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Gansu's Little Jiangnan|"Longnan's Little Jiuzhaigou" Guan'e Gully
|"Longnan's Little Jiuzhaigou" Guan'e Gully.⛰【Travel Tips】
📍Detailed address: Guan'e Gully National Forest Park, Dangchang County, Longnan City, Gansu Province
🚗Transportation tips:
Lanzhou→Hadapu Town. After exiting the station, there is a bus to Dangchang County Bus Station on the right side🚌, about 50 minutes, 13💰/person, taxi🚗20💰/person
🕙Opening hours: 8:00-17:30
💰Ticket price:
Through ticket 130💰/person (includes admission and shuttle bus🚌ticket valid for 48 hours)
Includes two scenic areas of Guan'e Gully
🌟Highlights:
Unexpectedly, the tickets🎫 for Guan'e Gully and Eman Gully are shared, which was not mentioned in the travel guides I read before, and I find it very nice that there is a shuttle bus🚌 at the Guan'e Gully ticket office going back and forth to Eman Gully.
If you are going with your family, I suggest you take 2 days to visit like we did.
You are dropped off by the shuttle bus🚌 at a destination and then proceed on your own, and on the return trip, you can get off at a scenic spot on your own, tour it, and then wait at the stop for the bus, and the drivers will enthusiastically introduce each scenic spot. Guan'e Gully has many waterfalls along the way, while Eman Gully is known for its dense vegetation, and both places are worth visiting
📌Travel Tips:
1. Drive yourself to the first gate of the large Guan'e Gully scenic area (actually Guanzhu Gully), continue driving about 5 kilometers forward, and park at Hua'er🌸Tan parking lot.
2. Buy tickets🎫 with your ID card, Guanzhu Gully and Eman Gully have a joint ticket, valid for 2 days, 130 yuan💰.
3. After entering the gate, take a minibus to the scenic area's main gate to have your ticket checked and enter the scenic area. ⚠️Note, when returning, remember to tell the staff that you are on the "No. 1 bus", so as not to get mixed up with tourists who enter the scenic area from the first gate.
4. After entering the scenic area, you can spend 10 yuan💰 to take a bus to Guanyin Pavilion, and then continue to hike up. If you are physically fit, you can also hike. We chose to hike, and when we came down, we bought a ticket🎫 to take the bus.
5. Drive from Hua'er Tan🌸 to Eman Gully, remember to choose the longer main road! We chose the shortest distance, which is the dirt road from the middle of the mountain, with trepidation, and had to keep driving forward. The moment we reached the asphalt road at the bottom of the mountain, our hanging hearts finally settled.
6. Take the bus🚌 on the second floor of Eman Gully Tourist Center to "Shiba Xianghui" where passengers get off to admire the thousand-year-old yew🌲. But to get to Zedangcuo, you need to walk 9 kilometers back and forth, so we had to give up and then take the bus all the way back, so the experience in Eman Gully was not good.
Guan'egou
Guan'egou National Forest Park is located in the suburbs of Dangchang County, Longnan City, Gansu Province, consisting of Guanzhu Gully, Eman Gully, Mulong Gully, and Temple Gully, among others.
Guan'egou Scenic Area is characterized by its landscape, known as the 'Little Jiuzhaigou', and combines mountainous landscapes, water features, forest views, snow-capped mountains, rock formations, and ice features into one. It has a grand scale of geological relics and a complete variety, making it a natural treasure trove of natural landscapes. The forest coverage rate in Guan'egou reaches 75.1%, with a beautiful ecological environment, unique natural landscapes, and a diverse distribution of flora and fauna. Inside the gully, mountains overlap, secluded valleys crisscross, green hills and clear waters, strange peaks and rocks, splashing waterfalls, meadows and snow mountains, lakes and rapids, and towering ancient trees; on the cliffs on both sides of the gully, there are many interesting and varied rock structures, which experts have praised as the most valuable 'geological park' for viewing. Stepping into Guan'egou, there are countless natural landscapes such as forests, grasslands, landforms, water bodies, celestial phenomena, and cultural landscapes. It has the beauty of water like Jiuzhaigou, and the ruggedness of Huangshan and Huashan. Its visual impact, spiritual shock, and pristine beauty are first-class in the country and the best in the northwest.
marceline_aurelia_silverwood Guanegou is the most healing place for the heart, taking you away from the hustle and bustle
You may be enchanted by the fairyland of Jiuzhaigou, but Guanegou, with its breathtaking beauty that has amazed travelers, has preserved the most pristine scenery. This place is Guanegou, known as the 'Little Jiuzhaigou'.
The scenic area is filled with overlapping mountains, crisscrossing valleys, green mountains and clear waters, bizarre peaks and rocks, splashing waterfalls, meadows and snow mountains, lakes and rapids, and ancient trees reaching for the sky. The colors change endlessly with the seasons: in spring, wildflowers bloom and vie for beauty; in summer, the green shade shields from the sun, leaving no trace of the heat; autumn brings red maple leaves that dye the layered forests; and winter covers the ground with white snow, with ice flowers and jade trees, icicles, and ice hangings that are crystal clear, forming exquisite works of art.
The emerald valleys, colorful forests, and sacred mountains together adorn a spiritually rich 'Qiang-style paradise'—Dangchang Guanegou National Forest Park. Stepping into this place allows people to escape the noise of the city and meet with the clear and splendid endless mountains and waters, embarking on a journey that heals both body and mind.
Beautiful Longnan, the Guange Gorge in winter!
This is the coldest season
It's also a uniquely charming season in the Guange Gorge scenic area
Not just the ice waterfall
Glistening ice crystals, vast snow sea, jade trees and beautiful flowers
This place instantly becomes a fairy tale world
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Wen County's Tianchi is covered with red mountains in autumn
Wen County Tianchi is a famous high mountain lake in China, one of the four major Tianchi in China. The Tianchi is a pool of clear water, with blue waves rippling. At a height of 1728 meters, the Minshan Mountains hold up this huge mirror to reflect the vast snow-capped mountains, dangerous cliffs, and the flowing clouds in the sky. The average depth of this pool is 97 meters, with a water area of 25,000 square kilometers.
Tianchi is shaped like a casually carved jade gourd, with many small hills extending their chair corners into the water, forming the nine twists and eighteen bends of Tianchi. Elephant Beak Stone, Lion Peak, Fairy Stone, Old Mother Cliff, Erlang God Mountain Peak resemble humans and objects, arranged in a transparent line on the shore.
The mist and dew on the edge of Tianchi water marry their beautiful legends floating in the tile hydrogen, Tianchi is holy and quiet, with lush trees on the edge of the pool. Tianchi has different sceneries in four seasons, especially in autumn when the mountains are covered with red, and the lake surface is flowing with gold.
If you want to say the first impression of Gansu, how would you answer? Is the endless Gobi and the desert? Or is it the deep depression and desolateness in the yellow sand? No, you are wrong. Gansu is not only the color of the northwest. It is also rich in color. Gansus tourism is very rich. There are many beautiful scenery preserved here, but Wenxian Tianchi is one of them.
Wenxian Tianchi is a unique 4A-level scenic spot in Gansu Province that integrates mountain lakes, animal and plant resources, volcanic earthquake relics and ethnic customs.
From the entrance of the scenic spot to Tianchi, you need to drive 9 kilometers of Panshan Road. When you step on the viewing platform, you will be completely shocked at first sight. Isn't that what everyone wants to see? The Tianchi Lake is looming in the clouds, and the trees on both sides of the river leave reflections in the pool water. The lakes are reflected, the mountains and the waters are bright, and they complement each other.
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Longnan, Gansu
⭐️ The southernmost city of Gansu—Longnan. It is often referred to as "Jiangnan on the Loess Plateau." From Guangyuan to Longnan, one crosses from Sichuan into Gansu, and the terrain undergoes a noticeable change. Due to its proximity to the Qinling Mountains, the area is not only graceful but also carries the grandeur and desolation of the northwest.
⭐️ The Jiezhou night market and morning market are very delicious, a dazzling treasure trove of food streets. At night, there are barbecues, clay pot dishes, milk egg fermented rice soup, fried pancakes, spicy hot pot... and in the morning, there are stirred mung bean jelly, cold skin noodles, roujiamo... There are so many delicious foods that one cannot finish them all, the prices are not expensive, the portions are generous, and there are few tourists, mostly locals eating.
⭐️ After visiting the night market, you can go to the riverside to see the night view. The Bailong River covered bridge is very photogenic at night, and there is also a riverside park where many people take walks. If you want to overlook the entire city, you can go to Wudu Nanshan Park.
⭐️ The "Longnan City Museum" seems to have just opened recently, open from Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 (entry stops at 16:30, closed on Mondays). You can enter with your ID card, there are few people, but it is very worthwhile to visit, especially the first exhibition hall where you can take your time. There are also several interactive mini-games, and the Longnan City Museum's cultural relics matching game is very fun.
The only southern city in Gansu (Longnan)
Just after experiencing the drag of the Baiyin Museum, I originally had no hope for Longnan. After reading the introduction, I found that it was a new museum opened in June this year. I thought I would give it a chance. Anyway, I came here. I didn't expect to find it really great after watching it. There are history and stories, rich cultural relics and hard goods, clear and smooth exhibition layout, high-end hardware facilities, a kind of light source directly from the roof, and then through the top of the display cabinet. The material shines on the cultural relics, the effect is very good and more conducive to the protection of cultural relics, I saw it for the first time
The tour route is very clear, there is a rubbing exhibition on the first floor, which is relatively small, and the key cultural relics of the museum are directly introduced through the exhibition board at the atrium, clearly telling what are the first-level cultural relics, what are the second-level, and what are the third-level, and attached pictures The main exhibition halls are all on the second floor, divided into two halls and seven units, from ancient times to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the video commentary is very in place
Let's talk about the personal feeling that is more interesting First of all, we need to clarify the geographical location of Longnan, located at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, geographically south of the Qinling Mountains, and hydrologically belongs to the Yangtze River system. This is a thorough southern city and the only southern city in Gansu I arrived in Longnan in mid-December, when there was a large-scale cooling in the northern region, the lowest temperature in Lanzhou was already minus fifteen degrees, and here it was only minus two or three degrees
The famous historical event of the Empty City Plan took place here☞The "West City" of Changdao, Xihe County, Longnan City. And Zhuge Liang's well-known six outings of Qishan, the history book records only two times, the saying of "six outings of Qishan" only appears in the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
This land also appeared a very tenacious regime during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties☞Chouchi Country, at its peak, it occupied Hanzhong, Shaanxi and the border of Sichuan, and resisted more than 20 local regimes in the Central Plains for more than 380 years
And in the Song Dynasty, the Longnan area was one of the main battlefields where the Song and Jin countries fought. The great victory of the Xianren Pass, where the war god Wu Jie became a god, took place here. Since then, not only did Jin Wuzhu "never dare to peep into the land of Shu" for the rest of his life, but also recovered most of the land in Shaanxi in one fell swoop, established the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty over the land of Shu, and also cut off the idea of the Jin people entering Sichuan from Shaanxi
I told a lot of stories, as for the treasures of the town hall, they are the three pieces in Figures 1-5. Personally, I think that the big treasure sword of the willow leaf is the most handsome, with smooth and simple lines, finely carved at the handle of the sword, and very well preserved
As for the others, wait for you to discover it yourself, it's a museum worth seeing, don't miss it if you pass by
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The rapeseed flowers are blooming! Why is Gansu's earliest spring in Longnan?
The rapeseed flowers are blooming! Why is Gansu's earliest spring in Longnan? If I had known about Longnan, why would I have needed to go to the south of the Yangtze River.
Friends from Longnan didn't lie to me, the rapeseed flowers are really blooming in spring.
It takes just over 2 hours to reach Longnan Station by high-speed train from Lanzhou, and then another hour by bus to reach Wen County.
The rapeseed flowers shown in the picture are blooming on the mountain tops of Bikou Town in Wen County. The flowers cover the mountainsides in layers, like a golden blanket on the earth
The layered peaks complement the blooming flowers, creating a vibrant spring atmosphere that attracts many tourists to come for spring outings and flower viewing.
Approaching the contiguous rapeseed fields, one can smell the strong fragrance carried by the wind. Any casual snapshot is picturesque, no worries.
The rapeseed flowers here are truly in bloom,
but the chill of winter still lingers.
Eyes experiencing summer, body still in winter.
This is the most accurate portrayal of Longnan at the moment.
Best mode of travel: Self-driving
Best spots for photographing rapeseed flowers:
1. Rapeseed fields in Fanba Town, Wen County, Longnan
2. Alongside the Bailong River
3. Ranjia Village, Yulei Township, Wen County
The beauty of Longnan is intoxicating!
Bikou ancient town was built along the Bailong River, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty at the latest, Bikou began to gather as a town. The ancestors of the townspeople migrated here from Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Huguang, and after a period of development, Bikou became an important ancient port. Their goal was of course the timber and medicinal materials deep in the mountains, and the Bailong River was a natural transportation channel. Bikou became the final destination for these entrepreneurs and their descendants.
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"The forest is full of dyes," this is the first word that comes out of the West, and comes out of my mind. The feeling of autumn is beginning here. I have always thought that Gansu is a land of desolate and ridiculous, so that the mountains and rivers and trees are in harmony with each other, and it is also so gentle and tender. As a national 4A-level tourist scenic spot, the footprints of the Guxi narrow plank road in the West Narrow Scenic Area still exist. Li Ke-dy's "Western Narrow" is one of the three best-selling Chinese calligraphy, and is the best preserved treasure in the ancient cliff stone carvings. .
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