Xiji Travel | Enjoying the coolness and picking fruits in the mountains - Mengtun Valley

| Enjoying the coolness and picking fruits in the mountains - Mengtun Valley. Ten years ago, I visited this place. Ten years later, I still want to come here. Midsummer is a dream belonging to the green! In May and June, bright red cherries hang all over the branches. By the end of May, the temperature in Chengdu has already exceeded 30 degrees. In the city, all you see is the dry heat of everyone around! To find a cool place, one must venture into the mountains, where it's neither hot nor dry, and there are ripe cherries and tender asparagus tips all over the mountains! Lying under the cherry trees, zoning out in the dappled shade~ Route: Chengdu - Radish Village (Old Village) - Mengtun Valley (Accommodation) - Wenchuan to buy cherries (Sanbao Market) - 2h return trip at an altitude of 2000m The cherries in Radish Village are expected to be fully ripe in early June, while the large cherries in the low-altitude areas along the mountain road are already full on the branches, and it seems that you can touch them by reaching out of the window. People selling cherries under the trees keep calling out to passing vehicles, and you can go down to pick them! Sanbao Market is the local cherry trading place in Wenchuan, where villagers bring their cherries in boxes, and passersby seem to always come here to buy a big basket of cherries to take home and share the joy of the harvest season with their families. The price of cherries ranges from the cheapest at 8 yuan to the most expensive at 25 yuan! Mengtun Valley is now occupied by groups of colorful young ladies, because here the prices are low, the consumption is affordable, the climate is comfortable, and even 100 yuan can cover a day's food and lodging! Businesspeople negotiate with the local villagers to bring groups of elderly people here for health and wellness. Especially in the early morning, after meals, groups of ladies are animatedly haggling in front of the mountain goods stalls~ As night falls, the Gongga who went up the mountain to dig caterpillar fungus return, and today he dug more than 30 pieces! Everything starts to become quiet, and the stars slowly begin to twinkle~