There are mountains and seas here, and thousands of swans fly here for the winter every winter.
Swan, the "visitor from afar", scattered in reed marshes, beaches, shallow seas and lagoons with a gentle attitude, turning this land covered by winter into a fairy tale.
The scenery here is also like an oil painting dream. Unique seaweed houses are scattered along the highway around the sea. Under the blue sky, the sunset and the starry sky, it is a different kind of landscape painting.
This is Rongcheng, Weihai, Shandong Province, a beautiful and vibrant coastal city.
Rongcheng is located at the easternmost tip of Shandong Peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides, with a coastline of 500 kilometers, facing South Korea across the sea, which is the closest area of China to South Korea.
Rongcheng has a unique natural environment and geographical conditions. There are three kinds of landforms: mountains, hills and plains. Tough lush mountains and surging blue sea meet here.
Come to Rongcheng, feel the breath of life while the swan is still there!
Swan wonderland
Yandunjiao Swan National Nature Reserve
Yandunjiao, located in Lidao Town, Rongcheng City, is a small fishing village surrounded by mountains and waters. In the Ming dynasty, there was a smoke pier on the top of the mountain, so it was named Yandunjiao Village.
Now, it is this elegant swan that makes Yandunjiao famous.
The environment in Yandunjiao is unique-a small stream flows into this naturally formed lagoon, and there is only one outlet leading to the sea. The sea is not frozen all year round, the shoal is wide and the food is abundant.
Coupled with villagers' feeding, from June 165438+ 10 to March of the following year, nearly 10,000 swans flew thousands of kilometers from Siberia, which breeds in summer, to come here for the winter, and it has also become the largest swan winter habitat in Asia.
Dr. Ding, a user from the hornet's nest, rolled in.
In addition to Yandunjiao, the Great Swan National Nature Reserve located in Chengshan Town, Rongcheng City is also a good place to watch and learn about swans.
The arrival of wild swans has added countless breath of life to Rongcheng Bay. They are not afraid of people. They either get together to fight or queue up for activities. With distant cities and ships as the background, it looks very harmonious.
Sunrise is 7 o'clock in winter, so you can only shoot against the light or from the west. At 4 o'clock in the evening, it is a complete side backlight.
If you are lucky enough, on a sunny day, the water turns blue and the swan looks more elegant.
Sometimes they face the snow and spread their wings in the white world. It is a pure sight. Sometimes chasing the sunset, leaving only the chirp of the horizon. Maybe it went south.
Practical information of Yandunjiao
Days of play: half a day to 1 day.
Transportation: Bus No.228 1 half-hour direct; Take a taxi around 70 yuan.
Consumption: Accommodate fishermen every day 130- 150 yuan.
Note: It is about 0 degrees in winter, and the wind is strong at the seaside.
Jiaodong dwellings
Haizaowu
Seaweed house is a typical residential building in Jiaodong Peninsula. Standing by the bay, it's very quiet. This kind of house is a bit like a thatched cottage, but the actual production process of the thatched cottage in Shanghai is quite complicated. A seaweed house needs more than 70 processes, all by hand. One of the most crucial steps is to cover the sea on the roof.
The quality and service time of seaweed house mainly depends on whether the seaweed is tightly covered. High-quality seaweed houses are warm in winter and cool in summer, which only wealthy families could afford before. But now there are fewer and fewer seaweed, so there are few new seaweed houses.
You can see seaweed houses in Yandunjiao and Xixiakou. If you look closely, it looks a bit like a cookie house on a cake.
With the development of modernization, windmills using clean energy have gradually appeared on the coast. From a distance, they are like giants guarding this fairy tale world.
Under the pink sky, seaweed houses stand beside the coastal highway, just like oil paintings.
Sunrise land
Chengshantou
Rongcheng certainly has more beautiful scenery than winter. Chengshantou, also known as "the end of the sky", is the first place in Shandong Province to see the sunrise at sea. Across the sea from South Korea, it was once rated as one of the "Eight Most Beautiful Coasts in China" by chinese national geography.
The sea here is clear and blue, so you can enter the scenic spot at 4 o'clock and wait for the sunrise. Even in winter, the sea is magnificent, adding a bit of majesty to the silence.
Because it integrates the ecology of islands, oceans, bays and coasts, it is covered with rocks and is not suitable for swimming. There is also a lot of wind and fog here all year round, so the lighthouse specially built for this purpose can cross 30 nautical miles with a whistle.
Playback time: 3 hours
Transportation: Weihai Bus Station takes 1 half an hour to Xixiakou, and it runs every half an hour. Ticket price 15 yuan.
Consumption: Tickets 180 yuan
Note: Cableway can greatly save playing time.
Fairy mountain Bird Island
sea donkey island
There are actually no donkeys on Hailu Island, but there are many birds. It's 26 kilometers away from Yandunjiao, so we can play together.
There are less than 3,000 yellow-billed egrets in the world, and about 1000 egrets come to Hailu Island every year. Every spring, when hibiscus flowers are in full bloom, egrets, a national second-class protected animal, will nest, lay eggs and hatch birds from thousands of miles away, and then fly away with their children in autumn.
Whenever the cruise ship rushes to the island, there will always be various birds following, and they can reach out for food. On land, even seabirds are not afraid of people, so they can take some marine fish with them.
It is worth mentioning that the 28th Golden Rooster Award movie "A Godsend Opportunity", which took seven years to make, was filmed here.
Game time: 1 day
Transportation: The cruise terminal in Xixiakou Village takes 0/5 minutes by boat/kloc, and there are boats from March to June every year.
Consumption: ticket 100 RMB.
Note: The military camp of the troops stationed on the island has been changed into simple accommodation (about 40-50 beds).
Same variety
Jimingdao
Jiming Island was originally a sparsely populated original ecological island, and it became a household name because of Where is Dad?
The island is very small, the sea water near the pier is almost pollution-free, and the pebbles on the seabed are very clear. The island is also full of flowers and trees, as well as birds with seagulls and birds singing.
When you come here, you can be a pure islander for a day, fall asleep with the sound of the waves, go out to sea against the sea breeze, fish and taste seafood, see the island cliffs once, live in a seaweed house once … experience the original ecological life and feel this warm and quiet harbor in detail.
What's for food?
Because Rongcheng is near the sea, seafood is the main food, and even jiaozi is filled with fish. The more famous dishes are yellow rice steamed bread, stewed yellow croaker and Spanish mackerel meatball soup.
At the farmhouse, a meal of iron pot yellow croaker, fried conch, cold jellyfish cabbage, laver steamed stuffed bun and pie is only 100 yuan.
Salted fish cake is made by pickling fresh marine fish, drying them in the sun, and then frying them in an iron pan. Eating with tortillas has a unique taste.
The steamed bread with yellow rice stuffing has been on CCTV, and it is known as the best pasta in Jiaodong. The big steamed bread is wrapped in yellow rice and served with sweet potatoes. It is very sweet and delicious.
Spanish mackerel balls are tender and juicy, and you can't stop with a bite. They are also China delicacies on the tip of the tongue.
Of course, there are sea cucumber, abalone, crab, prawn, oyster, clam, sea rainbow, sea urchin and so on. Taste the ocean directly with only ginger slices and cooking wine.
Do you like such an honor? When winter comes, so does the swan. Go to Shandong quickly!