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The first stop of 2020 was delayed until September, where am I going to go on vacation for 6 days and 5 nights? Follow your inner call~ I'm going to Xishuangbanna, and since I watched the TV series "Drug Hunter", I want to go to this border city that is connected to the mountains and rivers of Laos and Myanmar, and is close to Thailand and Vietnam. More importantly, Banna is the only tropical rainforest nature reserve in China, with a unique climate and unique scenery that makes it a "hot land without winter".
Xishuangbanna On the first day , I chose the afternoon flight and booked the inn in Gaozhuang Shuangjing, because the airport is not far from Gaozhuang, so most of the inns provide pick-up services. In this itinerary, I specially added Nannuo Mountain, which is about an hour's drive from Jinghong City, and I decided to take a look considering that the distance was not far.
Night Market area 
Jinghong City Shwedagon Pagoda Temple 
Night Market area 
Night Market Area Arrive at the inn and put down your luggage, just go straight to the legendary Shwedagon Pagoda Night Market, overlooking the entire night market area from Shwedagon Pagoda is really big. It is very beautiful to take photos, and there will be many beautiful mushroom photos in national costumes here at night.
Manfeilong Roast Chicken (Gaozhuang Shwedagon Pagoda Store) Internet celebrity restaurant - The taste is passable, after all, it is an Internet celebrity, since you are here, try it. Xishuangbanna Primitive Forest Park, located east of Jinghong, north of the Lancang River, 8 kilometers away from the state capital, is the closest primeval forest to Jinghong City in the state. The park was created on the basis of 25,000 acres of tropical valley rainforest, with a forest coverage rate of more than 98%, which is a natural oxygen bar.
Xishuangbanna Primitive Forest Park 
Xishuangbanna Primitive Forest Park It's too exciting, it's a great opportunity to break through yourself, don't miss it when you pass by~~~ Go beyond the psychological process and absolutely release the pressure. 
Xishuangbanna Primitive Forest Park Wild monkeys in the rainforest... 
Xishuangbanna Primitive Forest Park A magical rainforest, if you look closely enough, you will have a lot of surprises. The Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is located south of the Tropic of Cancer, with an average annual temperature of 21.4 °C, which belongs to the northern tropical monsoon climate, which is characterized by rich heat, no scorching heat in summer, no severe cold in winter, abundant precipitation, and distinct dry and rainy seasons.
Preserved plants
Asof September 2015, in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which covers an area of about 11.25 km2, more than 12,000 species of living plants have been collected, 38 plant areas have been built, and a primeval tropical rainforest with an area of about 250 hm2 has been preserved.
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences During the night tour, I saw a firefly as I wished, which was caught by the tour guide to give us a closer look at how it glowed. The night tour lasts for one hour and costs 60 yuan per person, and advance reservations are required. 
Rainforest / Secret Realm丨Dai Ethnic Stilt Building and Courtyard Oxygen Bar Resort Villa (Jinghong Gaozhuang Starlight Night Market Branch) For the reason for accommodation recommendation, please see the inn reviews! After comparison, I decisively did not change the inn, and stayed in this house for 4 nights, which was comfortable. 
Little Elephant Dancing Thai Food Stall (Gaozhuang Store) I also ordered a pounded chicken feet, which really tasted good. 
Little Elephant Dancing Thai Food Stall (Gaozhuang Store) The first sip feels, wow~ it's not bad! 
Small Grain Coffee Before going to the airport, I went to her house to take out an iced latte, which is a coffee shop I really like. 
Gaozhuang Night Market, Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan The first bite of this hand-brewed obviously has the taste of sweet potatoes being roasted to sweet caramel, the aftertaste is long-lasting, round, and the flavor layer is more obvious after cooling, and then I tried golden mandheling~ It is not as bitter as ordinary mandheling on the market, but it is also sweet and thick, and the taste is very good. 
This shop is recommended for coffee lovers... Legend
Inthe Dai language, Nannuo means "bamboo shoot sauce".
According to legend, one year the Dai chieftain went to Nannuo Mountain to inspect, and the local Hani leader set up a banquet to entertain him, and the bamboo shoot sauce on the table made the toast eat very much, so he asked the Hani people to pay tribute to bamboo shoot sauce every year, and Nannuo Mountain got its name.
Nannuo Mountain A sea of clouds after the rain and the sky clears 
Nannuo Mountain Xishuangbanna is a famous tea production area. It is located between 100° 31'~100° 39' east longitude and 21°~22° 01' north latitude, with an average altitude of 1400 meters, an annual precipitation of 1500~1750 mm, and an average annual temperature of 16-18 °C, which is very suitable for the growth of tea trees. The Nannuoshan Village Committee has jurisdiction over 30 natural villages, all of which are Hani people.
Nannuo Mountain 
Nannuoshan Banna sweet dragon bamboo, sweet bamboo shoots, tender and delicious~~~ It can be eaten raw with water, or stir-fried, sweet taste. 
Nannuo Mountain 
Nannuo Mountain I live here... Stayed on the tea mountain for one night, booked Fuxing Jipu'er Tea Villa, which is a homestay, the experience is very good, the boss Xin Ge is versatile, the people are very enthusiastic, and his meals are also very much in line with my taste.
There is a small tea table in the house, with tea and water, and it is also beautiful to enjoy it in the house. 
Outside the window is the sea of tea mountains and bamboos. . . If the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, you need to bring a thick coat. 
Nannuoshan Financial freedom or spiritual freedom, freedom for dreams or freedom for oneself. On the way to find yourself, who will you meet, and what you encounter will affect the direction of progress
Brother Xin took me to visit the tea factory in the village, briefly understood the tea-making process, and went to the tea garden, and this trip was very rewarding. Return to the tea house to taste tea, chat, and sing~ If you want to live in this mountain, it is really difficult if your heart is not quiet enough. In the afternoon, take a bus back to Jinghong City.
If you want to buy dried fruits and fresh fruits, you can take a taxi to this market to see, it is quite close to Gaozhuang, take a taxi for more than 10 yuan, I can't remember the specifics. 
Banna's durian is not cheap, because they are all imported, but the taste is not bad, open one to eat. Day 5 It started to rain a little in the morning on a cloudy day, and the rainy season in Banna has not yet passed.
Kutai (Gaozhuang 1 store). 
Kutai (Gaozhuang 1 store) A bowl of curry shrimp, 45 yuan, one person's lunch, recommended to everyone! After lunch and coffee, the rain stopped, I got into a car and took a walk in the famous Manting Park. Tickets are worth 20 yuan, hahaha ~~~
Xishuangbanna General Buddhist Temple 
Xishuangbanna Main Buddhist Temple For dinner alone, I decided to go to the night market to search for a circle, there are friends who want to eat Dai-flavored barbecue, I recommend spending 10 yuan to take a taxi from Gaozhuang to Mandou Village, where there are many locals and are more famous for eating small barbecues.
Mandan Folk Village Grilled shrimp tastes good 
The practice of choking on oil seems to be a local feature, I ordered an oil choking beef heart tube, it is so painful to eat after it cools down, and the boss with bad teeth said that it is recommended to order oil choking squid, and it will not be impossible to bite after it cools. How can you eat barbecue without beer, a bottle of Laotian beer, drink it and go back to sleep. 
Night market area likes the texture of dried rice, especially like pho. Many stalls that make chicken feet, it took a long time to choose this one, the taste stimulation of the hot and sour pounding is too enjoyable, you have to taste it in person to know, it's really hard to describe it, it's delicious. The original first plan was to go to the Dai Nationality Park, it is not cost-effective to take a taxi alone, there is a through train at the gate of Gaozhuang Scenic Area, convenient and affordable, and when I arrived at the consultation office, I found out that because the Dai Nationality Garden has a Songkran project every afternoon, so the through train is only available at 13:30, one bus a day, not enough time, canceled. The second plan is to go to Wild Elephant Valley, a through train at 8 o'clock in the morning, too early I feel that I can't get up, give up.
In the end, I chose a scenic spot that was closer to the city and could be reached by taxi: Big Buddha Temple
Mengle Big Buddha Temple/ Mannongfeng Resort 
Mengle Big Buddha Temple/Mannongfeng Resort Personally, I feel that there is no need to buy battery tickets, It is not so far to the top of the mountain, 40 yuan one way, 60 yuan round trip.
Gaozhuang Night Market, Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan The weather in Xishuangbanna, as you can see, as soon as the rain stops, the sky and white clouds will immediately become blue and cloudy. 
Jianpuzhai Restaurant Let the store make it slightly spicy, and the taste of wood ginger is paired with tilapia with not many thorns 
Jianpuzhai Restaurant The pineapple rice here is not particularly glutinous, the sweet and delicious, I feel that each family's method is different Finally, I would like to recommend a rice noodle to you, there should actually be a lot of this kind of morning and evening ordering shop, but we have only been traveling for a few days, it is not easy to touch, if you see it, you can taste it, 8 yuan a bowl, the ingredients are self-service, much more delicious than 20, 30 a bowl in the scenic spot.
Just happened to pass by... I wanted to order fried rice noodles, but his wife was not there, he said that he was not good at frying, hahaha... 
I ordered a bowl of dried rice, like soup pho, I added a lot of sauerkraut to it, it was so delicious! 
is really delicious! The first experience of Xishuangbanna ended happily! Record it, and also give you a reference!
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