Flying in Yunnan, I am the sky
--- "My Shangri-La Tour" continued
October 3, 2002 Thursday, Tengchong --- Cloud Mineyama, volcanic parks, columnar joints clear turn rain
Hui Yin Li and I went to a restaurant to eat eggs as a breakfast Ersi, just finished, the driver Xiao Li to come and meet us. He opened to a just bought 2 months of black Santana 2000, saying that his wife these days in the county to open run empties Xiali rental, and we walk a longer distance road sat a little better car.
Cloud Mineyama is located in Tengchong County, West 55 km, elevation is not very high, 2445 meters, the relative height of 650 meters. Hill is not high, but the immortal names, cloud Mineyama is famous in western Yunnan, but also a famous Taoist mountain. We came to the foot of the mountains less than 9 o'clock, the weather was cool. There are two ways up the hill himself onto the mountain, or take the ropeway cable car. Do you think we would choose that route? Then have to ask, it must be their own path Hill啦! Had just set foot on stone steps, there are a few people told us: "own path to go? More Leia!" We are indifferent smile, "Well slowly." (In fact, I travel on their way these people are very puzzled, up the hill it, do not walk, to sit rope, but not to walk the Qilaobashi. travel, relax, be in life. Do not tell myself to go a certain number of spots today, we must ask ourselves today, played with you? happy ?)
Cloud Mineyama the famous "folded scaling ladder," nearly 2700 stone steps (specifically, the 2683 level), has been leading the Peak winding. (I even before they come online to find a "Mix" in the article, saying that "cloud Mineyama a total of 1000 steps," we have to climb hundreds of stairs, I feel how still so far away from the Peak? Asked a brisk pace of local people know, That left fifth! can be seen that we must seek truth from facts to write accounts of their travels, and strive to informative and accurate, otherwise, really "people-unfriendly," ah!) In addition to 2700 other steps, each 200 steps or so, there is a dirt road will be gentle slope, so climb cloud Mineyama than we thought really want some hard. In particular, in the final 500 meters, another steep narrow stairs to be hand-climbing chains and carefully forward. The morning clouds were low, as we walk up the hill, the sun slowly rose up and began to cloud up transpiration, as is the race with us. In the end, we stand above the sea of clouds, and that feeling is probably the winner will always experience cableway ride of reach. But our legs and the clouds because of race has withstood the test of hard in the next few days really give us a little color to see --- a very sore! Even so, the kind of "list of small hills," let us feel very satisfied.
With 2 hours into the mountains, but down only took 23 minutes.
The way to the volcano park, Mike took us to see two small volcanic lake, the locals called "Big Longtan" and "small Longtan" that is "along the river's sister volcano lake", the lake is clear, but the lake is not. Listen to Xiao Li said that in fact they did not know there are so many volcanoes in Tengchong region remains, scientists have come to examine the future and found that everywhere is the Tengchong volcano in the Quanta 260 square kilometers of land, a total of more than 90 volcanoes and lava flows remains. Along the way, we see local people using local resources, a lot of residential Wu Ji, piers, tunnel, are using honeycomb stone into the lava bubbles, do not have fun.
Tengchong volcanic area are mostly extinct or dormant volcanoes, southwest China's most typical of the Quaternary volcanoes. In the county, 10 km northwest of the horse stops, solid East, there are several volcanoes cone was opened for "Volcanoes National Park." One big empty mountains, small empty mountains, and black-empty mountains, lined up like a sister three, while "playing Takayama" is the highest in the region of Tengchong volcano (2595 meters), but also to retain the most complete one volcano, located in the heart of Tengchong volcano group, said non-weathered surface layer of lava, flow structure is quite clear. We are not geologists, we have chosen the road up the mountain had been repaired a large empty mountains. In the crawl Mineyama cloud, some of us tired and even a big empty mountains, panting (large empty mountains are not high, thus the relative height of 50 meters).
Really see the volcanoes, and I imagine there are still a certain distance. I had thought that the surface should be filled with the volcanic magma bubble stone, volcanic mouth is blue volcanic lake at the foot of the volcano is a lava flow marks. In fact, after billions of years of weathering, the ancient surface has been weathered volcanic mountains covered with trees (a tree, but a volcano long compared to other mountain trees for a number of short and stocky.), The traces of lava flow has also been weathering the ground is also covered with grasses, and, not every one would be the formation of the volcanic crater lake, large and small empty mountains, and black-empty mountains are not the formation of Crater Lake. Boarded the big empty mountains, then the crater has been covered with shrubs, a few adventurous friends also come under the volcano to be explored, but the earth billions of years ago out of stomatal already closed. From the big air look at the small empty mountains, sweeping views of the mountains, the shape and large no different from the empty hills, are considered as "truncated cone-shaped volcano," Takayama is also playing in this shape; In addition, the volcano there is a "shield volcano", "pyramid volcano", "low-lying volcanic horse ear", etc. everywhere we look forward to, as long as one can see flat-topped mountain, Xiao Li asked: "That is a volcano, right?" Xiao Li said: "This volcano too much, and I hard to say what is and what is not. "
When you see the "columnar joints", I once again have been the forces of nature are deeply moved. This is an extrusive rock formed during condensation in the magma, basalt columnar joints for the more common of the strange landscape. Steep faults in the lava river valley, the six edge-shaped columnar joints and some level, some vertical, some tilt, some bending, natural sites to combine into a magnificent giant relief works. The power of nature so great, when natural anger, the insignificance of the human body is how vulnerable! Earthquakes, volcanoes, floods ... ... humans can not compete with them, human beings are not masters of all things, but things in the world of one, is a special one, and nothing more.
Back to county road, it started to rain. Changeable weather in Yunnan, it is the so-called "spectacular." A cloud would be a low, Crimping, beans large raindrops hit the windows on the pops creaked, a short while, another storm is over. Had heard of the rape Luoping beautiful region, when the golden yellow rape blossom time, layer upon layer upon layer of terraced fields and scattering like a gold general. Xiao Li a question, he said, we are here, too kinds of rape, but not this season. Now is the season of ripe wheat, the wheat Huang Cancan knees, farmers harvested in the fields with, this scene like a picture, much like Miller described by the Russian artist depicts a "pick up those ears." We are constantly pressed the shutter, driver Li was puzzled and asked us: "What a good-looking?" We laughed off the question.
Yunnan is not only a small horse heads, and even mule's heads a little. I always said to be pointing mule donkey, Xiao Li corrected several times before being corrected. The evolution of the natural world is also really interesting, why mammals to the South heads on the smaller, but other animals and plants to the South has grown very large? Northerners often planted in a pot of a barbed-opened a small red flowers of the plant, called "Cimei," but I see it in Xishuangbanna, when indeed is 2 meters high in a giant bush, even the name has changed , and called "rattle." Good magic!
Alan continued to pack the car tomorrow.
Travel tips and related information:
1. The book says that when the clouds came Mineyama Xu Xia-ke very reluctant, he once lived in two places in the mountains, some "Mix" also recommended a small one night in the mountains, we went to examine a bit of accommodation. The result is this --- If you are the kind of pillow will be able to stick the first one who fell asleep, or does not matter for the accommodation of persons can be considered residential, or advise you to not even think of.
2. We travel down that day is still quite hard, and if to live in the sea like the heat at night can go back to their feet, massage ... ...
To be continued Xiaopeng
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