"After watching your dali travels all the way to share in the past few days, I really feel that I went to a fake Dali before." After staying in Dali, Yunnan Province for four days and three nights, I received a lot of such messages.
Many people have traveled to Yunnan, and this place, known as the "South of Caiyun", is the place where countless people yearn.
Because I like to travel, I have been to Yunnan no less than twenty times over the years, Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Tengchong, Jianshui, Yuanyang, Luoping... It's all in my memory.
The one who went the most was Dali.
Once Dali travel, like most tourists, according to a variety of online travel notes and strategies, the first day to visit the ancient city of Dali, the second day to rent a car around the Erhai Sea, the third day to climb the Cangshan Mountain, full of itinerary.
And such three days, especially for tourists with a hurried itinerary, see the strong commercial atmosphere along the streets of Dali Ancient City; it is most of the crowded and bumpy lake roads on the Erhai Sea;
Finally, while rubbing the sour legs after coming down from the Cangshan Mountain, he missed the beautiful imagination of Dali and the unfinished reality.
There is also a friend, in the five days of Dali, walked around the Erhai Sea three times, and knew the location of various towns along the way, such as Shuanglang, Xizhou, and Zhoucheng, but felt that it was not so.
Cangshan, Erhai and the ancient city have always been Dali's business cards, but for me, the real Dali is the dream, feelings and romance behind this business card.
In addition to the North Drift and Shanghai Drift, there is the famous "Dali Drift" in Dali, and compared to the material interest-oriented North Drift and Shanghai Drift, every foreigner I know who stays in Dali is carrying a dream and finally finding this place that can be realized.
In Dali, between Lijiang and Kunming, it is quieter than Lijiang and more comfortable than Kunming.
"A water surrounds Cangshan Mountain, and Cangshan embraces the ancient city."
The turquoise Erhai Sea, the perennial verdant Cangshan Mountains, the wind and flowers and the snow in Dali. When you come to Dali, you must come to a place that is the ancient city of Dali, which has a construction history of 1200 years.
Located at the foot of Cangshan Mountain, Dali Ancient City is the capital of the ancient Nanzhao Kingdom and dali State.
It's a place to live, the sun is shining and the temperature is right, and the locals are resting at sunrise and sunset, raising flowers and plants to bask in the sun in their spare time, as if the outside world has nothing to do with them.
This trip, without any plans, just bought two round-trip tickets and booked an inn. In the evening, before the plane landed in Dali, it overlooked Dali from a high altitude and encountered a sunset over the Erhai Sea, which is still unforgettable.
Yuying Longyue Inn in Dali Ancient City stayed for three nights, the inn is on the Renmin Road of Dali Ancient City, which can be described as quiet, but it is very convenient to go anywhere, get off the bus and walk for a minute.
Choose here, first of all, because the inn is on Renmin Road in the ancient city of Dali, and it is very convenient to enter and exit. Second, I like the two courtyards of the inn, the large terrace on the third floor, and I can also watch the sunrise of dali ancient city.
This is an artistic inn with a total of more than a dozen rooms.
Every time I return to the inn tired from outside, I am greeted by an abstract oil painting with the same name as the inn: Yuying Langyue.
The foyer table is full of fruit and guests can take it at will.
"There's always a corner that moves you."
Many times they are nestled in the inn and do not go out, watching the clouds, listening to the rain, admiring the moon, chatting... I also met several new friends, beautiful bartenders from Chongqing, painters from Guangdong, etc.
"In the future, this will be the habitat of many painters, poets, musicians and other artists in Dali, and they can stay in Yuying Ryoyue for free with their own works." If I like his work, I can live for free for a year and a half. ”
One night he sat in the courtyard and listened to the innkeeper talk about some of his thoughts. Such an idea is rare for the for-profit hotel industry.
"I hope to build an art inn in Dali, maybe one day you live here, you can meet the artists you like." He said.
"No wonder the names of the rooms are all birds, egrets, magpies, zhigen, nightingales... Are these artists coming to Dali like migratory birds and flying into the Yuying Dragon Moon? ”
I laughed.
The two paintings of the inn impressed me very much.
A very abstract pair on the first floor is called "drunken dream death", and a beautiful color on the second floor is called "rock and roll undead", which is very suitable for punching in and taking pictures, and you also need to slowly understand the meaning that the painter wants to express.
In the afternoon, when it is too sunny outside, I will go back to the Yuying Moon Inn to rest, drink a cup of tea or take a small nap. Rain or shine, both good.
If you have the opportunity to live in The Shadow Moon in the future, remember to punch a card under this window. Drunken dreams of death for a lifetime, talking and laughing for a lifetime.
The room I stayed in those days was called "Peacock".
On the second floor of the second courtyard of the Yuying Moon Inn, the room is very spacious, the lighting is excellent, and there is a very spacious small balcony outside the door, you can watch the clouds cirrus.
Floor-to-ceiling wardrobes, dressers, oversized beds, and windswept banana leaves outside the window, it's like one of my master bedrooms in Dali.
After staying in the inn for a long time, I gradually became familiar with the person in charge of the inn, and suddenly I had a feeling of going home, and before I left, I felt that I would come back next time.
Sleep until you wake up naturally every day, and then, like a local, go eat a bowl of rice noodles or bait.
Three or five minutes out of the inn, on Renmin Road in the ancient city of Dali, there is a Kuige Halal Park, which is a restaurant often visited by locals.
15 yuan a bowl of bait shreds, so much beef, really great value. I thought it would be the same as Lanzhou beef noodles, beef as thin as paper and have to find half a day.
Remembering the night before and chatting with a "Dali Piao" beauty, I learned that 800 yuan a month, you can rent a one-bedroom and a living room near the ancient city of Dali, sighing that the price of Dali is really cheap.
"Lijiang once I didn't want to go again, but Dali can really go countless times." A few friends chatted and said.
I prefer Dali Ancient City to The Ancient City of Dayan in Lijiang, where the commercial atmosphere is too strong, although many people feel that Dali Ancient City is no longer what it used to be.
Wandering around the Renmin Road of Dali Ancient City, there are many beautiful restaurants, cafes, taverns on this road, really too suitable for hanging out, full of flowers, very suitable for taking pictures.
The road in the ancient city of Dali is very recognizable, from the east gate to the west gate, from the south gate to the north gate. When I'm tired of visiting and finding a café, it's my favorite way.
I really like the feeling that Dali gives people, relaxed and comfortable.
There are not many tourists during this time, and the temperature is very comfortable.
At the Maokong Bookstore Dali Ancient City Store, have you ever sent you a postcard to yourself? It is 2596 kilometers away from Suzhou Pingjiang Railway Station, which is also the distance from home.
In the evening, I met students in pairs in school uniforms walking on this ancient street. This ancient city is very human because of the participation of locals.
Walking slowly in the ancient city of Dali and spending five yuan to buy a roasted milk fan is the memory of many people in Dali.
Roasted milk fan is a kind of cheese eaten by the Bai people and other ethnic groups in northwest Yunnan, made of milk. It is like a folding fan, so it is named milk fan. Eat raw, dry, fried, or fried. Have you ever eaten?
As the sun sets, find a local restaurant and sit down, watch the tourists coming and going, and sigh how fast the day goes by.
At night, find a quiet tavern to sit in. The Piaozi Tavern is only three minutes away from the Yuying Moon Inn where I stayed.
It is a tavern converted into a restaurant into a bar, and the only vine in the ancient city that climbs the entire wall, opening a window and a door in the middle of the vines, and many wedding must-see attractions are here.
A few bottles of wind and snow, small talk or silence. In the corner, who brought the love song to the beginning, and who gently hummed the next sentence.
"There's so much more to discover in Dali, and there's a variety of markets. In Dali is life, other places are alive, provided that there is money and unfettered time. Someone said.
Dali Ancient City, you need to calm down, slowly to feel. The real side of Dali is not in the Cangshan Mountains and Erhai, but in the quiet corners of the world, the beauty that is indisputable with the world.
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