Two days before the National Day, when I was struggling about where to play during the holiday, I happened to see a photo of the terraced fields in Lianshan Oujia, which was aired by someone in Xiaohongshu.
golden wheat waves, rolling mountains, and a beautiful picture of mountains in autumn come to my mind. So, it was immediately decided that the travel location of National Day was chosen here.
Next, I began to make a travel guide. I learned from the search that there is a famous Millennium Yao Village near the terraced fields, and the general itinerary of the trip gradually became clear: first look at the terraced fields, then go to Yao Village. Or adjust the order of play according to the distance.
Only after further planning do we know that terraced fields and Yaozhai are far away from the railway station, and the traffic is very inconvenient due to the terrain. If you choose to drive by car, you have to cross a long mountain road, which is a great challenge to your driving skills.
The National Day outing was originally for leisure and relaxation, and I didn't want to worry too much about the traffic. Just when I was a little reluctant to retreat, a tour group on the European terraced fields appeared on the search page. In the above itinerary, there are just Yaozhai and terraced fields I want to go to.
But even so, I'm a little worried, because I have always liked freedom, and I have always held a contemptuous attitude towards traveling with a group. Although I have never participated in a tour group, I have learned a lot of negative comments about the compulsory consumption of tour guides or implied invisible consumption from my friends and online reports.
But our destination this time is quite special, because the traffic is really inconvenient, and because of my busy work, it seems that I don't have more energy to plan how to book a hotel during the crowded National Day holiday. So in the end, after much deliberation, I chose a tour group that can provide "one-stop" service, and we don't have to worry about transportation and accommodation.
There are still two or three days before the holiday after the trip is scheduled. During this period, Mr. Chen and I have reported the holidays with our respective units, and the rest is to look forward to this long-lost and unknown journey.
Seriously, the last time I traveled with Mr. Chen was on the National Day two years ago. At that time, there was no epidemic, and we went to Guilin together. Followed by the sudden arrival of the epidemic, planning the wedding, busy with work, even after the marriage, did not go on a honeymoon. This is the first time we have traveled together since we got married.
perhaps because of this reason, I was particularly excited before I left. I booked a group to leave on October 3, and the night before, I began to be too excited to sleep. This feeling is very much like when you were a child, when adults told you to take you out to play the next day, you were full of expectations from the day before.
at 8: am on October 3rd, the tourist bus departed from Zhujiang New Town on time. The journey from Guangzhou to Qingyuan destination should have taken three and a half hours at normal speed, but it didn't arrive at Yaozhai until after one o'clock in the afternoon because of the traffic jam on National Day.
In this process, I also realized the biggest "pit" of traveling with a group. According to the itinerary seen on the US delegation, our destination should have been the most famous Millennium Yaozhai in Nangang, but on the tourist bus, the tour guide said that we would not go to Millennium Yaozhai, but to Youling Yaozhai near it.
Yaozhai in Youling is not as famous as the Millennium Yaozhai in terms of fame and development. This is the first time I have heard this name. At the first moment I heard the news, I was a little angry. I wanted to ask the tour guide clearly, but I thought it might be the usual style of tour groups, and it might be futile after I finished speaking, so I gave up.
Then I searched the Little Red Book for the raiders of Yaozhai in Youling. When I saw many people saying that compared with the Millennium Yaozhai, Yaozhai in Youling was less commercialized, and the Yao village was better preserved, I was relieved and thought that I had found a big bargain.
But when we really arrived at Yao Village and sat down to have dinner, we found that the "Yao Village" we visited was only a group of places dressed in Yao costumes, which served tourists specially. Although there were also young ladies of Yao who warmly came to propose a toast and introduced a lot about Yao culture, the buildings in the village and the clothes and costumes of the villagers were all dressed by Han people, and the atmosphere of ethnic minorities experienced here was really limited.
Later, I talked to a local young lady, only to know that this is not the ancient village of Youling, and the ancient village is still half an hour's drive from here. In other words, this is a service center dedicated to serving foreign tourists, a "Youling Yaozhai" dedicated to tourists.
fortunately, I didn't expect much from the tour group myself, and the biggest expectation of my trip is the terraced fields in Europe, so I can still accept the "stealing the column" of the travel agency.
when you come, be safe. Although I didn't go to the most authentic oil village, I quickly adjusted my mood and walked with Mr. Chen in the village where I ate to maximize the experience of this trip.
because I took part in this trip with a leisure mood, I am not very interested in the afternoon trip, and I just want to have a rest after arriving at the hotel as soon as possible.
fortunately, the hotel is located in the core, in the center of Lianzhou, and it is convenient to go out shopping.
at four o'clock in the afternoon, I took out the travel tea set specially prepared when I went out, and brewed the black tea brought from home with the hot water at the front desk of the hotel. Traveling like life is the "realm" that I have always pursued. Going out, having afternoon tea in a strange environment and keeping my living habits will make people feel at ease.
at 7 o'clock in the evening, after dinner, attend a bonfire party. Like Yaozhai at noon, this bonfire party is also a performance for tourists. The location was still indoors, and a group of little brothers and sisters dressed in national costumes danced national dances, as if to entertain us.
I didn't have much interest in this performance form of bonfire party, but I still couldn't bear to spoil the performer's fun and sat in the front row and saw the end.
After the performance, I went up to take a photo with a young Yao sister. The little girl looked only ten or twenty years old, and her cheeks were red with fire. In the just-concluded performance, she played a Yao bride and showed people the traditional wedding customs of Yao nationality. I don't know if this little girl in front of me will stay here all the time to meet groups of tourists.
at eight o'clock in the evening, the arrangement of the tour group for one day has ended and our free time has begun. Since most of the group are elderly people, at this time, they may all go back to the hotel to rest. However, Mr. Chen and I, a "teenager", started "night action" to measure the city with our steps.
The advantage of living in the urban area is that it takes about 2 minutes to walk to the core area of the city. There is a section of the road that is the bridge along the river. People walk on the bridge deck, and there are rivers and parks under it, blowing sea breeze, and looking at the night view of the city, they have the illusion of living in this city for a long time.
When we walked to a shopping mall, there were many locals in KFC and Pizza Hut nearby. Because we were worried about the traffic jam on the way back the next day, we bought some food for the road in the supermarket in the shopping mall.
get up after six o'clock the next day and start a day's trip. The first stop is the European terraced fields that I am most looking forward to during the whole trip. Fortunately, this scenic spot didn't step on the pit. When it arrived at 9 o'clock in the morning, it arrived at the terraced fields, and there was a morning to take pictures and play.
On the way to the terraced fields, I heard a local young lady say that she would go to the terraced fields on the right hand side, because the ones on the left hand side were not yellow, so after the dissolution of the group members, they all walked to the terraced fields on the left hand side with the advice of the tour guide. Only Mr. Chen and I went in the opposite direction like two retrograde people.
it's right to listen to the local people! The terrace we went to not only turned yellow completely, but also had a wider and better view. On the terraced fields, you can see the distant mountains opposite. Above the golden wheat waves of terraced fields and the distant mountains of navy blue, there is a blue sky. You can feel the love and gift of nature to this land without any filter.
As we arrived early, when we took photos, there were not many tourists running on large terraces, which reminded me of the scene when I was a child in the village, watching the autumn harvest of adults.
In less than two hours, I harvested hundreds of photos with terraces. After seeing the terraced fields, it's already glad you came.
The whole trip ended at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Because of the traffic jam on the way back, it took more than three hours to drive to Guangzhou until 12 o'clock in the evening. Although this trip is not perfect and regrettable, on the whole, I am satisfied.
because the destination is important, but more important is who to go with and the scenery and mood along the way. Life is the same, there are always unexpected times, although we can't change others, we can adjust our mentality. No matter what you encounter, you can stop loss in time.
and this time, I can look at it more objectively and deeply understand its advantages and disadvantages. Perhaps many times, there are no pros and cons in many things, only which choice is more suitable for you at the moment.
Under the epidemic, the number of trips and opportunities are much less, but I still hope that if I can, I can have more opportunities to go out, experience strange environments, and see my smallness and the splendor of the world. Let yourself be open-minded in small things and be more objective in big things. This is one of the meanings of traveling.
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