Visit Wuyi Mountain and witness the light boats passing through the endless mountain ranges!
Special Forces Two-Day Tour Strategy (with route)
✔️ Took the bamboo raft ✔️ Climbed Tianyou Peak
✔️ Walked the ancient trail of Rock Bone and Fragrant Flowers ✔️ Watched the Impression of Dahongpao
✔️ Saw the sunrise at Baiyun Zen Temple ✔️ Ate Guangbing and Zixi noodles
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①: Take the high-speed train to Nanping Station, then take bus K1 to the city center. Scan the code when boarding, the whole journey costs ¥10, about 40 minutes.
②: The next morning, head to the south gate of the scenic area and take the sightseeing bus to the bamboo raft pier, about 15min. After getting off the bus, you can buy fish food along the way to feed the fish while on the bamboo raft.
③: After getting off the bamboo raft, take the sightseeing bus to the Tianyou Peak station, the round trip takes about 2h. The actual climbing time on the narrow path is about 30min, or 40min if it's crowded. The altitude is over 400 meters, not very difficult.
④: After descending the mountain, go to Min Flavor Private Kitchen for a meal, then return to the hotel to rest.
⑤: Arrive at the north gate of the scenic area at 16:10, take the sightseeing bus to the Shuilian Cave station and walk for 20min, enter the ancient trail of Rock Bone and Fragrant Flowers at 16:50. The scenery along the way is nice, we took the reverse route, which seemed less crowded. It took 1h, passing by the Mother Tree, to reach the Dahongpao sightseeing bus station.
⑥: Return to the hotel to rest and wash up, as we bought tickets for the last show, there was plenty of time.
⑦: Visit Sanggu Street, ate Guangbing and Zixi noodles, then walked to the performance venue, also visited Impression Jianzhou (quite average).
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⑧: Get up early the next day to watch the sunrise at Baiyun Zen Temple, it took 30min to climb up, reached the top at five o'clock, vaguely seeing the clouds and morning glow. After descending, head straight back to the hotel to catch up on sleep, then start the return journey.
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📍Key TIPS are here!
1️⃣ Bamboo raft tickets should be booked three to four days in advance, July and August are peak seasons, and it's easy to miss out on tickets if you buy on-site, disrupting your itinerary.
2️⃣ Bamboo raft tickets and sightseeing bus tickets are bundled, regular social vehicles are not allowed in the scenic area, and bamboo raft tickets alone need to be purchased on-site at the pier. Considering the first point, it is still recommended to buy in advance. Also, if needed: you can contact customer service by phone to issue an electronic invoice.
3️⃣ Min Flavor Private Kitchen is quite delicious, worth a try, but there are many people queuing up at night, it is close to the south gate of the scenic area, you can go directly out to eat.
4️⃣ It is recommended to reserve more than 3 hours for the total journey of Shuilian Cave + Mother Tree + ancient trail of Rock Bone and Fragrant Flowers. We were worried about missing the sightseeing bus, so we walked fast and did not go to Shuilian Cave.
5️⃣ It is best to buy tickets for Impression Dahongpao one week in advance recently, the seller is raising the price, not recommended.
6️⃣ Although the scenery of Baiyun Zen Temple is beautiful, there is a shaky part of the path where only one or two people can go down at a time, and you have to queue up when there are many people.
7️⃣ We bought tickets for the 7:10 bamboo raft, and they let us check in even half an hour late. It's best to bring an umbrella when on the bamboo raft, the whole journey lasts more than an hour, and the sun is already very strong at eight or nine o'clock.