down are refreshing. . The Yunlong Ground Fissure is only one of the scenic spots in the Enshi Grand Canyon Scenic Area. If you continue to go up the mountain, there are more beautiful scenery, which is the "Seven Star Village Scenic Spot".

Qixing Village, formerly known as "Qijing Village", is composed of seven thrilling gates: Xiaoloumen, Zhongloumen, Daloumen, Shaliu Cave, Caopiqian, Jigongling and Dongyun Temple. One man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it. It was built by the Emperor of the Mountain (Black Tusi) in the past. Because it looks like the Big Dipper in the plane distribution, it is named "Seven Stars Village".

Along a circular mountain step, you can swim through the entire mountain area without going back. Tourists can walk the whole way (about 3 hours), and the main attractions include a line of sky, cliff promenade and a stick of incense. Huangshan is famous for its strange pines and rocks, and Zhangjiajie is famous for its natural bonsai. But in my heart, Enshi Grand Canyon is unique. It has both strange rocks and mountains and various beautiful natural vegetation bonsai. Colorado".

"One Stick of Incense" is a peak pillar about 150 meters high with a minimum diameter of only 4 meters. It seems that the head of the pillar is thicker than the waist of the pillar. Can't move. In 2013, Yizhuxiang was rated as one of the 40 most beautiful scenic spots in China by foreign media.

According to legend, this stone pillar is a piece of incense sent by the gods to the local people. If it is lit in case of disaster, the gods will come down to rescue, so the local people call it "Ping Anxiang".

There are many scenery in the Grand Canyon. Standing on a high place, looking around, the ups and downs of the mountains, the overlapping of clouds, and the sprinkling of light make the entire Grand Canyon as beautiful as a landscape painting. The sea of ​​clouds stretches for hundreds of miles, the light and shadow are chaotic, and the whole scene is too beautiful to behold. All the difficult hurdles in life are actually demonic obstacles in the bottom of my heart. Standing on a high place and looking at the floating clouds, all the difficult things that I can't think about in an instant can be thrown out of my mind.

There are many places in the Grand Canyon where you can take pictures and check in. The breeze in the mountains is coming, the fragrance of the vegetation is mixed with the smell of the soil, and the hormones of nature are so refreshing~ Here I must admit that hiking in the Enshi Grand Canyon makes me a little bit Weakened. On the way, you can take a sightseeing car or a cable car. Sitting in the cable car, you can overlook the Grand Canyon from the perspective of God. The scenery that cannot be seen on the flat ground can be glimpsed from the sky.

This is the first time I have walked the cliff path, and people who are afraid of heights still have lingering fears when walking through it. Walking on the plank road with the flow of people, the cool breeze in the canyon took away the heat from my body, and I dared to stick my head out to see the valley below while holding on to the railing. The step by step of the cliff plank road is startling, it is worth going to check in once~

In the evening, watch "Dragon Boat Tune", which is a Tujia folk song with local characteristics, which is very impressive. The lyrics have accumulated the long-term life experience and wisdom of the local working people, revealing a strong breath of life between the lines, the shyness and charm of the Tujia Yaomeier, and the various amorous feelings of the Tujia elder brothers and sisters are vividly displayed on the stage.

The entire performance of "Dragon Boat Tune" lasted for more than an hour. The dedication of the chieftain's daughter and the punter to love was moving. The story of dying for love made me cry. I know that as the age rings get older, the longer I spend in the dye vat of society, the less I have expectations for relationships. Fortunately, I have always chosen to believe in love, and in the end I was cherished by love, and I met this person now.

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Day3. Icheon Tenglong Cave, fulfilling the dream of taking a photo with a hot air balloon

The 800-mile Qingjiang River plunged more than 30 meters from the entrance of the Tenglong Cave Water Tunnel. The mighty river water plunged down vertically, the waves rolled, and the sound shook Jiuyuan, forming an extremely rare landscape of giant karst sinkholes in the world. Turning from light to darkness, it enters the underground current and quietly sneaks into the underworld for a length of 16.8 kilometers. The geological landscape in the cave is widely distributed, and it can be called a "Karstology Museum in China".

I didn’t have a hot air balloon here before, but this time I can take a romantic hot air balloon here! You don’t need to travel across the sea to Turkey, which is not romantic. You only need to come to Tenglong Cave, and you can spend the least money to experience the fun of flying in a hot air balloon~ But this hot air balloon can only rise to a height of about 40m on the top of the cave. It will not fly too high, and the safety is better!

The Qingjiang River Basin around Tenglong Cave is the birthplace of human beings. During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the area around Tenglong Cave was the place where the Ba people founded the country. Later, the Tujia people, the descendants of the Ba people, lived and multiplied here. The Ba people were good at singing and dancing, and were romantic. The hometown of the world's outstanding Tujia folk song "Dragon Boat Tune" is Lichuan, and the rich Tujia style also adds a lot of color to the tour of Tenglong Cave!

With the help of the natural dome-shaped hall in the cave, Tenglong Cave has built the largest original ecological cave theater in the world. Every day, a large-scale Tujia original ecological scene song and dance "Yishui Lichuan" and "Yishui Lichuan" are staged. The first large-scale live-action drama, "Yishui Lichuan" has been staged for more than 6,000 times, and has become a symbol and brand of Tujia national culture. Moving the stilted buildings, covered bridges, dragon boats in the water and other backgrounds, I can't help but blend into the primitive and simple Tujia culture and ethnic customs.

"Yi Shui Li Chuan" digs deeply and inherits the local ethnic culture, the legendary story of the ancestor of the Ba people, Lin Jun, and the Tujia totem white tiger passed down by the Tujia population, and the folk customs of the Tujia people, such as crying for marriage, welcoming relatives, funeral dances, hunting, etc., are beautiful The Dragon Boat Tune, Liukou Tea and other mountain folk songs fascinate tourists.

In the background of the stage, the representative buildings of the Tujia nationality, such as Diaojiaolou and Fengyu Bridge, and real-life props such as waterwheels, Xilankapu, Duiwo, and old buffaloes, let tourists be on the scene; folk song duets, groom selection, hall worship, Throwing incense bags made tourists excited. The folk songs and folk dances in the program are all national intangible cultural heritage, which not only maintains the authenticity of national culture, but also creates a "harmony between man and nature" for the transformation of national cultural elements into popular tourism products. One" art carrier.

PS: I saw a little brother who looks exactly like Luo Zhixiang among the more than one hundred stage performers! The side face is very similar, of course the front face is also good-looking~ I took a lot of pictures after chasing him on the stage with a 70-200, hahaha~

In addition to "Yishui Lichuan", Tenglongdong Scenic Spot also created the only comprehensive laser performance show in the country, accompanied by well-choreographed modern songs and dances, integrating lasers, ball curtains, water curtains, fountains, flames, rime, etc. The elements, the virtual and the real are perfectly integrated, presenting a beautiful stage picture. The 180 yuan ticket can watch two performances, which is not a loss.

Tenglong Cave was rated as "the most beautiful place in China" and "the six most beautiful tourist caves in China-shocking Tenglong Cave" by "China National Geographic" in 2005; The Geopark is indeed worth seeing.

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Day4. The trackers on the Shennong River stretch their fibers, and I will love you even across the ocean

It is no exaggeration to say that Shennongxi is the place I am most looking forward to this Enshi. In the movie "Across the Ocean to Love You", I saw the simplicity and primitiveness of this land, the culture of crying marriage, funeral culture, chant songs of the trackers and salho dances for mourning the dead. These are hazy in my memory The pictures are urging me to leave quickly, to see and hear for myself.

The beauty of Shennongxi is reflected in its primitiveness, simplicity, wild charm and pollution-free. There is no artificial carving here, it all depends on the good fortune of nature. Shennong Creek is full of greenery everywhere, the mountains are green, the water is green, sitting in a small wooden boat, along the side of the boat to touch the water, the water surface is shining golden, a little dazzling, the memory suddenly returned to the river when I was a child, playing with water and catching fish In the picture, time always comes and goes in a hurry, and some good things will never return.

There are two ways of rafting in Shenlongxi, kayak and wooden boat. I took the primitive and simple pea-corner boat. I still want to watch the trackers stretch their fibers and listen to them singing the chant song He Zuo He Zuo. In fact, the chant song has no specific lyrics, just The boatmen cheer each other up~

When I was a child, I went to my grandmother’s house by boat. During the dry season, there would be pictures of the boatmen stretching the fibers. They are familiar with the water, and they are agile on the water and on the shore. Shenlongxi fiber pulling was very primitive before the 1990s. The trackers did not wear clothes, probably because they were afraid that the rough rope would damage the clothes.

It is definitely not possible to see that original picture now, and the stretchers in front of us are all over sixty years old! The actual age of the tracker in front of the camera is 75. I really can’t see that people of this age can still be so energetic, probably because the mountains and rivers support people~

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Day5. Exploring the inner valley, the little-known secret place in the mountains

The Earth Center Valley is the biggest surprise of this trip. If I hadn't walked in the canyon myself, I wouldn't have believed that Enshi would have so many magical features. The Center of the Earth Valley is like an unknown beauty hidden in a deep boudoir. Her delicacy, tranquility, and beauty can only be experienced one by one.

The star room in the Earth Center Valley is worth mentioning. After the sunset, the twilight rises. After 23:00, the world is so quiet that there are only insects singing. At this moment, when I close my eyes, I can still hear the crickets singing, and the breeze in the forest strokes the leaves. Overhead the stars kept blinking.

Turning off all the lights, I put a big character on the bed, raised my head and looked at the stars, as if I was back to my original place all at once.

The center of the earth valley is too playable, the first one is the 9D suspension glass bridge. People who are afraid of heights are naturally a little worried, but people like me who like excitement can pass through it without blinking. There are more than 100 meters high under the feet, and the flowers, trees, canyons and strange rocks are clearly visible. There will be music after the last part of the walk, similar to the kind of game clearance, very interesting~

The valley of Enshi Dixin Valley is divided into three sections. Shuxin Valley is famous for its danger, Xixin Valley is famous for its seclusion, and Wenxin Valley is famous for its strangeness. The plank road of Shuxin Valley is built on the cliff above the sky, winding in the middle of the mountain. Standing on the pole on the plank road and looking at it, the trees in the valley are lush and thriving. The flowing water at the bottom of the valley is gurgling, and the sound of the water is pleasant~

Passing by Jiayin Pavilion, passing through the Sun Moon Gate, admiring the head of the giant ape and the elephant trunk stone, you will arrive at Xixin Valley.

The total length of Xixin Valley is 1.8 kilometers. It is considered the most beautiful section among the three valleys. Seeing is believing some of the beauty. My words are not gorgeous enough to compose its beauty, but I know that as long as you come, you will definitely be moved by it. .

This is where the Heart Valley got its name. The heart-shaped valley is like a heart door, connecting the girls and boys next to it. The beauty of this section of the valley lies in its depth; the section of the river has been impacted by the water flow to create a strong sense of three-dimensional space, as if writing a stone book with a pen~

Not far from there is a stone that looks like a turtle, which is clearly visible to the naked eye. You don't need to use your imagination to see that it is a turtle! The clear water flow in the Earth's Center Valley makes people want to go down and play in the water. Fortunately, there is really a water play area here, where you can touch fish and move crabs. How can you play so happily~

The last section is Wenxin Valley. It goes up all the way along the Bayan Ancient Road, passes through the Bayan Cave and walks a short distance to the "magic carpet in the air". It sounds very magical and magical, but it is actually an aerial sightseeing elevator. With foot massage function, it is especially suitable for tourists after climbing uphill~

There are still many aerial projects and water entertainment projects in the center of the earth, but the weather was not beautiful that day, and none of the projects were completed. And I know that all the regrets are for the fulfillment of the next meeting.

The 5-day tour of Enshi Prefecture came to an end here, and this is a place worth meeting again. In spring, summer, autumn and winter, I want to see every aspect of it with my own eyes~ I hope that the next encounter will not be too far away!