So we planned a three-day trip for the end of August. This time, we decided to enter the Tianlu from Birchbark Ridge and exit the Tianlu from Wildfox Ridge.
1, the popularization of "Grassland Sky Road"
Grassland Sky Road, is located in Zhangjiakou City, Zhangbei County and Chongli District, the junction of the west from the south side of Zhangbei County, the Wild Fox Ridge (Wild Fox Ridge near the fortress, east to Chongli County Birchbark Ridge, is connected to the Chongli Skiing Area, Chicheng Hot Springs and Zhangbei Grassland Scenic Area, a key Passage, is also one of the ten most beautiful highway in mainland China.
The Grassland Sky Road, with a total length of 132.7 kilometers, is like a dragon, perched on the top of the mountains, meandering and undulating, stretching for more than a hundred kilometers. The blue sky is connected with it, the white clouds echo with it, walking on top of the sky road is like strolling in the clouds, so it is named the sky road. Here is the edge of Xilingol prairie, the average altitude of 1400 meters, the average annual temperature is only 4 degrees Celsius, known as "the world's thirteen provinces, cold but birch ridge" said. Windy, sunshine, no obvious summer become the most significant climate characteristics.
The grassland sky road is 132 kilometers long, divided into two lines of the east line, the west line of about 32 kilometers, the east line of about 100 kilometers. Because the west line is a one-way line, so go relatively few people, people talk about the grassland sky road, mostly refers to the east line. Grassland sky road east line from the wild fox ridge from west to east to birch ridge, so, the wild fox ridge entrance, also known as the west entrance, birch ridge entrance also known as the east entrance, we generally say that the west entrance is refers to the wild fox ridge (zhangbei county, the east entrance is refers to the birch ridge (chongli area.). The wild fox ridge to birch ridge 100 kilometers long sky road called grassland sky road east line, is also referred to as the "grassland sky road", and the west line is gradually marginalized by the majority of tourists.
2, how to enter the grassland sky road
The grassland sky road has two entrances, respectively, for the wild fox ridge entrance and birch ridge entrance, at the same time, it is also two exits. Specifically from which entrance into, to be based on each person's own travel route. Let's talk about myself. The first time I went to the sky road, I chose to enter from the wild fox ridge, because of this is the gate of the sky road, but because of this, the entrance to that called a traffic jam ah, we sat in the car blowing the grassland wind for an hour, and sing "blue sky, white sheep, my home". My second trip to the grassland, I chose to enter from the birch ridge, may be out of the tourist season, birch ridge entrance is incredibly smooth ah. Before every trip, I have the habit of arranging the route and itinerary in advance, and this time was no exception. The Grassland Skyway is a strange place for us, so cell phone navigation is of course a must. I used Baidu Maps, so I'll use that map as an example here.
From the wild fox ridge into the grassland sky road open Baidu map APP, and then directly search for "Zhangbei grassland sky road service center", is the grassland sky road wild fox ridge entrance la, is the north gate, is also the grassland sky road main gate, this is not a mistake, we can rest assured that the search, haha.
From the birch ridge into the grassland sky road open Baidu map APP, and then directly search "grassland sky road (birch ridge)", as shown in the figure below, is the grassland sky road birch ridge entrance. If you want to see the complete route of the entire east line of the Sky Road, in the Baidu Maps search bar, enter "grassland Sky Road East", you can see the entire route. It's important to note that cell phone navigation will automatically select the shortest route, so be careful of being navigated off course, and trust the navigation while also knowing the route we're traveling.
The route from the entrance to the residence hotel is shown below. After entering the entrance to the Skyway, I set my destination to the name of the hotel I was staying at. The powerful Baidu map will provide several routes, so we should be extra careful.
The keywords in the text of the entrance, I have personally tested the accuracy, we can rest assured that the drive over oh.
3, eat and live
On the way to the grassland sky road, I still recommend that you bring enough emergency dry food and water, in case of traffic jams? What if the car breaks down in the middle of the road? Be fully prepared to have fun. Since we are traveling with children, so bring a lot of food, although many are not children eat, haha. As long as you enter the grassland sky road, basically driving a road will appear a few farmhouse, as long as you are hungry, you can go in to eat some roasted lamb or something, the taste of each house how, I do not know, but fill your stomach, it should be no problem. Of course, we all want to play out, we want to play happily, can eat local food, that's more than good.
The first thing that comes to mind when we talk about grasslands is mutton, and the taste of mutton in Tianlu is very good, so if you come here to play, you can't miss the chance to eat mutton. Here the flavor of beef jerky is also great, on the way back, we bought some beef jerky to bring back, which should be considered a grassland specialty, and milk sugar ah, caraway seeds ah, if necessary, you can also bring some back. Then say live it, for those who go to a place to play for the first time, this is the most disturbing thing, anyway, I feel this way, really will consider a lot, for example, in case it is a black store what to do? What if the food is unhygienic? What if it's a rip-off? What if the hotel room hygiene is too dirty? Will there be too many mosquitoes? Where is the right location? Is it better to be by the roadside or by the inside?
Haha, I especially understand everyone's feelings, but this is my first time to go to the knot, when I went to the second time, it will be very easy. Because the first time I went to live in the "colorful sky road holiday hotel" I am very satisfied ah, whether it is the location (in the middle of the sky road location, both ends are suitable, do not have to rush Oh, the quality of food (my mouth, yo, the surrounding environment (from the sky road road highway 1 kilometer or so, quiet, safe, less dust or hotel hygiene, are very good, the boss is also very quick (the meal zero to erase, haha, I have to say, I'm still lucky.
Colorful Holiday Inn has swings and hammocks in the backyard, so if you want to stay another day, it's not bad to get some fresh air. At night, there is a bonfire party, we dance together to see the fireworks, some people show playing the tree flowers, is also beautiful not da, all the children to see the stunned, my baby pointed to the sparks and said to me: "Mom, fire, fire" haha.
The hotel's roast lamb flavor is also very authentic, the last time we came to eat the roast leg of lamb, this time we replaced the roast lamb chops, on the cumin powder to eat together, not dry, not greasy, and in the city to eat that's not a taste, delicious and unstoppable,abercrombie france. By the way, if you determine to stay in this hotel (I like to say that it is a farmhouse, if you want to eat roast lamb, to at least two hours in advance to the boss to call the reservation of oh, wait for you to come and then book, that can be waiting for a long time, their roast lamb are raw meat directly baked, not first boiled seven or eight minutes cooked and then take to the grill oh, so the time is very long, you are in a hurry is also useless. I was really bored when I was waiting for my meal, so I went to the kitchen and took a walk around (the waiter didn't stop me, hehehe, and I found the following one.
Special note: don't pick mushrooms you don't know, some of them are poisonous.
Yes, there are several big boxes of wild mushrooms. The waiter said that it rained a few days ago, and after the rain, there were a lot of wild mushrooms. They take advantage of this time to pick a lot of fresh mushrooms every year, in addition to the fresh mushrooms left for guests to eat, not eat all of them will be taken to dry, made of dried wild mushrooms. Haha, I ate a lot of mushrooms for dinner that day, why, fresh natural wild mushrooms ah, taste great, the last time I saw it was when I was very young. Tianlu grassland there is a dish is oat noodles, oat noodles are also very delicious ah, may also be the cook's good hand, anyway, I think every dish, including sand onions, stewed chicken (the door to the door to raise the living rooster, may be so that I ate, oooh and so on are very tasty. Want to go to the sky road partners, you can rest assured that the reservation, if with the owner to become friends, may not wipe you a zero, gah.
4, play
You must ask, early fall to the grasslands, grass is yellow, the scenery is still beautiful? The scenery is beautiful and not beautiful, depending on the level of each person photographed it, I think so, anyway, my level is not good, I think the naked eye is very beautiful place, to the camera, it becomes miserable, hey, tears ah, in vain, failed to live up to the great scenery scenery of the thing can not be described, can only be on the photo la. I quietly look at the change of a cloud ~
Guess what it is
You see if I am cute ~
One thing that must be mentioned is that the grassland in the fall there are mushrooms, oh, the jungle is a large patch of mushrooms, randomly picked, pure wild, brought back to dry to do the dried mushrooms that is also a strong drop, with the children picking mushrooms (colorful days near the hotel, but it's also a very happy) It is also a very happy thing to pick mushrooms with children (there are mushrooms near the Seven Colors Sky Road Hotel), so parents who bring their children out to play, don't miss it. After the rain, the mushrooms like bamboo shoots generally grow up, very lovely ah
Residence hotel opposite the mountain shot the effect, very fairy Oh
5, our schedule
D1: Because there are three days and not a weekend, so we did not start too early. After having breakfast it was already 8:30, we started to depart to the Badaling highway direction. There was some traffic on the Great Wall, probably due to the large number of summer vacationers, but it was much smoother than the last trip.
At about 12:30 p.m., I arrived at Huapiling, and after entering the Skyway, I found a place to sit down and eat my lunch.
It was almost two o'clock after lunch and a good rest. Continue driving and enjoy the scenery along the way.
At 5:40pm, we arrived at the Holiday Inn Express in Qichengtianlu and prepared for dinner.
D2: We had plenty of time, in the morning after breakfast at the hotel (10 yuan per adult, children do not charge ha, then around the neighborhood, with children picking some mushrooms. After a break at noon, we went to Senadu Resort, 20 kilometers away from the hotel, and played skateboarding, cable car and other projects. In the evening, we continued to stay at the Holiday Inn Seven Colors Sky Road.
D3:After breakfast, we drove to the direction of Wild Fox Ridge and had lunch at the roadside farm road. At 1:00 p.m., drive back to Beijing without traffic jam on the road.
6, notes
First point: before the vehicle into the sky road, to ensure that the vehicle full of gas, because the sky road in the middle of the road there is no gas station;
Second point: the sky road year-round lower temperatures, even the hottest summer, the side is also very cool, it is recommended that you bring a jacket, if you go to the early fall, bring a thicker clothes;
Third point: in the sky road driving, do not rely entirely on navigation, do not rely on the navigation system, do not rely on the road, do not rely on the road, do not rely on the road to the bottom of the road, do not rely on the road to the bottom of the road.
Fourth point: In sunny weather, the UV rays are really very strong, even the most sun-resistant people have molted skin, don't believe me.