Qianjiang Xiaonanhai Travel Route Strategy

Chongqing Xiaonanhai integrates mountains, seas, islands, and canyons, with a long history. It is the most complete ancient earthquake site in China, with beautiful scenery, a veritable paradise on earth. So how should you arrange your trip to Chongqing Xiaonanhai? What are the fun places to visit?

1. Tour route

Chongqing to Xiaonanhai one-day tour recommended tour route:

Depart at 7:00 am on the Yuxiang Expressway, about 100 minutes later, get off at Qianjiang and go to visit Zhuoshui Ancient Town and taste the various local snacks. Depart at 12:30 to visit Xiaonanhai Scenic Area. You can climb Fenghuang Mountain to enjoy a panoramic view of Xiaonanhai. Inside the scenic area, you can take a boat to enjoy Xiaonanhai, see the Xiaonanhai earthquake site. You can climb Niubei Island → Chaoyang Temple Island → Lao’guanping Island. After the afternoon tour, take the car back to Chongqing.

2. What’s fun

Qianjiang Xiaonanhai, formerly known as Xiaoyinghai, is located in Qianjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County (Qianjiang District) in the east of Chongqing City. It is a mountainous, watery, island, canyon landscape integrated high mountain freshwater dammed lake scenic area, known as the “deep mountain pearl”, “paradise on earth”.

Mountains and water:

Xiaonanhai (Ticket) is surrounded by beautiful peaks (Ticket) in a circle, Qishi Forest (Ticket) stands by the sea, along the sea creek water meanders, the sea inside the branch port crisscrosses, on the island lush bamboo. Flat-bottomed boats with fishermen’s shadows, green women and red men shuttle through the blue waves; seagulls fly together, scales shimmer, flashing between sea and sky. Spring, summer, autumn and winter, each has its own wonders; morning and evening, sunny and rainy, infinite transformations.

Islands:

Chaoyang Island is the second largest island in Nanhai, named after the Chaoyang Temple on the island. As you ascend the steps to the shore, you can hear the barking of dogs and the crowing of roosters, a scene of rural scenery. On the island, the rare ancient tree iron tip pine soars into the sky, ancient pines twisted to reach the sky, a stream of bamboo rises up, as thick as a bowl, densely packed, a lush green expanse.

Golden Sand Beach:

On the east side of Laoheping Island in the center of the lake, there is Golden Sand Beach, a beach of cobblestones arranged neatly, toad-like and neighboring each other, playing with water, coupled with an island of pine wind forest, tea flowers shining wood, clinging to each other, green and green, beautiful and beautiful.

Niubei Island:

Among the three islands of Nanhai, the largest and most beautiful is Niubei Island. Not only because it has produced many beautiful and lyrical folk stories and myths, mysterious and timeless, with a long lasting flavor, but also because it is peaceful and natural, hidden from the world. It is also an island of pine wind, flowers blooming in the trees, never ending in all four seasons. On the island there are monkey groups, musk deer gardens, as well as chickens, dogs, pigs and sheep, thatched cottages and bamboo buildings. The Daokuan Creek behind the island, though not wide, is very deep, cutting off the connection between the island and the mainland. On the other side are jagged cliffs, staring fiercely at the giant ox that has entered the water.

3. Travel precautions

Xiaonanhai has a rich variety of food and drink, including Qianjiang Chicken Offal, Qingcai Beef Stewed Pot, Green Bean Powder, Rice Tofu, Potato Rice, Sour Meat, Clay Pot Rice, etc.
Qianjiang Chicken Offal is the representative dish of the Qianjiang Stewed Pot series, using the Tujia cooking method, with chicken intestines, chicken liver, chicken heart and other chicken offal as the main ingredients, and chicken cut into thin slices, supplemented with potato cubes, pointed peppercorns, fresh onions, etc. to cook, the taste is spicy and savory, colorful, delicious, mellow and delicious. After Qianjiang Chicken Offal is cooked, use a low heat to cook and eat, you can add cabbage, bean sprouts, winter melon, green vegetables and other vegetables, forming a unique Tujia dish. After finishing eating and drinking, put it in a garbage bag, do not litter, maintain the hygiene of the scenic area, travelers should wear masks throughout the journey, it is recommended to wear sports shoes, walk.