Wuliangshan Cherry Blossom Valley to Dali Shuanglang is about 200 kilometers, 3.5 hours by car, enjoying the beautiful scenery along the way and having lunch on the way, it took us nearly 5 hours to get off the expressway from Duse and travel along Huanhai East Road.
Although driving around does not have the whistling sea breeze, you can experience the scenery along the way more quietly. There are more and more people along the roadside along the lake, and there are houses with blue tiles and white walls everywhere. Hundreds of years old houses in the ancient town, quaint folk customs, and then integrated with modern humanities, a prosperous scene of ancient and modern blending.
Passing by a main temple of the Bai nationality, it is a unique place for religious activities of the Bai nationality. The main temple of the Bai nationality stands majestically, all over the Cangshan Mountain and the Erhai Lake. It has become a beautiful scenery in the Bai nationality area. A main temple is actually a religious history museum of the Bai nationality.
This is the most peaceful piece of land by the Erhai Lake, with few tourists and the lake is calm. Boating on the lake also sweeps away the busy scene of fishermen's work, and replaces it with leisurely feelings.
In the endless, wide and blue water, a small boat is rippling in the calm sea, and the fishermen are carrying out their daily fishing operations leisurely. The beautiful Erhai Lake comes into view, it is simply a beautiful picture of nature.
The longing for double corridors originated from Yang Liping's Sun Palace and Moon Palace. I dreamed that one day I would come to Erhai Lake to spend a good night with my lover, and today this wish finally came true. I set the last stop of this Yunnan trip at Shuanglang, and booked a sea view honeymoon queen room in Linhai Hotel.
Sitting on the balcony listening to the wind and watching the waves, I felt a good mood in an instant.
Our hotel is not far from the Sun Palace. After settling in, go to Yuji Island to experience it. The most beautiful scenery is on the road. The Erhai Lake on Huanhai East Road is close to the road. The lake is blue. The dead trees and aquatic plants on the shore in winter are swaying in the wind, and the lake is decorated with warm colors of gold and orange, making the winter melancholy become warm up.
This scene has a bit of the taste of Jiuzhaigou Haizi, but the dead trees in Jiuzhaigou Haizi are older, while Erhai Lake is full of youthful vitality. Cangshan Mountain is like the patron saint of Erhai Lake, and its continuous ups and downs have built a barrier.
"The scenery of Dali is in Cang'er, the scenery of Cang'er is in Shuanglang, and the scenery of Shuanglang is in Yuji." Yuji Island condenses the essence of Cang'er, with its lakes, its songs, its beaches, and its fishermen. Yuji Island, which integrates landscape bonsai, cultural landscape, historical customs and folklore, has very distinctive Bai folk houses and unique buildings.
Yuji Island is the smallest of the three islands in the Erhai Lake. It is named for its shape like a tea table, and the pronunciation of "Yuji" in Bai language is the same as that of jade bracelet. In fact, the most eye-catching history of Yuji Island should be the place where Yang Guixian, the wife of the founding emperor of Dali, became a monk.
Bai residents in Yuji Island live by fishing for generations, every family faces the water, and every household grows flowers... It is such a small fishing village of the Bai people that was originally quiet, but because artists such as Yang Liping and Yang Qing chose to build houses here. Get lively.
Obviously, the buildings on Yuji Island have become amorous. Most of them are inns and a small number of bars, cafes, and tourist shops. Although it is the off-season, it does not feel the lack of market atmosphere.
The bustling crowd is like fresh blood injected into the town at any time. Wherever it flows, there is warmth and rhythm. The pouring sun's rays, the blue and vivid Erhai Lake, and the majestic and continuous Cangshan Mountain make people sigh that there is such a bright and beautiful Time Town in this world!
Buy tickets (10 yuan per person) at the entrance of "Yubo Pavilion" on Yuji Island, and provide a Bai guide for every ten tourists. Walking through the zigzag alleyway like piercing through the cracks in the wall, most of the houses on both sides are decorated with newly renovated stone walls, powder walls and carved wooden doors, with a typical ethnic style.
Yang Liping's villa is built by the lake. But because there is no good angle, it is difficult to see the complete building, only a glimpse from a distance. It should be said that Yang Liping Villa occupies the best location on Yuji Island, where you can see the broad lake surface of Erhai Lake, and the majestic Cangshan Mountain is opposite Erhai Lake.
The Sun Palace is at the front of the island. A huge arc-shaped moon gate, like a small bridge or a rainbow shadow, gently falls on the edge of the island. It looks like the main entrance of the Sun Palace, but it is actually an open-air balcony.
There are Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake, as well as wind, flowers, snow and moon. Lazy, slow, fresh, quiet. Under the big green tree, listening to the sea and listening to the wind, it is so beautiful.
Walking past Yang Liping Villa, passing a line of sky, we arrived at Yang Liping Art Hotel. The hotel has floor-to-ceiling windows facing the lake, but because of the location and angle of the hotel, it is difficult to take a panoramic view, so we can barely take a side photo of the hotel.
The adjacent "green house" is built on the rocks of the lakeside cliffs, facing the bay. On the cliff at the foot of the house, there are three big characters "Golden Dragon Cave" engraved on it. On the stone wall next to it grows an ancient tree of Huangge, which is nearly two hundred years old. The walls of the Qinglu are leaning against the tree, and part of the wall is even embedded in the tree trunk.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Du Wenxiu, a peasant uprising army, once set up a navy barracks on Yuji Island, and set up a military facility here - a fort, to guard the island. After years of vicissitudes, the ruins were left behind and became Yuji Island overlooking Cangshan Mountain. The best place for the scenery of the Nineteen Peaks and the Erhai Lake in front of you.
The most eye-catching history of Yuji Island is the place where Yang Guixian, the wife of the founding emperor of Dali, became a monk and practiced. The thousand-year-old "Yuji Temple" still exists at the southern end of the island.
Most of the people on Yuji Island have the surname Zhao, which originated from the fishermen with the surname Zhao who began to settle on the island during the reign of Emperor Qianlong. There is a "Zhao Ancestral Hall" built on the village square on Yuji Island.
Watching the sunset on Yuji Island is a romantic thing, because Cangshan Mountain is to the west of Shuanglang, only the sunset will fall on the side of Cangshan Mountain.
As evening comes, the sun gradually changes from orange to red. Under the projection of the sun's rays, the white clouds change their colors. Large clusters of clouds are pierced by sunlight, and the effect of backlighting makes the clouds dark, while the light scattered from the sides and gaps of the clouds is like the beam of a flashlight, piercing the soft atrium of Erhai Lake like a sharp blade. In an instant, the light was broken and turned into a piece of golden light, touching the Erhai Lake affectionately.
The small piece of cloud above the setting sun is like translucent amber at this time, spreading out in the deep blue sky... Is there any place more suitable for vows of eternal love and love for life than here?
Enjoying the sunset in Cangshan Mountain,
And wait for the moon in the Erhai Lake to be like a hook.
Strolling on Yuji Island, roadside hawkers are still selling fried fish and shrimp, potatoes and other local specialties in the cold wind, and all kinds of tourist products are full of shops and roadsides.
Back at the hotel, I ordered local specialties in a nearby restaurant, and had it delivered to the room, and had meals on the balcony while watching the moon.
Colorful tour for two,
The moon in Erhai Lake is like a hook.
Facing the wind to drink tea,
Startled the gulls in the sea.
Not only did I see the most beautiful sunset in Shuanglang, but I also saw the best starry sky in Shuanglang. Without professional equipment, I couldn’t take pictures. I haven’t seen such a bright starry sky for many years.
Wake up to the sound of birdsong in the morning, lie in bed and watch the sunrise, and enjoy the days when you are gently awakened by the fine sunshine. There are beautiful scenery and pleasant time here.
Sitting in the hanging basket on the balcony, facing the Erhai Lake, closing your eyes, the sun is hitting the eyelids, the eyes are full of red, and the warmth spreads from the bottom of the eyes to the whole body, leaving the troubles of the world behind. Relax your body, empty your head, and think about nothing at this time...
Continue to drive around the Erhai Lake, the cool sea breeze along the way, not salty but refreshing, galloping against the wind, what you hear is the wind that cleanses the soul, and the voice of my heart that has been accumulated for many months.
No matter why you came to this pure land, at this moment, there is only relaxation and emptiness, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, the smile of the fixed pattern, and the false grace. leave here.
When you pass by a hotel facing the sea, you will suddenly feel that you are in another world, with sunshine, huts, terraces, and waves, and you will feel that it is worthwhile to go here.
When you lie down on the deck chair on the seaside terrace, the whole world seems to melt, and time freezes. At this moment, only the warm sun shines on your body, the sea breeze gently blows your hair, and you close your eyes to listen to the sound of the waves. You can smell the laziness in the sound and the air, and you will sigh involuntarily, this is life.
Whenever you arrive in Dali, Shuanglang is a place you have to go. Shuanglang is named because there is a dill song in the north, a lotus song in the south, and Jinsuo and Yuji islands in front of it, so it is named Shuanglang.
The leisure square by the Erhai Lake is located in the administrative center of the town. The majestic ancient buildings with carved beams and painted buildings stand majestically. Fishermen leisurely fish on the sea, relax and exercise, walk their dogs, and take a rest on the promenade... All these scenes are integrated into one, It constitutes a natural and peaceful market.
This town is not too big, with a small street running through both ends, one street with two rows of shops, old and new buildings intertwined.
There are many street stalls, and most of the products are silver jewelry, spaghetti bracelets, yak bone ornaments, bamboo terracotta containers, aquatic fish and mussels, bait silk milk fans and so on.
Of course, when you have seen enough of these scenes, don’t forget to take your lover’s hand and take a leisurely walk on the streets of Shuanglang Town. Compared with the unique style of hotel decoration, the street scene full of folk customs is actually more grounded. After going through those beautiful and romantic journeys, holding the lover’s hand and going to the street to eat a bowl of bait, buy a piece of tie-dyed cloth, and quietly listen to the very friendly dialect conversations of the local people, it is more of a firework flavor of life.
Living in the double corridors of the Erhai Lake, you can watch the sea on the Erhai Lake during the day and look up at the starry sky at night; you can ride a bicycle on the side of the road, row a boat on the sea freely, or find a pavilion to sit down and read at ease; of course, the simplest The most important thing is to bask in the sun, listen to the wind and be in a daze...
Before leaving, I had a wonderful fish feast with sea view at the Erhai Lake, and both the touch and the taste reached the most comfortable state.
If you give me a jade hairpin, I will have long hair for you.
Wash away all the lead, and from then on, the sun will fade away.
In a daze, watching the sea view, basking in the sun. Gentle breeze, warm sunshine, blue sky and infinite natural scene. The Erhai Lake is like a mirror, and the space is picturesque. The Sea of Love is definitely worth your visit!
In the cold and depressed winter, the north is either shrouded in smog, or the wind is biting, and the weather is harsh. But in the south of the beautiful colorful clouds, there is still clear water and blue sky, warm and sunny. The hot warmth spread from the bottom of the eyes to the whole body. At this moment, he didn't think about anything, and left the troubles in the world behind. Goodbye, Caiyunzhinan, we will come again! Looking forward to one day we will walk through the four seasons of Dali together and watch the morning and dusk of Erhai Lake.
When we got home at 11:30 in the evening, our daughter drove to the station to pick us up. Another unforgettable journey ended perfectly. This trip to Yunnan not only saw the beautiful scenery but also tasted local specialties. Lijiang’s cured pork ribs hot pot, Lugu Lake’s delicious matsutake stewed chicken, matsutake stewed lake fish, Naxi grilled fish, ginkgo fruit stewed chicken in Ginkgo Village, Dajiujia, gingko flower scrambled eggs, shredded bait, Wuliangshan silky chicken Ham boiled chicken, Erhai hot and sour fish, yellow braised chicken, etc. It should be said that only food, beauty and love can not be let down.