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Beautiful shops and a beautiful ancient town, a good place to spend time

🌟 Highlights of the trip ✅ **Shaxi Ancient Town**: A living fossil of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, the same filming location of "Where the Wind Goes", with ancient bridges, old theaters, and Bai culture. ✅ **Maxiang Highway**: From April to May, the alpine azalea sea is in full bloom. You can drive through the pink flower road in the clouds and take a blockbuster photo at any time. ✅ **Immersive slow life**: Avoid the crowds in Dali and Lijiang, and enjoy the quiet ancient town and healing mountain scenery under the starry sky. --- ### 📸 **Day 1: Shaxi Ancient Town·Travel through the thousand-year tea-horse time** **🚗**: Dali/Lijiang about 2h **📌Must-check-in points** 1. **Yujin Bridge**: The same ancient bridge as Xu Hongdou, the Heihui River reflects the distant mountains in the morning mist, like an ink painting (the least people at sunrise, 100% of the photos are taken). 2. **Si Deng Street**: The only surviving ancient market on the Ancient Tea Horse Road, red sandstone road + ancient stage + Xingjiao Temple, free visit to the Ming Dynasty murals (remember to bring your ID card). 3. **Xianfeng Bookstore**: A literary landmark transformed from an old granary, with the same camera position as Li Xian, and the rice fields and Bai ethnic minority houses along the way are super healing. 4. **Chuchu Restaurant + Banshan Coffee**: The same coffee shop in the play, overlooking Shaxi Dam by the window, order a cup of latte to be in a daze. 5. **Starry sky at night**: Encountering guitar singing by the stream, the lights in the ancient town are dim, and the atmosphere is full. **🍜Food** Bai ethnic minority specialties (eight bowls, wild mushroom ham hot pot) **🏡Accommodation** Specialty Inn "Go to a Windy Place" The flower wall check-in place in the play, the courtyard is simple and warm, overlooking the ancient town halfway up the mountain, starry sky room + private terrace, suitable for taking atmosphere blockbusters. --- ### 🌺 **Day 2: Maxiang Highway·Into the Clouds Rhododendron Sea** **🚗: 1.5h in Shaxi. **📌Play Guide** - **Rhododendron Sea**: From mid-April to early May, the pink sea of ​​flowers at an altitude of 3,000 meters covers the mountains and fields, and the drone aerial photography is breathtaking (the best view from the top of the mountain, with few people and beautiful scenery). - **Stop points along the way**: Jianhu Bird Watching, Shibaoshan Grottoes (a treasure of Buddhist art in Nanzhao), a niche and film-making. - **Ethnic customs**: Occasionally encounter villagers wearing Bai costumes singing and dancing, and take ethnic style photos in the sea of ​​flowers is amazing! . Food: Picnic in the sea of ​​flowers (special gong pot rice + native chicken hot pot) ⚠️ #Tips ** - Prepare motion sickness medicine! The winding mountain road is steep and prone to motion sickness. - The wind is strong and the temperature difference is large on the top of the mountain, so a jacket + warm inner wear is a must #Shaxi Ancient Town

· When you go to Shaxi, there are several places that can only be reached by sightseeing bus, one of which is here ☕🧁~ I saw the sign outside the store [Consume and take photos in the store], so I will help you satisfy your curiosity😌 · 📌Highlights--The interior design is a combination of Chinese and Western, elegant and generous, with a variety of drinks to choose from~ Various coffee beans and foreign wines are fully displayed · 📌Highlights--Sitting in the house and chatting with travel companions, watching the sun coming out from the cracks of the rustic wooden door, sweeping away the fatigue of the journey · 📌Highlights--Sitting in the small courtyard to taste tea and coffee, admiring the vibrant succulents and the colorful farmland at the foot of the mountain, sighing that this open-top tricycle trip is worth it🥰 · ✅✅If you don’t enter the store, you can directly go up to the observation deck next to it to enjoy the beautiful scenery at the foot of the mountain~ I met nearby villagers with cute little babies👶🏻 selling agricultural products, and I envied them for a day as a local in Shaxi ·

In order to light up the corners on Gaode Map, I have driven tens of thousands of kilometers in the past few years and passed many ancient towns. Shaxi Ancient Town is worth recommending. Let's talk about avoiding pitfalls first. Following the navigation, you will be intercepted into a parking lot when you are close to the ancient town (Yunhai Shanying, remember this name, otherwise you can't find your car). After parking the car, many local private battery cars (small yellow cars) will solicit you and tell you that the A and B routes are 80 yuan for chartering, a distance of more than 10 kilometers, and go to 4-5 scenic spots. Don't take it, it's not just a matter of money. The ancient town is a pedestrian street and motor vehicles are prohibited. The first attraction is "Xianfeng Bookstore". Drive there by yourself and park for 10 yuan; the second attraction is the rice field, the third attraction is "Banshan Coffee"; the fourth attraction is "Yujin Bridge". This must-see attraction is the last attraction along the street from the ancient town. So it is recommended to park the car and walk about 700 meters to enter the ancient town. Walking along Xingfu Lane, the alleys on both sides are more interesting. I met many foreigners in coffee shops. In the afternoon, I went into a yard to try their kiln-baked veal pizza 🍕 and drank a draft beer, which cost 118 yuan. In the ancient town of the ancient Tea Horse Road, Western restaurants and local traditional cuisine are so harmonious. "Yujin Bridge" is at the end of the town. There are two resident singers who can order songs. Many shops along the street are also good to visit. Many people stay or travel here. It is more economical outside the town. In a word, there is business, but not commercialization. To say a sentence that everyone understands, "there is no smell of stinky tofu all over the street."

[Opening]: Dali has many places for travel photography. I have lived in Dali for half a year. The most impressive place in the surrounding area is Shaxi Ancient Town. It has humanistic feelings, just like a mouthful of sweet old wine that is refreshing. ⛺[Tips]: There are many ways to go to Shaxi from Dali. Self-driving is the most free and convenient. Just navigate to the passenger parking lot of Shaxi Ancient Town. The whole road is easy to walk, and there are some narrow rural roads. Of course, you can also charter a car or take a bus. The charter is 80 per person. Shaxi Ancient Town is ancient and full of humanistic atmosphere, and there are many ancient buildings. Among them, the most praised are the ancient stage and Yujin Bridge. If you stay for one night, the experience will be more profound. 🛬[Itinerary]: Depart from Dali in the morning, it takes 1 hour to drive to the ancient town. After putting down your luggage, you can slowly visit the ancient town. The whole ancient town can be visited in half a day. There is a food main street dedicated to eating and shopping. Various alleys and buildings are full of literary and cultural atmosphere. If you come during holidays, the stage is very lively, with folk activities and dances, Bai ethnic characteristics Spend a day to visit the ancient town and Yujin Bridge, and then spend half a day to visit the surrounding places such as Banshan Coffee and Tree House. The beautiful rural scenery is particularly healing. #Monthly Special Plan #Yunnan Dali Travel Guide