The sixth part of the urban leisure tour series will be released soon. It seems to be diligent, but it is actually paying off debts!
Previously, the concept of Ningxia was limited to goji berries. After visiting, I realized that the desert and the Yellow River in Yinchuan are the key points. Even if I have been to Mingsha Mountain, I will not have the same regret. Shapotou is really worth a visit, it can satisfy you For all the needs of desert entertainment, play it all in one stop!
Or describe it in chunks, simple and clear.
transportation
This time is different from the previous ones. I chose the morning-to-night train for the two-day and three-night itinerary. In fact, I slept on the train for two nights and stayed in Yinchuan for one night. I can play in Yinchuan for two full days and arrive early on Monday. In Beijing, there is no delay in going to work at all.
The Beijing West Railway Station, taken before departure at night, is so beautiful. . . . .
I arrived at Yinchuan Station early in the morning on Saturday. It was really early in the morning, just after six o'clock, and it was more than an hour before the car rental shop opened. I had a lot of time to pose for photos in the station square!
The destinations of this itinerary are Shapotou, Zhenbeibao Film and Television Base and Shuidonggou, so I chose to rent a car to travel.
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From the station to the car rental shop, we passed the local morning market. There were all kinds of fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry and aquatic products, and grain and oil department stores. I bought fruits and breakfast, which were very cheap. A bunch of grapes was two yuan, and a fried bun was one yuan. Plus the soy milk and soup dumplings we ate at a breakfast shop later, about 30 yuan, affordable!
After a full meal, drive on the road and go straight to the essence of this itinerary - Shapotou Scenic Area. At the ticket office, I decisively bought a package ticket of 460 yuan per person, including all entertainment items except bungee jumping.
The shuttle bus that enters the door will take you to the desert area first, and the first stop is to take a camel. Six camels form a group and are pulled by one person. Since it is summer vacation and there are many tourists, there is basically no gap between groups, forming a long camel team, wandering in the desert with the sound of camel bells. The only downside is that you are not allowed to take pictures during the whole process. The reason is that you must hold the camel tightly with both hands to prevent it from falling. If you want to keep beautiful photos of camel riding, you can only rely on the photos taken by the staff of the scenic spot, and the export is 20 yuan to take the photos. You can choose by yourself.
The second stop of the surf car, the surf car is particularly exciting, diving and climbing between the endless desert peaks and valleys, both adults and children can experience the fun. Halfway the driver will stop for five minutes to let the tourists get off the car and take pictures in the depths of the unmanned desert.
After the surfing car, you need to take the shuttle bus again to leave the desert area and go to the Yellow River area to continue playing. Standing on the sand dunes, with the mother river at your feet, this kind of landscape must not be seen elsewhere.
The most worthwhile visit in the Yellow River District is the Yellow River Zipline, a rope that directly crosses the Yellow River. What is surprising is that it is still a round trip, a conscientious project that is definitely worth the fare.
Rigorous and serious preparations. Sorry for not being able to take photos of the zip line process.
The return destination of the zip line is just connected to the single cable car. You need to take the cable car back to the high desert again, and then return to the bank of the Yellow River through sand boarding. Sand boarding is the item with the longest queue among all entertainment items, but the half-hour line is definitely within the acceptable range. And there is a spray to cool down the tourists during the queuing process, which is very considerate.
Do you feel that the ramp is shaking? That's right, it's really shaking! As timid as I am, I basically pulled the brakes and swayed slowly throughout the whole process. Well, I admit that this is why the queue time for sand boarding is longer. There are more tourists like me, and it takes a long time to take up the slide. . . . .
Back to the bank of the Yellow River again, all sand entertainment is over, and the rest is water sports. The famous sheepskin raft is definitely a scene of the Yellow River, you must feel it. In order to maintain balance, four people sit on a raft, roughly divided into four directions. During the process, the boatman still has great requirements for the sitting posture of the passengers. From time to time, he will remind you not to sit cross-legged and not to step on the sheepskin. I am sitting all the way. My back hurts, but luckily it didn't last long. The boatman will introduce the production of the sheepskin raft in detail, and will also sing a local folk song, which has more local characteristics.
After disembarking, you don't need to take off your life jacket and return directly to the speedboat. Because I was in a hurry to return to Yinchuan, I didn’t go to the Yellow River 3D Bridge again. I just used high-tech means to create 3D effects and the sound of glass breaking from the perspective of vision and hearing. The car returns to the gate.
Shapotou Scenic Area has a total of four hours of play, and you can play it all in half a day, which is very enjoyable. A must-see attraction in Yinchuan!
The next morning, I went straight to Zhenbeibao Film and Television Base from the urban area. Due to the early arrival, there were not many tourists in the scenic spot, and some classic scenes could be enjoyed and photographed calmly. This is the benefit of getting up early, haha.
Zhenbeibao Film and Television Base is known for famous films such as "Wrangler", "Red Sorghum" and "A Chinese Journey to the West". Especially Westward Journey is a kind of plot in the minds of me and LG's generation, so this time you must go to Yinchuan. Come here to pay homage to the classics.
It is very convenient to buy tickets on Ctrip and directly swipe the QR code to enter the door.
As soon as you enter the door, all the movie posters shot in Zhenbeibao are listed on a long corridor. As you walk and watch, you will find that many movies you have watched are also among them.
The entire film and television base occupies a large area and is divided into three parts: Mingcheng, Laoyinchuan and Qingcheng. There are free tour guides in the scenic area. You can choose to follow the tour guide throughout the tour, but the time will be longer.
"New Dragon Inn", LG especially likes it, and took pictures inside and out.
The above are all the scenes in Mingcheng, which occupies the largest area in the entire film and television base. The filming of "The Wrangler", "New Dragon Inn" and the first half of "A Chinese Journey to the West" were all done here.
Old Yinchuan is actually a street, and the two sides of the street reproduce the scene of Yinchuan streets and some shops at that time.
This is the most classic scene in Qingcheng, and tourists can't go up there.
The props and costumes of the characters in the movie are displayed in the museum in Qingcheng.
The trash cans in the movie theater are also suitable for the occasion, they are all imitated from the classic scenes in the movie.
After leaving Zhenbei Fort, drive directly to the Shuidonggou Ruins. This is one of the attractions I can't complain about the most.
The visibility of the Shuidonggou site lies in understanding the history of the Shuidonggou people and the Paleolithic period in China. For those of us who have already been to the Shapotou Scenic Area, we don’t want to go to surfing cars, ride camels, watch performances and other entertainment projects. We want to go to the museum to listen to the introduction first, and then go to the Cangbing Cave to see and see, so Bought great tickets online. However, the staff of the scenic spot said that the scenic spot is too large, and they did not buy a traffic ticket alone. There are two options left for us, one is to refund the big tickets and buy a new package; the other is to walk more than ten kilometers on foot to play by ourselves. We checked the map and found that the straight-line distance from the gate to the Cangbing Cave is only about three kilometers, so we chose to walk. What I didn't expect was that the scenic spot sent guards to block all the routes not planned by the package ticket. In other words, you can’t reach the Cangbing Cave according to the straight-line distance, you can only follow the only route of the package ticket, which is more than three times farther!
This kind of bundled sales makes people feel disgusted! Tourists should have their own right to choose. Scenic spots cannot force tourists to accept helplessly in order to sell high-priced package tickets. This is banditry!
Deciding not to compromise with the "evil forces", we gave up our plan to go to the Zangbing Cave, and only reached the second scenic spot - the Ming City Wall before returning.
This is the first attraction.
This is the second scenic spot, the Ming city wall, which is still intact.
It is quite interesting to cross the two provinces of Ningxia and Inner Mongolia with one foot. When we got here, we returned. There was no shelter along the way. With such a large scenic spot, most tourists had no choice but to choose to buy package tickets and follow the planned route.
eat
The focus of eating in Ningxia is undoubtedly mutton. LG, which regards mutton as its life, prefers the most representative Laomao hand-caught mutton. The store is very big, so you don’t need to wait for a table, just sit down. Lamb ribs, lamb meat and lamb neck each cost half a catty, and the ingredients are vinegar and chili noodles. According to LG the lamb was very tender. In addition, Liangpi, mixed wolfberry seedlings, and shallots are all local specialties, must-order dishes, and they are quite satisfactory. Because there are only three people, I didn't dare to order more staple food. One is oily, and the other is wrapped in lamb. They are both original, neither sweet nor salty, and a bit choking.
The restaurant's dishes are super large, and basically all the staple foods are left. The price of the dishes is on the high side, and a cold dish basically costs 38 yuan. Locals in Yinchuan probably won’t patronize it, so this place is actually a gathering place for foreigners.
For Sunday's dinner, I chose the red willow branch Tan sheep barbecue, which is particularly popular in DP, and it is only for the evening market. A barbecue shop with a good environment, the shop has a sense of design, equipped with sofas, and the big projector plays trendy music.
I came here for the skewers, so I ordered all kinds of lamb skewers from red willow to ordinary, and I ordered chicken wings and chicken gizzards, and the taste was not bad. In addition to grilled skewers, I ordered Naipizi according to the signboard, mixed with shallots (not available elsewhere, so be sure to eat enough), oatmeal kneading, fried instant noodles, etc. The overall taste is still very good, the quality of the food itself is good, the dishes The portion is also huge.
This time I chose to live near the Drum Tower in Yinchuan. It is located in the center of the city. It is very convenient to walk around the city within 3 kilometers. We also made a special trip to see the local Mini Tiananmen on Saturday night, haha, the similarity is 100%.
Two full days to visit Yinchuan, the itinerary is very rich, whether it is a famous scenic spot, or Yinchuan City, from sightseeing to shopping, nothing is left behind, there is plenty of time, it can be regarded as an in-depth tour, and I want to go to Yinchuan The judge, I suggest that you arrange two days is enough!
