In the eyes of Western tourists, Southwest China's ethnic culture is extremely precious. In the minds of western tourists, the ethnic cultures of the minority regions are extremely precious tourism resources, especially the ethnic customs of Kaili region in Guizhou are more attractive. As the largest collection of Miao and Dong minority cultures in China, Qiandongnan has a unique and distinctive ethnic flavor that makes every attraction there mysterious. The large-scale, cleverly laid-out Dong village drum tower architectural complexes put you in the flower bridges, drum towers, streams, and hammocks, while the fascinating Dong songs make the Dong flavor the first choice of travel destination in your mind.
There is a Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, inhabited by nearly a quarter of the country's Miao population, nearly half of the Dong population. The mountains here are high and the valleys deep, and the forests are dense. Due to closed transportation, few people have ventured into it. In people's impression, it is a place far away from the sky. Because of this, the original natural ecology and ethnic culture here has been better preserved.
Walking into the Kaili area is like entering a green world. The forest coverage rate here is up to. Miao Ling deep Leigongshan natural protection and expansion area and Jianhe hundred miles of broad-leaved forest, there are few artificial traces. Primitive forests are vast, rare birds and beasts freely infested, rugged highway through the forest, birds and flowers, fresh air. The mountains are green and the water is only beautiful. In the Kaili area, there are Yanghe River, Qingshui River and Duliu River; there are also Longbiao River, Gaojiao River, Cedar River, Nodong River and Bazhou River - there are many small and big rivers in the whole state, and all the streams and rivers are clear to the bottom.
Guizhou every mountain will have a hole, "stone hole Miaozhai" is hidden in this vast mountain. Walking around to see, many people will exclaim: beautiful, beautiful, Peach Blossom Garden! Isn't it? The scenery here is majestic and beautiful, standing in the mouth of the cave to look out, the mountains as waves, there is no lack of strange peaks and rocks in the sky, ancient trees, cave folk simple and simple, huge caves sheltered from the wind and rain, warm in winter and cool in summer, people work at sunrise and sunset, self-sufficiency, and the world, and the city of the hustle and bustle of the formation of a stark contrast.
To get to the cave is not simple: first of all, you have to "climb" on the top of the mountain above the canyon near the exit of the Gezhu River, feet and hands, pulling the branches, climbing rocks, slowly moving up. Here is a set of holes, the top of the mountain is the upper cave, halfway down the mountainside Tianshengqiao cave is the lower cave, the middle cave is located between the two. This huge cave, like a huge mountain opened a huge eye, in front of the cave bamboo green trees are beautiful eyelashes.
From the pines and bamboos cover the entrance to the cave, the cave is open, silent, and occasionally a cow screams, echoing in the cave like an airplane roar. Cave home fence as a wall, the top of the cave is the roof, home furnishings are mostly poorly made wooden cabinets, tables and stools. Cave dwellers spin and weave their own cloth, push the mill to grind grain, go to the market 15 kilometers away to buy some oil, salt and other necessities every week, and the rest of the day at home to plant, herd cattle or raise pigs. In their spare time, the men gather around the campfire to drink home-brewed local wine, while the women gather to talk about trivial matters of life. While the beauty of the peach blossom area is great, it is also a fact that the area is poor and backward, with water resources and other problems that make people sigh.
Walking into the Kaili area, you will feel not only the transfer of space, but also like time in reverse. Rich ethnic history and cultural deposits, so that here also preserved the Tang Dynasty hairstyles, Song Dynasty clothing, Ming and Qing Dynasty architecture, Wei Jin legacy. Most of the Miao and Dong villages are hidden in the green trees. Villages to guests, the warmth of the Miao and Dong people have wine to stop the road, stop the door of etiquette, the arrival of the most noble guests, stopping the road wine up to the road more. Wearing costumes of the Miao and Dong girls, with fragrant rice wine and moving songs to express welcome, with each other and the same music. The young men who are bold and free-spirited blow up the reed-sheng manchine to welcome you into the village. On the Lusheng Ping, the beautiful Miao and Dong girls dance, and even the old men and women can't help but participate in the dance. Elegant and unrestrained dance, gentle and melodious singing, so that you look dazzled, listening to drunkenness. By then, no matter how quiet, serious, solemn you usually, will not be able to restrain the impulse to participate in, interspersed in the middle of them, forgetful, can not help themselves ......
Line planning
Kerry (by train) - Zhenyuan - (氵舞)陽河-施秉；
再回镇远（ By train) - Kaili - Langde - Leishan - Xijiang Miaozhai - Sanbao Dong Zhai - Rongjiang - Long Horn Miao - Congjiang - Xiaohuang - Zhaoxing - Liping Xiaohuang - Zhaoxing - Liping - Tianshengqiao
Destination introduction
Kaili City is located in the southeast of Guizhou Province, the foothills of the Miao Ling Mountains, the banks of the Qingshui River, is the National People's Committee, the National Reform and Reform Commission approved by the experimental area of reform and development of the autonomous regions of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, the capital of the city of Kaili. . Kaili is a multi-ethnic garden, known as the "Pearl of Miao Ridge". There are the fairy tale-like fishing caves, the mythological and legendary incense burner mountain, the picturesque Qingshui River, and countless Miao villages. In this green land of Qiandongnan, the Miao flavor tourism area centered on Kaili, the Dong flavor tourism area centered on Liping and the scenic tourism area centered on Zhenyuan make up a splendid picture scroll of scenic spots in Qiandongnan. The harmony and consistency between the natural landscape and humanistic landscape reflect the characteristics of the scenic spots in the ethnic areas of Qiandongnan. The mountains of Qiandongnan are green, the water is beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, and the ethnic customs are rich and unique.
Kaili area is a subtropical humid climate, the climate is mild in all seasons, no hot summer, no cold winter, the average annual temperature of 15.7 degrees Celsius. The average annual temperature is 15.7 degrees Celsius. In addition, there is a saying in Guizhou that "the sky is not clear for three days", which is especially evident in the Kaili area, where it rains for about half of the year, so it is best to bring rain gear when traveling there.
Tourist attractions around Kaili
(氵舞)yang河风景区
(氵舞)yang河风景区is located in the territory of Zhenyuan, Shibing, and Huangping counties under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province's Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Divided into the ancient city of Zhenyuan, Tiexi, the upper and lower (氵舞)yang, Yuntai Mountain, Cedar River, black rushing, Feiyunyi, the old town of old state, the ten scenic spots of the Chong'an River ****394 attractions.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan Ancient City, located in the lower reaches of (Bac Dai) Yang River, is a national key historical and cultural city with a history of 2,000 years. The city gathers humanistic landscapes such as Qinglong Cave, Zhongyuan Cave, Heping Village, Wuwang Cave and Four Palaces. The ancient houses worth visiting are concentrated in the area of Chongzikou and Fuxing Lane, which are extremely historical.
Shi Bing
Sugi River rafting is the focus of the tour, but also the most fun project, do not miss, the river on both sides of the scenery is pleasant, if you bring a tent camping in the river, catching fish barbecue, it would be more happy; Yuntai Mountain is located in the upper reaches of (氵舞)yang River, the scenery belongs to the same type of scenery with the Zhangjiajie, but not as spectacular, the topography of the undulation is obvious, composed of a thousand mountains and ravines of the karst wonders, which also has a number of temple ruins and cliff carvings.
Congjiang
Congjiang County is bisected by the DuLiu River, with only 1 street on either side, the old town on the east bank, and new buildings ruling the west bank. There is basically nothing to see in the county, the only thing to see is the Dragon Boat Race and the big market at the Dragon Boat Festival, but the ethnic villages under the jurisdiction of Congjiang have green stone paths crisscrossing the city, flower bridges and drum towers reflecting each other, wooden buildings with hanging feet, waterwheels and water mills rotating at a leisurely pace, and chickens and dogs barking, which is a unique experience to be in the middle of the city.
So Congjiang County is definitely the base camp for visiting the neighboring folk villages.
Liping
Liping, which borders Hunan and Guilin's Sanjiang and Liuzhou in Guangxi, is the county with the highest concentration of Dong people in China, and is rich in ethnic flavor. There are nearly 300 "drum towers" and "flower bridges" in Liping, which are the landmarks of Dong villages, making it a museum of Dong architectural art.
Tiansheng Bridge
Located in Gaotun Township, northeast of Liping County, it is 15 kilometers away from the county town. It is the largest natural stone arch bridge with the largest span in the world discovered so far.
Diping Wind and Rain Bridge
Located on the Nanjiang River in the Dong Village of Diping. This far-famed wind and rain bridge, also known as the Flower Bridge, connects the three villages of Shangzhai, Xiazhai and Ganlong into one. The bridge is 56 meters long, 4.5 meters wide, and the bottom of the bridge is nearly 10 meters away from the daily water level. The bridge is built with a promenade and a bridge building covered with green tiles, which can block the wind and shelter the rain, so it is called the Wind and Rain Bridge.
Chejiang Sanbao Dong Village
This is the largest Dong settlement in the country. Zhanglu Village (Four Villages) is the location of the standard tone of the Dong language in the south of China. The filming location of "Zhulang Niangmei". 5 kilometers from Rongjiang County. The village is very large and there are many ancient banyans along the river.
Moon Mountain
Located at the junction of Rongjiang and Congjiang as well as Libo and Sandu counties. The main peak stands in Rongjiang County Plan Township Pendulum Wang Village on the pull, 171 kilometers from Rongjiang County. Here the mountains are high and the valleys are deep, and the mangy primitive forest stretches for hundreds of miles. Due to the high mountains, dangerous roads and closed transportation, the Miao people living here have preserved their marriage customs and festival rituals intact.
Langde Shangzhai
In many brochures introducing the Miao customs, you can often see a pebbles arranged in a nice lusheng field, pattern imitating the ancient bronze drums on the twelve rays of the sun masonry, and at both ends of the stone pavement of the two galloping horses, that is, in Langde Shangzhai shot.
Langde on the walled village by the water, the back of the north and south, surrounded by mountains, lush forests and bamboo, lined with ancient footstools, winding pebble road in the eaves of the emergence of the two voices can occasionally be heard Miao people singing.
The dress of the Miao people in the walled village is characterized by long skirts, so it is also called "long-skirted Miao". In front of the village there is a small river winding like a dragon snake, small waterwheels in twos and threes, the south side of the pine and fir dense "protection of the village forest", there are the year when the Yang Dali insurrection of the bunkers, trenches; the north side of the Yang Dali bridge - wind and rain bridge across the river, after crossing the bridge, you can also see Yang Dali military practice field. There are also three small gates in the south, center and north of the fortress, inscribed with the words "Langde Shangzhai". Behind the Lusheng Hall in the fortress is the "Yang Dailiu Cultural Relics Museum", which displays the knives, forks, helmets, iron cannons and other items used during the Yang Dailiu Uprising.
Xijiang Thousand Households Miao Village
Xijiang Thousand Households Miao Village is the world's largest Miao Village. It is considered by Chinese and foreign anthropologists and folklore scholars as a place where the "primitive ecological" culture of the Miao people is preserved in a relatively complete way. Xijiang Miao history is very long, can be traced back to 559 BC Chi tribe. Xijiang Miao is said to be the descendants of the third son of Chi You. Jiangxi Miao migrated to Xijiang before the formation of their own Miao cultural system, to Xijiang and long in the government's "tube outside" (outside the control) of the situation, has been their own management of their own, and thus the Miao culture has been well preserved and developed, coupled with the inconvenience of the transportation, the rulers want to assimilate the whip can not be reached.
Leshan Miao silver jewelry with its distinctive features in the Chinese Miao silver culture occupies an extremely important position. The most influential silver jewelry production village is Leishan County, Dagou Township control Bay, the village is the Chinese Miao village known as silversmiths. Almost all the men in the village have mastered silver jewelry making techniques, which have been inherited for a number of generations. Here, in addition to meeting the needs of the county's silver artists, but also traveled far and wide, traveling to the four townships to make a living in silver crafts. As far away as Rongjiang and even some remote counties in Qiannan, you can still find traces of silver jewelry artists here.
Shidong
Shidong is famous for its silver jewelry, and the girls here wear the most silver jewelry among the Miao, and their dresses are world-famous. If you rush to the Sisters' Day or other ethnic festivals, the town's young girls are all surrounded by silver, gorgeous. If you can't get them to dress up for you, it's up to you.
Long Horn Miao
Long Horn Miao village is only 7.5 kilometers away from the city of Congjiang County, and is purely of Miao ethnicity. In the early 1970s, when the highway from Congjiang to Rongjiang was opened, it passed through the village, but many years have passed, and the Miao people who live here are still maintaining their ancient and primitive lives.
West Long Horn Miao is most characterized by men's hair buns and the image of ancient tribal warriors: Long Horn Miao men shave their heads, leaving hair only on the top of the head, and all of them pull a pattern of hair buns, and at the same time, they must wear a musket and a belt knife with them, and they wear self-woven, self-dyed, and self-made collarless right-overlapping copper-buttoned green cloth clothes, straight green cloth pants, with a very large trouser hose, which reminds them of warriors of the ancient times.
Kairi ethnic festivals
Kairi's most distinctive feature is its rich ethnic flavor, because there are more than 130 ethnic festivals in a year, so, Kairi is known as "the town of a hundred festivals". In this land, there are Miao, Dong and many other ethnic minorities, each with their own unique festivals.
The most important and grand national festivals are the annual "Year of the Miao", in addition, there are also by the various Miao villages to take turns organizing the "Guliang Festival", "Lusheng Festival "
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Every festival, enthusiastic and bold wine songs, songs accompanied by the Miao, Dong family homemade silver crowns, silver horns, silver flowers, silver collars and other costumes, stepping on the vibrating copper drums, Lusheng rhythm, gathered into a colorful sea of songs and dances, enough to let the visitors enchanted.
Zhoushi Lusheng Festival (the 18th to 20th day of the first month of the lunar calendar)
This is a traditional festival of the Miao people in Qiandongnan. Every year, from the 18th to the 20th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, small-scale lusheng meetings are held in Kaili, Majiang, Danzhai, Leishan and other places, and finally the general meeting is held in Zhouxi. At that time, the boys inserted a few pheasant feathers on their reed-sheng, inside and outside the hall hundreds of reed-sheng blowing at the same time, the girls dressed up to dance, the scene is very spectacular.
The Miao Baiwai Lusheng Festival (mid-February of the lunar calendar)
Popularized in the Baiwai area of Shi Bing County, Southeast Guizhou, the festival is also known as the February Lusheng Festival and lasts for three days. During the festival, Miao people from the neighborhood go to the top of the ancient climbing slope in Changshanzhai to play and pray for good weather and a good grain harvest. On the second day, they move to the Lusheng Ping in Tunshanzhai to play and dance Lusheng in a circle. In addition, there are middle-aged and old people fighting with painted eyebrows, horse racing activities for riders.
Sisters' Festival (around the 15th day of the 3rd month of the lunar calendar)
Every year around the 15th day of the 3rd month of the lunar calendar, the young Miao girls along the banks of the Qingshui River, dressed in gorgeous Miao costumes, holding bamboo baskets loaded with colorful glutinous rice, and the young men outing to step on the drums, "Youfang" (the meaning of the Miao language, "falling in love") and sing songs to each other. (meaning "to fall in love" in Miao) and sing songs. The girls wrap small chopsticks, small wooden hooks, or garlic and chili peppers in the colorful glutinous rice to express their love for the boys. Therefore, Sisters' Day is also known as "the oldest oriental Valentine's Day".
Miao Dragon Boat Festival (May 24 to 27 of the fifth lunar month)
The Miao people living in Kaili, Guizhou Province, have a custom of racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is usually held on the Qingshui River. In those days, hundreds of boats competed on the Qingshui River, and the Miao people celebrated the festival.
Miao Nian (the first to the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar)
Miao Nian is the grandest festival of the year for the Miao people, and the exact time of the festival varies from place to place. The main activities include stepping on drums, playing suona, jumping on lusheng, horse racing, bullfighting, touring, singing, climbing poles and so on. In the pre-festival period, every family has abundant meat and wine dishes, sewing new clothes, and during the festival, they visit each other's relatives and friends in villages to congratulate each other on the festival.
Gu Dirty Festival
Gu Dirty Festival is the grandest ancestor worship ceremony of the Miao people in Guizhou, which is also known as the "Drum Stomping Festival", "Eat Gou Dirty", "Prick Cow" and so on, and is also known as the "Drum Stomping Festival", "Eat Gou Dirty" and "Prick Cow". The first is the "Hmong", the "Hmong", the "Hmong". However, the Miao branch of the time is not completely unified, the content includes the slaughter of cattle ancestor, with cowhide drums, drums and a series of religious rituals.
The ancient beliefs of the Miao people, that the drums made of the skin of the big bullock are the place where the spirits of the dead ancestors reside, for a blood family ties and symbols. This blood family, historically known as the "joint paragraph" or "door paragraph". With the "paragraph contract", the internal can maintain the social order of the clan, external can deal with the enemy aggression.
Route Tips
Transportation
Railway
Kaili is accessible by train, from Zhenyuan and Yuping in the east to Hunan Province, and from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, in the west. From Guiyang to Kaili, you can take the "Fanjing Mountain" tourist train to Yuping and get off at Kaili. It's about a three-hour ride and costs about 24 yuan.
Highway
Kaili bus station is located in the northeast of Kaili City on North Culture Road, west of the provincial capital Guiyang; east of Zhenyuan; south of the long-distance shuttle buses to Rongjiang and Congjiang. The bus station is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with different departure times for each line of buses. A sleeper bus from Guiyang to Kaili costs 55 yuan; an air-conditioned bus is 35 yuan; and if you plan to rent a car, it's about 200 yuan per day (and includes food and lodging for the driver).
Chinese buses are available from Kaili to neighboring towns. You can take a bus on West Beijing Road in the direction of Fushan (Fragrant Furnace Mountain), Yudong, and Longchang; and at the Jinjing River bridgehead on South Shaoshan Road, you can take a shuttle bus in the direction of Leishan and Xijiang on the southern route.
Fares from Guiyang to Kaili are 55 yuan for a sleeper bus and 35 yuan for an air-conditioned bus, which can be taken at the Guiyang Gymnasium coach station. The main bus stations in Kaili are as follows:
Kaili Bus Station
Address: North Culture Road, northeast of Kaili City
Telephone: 0855-8223098
Destination: west to Guiyang, the capital of the province, east to Zhenyuan, to the south there are long-distance shuttle buses to Leishan, Taijiang, Rongjiang, from the river, etc., and the departure time for each line of buses is not the same. The departure time of each line is different. Shuttle buses from Kaili Bus Station to Guiyang run every 30 minutes from 07:45-19:15, and special lines run every 20 minutes from 06:00, 06:30, and from 07:00 onwards to 20:00 in the evening, for 40 yuan for a 3-hour journey.
Opening time: from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm
Shema River Qiandongnanzhou Passenger Terminal
Address: Opposite to Kaili Teachers College School of Ethnicity
Telephone: 0855-8251025, 8239739
Dispatch location: Kaili's largest passenger terminal, mainly for buses to Guiyang and the whole of the state. There are also long-distance to Guangdong, Zhejiang and other provinces.
Kairi Transportation Company
Address: Yongle Road, next to Kairi Hospital.
Telephone: 0855-8221588
Dispatch location: mainly to Kaili city around the short-distance bus.
Alternatively, you can take a Chinese bus from Kaili to neighboring towns. On Beijing West Road, take the bus bound for Xiangfusan, Yudong, Longchang direction; in Shaoshan South Road, Jinjing River bridge, take the shuttle bus to the south line Leishan, Xijiang direction; in the three-way intersection in front of the Wanbo there is a minivan to Qingman, Zhouxi; in the shopping mall road, you can take a minivan to Xiashi, Fushan; in the Highway Maintenance Section you can take a minivan to Sankeshu Township. Fares are around 3 or 4 yuan, and there are two or three drivers to start the bus.
Renting a car
Renting a car - you can go to Kaili city near the gate of the "418" hospital, or go to the car company, or even ask the owner of any hotel how to rent a car, and they will be very enthusiastic to tell you, and will offer to help you to contact, and also to help you to contact. They will tell you how to rent a car, and they will offer to help you get in touch with them, and they will do it for nothing.
Prices for renting a car - a van is usually 120 yuan a day, and a sedan is usually 150-200 yuan a day. In addition, the county bus station near the general can also be found in small noodles such as Changhe, Liuzhou Wuling, etc., to charter a car, you can talk to them, the price is about 150 yuan a day, the rental car to drive on their own for 100 yuan on the deal.
Accommodation
There are various types of hotels in the capital city of Kaili, with the better standard rooms costing about 120 yuan.
Tourists can go to the Yingpanpo Nationality Hotel on Yingpan East Road, where a standard room for two people costs 80 yuan and a deluxe double room costs 168 yuan, and bargaining is possible, making it a good choice; the Liping Hotel, where a standard room costs 50 yuan, with a standard room for two people on the sunrise side, and a single queen-size bed room on the shady side; the Kaili Hotel, which is located on Plaza Road in the south of the city near the Children's Palace, where a standard room costs around 250 yuan; and Zhenhua Guesthouse, which is located on the intersection of Beijing East Road and Culture South Road near the State Bureau of Culture, which is located on Beijing East Road. Zhenhua Guest House near the State Culture Bureau, a bed in 15 yuan, with a bathroom double room of about 30 yuan, standard room of about 60 yuan; state government guest house 50 yuan a night, but the equipment is outdated, the advantage of the residential area, quiet and safe and close to the city center, need to pay a deposit of 50 yuan.
After arriving at the Taijiang area, you can stay at government hotels and postal hotels, which cost about 80-120 yuan. There are usually canteens at the accommodations, but if you want to taste authentic local dishes, you need to head out to the streets, where meals are very inexpensive.
Tourists should be prepared if they go to Liping, Rongjiang, Congjiang, etc. The accommodation there is slightly worse, and it is recommended that tourists can choose to stay in the government guest houses in each place, which are usually around 60 yuan for two people or three people, with independent bathrooms.
Diet
Kaili's dietary tastes do not differ much from the rest of Guizhou, with hot and sour as the main focus, and the more famous first of sour soup fish hot pot, Dong family pickled fish and cattle back tendons.
Guandongnan is the hometown of "eating acid", acid food is everywhere, men and women of all ages have "acid" hobby. Every family has a sour water altar, vinegar water altar, pickle altar, pickled fish altar, pickled meat altar, etc., and there is also a "March pickles, August pickled fish, pickled meat in the first month" and "altar does not go down, the dish does not rot" and other sayings about sour food. Qiandongnan's flavorful foods include Dong pickled fish, Zhenyuan Taoist cuisine, Kaili sour soup fish, Xiashi dog meat, Xiashi sour soup fish, lemongrass burnt fish, Chonganjiang sour soup fish, Dong family oil tea, social rice, from the river fragrant pig, Sansui hemp duck, Rongjiang fragrant sheep, Dong fruit, Dong family crotch meat, Dong family goat yak, cow yak, and so on.
Some of the more famous places to eat in Kaili are as follows:
Restaurants
Quickwood Forest (Lianghuanzhai)
Address: Gaoxi.
Recommendation: the most famous restaurant in Kaili for eating sour soup fish and dog meat, the most expensive one is Jiaojiao fish, which is about 30-40 yuan. There are many choices of other home-cooked small dishes, which are very cheap. A cab ride from Yingpanpo will only cost you 5 yuan.
GaGa Sour Soup Beef
Address: in Washima River, 5 minutes walk from the bus station, Kairi people know.
Reason for recommendation: you can eat authentic Guizhou Miaozhai flavor sour soup beef, popularity is relatively strong.
Snack Street
Restaurant Street
Address: Qingping North Road.
Recommendation: a street are specialized in eating small restaurants, belonging to the nature of the large stalls. Consumption is not high.
Night Market
Beijing Road Night Market
Address: Beijing Road, the market will open at 8 pm.
Recommendation: The night market has small restaurants with accompanying stir-fries, stalls with fried snails, crayfish, barbecue, stinky tofu, brine cooked food and so on.
Niuchangba snack night market
Address: Kerry Grand Cross near the Xinhua Bookstore, next door to the Cathay Hotel.
Reason for recommendation: it is also a famous night market street in Kaili, and the variety of night market is also very rich.
Power Plant Night Market
Address: the back street of the old power supply bureau.
Recommendation: there are a variety of snacks, barbecue, sour soup powder, onion oil rice. Very lively at night.
Specialties
Sour Fish
Sour fish is a unique food of the Miao people, which is sour and spicy, and is really appetizing.
Pickled fish
Pickled fish is the traditional food of the Dong family. Dong family pickled fish from the Duliu River live fish, cut open and cleaned into the tile altar with tomatoes, peppercorns and other marinade, half a year out, the appearance of black as charcoal, but the meat is smooth and tender white, taste like plums, and even the fish thorns are like no bone.
Beef back tendon
Beef back tendon is a selection of cattle hooves, cattle back at the hoof and tendon meat chopped into small pieces, and chicken, chili pepper stir-fry, cooked into a pot end out. Color and flavor, spicy taste is unforgettable. Kerry's other famous food and hot and sour rice noodles, in the local everywhere.
There are canteens in Kaili's general accommodations, but if you want to taste authentic local dishes, you need to head out to the streets of Kaili, where meals are very inexpensive. If you are eating at the village villagers' home, it is about 5 to 10 yuan per person, but you can't ask for too much, just enough to fill your stomach.
Other notes
1, if you are carrying a portable hard disk, hoping to transfer digital photos into it through Internet cafes, please note that the Internet cafes along the way basically can not complete this service.
2, Kaili city has passed the "China's excellent tourist city" acceptance in 2004, the traffic rules are enforced very strictly. For example, crossing the street must take the crosswalk, otherwise caught a fine of ten yuan (in addition to the need to pay attention to do not spit, littering).
3, in the city of Kerry, cabs are very much. Take a cab meter billing, 2 kilometers according to the starting price Charley 4 yuan / time, Jetta 5 yuan / time. Basically, the city is not more than 5 yuan; after 12:00 pm to take a cab on this basis plus 2 yuan.
4, traveling in Qiandongnan, half a day's drive from Kaili within the cross-county shuttle bus a lot of 15-30 minutes, catching the shuttle bus is very convenient; farther away can only be before 12 noon to the bus station waiting for the insurance. In some villages, farm trucks, tractors, motorized tricycles and motorcycles are all means of transportation, so as long as people can get up there, you can ask the locals or ask them to help you find a bus. If there are too many people or you can't catch the last bus, you can consider chartering a bus. Moreover, the roadside scenery is no less than the attractions, so if you want to be free or take some good photos, it's best to charter a bus.
5, shopping to rich ethnic characteristics of batik and embroidery. Be careful not to buy the embroidery of women holding children, adults are likely to use children as a front to open the price.
6, encountered the Guizhou Kaili Lusheng Festival Zhoushi Branch of the bullfighting competition, do not get too close to the bullfighting in order to shoot, to avoid accidents.
7, due to the rainy season teach more, the air is humid, the lens is easy on the fog, pay attention to do a good job of lens protection.
Shibing Cedar River rafting notes
1, large luggage is best sent to the travel agency, their own carry some money. Before leaving, it is best to bring some sealed bags, where the plastic bags are as thin as a cicada, the price is also expensive. Some travel agencies can provide waterproof bags, 10 yuan / a, as big as sacks, waterproof performance is not bad, there are escort escort to the end.
2, rafting is best to wear sandals, flip-flops easy to wash away, do not wear shoes is not good, easy to slip, and more stones. Rafting will generally be wet, dry clothes to bring enough, wearing a raincoat is basically useless.
3, rafting is not allowed to bring cameras and cell phones and other valuables. The crew will put the swimmer's belongings into a rubber bag firmly tied, and remind everyone not to carry valuable things, to the water can be lost.
4, the selection of rafting with the boat, try to find and their own weight is about the same, so that the balance to be a good grasp of some.
Recommended schedule
Kaili in the southeast Guizhou region where about half of the year for the rainy season, usually spring and summer most of the days in the rain, umbrellas or raincoats are certain to bring things; in addition to sunglasses and sunscreen, used to deal with ultraviolet radiation in the high plateau; live in the cottage more mosquitoes, can not be less anti-mosquito water; shoes must be non-slip, good to walk on the mountain road, preferably walking shoes or mountain climbing shoes; finally, the temperature of the mountainous areas
Recommended schedule
These are the most important things in the world. Hiking shoes or mountaineering shoes; Finally, the temperature in the mountains is generally lower, remember to bring a warm jacket. The best time to visit is August every year.