1 Xishuangbanna: "cave" trap in Xishuangbanna there are many so-called folk village, such as the Xishuangbanna Primitive Forest Park, there is a love our tribe. After tourists enter the village, dressed in flamboyant young girls will be enthusiastically welcomed into the two-story bamboo building, to visit their homes. A woman slightly introduced, a hand, in several girls, without saying a small gourd-like lucky charm on the neck of the man, and then let you participate in the so-called game of bride kidnapping. One of the highlights of the "wedding" is "sent to the cave". Don't think there is really that good thing in the cave, the poor, innocent "groom" are there to pay the money. Once in the bridal chamber, the girl reaches out to ask for money for the dowry. The bridegroom will say, love our girl to put on the lucky charm for you, if you accept, it means that you agree to the marriage, if you regret, you have to hang you upside down on the tree at the entrance of the village for three days, but also give them three years of hard labor. Tourists are forced into the "cave room" without paying enough money to get out of the "cave room". Nowadays, folklore has become a trap, and most of the male and female tourists who come back from Xishuangbanna have learned a lesson: "The cave is not a place to enter casually.
2 Jiuzhaigou: Beef sells for the price of the sky
Jiuzhaigou tickets are explicitly expensive, the regular Jiuzhaigou ticket is 220 yuan, plus 90 yuan for the bus ticket, a total of 310 yuan. Huanglong tickets 200 yuan, Tibetan and Qiang song and dance will be 180 yuan. Tickets cost a high price, but don't think you won't get ripped off. There is a monument on a piece of flat land in Gaerna Mountain, once the tourists get off the bus, the locals holding horses and yaks have gathered around, "riding a horse to take a picture is only 5 yuan", but after you take a picture, the horse rose to 30 yuan. Jiuzhaigou sell yak meat and roasted whole sheep, but also slaughter you like slaughtering cattle and sheep. The tour guide is very keen to take you to taste yak meat for free. If you taste it for free, some people will laugh at you for being cheap and others will persuade you to buy it and send it back to your friends. In short, you are very careless to pay money generously. But soon you will regret it, the same beef, in Chengdu only 22 yuan a catty, in Jiuzhaigou you have to spend 88 yuan. Most of the Tibetan specialties in Shuzhengzhai come from outside the city: yak-skin vests made of pigskin from Haining, Zhejiang Province. And yak hair shawl scarf, are chemical fiber, origin of Zhejiang Yiwu. Dzi bead necklace or something, as long as the dzi bead with, are glass. Wholesale price of about two or three dollars, are from Yiwu into the goods. Like Tibetan silver bracelets, Tibetan silver necklaces, Tibetan silver wine pots, as long as with Tibetan silver, not made of iron, is copper. As long as wearing on a week, custody of Tibetan silver into "Tibetan gold", restore the copper and iron face.
3 Emei Mountain: burning incense is burning money
Still on the way to Emei Mountain, tourists will be guided to a class: all of you here are karmic, just in time for the opening of Emei Mountain Ceremony, which is rare, the last time the opening of the Ceremony is still 2000, this time there are still three days to the end, you have the karma to go to open the peace of the light, do not charge money, is to follow the merit. It's a real blessing. But with what enlightenment it, then you have to invite the Buddha and Guanyin pendant. The guide again spoke: you can go to the Sichuan Buddhist Association so-and-so Buddha good Hall please Buddha, where the income are donated to the Buddhist Association, both to protect the peace, but also to do good deeds. A door, shopping guide lady special enthusiasm: as long as 500 yuan can invite a Buddha. You look wide-eyed, the cheapest is also 80 yuan, not as big as a thumb cap. The whole family to invite, that would be more than 2000 yuan. To the temple, want to open the light of the first incense, peace incense 60 yuan a cone, the whole family blessing incense 190 yuan. Someone with a camera to help you take pictures of incense, 15 yuan a set of 90 yuan. Open light, into the front hall to see a few people, only to open the mouth to say a master, someone said a person 50 yuan. Paid the money, "master" said to kneel inside, etc., go in and see, all kneeling in the lobby into a row row row. Waiting for the legs are numb, a monk came in, served a cup of mouth chanting, and then in each person invited the Buddha sprinkled two drops of water. ok, enlightenment is complete. Home count, this free enlightenment, unknowingly open to seven or eight hundred dollars, the original "Buddha" is not good ah.
4 Potala Palace: tickets soaring
Price increases like a plague. In July 1, 2006 before the opening of the entire Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Lhasa's hotels have begun a substantial price increase in action, in this price is nearly double the mainland capital of Tibet, not with the legendary Hada and barley wine, but to first "slaughter a knife" way to welcome guests from afar. Not to mention the doubling of hotel prices, that is, the station outside the chaotic pile of cabs, the driver is 60 yuan, while the original normal price is 30 dollars. Want to make a fortune is not only the hotel in Lhasa, in the first batch of train into Tibet tourists have not completely unloaded the dust, the Tibet Autonomous Region Cultural Relics Bureau will be the Potala Palace peak season ticket prices, from 100 yuan to 300 yuan. The vast majority of visitors to the Potala Palace come from outside Tibet, and as a symbol of friendship between the Chinese and Tibetan peoples, the Potala Palace, which has a history of more than 1,300 years, is undoubtedly the brightest jewel in the Tibetan tourism industry. For tourists traveling to Tibet, not visiting the Potala Palace is equivalent to not having been to Tibet. It is hard to get to Lhasa, who will give up visiting for 200 yuan? A quota has long been imposed on the admission to the Potala Palace and only 2 300 tickets are sold every day. However, the ticket price will be increased from $100 to $300, the number of visitors of 2,300 people per day has not been reduced, so where does its "protection" come from? Also, the hall of the Potala Palace according to the regulations is not allowed to take pictures, but as long as the payment of a sum of money, you can shoot; pay more money, you can use the flash against the Buddha shot enough. Is not pay money, the heritage will not be damaged?
5 Laoshan: the Taoist priest's hemp clothes swindle
In Laoshan, the narrator and tour guide will mysteriously tell you, "There is a place, you have not been." Said, will take you into a room in the temple, seven or eight "Taoist priests" like welcome ancestor around you, said the red-faced fortune, if you want him a few words, you have to return some of the wealth. Taoist priest will take you into the side of an "office", first pulled out his documents to show you, tell you how many how many generations of heirlooms, and the master you are very destiny clouds. Then he starts to read your palm. After that, when you are full of gratitude, ready to leave, but the Taoist priest pulled out a book, said lightly: feel free to donate some incense money. Originally you were ready to dozens of dollars to donate, but a flip open the book of the Taoist master, it is clearly written in the donor's name and money: xxx, xxx, xxx, 3900 yuan; xxx, xxx, 2000 ...... donations are not less than 1,000 yuan. Do not donate? The Taoist Master is not happy, and the consequences are dire. So you instantly "realized": break the money and get rid of disaster, this is the truth of all changes.
6 Turpan Grape Gully: grapes tasteless
"Turpan's grapes Hami melon, Korla's balsam pear everyone boasts". Turpan Grape Gully in the shade of green trees, grapevines into pieces. Grape ditch farmers mostly have grapes to buy, but here the cheapest, but also to 50 yuan a pound, expensive seventy or eighty dollars. To Urumqi , you will find the most expensive is more than 30 yuan a catty. Go to the grapevine to eat, you again into the "ditch", the boss's wife handed up the menu, the food is ridiculously expensive, a bowl of vegetarian rice to 15 yuan, a mutton 120 yuan, fried vegetables are in the twenty or thirty dollars or so. You complained that too expensive, the boss's wife will also be able to say: we are 4A scenic spot, the price is equivalent to the consumption of five-star hotels.
7Xi'an: fake antique mess
To Xi'an, you have to be careful. There are places in Xi'an where you can often only move your eyes, not your hands. Xi'an is full of antiques, jade, Terracotta Warriors souvenirs, Western Zhou knife coins, Beiyang big head cymbals come here, tourists always take some "antiques" back. But Xi'an's antique forgery to fake the real, experts have said the absolute. Xi'an has a famous antiques street - Huajue Alley, the alley is full of small stores selling antiques, snuff bottles, jade, cosmetic boxes, old locks, porcelain, headdresses ...... everything, but most of these are forged forgeries. In Xi'an roadside stalls shopping, more must be very careful. Some unscrupulous vendors specialize in arranging goods into triangles, as long as you take, things fall down, and the things placed underneath are mostly arranged by him in advance, has been broken. So, the peddler will tell you how valuable antiques it is, and you can't do it without spending hundreds of dollars. Xi'an Railway Station Square opposite a street, fake goods are very common, and some stores, shopkeepers will secretly set up a mechanism, put a very beautiful knife or sword, as long as you reach out to take, the so-called jade bracelet, alabaster pots and so on will be like dominoes fall down. In this way, a value of two dollars of glass jade bracelet, will extort from you one or two hundred dollars.
8Dali: "Old folks"
Yunnan is famous for producing jade and is close to the jade kingdom of Myanmar. Tourists who come to Lijiang, will mostly buy jade, but usually get slaughtered still in the dark. In Yunnan Dali and Lijiang and other places, the prevalence of "recognize the hometown" sales method, that is, with the tourists to climb relatives, posing as a hometown, in order to close the distance between the two sides, and finally tricked the tourists to buy jewelry. These jewels are often substandard, most of the fake goods. Boutique area price tag of tens of thousands of jewelry, identified, usually 20 ~ 30 yuan stalls fake. During the purchase, the narrator, inadvertently, will be surprised to say that our boss and you are from the same hometown. Subsequently, the boss appeared, concerned about the hometown of so-and-so place, and then introduced their tens of millions of business scale. The "boss" will also be frankly self-reporting, self-reporting jewelry industry business insider, saying that their own jewelry merchandise has dozens of times the profit, with the bitter trick to increase the other party's trust. Finally, the boss must be generous, at cost, that is, a few dozen times the price of the price limit, to sell one or two sets of precious jewelry to the hometown. Recognize the hometown this trick is often effective, and many tourists who are very deep in the road will also fall into the pit.
9 Yangshuo: warm behind the hideous
Yangshuo Casino quite a lot, the most is to attract tourists looking for sex. But the Casino many hidden killers , the technique is usually, united with some of the community's black tour guides and some cab drivers to cheap consumption as bait, pulling tourists to the entertainment venues to consume, and then accompanied by a lady to ask for a "special drink". Checkout time, the tourists realized that the Casino is using two different price tag "Yuanyang" price list, the checkout price list in the so-called "special drinks" price is incredibly high. "Special drinks" is actually Sprite and Coke and other beverages mixed with each other, a few cents a cup of cost, sold to the guests is one or two hundred dollars. There are also special service fees, as little as 600-800 yuan, more than a few thousand, can not pay the money, is not get out of the way.
10 Damshang: horseback riding is easy to get off the horse is difficult
Blue sky and white clouds, Ulaangong River clear as a mirror, a blue hectare of grassland, hills of wildflowers emitting a burst of fragrance, which is the Damshang charming scenery. There are a lot of people who drive here every weekend. Halfway, there are usually many locals to attract foreign tourists with low prices, but most of these hotels are in very poor condition and have no business license, and safety problems often occur. In the dam driving to be especially careful, many places are circled, driving along the dirt road into a certain area, there may be people drilling out that this place can not enter, you have to charge money, if not careful to be extortion. Horseback riding is the most attractive project for tourists on the dam, the charge is certainly not low. Red Mountain third military horse farm near the operators will be especially pit tourists. Just got there, tourists have not touched the horse, you calculate the time, and so you get on the horse, timing has been 10 minutes. The owner of the horse holding the horse slowly walking, unless the tourists ride 1 hour horse, pay 1.5 hours of money, he will reluctantly let the horse run a few steps. Say good 40 yuan / hour cost, but the horse on the ride on the difficult to get off, by you, the locals will pull the horse haphazardly around half a day and then back to the starting point, easily consumed two or three hours. The phenomenon of asking for hundreds of dollars to lead a horse is also not uncommon.
11 Mount Tai: the mountain down the "good man" more
Mount Tai is the only one of the five mountains, the natural scenery is majestic, spectacular, human history, it carries the essence of the Chinese history of the 5,000, is a symbol of Chinese culture. Back then, Confucius climbed Mount Tai and small world, now, Taishan people are also proud of the world. Tourists on Mount Tai, you have to be careful, from time to time to pay the price for you to take pictures: take money. The slightest defense or dissatisfaction, is disrespectful to Mount Tai , light incurred scolding threats, heavy incurred Mount Tai people groups of "fists and feet courtesy", tourists were injured in the event of constant occurrence. My feeling is that under Mount Tai for tourists to stay in a lot of black stores, a little careless, will be slaughtered, if the dispute, Mount Tai people will be very angry, the consequences will be very serious.
12 Shaolin Temple: burning incense is the same as robbery
Shaolin Temple Maharishi Temple in front of the incense niche, the thinnest column of incense than the arm thick, the thickest column of incense thicker than the mouth of the bowl, the length of one meter two or so, at first glance is not a burning incense, it is a burn, the Buddhist burning incense, but a courtesy and the rules to clear the smell of mellow or light, good or bad, there are a number of requirements, but not the thicker, the better, the longer the better, the past Buddhist not a bowl of thick, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better, the better. No bowl of thick incense can be burned, want to burn also can not make out ah. Shaolin Temple in front of the Maharishi Temple next to the incense niche, sitting on the end of the three robed monks, incense guests over, they first do not tell you the price and rules, but to ask you to sign their names in the signature book. Tourists do not realize that the signature book is a trap, there may be some people still mistakenly think that is the Shaolin Temple to the respect of the guests, confused to sign their names on, this sign, you have been trapped. After signing the name, the monk told you, where signed the name of the incense, Master Shi Yongxin will personally chanting Buddha, for you to eliminate disasters, and so on. Then pointing to the thickness of different, gorgeous, but all the golden incense and ask you: the almsman, you please which column of incense? Because of the previous words of Venerable Master Shi Yongxin for you to recite the words of disaster, good face tourists will generally choose thick, gorgeous incense, wait until they pass the incense to your hands, only to tell you that this column of incense is six thousand dollars. At that time, you regret it is too late, the name has been signed on not to mention the incense in the hands of the surrounding and surrounded by spectators, in front of the Buddha, people at this time will generally swallow the bitter water to money out.