Guide to free travel in Erhai Lake

Erhai Lake is a very famous inland tourist attraction, located in Yunnan Province, where the natural ecosystem is perfect and many small islands are also places that tourists must visit. In fact, this is just a big inland lake. Let's share with you the free travel strategy of Erhai Lake.

I didn't go anywhere this National Day, but I went back to my hometown-Dali, and climbed Cangshan Mountain and swam Erhai Lake with my family. Although I grew up there, I lived in that small city for nearly 20 years. But there are never enough mountains and water there. I have been to many places over the years, but my favorite is my hometown Dali. Delicious food, beautiful scenery, suitable climate, rich humanities, beautiful local accent and warm family.

Driving around Erhai Lake is something I do every time I go back to my hometown. Although the weather is not very good this holiday, we can't see the unique blue sky and white clouds in Dali, but it doesn't affect our interest in surrounding the sea at all.

In the drizzling rain, we started from Shimonoseki, went to Shuanglang Town in the upper reaches of Erhai Lake along the Panshan Highway around the sea, prepared to have lunch at Benyuan in Shuanglang Jindao, then went back to Zhoucheng, butterfly spring to eat cold bean powder, then went back to Xizhou Town to buy Xizhou Baba, then went all the way back to Yangjia Garden in the ancient city to eat hot and sour fish, and then went to Erhaiyue Wetland Park to watch the music fountain performance in the evening.

The picture comes from the internet.

Along the highway around the sea in journey to the south, Erhai Lake slowly unfolds like a long scroll. Listening to music and looking at Erhai Lake in front of me, I feel that many childhood memories have popped up again.

When I was very young, I often went fishing with my father at the seaside, squatting on the rocks on the shore with a fishing line more than half a meter long, waiting for the little stone fish to bite.

The water is so clear that you can see the little fish's every move in the crevices. As soon as you see the little fish swallowing the earthworm's tail, you need to pull the line quickly, and the little fish will never run away.

Rock fish is stupid, even if it is lifted off the water, it will not let go, so it is particularly easy to be caught.

Seeing Erhai Lake from Jindao

One summer vacation that impressed me so far, I was a sophomore in primary school. My two sisters and brothers just came home from college holidays, so the four of us played by the Erhai Lake almost every day, and I directly tanned myself like black charcoal.

Looking back on the photos taken at the seaside that year, we can still happily recall that time, someone stuck his foot on the beach near Erhai Lake, and as a result, his shoes could not be pulled out, so he had to go home barefoot. They were tanned as if they were from Africa, and only their teeth and whites of eyes were white. For more than 30 years, the time when someone secretly ate grilled fish behind everyone's back quietly passed, and only the blue and beauty of Erhai Lake remained.

Looking at Erhai Lake from Jindao

Erhai Lake in summer is suitable for fishing and swimming, but the color is not as blue as in winter because of the rain and fog. Erhai Lake is particularly beautiful in winter, because it will become particularly clear and bright in winter. In winter, seagulls soar, fishing boats sail bit by bit, and the sparkling waves set off the white snow of Cangshan 19 peak, as well as the blue sky and warm sunshine. At that moment, my heart could really float and soar in the air.

No wonder my brother always said that such blue sky, such clouds and such mountains are only available in my hometown Dali.

Many fishing villages along Erhai Lake are built by mountains and rivers. Looking at the blue tiles and white walls around the sea, people will always think of Haizi's poem "I have a house facing the sea, and bloom is warm in spring."

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A village in Haidong

Haidong dug up the color and came to a scenic spot in Erhai Lake in Xiaoputuo. It turned out to be a reef in Erhai Lake. The seal of this reef is the Zhenhai seal left by Guanyin. Xiaoputuo was built in Ming Dynasty, which is a pavilion-style building with two floors. Formerly known as Guanyin Pavilion, it was renamed "Little Putuo" because its location was quite similar to Putuo where Guanyin lived in myth.

Xiaoputuo

The best time to visit Xiao Putuo is early morning. At this time, the fog curled up on the sea, and the small Putuo was like a moon palace. When I boarded the small Putuo, I saw the fog surging around me, like a piece of white gauze. This is the "Ailan Putuo", one of the eight scenic spots in Erhai Lake.

Many vendors selling fried fish and potato and shrimp cakes around Xiaoputuo are salvaged in the morning and enter tourists' stomachs at noon.

Xiaoputuo

In places where the road around the sea is very posed to the seaside, we often see ships moored in this way, and many beautiful girls pose to take pictures.

A boat in the drizzle

Near the village, there will be many small poplars growing in the water on the shore. Although it has been blown away by the sea breeze, it is still beautiful.

Poplar in the water

Our lunch is in the "garden" of Jindo, so we need to go to Jindo by boat first. It used to be a desert island, but now it is a national 4A-level scenic spot, and it has been renamed Nanzhao Fengqing Island. Its fame is closely related to the love experience of Bai painter Zhao Qing. Two young people who loved each other "fled" to this island, and the painter built a house for his beloved wife and became the owner of this island. Finally, the island became more and more famous.

The painter's hut was changed into a homestay, and the government built another hotel called Nanzhao Palace. The scenery on the island is beautiful, the sea and the sky are the same, and the wind and the moon are boundless; The Millennium banyan tree is flourishing, with deep caves and ancient caves intertwined;

Around the island, the water is clear and the sand is white, and the magnificent scenery of Xanthium sibiricum is panoramic, which can be described as "the mountains are high and the water is long". Nearly a hundred acres of island area, quietly lying under the blue sky, in the clear water of Erhai Lake. From a distance, it looks like a giant spaceship, with infinite island scenery in strange and unique terrain.

Jindao

On the bank of the Golden Island, ancient trees hang upside down, willows shake in the water, lakes and rocks are rugged, blue waves beat on the shore, and the waves are endless.

Bi lang pai an

Open shallows outside the park.

The boat between Jindao and Shuanglang

Hohhot is rugged.

In Jindao, you can see the villa of Yang li Ping, a dancer on Yuji Island. This villa has an image called "Moon Palace" and lives by the water. Under the glass floor of the living room is the rippling Erhai Lake.

Lunar Palace

Every time we come to Jindao, our family will have a meal in the exclusive courtyard where Zhao Qinghe and his wife live in seclusion, eat the wild vegetables specially made by the host, make a pot of coarse tea, enjoy the cool chat on the lounge chair, and wait until dusk before returning to the double gallery by boat.

The small courtyard is called Benyuan, and Erhai Lake is outside the door. Sitting in the door, it is easy to see the ebb and flow of the tide and weeping willows in the water. This small courtyard named "Benyuan" appeared in many TV dramas about Dali.

Now it has become a rather wild inn. There are many tourists, and the island has lost its purity and elegance when it was first developed in the past few years.

The gate of this garden

A guest room in the inn is called "a family with a nest"

The double corridors on the east bank of Erhai Lake, because of its beautiful scenery and unique geographical location, were predicted by my brother more than 20 years ago to become the hot spot of Dali tourism in the future. Many cultural celebrities also build houses here and live in seclusion in the countryside.

With the completion of the highway around the sea, tourists can get there easily. In recent years, over-exploitation and unauthorized construction have seriously affected the water quality of Erhai Lake. Therefore, with the prohibition of protecting and closing hotels in Erhai Lake, many illegal buildings along the coast will be demolished.

The double gallery six years ago.

I went back to the west coast from the east side around the sea, ate my favorite cold bean powder in Zhoucheng, bought my best bite-Xizhou Baba, and went straight to Yangjiayuan Garden in the ancient city of Dali. After eating delicious hot and sour fish, we went straight back to Erhaiyue Wetland Park in front of Xiaguan National Olympic Center Square.

There are clumps of reeds and water bamboo on the open water. Because the rain and fog make the fog on the water transpiration, people can't help chanting "Sword Armor". Going further north from this open seashore is a huge Erhai Moon Wetland Park. There are quite a few people who come here for a walk. Hiking, flying kites and watching music fountains in the morning and evening are also one of the places I must go every time I go home.

From the observation deck of Wetland Park, you can see the scenery in the east of Erhai Lake, and it is also an excellent place to watch the sunrise of Erhai Lake.

The other side of the river

Suliurshan

My hometown is so beautiful, Erhai Lake is so beautiful. I feel very poor. As a hometown treasure and hand-painted lover, I have also painted some beautiful pictures of my hometown in recent years, but they were all painted in black and white.

Because I have been studying watercolor recently, I decided to paint some watercolor Erhai Lake when I participated in the essay writing, so that I can kill two birds with one stone by practicing painting and writing. I use strong colors in these paintings, because I always feel that I can't express my love for my hometown without strong colors.

This is based on the impression of boating on the sea and enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Erhai Lake in the moonlight is also surprisingly beautiful, the sea surface is calm, the bright moonlight reflects the sparkling water surface, and the stalwart Cangshan looks gentle against the moonlight.

Our whole family sat around the small table and tasted fruits, walnuts, chestnuts and moon cakes. In the distance, there are other boatmen singing the legendary swordsman. The breeze on the lake carried the sound far away, and immediately gave birth to the illusion that the ancients were boating in the rivers and lakes.

This painting is based on the scenery of Dali Road in spring. At that time, rape blossoms, the whole west bank of Erhai Lake will be dotted with large tracts of rape blossoms, full of vitality.

Nowadays, many villages have begun to engage in flower field tourism, so in addition to rape fields, there are Persian chrysanthemum fields, marigold fields, lavender fields, rose fields and sunflower fields that are open in turn all year round.

This painting is based on the memory of a fishing village at the foot of Tuanshan Park when I was a child. At one time, there were many fishermen living near Erhai Lake, but with the expansion of urban development and the protection of Erhai Lake, many villages near the water were requisitioned and their houses were moved.

So now, if you want to see the fishermen's scenery on the water, you can go to Eryuan West Lake, which is also a beautiful place worth visiting.

The last picture was drawn with reference to a photo of Erhai Lake on the Internet. The boat moored in the light rain was almost exactly the same as what I saw during my holiday, so I drew it decisively.