A Tour to Sanshi Gang

Sanshi Gang used to be a gathering of natural villages on the north-west of Hefei .In the past ten years, as the expansion of the city, this nearby county has developed a new economy — eco-agriculture tourism.Hefei citizens think of it as their backyard.

We’ve been there many times , to seek the quietness , the fresh air , the newly plucked vegetables or fruits . Your can have a little tour into the woods , or bike relaxingly along the river ,or experience a picking of strawberries or grapes . In spring you have the rioting peach blooms here and in summer you got purple seas of lavender, and there’re hills upon hills of golden wheat in autumn . I realized now that I haven’t been here in winter .

Yesterday afternoon, we got some spare time to go there again. To our surprise, they are cutting down trees and widening the main road , we hope they just do the roads, we don’t wish to see stores or restaurants scattered here and there in the future. Cause of the construction of the main road, we took another road that runs through the woods to north . We had planed to go Taoxi to see the peach flowers, but when we saw the canal of Chuqu, we changed our minds immediately. The scenery here can’t be missed out . So we pulled up the car and started a walk down the road along the canal.

There were several workers and excavators still working on the banks of this canal , some clearing the weeds and thorns ,  Some laying stone plates . Aspen tresses are lined along both sides of the road , every leaf is new and delicate green in this season , almost transparent in the sunlight . Early daisies stretch up high with tiny yellow or purple buds.Down on the water where the sun glares , the ripples turn into a layer of sparking silvers . And on other side of the canal, we mistook the wheat field as a golf course as it is so green and smooth.

While we were admiring the beauty of Nature , we took a backwards-walk on this well shadowed road, assuming it will help with our back pain .We lingered there too long and didn’t make it to Taoxi finally, but this is what we really love , unexpected stunning scenery .

So when another kind of beauty comes upon you, please put  your plan aside for a while, and embrace this mystical encounter . Life is not always about us seeking the things we long for , it’s more about admiring the things passing by us now.