Yunnan Bed Car Leisure Tour (12) - Nakoli Ancient Tea Horse Road

Nakeli Village is located next to National Highway 213 in Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County, 24 kilometers away from Pu'er City. This was once a post station on the ancient Tea Horse Road. Xi Jinping visited here for inspection in November 2008. In 2013, the "Nakori Section Site of the Yunnan Tea-Horse Ancient Road" here was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit by the State Council. Here , used this to create a rural tourist spot, named "Nakori Tea Horse Road".

Nakoli Tea Horse Road

In order to create the atmosphere of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, paintings and sculptures with the theme of the Ancient Tea Horse Road are created. Distributed along the highway and next to hotels.

Paintings and sculptures on the theme of the Ancient Tea Horse Road

Walking into the village, there are photos of Xi Jinping inspecting Nakori and pictures comparing the past and present of Nakoli Village.

Na Keli’s yesterday and today

There are two more valuable monuments here. The first one is of course the national key cultural relics protection unit "Yunnan TeaNakori Section Ruins of the Ancient Magu Road". The second one is "Rongfa Horse Shop". Madian is a post station on the Tea Horse Road. Rongfa Madian has a history of nearly two hundred years. The couplet at the door of the store "Who is the master when the mountains are difficult to overcome? I will be the host when you meet by chance", which not only reflects the difficulty of traveling on the ancient road, but also expresses the simple hospitality of the Keli people.

Ancient Tea Horse Road Ruins

A post station with a history of nearly two hundred years

Since it is the "Ancient Tea Horse Road", of course it must have scenes that reproduce the history of that time, and the "Horse Shoe Shop" is one of them. Here are some tools for horse shoeing. The bellows of the blacksmith furnace does not require manual labor. It is driven by a waterwheel. It is energy-saving, green and environmentally friendly.

horseshoe shop

The bellows for blacksmithing is powered by a waterwheel

The village is based on family units, and there are basically tourist hotels or small tourist shops. The decoration of the houses is similar to that of most tourist towns today.

Nakori village street scene

There are also some small humanistic scenes in Na Keli. The Wind and Rain Bridge, the wooden archway, and even the cow statues in the fields are all part of these small cultural scenes.

Humanistic scene

In this man-made tourist spot, natural scenery is not its strong point. But there is a "horse jumping stone" that stretches out as long as a duck's beak. Its image and name are quite appropriate for the surrounding environment. I observed carefully that this stone should be naturally formed, and the credibility is 60%.

Ma Tiao Stone

National Highway 213 passes by the village, and on the other side of the highway is a river. Along the river, there are wooden plank roads, water wheels, and a wind and rain bridge. A strange wooden bridge. The shapes are all unique. It's nice to take a walk here.

The plank road built by the river is a good place for walking

This bridge has a strange shape

The tourist resources of the Keli Tea Horse Road are not many and it is not a popular attraction. If your schedule is not tight and you are on your way, this is a place where you can spend a day relaxing.

We left the small town of Nakori at 14:06 and boarded the Kunming-Ink Expressway from the Tongxin Toll Station. We stayed at the customs clearance service area on the Kunming-Ink Expressway this night.

Campsite on March 1, 2021

P.S.:

We didn’t cook by ourselves at noon this day, so let’s try local food in Nakori. The Rongfa Inn mentioned earlier is a courtyard house. The environment looks good, so I ate here. Unexpectedly, something went wrong with this meal. The fried pork with wild mushrooms that we asked for was served with fried pork with green peppers. It was just wrong. At that time, I felt that the color of the meat was a bit wrong, as there was a lot of soy sauce on it, and I was a little puzzled, but I also thought that maybe this was the local way of cooking it, so I didn’t pay much attention to it. The price of fried meat with wild mushrooms will still be charged at checkout. Can wild mushrooms and green peppers have the same price? That’s all. Within an hour, Shi Shi had diarrhea. Her intestines and stomach were particularly sensitive to unhygienic food, as they had always been. We guessed that because it was the off-season, there were few customers, and the meat was stale after being stored for a long time. Is putting a lot of soy sauce in it to cover up the discolored meat? Hopefully this is just speculation on our part. Unexpectedly, a dish that is almost twice as expensive as outside would cause such a result.