Along with organized business tourism, native Yunnan residents are additionally partaking on this new tourism mannequin on a extra particular person degree.
Guo Xuan, a freelancer in Kunming who’s finding out for her postgraduate entrance exams, is keen on mountaineering in mountainous areas, which supply many alternatives for mushroom choosing throughout the wet seasons.
“Mushrooms typically develop beside pine timber and grass. Good eyesight is required to identify edible mushrooms. After we went to choose mushrooms in late July in Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture, we had been fortunate to search out lurid bolete, black boletus and russule. For learners, the method of digging mushrooms is way more rewarding than the mushrooms themselves.”
In the meantime, she additionally works as a parttime information.
“Most vacationers are native residents. Their primary concern is mountaineering they usually don”t want something additional. In distinction, vacationers from different areas come right here for fungus. It is a good probability to assist their youngsters to be taught extra about mushrooms. They offer the mushrooms they picked to the locals.
She mentioned vacationers come right here for expertise. They aren’t suggested to eat the mushrooms they decide. Solely when mushrooms are confirmed to be not toxic, can vacationers take the fungi dwelling with them. Typically, vacationers throw the mushrooms away after taking photos of them.
“Earlier than choosing, we inform vacationers about meals security. They’re suggested to scrub their arms after they end choosing mushrooms. Some skilled guides additionally assist vacationers to establish species.”
For Guo, mushroom choosing is an opportunity to get near nature, in addition to a chance to make new buddies. She as soon as met a information from Fujian province who was good at mushroom choosing.
“He would at all times analyze the place mushrooms develop and below what circumstances. Even whereas using a bus, his consideration could be on the roadside hills. With cellphone in hand, he typically confirmed individuals the best way to the land of harvest as soon as they arrived at a mountaineering web site. So long as they adopted him, individuals may at all times discover at the least 1 or 1.5 kilograms. In August, he picked 1.5 kilograms of bolete, which sells for 57.5 yuan ($8) per kilogram on the market.”
“It is a fancy expertise for me. Nonetheless, the mushrooms I decide are sometimes toxic. What I like probably the most is the second once I get artistic and enhance bamboo baskets with wild flowers and ferns,” Guo added.
