The latest travel guide of Huaguo Mountain in Lianyungang (with tickets+traffic routes+precautions)

Huaguo Mountain in Lianyungang is a famous scenic spot, and many friends feel inexplicable impulse and excitement. The Huaguoshan water curtain cave in The Journey to the West is the most impressive memory in everyone's childhood. I have been longing for it for a long time. Here, I would like to share with you an ultra-detailed travel guide.

On the first day, the location of Huaguoshan Scenic Area:

Guo Huashan is located in the middle of Nanyun Mountain in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province. It is a national key scenic spot, a national AAAAA tourist area and a national geological park.

It is said that it has been selected as one of the 50 most worthwhile places for foreigners to visit in China. This time, I also went with my friends in Pakistan. Sure enough, the attraction of Guo Hua to Chinese and foreign tourists can be seen.

Opening hours:

Off-season: 65438+February 1 to February 28th every year;

Peak season: March 1 to June165438+1October 30th every year.

Opening hours of Lianyungang Guo Hua:

Peak season: 7:00- 16:30; low season: 8:00- 16:00.

Preferential provisions for scenic spot tickets:

Lianyungang Huaguoshan ticket season 90 yuan off-season 50 yuan

The specific provisions are as follows:

1.6 children under the age of 6, children under the height of 1.4m, elderly people over the age of 70, servicemen and the disabled are free of charge with valid identity documents.

2. Other minors, undergraduates, 60-70-year-olds, and low-income people will have half-price tickets with valid certificates.

3. The religious staff in the scenic spot belong to the same religion as the religious activity places in the scenic spot, and they will enter the scenic spot with valid documents and go to the religious activity places free of charge.

4. News media employees are free of tickets.

The first sunrise after arrival

As a professional photographer, after sharing the introduction of these scenic spots that Baidu can see everywhere.

I want to put more energy into my own shooting experience and play experience, and some tips about photography may bring you more help.

Huaguoshan is famous at home and abroad for its classic The Journey to the West.

Thousands of years of ancient buildings, ancient ruins, ancient stone carvings, and the traces of literati throughout the ages are all over Shan Ye, where the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties successively built temples and towers.

Introduction to Huaguoshan at the beginning of Journey to the West;

"There is a piece of land overseas, called a proud country. This country is close to the sea, and there is a famous mountain in the sea called Guo Huashan. This mountain is the ancestor of ten continents and the origin of three islands. It has been in existence since the beginning and is tried by the HarmonyOS system. What a nice mountain! "

The tour guide said that Lianyungang is the only scenic spot in China that calls itself Huaguoshan, and it is the best description of geography in The Journey to the West. Because the Yellow River changed its course many times, the Huaguoshan area was flooded before, and the terrain was once surrounded by the sea, until later it became the present hill.

It is said that Guo Hua may be the best natural landscape for shooting sunrise in northern Jiangsu. Because it has the highest Yunv Mountain in northern Jiangsu, and its east is only 10 km away from the Yellow Sea, and it takes about 30-40 minutes to drive. If you are lucky, advection fog will be very thick in the morning, which is why the Jade Girl Mountain in Huaguo Mountain can shoot a spectacular sunrise even if it is only 624 meters above sea level.

My Pakistani partner Anan and other bloggers climbed to the top of the mountain early and enjoyed the first morning.

You can choose to climb the mountain from the homestay, on foot or by car. Since there is a shuttle bus on the mountain around 6: 30 in the morning, you have to go by yourself if you want to watch the sunrise.

Photographic equipment and outdoor equipment

I introduced myself late. I graduated from China Academy of Art and worked as a photographer for four years.

Usually, video shooting is the mainstay, and strict self-discipline is required for every composition, tone and detail of the work. When shooting, I always forget the amount of material. When I come back, I find that I actually took thousands of pictures, and I chose hundreds to read them and put them in my travel notes.

This time, photography is the main thing, so I put down the stabilizer that is necessary at ordinary times.

The package is mainly equipped with:

Camera: Sonya7m3

Lens: Fe16-35f4 \ fe24-70f2.8 \ fe70-200f4

Drone: DJImavic2pro

Outdoor products are:

Salomon jogging shoes and sunscreen sleeves in France

Swiss MAMMUT sports backpack and sunglasses

Lightweight and simple packaging is an essential preparation for eating, drinking and having fun outdoors. Carrying these luggage can basically meet the needs of shooting and sports without feeling overweight.

Traffic and self-driving routes

Traffic aspect

All alighting points are Huaguoshan Scenic Area:

1. Take bus B 1 1 from the bus terminal, take bus No.2, and get off at the scenic spot.

2. From Lianyungang Railway Station/Bus Terminal, take bus No.8, 19, 22 and 23.

Get off at Hualian Plaza-transfer to the bus tour 1 and get off at the scenic spot.

There are many shuttle buses in the scenic spot, and taxis are not allowed to enter the scenic spot.

If you take a taxi from Lianyungang Station, the meter price will reach the entrance of the scenic spot around 30 yuan.

At the same time, you can also drive to Huaguo Mountain Scenic Area by yourself. Take a taxi from the railway station to the scenic spot and take a friend's car to visit the mountains. Say hello to the hotel in advance, and you should be able to drive yourself when you report to the scenic service center.

However, I would like to remind you that there are many buses on mountain roads and the roads are narrow. Pay attention to safety when driving, try to take the scenic shuttle bus and walk more.

The photo of this family is like a screenshot of a Hirokazu Koreeda movie in an instant. Huaguoshan is a scenic spot suitable for all ages.

Hometown of Sheng Da

There is no time limit for traveling in Huaguoshan Scenic Area, and you can stay in the homestay in the scenic area at night. Booking accommodation online needs to be made in advance, because the accommodation resources in mountainous areas are almost full in summer and autumn tourism season. After booking, you can contact the innkeeper yourself. The innkeeper will be responsible for sending your luggage and people from the scenic spot to the hotel.

The farther you go into the mountains, the more difficult it is to build hardware facilities. Our hotel is located halfway up the mountain, close to the top of the mountain and surrounding attractions. However, the standard room configuration is still good, not even losing the hotel level in Lianyungang.

Sanyuangong building complex

Sanyuan Palace should be the largest building complex in Huaguoshan Scenic Area. According to reports, it originated in the Tang Dynasty and was rebuilt in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, 20,000 incense sticks were donated and expanded, and it was repaired many times in the Qing Dynasty. It has a long history. After being burned by the Japanese army in modern times, it was "broken" during the Cultural Revolution. Later, the building was imitated again for restoration and reconstruction.

Aerial photography overlooks the entire Sanyuan Palace. Palaces and temples are hidden in the forest, and the overall structure is covered on the hillside in a trapezoidal shape. For the shooting of buildings and historic sites, aerial photography can best reflect its overall momentum, and you can take a panoramic view from the front. Because most Chinese buildings are symmetrically arranged, it is essential to photograph the overall pattern from top to bottom.

How to take portraits in scenic spots where people flow explosively?

Let me teach you some good shooting skills:

1 First, you need to prepare a portable tripod.

2, telephoto lens or "big light", wide-angle lens

3. If you have an nd filter, you'd better take it with you, and it is better to reduce the grey mirror. Cpl depends on the specific environment.

4. Beautiful models

First, I walked around the fourth scenic spot. Photographers/boyfriends must know the environment first, otherwise it is not good to ask a girl to accompany you on a hot day. Then, you can find several fixed environmental backgrounds, such as the main entrance, steps, incense burners and so on.

Big environment shooting:

1, set up a tripod after finding the hole. The wide-angle lens will make the model more slender and earn more attractions.

2. Use the smallest aperture to create a shallow depth of field effect.

3. Try to lower the shutter to less than 1/5 seconds.

4. At the same time, as long as the model remains absolutely still for one or two seconds, it will not defocus. And constantly moving tourists can also create different virtual shadow effects.

Just try a few more times to ensure that the focus of the model is real and there is basically no problem. This step requires repeated confirmation and patience. Because there is no nd grey mirror this time, it is impossible to slow down the shutter speed and control the crowd effect and screen glare to the best, but they are all within the available range for your reference.

After punching in the wide-angle seat, you can choose the side hall with few people, take out the "big wide top" or telephoto lens, and take a close-up portrait of your sister. At this time, the shooting requirements are just the opposite of wide-angle punching:

1, blur aperture as large as possible.

2, don't be too horizontal and vertical composition.

3. It is best to use telephoto space compression to avoid other tourists.

The architectural style of Sanyuan Palace is still very historical.

There will be shops selling fruits and drinks on the Gongmen line. There is a bus stop at the top, so you can take a minibus back to the gate of the scenic spot. These places are very close, but I tell you quietly that the peaches sold at the door are really sweet, and the closer they are to the door, the cheaper they are. The shuttle bus goes one way to 20 yuan for about/person, which is more cost-effective than walking down the mountain for one hour.

Huaguoshan happy farmhouse gourmet

Spring breeze is coming, and wild vegetables are fragrant.

The farmhouse food in Huaguoshan Scenic Area is timely in all seasons, and it not only makes wild vegetables sometimes. Because there are all kinds of seafood and seaweed by the sea, you can also make an appointment in advance to let the store prepare roast whole sheep, badger meat, local pigs and other game.

Different from other mountain farmhouses, there are also shrimps, crabs and oysters.

The next day cherry tree pavilion

The dawn is divided equally, listening to the silence, people have come to heaven;

The building is open around. When I saw the first round, I realized that I was on the edge of the sun.

The two pictures are combined, one is the moon shot separately at Huaguo Mountain and Sakura Pavilion at the same time.

In blue autumn, full moon.

At 4: 30 in the morning, I woke up my roommate, Nan, and took a bus to Yunv Mountain with my friends to meet the sunrise the next day. However, I was surprised to find that the full moon was still there that night, and the blues was particularly clear because of the dawn.

Sakura Pavilion is located at the foot of Jade Girl Mountain. Although it rained the night before, there was no sea of clouds in the morning, but the fog was a little heavier than usual. Fortunately, there are some at sunrise.

Tell you a secret:

When flying unmanned aerial vehicles, it is customary to take three photos of EV-3, 0 and +3 continuously in the surrounding exposure mode of unmanned aerial vehicles when shooting the sunrise and sunset with high light ratio or the dark night scene of the city. Take photos in Photoshop later.

Synthetic HDR or panoramic HDR in the original, and then the next color match.

Yunv Mountain

The Jade Girl Mountain in Huaguo Mountain is 624.4 meters above sea level, which is the highest peak in Jiangsu Province.

"The twin peaks stand upright, the east is called' Qingfeng' and the west is called' Jade Girl', which is the main peak of Yuntai."

-Yuntai Appendix

On the top of the hill is a statue of a jade girl, a heavenly palace figure described in The Journey to the West, who once came to the world for love. In the novel, Wu Cheng'en wrote Huaguoshan in the thirtieth time, "Lotus Jade Maid Washing Basin".

In the easternmost part of the sunrise, you can vaguely see the light and shadow reflected by the sun on the sea.

At the top of Yunv Mountain, I photographed Lianyungang in the distance with telephoto. Like fairyland, like mondriaan's works of art, there is only one side.

Experience Guo Hua and enjoy the trip to the west.

In the morning, the theme activities held in Huaguoshan Scenic Area began with wonderful performances.

Huaguoshan macaque

According to the villagers, the old monkey we met this morning used to be the Monkey King.

I still climb mountains and patrol at sunrise in the morning.

Today, the monkeys in Huaguoshan are still in the wild, feeding and reproducing on their own.

More importantly, there is a sound monkey kingdom here. If we observe carefully, we can know a little about the hierarchy, family ties and even social ties in the confusing and complicated animal world.

There are many little monkeys in the mountains. They really form a kingdom. However, it should be noted that these monkeys are still very wild. When feeding, they will compete with tourists for food and even bite people.

Although monkeys are smart, they are still in danger of eating wrapping paper by mistake, so please put away the wrapping paper when feeding, and it is best not to contact adult monkeys directly.

Huaguoshan Yuhuangge

The tallest temple building in Sanyuan Palace complex. Like the Qiandian, the main hall and the Reunion Palace, it is built on the mountain and on the meridian.

From here, you can see the whole mountainside of Guo Hua, but the pavilion is locked and you can't go in. Shuttle buses often meet here, and you can also take a ride down the mountain to play. There are great temples, water curtain cave and Zhaohaiting at the foot of the mountain.

Damiao

On the left is the Great Temple, and on the right is water curtain cave.

The Great Temple will be built next to the scenic spot water curtain cave, which is convenient for tourists to find. The normal tour route will pass the Temple first, and then you can see water curtain cave.

Huaguoshan water curtain cave

Bai Hong faction, Chihiro storming the shore;

The noise is a waterfall, which looks like a curtain.

Water curtain cave may be more magnificent for macaques, and it has the test of jumping to test their courage. But for human tourists, I can only say that I hope everyone will pay attention to avoiding trampling and queuing. Without nd grey mirror, my slow-paced solution won't work. If you want to enjoy yourself, you need to come early.

Dashengfo

There are grotesque rocks in the scenic area, some like wolves, tigers and leopards, and some like fairy figures. As long as you find it with your heart, there will be surprises.

Stone carving of the Great Sage Buddha.

the third day

Huaguoshan rafting

On the whole, it is recommended to go to Huaguoshan for 2 days, so that you can fully experience all the projects without going back. On the cableway, drifting down.

The drifting length of Huaguo Mountain in Lianyungang is1060m, with a width of 5m and a drop of 230m. The slideway is a single slideway, and there are more than a dozen slideways with an inclination of 30 -65 degrees on the way, and there are buffer pools. This is a cement slide built to clean up the original ravine in Guo Hua, which is very safe and exciting.

Duobao stupa

Duobao stupa was built in the Ming Dynasty, and it collapsed soon after it was built.

It was not until the 1980s that the original tower foundation platform was restored. After the excavation of the stone chamber in the tower heart, bronze gilded statues and a large number of ancient coins were found.

The current tower body imitates the southern Tang style and was rebuilt in 1995.

According to the online introduction, this tower is a solid stone carving, with a height of 12.77 meters, nine floors and eight sides.

There are 64 stone Buddha statues around the tower, which are exquisite and lifelike.

Ashoka pagoda

A thousand-year-old ancient pagoda stands on the Great Sage Lake.

"It is backed by layers, facing the blue waves, the tower is slender, the reflection is vivid, and the lakes and mountains are shining."

This is the Ashoka Tower of Christina Temple, which is located on the side outside the main entrance of Huaguoshan Scenic Area and belongs to the scenic area free of charge. It is used as a resting place for visiting Christians in Sanyuan Palace. At the same time, Ashoka Pagoda is also the highest and oldest existing stupa in northern Jiangsu.

According to the inscription embedded in the inner wall of the tower when it was built, the original tower here was called the second tower in the Tang Dynasty. But now that the tower has been sealed, tourists can't get in. According to the tour guide, the stupa underground palace has only developed one floor, and a large number of gold-plated Buddha statues have been excavated, and the rest are for protection and development.

In front of the stupa is the Great Holy Lake. During aerial photography, I was pleasantly surprised to find several white cranes staying on the exposed rocks in the lake. It turned out that the sculpture was for people to see, and it was really vivid.

As the sun sets, my trip will end, and I will drive directly to the return train.

Train return

There are fewer high-speed trains to Lianyungang station. I need to take a train from Hangzhou and transfer from Xuzhou. Look at the number of trains in advance, you can take the train (about 2 hours) to Xuzhou Station and then transfer from Xuzhou Station to high-speed trains to various cities.

Starting from cities such as Shanghai, you should also choose to fly.

Sleep soundly, the wind and waves are rough, and you are not honored or humiliated.