On the road

The last stop of the National Day holiday, Yibin, is also the highlight of this trip to Sichuan. The record is as follows.

In my impression, Yibin is famous for two things, one is Shunan Bamboo Sea and the other is Wuliangye. Because I was too resistant to taking a long bus ride and was worried about being stuck on the road, I chose to take the train from Chengdu to Yibin. After driving for about 8 hours overnight, we arrived at Yibin Railway Station at around 7 a.m. on October 5.

After getting off the bus, we went directly to Nan'an Bus Station and chose the 9 o'clock bus bound for Shunan Zhuhai. I took the time to eat a bowl of Yibin noodles in a small shop next to the bus station. Before I was about to get on the bus, I was stopped by the driver. He seemed to be serious and said, "This bus can only go to Ximen. If you want to go to Haizhonghai, it's best." If you take the 10 o'clock class, you might go directly to Hai Zhong Hai." Seeing that an hour would be wasted, thinking about the uncertainty implied by this statement, there must be something fishy about this, so I decided to take the 9 o'clock class. That flight departs.

Sure enough, after driving, a tour guide came up. After a passionate speech, he instantly understood that this bus was a one-day tour group. He thought there were free seats and sold us tickets. Who? Zhi attracted a few more customers, but they could only trick us into giving up our seats. From this point of view, the local tourism management still needs to be standardized. What is unbelievable is that there are really no battery sightseeing cars in the 44-square-kilometer core scenic area of ??Shunan Bamboo Sea. As a national 4A tourist attraction, there is still a lot of room for improvement in scenic area planning and overall management.

Precisely because the scenic area is too large and the transportation is inconvenient, unless you are traveling by car, you can only choose to charter a car or take a one-day tour through train. With no choice, we thought about it again and again, and finally had to change our itinerary and pay 100 yuan per person to join the one-day tour. It is worth mentioning that the group meal of 30 yuan per person is considered to be of high quality and quantity in the scenic spot, and it is delicious and cheap.

In Shunan Zhuhai, solving traffic problems is a top priority.

Because of the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", I learned about the Bamboo Sea in southern Sichuan. In the movie, the scene of Chow Yun-fat and Zhang Ziyi fighting in the bamboo forest was so beautiful. The entire bamboo forest was full of green. Above the bamboo forest are martial arts knights dressed elegantly in white. This time I was immersed in the scene, and everything I saw was lush bamboo forest and pleasant green. For the first time, I realized that bamboo can also grow into towering trees.

Following the one-day tour route, we first came to Fairy Lake, a lake in the middle of a bamboo forest. Judging from the name, it may be the place where fairies bathe in myths and legends. I didn’t deliberately learn more. Here you need to take a bamboo raft to ferry to the opposite side of the lake, which costs 6 yuan per person. The ferry's water surface is about 20 meters away. Then we walked along the stone road in the bamboo forest to Tianbaozhai and Xianyu Cave. It felt very comfortable walking in the bamboo forest. The natural oxygen bar lived up to its reputation. Listening to the rustling of the bamboo leaves in the wind, I took a greedy breath. With.

The first half of the journey was very easy, mostly on flat roads and downhill roads. On the narrow mountain road, when I met the oncoming tourists who were out of breath, I told them confidently: "It's still far away, keep working hard!" "Then he told his companions with the air of an experienced driver that he would have to pay it back sooner or later, and he would definitely have to go up the mountain in a while.

Going along the cliff is very dangerous. Xianyu Cave cleverly uses the space naturally formed by the rock. There is a bamboo forest above the cave, a canyon below the cave, and a grotto built against the mountain. In the temple, there is a pagoda for the ashes of the abbot after his death. With this natural barrier, he can support his life and enjoy the happiness in the world.

Tianbaozhai still highlights the word "danger". The story of "Thirty-six Strategies" carved on the cliff looks very grand. In the second half of the journey, we really started climbing along the cliff, which was very tiring.

Then we took a bus to the Colorful Waterfalls. We saw some waterfalls, but not many that combined bamboo seas, mountain springs, and waterfalls. Due to the weather, we were not able to see the colorful colors of the rocks. There were several waterfalls in the mountains. The gushing waterfall instantly gave the quiet bamboo sea a spiritual energy.

There are more than 100 large and small scenic spots in the Bamboo Sea. I do not advocate that in such a natural landscape, we have to reluctantly draw so many scenic spots and give them various resounding names. In the sea, the biggest scenery is the bamboo forest all over the mountains and plains. Looking around, there are scenery everywhere, so why bother to be strict with every scenic spot.

On the second day in the Bamboo Sea, with the aim of roaming freely in the Bamboo Sea, I strolled to the nearby Hai Zhong Hai Scenic Area, which is the place to take a bamboo raft. If it is summer, it should be very pleasant to sit quietly on a bamboo raft on the water and look at the bamboo forests far and near.

I don’t have much interest in places with poetic names like Fairy Lake and Hai Zhong Hai. I just see the lake at the end. If I were not in the bamboo sea, how could I be so favored? . It is worth going to lie in a hammock in the bamboo forest for a while, looking at the towering bamboos and the blue sky and white clouds, to truly appreciate the beauty of the depths of the bamboo forest.

The place I stayed at was Wanghai Villa, just outside the Haizhonghai scenic spot. The room had a bamboo board wall with water, it was clean and tidy, and the food tasted delicious. When you come to Bamboo Sea, you will naturally eat all kinds of bamboo-related delicacies. A group of three people didn't expect to have a banquet, so they could only choose some classics.

The group meal on the day of the day trip was very good. I had the famous bamboo fungus eggs. When I first saw them, I thought they were eggplants. The texture was very crispy and smooth.

For dinner, we ordered bamboo fungus chicken soup, fresh bamboo shoots and sausages. Only I ordered fish-flavored shredded pork very untimely because I was really worried that the too bland bamboo flavor would not be enough to go with the meal. Later I found that my worries were unnecessary. The bamboo shoot soup was delicious, the bamboo shoots were delicious, and the sausage was full of flavor. The three of us quickly finished the three dishes and one soup.

For breakfast, it is recommended to try Bamboo Sun Noodles, after all, you can only eat them here. There are also small mushrooms whose names I have forgotten. The stir-fried taste is very Sichuan, with a hint of spicy. The most recommended thing is the sausage here. It costs 10 yuan a piece. It tastes really good. There is no inexplicable smell of aged bacon at all. It is the No. 1 sausage among all the sausages I have eaten. During the two days in Zhuhai, I almost ate it. Will eat every meal.

Almost every scenic spot has sausages, cured pork ribs, and bamboo leaf baba at the entrance. The price is basically the standard price of 10 yuan for the scenic spot. In the Bamboo Sea, seeing bamboo forests and eating bamboo feasts, only panda cubs with the national treasure level can enjoy this kind of treatment every day.

During the two days in Zhuhai, except for the traffic problems, the overall satisfaction was very high. The bamboo sea landscape gifted by nature, with the help of Du Niang’s search and careful consideration, can be summarized in the following two words: verdant, quiet and profound.