【Geyuan Garden Travel Guide】— Visit the Most "Bamboo-tiful" Garden in the Most "Skinny" Yangzhou!

🌿 Geyuan Sketch "Better a meal without meat than a home without bamboo"—This was the Versailles declaration of Huang Zhiyun, a wealthy salt merchant in the Qing Dynasty! As one of China's Four Great Gardens, this private garden sprawls over 23,000㎡ to show you what "bamboo-zing" really means: ✅ Four Seasons Rockeries: Spring Hill resembles budding bamboo shoots, Summer Hill’s waterfall doubles as natural AC, Autumn Hill’s red leaves are a full-face filter, and Winter Hill’s (fake) snow delivers Hokkaido vibes~ ✅ Mansion Experience: Marvel at the salt merchants’ "money power" exhibition—mahogany custom furniture included. Pro tip: Touch the pillars (sneakily) for a wealth boost! ✅ Bamboo Maze: 60+ bamboo species await identification. Friendly reminder: If lost, look for the tallest one—it might be a staff member’s flagpole 😂 ⏰ Hours: 7:30-17:00 (Go early to hear bamboo whisper in Yangzhou dialect) 🎫 Ticket: ¥45 (Student discounts available; pandas get free photos but no discount) 🍜 Foodie Radius Around Geyuan 1️⃣ **Simple Meals** (Dongguan Street) 👉 Must-order: Yangzhou fried rice (gilded edition), lotus root dumplings (bouncier than Botox) 💬 Review: Lines rival Slender West Lake’s, but for this "simple" feast, we’d call it "simply legendary"! 2️⃣ **Jiangjiaqiao Dumpling Noodles** 👉 Must-order: Shrimp roe dumpling noodles (umami bomb!), crab roe soup buns (straw-sipping alert ⚠️) 💡 Fun fact: Locals "wrap water" (eat soup buns) in the AM and "water-wrap" (soak in baths) at night—try both! 3️⃣ **Dongguan Street Snack Buffet** 🍢 **Huangqiao sesame cakes**: Flakiness worth calling 911 over! 🍡 **Four Joy Tangyuan**: Where sweet/savory wars cease 🍵 **Lüyangchun tea**: OG Yangzhou milk tea (just kidding, it’s actual tea) 🚶‍♂️ Side Quest: Bankruptcy Edition 📍 **Dongguan Street** (right outside Geyuan’s south gate) Ming-Qing "pedestrian street" selling: 1. Oxhide candy (literally tough as nails) 2. Xie Fuchun face powder (Qianlong Emperor’s vintage filter) 3. Your phone storage (photo ops everywhere) 📍 **Pishi Street** (Hipster ICU) 📸 Instagram wall: "We Love Yangzhou THIS Much" (pose like Lin Daiyu for bonus points) ☕ **Frontier Bookstore**: Sip coffee over ancient texts—knowledge absorbed via nose 📍 **Ancient Canal Night Walk** (Free digestion aid) 🌉 Post-dinner route: Watch locals dance to "Moon Above"—more authentic than light shows! 🛏️ Accommodation Hacks 🏨 **Yangzhou Youth Hostel** (near Pishi Street) 💰 ¥60-120/bed ✨ Pros: Find hiking buddies; rooftop poetry sessions 😅 Cons: Snore symphonies included 🏡 **Changle Inn** (inside Dongguan Street) 💰 ¥200-400/night 🎭 Perk: Wear Hanfu outside—zero awkwardness, full time-travel vibes 📣 Pro Tips 1️⃣ Yangzhou rickshaw drivers are stand-up comedians—bargain with "Master, your price tops Wen Chang Pavilion!" 2️⃣ Geyuan’s rockery slides are CLOSED (ask my bruised ego how I know) 3️⃣ Repeat after us: Dim sum at dawn! Dawn! Dawn! (Post-7am arrivals sing "Waiting") Final gift: Yangzhou slang—"Geyuan? *Bai de yimi!*" (Translation: Freaking awesome!) 🎋