The route from Huaihua to Xupu Simeng and food and accommodation issues

1. Detailed guide to multiple routes for traveling by car: Depart from Longhui County or Dongkou County in the morning and arrive at Shanmen Town in one hour. Visit the former residence of Cai E and a county-level cultural relic temple, which will take one hour. We drove for ten kilometers to see the Horse Neck Valley, then drove around for about two hours and returned to Shanmen Town for lunch. Take a car for more than 20 kilometers to Matangshan Township, then drive a few kilometers to the northern foot of Baima Mountain, walk three kilometers to Baolian Temple, and walk two kilometers to the top of the mountain to see the majestic scenery all around. If you want to watch the sunrise in the morning, stay in the temple, which can accommodate 20 to 30 people, and have delicacies in the temple for dinner. If you don’t want to watch the sunrise, you can live in Matang Mountain or Xiaoshajiang. Huayao District in Xiaoshajiang is investing hundreds of millions in development, and the conditions will be better in two years. In the past two years, you can also drive 20 kilometers down Xiaoshajiang River to stay in Jinshiqiao Town. It's okay, and there are high-end services at Gaozhou Hot Spring. However, you have to return to Xiaoshajiang Town the next day. In Xiaoshajiang, you can spend a day in Huayao District, where there are Huayao folk customs, Datuo Stone Waterfall, Datuo Yao Mountain, large narrow valleys, grassland terraces, etc. In the evening, we stayed in Xiaoshajiang Huayao Provincial Tourist Hotel Area. On the third day, ten kilometers east of Xiaoshajiang River, you can drive up to Yunwu Villa. In more than ten days on May 1st, there will be hundreds of azaleas in this area. Rushed to Jinshiqiao to have Chinese food. There are two directions to go from here, one is more than ten kilometers northeast to see the Ziquejie Rice Terraces, the other is more than ten kilometers south to pay homage to Wei Yuan’s former residence and visit Wei Yuan Lake. If you want to see the Ziquejie Rice Terraces, you can visit Meishan Dragon Palace, stay one night in Xinhua and then return to Jinshiqiao (50 kilometers). If you visit Weiyuan Lake, you can stay back in Jinshiqiao or take Longhui County to end the trip. Those coming from Changsha can also take Xinhua from Jinshiqiao Town back to Changsha. If you are coming from the direction of western Hunan, you can go west to Longtan Town to see the Anti-Japanese Martyrs Cemetery, or you can go 50 kilometers north to see the Xupu Simeng landscape. In short, Xiaoshajiang (including Jinshiqiao and Matang Mountain within more than 20 kilometers nearby) is the junction of the three cities of Loudi, Shaoyang and Huaihua. Transportation is accessible in all directions. No matter which direction you come from, you don’t have to take many detours to travel here. Three days and then one day of traveling to surrounding areas. Recently, the high-speed railway from Shanghai to Yunnan will pass through here and it will be more convenient to set up a station nearby. 2. Travel Guide for Travelers: Starting from the west of Longhui County or Dongkou County, take a bus to Shanmen Town for about an hour and a half. You can visit Shanmen Town for an hour. After lunch, walk for two hours to Ma Jing Gu Nana. Valley, and walk north along the narrow valley for two to three hours to stay in Matangshan Township. It takes about 20 kilometers to walk here. If you save some time on the road, you can not stay in Matangshan and walk another 7 kilometers to Baima Mountain. Camping at Po Lin Temple (camping is available in the open space in the temple) allows you to watch the beautiful sunrise. Travelers who stayed in Matang Mountain rushed to Baolian Temple around ten o'clock the next day. After returning from the tour to the top of the mountain, they went to the temple to have Chinese food. After lunch, there are two routes. One is to go down the mountain eastward and stay overnight to hunt migratory birds (we only see migratory birds twice a year, one is at the beginning of summer and the turn of spring and summer, and the other is the turn of autumn and winter. However, there are usually many birds and magpies here. , with high mountains and dense forests and beautiful scenery). The next day, we walked more than ten kilometers to the former residence of Wei Yuan, and then took a bus to Huayao Ancient Village or Ziquejie Terraces to stay. Another route is to return to Matang Mountain and there are two roads. One is to take a bus to Huayao for accommodation, and the other is to walk another 20 kilometers to Longtan Anti-Japanese Memorial Site for accommodation. The next day, we took a bus to Huayao Ancient Village for a day trip. Go northeast in Huayao District along the Xuefeng Mountains and walk 50 kilometers in the mountains to reach the Ziquejie Terraces. The mountains are high and sparsely populated. There are only paths used by herders to collect firewood and burn charcoal. You may also encounter wild boars, but there may be new ones. Discover. Those who set off from Xinhua to Ziquejie or go north from Longhui County to Liuduzhai to visit Weiyuan Lake (take a boat from Liuduzhai to the end of the lake to the former residence of Wei Yuan, where you can camp at night to hunt for birds or stay in nearby towns, not far away) You can refer to the above travel routes. Except for particularly remote places, there are people everywhere. As long as you have a certain amount of money, food, housing and transportation are not a big problem.