As a Zhejiang native, I didn’t visit thisZhejiang Province’s largest city until I was almost thirty years old.
The word "丽" here is actually pronounced as [Lí]. Just like many beautiful place names in the south, this place also has a very unique name and matching scenery.
Lishui is a mountainous area, so before the construction of high-speed rail and highways in recent years, the transportation was very inconvenient, so it has not been in everyone's sight.
Even though it is much more convenient nowadays, internal transportation still mainly depends on driving.
Therefore, it is recommended that you drive directly to or rent a car after arriving in Lishui city.
Share some traffic information for your reference:
Shanghai-Lishui City: 4.5 hours by car, 2.5-3 hours by high-speed rail;
Hangzhou-Lishui City: 2.5 hours by car, 1.5 hours by high-speed rail;
Lishui City-County Attractions : About 1 hour by car.
There are high-speed rail stations in Songyang, Qingtian, Jinyun and other counties, but there are not many trains and only surrounding cities can easily reach them.
As mentioned before, most of Lishui is mountainous, and its population and economic output are at the bottom of Zhejiang, but it is still divided into 8 counties Therefore, the scenic spots are also distributed in the mountains of various counties. Each scenic spot is also very different. It is recommended that you visit one or two each time.
Qingtian Overseas Chinese Township
I went to Songyang and Qingtian this time, and the experience was pretty good. I will introduce it in detail with pictures later.
The ancient villages in Songyang are the most common loess and black tiles in Jiangnan, but many villages in Songyang have been preserved very completely and have not been damaged by other styles of buildings.
However, many villages are operated and managed by very professional tourism companies, so the facilities are still very modern, so there is no need to worry about suffering here.
The most famous of these villages is Chenjia Pu Village. Due to its early development, the village already has Internet celebrity brands such as Flying Bird Collection and Pioneer Bookstore . Hotels can be booked directly on major platforms.
It's just that during holidays, there will be crowds of people here, and you even need to take a shuttle bus to enter the village. It's a bit Lijiang-like, but the good thing is that you can easily drink coffee and buy to Coke.
According to our B&B owner, in 2023, the village will also build a cliff-edge swimming pool and other Internet-famous B&B facilities. It seems that this place will only become more lively.
But this time in Songyang I lived in another village that I liked even more.
You can search for 🔍[Shangtian B&B in Yuanxiang under the Starry Sky] on all major platforms and you can book it.
Before the renovation, this village was basically a hollow village. All the young people went to work in the city, leaving a few old people left behind to guard the village. Later the government contracted the entire village and transformed each household into a boutique B&B, and the public places in the village were transformed into restaurants and Cafe.
The room you live in here even has the names of heads of the household, such as Xiaoyuan's family and Yongji's family. The ponds and stoves in the village have all been left. It's wonderful to see the original life here. Feel.
What’s even more amazing is that when you are in the open space of the village, you can still see Songyang County at the foot of the mountain. At night, the lights are on, but you are still in this simple and vivid place. village.
It’s not as noisy as Chenjiapu here, but it can still allow you to relax comfortably for a weekend. Fully recommended!
Speaking of Qingtian, many people will think that it is from Wenzhou, and many Qingtian people outside will even claim that they are from Wenzhou, but this county does belong to Lishui in terms of administrative divisions.
However, Qingtian also belonged to Wenzhou in history, and its culture and customs were also closer to Wenzhou.
This county is my country'smost famous hometown of overseas Chinese. Together with Wenzhou people, theyalmost monopolize the Chinese restaurant business in Europe. If you don't believe me, you can ask the owner next time you go to a Chinese restaurant in Europe. Not from Qingtian.
Many Qingtian people returned to their hometown to buy property after earning foreign exchange, and also built up the county town. exotic .
You can drink authentic Italian coffee everywhere in the alleys of this county, you can eat very good steaks, and you can even exchange them for the most cost-effective euros in the country .
The most magical thing is that I actually heard a white man speaking in Qingtian dialect that I couldn’t understand at all on the street.
Moreover, the Oujiang River in Qingtian County has also been repaired to look like The Seine River in Paris You can walk directly to the river to play in the water, unlike the rivers in other cities, which are built with high embankments. There are still many such river banks in China. Tianjin , I like it very much too.
This first-tier city in the Republic of China is enough to amaze you
Therefore, in this county that is very isolated and has inconvenient transportation, you can actually see the exotic customs of a city with leases along the coast , which is considered a very unique landscape.
The urban area of Lishui is actually very small. Due to too many mountains, the entire city is limited to the river valley. This has also resulted in this city entering the top 30 housing prices in the country with a very small GDP.
But in this small town, you can also eat a lot of specialties. If you want to escape the hustle and bustle of the big city for a short while, it's worth staying here for a night.
To sum up, Lishui actually has many different scenery worth seeing, but it is recommended that you don’t try to eat them all at once. There are also Yunhe Rice Terraces and Jinyun Shaobing that are worth spending a weekend to taste.
As there are still many uncertainties about the epidemic, a small city like Lishui is suitable for everyone to go and have fun for two days without planning in advance.
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