Guizhou Xingyi and Liupanshui tour in July 2020

At the beginning of 2020, a sudden outbreak of new coronary pneumonia disrupted the whole world. The Chinese people are united and united. After half a year of fighting against the epidemic, they have won a great victory. After staying at home for more than half a year, it is finally open to allow inter-provincial travel. On July 10, our husband and wife flew from Guangzhou to Xingyi City, Guizhou, and started our trip in Qianxinan.

Day 1: Guangzhou - Xingyi

Take flight CZ3923 of China Southern Airlines, take off from Guangzhou at 17:05, arrive in Xingyi at 19:10, pick up the hotel for free, and check in at the hotel.
Accommodation: Xingyi Fenglin Yueshan Hotel

When checking in at the airport, in addition to checking the passenger's own Guangzhou health code, he must also log in to obtain the health code of the destination Guizhou.

Xingyi Airport

After a 1:40 flight, the plane landed at Guizhou Xingyi Airport.

Xingyi Airport

Xingyi City is the second largest city in Guizhou Province and the capital of the Miao and Buyi Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest Guizhou. It is located at the junction of Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. The Nanpan River runs across the city, and has always been the commercial distribution center and thoroughfare fortress at the intersection of the three provinces, known as the "Three Provinces Thoroughfare". Xingyi City has beautiful mountains and rivers and a pleasant climate. It belongs to a low-latitude high-altitude zone and has the characteristics of a subtropical monsoon climate. There is no severe heat in summer, no severe cold in winter, abundant rainfall and long sunshine. The annual average temperature is 14-19°C, making it a good place to escape the heat in summer.

Xingyi Airport

We booked the hotel through the Internet before our departure, and we have arranged for this Mercedes-Benz station wagon to pick us up at the airport

Xingyi

The Fenglin Yueshan Hotel we stayed in is located on the mountainside next to Wanfenglin Scenic Area. It has a very good location and beautiful scenery. The facilities and equipment of the hotel are also good.

Xingyi

You can enjoy the view of Wanfenglin from the hotel rooms and balconies.

Xingyi

Fruit snacks provided by the hotel

Day 2: Xingyi

After breakfast at the hotel, take Didi to Wanfenglin Scenic Area, and take a tour bus to see Wanfenglin. After lunch, take Didi to Malinghe Canyon, and take the elevator down to the edge of the canyon. After the tour, drop off again to the hotel in the city.
Accommodation: Xingyi Guolong Argyle Hotel

Xingyi

The hotel's buffet breakfast is relatively rich, and it is pleasant to enjoy it outdoors, with the fragrance of birds and flowers.

Xingyi

The breakfast is very good, especially the mutton powder is very delicious

Xingyi

The hotel is on the mountainside, the scenery is beautiful

Xingyi

The Xingyi International Convention and Exhibition Center is located next to the hotel. This is also a good place to overlook Wanfenglin.

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

After breakfast at the hotel, we checked out, took our luggage and took a Didi car to Wanfenglin Scenic Area. Before July 31, all tourist attractions in Guizhou Province are open to tourists free of tickets. There are self-service storage cabinets in the tourist service center, and you can scan the code to store your bags.

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

Wanfeng Forest is a national AAAA-level scenic spot, with "strange mountains, beautiful waters, beautiful rocks, and unique seams", and is known as "the garden on earth set by God".

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

To visit Wanfeng Forest, you can take the environmentally friendly sightseeing car in the park, 50 yuan per person, or you can walk around.

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

Wanfenglin has many mountains and beautiful scenery, like a bonsai.

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

Bagua fields in the scenic area.

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

"Fu" field

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

Xingyi Ethnic Museum in Wanfenglin Scenic Area.

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

Take an environmentally friendly sightseeing car to go around the scenic spot. The main scenic spots will stop, let tourists get off the car to take pictures, and visit the museum together. It takes about two hours.

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

The General Bridge next to the gate of the scenic spot is a place for tourists to eat and shop.

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

There are many small restaurants around Jiangjun Bridge, and the signature of all the restaurants here is "egg fried rice".

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

After visiting the Wanfenglin Scenic Area, we took Didi to visit the Damaling River Canyon Scenic Area. The Maling River Canyon is a national scenic spot, located 6 kilometers northeast of Xingyi City. The Maling River originates from Baiguoling in the Wumeng Mountains. river.

Maling River Canyon Scenic Area

The height of the Malinghe Canyon High Sky Ladder is more than 70 meters. It is the second highest elevator in China after Zhangjiajie. Due to the discount during the epidemic, the upper and lower elevators are 40 yuan per person.

Maling River Canyon Scenic Area

In the process of about 100 kilometers long from the source to the mouth of the Maling River Canyon, the drop is nearly a thousand meters, and the cutting ability is strong. It is 74.8 kilometers long, 50-150 meters wide and 120 meters deep. -280 meters of Maling River Canyon. Many tributaries on both sides of the strait lag behind the mainstream due to the downward cutting speed, forming hundreds of waterfalls with a height of more than 100 meters and falling into the deep valley.

Maling River Canyon Scenic Area

The Maling River Canyon is a concentrated expression of the multi-layered karst landform landscape, and is famous for its crevices and valleys, hanging waterfalls and calcium carbonate walls. Its landform structure is different from ordinary canyons. It is actually a ground fissure, which has become the most beautiful scar on the earth. It is this rare seam in the world that creates the majestic, strange, dangerous and precipitous landscape of the Maling River Canyon Scenic Area, which is very conducive to rafting exploration and sightseeing activities. The China International Kayak Rafting Competition was held here.

Maling River Canyon Scenic Area

Xingyi

Stay at the Guolong Argyle Hotel in the center of the old town of Xingyi City that night

Xingyi

Guolong Accord Hotel is known as "five-star", and the hotel facilities and equipment are not bad.

Xingyi

From the guest rooms on the 20th floor of the hotel overlooking the old town of Xingyi City.

Xingyi

Opposite the hotel is the Financial Street in the old city of Xingyi City.

Day 3: Xingyi

It was raining all the time in the morning, and I ate a local delicacy at noon - Tangpiwang beef, which was delicious. Then visit Liu's Manor and Guizhou Ethnic Wedding Customs Museum.
Accommodation: Xingyi Guolong Argyle Hotel

Xingyi

This hot pot restaurant with hot skin beef is good, the price is affordable, and the portions are generous. I ordered a catty of cooked and sliced beef with skin, tripe, beef intestines, including hot pot with vegetables, all for 82 yuan, and the two of us couldn’t finish it .

Xingyi

The soft and rotten boiled beef with skin and offal taste very good, and it is comfortable and happy to eat.

Liu's Manor

Yongkang Fort is located in Xiawutun Street in the south of Xingyi City, Guizhou Province. It is the largest "Tunbao" style landlord and warlord building complex in China. Consisting of 13 large and small courtyard houses combining Chinese and Western styles, it is 360 meters long from north to south and 130 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of 70 mu. Supervise the former residence of Liu Xianqian. It is now the Xingyi Liu's Manor Museum.

Liu's Manor

Liu's Manor was first built in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, and it began to take shape in the same period. As the Liu family continued to grow and prosper, the building also continued to expand. During the period of the Republic of China, large-scale construction was carried out, making it the largest private manor in the province. Existing Zhongyi Shrine, Flower Hall, Study, Liu Xianqian's living room, family temple, Xiaochangba, part of the city wall, a gun tower and a French-style building. Liu's Manor is magnificent, and the main building has basically kept its original appearance so far. In June 1983, the Xingyi County People's Government announced Liu's Manor as a county-level cultural relic protection unit; in November 1985, the Guizhou Provincial People's Government announced it as a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit.

Liu's Manor

Guizhou Ethnic Wedding Customs Museum

The "Guizhou Ethnic Marriage Customs Museum" built using part of the building of Liu's Manor is now the only ethnic minority wedding custom museum in the country.

Guizhou Ethnic Wedding Customs Museum

Guizhou Ethnic Wedding Customs Museum Day 4: Xingyi--Liupanshui

At Xingyi West Passenger Station, take a passenger bus (100 yuan/person) at 10:50 and arrive at Liupanshui South Passenger Station at 14:00. Transfer to the hotel next to the ancient town of Shuicheng in the city and visit the ancient town of Shuicheng
Accommodation: Vienna Hotel (Liupanshui Shuicheng Guzhen Branch)

Xingyi

Take the bus from Xingyi Bus Terminal to Liupanshui City, the fare is 100 yuan/person.

All the way at high speed, passing through the mountains and mountains.

Liupanshui

The bus travels for about three hours to Liupanshui City Passenger Transport North Station, and then takes Didi to the hotel on the edge of the old city in the urban area.

Liupanshui

Shuicheng Ancient Town

Liupanshui is located in the west of Guizhou. The name of the city comes from the first characters of the three special zones of Liuzhi, Panxian and Shuicheng. It is a young industrial city born of the "third-line construction". The city's hot summer monthly average temperature is only 19.7 ℃, and the climate is pleasant. It is a paradise for summer and summer. In 2005, it was reviewed by relevant experts in China's meteorology and became the first urban brand built with climate resources in the country, nicknamed "China's cool capital".

Shuicheng Ancient Town

Liupanshui is a young industrial city born out of the "third-line construction". The third-line construction refers to the large-scale construction of national defense, science and technology, industry and transportation infrastructure in 13 provinces and autonomous regions in the central and western regions of China since 1964. The construction of the third front was a very large-scale industrial relocation process in the economic history of China. Due to the social and economic backwardness of the third-tier areas, the established enterprises encountered difficulties in their operation and development for a long period of time, but the third-tier construction also made great contributions to the industrialization of the central and western regions of China.

Shuicheng Ancient Town

In 1964, Chairman Mao personally led, directed and organized the deployment of the "Third Front Construction" work, and built a large number of industrial bases in the Southwest, which drove the economic development of the Southwest, and also achieved and benefited Liupanshui. The Third Front Construction left a deep impression on Liupanshui. Deep imprint.

Shuicheng Ancient Town

Liupanshui was selected as the location for the third-line Southwest Coal Mine Headquarters, and some buildings were requisitioned in the ancient town of Shuicheng as the office space for the headquarters, preserving many precious relics for the ancient town.

Shuicheng Ancient Town

Not long after the third-line construction started, it entered a period of ten years, and the buildings of the ancient town left many imprints of that period.

Liupanshui

Tried dry pot beef for dinner.

Shuicheng Ancient Town

The ancient town of Shuicheng in Liupanshui City has been refurbished after being repaired as old as the old protective construction, and has become a famous tourist attraction in Liupanshui.

Shuicheng Ancient Town

The buildings in the ancient town are gray tiles and blue bricks, bucket arches and cornices, small bridges and flowing water, which are very charming.

Shuicheng Ancient Town

Shuicheng Ancient Town Day 5: Liupanshui

Take a taxi to Minghu National Wetland Park, and then take a Didi to the entrance of the cableway at the Meihua Mountain Scenic Spot of the Teachers College, and take the cableway (118 yuan/person for a round trip) to visit the Meihua Mountain Scenic Spot.
Accommodation: Vienna Hotel (Liupanshui Shuicheng Guzhen Branch)

Minghu National Wetland Park

Minghu National Wetland Park is located in the west of the downtown area of Liupanshui. It is a landmark building at the west exit of Liupanshui City. Minghu Wetland Park is the first national wetland park in Guizhou Province.

Minghu National Wetland Park

Plum Blossom Mountain Tourist Scenic Spot

Liupanshui is the most famous tourist attraction, Meihuashan Scenic Area. This is the starting point of the mountaineering and cable car division of the scenic spot. Due to the remote location, there are no buses or taxis for the last three kilometers to this site.

Plum Blossom Mountain Tourist Scenic Spot

The total length of the Meihuashan cableway is 9.91 kilometers, and it is currently the longest mountain cableway with the same path in the world, with a one-way run of about 50 minutes. The vertical height difference between the starting point and the ending point is 620 meters, with a single-hour transportation capacity of 1,500 people and a daily transportation volume of 12,000 times. It is a mountain-type tourist cableway integrating sightseeing, sightseeing and entertainment. The round-trip fare for the cableway is 118 yuan per person.

Plum Blossom Mountain Tourist Scenic Spot

The Meihuashan cableway runs through the Meihuashan scenic spot. When tourists take the cable car, they pass through multiple landscapes such as cities, wetlands, lakes, canyons, and mountains along the way. The natural and cultural landscapes of Liupanshui, the "Cool Capital of China", can be seen at a glance.

Plum Blossom Mountain Tourist Scenic Spot

It takes about 30 minutes to take the Meihuashan cableway to the transfer point halfway. Tourists have to walk a few hundred meters down and then transfer to the cable car to continue up the mountain. This is an intermediate transfer station.

Plum Blossom Mountain Tourist Scenic Spot

Meihua Mountain is an international eco-leisure resort project focused on in Liupanshui, the cool capital of China. The total area of the planned scenic spot is about 98 square kilometers. Combining the unique tourism resources of Meihua Mountain, Meihua Mountain will create an ice and snow and sub-plateau outdoor sports area , urban ecological leisure area, mountain lakeside resort town, alpine forest protection tourism area, religious and cultural tourism experience area, geological park tourism experience area, world Meihuashan cultural tourism experience area, rural cultural eco-tourism area and other eight functional tourism areas.

Plum Blossom Mountain Tourist Scenic Spot

After boarding the terminal of the cable car on Meihua Mountain, take an environmentally friendly sightseeing car and drive for 4 kilometers to reach Meihuaping Scenic Area. The round trip of the environmental car is 20 yuan per person.

Plum Blossom Mountain Tourist Scenic Spot

The highest building in Meihuaping Scenic Area is a spherical sightseeing restaurant. Although the restaurant has long been closed and deserted, it is the best place to climb high and look far.

Plum Blossom Mountain Tourist Scenic Spot

It took about two hours to take the cable car back and forth, and people were dizzy. In fact, if you drive by yourself, it is also a good choice to drive directly to the top of the mountain, which is cheaper than taking the cable car.

Plum Blossom Mountain Tourist Scenic Spot

Liupanshui

Liupanshui regards the history, culture and glorious tradition of "Three-line Construction" as an important part of urban construction and development, and has preserved many historical relics of the third-line construction. Based on the concept, through cultural forms such as painting, sculpture, and cultural relics display, a public leisure corridor park has been created that highlights the history and culture of the third-line construction, national folk culture, and party building culture.

Liupanshui

Old-fashioned steam locomotives and green leather carriages are displayed by the river and transformed into bars and clubs.

Liupanshui

Old-fashioned Jiefang trucks and old-fashioned buses have been transformed into a bar-style street.

Liupanshui

Fengchi Garden

Fengchi Garden is located next to the ancient city of Shuicheng in the center of the urban area.

Fengchi Garden

Fengchi is one of the famous "Three Lakes and Three Ponds" in Liupanshui. It is located in the center of the city.

Fengchi Garden

Liupanshui

In the evening, at Fengchi Square, drums and music were playing, and people were thronging. The square dancing and folk dancing were hot and lively.

Liupanshui

Shuicheng Ancient Town

There are many wine shops in the ancient town of Shuicheng, the lights are just on, the seats are full of guests, and the business is booming. The impact of the epidemic can no longer be seen.

Shuicheng Ancient Town

Shuicheng Ancient Town Day 6: Liupanshui

Visit Fengchi Garden and the Guizhou Third-Line Proposal Museum in Shuicheng Ancient Town, and walk along the Third-Line Cultural Corridor.
Accommodation: Vienna Hotel (Liupanshui Shuicheng Guzhen Branch)