Guizhou is a relatively late civilized province, and humanities are not its strong point; in terms of natural landscape, although there are no famous mountains and rivers, it is full of karst landforms, waterfalls, caves, canyons, and hills, which are also colorful. In November, take advantage of the fact that the scenic spots are free of tickets, and go to a party.
Fanjing Mountain has always been famous, but I drove into Guizhou from Hunan. If the first stop is to climb the mountain, the physical exertion will be too much, which will affect the follow-up itinerary. Moreover, the mountain climbing is afraid of rain, not to mention the rain, cold and muddy. Eyes full of white fog, nothing to see. So the first stop is at Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang.
I have a bad impression of Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, not just because it is a man-made attraction. After the "breaking the four olds", where are the cultural attractions in the country that are not man-made? But the man-made level is quite different. Slender West Lake in Yangzhou and Wuzhen in Zhejiang Province are both typical man-made scenic spots, while Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang is just a large KTV bar street with everything new and everything vulgar. I took a picture of "Dapeng Spreading Wings" at the viewing platform, even if I have been here:
Xiaoqikong Scenic Area is a river in a canyon. The advertising slogan is "the mountain in Zhangjiajie, the water in Jiuzhaigou". Fortunately, there are few tourists, and the mountains and rivers are radiant because of the tranquility. It would be better to live in the scenic area. If you are not afraid of being close to the water, you can also try a boat tour. Some passengers called the boatman: "Master, please introduce the scenery on both sides of the strait." what the hell!"
The Maolan Scenic Spot next to Xiaoqikong is surrounded by mountains and not well-known, but it is a hiking resort. The farmhouse I live in is run by a young local couple. The mother-in-law of the proprietress, a thin and kind old lady, took me for a two-day walk on the mountain road. The first day was a relatively simple wild karst cave traversal. The old lady probably thought I was a fragile urban white-collar worker and told me all kinds of things to know. In fact, I was a child who grew up in the mountains of Hunan. I have been used to playing since I was a child, and the mere wild karst caves are nothing to say:
The old lady said that the law and order in Guizhou was not stable in the past, and bandits and rebels looted everywhere. Villagers often went up the mountain to hide in caves. Stone walls were built in the caves. There were observation holes and gun holes for shooting on the walls. Don't dare to come in easily. In order to thank the cave gods for their blessings, they tied the stalactites in the cave with red strings and burned incense to worship them. They were also named according to the size of the stalactites as the big master, the second master, and the third master. He also bowed to this "master" three times, chanting words.
The last stop of the journey through the karst cave is called "Golden Lion Cave". The old lady said that there is no fork in the road here, so I don't need her to lead the way. There is a plum tree in her house nearby. She went to pick some plums first and let me enter the cave by myself. Watching, she came back from picking the plums and waited for me outside the cave. I went in alone, completely, completely, completely without any light, all relying on the flashlight, and outside the range of the flashlight's aperture, it was completely dark.
It was a working day, and I was the only one in the cave. I walked along the wooden plank road to the deepest part of the cave, turned off the flashlight, and melted into absolute silence and absolute darkness. Over the top of the head, water droplets dripped on the body from the top of the cave, bringing a deep coolness. I don’t know how long it took, there were a few little girls talking outside the cave, probably because the second wave of tourists came, I still turned off the flashlight, and walked out along the wooden plank road lightly, the flashlight of the tourists on the opposite side hit me, For some reason, a person suddenly came out of the darkness, screaming in fright.
When I came out of the cave, the old lady had already picked the plums and was waiting for me outside the cave. She said that I was physically strong and courageous, and suggested that I go through the Funnel Forest the next day.
At nine o'clock the next day, the old lady and I set off with water and dry food, leaning on a bamboo stick, and the proprietress took a group photo of us, as if we were climbing Mount Everest. Maybe I usually lead a group, and the tour guide fee is shared among multiple people. Today, I alone bear all the tour guide fees. The old lady was afraid that I would not be happy because I thought it was too expensive, so she talked to me all the way to warm up the scene. She said that she is from the Buyi nationality, and her living habits are not much different from those of the Han nationality. When I was three years old, I checked the conditions and character of the other party’s family, and I would let the children live in the other party’s house for a day or two every month. After getting to know each other for several years, I would get married.” “When I didn’t build roads before, I always chose With one hundred catties of rice as tuition fees, I took my children to go to school in the county for a day on the mountain road.” “My family has a cornfield in a mountain depression, why is it in a mountain depression, because it is far away from the village, and the village cadres don’t know, so there is no need to pay public grain ; But fertilization is very troublesome. Men have to pick up one hundred and fifty catties of manure buckets, and women have to pick up one hundred catties. In the field, prevent monkeys from stealing corn", "We are contracted and developed by a tourism company, we take tourists through this funnel forest, and we have to pay commissions to the company", "Now that life is better, you can make money as a tour guide In the past, it was all about farming, and when the times were bad, people starved to death. Yes, in the 1960s, many old people in our village starved to death", "Young people should be tour guides, walk fast by yourself, go to the front to play Mobile phones, tourists follow behind tremblingly, we old people, walking speed is about the same as tourists, tourists prefer", "There used to be a tourist who worked as a scout and said that he didn't need a tour guide. He went into the mountain by himself, but got lost and turned around in the mountain. After a day and a night, sometimes there was no signal on the mobile phone, and he couldn’t tell where he was when there was a signal. Then the phone ran out of battery, and the company sent more than a dozen people to rescue him, and he was carried out..." All the way rambling, walk all the way.
This old lady of the Buyi nationality is indeed a very good tour guide. The funnel forest is not easy to walk. The reason why it is called "Funnel" is because it is in a depression between mountains and there is an underground river passing by. It rained the night before yesterday. There is plenty of water, and it will gushes out from the skylight, making the depression muddy, requiring the old lady to carefully look for the footing in front. The trees were densely covered with cobwebs, and the old lady was waving a bamboo stick, dialing all the way, but I was much taller than her, so I was often covered by taller cobwebs all over my face. The so-called road is the path that the mountain people step on when they chop firewood and collect herbs. Fortunately, I have experience living in the mountains, and I have the physique of a full marathon. Although I fell a few times and was covered in muddy water, I was not injured and my speed was not affected. , easy and trouble-free. "Ah, boy, you are amazing. Before, the tourists I brought had to walk for seven or eight hours. Some of them were wrestling all the way from daylight to dark. They asked me to help them with their backpacks, and they even complained that they would never come again. It's already...", I am embarrassed to tell this old lady that at my age, in the first-tier cities, I am already a beach front wave who has been eliminated. I was even more embarrassed to tell her that I also brought a Swiss Army knife. Before entering the mountain, I sent the name of the inn I stayed in and payment records to my relatives and friends, telling them to call the police if they did not contact me within 24 hours.
The last four hours of this journey, according to the map of Gaode, totaled 12 kilometers, all through dense forests, repeatedly going up and down the mountain. When I was about to walk out of the mountains, the old lady also collected a lot of wild bracken along the way, saying that I saved her half a day, and gave me a plate of fried bacon with wild bracken in the evening, which tasted good except that it was a little sour.
After leaving Maolan, I went to Guiyang. Unlike the first-tier cities, which are plagued by plague and zombies, the people in this mountain city seem to live casually and carefully. For example, this "Sour Soup Doll" costs 20 yuan, and 20 dishes are jingled up, and there is a kind of local tyrant temperament of "eating, looking at it, looking at it with two eyes".
The next stop in Guiyang is Anshun Huangguoshu Waterfall. Although it was the rainy season when I went there, there was a severe drought in the southwest, and the waterfall was greatly reduced. There was no sense of the sound of the waterfall. Just ask for water.
The climate in Guizhou is warm in winter and cool in summer. Over the years, highways have been built and the traffic is quite convenient. Housing prices in Guiyang are also low. Now it is said that there are still houses worth 6,000 yuan. The place, I think it's still good.