2025-02 Hiking - Xikou New Village, Fenghua, Ningbo

It has been almost a month since I returned to work after the Spring Festival, and I gradually felt physically tired. So, with my girlfriend and good friends, I took a walk to Xinjian Village (Plum Blossom Village) in Xikou, Fenghua, Ningbo to find the breath of spring.

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Xikou Ancient Town, located in Fenghua Xikou Town, about 40 kilometers southwest of Ningbo City, is a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, which is surrounded by mountains and water. The town is located in the south of Fenghua City, about 40 kilometers southwest of Ningbo City. It is a small town in the south of China, with mountains and water, and is surrounded by the Wuling Mountains to the east, the Hedian River to the south, and the Xuedoushan Mountains to the north. In recent times, this place has attracted the world’s attention because it is the hometown of Chiang Kai-shek.

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From the parking lot of the Visitor Center, you can’t walk far before stepping onto Pingsha Road. The road is not too long, lined with low-slung Jiangnan houses, with a few small stores selling local snacks and souvenirs.

After the attraction, just in time for dinner, we are all a little hungry. Casually open the public review, rummage through the nearby restaurants, and chose a rating is not bad Lotus Yue restaurant, the location is next to Chiang’s former residence, but also save the trouble of looking for the road.

When I walked to the door, I happened to see a set menu for 3 to 4 people (159 RMB), so I didn’t bother with anything else, so I just placed an order directly on the “Dianping App”. There are five dishes in the set meal:

• Salt and Pepper Creek Fish: I was expecting a surprise, but I was a bit disappointed. Although the appearance of the fried golden crispy, but less should be a little fresh flavor, may be the fire control is not too good, fried slightly over the head.

• Oil-blasted shrimp: slightly spicy, good taste, belongs to the standard online home cooking.

• Dried plum and vegetables roast pork: this is quite a meal, fat but not greasy, dried plum and vegetables are very full of flavor, eat up a very sense of satisfaction.

• Stir-fried seasonal vegetables: stir-fried Shanghai green, classic home cooking, taste is OK, belong to how to do will not go wrong one.

• Tomato Egg Soup: Again, a home-style dish that won’t step on thunder, with a moderate flavor that warms the stomach and relieves greasiness.

After dinner, I walked down the street for a while and passed a specialty store where I bought a freshly baked “lasagna”. This cake is fragrant enough, crispy enough, covered with a layer of thick moss vegetable powder.

After eating, walk around the streets of the old town to eat. On both sides of the street, a variety of specialty stores, tea stores, the air is filled with a light fragrance of cakes. Passing by a specialty store, I happened to see the owner in the baked lasagna, the aroma is overflowing, couldn’t help but stop and buy a few.

The cakes are also of moderate size, each piece is about 4 to 5 centimeters square and about a finger thick, and when you bite into them, they are crispy and crumbly.

Fenghua this side of the rich taro, along the streets of the store door, everywhere you can see baskets of taro neatly arranged, different sizes. I casually asked a shop in front of the scenic spot, the price is a little expensive, about 1kg nearly 20 dollars. If you want to buy, we recommend walking toward the old street, I think it can be cheaper.

Wushan Temple, named because it is located at the foot of the south side of Mount Wushan, there are always some visitors stopping in front of the temple in twos and threes.

Took a quick turn at the Wushan Temple. Then, it was time to arrive at the pedestrian street of Wuling West Road, as it had been raining, and proceeded slowly along the street lined with stores. As it had been raining, we temporarily bought ponchos at a mini-mart along the street and continued on in the rain.

Walk slowly along the river.

It was still raining, so I had to take shelter at a nearby McDonald’s for a while.

After almost half an hour in the McDonald’s store, the rain was still not abating. Although I was a bit upset, I continued up the hill, really not wanting to waste the opportunity of this hike.

The hiking path is not too far from the walking street. However, due to the continuous rain, we had to go at a “turtle speed”, and the whole journey was on the mountain road, which was muddy and slippery, and it was quite hard to walk, especially on the way down.

After climbing at a turtle’s pace for about half an hour, I reached the mountainside, and only then did I see the plum blossoms. Most of the plum blossoms grew on both sides of the trail, full of pink flowers with occasional whites.

I heard that the flowering season was early this year, and from time to time I could catch the faint fragrance of flowers (very close). Unfortunately, the rainy weather prevented the fragrance from spreading as much as it could, and replaced it with the scent of wet earth, which is a bit unfortunate, but also has a distinctive mountain flavor.

Not forgetting to take pictures on the way.

Continuing to travel through the mountains, the deeper you go, the surroundings are gradually shrouded by a layer of light mist, as if the whole world is slowly sinking into silence, and every time you breathe, it’s as if you’re inhaling the purest breath.

Despite the obstructed view and slippery trail, we were still excited to traverse it.

After wandering around the mountain for a couple of hours, at the exit, I found a large blooming plum bush with a small gully, beautiful.

Summary

This time is running “easy walk” to come, read the online guide, said only 5 kilometers around a circle, it is a breeze.

But coincidentally, it actually rained, and it rained non-stop, making the road up and down the mountain extremely difficult to walk, especially when going down the mountain, I saw a lot of people “sitting on the ground”, think about it all feel sour.

In the future, you can’t easily trust the weather forecast (the day before and before you leave the house, the weather forecast is cloudy), if it’s cloudy, you must bring your down jacket and poncho, this time I wore a down jacket, and it’s really hard to top off the humidity.

All in all, it was pretty fun.

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