Don't worry or go to the bathhouse! China-2017. Part 10. Huanglong Cave.
To get from the lake to the cave, you need to take bus number 1 to the bus station, and from there take bus number 2 to the cave.
The ambush was that by the lake it became completely unclear to us where to look for bus number 1. Moreover, there was not a single taxi in sight.
But you remember - I know the magic word Chutsuche) With this magic word, I turned to the security booth, from which a young guard came out, waved his arms and a taxi appeared out of thin air.
The auction was short and capacious.
- How much?
- Thirty.
- Let's go for twenty!
- I won't budge!
We did not negotiate a single yuan, got into a taxi and drove to the cave.
The first place you get when you drive up to the cave is the market. Pleasant such rows, foul smelling of fried tofu and colorfully decorated with Laowai essentials - warm scarves and multi-colored raincoats. It was hot and dry, and no one was buying it. Miraculously, we taxied out of the market labyrinth in the right direction, crossed the bridge, bought tickets and ended up in a beautiful area.
Even if you don't like caves, as I don't like them, you still have to come there and admire this park.
Important: a ticket is needed to enter the cave itself. Be careful - it's a long walk to the cave, and the ticket is sold only at the entrance to the park, don't forget to buy it so you don't have to come back.
The first thing that attracts attention is a building with a lawn on its roof. This photo was taken from the bridge. We pass the bridge, a couple more steps and on the right hand we are looking for cash desks. Tickets are different there, we didn't understand what was needed and bought 100 yuan each)
There are also market rows on the territory and real Ukrainian dumplings were seen there)
And even Ukrainian flags (butterflies)
Water mills impress me very much (Tell me, what a strange impressionability. Salamander - no, but mills - yes)).
I can't tear myself away from them, I'm filming them, looking at the smallest details.
But how long is short, we still find ourselves in a cave.
I immediately smelled cold from her, I take out a windbreaker from my backpack, but in the process of conquering the stairs it becomes hot.
Shooting a cave on your phone, even a brightly lit one, is a thankless task. The eye is beautiful. The camera is unclear.
Very soon we run into the lake and think about how we can go boating. We walk, look into the eyes of the boatmen, but they don't seem to see us.
I gather a Chinese phrase in my head to ask them what the hell is when we set sail, but suddenly a large group of Chinese comes running, the boatmen wake up from hibernation and we, along with everyone else, are loaded into one of the boats.
The water is black, it is quite dark around and only small spotlights illuminate the streams of water dancing in their light, falling from somewhere above. It’s very beautiful, but, again, it’s not possible to shoot this with a phone. I had to memorize everything with my head)
We sail for a short time, we land on a high ladder, I am sad, but there is no other way.
Only up.
The stairs were surprisingly not heavy at all. A very beautiful road among the lunar landscapes.
I don't remember if I have ever been in a cave. But for some reason I remember that I don't like caves) So, that's not true! ) I love caves, it turns out. Because what could be more beautiful than caves?
Especially when it's wet there, water flows along the walls, drips from the ceiling, sometimes creating bizarre stalagmites right on the stairs.
and there are dragons, which I also love very much
It's impossible to get lost here, there are signs everywhere, but it's a bit scary in the deserted corridors.
The most beautiful is the large hall of multi-colored stalactites and stalagmites, you can admire them both from below and from above.
Then we get to the place where the price tag hangs. What is it, do we need to go there? We try to find out from the guards in Chinese, then from a lone tourist in English, but we understand only one thing - we need to wait until the group is formed.
We are too lazy to wait, we are already tired and want to go outside.
A few more stairs and wet corridors - and we are free)
Again we admire the park, then we eat something on the bank of the river, we have a rest.
My legs protest against any advances, but slowly, with halts and photo shoots, we make our way to the bus stop.
Important: when you leave the park, you find yourself in the market rows. You need to go right! And to the end. And there turn left, go through the parking lot, walk to the street where cars go, here, on the corner, bus number 2 stops, which will take you to the bus station for 2 yuan.
In the morning, when we were driving to the lake, we saw an interesting installation in the distance with the heroes of the movie Avatar. We turn on Mepsmi, look for this circle and, oddly enough, we find it) We get off the bus and go to the installation across the bridge.
Actually, the idea was to have lunch here. But apparently they themselves are now lunch. There are tables, but there are no signs of waiters or any food at all. But Pandora, although small, pleased)
Having admired enough, we delve into the shopping center. Finding a wonderful grandma (or grandpa)
horses
fruit salad for 25 yuan and buns for the morning)
By taxi, for 10 yuan, we get to the hostel.
We don’t rest for long (I still have work in the basement, as in that joke - Sanya, here the client made changes, do it when you get to the computer, a flash drive in a bottle) I want, if not lunch, then at least dinner.
What I am not strong in is the selection of places to eat. I was once taught by Igor, with whom we traveled to Vietnam, look at Tripadvisor which rating restaurants are nearby. I even got Tripadviser for myself. But in reality, I just go wherever my eyes look and eat all kinds of bullshit. This time, bullshitwe ate in a small eatery with several tables on the street, where there were pictures of food and visitors, enthusiastically absorbing this food.
Absorb the Chinese - it means delicious.
To the Chinese.
Which does not mean at all that we should also be tasty. Or at least acceptable.
Nadya chooses a soup that appetizingly spreads its noodles all over the plate in a large picture. And I'm talking enthusiastically with the waitress:
- ui… yui. . . yu…
I want fish, because there is a lot of water around, which means there must be fresh fish.
I pronounce something wrong, because when I find and show the waitress the hieroglyph fish, she pronounces the same UI, but it is understandable to her, while my UI, which to my ears is absolutely identical, plunged her into a stupor.
The fish was small, completely dry, but moderately salty, not spicy and tasty. But the soup… It differed from the picture much more than my UI from their UI. The soup did not look like its portrait at all. We demanded satisfaction of explanations. They explained. It didn't get any clearer. They say - is exactly, exactly this soup. So what, what is unlike. You don't look like your passport photo either.
Nadia drank some water from the soup, fished out the meat, but left the unlike noodles and this plate is on the edge of the table. The company of Russian-speaking youth is suitable.
-How's the food? they ask.
Nadia nods at the plate.
-We knew it, they say and move on.
And we also gave them rice for free - I hear the evil thoughts of the waitress.
After eating, We make a detour of small shops in search of coffee with milk for the morning, in sticks. There is coffee, but no milk. But then we find real cow's milk, and I work out youmeyou to perfection.
In one store we buy a charger for the phone, which lasted exactly three days and then broke at the root. We also buy a package of sweets with Avatar mountains in the picture. I swore to myself not to buy anything on the road, but the mountains were so beautiful! I don’t know what these sweets taste like, I gave them)
The day ended on the terrace of the hostel, the darkness hid the construction site, and the chairs there are very comfortable)
In the morning we go to the hot springs! Don't switch!
