Travel notes of a one-day tour in Ganzhou

Ganzhou, located in the south of China, is a good place with beautiful scenery. The mountains here are elegant and exquisite, and traditional culture and food are well preserved. This is a good tourist destination. Here, we will provide you with a detailed experience of a one-day tour in Ganzhou.

Ganzhou is a low-key and slow-paced city, and its reputation is not obvious. Until recently, because of the importance of rare earth, more people began to pay attention to it. If you check the tourism information of Ganzhou, you will mainly introduce the red hometown such as Ruijin, Ningdu and Du Yu, but my "red" here does not refer to the "red" of the red revolution, but refers to the natural red. Please follow the picture below and slowly appreciate the natural red in Ganzhou.

I caught the train early in the morning and took seven hours to reach Ganzhou, the cradle of Hakka and the red capital.

(Ganzhou Railway Station)

Ganzhou is the south gate of Jiangxi Province, adjacent to Guangdong Province. Dayu County under its jurisdiction is separated from Nanxiong County of Guangdong Province by a "Meiguan Ancient Road". Some people from the Central Plains who went south in those days went south to Guangdong, and some stayed here to take root, forming the Hakka ethnic group in Ganzhou now.

Chapter water and tribute water form "sweetness", which is the origin of Ganzhou's name. Jiangxi province has always been called "Ganzhou", which shows how prominent Ganzhou is in Jiangxi's historical position.

(Ganjiang)

Ganzhou began to build a city in the Song Dynasty, and after hundreds of years, it became an important town in Jiangxi after careful management by the second generation of Jiang. It now governs 18 counties and is the second largest city in Jiangxi Province.

(Cheng Song)

A pontoon bridge was reserved outside Jianchun Gate of Song City Wall. This way of connecting the two sides of the strait has been in use since the Song Dynasty, and it is still intact. When you board the pontoon bridge, you immediately feel a quaint atmosphere. As the sun sets, the pontoon bridge is golden and red, which is a romantic place for couples and a common attraction for photographers. This is a kind of "red" in Ganzhou: sunset red

(pontoon bridge sunset red)

Not far from Jianchun Gate, there is an ancient building complex "Zaoer Lane", but it has been abandoned, leaving only old doors and windows and red lanterns hanging, indicating that it has been developed.

(Twilight Zaoer Lane)

During the first civil war, Ganzhou was like an island surrounded by a red ocean, but Mao, Zhu and Peng couldn't make him "change his flag." It was inserted in this red land like a stubborn nail house until 1949, and this history ended. Every time I read this history, I will sigh: this is a small miracle.

Few people know that Ganzhou has always owned a piece of red land. More than ten kilometers north of the city, there is a red mountain range that has crossed for a long time. Its name is Tongtianyan. This is another kind of "red" in Ganzhou: Danxia Red.

We take the 18 route in the urban area and arrive at the gate of the scenic spot at 9:30, which takes 40 minutes. Tickets to 60 yuan and Ctrip to 55 yuan.

Today is a sunny day, and there is no wind. The temperature in mountainous areas is 3~4 degrees lower than that in urban areas, but it is still very hot.

Walking in the scenic spot is divided into two routes: the inner ring road and the middle ring road. If you just enjoy the scenery, the inner ring road is enough. Yudai Bridge, Lover Bridge and Zodiac Garden in Central Road are lonely mountain roads except Lover Bridge.

(Tongtianyan guide map)

Tongtianyan is the representative place of Jiangnan grottoes, because most of the south is weathered rock, which is not suitable for carving stone statues. Stone carvings like Tongtianyan are very rare, hence the name "the first grotto in the south of the Yangtze River".

No matter what kind of white balance is set on the rocks of Tongtianyan, the photos are all red, which is a typical Danxia landform. These red rocks are carved with stone statues, and the Buddha statues that should be quiet are a little more vivid.

(Dan Xia Hong)

(Tiantonghu-Zhonghuan Road)

The only interesting thing about the center line is Lover Bridge, which is a suspension bridge across the canyon. Others are long mountain roads, and there is nothing to see.

(Lover Bridge-Central Link)

Back in Fuguiyan, I was so wet that my clothes could be wrung out of water (mainly due to the high consumption in the later period of the Central Link). Near 4 pm, the sun went down. Time to go home.

(Forget Guiyan to the gate of the scenic spot)

It was already evening when I returned to the city, and I found a restaurant to eat in the pedestrian street of Zhonglian Mall. This restaurant is very good, with good service, good environment and moderate price. The picture below shows our order, which costs three people 102 yuan, which is very cost-effective. Highly recommended.

(Old Citizen Restaurant)

After dinner, I visited the pedestrian street, and then took a bus back to the hotel located in Diaoyutai, Houde Road (this is a simple old city) (the last bus in Ganzhou city is at 20:30, and the fare is 1 yuan).

(Zhonglian Shopping Mall Pedestrian Street)

We stayed in Ganzhou for two nights. The name of the hotel is "_ Hotel Ma", which is located in the old city. The appearance and lobby are ordinary, but the room is good and the price is not expensive. Price 1 18 yuan. The buffet breakfast doesn't start until 7:30. There are many varieties, and the taste is not so good (not to my taste). The front desk service is excellent, with questions and answers, detailed explanations and friendly attitude.

(Deluxe single room)

(Standard Double Room)

In fact, the people we met in Ganzhou are very kind, including food stall owners, bus drivers, taxi drivers, restaurant waiters, vendors and so on. According to informed sources in Ganzhou, this is the foundation laid by the second generation of Jiang.

Ganzhou is a good place, not far from Guangzhou, with convenient transportation and low consumption (400 yuan for three people for two days/person, excluding return transportation). It's worth visiting from time to time. The only regret is that Ganzhou cuisine is too salty and spicy to find a restaurant suitable for the stomach.