Remember a trip to Chongqing

Liberation Monument, Luohan Temple, Ciqikou, Yangtze River Cableway, Hongya Cave, Chaotianmen, Cruise Ship, Foreigner Street, Nanshan Yithu, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Graffiti Street, Traffic Teahouse, Liziba, Crown Grand Escalator, Soong Ching Ling's Former Residence

On the 6 a.m. flight, we set off from Shenzhen to Chongqing with excitement.

Because the flight was at 6 o'clock, I basically didn't sleep much the night before, but it didn't matter, because I had to play, so I was as energetic as a shot of chicken blood. At 4 o'clock, we took the hotel's shuttle bus and arrived at Shenzhen Airport in about 10 minutes. Then go through the check-in formalities, check the luggage, and wait from dark until dawn. The plane takes off at 6 o'clock and departs for Chongqing.

I arrived at Jiangbei Airport at around 8 o'clock in the morning. As soon as I stepped out of the plane, it was like walking into a cold air, and I could clearly feel the drop in temperature. After getting off the plane, we went directly to the hotel we had booked. Take the subway with your heavy luggage. Being smart, we each bought a subway pass card at Jiangbei Airport Station (the card is refundable, but we forgot it when we left, so we took it home as a souvenir) to facilitate our travels in the past few days. The hotel we booked is in the city center (it is highly recommended to stay near Jiefangbei). It is very close to many attractions (Jiefangbei, Hongya Cave, Chaotianmen, Luohan Temple, etc.) and very close to Xiaoshizi Station of Metro Line 1. . As soon as I left the station, I saw the construction site and Luohan Temple under construction. We arrived at the hotel after 10 o'clock. We originally planned to lie down on the bed and take a nap, but we were told that the rooms would not be available until after 12 o'clock because the guests had not checked out yet, so we decided to put our luggage down and go downstairs to take a walk around. , have lunch.

Chongqing is a mountain city with unique terrain. The roads are rarely straight, and most of them are winding. Sometimes they go uphill and sometimes downhill. The buildings also rise and fall according to the terrain. Chongqing is the place where the Yangtze River and the Jialing River meet, surrounded by mountains and rivers and filled with outstanding people. Like other big cities, Chongqing also suffers from traffic jams. In this case of narrow roads, it is even more important to obey traffic rules.

Chongqing is also called the Fog City. As the name suggests, cloudy, cloudy days and heavy fog are frequent visitors in the sky above Chongqing. Some tourists said that after five visits to Chongqing, they only saw the sun half of the time. But we were lucky. It had been raining and foggy that day, and we finally saw the sun on the day we left.

We chose the most popular snack bar in the nearby pedestrian street. I ordered a portion of Tofu Pudding, Kelp and Wonton Skin, and Chaoshou (actually just wontons)

Personally I don’t like Tofu Pudding because it is spicy and salty. The taste is really weird. I even found it unpalatable. It suddenly felt sweet The sweet tofu curd is super delicious. But later when I went shopping, I would see people selling it everywhere, and they all had this flavor. It seemed like it was a Chongqing specialty.

The sweet potato skin tastes like potato starch, a little chewy, and the ingredients have a strong flavor of pepper oil. Chili is essential, including coriander, chopped green onion, mustard grains, bamboo shoots, etc. Your tongue will feel numb after eating it.

This is my first meal in Chongqing. After-meal feeling: spicy, numb, and my lips feel like they are beating after eating.

It is worth mentioning that when we had our first meal, we discovered a problem, that is... the language barrier! We don’t understand Chongqing dialect, and Chongqing is full of Chongqing dialect. Even if you take the initiative to speak Mandarin, sometimes some aunts and uncles who don’t understand Mandarin will still respond to you in Chongqing dialect, so it is indeed difficult to communicate. For example, the aunt asked us if we wanted chili. We were confused and didn’t know what she was talking about. Finally, a beautiful woman next to us helped translate, and we finally understood. But when we woke up and wanted to make it less spicy, the aunt had already poured a tablespoon of chili oil on it! It's too late! (?_?)

After dinner, we returned to the hotel. We could finally rest. We turned on the heating in the room and had a good sleep ZZZZZ.

In the evening, we went to a youth hostel run by a friend. Their hotel is also in Jiefangbei, very close to our hotel, at Wangfujing Outlet, on the 19th floor of the Urban Legend Building. The hotel is adjacent to the Jialing River. The unit area is quite large, with 3.4 rooms, one of which is reserved for oneself, and the others are rented out as beds. Since it is the off-season for tourism, the hotel has many long-term guests. All the beds were full the night we went, and two tents were set up in the living room. What attracts me most is that there is a large floor-to-ceiling glass window in the living room, which allows me to clearly see the night scenery of Chongqing, which is very beautiful.

The hostel is run by a couple born in the 1990s. A friend introduced him to take over the business. It must have been open for a few months. Here, because there will be tenants sharing meals together, the shopkeeper Every day I go to the nearby supermarket to buy food and cook. We are lucky enough to try the chef’s cooking skills. There are meat, vegetarian and soup. They are really delicious (compared to the spicy lunch at noon, this dinner is simply delicious) ).

After dinner, we chatted with the people at the hotel for a while. They said they thought we were only teenagers. Well, we are eighteen years old. Then we played board games together for a while and got to know two girls from Chongqing who are lively and love to create atmosphere; a girl with short hair and a wild appearance; an introverted boy from Sichuan; and a boy who traveled on a motorcycle from Guangzhou. I thought he was from other places because his Mandarin was so authentic and different from what most Cantonese people speak. Later I found out that he had left Guangzhou for half a year. I don’t know where he had been in the past six months. I only know that he went to One city is Guizhou, the next city is Yunnan...

This can be a place where stories gather.

When I was about to leave my friend’s hotel and go out for a walk, a girl from Chongqing said to me: “We don’t go out at night in Chongqing because it’s too cold. Why are you so stupid to go out?” Say firmly that you are not afraid. So after saying goodbye, we went downstairs. I regretted it as soon as I stepped out of the door. The two of them were so cold that they were shaking even when they spoke. But because we didn’t want to go back to the hotel so quickly, we arrived at Jiefangbei in the cold wind and drizzle, and it only took a few minutes to walk there.

It’s really high-end, Chongqing deserves to be called “Little Hong Kong”. Although I can't afford it, I still want to feel the atmosphere.

The next morning, we went to the nearby Luohan Temple. I won’t go into the historical background introduction, you can check it online. Anyway, it is one of the famous temples in Chongqing.

The Luohan Temple is right outside the Xiaoshizi Station. Tickets are 10 yuan and there are candles and incense next to the door that are free for each person. It should be noted that there are many fortune-telling gods at the door telling tourists fortunes. Anyway, when you get close, it looks like Bees are pestering you like that, and they keep pulling your hand to read your palm. I was pulled when I passed by, and the goddess kept pulling my hand hard. I happened to stuff my hand in my pocket and couldn't pull it out no matter how hard I tried. Later, she He simply looked at my face and told me that my face was very good. I was so frightened that I immediately turned around and walked away, thinking that I could see it even if I was wearing a mask? !

Because the road was under construction when I went there, I couldn’t get inside.

You can’t go in, so you can only take a few more angles from outside.

You can always smell the smell of Sichuan peppercorns in Chongqing’s food.

It doesn’t look like there is much chili pepper, but it’s so spicy when I eat it... My friends finished the beef with pickled peppers in one go, but I...don't mention it.

Ciqikou can be said to be a must-visit place for most tourists. When you leave the subway station, you will see a snack street and then a large archway.

When you see the big archway, you still have to walk a small way. Anyway, if you follow the flow of people, you will naturally find the correct entrance to Ciqikou.

There are shops selling Chongqing hot pot base ingredients along the road. As for which one is better, it’s up to you to judge. Anyway, I can’t eat spicy food, so I have little interest in chili peppers.

The general fare of the Yangtze River Cableway is 20 for one way and 30 for round trip. The group fare will be cheaper. If you want to save more money, you can use the Smooth Card (remember the subway card mentioned above? That’s right) , that’s it) a round-trip ride only costs 3.6 yuan during the preferential period! ! (It’s really a big difference. It costs 30 yuan in cash, but only 3.6 with an unblocked card. So whoever goes to Chongqing in the future can ask me to get an unblocked card because I forgot to return it, haha) The discount time is divided into morning and In the afternoon, we queued up at around 16:00, and after waiting for an hour (cai) we were able to ride. There was no need to queue for the return trip. If the queue hadn't been too long, we would have really planned to go back and forth on the Yangtze River again and again.

It’s really a pity that I didn’t go to Jiufen when I went to Taiwan before, because I heard that Jiufen in Taiwan is the real-life location of Spirited Away, because they are both mountain cities, Jiufen and Chongqing are more or less They are all similar places. Instead of going to Jiufen, I came to Hongya Cave to make up for myself.

And it happened to be my friend’s birthday that day, so we decided to have dinner at Hongya Cave! fire! pot! Celebrate! Not a big fan of spicy food, I decided to try it!

I have to say that although the soup base is very spicy, the ingredients are very fresh. Although it is numb when you eat it, you can also feel the umami taste of the food. Two words: delicious! O(∩_∩)O

I heard that after eating authentic Chongqing hot pot, the smell of hot pot will not remain on your body for a long time. Anyway, that night after eating, I did not feel that there was any hot pot smell on my body. Or is it just that we can’t smell ourselves?

Jiaochangkou Night Market and Haochi Street are close together, so you can go shopping together. Most of them are Chongqing snacks. Chongqing eats small noodles, hot and sour noodles, and there are a lot of hand-picked ones. Of course, you can also eat.

I remember I specifically told the guy that I didn’t want it spicy, and then he said back to me: “This is not chili.” While saying this, he put our spicy skewers in the red pepper oil. Dip! Then what I got was the cup in the picture. Okay, it seems I should say no numbing or spicy.

The noodles feel quite delicious, but they are slightly spicy.

Our hotel is a bit far away from Chaotianmen Pier. Because there is a wholesale market near Chaotianmen, there are many cars and people, and buildings are under construction, so the road is a bit difficult to walk. The night view should be good at night, but we went during the day. There will be boats at the pier to go to Foreigner Street and enjoy the night view at night. The fare to Foreigner Street is 25 round trip and 15 one way. We went to Foreigner Street one way.

After arriving at Foreigner Street, we decided to go to the next attraction immediately, because there was really nothing to see, it was just a semi-old amusement park, which was not worth going to. In the whole foreigner street, I only saw one kind of foreigner, the Indian selling flying pancakes.

We went to Nanshan Yikeshu from Didi on Foreigner Street for about 20 yuan.

Because it was a foggy day, the scenery we saw was very blurry. We waited from 4 o'clock until after 6 o'clock in order to see the night view of Chongqing.

After waiting for 2 hours, the sky finally darkened and the lights on the other side also came on.

After taking photos at the indoor observation deck, we went up to the top floor again, but it was so cold that we couldn’t feel anything in our hands, so after standing for a while, we decided to go back.

Personally, I think the night view on Nanbin Road is also very beautiful. If you don’t want to walk a long way to reach a tree, you can choose to go there, or take the light rail of Line 2 and slowly pass by Daxigou Station. Enjoy it, and you don’t have to pay for it and you don’t have to be as cold as a dog. Of course, what you can see from a tree in Nanshan is the panoramic view of Chongqing, with a panoramic view of the mountain, city and river.

After passing Line 3 and Line 1, you can visit the grand escalator and Soong Ching Ling’s former residence at Lianglukou Station.

It feels like old Chongqing, and there are still locals and tourists here