From terraced fields to caves: Guiding's coffee aroma spills across mountains and fields

Autumn in Guiding: at a café by the Lali terraced fields, visitors sit by the window with a cup in hand, the rice waves as backdrop; at Golden Sea Snow Mountain’s wuxia town and the cosmos sea, a coffee cart blends into the bustle as strollers walk into the flower sea with cups in hand; at the mouth of Swallow Cave, visitors fresh from exploring sip iced coffee to beat the heat.

Though the Lali terraces have finished the autumn harvest, the terraces fused with waterfalls remain magnificent in every season.

The café replaces urban décor with a view of rice waves, making a cup of coffee a way to touch the homeland.

At Golden Sea Snow Mountain, the flower-sea wuxia-town event is in full swing; visitors weave through the cosmos sea, enjoying the fun of photo check-ins.

The coffee cart joins the fun; coffee and jianghu (the martial world) mix together, yet feel oddly right.

Guiding’s Swallow Cave adventure park is hot outside, cool inside; after finishing the via ferrata, visitors emerge weary.

Then a fragrant cup of coffee from the cave-side shop, held in both hands, a sip in — the fatigue slowly fades, the person recovers, the steps grow light again.

Here coffee is more like a finishing touch. On top of the original scenery the scenic area embeds a few light-consumption scenes, giving visitors a reason to sit beyond just “looking.” Visitors stay half an hour longer, spend a few dozen yuan more, and the account books of farmers and merchants gain an entry.

Guiding keeps walking this road. Along a 60-km rural-leisure-sports golden line, Swallow Cave, Golden Sea Snow Mountain and Lali terraces are being strung together bead by bead. A cup of coffee may carry limited weight, but what it truly changes is how visitors relate to this mountain wilderness — not just passing through and looking, but slowing down, sitting down, letting the scenery move from before the eyes into the heart.

Guiding Rongmei (converged media): Bu Zhonglian, Liu Xia, Zhang Yiting

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