China’s top ten black attractions

NO.1 Xishuangbanna: The "bridal chamber" trap

Xishuangbanna was once a mysterious place, with unique local folk customs full of exotic charm. There are many so-called folk custom villages in Xishuangbanna. For example, there is an Aini tribe in Xishuangbanna Primeval Forest Park.

After tourists enter the village, beautifully dressed girls will warmly welcome them into the two-story bamboo building and visit their houses. A woman introduced her briefly, waved her hand, and several girls came in. Without any explanation, they put a small gourd-like lucky charm on the man's neck, and then asked you to participate in the so-called bride-grabbing game. An important part of the "wedding" is "sending into the bridal chamber". Don't think that there are really good things in the bridal chamber. The poor, innocent "groom" is there obediently paying the money. When you enter the bridal chamber, the girl will reach out to you for dowry money. The person who presided over the marriage would say that if you accept Miss Ai Ni's lucky charm for you, it means you agree to the marriage. If you regret it, you will be hung upside down on the big tree at the entrance of the village for three days and you will have to pay for it. They work as coolies for three years. Tourists are forced into the "bridal chamber" without paying enough money. Bear the pain and pay a lot of money to redeem yourself, it can be as little as fifty or sixty yuan, or as much as hundreds of yuan. If you pay in full, the rule here is that no change will be given. Nowadays, folk customs often become folk traps. Most of the male and female tourists who came back from Xishuangbanna have learned this lesson: "You can't just enter the bridal chamber casually."

NO.2 Jiuzhaigou: Beef is sold at sky-high prices

The tickets to Jiuzhaigou are clearly priced expensive. The regular admission ticket to Jiuzhaigou is 220 yuan, plus a bus ticket of 90 yuan, for a total of 310 yuan. Tickets for Huanglong are 200 yuan, and Tibetan and Qiang singing and dancing are 180 yuan. The tickets are expensive, but don’t think you won’t get ripped off. There is a monument on a flat land in Gaerna Mountain. As soon as tourists get off the bus, local people leading horses and yaks gather around them. "It only costs 5 yuan to take photos on horseback." But after you take the photo, the horse rises to 30 yuan.

The yak meat and roasted whole sheep sold in Jiuzhaigou are like slaughtering cattle and sheep. The tour guide is very keen to take you to taste yak meat for free. If you taste it for free, some people will laugh at you because you have no money and are greedy for cheap. Others will advise you to buy it back and give it to your friends. In short, you were very generous with your money. But you will regret it soon. The same beef costs only 22 yuan per pound in Chengdu, but it costs 88 yuan in Jiuzhaigou. Most of the Tibetan specialty products in Shuzheng Village are produced in other places: the yak leather vest is made of pig skin and is produced in Haining, Zhejiang Province. There are also yak hair shawls and scarves, all made of chemical fiber and produced in Yiwu, Zhejiang. Dzi bead necklaces and so on, as long as they are wearing Dzi beads, they are all made of glass. The wholesale price is about two or three yuan, and they are all purchased from Yiwu. Like Tibetan silver bracelets, Tibetan silver necklaces, and Tibetan silver wine bottles, as long as you wear Tibetan silver, they are either made of iron or copper. As long as you wear it for a week, the stored silver becomes "hidden gold" and restores its appearance of copper and iron.

NO.3. Mount Emei: Burning incense means burning money

On the way to Mount Emei, tourists will be taught a lesson by the tour guide: everyone here is a destined person, just in time The consecration ceremony of Mount Emei is rare. The last consecration ceremony was in 2000. This time it will end in three days. Dear friends, you can go and have the consecration ceremony. There is no charge for it. It is a meritorious deed. This is really fate. But what to use for consecration? Then you have to ask Buddha and Guanyin pendants. The tour guide spoke again: You can go to the Buddhist Charity Hall of the Sichuan Buddhist Association to pray for Buddhas. The income there is donated to the Buddhist Association. It can both keep you safe and do good deeds. As soon as we entered the door, the shopping guide was very enthusiastic: With only 500 yuan, we can buy a Buddha. If you look at it with wide eyes, the cheapest one costs 80 yuan, which is no bigger than your little finger. If the whole family is invited, it will cost more than 2,000 yuan.

When you arrive at the temple, those who want to consecrate the temple first ask for an incense stick. Peace incense is 60 yuan per stick, and family portrait incense is 190 yuan. Someone is holding a camera and wants to take photos for you. It costs 15 yuan per photo and 90 yuan for a set. After the consecration, I entered the front hall and saw a few people. Then I said something about Master, and someone said it was 50 yuan per person. After paying the money, the "Master" knelt down and waited inside. When he walked in, he saw that everyone was kneeling in rows in the lobby. When the legs were numb, a monk came in, took a cup and muttered something in his mouth, and then sprinkled two drops of water on the Buddha everyone invited. OK, the consecration is completed. When I got home and did some calculations, I found that this free consecration cost me seven or eight hundred yuan without my realizing it. It turned out that the "Buddha" was not good either.

NO.4. Potala Palace: Tickets soaring

The price increase is like a plague. Before the full opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway on July 1, 2006, hotels in Lhasa began to increase prices significantly. In this Tibetan capital, where prices are nearly twice as high as in the mainland, instead of using the legendary Hada and highland barley wine, Welcome guests from afar by "killing a knife" first. Not to mention the doubling of hotel prices, there are also taxis crowded outside the station. The driver offers a price of 60 yuan, while the original normal price is 30 yuan. It’s not just hotels in Lhasa that want to make a fortune. Before the first batch of tourists taking the train to Tibet had fully shaken off the dust, the Cultural Relics Bureau of the Tibet Autonomous Region raised the ticket price for the Potala Palace from 100 yuan during the peak season. 300 yuan.

The vast majority of tourists to the Potala Palace come from outside Tibet. As a symbol of the friendship between the Chinese and Tibetan people, the Potala Palace with a history of more than 1,300 years is undoubtedly the brightest pearl in Tibet’s tourism industry. .

For tourists traveling to Tibet, not visiting the Potala Palace is equivalent to not having been to Tibet. After finally arriving in Lhasa, who would give up visiting just for 200 yuan? Tickets to the Potala Palace have long been limited, with only 2,300 tickets sold per day. However, when the ticket price was increased from 100 yuan to 300 yuan, the number of visitors per day did not decrease to 2,300. How can we talk about its "protection"? Also, according to regulations, taking pictures is not allowed in the halls of the Potala Palace, but as long as you pay a certain amount of money, you can take pictures; if you pay more money, you can use a flash to take pictures of the Buddha statues. Does it mean that if you pay the money, the cultural relics will not be damaged?

NO.5. Laoshan: The Taoist Priest’s Linen Art

Crime: In people’s minds, Laoshan is connected with Penglai Wonderland: all the Taoist priests on the mountain practice Taoism. Gao Ming, Pu Songling's Laoshan wall penetration technique, as evidenced by the hole and broken wall left behind. After all, it is difficult to verify the wall-penetrating skills of the Laoshan Taoist priests, but their skills in deceiving people are really impressive.

In Laoshan, the commentator and tour guide will mysteriously tell you: "There is a place you haven't been to yet." After that, he will take you into a room in the temple, seven or eight " "Taoist priests" are like welcoming the ancestors, surrounding you and saying that this person with the red face has wealth luck. If you ask for a few words from him, you will have to give back some money. The Taoist priest will take you into an "office" nearby, take out his ID and show it to you, tell you how many generations he is, and how close he is to you as the donor. Then start reading your palms. After that, when you were full of gratitude and ready to resign, the Taoist priest took out a notebook and said lightly: Donate some incense money as you like. Originally, you had prepared dozens of yuan to donate, but when you opened the Taoist priest's book, the name and money of the donor were clearly written on it: XXX, hometown XXX, 3900 yuan; XXX, hometown XXX, 2000... No donation amount is less than 1,000 yuan. Not donating? The Taoist priest was unhappy and the consequences were serious. Then you instantly "enlighten": destroying wealth and eliminating disasters, this is the ever-changing truth.

NO.6. Turpan Grape Valley: The grapes have changed their taste

Charge: "Everyone praises Turpan’s grapes, Hami’s melons, and Korla’s fragrant pears." Green trees in Turpan Grape Valley The trees are shaded and the grape trellises are in pieces. Moistened by the Tianshan snow that flows all day long, the most attractive thing is of course the grapes hanging on the branches, as crystal clear as pearls and as bright as agate, making people salivate.

In Grape Valley, the grape stalls are filled with all kinds of grapes, including golden, purple and brown varieties. The ones are as big as a little finger and as small as rice grains. The names are also very weird. There are some that are called "women's beauty", some that are called "men's beauty", some that claim to cure high blood pressure, and some that claim to cure rheumatism. It's so dazzling to see. Most farmers in Grape Valley have grapes to buy, but the cheapest ones here cost 50 yuan per pound, and the more expensive ones cost 70 or 80 yuan. When you arrive in Urumqi, you will find that the most expensive ones cost more than 30 yuan per pound. When you go to Grape Valley to eat, you end up in the ditch again. The landlady hands you the menu. The food is ridiculously expensive. A bowl of vegetarian pilaf costs 15 yuan, a portion of mutton costs 120 yuan, and stir-fried vegetables are around 20 to 30 yuan. If you complain that it is too expensive, the landlady will still say: We are a 4A scenic spot, and the price is equivalent to that of a five-star hotel.

NO.7. Xi'an: Fake antiques are confused with real ones

Charge: When you arrive in Xi'an, you have to be careful. In some places in Xi'an, you can only move your eyes but not your hands. Xi'an is full of antiques, jades, terracotta warriors and horses souvenirs, Western Zhou sword coins, and Beiyang cymbals. When tourists come here, they always bring some "antiques" back. But Xi'an's antique forgery is so fake that the experts say it is the real thing.

Xi'an has a famous antique street - Huajue Lane. The alley is full of small shops selling antiques, snuff bottles, jade, cosmetic boxes, old locks, porcelain, headdresses, everything you want, but Most of these are fakes. Be even more careful when shopping at roadside stalls in Xi'an. Some unscrupulous vendors arrange their goods in a triangle. As soon as you take them, the items fall over. Most of the items placed underneath were arranged by them in advance and are already broken. Therefore, the hawker will tell you how valuable this antique is, and it cannot be purchased without spending hundreds of dollars. On a street opposite the Xi'an Railway Station Square, fake goods are very common, and in some shops, the shopkeepers will set up hidden traps and put a very beautiful knife or sword. As soon as you reach out to pick it up, the so-called jade bracelet or purple clay pot will appear. Classes will fall like dominoes. In this way, a glass "jade bracelet" worth two yuan will extort one or two hundred yuan from you.

NO.8. Dali: "Recognize fellow villagers"

Charge: Yunnan is famous for its jade production and is close to Myanmar, the kingdom of jade. Tourists who come to Lijiang often buy jade, but they usually remain in the dark about it.

In places such as Dali and Lijiang in Yunnan, there is a common sales method of "recognizing fellow villagers", that is, marrying tourists and pretending to be fellow villagers in order to shorten the distance between the two parties, and finally defraud tourists into buying jewelry. These jewelry are often shoddy and mostly fake. The jewelry in the boutique area is priced at tens of thousands, but after identification, it is usually fakes sold at street stalls worth 20 to 30 yuan. When purchasing goods, the tour guide will inadvertently say in surprise that our boss is from the same hometown as you. Afterwards, the boss appeared, asked about a certain place in his hometown with concern, and then introduced his business scale of tens of millions. The "boss" will also frankly report his family scandals and the inside story of the jewelry industry, saying that the jewelry products he sells have dozens of times the profit, and use bitter tricks to increase the other party's trust.

Finally, the boss must be so arrogant that he sells one or two sets of precious jewelry to fellow villagers at the cost price, which is a few tenths of the marked price. The trick of recognizing fellow villagers often works, and many tourists with profound knowledge also fall into the trap.

NO.9. Yangshuo: The ferocity behind the warmth

Crime: Yangshuo is a paradise for donkeys, but many donkeys have fallen under the "flower rack" of paradise.

Yangshuo has many entertainment cities, which are most attractive to tourists seeking romantic encounters. However, there are many hidden murderous intentions in entertainment cities. Their method is usually to unite some social tour guides and some taxi drivers to use cheap consumption as bait to attract tourists to entertainment venues for consumption, and then the escort girls will ask for "special drinks." When checking out, the tourists discovered that the entertainment city used two "mandarin duck" price lists with different prices. The price of the so-called "special drink" in the checkout price list was astonishingly high. "Special drinks" are actually drinks such as Sprite and Coke mixed with each other. The cost of a cup is only a few cents, but it is sold to customers for one or two hundred yuan. There are also special service fees, ranging from 600-800 yuan to several thousand yuan. If you can't pay the money, you won't be able to escape.

The National Day holiday is approaching, and traveling is still an ideal way for most people to experience life. Here, the editor summarizes the top ten most notorious tourist attractions in China and exposes their crimes one by one. On the one hand, it is to remind travelers who will travel here; on the other hand, it is hoped that the relevant departments that manage tourist attractions will pay attention to these issues. The natural landscape of the scenic spot is beautiful, and we hope that the cultural landscape of each scenic spot will also be healthier. In order to achieve a virtuous cycle of tourists visiting scenic spots in a civilized manner and scenic spots providing good services.

NO.10. Bashang: It is easy to ride a horse but difficult to dismount

Specific charges: blue sky and white clouds, Wulan Gong River as clear as a mirror, a vast green grassland, and wild flowers all over the mountains and plains. Bursting with fragrance, this is the charming scenery on the dam. There are many people driving here every weekend. On the way, there are usually many locals who come to solicit guests and attract foreign tourists at low prices. However, most of these hotels are in extremely poor conditions and do not have business licenses, and safety problems often occur.

Be especially careful when driving on the dam. Many places are circled. If you drive along the dirt road into a certain area, someone may come out and say that you cannot enter here and you have to charge money. If you are not careful, you may be extorted. Horse riding is the most attractive tourist attraction on the dam, and the fees are certainly not low. The operators near the Third Army Racecourse in Hongshan are particularly good at cheating tourists. When you get there, before the tourists can even touch the horse, they will start counting the time for you. By the time you get on the horse, it will already be 10 minutes old. The owner of the horse takes the horse and walks slowly. Unless the tourists ride the horse for 1 hour and pay for 1.5 hours, he will reluctantly let the horse run a few steps. The fee was agreed to be 40 yuan/hour, but once you get on the horse, it’s hard to get off. You can’t help it. The locals will pull the horse around for half a day and then return to the starting point, which can often take two or three hours. It is not uncommon to ask for hundreds of yuan in horse-drawing fees.