Psychic Grand Canyon

When traveling with a group, I always fall asleep to the sound of roosters crowing in the middle of the night, and wake up to the sound of roosters crowing in the morning.

I had breakfast at the restaurant at 6:30 in the morning. I heard tourists talking about the two sounds of pig killing in the middle of the night, but I slept until dawn and heard nothing. I slept very well. Fragrant, this shows the exhaustion of traveling in a group.

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I felt very beautiful when I came out of the Lutian Scenic Area yesterday. The sky darkened, the lights gave off a warm atmosphere, and the water vapor of the waterfall was filled with clouds and mist. The clouds and mist kept coming up, like a dream. It turns out that Detian Waterfall has such a more beautiful night view called Ye Detian.

The tour guide kept saying during the day that two hours of visiting time at Detian Waterfall was enough, but there were too many unexpected events, which made us very rushed during the entire trip. Fortunately, we were still there when we finally left the scenic spot. There is no shuttle bus waiting.

In this way, morning and night, I just experienced the extraordinary beauty of Guangxi: in the early morning, there were waves of smoke, and in the evening, there were layers of clouds and mist between the mountains, making it look like a fairyland.

2. Consumption

I heard that there are more than 2,000 canyons in the Psychic Grand Canyon. We set out early today to go to the scenic spots and only walked through a small section of the developed waterfalls and caves. . < /p>

After traveling a lot, I discovered that if there is any kind of profession that is not really done by "people", it feels like tour guides.

It’s so tiring to work all day long, running back and forth so hard, having to help tourists arrange meals, make countless phone calls, explain along the way, and answer countless complaints.

What’s terrible is that you still have to cheat and make money from tourists without conscience. If this continues, your conscience will definitely not be at peace.

Our tour guide from the neighboring team, Xiao Liu, claimed to be of mixed Guangxi and Hunan descent. He came to work as a tour guide after being discharged from the army. He was a pretty good person.

In the car, the tour guide kept emphasizing that those over 70 years old and those with inconvenient legs and feet and poor health were advised not to enter the Psychic Grand Canyon, our main attraction today.

I followed too many tourist groups and was tricked into spending two large tickets yesterday, which cost 350 yuan per person. Later, I searched online and found that I could save half by shopping online. So today I don’t quite believe what the tour guide said.

I discovered that there is an attraction called Gulong Canyon Rafting next to the Tongling Grand Canyon. There is also a famous Gulong Gorge Rafting in Guangdong. There are so many places to visit, and many places or scenic spots have the same name.

The tour guide said that when you look at mountains and water, the width of Tongling Waterfall is 30 meters. About 80% of the way is walking and 20% is viewing. However, Gulong Waterfall is 70 meters wide and it is 20 meters wide. % are walking and 80% are watching the scenery. The most beautiful highway in China is the highway from Fujian to Yunnan, which is right under the Gulong Waterfall. He also said that the rating of this rafting trip was particularly high, which made the group members excited.

He intends for our group members to buy new tickets and change attractions, so as to achieve the purpose of profiting from it. However, due to time constraints, it is not possible to visit all major scenic spots, and the other two routes given will cost more than 100 yuan per person. The plan can only choose one of the three.

I had never heard of Gulong Waterfall before I came here, so I looked it up on Baidu, and the rating was quite good. It’s just that in my impression, scenic spots that can be rated as 4A or 5A across the country are all worth visiting. Since the main attraction arranged by the tour group is the 4A-level Psychic Grand Canyon, it’s okay to just follow the steps. Save money on tickets, gain wisdom after every experience, I have already followed yesterday’s routine.

In the end, more than 20 group members chose the relaxing Gulong Gorge rafting. Everyone paid an additional 160 yuan for tickets. The feedback after the trip was indeed good.

An uncle from Shanghai told me after the tour that he saw the rafting master working hard to accompany him on the trip, so he tipped an additional ten yuan per person. I feel that this kind of voluntary consideration of others while traveling is a very humane thing.

Third, the Tongling Grand Canyon

The Tongling Grand Canyon is 3.8 kilometers long, with more than 800 steps up and down. It feels quite relaxed and not very high. It consists of the Tongling Gorge, Nianba Gorge is connected with underground rivers and tunnels.

When I was riding in the car early in the morning, I saw that the waterfalls the car passed along the way were very beautiful. I couldn't help but click on the camera to take a beautiful picture.

The tour guide said that the first 200 steps are for tourists to experience. Going up and down the stairs will be very tiring. However, we felt that it was quite easy to complete the whole journey, which may be more difficult than for elderly tourists with limited legs and feet.

Enter the ticket gate into a narrow cave, cross a flat road, and start walking all the way down. Here is a stalactite cave, which is sandwiched between two peaks and partially exposed. We passed by in a short while.

After coming out, the river meanders along the creek, with gurgling water and green trees all over the valley. There are many strange plants in the canyon, one of which has fan-like drooping leaves that are so huge that it is imagined to be a product of the dinosaur age.

I have seen many towering money trees, which are far different from the money trees at home. Maybe they are kept at home due to time and space constraints. I have raised them for more than ten years and have not seen them grow up. Once planted, In the natural environment, it can grow so big. It is completely impossible to tell that the original money tree is the same variety as the one planted at home. The tour guide asked tourists to come up and touch it, saying it would bring good luck and wealth to people.

On the mountain paths, from time to time, local villagers would bring out local specialties for sale. They said they were wild dendrobium that had just been dug out in the mountains and were sold in snakeskin bags. A long piece of the bag was exposed. It is very rare to be as long as 1 meter, but my friend said that these are too clean and may have been artificially planted on a large area. It is worth mentioning that the pure natural bananas here are particularly delicious, and they are as small as two thumb fingers. Three skewers for ten yuan, you can eat one skewer at a time.

Chadu Niang: The Grand Canyon of the Souls turned out to be a blind valley. Due to the influence of crustal movement, a large sinkhole was formed, surrounded by steep cliffs and magnificent momentum. The canyon is open to the sky and the earth, with elegant spiritual energy. Under the stone well, it suddenly opens up and there is a cave. There are also Song Dynasty ruins such as Zangjin Cave, ancient stone barrier camps, and ancient cliff cave burials on the cliffs.

The canyon is steep and deep, with giant stalactites hanging upside down from the cliffs, ancient trees and old vines blocking out the sky, and mysterious caves dotted with deep pools. Tongling Waterfall is also the highest single-level waterfall in Asia. It pours down from the cliff into the Yuanyang Lake. The scene is extremely spectacular and shocking.

The deep canyons, clear streams, green vegetation and the 188.6-meter Psychic Falls complement each other, making the entire canyon full of vitality and spirituality. The underground rivers and spectacular waterfalls rumble like thunder. It is heard that the water from the Grand Canyon flows into the underground river, and the underground river flows in the direction of Vietnam.

Seeing that the outside of the Water Curtain Cave is wrapped in thick green moss, and the water inside is scattered along the stone wall like raindrops, the commentator said that water belongs to wealth, and those who can get wet will make a lot of money, haha ...This is too much water. The feeling of rain makes the warm climate become slightly cooler.

There are also many meanings in the cave: water seeps from the skylight, bringing fortune and wealth if water drops drop, and it means good luck when it touches the forehead. Listening to the interesting explanations, it feels like a pleasure to travel inside.

Many photography enthusiasts are seriously thinking about the best composition, occupying a spot for a long time and reluctant to leave. I feel that a trip to the Psychic Grand Canyon is very worthwhile.

Third, Longevity Banquet

After enjoying the canyon, at 6 p.m., some of the group members who have paid yesterday will go to the hotel to rest, and then the tour guide will take Along with some of our group members who signed up separately, we went to Changshou Island to have a longevity banquet and heard about the "naked bathing" performance.

Bypassing an undulating reservoir, with mountains and forests interspersed with the water, a spacious asphalt road has been well built. Seeing people grazing cows on the hillside by the roadside, the Shanghai girl in the city asked out of curiosity, it turns out that cows also eat grass! Everyone laughed. Children nowadays really want to go out and travel more.

After the so-called longevity banquet, several aunts and uncles from Shanghai directly placed playing cards. The dancing aunts came on stage enthusiastically. The climax of the music was all driven by the old aunts. , everyone played happily.

The dance of the Yao people has the flavor of childhood, which completely inherits the childish fun of childhood. It is lively and cute, and it is interesting to watch it occasionally, but compared with the large-scale dances in other places The landscape performances are still far apart.

One of the shows was performed by a 98-year-old man. He was short, with a full head of white hair, a loud voice, and was good at singing and dancing. It was not obvious that he had lived for nearly a century. The tour guide joked that if you want to send blessings to the elderly, it is recommended that you never say "I wish you a long life!" In that case, the old man would be uncomfortable hearing that he was only two years away from turning 100. Haha... Come to think of it, who would expect that they only have two years to live.

The whole stage is a continuous show, showing that babies of the Yao ethnic group eat hundreds of meals and wear hundreds of clothes from birth, and then get married and have children when they reach adulthood, and then live a long life. Life is a drama. Quite local characteristics.

The day's journey went by in a hurry.

——Mu Xin Feifei on October 27, 2021