Budget Travel Guide to Wumeng Prairie Scenic Area for May Day Holiday

1️⃣ Preparation

✅ Documents: Bring your ID card 🪪 and other valid IDs.
✅ Clothing: The temperature difference between day and night is significant in the scenic area. Even in summer, you need to bring warm clothes such as a jacket, fleece jacket, etc. Also bring sun protection clothing, a hat 👒, sunglasses 🕶️, sunscreen 🧴, and other sun protection items.
✅ Daily necessities: Toiletries, skincare products, portable charger, camera 📷, etc.
✅ Medicine: Prepare common medicines such as cold medicine 💊, stomach medicine 💊, motion sickness medicine 💊, etc., in case of physical discomfort.

2️⃣ Transportation Guide

✈️ Airplane: You can choose Kunming Changshui International Airport or Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport, then transfer to the high-speed rail 🚄 to Panzhou Station, and finally take the direct bus to Wumeng Prairie Scenic Area. You can also choose Liupanshui Yuezhao Airport. From Yuezhao Airport, take a car to Liupanshui West Bus Station, and then transfer to the bus 🚌 to Pingdi.

🚞 Train: Tourists from Chengdu, Chongqing, Changsha, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shanghai, etc., can directly take the high-speed rail 🚄 to Panzhou Station. Other tourists from outside the province can take a plane or high-speed rail 🚄 to Guiyang, and then transfer to a train 🚞 or high-speed rail 🚄 to Panzhou.

🚗 Self-driving: Directly navigate to "Wumeng Prairie Scenic Area". There are multiple parking lots in the scenic area, such as Parking Lots 1 and 2 at the Tourist Reception Center 🅿️. The parking lot for buses 🚍 is Parking Lot 3 🅿️. There are also parking lots at Tianchi Lake and Guanfotai.

3️⃣ Attractions Introduction

✅ Azalea 🌺 Sea: From March to May every year, 40,000 acres of alpine dwarf azalea forests bloom in the scenic area, and the azaleas 🌺 all over the mountains and plains are like pink clouds.
✅ Tianchi Lake: A plateau lake with clear water and beautiful surrounding scenery. You can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the lake and mountains and the surrounding grasslands here.
✅ Niupeng Liangzi: The second highest peak in Guizhou Province, with an altitude of 2,857 meters. It is an excellent place to overlook the panoramic view of the prairie and watch the sunrise 🌅 and sunset 🌄.
✅ Guanfotai: One of the best observation points for the grassland Buddha's light. If the weather conditions are right, you can see the magical phenomenon of Buddha's light.

4️⃣ Accommodation Options

✅ Inside the scenic area: There are characteristic accommodations such as yurts, leisurely wooden houses, and colorful snail RV camps, which are convenient for enjoying the beautiful scenery of the prairie.

✅ Outside the scenic area: There are more accommodation options in Panzhou City, such as Panzhou Moon Mountain Villa Hotel, which is about a 40-minute drive from the scenic area.

5️⃣ Food Recommendations 👍

✅ Special snacks: "Roasted potatoes", "Fried potatoes", "Grilled tofu", "New Orleans grilled chicken legs 🍗", etc.

✅ Special dishes: You can taste mutton rice noodles, luoguo (stir-fried dishes cooked on a large flat griddle), barbecue 🍖, etc. The mutton rice noodle soup is delicious and the mutton is tender. Luoguo can be made by placing various ingredients in a specially made pot and grilling them. Dip them in the sauce, and the taste is spicy and delicious.