Peach blossom valley: the peach blossom sea all over the mountains and plains
Pinggu is the first place in Beijing to enjoy peach blossoms. 220,000 mu of peach blossoms are in full bloom all over the mountains, just like the rosy clouds stretching for hundreds of miles. Compared with the enchanting peach blossoms in Beijing Botanical Garden, the peach blossoms here are shyly open, which looks simple and much simpler. The Peach Blossom Festival in Pinggu does not mean that peach blossoms are specially exhibited in one place and one park, but many scenic spots in Pinggu, that is, the peach blossom landscape in the whole region, so it is free all year round.
The most beautiful peach blossom viewing place in Pinggu is Taoyuan Xiangu, which is known as the "Peach Blossom Sea in Pinggu" and is located in Xiaoyuzi Village, Dahua Town. There is a small Jinshan near the village, which stands in a sea of flowers of 10,000 mu and is surrounded by a peach forest of 10,000 mu. The mountain peak is not high above sea level and can be reached in a few minutes. There is a viewing pavilion at the top of the mountain, which is one of the best viewing places for the panoramic view of Pinggu Flower Sea. From the top of Xiaojinshan Mountain to the foot of the distant mountain, there are lively flowers. The breeze blows, as if waves of flowers are constantly coming to your feet.
If you want to enjoy flowers while playing with water, it is suggested to take Jingping Expressway to Shunping Road, go to Jinhai Lake, and enjoy flowers in Zhushui Village and Han Zhuang Village of Jinhai Lake Town. The flowers here are hidden among the green mountains and green waters, which has a unique charm. If you want to feel the dreamy artistic conception of crossing the flower sea, you can take Hujiaying South Exit to Kaoshanji North Exit, and take Jingping Expressway to Misan Road and Changjin Road. Hundreds of peach blossoms are in full bloom on both sides of the road. You can stop and enjoy yourself at any time, or you can gallop all the way and feel the shock of sailing like a boat under the sea of flowers.
Recommended location: Taohuahai, Pinggu, Xiaoyuzi Village, Dahua Mountain Town
Self-driving route: all sections along Jingping Expressway. Walking along Changjin Road and Emei Mountain, you can try roast whole sheep in Emei Garden, which is a good route to enjoy flowers and taste delicious food.
Best viewing period: April to May
Changping: Peaches hanging in the air.
If there are too many people enjoying flowers in Pinggu, you might as well go to Shuanglongshan Forest Park in Changping. The peach blossoms here are called "mountain peaches" by local mountain watchers. They are not like the peach blossom sea in Pinggu, but clusters embedded in green hills. Seen from the foot of the mountain, they are more like floating clouds in the sky. In addition to enjoying flowers, you can also pick up free-range eggs to play with. This is the characteristic of Shuanglong Mountain. There are nearly 2000 pheasants and more than 30 nests in the chicken farm, including green preserved eggs, yellow preserved eggs and red preserved eggs. You can choose by yourself. You can eat home-cooked dishes, farmhouse meals and game meals at Shuanglong Mountain Villa. If it is a gathering of friends, you can also have a real CS.
Recommended location: Shuanglongshan Forest Park, Changping District
Self-driving route: Take Beijing-Tibet Expressway, Changping Xiguan Exit, the direction of the Ming Tombs, turn left at Changling, 3.8km northwest of Tailing, and you can reach the scenic spot.
Best viewing period: May
Pear Blossom Festival: Old trees are like snow clouds.
Panggezhuang Town, Daxing District, Wanmu Ancient Pear Tree Reserve is the largest, oldest, most diverse and earliest flowering pear tree group in Beijing, and it is also a famous pear tree viewing place in Beijing. Every April, Daxing Pear Blossom Festival is held here. Pear trees in Lihua Village are mostly over 200 years old, among which "Gong Pear Tree" is 4 14 years old. The pears it produced were presented to the palace as a tribute as early as the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and were named "golden yellow" by the emperor. Walking into the pear garden, sweet pears are overflowing, petals are falling with the wind, and white pears are like clouds, which puts on a charming veil for this ancient pear garden under the blue sky. In addition to enjoying pear blossoms, you can also taste special foods such as pear blossom banquet, mushroom pie and braised pork of ancestors.
Recommended location: Panggezhuang Town, Daxing District
Self-driving route: Go straight to Zhaocun via the west side of Lihua Bridge on Kaikai Expressway.
Best viewing period: from mid-April to mid-May.
Pear Township in Jingnan: A Centennial Pear Garden in Xianyou
Liu Lihe Town in Fangshan District has been known as "Pear Town in South Beijing" since ancient times. Pak Lei Dajia Theme Park is a century-old pear garden, with the longest tree age over 300 years and the thickest diameter over 80 cm. There are more than 17000 old pear trees in the park, totaling more than 3000 mu. It is said that it was planted by the Qing emperor to prevent the Yongding River from flooding. It has a history of hundreds of years, and then it continues to expand, forming today's scale.
The pear trees in the park have beautiful trees, lush foliage and well-laid layout. Walking into the pear garden, the branches are silvery white, the leaves are flourishing, the flowers are bright and moist, the petals are white if frozen, and the stamens are like nectar, so there is a kind of beauty in simplicity. Fangshan Dou Store, which is about 15 minutes' drive from Liyuan, can enjoy the local specialty food Tauren Banquet. Special note: the tauren banquet is divided into different sizes, and a big tauren can serve 20 people.
Recommended location: Beijing Pak Lei Family Theme Park.
Self-driving route: Liulihekou exit of Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway, eastbound 10 km; Or Beijing, Hong Kong and Macao tell Lugouqiao exit, cross Changxindian, take Changzhou Road to Shanghan Road in Gongyizhuang, and walk 500 meters west of Jiahe Village intersection.
Best viewing period: after Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Apricot Blossom Phoenix Ridge: Go to an apricot blossom banquet.
In the north, apricot blossoms bloom earlier than pear and peach blossoms. The apricot blossom in Fenghuangling is the closest apricot blossom feast to the urban area. At the beginning of April every year, apricot flowers and thousands of apricot trees are covered with branches, falling like pink auspicious clouds. In the apricot garden of Yinger Village in Fenghuang Mountain, there are also stone roads and wooden plank roads for tourists, which are suitable for the elderly and children to play.
Recommended location: No.0/9, Fenghuangling Road, Sujiatuo Town, Haidian District.
Self-driving route: North Fifth Ring Road-Xiaojiahe Bridge Exit (Yuanmingyuan West Road, via Agricultural University to Yongfeng Road-Beiqing Road, turn left to the west-Wenbei Road to the north, and follow the signs.
Best viewing period: from late March to early May.
Yanqing: 200,000 mu of apricot blossoms are in full bloom in Shan Ye.
In Xinzhuangbao Village, Xiang Ying Township, Yanqing County, 200,000 mu of apricot flowers will be in full bloom in Shan Ye after mid-April. It can be said that the mountains are red and the flowers are slowly fragrant. However, the average elevation in Yanqing County is 500 meters, and the weather changes about half a month later than that in the urban area. Therefore, after mid-April, the apricot flowers in full bloom in early spring have just bloomed. The apricot trees here bloom in the morning and evening, continuously and in different colors, forming a beautiful landscape of flowers blooming.
When you come to Yanqing, you can also visit Qianjiadian Baili Landscape Gallery and He Jiong Ecological Corridor, enter the folk village, claim a field, plant a tree, dig wild vegetables, and take children to participate in unique farming experience activities; Taste folk food, such as the brazier tofu banquet in Liugou and the water tofu in Huangyu Temple.
Recommended location: Xinzhuangbao Village, Xiang Ying Township, Yanqing County. Self-driving route: Shangjing-Tibet Expressway. After arriving in Yanqing County, take Ada Road, Bayu Road, Dongyan Road, Chi Chang Road and Xiang Liu Road, and pass through Xiang Ying Town Government of Yanqing County. There will be road signs along the way.
Best viewing time: mid-to-late April
At the foot of the small-topped ice flower Lingshan: light and bright yellow, with fairy flavor.
Although the small-topped ice flower is small, under the open forest, this bright yellow is particularly bright. What did you learn to grow such beautiful flowers on the desolate land in the suburbs of Beijing? At one time, the small-topped ice flower was the object that many plant lovers sought at the expense of climbing mountains and mountains. It's too rare to find. After years of on-the-spot investigation, flower lovers found that there was a place where the small-topped ice flower population was preserved. Friends who want to see them no longer need to travel all over Qian Shan, but only need to drive to Xiaolongmen Forest Farm to see the heroic spirit of Xiaoding Binghua.
Recommended location: self-driving navigation in Xiaolongmen Forest Farm: about 130 km from Beijing. Drive west along National Highway 109. When you arrive at the forest farm, look for the canyon on the left side of the highway. Only by going into the ravine and looking for it carefully can you see the small ice flower. The bus can't get here, so friends who practice low-carbon travel can only take bus No.892 to Lingshan intersection (Shuangtangjian station), and then walk up along 109 national road for about 7 kilometers to reach their destination.
Best flower viewing time: April-May
Farfalla Baiyanggou: the earliest blooming wild flowers in the suburbs of Beijing.
Farfalla, this is the earliest blooming wild flower in Beijing. What kind of flower is this? Perhaps for those who are used to worshipping plum blossoms, they are patient, unguarded and come through hardships. This is true. Usually at the beginning of March, the phenological year is in the middle and late March at the latest, and bright yellow coltsfoot flowers bloom one after another, a bit like autumn chrysanthemum. You can visit and ask permission to watch the flowers near the waterfront in early April-Farfara farfara, which grows on land, blooms half a month later than individuals in water.
Sightseeing place: Baiyanggou, Changping, self-driving navigation: The place to watch Farfara flowers is Baiyanggou, Changping District. Drive into the mountain, pass by Baiyang City soon, and you will see the village opposite the reservoir, and then walk about 6.5 kilometers. After a continuous S-shaped sharp turn, you can find farfarfara flowers in the stream beside Gong Yu. If you are a friend of low-carbon travel, please take the subway from changping line to Nanshao Station, get off at Chang 1 1 Road, get off at Baiyanggou Station, and walk about 8.5 kilometers northwest to enter the highway in the ditch.
Best flower viewing time: mid-March-early April
Clematis Mentougou: Three Cliff Flowers in Beijing
Clematis is called "Three Cliff Flowers in Beijing" among plant lovers. In addition, the other two species are the only root grasses found in Taihang Mountain and Corydalis Fangshan, which can be seen in Juma River Basin of Fangshan. These three kinds of wild flowers are unique in temperament and only live on cliffs. Clematis microphylla is almost a unique plant in Beijing, and its temperament is outstanding among the wonderful flowers on the cliff. Peanut is noble and gorgeous, and has its own refined temperament different from horticultural plants.
Sightseeing place: Mentougou Danli Tunnel
Self-driving navigation: The nearest place to the city is the Danli Tunnel in Mentougou, which is located at the entrance to the west side of the tunnel and on the cliff hundreds of meters before and after. You can also harvest lovely and pink sprouted grass together. Friends who travel with low carbon can take bus No.890 or No.892, get off at Dingjiatan Station and walk to the tunnel entrance.
Best flower viewing time: April
Well, if you plan to enjoy flowers in the suburbs of Beijing during the holidays, Bian Xiao is here to wish you a pleasant trip!