[In summer, you should go to a cool place to play]
This year's summer is not generally hot, but very hot. The temperature in more than a dozen provinces and cities across the country has approached or exceeded 40 degrees. And such hot and sunny weather will continue for some time.
When you are being screened by the high temperature everywhere, have you considered escaping this reinforced concrete sauna-like city and looking for a refreshing and pleasant vacation place?
Go to Guizhou for summer vacation and Danzhai for vacation. As a hidden paradise in the southeast of Guizhou—Danzhai in the Clouds, it has a cool temperature in summer and colorful cultural scenery. I decided to enter Danzhai Wanda Tourist Town at this time to enjoy the beautiful scenery and visit the Miao and Dong customs. Feel the cool time here.
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【Know Danzhai Wanda Town】
Danzhai Wanda Town is located on the bank of East Lake in Danzhai County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province.
It is a cultural tourism town that Wanda Group features Miao and Dong minority buildings and integrates the protection, inheritance and experience of intangible cultural heritage, integrating production, city, scenery, culture and travel business.
The town has a total length of 1.5 kilometers and a total construction area of over 50,000 square meters. The town is composed of three cultural tourism commercial streets and four major national cultural squares. It has introduced a number of national and dozens of provincial intangible cultural heritage projects from Danzhai County, and has gathered the essence of Danzhai's intangible cultural heritage.
When you come to the town, you can enjoy the scenery and delicious food, learn and make intangible cultural heritage items, learn about Dong and Miao culture, and have fun.
[Four major squares, three major commercial streets]
Danzhai Wanda Town connects Birdcage Mountain, Birdcage Museum, Kara Culture Village, and viewing platform with the town through ancient bridges, suspension bridges, and trails. The interconnection of scenic spots and landscapes makes the town form an overall integrated tourism feature.
There are four squares here, which are divided into "Golden Pheasant Square", "Yougong Square", "Ancient Building Square" and "Miao Nian Square". The uniqueness of the design of the four squares in Danzhai Town is that each square has a corresponding theme selected to reflect the life scenes of Miao residents in different festivals and occasions. Whenever the local ethnic festivals, every square is full of excitement and excitement.
Taking a taxi from the county to the town usually stops at Yougong Square, which is named after the background legend of Chi You, the ancestor of the Miao nationality. The first thing that catches the eye is the 8 characteristic totem poles of the Miao nationality on both sides of the road. Inheriting the silver hat ornaments of the Miao nationality made by handmade craftsmen, highlighting the welcome to guests from afar.
Every morning from 10:30 to 11:00, the local brothers and sisters will sing and play the lusheng, and they will perform the highest etiquette of Miao people to welcome guests - 12 bars of wine to welcome guests from all over the world.
Usually, there will be welcome ceremonies, Dong folk songs, folk performances and other performances in various squares, allowing tourists to participate and welcome guests.
Accompanied by boys, danced by girls, songs, dances, musical instruments, uniform and bright costumes, sparkling Miao costumes with crisp voices, this kind of folk song and dance can instantly ignite the enthusiasm around and make everyone involved excited.
The town has abundant sports research resources, including a running track around the lake, a sports park, a basketball court, and an expansion camp. It also has professional kayaking research courses, which can be used for healthy running around the lake, summer kayaking research trips, and fun sports games. and other research activities.
In the newly built sports park, there are basketball, rock climbing and other items to experience. If you are on vacation or a short stay in a small town, this sports playground is a good choice for exercising. The venue here has a large area and complete indoor facilities. It is also very suitable for research activities or company team building.
On the bank of the East Lake in Wanda Town, Danzhai, there is also a starry sky tent camp. There are lakesides, grasslands, and woods, all of which are very comfortable.
On the green grass, set up a canopy and a tent, cook a delicious meal, and play to your heart's content. Sitting in the forest, taking a short rest with the breeze, everything slows down. Make a pot of tea and wait for the evening to fall.
There are also Inner Street and Lakeside Bar Street in the scenic area. The inner street is a commercial and cultural pedestrian street, paved with bluestone slabs, and divided by the square from south to north into three sections: "Yougong Street, Sister Street, and Miao Street". The Lakeside Bar Street is a waterfront characteristic bar street designed by taking advantage of the East Lake waterfront and combining the hanging floors of traditional stilted buildings.
Strolling in the inner streets during the day, shopping to learn about intangible cultural heritage, at night, the Starry Sky Night Market Street is definitely a supper feast in terms of vision, hearing and taste. The town is brightly lit, and tourists come to the night market street to check in, taste delicious food, and buy cultural and creative products.
【Eat in Danzhai】
The streets of the town are full of various shops and special delicacies. Walking on such streets will make your mouth water. All kinds of bacon and sausages on the street have an attractive aroma, which is a delicacy with local characteristics.
There are rich minority cultures here, and at the same time, it has also bred a variety of unique and diverse cuisines, which can be described as a state of cuisines. And Danzhai Wanda Town is undoubtedly one of the gathering places of Qiandongnan cuisine. King fish, fish in sour soup, local gamecock and spicy chicken are all very popular specialties... Enter Danzhai, fill in Fill the stomach of foodie, satisfy the heart of foodie!
Recommended: Miao Township Dong Village, Anong Miao Village, Kara Hero Cockfighting Hall.
【Play in Danzhai】
Danzhai County has a rich intangible cultural heritage culture, but a county with a population of only 130,000 has 8 national-level intangible cultural heritage items and 22 provincial-level intangible cultural heritage items.
In the small town, you can experience batik experience, ancient papermaking, birdcage making, Miao embroidery experience, reed making, Miao language and Miao song teaching, etc.
Here you can personally experience the process of making intangible cultural heritage crafts and make your own unique handicrafts.
The batik experience hall can be seen everywhere here, where you can learn about the traditional batik skills of the Miao nationality, learn batik painting, experience the charm of the intangible cultural heritage handicraft skills of the Miao nationality, and feel the traditional culture of the Miao nationality in Guizhou.
Dip the melted wax with a wax knife and create encaustic paintings on the fabric. After the wax painting is made, it goes through processes such as bleaching and dyeing, dewaxing, rinsing, etc., and finally the dyed fabric is dried in the air, and a batik product is completed.
The ancient method of papermaking uses the local rich twig bark and fir roots to make white paper, and can also be used to knead flowers and other patterns. The paper is white, flexible, tensile, flat, and water-absorbent. It can be preserved for thousands of years. It is a masterpiece of calligraphy and painting. The best paper for the work.
The town takes the protection of intangible cultural heritage handicrafts as the starting point. While exhibiting "papermaking" products and production techniques, through experience and interaction, it inherits the thousand-year-old ancient papermaking art and allows children to participate in it by themselves. DIY flower and grass paper is a must for students to study intangible cultural heritage. ideas.
After you come to Wanda Town, you don’t need to go to Kara Village. You can learn how to make birdcages in the birdcage yard here, and DIY it by yourself. After you make it, you don’t have to worry about how to take it away. The store will mail it back for you.
Intangible cultural heritage Miao embroidery is known as "the epic worn on the body". The Miao embroidery is exquisite and has a variety of styles. You will be shocked by its beauty when you see it with your own eyes.
Located in the exhibition area of the Oudonghua Intangible Heritage Miao Embroidery Museum store, there are Miao embroidery collections waiting for you to explore. You can also experience Miao embroidery skills and make simple and beautiful Miao embroidery crafts under the guidance of craftsmen. This meaningful travel gift is not to be missed!
In the small town, in addition to the study of intangible cultural heritage, there are also some entertainment projects that should not be missed.
The glass suspension bridge above the East Lake has a total length of 320 meters and a vertical height of 49 meters. The long bridge is named "Nayou", named after the heroine "Nayou" in the love story between Nayou and Bayou Zhongzhen in the legend of the Miao nationality. The bridge is transparent and is currently the longest glass bridge in Southeast Guizhou.
The deck of the glass bridge is all paved with transparent glass, and under the glass deck is a 100-meter cliff. Tourists can enjoy the scenery in 360 degrees. Standing on the bridge, you can see the blue sky and white clouds above your head, and the beautiful scenery of East Lake under your feet. Looking around, you can have a panoramic view of the scenery around Danzhai. With the breeze blowing on your face, the intoxicating scenery of Danzhai makes you feel refreshed.
Cliff swing is an extreme thrilling sport on the edge of a cliff. The seat of the swing is pulled to the inside of the cliff at a height of 10 meters by the electric suction iron. The suction iron is suddenly released, and the long swing swings out of the cliff in an instant, which brings people a stimulating feeling.
If you like water sports, trapeze, water sofas, motor boats, you can also try it out.
Take a bamboo raft tour of East Lake to enjoy the intangible cultural heritage unique bamboo rafting performance, experience ethnic customs, watch the world's largest waterwheel, encounter Egret Bay, bamboo raft sightseeing, night tour of East Lake, bamboo raft galloping on the magnificent East Lake, and enjoy the scenery of Wanda Town between.
Now during the summer vacation, there is Wanda Ice and Snow World in Danzhai Wanda Town. The entrance fee is only 2 yuan, which is not even enough for air conditioning.
Here, big friends and children can feel the world of ice and snow. You can have snowball fights and build snowmen here. If you have time, you must come to experience the joy of ice and snow at minus 15 degrees.
【Accommodation recommendation】
Danzhai Wanda Jinhua Hot Spring Hotel is built near the water, with a wide field of vision, and the Miao-style architecture embellishes the landscape environment here. Thanks to the natural hot spring water source 2,800 meters underground in Danzhai Longquan Mountain, it is unique and even more It is a gift of nature.
The hotel also has a hot spring center, divided into indoor hot spring area and outdoor hot spring area, covering 38 bubble pools, multi-functional rest areas and various entertainment and leisure facilities, which can accommodate 600 people to experience hot springs at the same time. The design of the bubble pool is ingeniously combined with the natural landscape of East Lake, and the landscape is the same, making the hot spring experience more unique.
Soak in a hot spring here, fade away the fatigue of the journey, sleep in beautifully, and feel refreshed and refreshed.
The hotel facilities are very complete, and the vegetation and greening are well done, which fits the atmosphere of leisure and vacation here.
In addition, as famous as Jinhua Hot Spring Hotel, there is Danzhai Wanda Meihua Hotel, which is a hotel with unique Miao characteristics. The hotel integrates Danzhai's local batik art, birdcage culture, ancient papermaking and century-old golden pheasant The essence of intangible cultural heritage such as dance elements, and through Chinese-style wooden flower carvings and Miao-style decorations, delicately convey the local customs and cultural heritage.
If you come to Danzhai, it is worth your stay experience.
Of course, prosperity depends on people, and there are many homestays and inns to choose from in the town. They are built on the street, quiet in the middle of the noise, and you can live in and feel the quiet night of the town!
[Traffic in Danzhai Town]
Danzhai is located in the center of the golden triangle of Guizhou tourism'Huangguoshu, Libo, and Xijiang'. The rich tourism resources and convenient transportation routes make the town a distribution hub that radiates Guizhou and links surrounding scenic spots. It truly realizes "living in Danzhai". Visit Guizhou".
1. Several routes across the country arrive at Guiyang Longdongbao Airport and Kaili Huangping Airport. After leaving Guiyang Longdongbao Airport, you can transfer at the airport hub, Guiyang North Station, and Guiyang East Passenger Terminal. After leaving Kaili Huangping Airport, the passenger car arrives at Kaili Then change passenger car to Danzhai, or drive to Danzhai by yourself.
2. The high-speed rail stations that are closer to Danzhai are: Kaili South Station (Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway), Duyun East Station, and Sandu County Station (Gui-Guangzhou High-speed Railway). After exiting the above high-speed rail stations, change passenger cars or drive to Danzhai stronghold.
3. Passengers can go directly to Danzhai at the following locations: Guiyang East Passenger Station, Kailizhou Linqi Passenger Station, Duyun Passenger Station Terminal, Sandu Pu'an High-speed Railway Station Gate, Leishan Passenger Station, Majiang Passenger Station.
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