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Advanced | Picking mushrooms in the mountains of the Weed Scenic Area (June-October)

Advanced | Picking mushrooms in the mountains of the Weed Scenic Area (June-October)

Experience in trip content: Cooking outdoors, Picking mushrooms, Broaden your horizons, and forest

Duration and time of day: 1 day

Age suggestion: Age 5+

Destination distance to Dali: 5km

Meeting point:

Guide with dog: Yes, it is possible

You need to bring: A bottle of Water, Suncream, Hat

Fee includes: Meals, transportation, travel insurance

Not included:

Wizard foreign language: Speak a little English

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Regular price ¥698.00
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Pick-up assistance

For customers with language barriers, we are happy to arrange a taxi to pick you up from your hotel to the meeting point. You pay the actual fee.

One person makes a trip

For most experiences, once booked and confirmed, the trip will go ahead even if there is only one guest, except for some experiences (such as long-haul tours) where a minimum number of guests is specified.

Refund Policy

Before the experience starts:

  • Within 12 hours: 30% refund
  • 12 to 24 hours: 50% refund
  • 24 to 48 hours: 70% refund
  • More than 48 hours: 100% refund
  • After the event starts: No refunds
  • If cancelled due to weather conditions: Full refund

Activity time: around 9:30-19:30 (once a week, open irregularly).

Meeting place: Pushi Cafe near the ancient city.

Driving time: about 2 hours.

Suitable for people: Because the number of guests I can bring each time is limited, I still hope that they can be on the same wavelength. Casual, not anxious, like nature, wild fun mushroom people. Age: 18-50

The fee includes: round trip transportation, lunch.

*Two people per trip

 

About the route: The secret forests around Dali. I don’t stick to a specific route, because I want to go to different places every week. However, each route is a place I have carefully selected and I like.

About mushrooms: Generally speaking, compared to Cangshan Mountain, mushrooms are very abundant on the routes in the deep mountains, and few people go there to pick them. However, the growth of mushrooms is uncertain every day, and the types of mushrooms picked in the deep mountains are also very different every time. So I still hope that you who come to participate in the event have an open mind.

In addition to mushrooms: in each secret realm, we will also see some special plants that cannot be seen in ordinary forests.

Activity process:

After gathering at Pushi around 9:30, we took my van to the destination. It takes about 2 hours. After arriving, we hiked into the forest. The hike usually took no more than 20 minutes before we started picking mushrooms.

The distance you walk when picking mushrooms generally depends on your personal physical strength. When you are tired, you can sit down in the forest to rest and have a picnic, while others can continue looking for mushrooms.

After picking mushrooms , I would sort them and then bring the edible mushrooms back to the camp to cook, or have a farm meal at a farmer's house in the mountains (depending on which route we took that day).

 

We returned to the vicinity of Dali Ancient Town around 7pm, but it was not a fixed time.

Why do you want to experience mushroom picking in the mountains?

 

Small scene:

This year is my fourth year of mushroom picking in Cangshan. I have gone from being unfamiliar with Cangshan and the mushrooms there to being curious, liking them, and now being completely familiar with them. This gradual change is a bit like falling in love. I am not good at dating someone for four years, and picking mushrooms in the same place for four years will also lose its freshness.

 

I want to find back the original joy of picking mushrooms. So, this summer, I will break up with Cangshan Mountain and go to the deep mountains outside Cangshan Mountain to pick mushrooms for the whole summer.

In the past, because of the busy summer vacation and lack of manpower, the picking team could only organize one or two mushroom picking activities in the mountains after the summer vacation. We all cherish this activity, which is like a mushroom ritual. With an unknown heart, everyone went to a fresh forest to find new and strange mushrooms that they were not familiar with.

Picking mushrooms in the mountains is like an unknown journey, and every time you go there you will get something big or small, and be surprised. This feeling is probably brought about by the "unknown".

We often pursue "familiarity" and "stability", but these two things are often the things that make people gradually lose their feelings.

 

The most recent trip to the mountains was on July 6th.

Records for 2024:

Weed Scene | Picking Mushrooms in the Mountains 2024

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