The May Day holiday is approaching, and if you don't want to get stuck in the mountain roads and stay away from the crowd, choose a classic outdoor route to hike, which is the best plan for this May Day.
The following eight outdoor scenery routes that fit the May Day, don't miss these eight if you want to travel!
01 Shennongjia
The savage legend is the land of the cuckoo
- Destination: Yichang, Hubei
- Days: 5 days
- Difficulty: ★★★ ☆
Shennongjia has not only the primitive dense forest and green sea, but also the lakes and mountains, the alpine meadows, the sea of mountain springs and clouds, the original ecological uninhabited area, and various legends full of mystery.
Every May, the spring of Shennongjia is late, from 1200 meters above sea level to 3000 meters, the mountains are full of alpine rhododendrons, clusters of alpine rhododendrons gradually become the trend of burning the plains.
Stretching and flourishing among the mountains and valleys, the stars and the alpine meadows, sword and bamboo forests and Qinling fir around the top of the mountain set off each other, forming a beautiful original ecological flower sea picture.
Crossing from Shennongjia to Laojun Mountain is to step into the core area of the primeval forest in the true sense of Shennongjia, step into the green primeval forest, and step on the thick and soft meadow, which is also the most beautiful and mysterious exploration road.
Along the way, you will pass through primeval forests, lush jungles, alpine meadows and streams, and the difficulty of the route is not very strong, and you can have a deep sense of quiet forest and primitive barrenness.
In this late spring, you must walk into Shennongjia on foot, feel the faint shadow of the distant mountains, and experience the beauty of falling asleep under the starry night sky with green clouds and mist, flowers and birds flying in the mountains.
02 Wutai Mountain
"Ku" is one of the representative classic hiking routes
- Destination: Xinzhou, Shanxi
- Number of days: 4-6 days
- Difficulty: ★★★
Da Wutai Mountain is a word "bitter", 3061 meters of North Taiye Doufeng, climb bitter, Wutai even wears, 60 kilometers, walking bitter, Buddha Mother Cave 1000 steps road, knee bitter temple hanging single food vegetarian live through the shop, inside and outside are bitter...... But it's such a hard route, but it's a hiking paradise for mountain friends. Because this is a pilgrimage route where the body is suffering, but the heart can get a pilgrimage route of Buddha fate, in addition to visiting the temple, Wutai Mountain has a unique alpine scenery in North China.
Walking through the magnificent alpine meadows during the day and experiencing Buddhist culture at night is a hiking route for both body and soul. Every year from May, it is the best season for Wutai Mountain. The alpine meadows turn from yellow to green, and the mountains are full of nasturtiums, poisonous wolf flowers, rhododendrons, peach blossoms, and apricot blossoms...... It has become a sacred place of Buddhism that combines Zen and beauty. Especially in the summer, the people who go here have nothing to do with the temple, they only care about the scenery.
After crossing the high mountains and mountains, the double test of physical fitness and spirit has been completed, and the greenery of the mountains is the accumulation of time and the thirst for warmth.
For thousands of years, pilgrims have walked and bowed to make this trekking route more and more mature, and walking on the alpine meadows, whether it is a pilgrim or a hiker, it only takes two to three days to realize their wish to go to the Great Five Pilgrimages.
03 Zagana
The secret realm of Jiuzhaigou that does not lose to the crowd
- Destination: Lanzhou, Gansu Province
- Number of days: 7 days
- Difficulty: ★★★ ☆
Among the several routes in the vast west, there is one such a local off-the-beaten-path destination – Zagana.
There are abundant hiking trails in Zagana, with a day or two of shallow tastes and four or five days of in-depth crossing. You can also follow the footsteps of Locke back then, or you can follow the trend of the valley, leisure, light and heavy.
Located in Yiwa Township, Diebe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, at the junction of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Loess Plateau and the Sichuan Basin, Zagana is located at an altitude of 3,000-3,300 meters above sea level, with the highest mountain peak around it at an altitude of 4,500 meters.
The scenery here is stunning, canyons, strange rocks, forests, alpine meadows are all there, surrounded by majestic and majestic pinnacles, the mountains are strange, the scenery is beautiful, and the hiking difficulty is moderate, which is extremely suitable for the first high-altitude hike.
Grassland, karst caves, high mountains and Haizi, the degree of beautiful scenery is even no less than that of Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan, come here to enjoy the most immortal sunrise hazy, look at the majesty of the mountains and rocks of the gods, walk in the primitive pastoral scenery, feel the cultural customs of the land, all of which are a happy enjoyment.
Leisure route - you can walk casually in the Tibetan village of Zhagana, which is more leisurely, one day or half a day.
Tao Die Ancient Road - Tao Die Ancient Road is the crossing from Diebu to Zhuoni, because Zhuoni Tao Yan is very famous, so "Tao" represents Zhuoni, and Diebu refers to Diebu. Most mountain lovers prefer this route, which is a multi-day crossing, and the distance can be long or short.
04 Xi Taihang
The little-known secret realm of Taihang
- Destination: Shanxi
- Days: 5 days
- Difficulty: ★★★
More than 800 miles of majestic Taihang, all the way to the north, it is comparable to the southern Taihang but few people know - the secret realm of the West Taihang.
Located in the territory of Shanxi, the West Taihang retains the simple and long historical traces, among which the "cat road" is hung on the cliff of the Grand Canyon of Taihang Mountain, with a cliff on one side and a cliff on the other, and the road is narrow and very thrilling.
It not only has extremely steep peaks and peaks, but also has the "Eight Wonders of the World" Hongqi Canal, the karst landscape of Yinggu Gorge and the largest Tiansheng Bridge in the north.
Compared with the Guoliang cliff in South Taihang, there is a longer and more thrilling road hanging on the wall at the bottom of the well, with a 1,500-meter-long highway tunnel, completely suspended in the middle of the mountainside, and people have to admire the secret scenery when they walk here.
In addition to the unique scenery, the scenery along the way changes with the four seasons, if you come to the West Taihang around May Day, you can also see the canyon scenery that is "dyed" by forsythia, apricot blossoms and peach blossoms.
In the West Taihang hiking route, the cat road - Tiansheng Bridge - Wanfo Temple - Yinggu Gorge is the most classic, and the travel time is relaxed and can be carried forward lightly, there are scattered village yards along the way, and the supply and accommodation are very convenient.
05 Enshi
Semporna, China at 30° north latitude
- Destination: Yichang, Hubei
- Days: 5 days
- Difficulty: ★★★
When the magical north latitude of 30 degrees crosses Hubei, China, it creates a fairyland that integrates sinkholes, dark rivers, ground cracks, grand canyons, and Tujia legends - Enshi.
Boating, hiking, river tracing and other open methods, natural dangerous canyons, underground dark rivers, forests and lakes, and humanistic ancient villages, are the most beautiful fairyland in China selected by CNN in the United States.
Enshi was selected as "the most beautiful place in China" by China National Geographic. Although it is hidden between the two "furnaces" of Wuhan and Chongqing, there is no scorching heat in summer and less severe cold in winter.
The forest coverage rate here is as high as more than 70%, the terrain is dangerous, the four cliffs are towering, and the clear water surrounds it, constituting a very rare scenery of the cracks.
On both sides of the bank are canyons, with dense vegetation, and trees emerge from the cracks in the canyons and grow savagely outward, comparable to the planet Pandora in Avatar.
The clear turquoise water of the canyon is breathtaking, and the boat floats on it, and at first glance it seems to be floating in the air. It is well-deserved as the "Chinese Semporna".
06 Rain avalanche
A long-awaited secret place in the depths of Meri
- Destination: Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province
- Days: 6 days
- Difficulty: ★★ ☆
Rain Avalanche, located at the foot of Meili Snow Mountain, is sprinkled by melting snow droplets all the year round, and is named after the water droplets like rain falling, and has won the first place in outdoor commercial routes early.
Thanks to the good proximity, it is easy to take the high-altitude hiking trails, even if you are new to the plateau. When you walk into the valley and climb over the 3,700-meter Nanzheng Pass, the dense primeval forest is just an appetizer for the first time you see the rain collapse.
With the continuous climb, from the lush greenery at the foot of the mountain at 3,000 meters to the snow-capped at the summit of more than 6,000 meters, the layers are distinct, and a natural three-dimensional vertical natural belt scroll comes into view.
Walking into the rain avalanche means that it is getting closer and closer to the snow-capped mountains, and there will be three huge "snow-capped mountain ice creams" in front of you, including the Five Crowns Peak, the Goddess Peak and the first of the eight sacred mountains in Tibet, Kawagebo.
In addition to the shock of the snow-capped mountains, when shuttling through the primitive green sheep intestine path, facing the picturesque paradise of Yubeng Village, hiking here, there is no muddy mountain road, aside from the interference of the rainy season, the ice lake waterfall is at your fingertips.
The classic internal transfer route is fifty or sixty kilometers, and the whole journey takes 4-5 days, with Yubeng Village as the center, to the Ice Lake, the Divine Waterfall, and the Divine Lake, while the outer legend refers to a circle around the Meili Snow Mountain, which takes 8-11 days.
Once I had to walk into this sparsely populated village, a post road leading to the outside world was the only way.
07 Dangling
The only off-the-beaten-path destination in western Sichuan
- Destination: Ganzi, Sichuan
- Number of days: 3 days
- Difficulty: ★★★
Ganzi, Sichuan, a legendary "place with the most secret realms in China", Gongga, Genie and Aden are located here. And Dangling is a very niche destination hidden in the many beautiful scenery of western Sichuan.
Beginning in May every year, Dangling is facing the spring of mountain flowers, and the azaleas that bloom most intensely are covered with a sea of pink and purple flowers under the verdant and colorful forests.
On the way north of Dangling Village to the foot of Xiaqiangla Mountain, walking through it, there are more than 30 mountain lakes of different sizes with smoke and blue scattered between high and low, which are embedded in the valley, like a five-color treasure mirror.
There are four large and small gourd seas, Zhuo Yongcuo, and Jiayilatso, which are interdependent with the sacred mountain, and together constitute this pure holy land. A trip to Dangling may be equivalent to going to Aden + Beijiang + Bashang + Yunnan......
08 Tengger Desert
Hike another Lonely Planet shocking
- Destination: Alxa, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
- Number of days: 5-6 days
- Difficulty: ★★★
Hiking the desert, no one can bypass Tengri. The Tengger Desert is the fourth largest desert in China, covering an area of 43,000 square kilometers.
Although the Tengger Desert is not the largest and most famous desert, it has an unimaginable vastness and depth.
When you enter the Tengger Desert, you will see endless sand dunes like solidified waves, which are staggered and high in front of you.
Against the backdrop of the clear blue sky, the vast sea of sand is as vast as the sky. Especially when the sun sets, the undulating sand dunes are like golden waves, magnificent and gentle, desolate and majestic. They are like the ebb and flow tides on the seaside, very rhythmic, and when the wind stops, you find that the surface of the dunes has formed a rich texture, which is the trace of the wind.
Some people say that the desert is the ultimate loneliness of human beings. It is also said that the desert is irreplaceable beauty and mystery in the world.
When you really walk into the desert, standing on the yellow sand, you can really feel that the yellow sand is overwhelming, as if it extends to the end of the universe, and the space and time of this world seem to be frozen.
Going to the desert for a hike is like walking into another planet, and it is also the most beautiful way to feel the loneliness of life.