My friends have been asking me like crazy, I'm not abroad, I'm in Guizhou
The blue-green lake, the mysterious Swan Castle, it's like a fairy-tale world👸 This is not abroad, but a small lake in southwestern Guizhou - Wanfeng Lake⛰️
🍃Wanfeng Lake is located in the southeast of Xingyi City, Guizhou Province, and is known as 'the Lake of Ten Thousand Peaks, the best in the southwest, 📜 a landscape painting'. The lake is vast and the light is shimmering. The coast is full of peaks, stone forests, caves, sinkholes, and dense forests. The islands, peninsulas, bays, and inner lakes in the lake are staggered, and you can visit in all four seasons.
🏰Recommended reasons
1⃣️Travel through the fairy tale world
Sailing on the lake, you can soon see a huge solitary rock in the center of the lake and the Gothic building - Jilong Castle on it. The red-roofed and white-walled castle is full of fairy-tale feelings, and the surrounding mountains add a bit of mystery.
2⃣️Guizhou version of 'Little Three Gorges'
Here you can also experience the landscape of the Three Gorges. The boat travels in the canyon, as if wandering in a grand natural painting. The towering and continuous natural barriers on both sides of the canyon, the sunlight through the mountains renders the lake into two colors of deep green and light green. It makes people have to feel the magic of nature~
3⃣️Paradise for wild fishing
Wanfeng Lake has beautiful natural scenery, rich fish and beautiful water, and many fishermen gather. It is known as 'the paradise of wild fishing' and has a high reputation at home and abroad. When I went there, I also met some fishing brothers who were not afraid of the sun, they were really dedicated.
📍Wanfeng Lake
✒️Address: Inside the Maling River Gorge Scenic Area, Xingyi City, Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, navigate to the Red Camellia Village Pier of Wanfeng Lake
🚢Boat ticket: 60 yuan
🔍Tips
‼️There is no admission fee for Wanfeng Lake itself, but there is a charge for the boat. Currently, there are 2 piers in Wanfeng Lake. We chose the unofficial Red Camellia Village Pier (the boat has a sunshade on the second floor), and the other pier does not have a boat.
‼️The official sailing time of the boat is 110 minutes, but it is actually about an hour and a half.
‼️The road to Wanfeng Lake is not easy to drive, but it is also a normal two-lane mountain road (it's normal for friends in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan), just drive slowly and pay attention to oncoming traffic. There is a parking lot at the pier, and the parking fee is ten yuan.
🏜️Recommended nearby attractions
Maling River Gorge, Wanfeng Forest, Jade Emperor Peak
🏨Accommodation
Xingyi City, a few dozen kilometers away from the scenic area, not too far.
🍲Recommended food
Shrimp sour beef, dry pot beef, sour bamboo shoot beef, fried rice, ice pulp
Although Xingyi also belongs to the karst landform, it is also special to have the waters such as Wanfeng Lake. The scenery along the lake is very good. It does have a little feeling of the Three Gorges. No wonder it is called the Little Three Gorges. It is very comfortable to take a boat tour and it is worth a visit.
Wanfeng Lake is in Xingyi City, southwest Guizhou, but the scenic spot is not close to the city, and it takes more than half an hour to get from the city. Here is mainly through the cruise experience. The cruise ship is about an hour. One of them is very similar to the small Three Gorges. It is recommended to drive by yourself, and it is more difficult to take a taxi on the return trip.
The driver sister is very good. The other Wanfenglin VIP ticket has said that there is just a tour group on the boat. The aunts go up to the deck to take pictures. We basically don’t have to go up. There is no location. The scenery is good. It is worth a visit, but it is best to go early. It is late to go up the 400 steps. It'll get a little sun.
When visiting Wanfeng Lake, the lake breeze is glazed and it feels particularly pleasant. And the service of the cruise ship is also very thoughtful, making people feel at home. This trip gave me a deeper understanding of the natural scenery of Guizhou. I feel that Guizhou is really a good place with beautiful scenery.
Known as China's Swan Castle, this attraction must be punched in. The castle on the small island in the lake is a palace. Wanfeng Lake is very large. This line has few guests and is very comfortable.
Wanfeng Lake was the predecessor of the unruly Nanpan River. In 1991, due to the construction of the Tianshengqiao Hydropower Station, the high dam was built, so that the river water was blocked by the hydropower station, which formed this blue wave Wanfeng Lake. As a key hydropower project in the country, Tianshengqiao Hydropower Station perfectly solves the electricity consumption problem in the southwest region, and thus promotes the economic development of Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces. Wanfeng Lake is named for being in the midst of thousands of peak forests, and its scale is very large. Equivalent to two Dali Bohai 17 Qingzhen Hongfeng Lake, 76 Hangzhou West Lake. Wanfeng Lake has 10.8 billion cubic meters of water, with 816 square kilometers of water, which is an important water source in the “Pearl River Delta” economic zone. Not only that, Wanfeng Lake also has this beautiful and magnificent natural scenery, its water quality is also very excellent, the water transparency is up to 2 meters, the lake is vast, the lake is a thick and magnificent peak forest, its beautiful landscape is suitable for sightseeing all year round. To visit Wanfeng Lake, the most important way to play is to take a boat. In fact, the scenic spot does not charge tickets. If you are traveling by boat, you only need to buy a ticket. Adults are 60 yuan per person, and the price is not expensive. From the Hongyan Wharf by boat, you will pass the water stone forest, the small three gorges, the water break mountain gate and the Geelong Fort and other attractions along the way. It takes about 90 minutes to travel. It seems not too addictive to me. After all, the scenery in front of me is really spectacular and beautiful. I have also experienced many places before, and I have a great love for natural landscapes, especially this place full of wild landscapes and beautiful scenery, and Wanfeng Lake is such a place, how can it be unsettling? Wanfeng Lake is mainly natural scenery, but also integrated into the humanistic landscape, the most spectacular is the ancient castle architecture hidden in the lake, its name is also very atmospheric, called "Geelong Fort". In the depths of Wanfeng Lake, after opening the Wanhe Mountains, you will see the lonely castle hidden in the peak group. The whole castle stands on a small island in the heart of the lake. The winding mountain carries a European-style castle, steeple-style roof, and the red bricks are especially prominent in the green Wanfeng Lake. At first glance, it looks a bit like the shape of Swan Castle, but the difference is that this is a red retro castle. But in fact, the castle is a resort hotel, and it is said that you will buy a ticket for 60 yuan/person to enter the castle. It is not wrong to say that the lonely castle is not wrong, only an arch bridge connecting the shore can lead to the castle, surrounded by quiet peaks, the lonely reflection of the castle stays on the lake, the ripples make the shadow of the castle blur, only a moment to break the lonely atmosphere of the castle.