Weekend Travel Guide
Weekend Travel Guide🍂 Head to Taiyuan, Shanxi to enjoy the autumn scenery🍁|||✈️ Guangzhou workers rush to the airport right after work on Friday! Arriving in Taiyuan late at night~ Breathing the super cool cold air haha, who knows how refreshing it is to drop from the sultry heat in Guangzhou to a chilly nine degrees🤣
🏠Accommodation: It is recommended to stay near Wuyi Square, which is a central area and more convenient.
🗺️Itinerary: (The route map is on the last two pages)
1️⃣DAY1: 📍Mengshan Giant Buddha➡️Jinci Museum➡️Bell Tower Street➡️Drum Tower Street➡️Liu Alley
The first day's destinations are all major scenic spots. In the morning, head to 📍Mengshan Giant Buddha first, where there are so few people in the morning! Enter the scenic area, buy a sightseeing car ticket to go up the mountain, and then walk 30min to the top of the mountain to see the giant Buddha statue. The path is easy and not tiring at all~
🏃🏻♀️After seeing the giant Buddha, head to Jinci, which is very large! 📍Jinci Museum is a section within Jinci Park that requires an entrance ticket of 80💰. The outer ring area that doesn't require a ticket is also very large and just as beautiful~ But you must visit the museum, it's well worth seeing! There's no need for a guide, you can watch 'A Thousand Years One Garden Jinci' before going.
🏃🏻♀️In the evening, stroll around Bell Tower Street & Drum Tower Street & Liu Alley, which are all close to each other, and it's very lively at night. I also had dinner at 'Old Taiyuan Restaurant' on Bell Tower Street, which was quite delicious~
2️⃣DAY2:
📍Shanxi Museum➡️Jin Merchant Museum➡️Chongshen Temple➡️Di Lianggong Street➡️Confucian Temple➡️Wuyi Square➡️Chunyang Palace➡️Wenyin Park➡️Ancient Mosque➡️Return to the hotel to pick up luggage and head to the airport
The second day is mainly about citywalk, wandering through the old Taiyuan city area, experiencing the culture and the lively atmosphere.
🌟In the morning, visit Shanxi Museum, which is free but requires advance reservation, and is absolutely fascinating! The 'River of Gold' special exhibition on the first floor, 'The Hegemony of Jin State' and 'Traces of Xia and Shang Dynasties' on the second floor, 'Melting Pot of Ethnicities' and 'Buddhist Charm' on the third floor, and 'Porcelain Garden' on the fourth floor are all my favorites!
🌟After that, head to Jin Merchant Museum, which is also free with reservation, and is a combination of indoor and outdoor spaces. The architecture and courtyard are very beautiful~ After visiting, I had lunch at 'Apricot Flower Hall' nearby, which also had very exquisite dishes, delicious😋
🌟In the afternoon, start walking vigorously🚶🏻! Chongshen Temple is being renovated, but the outer wall is very beautiful and I took some photos. Walking to Di Lianggong Street, the red walls and tree shadows are really beautiful, and then I arrived at the Confucian Temple. There is also a Shanxi Archaeological Museum here, which costs 30 for a ticket😂. It's also nice to look at from the outside. Chunyang Palace is also under renovation, just took a casual look while passing by. Wenyin Park is said to be the childhood park of old Taiyuan people, with a long history...
🧳After the tour, return to the hotel to pick up luggage and head straight to the airport~ The weekend trip of a worker is always in a hurry, but I have a very good impression of Taiyuan. The autumn streets are golden and beautiful🥰
More niche attractions, the difficulty of climbing the mountain is very low, do a small traffic to reach the middle of the mountain, basically half an hour to get to the Buddha, although the one-way 6 yuan is not expensive, but it is not difficult to go, half an hour is enough, basically It is a flat road, and then climbing the mountain. It is recommended to go up the mountain on the boardwalk and go down the mountain and cross the river. Take the flat road in the outer circle, don't take the boardwalk, you can walk many attractions along the route, and you can see the monks who practice. The Big Buddha is worth seeing. Standing at the foot of the Buddha will have a sense of awe.
Leaving the last attraction in Taiyuan, I was temporarily interested, but there were surprises. One was that there were not many people and it was very quiet. The other was that the scenic spot was managed in an orderly manner and the environment was good. The third was that during the Spring Festival, there were folk performances and there were not many audiences, but the actors were very enthusiastic. Very good accident trip.
As a 4a attraction, there are not many foreigners. Most of them should be locals. The parking lot is large and the stairs are easy to climb. It is good to see it. The overall development feels not as good as the Leshan Giant Buddha.
Very convenient, there will be staff guidance when you go in, Mengshan Giant Buddha has been going to go, this time I will finally see it, the Giant Buddha is solemn, and I have seen a lot of monuments on the road. It is recommended to visit Kaihua Temple first, and then keep walking along the trail to see the museum, and slowly arrive at the Big Buddha's front.
The scenic spot opened at 8:00. We entered the park in the first wave. There were few people in the off-season and felt that the venue was chartered. Take a sightseeing bus from the entrance of the scenic spot to the mountainside, then walk up the mountain, and visit the Yujia Bridge, Guanyintang, Ancient Caves, Kaihua Temple, Iron Buddha Hall, Lianli Tower all the way to the Mengshan Giant Buddha on the top of the mountain.
On the 3rd, I took my children and wife to the Mengshan Giant Buddha to play. The scenic environment is elegant, the facilities are complete, and the Giant Buddha is spectacular. I lament that the working people in the Beiqi period can build such a big Buddha under the backward productivity situation. The scenic spot also has the Iron Buddha Temple and the Lianli Tower. It is very interesting. It is just with the children and I am sick and can't understand it in depth. After playing here, we went straight to Qingxu County to watch the International Fireworks Festival.