Shanmu River Rafting Notes 1. Choose Shanmu River for your ride. It is located in Shibing County, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. The clear and shallow Shanmu River has a natural drop of 640 meters in total within a 44-kilometer course. Its water quality is pure and surprising.

There is no risk, so every summer, it becomes an ideal place for tourists to go rafting on their own.

Shi Bing is also known as the "Floating City".

If you travel with a group to raft the Shanmu River from Guiyang, the price for a two-day and one-night trip will be around 250 yuan.

We don’t like to join a group, but we meet up with friends. From Guiyang, there is a direct train to Shibing. The ticket price is about 25 yuan, but the ticket needs to be booked one or two days in advance, and the train leaves relatively early (7:30 am).

It takes about three hours to drive through Guiding, Fuquan and Kaili to Shibing. After getting off the bus, take a local van and drive 17 kilometers (fare 6 yuan) to Shibing County.

If you can't catch the tourist bus, you should carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of hardship and tiredness. Take a 60 yuan air-conditioned bus from Guiyang Jinyang Bus Station to Kaili in two hours, and then take a 25 yuan air-conditioned minibus from Kaili.

It takes half an hour to reach Shibing County.

2. Shi Bing’s impression: This is a quiet small county with a vast area and sparsely populated areas. There are few pedestrians and vehicles on the empty streets. A taxi only costs five yuan to go around the city.

The pace of life here can also be seen from the pace of pedestrians.

The van at the train station will take you to the city center. If you are willing to ask, hotel accommodation fees range from 40 yuan to 300 yuan. The shopkeeper will tell you that he can help you buy cheap rafting tickets. The general price is 165 yuan.

, and it costs 185 yuan to buy a ticket to the rafting scenic spot. In addition, he can find a car to take you to the rafting scenic spot. The cost of a car is 80 yuan (including transportation).

Through repeated verification and multiple inquiries, this is the truth.

Okay, find a hotel that you think is reasonably priced and stay there, because you can’t catch up with the rafting time that day. After taking a shower, you can go out and explore Shibing County - mainly looking for local specialties.

When it comes to food, the saying "Eat in Guiyang" in Guizhou Province is true at all, but if you are willing to look for it in this small county, you will also find some good things.

The big restaurants have no special features and it's boring to go there.

There are many small restaurants along the Wuyang River Bridge, known as the "Night Market Street". Every family has wild fish in the pots and delicacies in the cages. They can serve hot pot or barbecue, and the prices are reasonable.

Find a table next to the river and sit down, order a local hot pot with sour soup, add two pounds of sweet rice wine, and you can spend a few hours enjoying the delicious food while enjoying the river breeze.

When night falls and the lanterns are turned on, and you are slightly drunk, the quiet Wuyang River is paradise.

3. Rafting preparations: It takes about half an hour to take a reserved van to the rafting spot at 8:30 the next morning. After getting off the bus, the driver told us that he would wait downstream of the rafting and take us back to the county town.

At this time, you will see that the tourists traveling with the tour group have already started to line up - they were arranged to stay here with the group that night, some live in wooden houses and some live in tents, and the food is very average. They basically don't know how to mix.

The kind that costs 250 to suffer.

I took the ticket and entered the gate of the scenic spot. The sun had not yet come out. I got on a battery sightseeing car with ten people per car, winding around the mountains and valleys all the way down. I just felt the cool breeze and the lack of clothes. There were wild grasses on the mountain walls on both sides of the road, and there was no scenery to see.

——In fact, some totems or other eye-catching things can be sculpted on the mountain wall.

The lowest point of the valley is also the starting point of rafting. The river is not wide, and the shore is full of hovercrafts and life jackets. You can rent a rubber bag on the shore for 20 yuan for unused luggage and have people from the scenic spot help you carry it downstream.

People in scenic spots will tell you that it is best to pack things like cameras and mobile phones because they will get damp if you carry them with you.

In fact, as long as you buy a waterproof bag, you can carry these things with you and take them out to take pictures where the water flow is gentle. It is wonderful.

Put on a life jacket, grab a paddling stick, choose a hovercraft with enough air, and start a group of two: the rafting lasts for 4 or 5 hours and covers a total distance of 44 kilometers.

4. Rafting Documentary The biggest feature of Shanmu River is its shallow water, which is enough to ensure your life safety. Therefore, the trick to save yourself once you fall into the water is to stand up. This will undoubtedly bring good news to tourists who cannot swim.

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Summer is the peak season for rafting. The hovercrafts in the river are like glutinous rice balls in a boiling pot. They are numerous and dense. But you only need to get off the water and the boat will be fine. Shanmu River doesn’t care if there is one more for you.

Riding a boat and paddling require skills, and if you don’t know these things, you will feel quite confused.

The first is to choose a boat. Be sure to choose one with enough air so that you will not get caught on the rocks at the bottom of the water. The second is the seating. Two people sit in groups. The lighter one sits in the front of the boat and the heavier one sits in the stern. This way, there is a gap.

The boat will not capsize in a larger drift; the last thing is paddling, and a boat that cannot paddle will float sideways. Although it can float sideways, it will look very stupid.

For those who know how to play, the person sitting behind is usually responsible for operating the boat with a stick, keeping the boat in a straight line with the widest river channel. The trick is to row left when the bow is leaning to the left, right when the bow is leaning to the right, and row on both sides when the bow is not leaning to the right.

This way your boat will be straight and fast, and you won't get tangled up with other boats.

Of course, if you are stupid and rich, you can also hire a temporary worker in the scenic spot to help you row the boat, and then there will be no problem.

There are two biggest disadvantages of rafting on the Shanmu River: First, there are no sections along the river, and one floats to the bottom. If every section is marked on the bank and named according to the characteristics of the next section, it will be interesting.