Rucheng Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jul)
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Changsha three-day two-night self-driving tour
Day 1 Depart from Changsha to Chenzhou
Gao Yiling - Bailang - Stay at Ramada Hotel
For this trip, please be sure to choose a sunny day.
Gao Yiling is separated from Feitian Mountain and borders Yongxing County's Bian River, 28 kilometers away from the famous scenic spot Dongjiang Lake. The terrain here is mainly mountainous and forested, with pleasant scenery and a forest coverage rate of 95%. Gao Yiling has mountains, water, springs, caves, stockades, cliffs, and plains, and its most distinctive feature is the Danxia landform surrounded by beautiful puddles, with red rocks and green waters, dangerous stockades, and strange ravines.
Bailang Township has a vast expanse of Dongjiang Lake, clear mountains and beautiful waters, numerous islands, and rich tourism resources. There are two major tourist areas, Bailang and Doushuai, known as the 'Little Erhai of Chenzhou'. The local customs are simple, and you can rent an electric car to go around the lake, with a gentle breeze and beautiful scenery all in sight.
Dongjiang Lake Wudao Yicun Ramada Hotel is located by the mountain and water, with a lakeside viewing platform on the side of the hotel, offering excellent scenery and numerous photo check-in spots.
Day 2 Get up early to see the misty Xiaodongjiang - Depart for Rucheng - Hilton Garden Inn - Rest - Afternoon Li Xue culture - Lianxi Academy - Xiu Yi Workshop - Rucheng Cultural Museum - Relax in the warm water hot spring after dinner, steam, swim
Xiaodongjiang scenic spot is located downstream of Dongjiang Lake, from Dongjiang Lake Tourist Center to Dongjiang Dam, about 12 kilometers long. Every year from April to October, due to the temperature difference effect, layers of mist rise on the river surface, covering the surface of Xiaodongjiang, creating a beautiful scenery like a fairyland, hence the name - Misty Xiaodongjiang.
Chenzhou Warm Water Hot Spring Hilton Garden Inn is located in the valley, with a unique geographical location, enjoying the gifts of nature, fresh air, natural hot spring water, surrounded by clouds all year round, a resort for summer heat avoidance and hot springs in severe cold.
Rucheng is known as the 'Famous City of Neo-Confucianism'. Zhou Dunyi, when serving as the county magistrate of Rucheng, wrote the timeless masterpieces 'Love of Lotus' and 'Clumsy Fu'. His disciples Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, when visiting their teacher in Rucheng, were inspired by the beautiful scenery and wrote the first poem of 'Qian Jia Shi', 'Spring Day by Chance'.
Day 3 Self-service breakfast, stroll through the park to see the flowers, view the green mountains - Depart for Baiyunxian - See the blue flax flower sea, best for low-altitude drone photography - Return trip
Flax flowers, originally from North Africa, are a perennial herbaceous plant with strong adaptability and can be planted in various environments. The flower is beautiful in appearance, with small and lovely blossoms in a fresh light blue color. Blue flax is cold-resistant, drought-resistant, and can withstand poor soil, with strong resistance to adversity, likes sunlight, and blooms most brilliantly when exposed to the sun.
Finally, take a photo with a 126-pound internet-famous Golden Retriever, pat the dog's head, and all worries will be gone.
(If you have enough time and want to continue playing, it is recommended to go to Chenzhou city area to taste delicious food, see the food guide, and recommend staying at Chenzhou Ruiji Hotel)
Guangdong and its surroundings, a journey of exploration!
Day1 Departure point→Rucheng, Hunan
Head to Hunan Warm Water Hot Spring Resort and check into Hilton Garden Inn Chenzhou Warm Water Hot Spring, a mid-to-high-end brand under Hilton, adhering to the concept of 'happy living is up to you', semi-intelligent rooms, fully equipped, the second floor even has a 24-hour self-service laundry room and 24-hour gym.
After rest, head to Rucheng County for sightseeing.
The Lianxi Academy, which was founded in the 13th year of Jiading of Song Ningzong, is located at the foot of Guizhi Ridge in the western suburbs of Rucheng. The academy is a Song-style quadrangle building with brick and wood structure, reasonable layout, and staggered arrangement. It faces Xiuxi in the front and leans against the green mountains in the back, with pine waves, white clouds, and gurgling water. Zhou Dunyi, the founder of Chinese Neo-Confucianism, once served as the county magistrate of Rucheng, and the ancient good sentence 'Out of the mud but not stained, wash the clear ripples but not demon' was written here.
Rucheng, Hunan 'Embroidered Clothes Workshop', a national key cultural relics protection unit built in the Ming Dynasty. 'Embroidered Clothes' is an ancient alias for the imperial inspector, hence the name of the archway: 'Embroidered Clothes Workshop'. The ancient commemorative archway building that commends merit, sits east facing south, spans the main road from Fan's house to the county town, with exquisite shape, exquisite and vivid craftsmanship, using various techniques such as intaglio, relief, round carving, and hollow carving, making the Embroidered Clothes Workshop exquisite and transparent.
Dinner recommendation , local farmhouse, good taste, affordable price.
After dinner, return to Hunan Warm Water Hot Spring Resort for a hot spring bath (awarded the National Five-Star Hot Spring, China Hot Spring Golden Soup Award-China's Top Ten Romantic Hot Springs and other honors in 2023) The hot spring health area built by the spring vein. A unique plan for 7 characteristic hot spring areas, staggered in the unique hillside area, divided into landscape hot spring area, flower-shaped hot spring area, stone forest hot spring area, dynamic hydrotherapy area, water park area, private hot spring area and VIP SPA soup house area, etc. One of the park's features is the rare 52°C natural geothermal hot spring in the country, whose spring eye comes from more than 200 meters underground and sprays out natural mineral springs. It contains dozens of beneficial trace elements such as carbon dioxide, radon, sodium, calcium, magnesium, etc. After bathing, the skin is smooth as fat, it is significantly anti-inflammatory, calming, soothing, regulating physiological functions, improving cardiovascular function, and has excellent therapeutic effects on chronic diseases such as blood circulation and nervous system, and is also regarded as 'divine water holy spring'. Various special hot spring health care experiences make the body and mind completely relaxed.
Day2 After breakfast, check out and start to visit Shan Banana Youth Culture Park
The park building covers an area of 390 square meters and rotates more than 50 acres of farmland. It displays elements of youth culture, farming culture, and food culture, and has functional areas such as youth culture lecture hall, farming life experience area, firewood cooking area, etc. It is a comprehensive youth culture park with multiple functions and strong era characteristics
Stay at Shaoguan Yin Xue Hotel in the evening, designed by master designer Zhou Kai, pursuing natural harmony in natural waterscape and bamboo forest greenery, 'plain face beauty' craftsmanship, overall sunken unique courtyard layout. Take plum as snow, and take double meaning from the seal.
Day3
Shuangtang Yin Xue Guan Shao Garden Plum Forest→Return
The best viewing period of plum blossoms is from January to February. Along the road in Guan Shao Garden to the top of the mountain, thousands of seals set off a little white plum, white plum like snow, whenever it blooms, it looks like a forest covered with snow, quietly guarding the faint fragrance floating. The white all over the mountains is like snow.
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The white clouds and sea of clouds in winter, with the clouds surging and blending with the sky, make one feel as if they are in a fairyland.
The ancient ginkgo tree that has lived for a thousand years, guards the secrets of time, emitting a warm historical atmosphere. Here, immerse yourself in the long river of time, and feel the ancient charm.
Hunan Warm Water Hot Spring Resort provides you with an excellent hot spring experience. All spring water comes directly from the spring eye, without the addition of other water, rich in various trace elements beneficial to health. Soaking in it, the warm current runs through the body, instantly relieving the chill of winter.
The heated guest rooms allow you to enjoy a warm and comfortable rest after the hot spring, as if you are part of the hot spring, feeling unparalleled relaxation and tranquility.
Take you to explore the beautiful scenery and hot spring culture of Rucheng, come to Rucheng, I will warm you!
Mount Jiulong (Nine Dragons Mountain) National Forest Park Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jul)
Travel around Hunan! Guide to JiuLong River National Forest Park
From March, I just want to go out and play! This time I'm planning to go to JiuLong River National Forest Park on the weekend✌️Highly recommended by friends🥹
I've collected a lot of guides before I set off, and I'm going to share them with you today🆓
JiuLong River National Forest Park is a 4A level scenic spot, which I personally think is very suitable for family and parent-child outings✌️
The total area is over 800 hectares, which is very large, and it's completely possible to play for two days and one night😌
The forest coverage rate here reaches 97.4%, which is a natural oxygen bar, and the air is super fresh🥰
🎫: The original price is 138💰
⚠️The special ticket for spring outing is only 99💰(available before March 31, remember to buy it one day in advance)
❗️❗️You can check the content of the package on 🎵 in advance, it's very cost-effective✌️
Recommended must-go projects👇
✅High-altitude Via (Flyover line, over 10 years old can play)
✅Sky Mirror🪞
✅Glass plank road
✅Rapeseed flower sea
✅Forest train
✅Waterfall group
...and many more😃Every item is fun!
Girls, remember to wear beautiful clothes and take photos in the sky mirror or rapeseed flower sea, it's really super beautiful🥹
💗Warm tips
1⃣️Remember to bring your own power bank
2⃣️Bring more beautiful clothes for photos📷
3⃣️There are restaurants in the scenic area
4⃣️You can drive by yourself or take a bus at Rucheng Station🚌
If you have any questions, feel free to private message or comment me
Hurry up and set off with your buddies✌️
📍JiuLong River National Forest Park, Sanjiangkou Town, Rucheng County, Chenzhou City
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Blossom Garden Resort Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jul)
Guangdong and its surroundings, a journey of exploration!
Day1 Departure point→Rucheng, Hunan
Head to Hunan Warm Water Hot Spring Resort and check into Hilton Garden Inn Chenzhou Warm Water Hot Spring, a mid-to-high-end brand under Hilton, adhering to the concept of 'happy living is up to you', semi-intelligent rooms, fully equipped, the second floor even has a 24-hour self-service laundry room and 24-hour gym.
After rest, head to Rucheng County for sightseeing.
The Lianxi Academy, which was founded in the 13th year of Jiading of Song Ningzong, is located at the foot of Guizhi Ridge in the western suburbs of Rucheng. The academy is a Song-style quadrangle building with brick and wood structure, reasonable layout, and staggered arrangement. It faces Xiuxi in the front and leans against the green mountains in the back, with pine waves, white clouds, and gurgling water. Zhou Dunyi, the founder of Chinese Neo-Confucianism, once served as the county magistrate of Rucheng, and the ancient good sentence 'Out of the mud but not stained, wash the clear ripples but not demon' was written here.
Rucheng, Hunan 'Embroidered Clothes Workshop', a national key cultural relics protection unit built in the Ming Dynasty. 'Embroidered Clothes' is an ancient alias for the imperial inspector, hence the name of the archway: 'Embroidered Clothes Workshop'. The ancient commemorative archway building that commends merit, sits east facing south, spans the main road from Fan's house to the county town, with exquisite shape, exquisite and vivid craftsmanship, using various techniques such as intaglio, relief, round carving, and hollow carving, making the Embroidered Clothes Workshop exquisite and transparent.
Dinner recommendation , local farmhouse, good taste, affordable price.
After dinner, return to Hunan Warm Water Hot Spring Resort for a hot spring bath (awarded the National Five-Star Hot Spring, China Hot Spring Golden Soup Award-China's Top Ten Romantic Hot Springs and other honors in 2023) The hot spring health area built by the spring vein. A unique plan for 7 characteristic hot spring areas, staggered in the unique hillside area, divided into landscape hot spring area, flower-shaped hot spring area, stone forest hot spring area, dynamic hydrotherapy area, water park area, private hot spring area and VIP SPA soup house area, etc. One of the park's features is the rare 52°C natural geothermal hot spring in the country, whose spring eye comes from more than 200 meters underground and sprays out natural mineral springs. It contains dozens of beneficial trace elements such as carbon dioxide, radon, sodium, calcium, magnesium, etc. After bathing, the skin is smooth as fat, it is significantly anti-inflammatory, calming, soothing, regulating physiological functions, improving cardiovascular function, and has excellent therapeutic effects on chronic diseases such as blood circulation and nervous system, and is also regarded as 'divine water holy spring'. Various special hot spring health care experiences make the body and mind completely relaxed.
Day2 After breakfast, check out and start to visit Shan Banana Youth Culture Park
The park building covers an area of 390 square meters and rotates more than 50 acres of farmland. It displays elements of youth culture, farming culture, and food culture, and has functional areas such as youth culture lecture hall, farming life experience area, firewood cooking area, etc. It is a comprehensive youth culture park with multiple functions and strong era characteristics
Stay at Shaoguan Yin Xue Hotel in the evening, designed by master designer Zhou Kai, pursuing natural harmony in natural waterscape and bamboo forest greenery, 'plain face beauty' craftsmanship, overall sunken unique courtyard layout. Take plum as snow, and take double meaning from the seal.
Day3
Shuangtang Yin Xue Guan Shao Garden Plum Forest→Return
The best viewing period of plum blossoms is from January to February. Along the road in Guan Shao Garden to the top of the mountain, thousands of seals set off a little white plum, white plum like snow, whenever it blooms, it looks like a forest covered with snow, quietly guarding the faint fragrance floating. The white all over the mountains is like snow.
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CHEN ZHOU FORTUNATE HOTEL Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jul)
Changsha three-day two-night self-driving tour
Day 1 Depart from Changsha to Chenzhou
Gao Yiling - Bailang - Stay at Ramada Hotel
For this trip, please be sure to choose a sunny day.
Gao Yiling is separated from Feitian Mountain and borders Yongxing County's Bian River, 28 kilometers away from the famous scenic spot Dongjiang Lake. The terrain here is mainly mountainous and forested, with pleasant scenery and a forest coverage rate of 95%. Gao Yiling has mountains, water, springs, caves, stockades, cliffs, and plains, and its most distinctive feature is the Danxia landform surrounded by beautiful puddles, with red rocks and green waters, dangerous stockades, and strange ravines.
Bailang Township has a vast expanse of Dongjiang Lake, clear mountains and beautiful waters, numerous islands, and rich tourism resources. There are two major tourist areas, Bailang and Doushuai, known as the 'Little Erhai of Chenzhou'. The local customs are simple, and you can rent an electric car to go around the lake, with a gentle breeze and beautiful scenery all in sight.
Dongjiang Lake Wudao Yicun Ramada Hotel is located by the mountain and water, with a lakeside viewing platform on the side of the hotel, offering excellent scenery and numerous photo check-in spots.
Day 2 Get up early to see the misty Xiaodongjiang - Depart for Rucheng - Hilton Garden Inn - Rest - Afternoon Li Xue culture - Lianxi Academy - Xiu Yi Workshop - Rucheng Cultural Museum - Relax in the warm water hot spring after dinner, steam, swim
Xiaodongjiang scenic spot is located downstream of Dongjiang Lake, from Dongjiang Lake Tourist Center to Dongjiang Dam, about 12 kilometers long. Every year from April to October, due to the temperature difference effect, layers of mist rise on the river surface, covering the surface of Xiaodongjiang, creating a beautiful scenery like a fairyland, hence the name - Misty Xiaodongjiang.
Chenzhou Warm Water Hot Spring Hilton Garden Inn is located in the valley, with a unique geographical location, enjoying the gifts of nature, fresh air, natural hot spring water, surrounded by clouds all year round, a resort for summer heat avoidance and hot springs in severe cold.
Rucheng is known as the 'Famous City of Neo-Confucianism'. Zhou Dunyi, when serving as the county magistrate of Rucheng, wrote the timeless masterpieces 'Love of Lotus' and 'Clumsy Fu'. His disciples Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, when visiting their teacher in Rucheng, were inspired by the beautiful scenery and wrote the first poem of 'Qian Jia Shi', 'Spring Day by Chance'.
Day 3 Self-service breakfast, stroll through the park to see the flowers, view the green mountains - Depart for Baiyunxian - See the blue flax flower sea, best for low-altitude drone photography - Return trip
Flax flowers, originally from North Africa, are a perennial herbaceous plant with strong adaptability and can be planted in various environments. The flower is beautiful in appearance, with small and lovely blossoms in a fresh light blue color. Blue flax is cold-resistant, drought-resistant, and can withstand poor soil, with strong resistance to adversity, likes sunlight, and blooms most brilliantly when exposed to the sun.
Finally, take a photo with a 126-pound internet-famous Golden Retriever, pat the dog's head, and all worries will be gone.
(If you have enough time and want to continue playing, it is recommended to go to Chenzhou city area to taste delicious food, see the food guide, and recommend staying at Chenzhou Ruiji Hotel)
Rucheng Hot Spring Fuquan Resort Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jul)
Spring Outing Memoir | This is the 98 Degrees True Hot Spring in Hunan, the hot capital
Chenzhou city is generally off the beaten path,
Rucheng County is also hidden away, unknown to many,
but Reshui Town is quite famous.
♨️ This is the 'Number One Spring of Southern China',
boasting the highest water temperature and the largest flow rate
as well as the widest hot field area of natural hot springs in the south of our country.
The 98-degree hot springs have created this 'Hometown of Chinese Hot Springs'.
🚗 Travel Tips
The most convenient way to get there is by self-driving from Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Hunan,
There are also direct buses from Chenzhou high-speed train station to Reshui Town,
You can also go to Ganzhou West Station and Ganzhou Golden Airport,
which are about 100 kilometers away from Reshui Town, where you can rent a car or carpool.
🏨 Accommodation Tips
The accommodations in Reshui Town are quite complete,
This time I stayed at Fuquan Mountain Villa, which has private hot spring baths in the rooms,
You can also go to the hot spring area to experience it, with a dozen different pools.
There are also many hotels and homestays in the town, catering to different needs.
🔍 Local Cuisine
The unique local cuisine of Rucheng Reshui Town is the She ethnic group's food,
which is cooked in bamboo tubes with local ingredients,
offering a distinct flavor.
🌟 Nearby Attractions
Rapeseed Flower Sea
✅ Near Fuquan Mountain Villa, there is a 2000-acre rapeseed flower sea
✅ In spring, the blooming rapeseed flowers bring the scent of spring
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Reshui Town
✅ Hot Spring Cultural Park, from afar the mist is dense, stroll and browse
✅ Riverside spring, with water temperature at 98 degrees, where you can buy eggs and quail eggs to boil and eat
✅ Locals also blanch vegetables and boil sweet potatoes and corn here, be aware of different pools
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Xiu Yi Fang
✅ 'The First Fang of Hunan', with a history of 483 years
✅ Rucheng is also known as the hometown of ancient ancestral halls in China, with the Fan family ancestral temple right beside the archway
✅ The door and beams are exquisitely carved, with lifelike figures.
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Zhu Family Ancestral Hall
✅ Most characteristic, combining Chinese and Western styles, built during the Republic of China
✅ Spacious interior, after the founding of PRC, it was used as a people's auditorium and food processing factory
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Lu Family Ancestral Temple
✅ Also known as the famous family of Southern Chu, built in the 33rd year of the Wanli era of the Ming dynasty
✅ The Hongmen Tower in front of the ancestral hall is extremely luxurious
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Jiulongjiang National Forest Park
✅ The attraction is famous for 'Two Pools, Two Beaches, Four Waterfalls'
✅ Chenzhou's first glass bridge, with a fully transparent design
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