Do you want to come to Dali like this?

  • Number of days: 4 days
  • Time: June
  • Average cost: 1500 yuan
  • With whom: With friends
  • Tour kinds: Humanities, free travel, poor travel, save money
  • The author went to these places: Dali Dali Ancient City Cangshan Heqing Caohai
  • Updated: 2020-11-18 13:26

Life is short, take advantage of your youth to take a trip. Go to Dali once and experience the leisure of Dali for yourself.

Jizhao Monastery

, green pines and ancient cypresses, shaded by trees, extremely quiet. The nunnery is a little less solemn and a little more gentle. Different from ordinary monasteries, it is full of Zen but fresh and refined. Entering from the gate, along the way, there are fresh potted flowers and plants everywhere. The flowers and plants here seem to have penetrated the Buddha's sound and have Buddha nature. The winding path leads to a secluded place, and the Zen room is deep with flowers and trees, which is probably the best description of Jizhao Monastery.

At lunchtime, you can eat a delicious vegetarian meal for only 20 yuan. Rice and vegetarian dishes can be taken by yourself, if one bowl is not enough, you can add more after eating, but if there is leftover, you will be punished with kneeling for an hour.

the ancient city
of Dali

The ancient city at the foot of Cangshan Mountain has been nurtured by the continuous Cangshan Spring for hundreds of years, and anyone who has been here can't help but like it. Here, time slows down evidently. It is surrounded by heavy city walls, old bluestone slabs, and green weeds growing on the roof tiles that have gone through vicissitudes. Here, every family has flowing water, and every household grows flowers, which is picturesque. The clear tile roof and cobblestone walls in the city show the simplicity, chic and elegance of the ancient city.

Life here can be said to be very leisurely and very suitable for daze. In the afternoon, you can find a quiet book café, order a cup of coffee, and sit for an afternoon. You can also go to the Puyun Ancient Tea Shop to taste a cup of good Pu'er and talk about the world with tea friends.

Heqing Caohai

Plateau water town Heqing is the pearl of the northwest Yunnan plateau. The rich water resources have created the agility and beauty of Heqing. There are the cleanest days, the purest water, and the most changeable clouds.

In the Caohai Wetland, you can watch lotus flowers in summer and migratory birds in winter.

In midsummer, Caohai Wetland "thousands of acres of lotus flowers bloom, 10,000 acres of wetlands rippling, people swim in the painting, fish play in the water, birds play in the bow of the boat", lotus flowers bloom, competing for beauty; Running to the bottom of the eyes evokes the soft and romantic feelings in people's hearts.

Every autumn, tens of thousands of migratory birds migrating from the north come to Heqing Caohai one after another. In winter, the sky and water surface of the grass sea are covered with birds, as if participating in a grand banquet of "a hundred birds rising in the sun". In the early winter morning of Heyang Dam, the mountains are like dark clouds and the mist is like smoke. Reeds, dry grass, white frost, such as the poetic and picturesque depiction of "reeds are green, white dew is frost".

Ma'er Mountain

Between Eryuan and Heqing, there is an amazing Ma'er Mountain. Wanli rhododendrons bloom here without scruples, sporadic red, dotted with patches of green behind them.

In Ma'er Mountain, the rhododendrons bloom all over the mountains from April to June, and the white and pink rhododendrons and various wildflowers are endless and staggered, and the mountain flowers all over the mountains sway in the wind, which is beautiful. The sea of 10,000 acres of flowers is like God accidentally overturning the palette and sprinkled on the hills, thick and dazzling, light fresh and elegant, red is more beautiful than Danxia, and white is better than frost and snow. It's a rhododendron paradise!


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