Take the high-speed train to the "Double Dragon Club"
April Recommendation: Qingyuan
Reason: If you want to go to Qingyuan this season, you can take the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed train to play the F1 rafting and soak in the hot springs. Qingyuan City is currently promoting the Gu Long Gorge rafting and Polygon Bay hot springs double "dragon" will have special discounts for readers of Guangzhou Daily.
Seasonal play: From Guangzhou South or North Railway Station, you can feel the car speed up to over 300 kilometers instantly and then slowly stop. The observation deck at Fresh Railway Station overlooks Fresh and New Cityscape, where exciting rafting and warm hot springs await visitors.
The Gulong Canyon International Extreme Circuit, known as the Water F1. huge drop-offs and steep riverbeds give the Gulong Canyon Extreme Circuit its wild and bold masculine beauty. Flower viewing in Gulong Canyon is a unique experience when one sails in a boat floating around the flowers. Going downstream, the continuous sparrows on the riverbanks flutter like long serpentine vines among the cliffs and coil around the ancient trees, so lifelike that it is as vivid as seeing their movements and hearing their voices.
Qingyuan Fogang Julong Bay is located 45 kilometers east of Gulong Gorge. Qingyuan's two major tourist cards: hot springs rafting, which allows you to enjoy the experience of ice and fire. The Gulong Gorge rafting is cooperating with the Julong Bay hot springs to create a "double-dragon club" that "floats by day and soaks by night". Recently, a one-ticket package offer has been introduced for high-speed rail tourists.
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Transportation: Get off at Qingyuan High-speed Railway Station, take No.9 bus to the terminal Du Ming Station, then change to No.2 bus of Gulong Gorge Line, which will take you directly to Gulong Gorge Rafting Base. The cab cost is about 40 RMB. After that, you can take a bus to Fogang in Fresh. Accommodation: Julong Bay Hot Spring.
Gourmet: There are many specialty farmhouses on the way from the national highway to the Gu Long Gorge scenic spot, and the recommended ones are black bean chicken, steamed fish head with taro, steamed dried fish with red onion, steamed Qingyuan chicken with clear water, stewed radish with bean curd bamboo, stewed old chicken with five-fingered hairy peaches, and bitter barley in Shitan
Special Offer: with the ticket of the day's Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway and at least two issues of the "Around the World, Live Life" newspaper in the same month, the tourists can enjoy the 45 yuan of the Gu Long Gorge /person and 58 RMB/person for Julong Bay Hot Spring.
Luoyang peonies are tantalizing.
April Recommendation: Peony Fair in Luoyang
Reason for Recommendation: April to May every year is the season of peony black powder debut. As the largest peony festival in Asia, the 28th Luoyang Peony Fair will be held from April 1st to May 10th. The theme of this year's fair is "Blooming in Five Continents, Affection for Luoyang". The blooming peonies have attracted a large number of tourists just to get a glimpse of the Luoyang peonies.
Playing: During the Peony Fair, tourists can watch the Peony Fair launching ceremony, participate in the stamp issuing ceremony of the Fair, enjoy the Folk Culture Temple Fair at the Folk Museum, participate in the 10,000-person meeting "Peony Blossoms, Happiness Comes" at the Zhouwangcheng Plaza, and have the opportunity to participate in the 2009 CCTV "Wind & Cloud Music" Global There are also opportunities to attend the 2009 CCTV "Wind and Cloud Music" Global Red Song Award Gala, enjoy the S.H.E. World Tour Luoyang Station, Huayi Stars Peony Concert and Caiqin's 0755 performance.
Luoyang in April is full of spring. Looking around, the whole ancient city of Luoyang, from the parks and villages to the sides of the roads to the streets and alleys, is full of delicate peonies of various colors, which can be seen in every street. Luopu Park, Wangcheng Park, Peony Park, Xiyuan Park, Shenzhou Peony Garden, National Peony Garden, and International Peony Garden are all excellent places to enjoy peonies. There are many varieties of peonies in Luoyang, among which "Yao Huang" and "Wei Zi" are the most famous ones, which are known as "King of Flowers" and "Queen of Flowers". It is known as the "King of Flowers" and "Queen of Flowers" of peony. You can also enjoy the Lantern Festival, Temple Fair, Peony Pen Fair, Peony Music Evening Party, Peony Poetry, Peony Flower Arrangement, Peony Bonsai Exhibition
You can visit the famous cultural attractions in Luoyang, such as Guanlin and the historical and cultural neighborhood of Luoyang Old Town. Located in the Central Plains, Luoyang is also rich in tourism resources. You can go to Zhengzhou in the east, Kaifeng in the south, Wudang Mountain in the southwest, and Xi'an and Huashan in the west. With the official opening of the Zhengzhou-West High Speed Railway in January this year, the scenic spots around Luoyang Lianyou are more conveniently accessible. 3 days or so, Longmen Grottoes, Huashan, Zhengzhou will not be too rushed.
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Transportation: take a plane to Zhengzhou, from Zhengzhou to Luoyang drive 2.5 hours. Or you can fly to West and then take a train to Luoyang, which takes 4 hours.
Accommodation: you can choose to stay around Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang. There are night tours in the scenic area.
Cuisine: Luoyang "Water Seat". In addition, noodles, boiled soup, Zhangjia wontons on Horseshoe Street, Xin'an hot noodle dumplings in soup, hoisin soup, Panjin and roasted chicken, mutton soup and meatball soup are the most famous snacks in Luoyang.
Wild Cherries at Chatanchi
Visit the wild cherry blossoms around the pond.
Wild Cherries at Shaitianchi
The cherry blossoms at Taiziwan in Hangzhou are stunning enough, but you may not know that there are even better wild cherry blossoms at Tianchi in Zhexi. After enjoying the introduced Japanese cherry blossoms in Taiziwan, you can go to Zhexi Tianchi to see the domestic wild cherry blossoms.
"Japanese cherry blossoms don't bear fruit and have big petals. Wild cherry blossoms are different. The petals are smaller, the flowers are denser, and they produce small fruits." Lin said at the end. This rare wild cherry grows near the Tianchi lagoon at an altitude of 1,100 meters in western Zhejiang. Because () () of the low temperatures on the mountain, the flowering season is a bit late. After the cherry blossoms fade in Hangzhou, you can go to Tianchi to enjoy the cherry blossoms.
Climbing up to Tianchi in western Zhejiang, the air is fresher and sunnier at higher altitudes. Clusters of wild cherry blossoms line hundreds of acres of meadows around the lake. Wild cherries are more densely distributed in spots such as Qianqingtang and Changxi Dry Pit. When in full bloom, wild cherry blossoms are more colorful than Japanese cherry blossoms. When the warm wind picks up, the colorful petals swirl in the air, making it very romantic.
Now go to Tianchi in western Zhejiang, you can find a lot of rare varieties of wild cherry blossoms: white cherry blossoms, blooming later; cold cherry petals grow downward, like an upside-down golden bell; cherry blossoms in the mountains of the strongest color, also known as the "red mountain cherry blossoms". The flowers are large and beautiful, and the ornamental effect is excellent.
Every year when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, Zhexi Tianchi Scenic Area will hold activities such as cherry blossom viewing, photography, and couples' fellowship, so that everyone can experience the purity and romance of the petals falling in the wild cherry blossom forest. In addition to enjoying the wild cherry blossoms, you can also traverse the Tianlong Canyon, which is more than 10 kilometers deep. The whole canyon consists of strange peaks, weird rocks, cliffs, streams and waterfalls. Stay in a cabin or hut in Tianchi at night; when the weather is good, you can still see meteors streaking across the sky.
Yunqi Youshan Caihua
Daoist Mountain to visit the sea of rapeseed flowers
Best time to enjoy the flowers: mid-March to early April
Yunqi is one of China's four most famous Taoist mountains and is located 15 kilometers west of Xiuning County. At the foot of the mountain is a "forgotten" sea of rape flowers. Because not many people know about it, only a few outdoor hikers and players go to enjoy the flowers every year. If they don't go, this place seems to be forgotten.
From mid-March to early April, rapeseed flowers bloom in Yunqi Mountain. Unlike the terraced rapeseed flowers in Jiangling, Wuyuan, the sea of rapeseed flowers seen here seems to be connected to a mirror, and it's best to climb Yunqi Mountain to overlook the fields.
From the bottom of the mountain, cross Dengfeng Bridge, Hengjiang River, Nine Mile Thirteen Pavilions, Meng Zhen Bridge, and then from Tianmen Gate to Sandaimen to Yunqi Yuehua Street in turn. Find a viewing spot with a wide view and look down from the mountain. Pieces of rape flowers bloom freely along the banks of the Hengjiang River, one of the sources of the Xin'an River, like an endless golden carpet that spreads the magnificence of the earth. It complements the distant mountains and water, and the village people, forming an exquisite and moving landscape painting, which is beautiful to behold.
Night at Yuehua Street in Yunqi
Scenery while enjoying the flowers
The deepest impression left by going to Yunqi to enjoy the flowers, besides the rapeseed fields at the foot of the mountain, is Yuehua Street on the mountain. In Yuehua Street, you can often see the fog, as if you are in a market in a sea of clouds. The whole street is full of rustic Huizhou-style buildings, far away from the chaos of the world. At the beginning of the Lantern Festival, you can stay in the inns on Yuehua Street, giving you a feeling of being a god.
Damba Pear Blossoms
Ten thousand acres of pear blossoms bloom in the Dadu River basin in western Sichuan.
Best time to enjoy flowers: early April
Pear blossoms fill the mountains
Take a long walk to enjoy the flowers. In Danba County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, more than 10,000 acres of pear blossoms will bloom in mid-March. Mountains, rivers, canyons, high towers, Tibetan villages and Danba beauties all these idyllic scenes form a unique visual impact.
"From Chengdu, along the Chengya Expressway to the 'Jade City' Ya'an, and then on the Qingyi River, and then through China's first mountain tunnel Erlangshan Tunnel, on the Dadu River to Danba County. The whole journey is more than 300 kilometers and it takes about 10 hours to drive." After arriving in Lin, he was familiar with the road.
Damba countryside
From Damba, you can enjoy the spring colors of the valley all the way up the Jinchuan Valley. The most beautiful pear blossoms in western Sichuan are found in the Dajinchuan Valley and the Dadu River Valley. Dadu River is the river where Danba Dajinchuan and Xiaojinchuan converge. From March 15 to early April every year, ten thousand acres of pear blossoms bloom like a sea of snow. March pear township, mu pear flowers bathed in spring, stretching more than a hundred kilometers, Dadu River on both sides of the pink jade, can be described as a major spectacle.
Danba beauty
Danba's pear flowers are very beautiful, Danba's women are more beautiful. The end of the Lin said, Danba low altitude, humid climate, since ancient times has been rich in beauty. There is a beauty valley where the most beautiful Danba women are selected every year. You can even invite a Danba beauty to be your photographic model as you linger on a fantastic hiking trail between Majiazha and Kaju.
In addition, Danba's Tibetan villages and pagodas are also a feature of western Sichuan. The Tibetan village of Danba family houses is known as "China's most beautiful village", not only the exterior decoration is bright and rich in patterns, the interior decoration is also very distinctive. Tibetan villages generally have three floors, which are used for raising livestock, self-occupation and pilgrimage respectively from the bottom to the top. Now, the first floor has become a reception hall for tourists to rest. Tibetan hosts are very enthusiastic and will welcome guests from afar with ghee tea, barley wine, pot-shuang dance and other food and performances full of rich ethnic flavor.
China's largest and best-preserved Sopo Pagoda is also in Danba. What is the difference between the _Watchtower_ in western Sichuan and the _Watchtower_ in Guangdong in the movie _New Love Never Dies_? Go and see for yourself and you'll know the answer.
Peach Blossoms in Southeast
Go to southern Tibet to enjoy the snowy peach blossoms.
Many people think that the most suitable time to travel to Tibet must be July and August. In fact, in southeastern Tibet, July and August is the rainy season, often cloudy, low visibility, very easy to affect the viewing effect. At the end of the year, Lin said the most suitable time to visit the landscape of southeastern Tibet is from mid-March to early April each year.
Linzhi and Bomi in southeastern Tibet are only 2,900 meters above sea level. Influenced by the Indian Ocean warm and humid airflow, subtropical climate, rich water resources, pleasant climate, known as "Tibet's Jiangnan". In this vast land, there are countless peach trees, and most of them are wild peach trees, mainly distributed in rivers, valleys, slopes and other places, which is the highest peach forest in China.
Linzhi Bomi peach blossoms
The snowy peach blossoms are in bloom, the peach blossoms in front of and behind the houses are enchanting, and those wild ones are even more colorful. In the distance is the snowy mountains, near is the Menba, Lhoba, Tibetan farmers busy figure, a charming idyllic scenery. If not those snowy mountains, in a trance you will think you are in Jiangnan.
At the end of the statement in Linzhi, the peach blossom viewing in Linzhi has another special feature, that is, the plateau vertical climate zone. On a high mountain, from top to bottom, you can see three or four alternating climates
Not only is the peach blossom in full bloom, but wandering around Linzhi and Bomi, you can also enjoy the world's deepest canyon Yarlung Tsangpo River Grand Canyon, the most beautiful snow-capped mountain, Namcha Barwa Peak, and the picturesque Ranwu Lake. Morin said, "It is rare to see the mountains, glaciers, rivers, lakes, grasslands, forests and other landforms and landscapes of Linzhi and Bomi at the same time in the country."
Spring is in full bloom in the mountains of Ali.
Tea picking in Shang Shang Hua, Ali
April recommendation: Alishan, Taiwan Province
April is the best season for excursions. Alishan Mountain in Taiwan Province, China's treasure island, is filled with flowers and spring tea; peonies in Luoyang, Central China, are in full bloom. Wherever we are, we will be surrounded by strong spring colors. If you want to get rid of the spring sleep, you may want to watch F1 in Shanghai, or take a high speed train from Guangzhou to experience F1 on the water. the extreme speed will definitely make you exclaim and refresh yourself.
Flowers are everywhere in Alishan.
Reason for recommendation: April is a good time for spring traveling and visiting friends and relatives. In such a season of spring flowers, you can visit your relatives, friends and compatriots across the strait. Traveling all the way south from Taipei, you can let your strong nostalgia bloom brilliantly along with the flowers all over the mountains. Especially now is the most beautiful season of spring in Alishan, with all kinds of wildflowers everywhere and lots of delicious food. In addition, with the continuous upgrading and optimization of Taiwan's provincial tours, many tours now choose to start from Macau, enter Taipei, and leave Kaohsiung without going back.
Seasonal Tour: Visit Alishan in Taiwan Province in April. In addition to seeing Alishan's five wonders of sunrise, sea of clouds, sunset, forests, and mountain railroads, you can also meet the world-famous Alishan cherry blossoms and Alishan camellias. During the Alishan flower season from mid-March to mid-April every year, cherry blossoms, fontaine cherry blossoms, and double cherry blossoms decorate the whole mountain into a beautiful and colorful sea of flowers. You can stroll through the ancient pagodas on the boulevard and listen to the birds singing gracefully.
Meanwhile, mid-March to early May is also the spring tea picking season for high mountain tea. Tea pickers with tea baskets on their backs can often be seen at an altitude of more than 800 meters. Everyone seems to have practiced a good martial arts, can walk back and forth on the extremely steep mountain walls, hand skills are even better. They can always accurately and quickly pick out a heart and two leaves from the young stems between the leaves, and collect all the essence into their pockets to make good tea.
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Documents: mainland residents traveling to Taiwan must hold a valid "Let the Bullets Fly" and travel endorsement (endorsement prefix L).
Transportation: Guangzhou or Macau or Hong Kong direct flights to Taipei.
Accommodation: Local 4-star standard hotel.
Cuisine: Shilin Night Market gathers snacks from all over the country, such as knife-shaved noodles, pork liver soup, oyster omelette, Kaohsiung meatballs, big cake wrapped in small cake, Shilin sausage, tomato dipped in ginger juice, Dongshan duck head, deep-fried cuttlefish, red oil, and frogs laying eggs.
Special reminder: Taiwan Province sockets are flat and two-footed, it is recommended to buy adapter plugs in advance.