【Lvliang Travel Guide: A Hard-core Happy Guide to the Loess Plateau

### **⛰️ Sketch by Lui Leung** Lu Liang = Shanxi's "wild cousin", left hand Yellow River right hand loess slope, focusing on a ** "soil hi soil hi" ** hard-core romance. - **Slogan**: "Our mountains here will sing, the wind will rap, and Xintianyou is more refreshing than your alarm clock!" - **For the crowd**: Wild kids who want to escape the city, folk song lovers, noodle terminators, warriors who want to prove they have good legs --- ### **🚗 Must-See Attractions Recommendation** **1. The Ancient Town of Jikou (Yellow River Version of Venice)** - **Points to watch**: The Yellow River Pier in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, now changed to "Celebrity Photography Base" - **How ​​to play**: - Count the sheepskin rafts on the Yellow River from the Black Dragon Temple (you will start to get seasick when you count 3). - When staying in a kiln cave B&B, ask: is it "primitive" or "true pristine" (the latter may have spiders sharing) - **Cold Knowledge**: The ground of the shops in the ancient town is lower than the door frames - it's not subsidence, it's hundreds of years of "marks of age" washed by the Yellow River water. **2.North Wudang Mountain (Steel Straight Male Version of Wudang)**** - **Features**: - The stairs are so steep that I doubt my life. After reaching the top, I can proudly post in my circle of friends: "Conquered Xiaohua Mountain in the north." - The dojo of Emperor Zhenwu, but the most effective is to treat "phobia of heights" (just scare) - **Money-saving tips**: Villagers at the foot of the mountain will sell "climbing sticks", which actually have the same effect of picking up a branch **3. Pangquangou (natural air-conditioned room for Shanxi people)** - **How ​​to play**: - Come rafting in summer, splashes specialize in all kinds of disobedience - Pretending to encounter brown-horse fowls (Shanxi provincial birds), they are actually even harder to see than the leaders - **WARNING**: Don't drink mountain spring water casually unless you want to experience "pure natural detox" **4. Apricot Village (Apilgrimage Site for Alcoholics)** - **Must Do**: - Take a deep breath at the winery – the alcohol content can be even higher in the air than in a bar - Be cautious and try to "receive raw pulp", otherwise the afternoon trip will become a "bed-finding trip" --- ### **🍜Lu Leung Foodie Guide** **[Carbohydrate Bomb Package]** - **Oatmeal 栲栳栳**: Luliang people use oatmeal noodles to make "spaghetti", ordering mutton noodles can eat the majesty of the loess high slopes - **Bowl Tuan**: Buckwheat made cold food, drizzled with old vinegar and spicy oil, sour and spicy refreshing level comparable to first love - **Yellow Rice Oil Cake**: Fried carbohydrates + sugar, Shanxi people's "donut", eat one can endure hunger for three hours **【Hard Core Snacks】** - **合 fool**: QQ bouncing balls made of potatoes, dot sauce to eat out the illusion of "Shanxi bowl chicken" - **Xiaoyi Fire Roast**: Bigger than the face of the cake, recommended for two people to share, otherwise you do not want to see the flour for the next three days - **Lin County Tofu**: Tofu made with Yellow River water, the soy flavor is so rich that I suspect that I used to eat fake tofu --- ### **😴 Accommodation Recommendation (Poor Travel Version)** - **秧kou Kiln Cave Inn**: 80-120 dollars/night, warm in winter and cool in summer, the disadvantage is that the WiFi signal may not be enough to spread far - **Lishi City Express Hotel**: 100 dollars or so, suitable for "be a wild man in the morning, a modern man at night" switch - **Pangquangou Farmhouse**: 150 dollars/day including accommodation, but the whole village turns off the lights on time after 9pm, night owls choose carefully --- ### **💡 Trivia Egg** 1. The Luliang people call potatoes "yam eggs", but they are not related by blood to real yams 2. The local folk song "Blooming Tune" sings "peach blossom red apricot white", which is actually disguised to praise one's hometown 3. In the wine cellar of Apricot Village, there are some wines older than your age (but don’t think of stealing them). **Final advice**: - Don't compete with the Lu Liang people for drinking, they drink from wine bottles - Buy vinegar to be sure of "Ninghuafu", otherwise you may buy "Shanxi old vinegar youth version" - Beware of the flock when taking photos, they know how to pose better than you (The strategy is over! I wish you to develop a pair of iron legs in Lu Liang and reap a steel-like stomach!)