Emotionally moved by the Shangri-La
Zhaoqing
I was at the last minute through Ctrip found a bunch of friends together to Shangri-La in Yunnan Province, and when I call to contact them, they have been through local self-help guide to find a good two Mitsubishi Jeep, identified the entire trip, do a detailed budget. Everything will decide within two hours, and the rest is to prepare some of the essential line of the first self-service travel, supplies, put aside all the noise and trouble in Shanghai.
Shangri-La in Yunnan Province have been yearning for a long time, I aspire to, and have the same state of mind of a stranger peers, I aspire to be able to make clear mountain green water washing crushing physical and mental.
2001 December 30, eight strangers with a common heart for starting the dream!
Meili Snow Mountain Magic
In fact, prior to departure my understanding of Meili Snow Mountain is almost zero. When our vehicles to pass through to the time Deqin county is 16:00 o'clock. Out of the car in front, using global positioning system testing, where it is more than 3500 meters above sea level. Before your eyes are Baita, streamer and the vast expanse of whiteness of the snow-capped mountains, due to the high altitude here, so the sun goes down around 6:30 to go. At this point in the azure blue sky white clouds floating Jisi, the sun slanting gently according to the body. This scene enough for our group left Shanghai for less than 24 hours of people moving.
Sule Pagoda is said to the Tibetan people and the streamer are used for worship and prayer, in our view, Sule Pagoda and the streamer is also a plateau a unique landscape. Especially the streamer at the Shangri-La in many parts of the streamer hung colorful. Many Tibetan people are not literate, they had requested the lama or the literate people in the long paragraph written on strips of cloth blessed scripture, colorful streamer with the wind dancing, buzzing sounds, truly beautiful, but also It seems the voice of prayer blessing.
7 o'clock the next morning to see the sunrise Meili Snow Mountain. Have heard a lot of people come here in the past such as the sunrise, with a total unhappiness because of the relationship between climate and the return. When we come to a pedestrian the best place to watch the sunrise - when flying temple, the moon still shining to hang on the mountain top, By moonlight we are quietly searching for the best place to shoot the sunrise snow-capped mountains. After a while children, the sky appears in a large red Choi Ha, silhouetted against the snow-capped mountains in the slightly whiten, the moon is still bringing a. When the snow-capped mountains Feng Jian began to put on layers of Xiaguang, rolling snow-capped mountains to the top as if wearing a Technicolor Dreamcoat, golden yellow, pink, dark red, white, gorgeous incomparable! Meili Snow Mountain, the sunrise and the sun does not appear, but spectacular views of the United States TONGHUI sun and the moon was people breathe.
We are riding a donkey approached the Mingyong Meili Snow Mountain, said to have on the glaciers million years of history, so see the glacier at the foot of the leaves on the Bing Leng, breaking off a taste, feeling that he seemed to feel the nature of gods charm and feel to be bit by bit some of the long river of history, memory.
Meili Snow Mountain is also continued for several days and left me a "pain", as is the donkey up the mountain when the mountain steep downhill, people need to pull rope thrown back riding donkeys Caixing. Wait until the foot of the mountain, my hip back-end has been frayed, and depriving several days behind me, not how to sit comfortably.
Collectors chickens and Tianshengqiao Spa
Previously have been thinking about a trip will not used to the results start to finish stomach not had any problems. Since we are 8 self-tour, so almost the entire trip for each meal we are 8 dinner, while the average 100 yuan for every meal, or a very provincial. What impressed me most is in Zhongdian Tibetan house eating chicken and Tibetan chicken house burning law and the previous period, Shanghai Xiang Laxie much like the popular, it is the chicken cut into pieces, and when the property pepper, small peanuts, fried together with other condiments. Also tender possession of fragrant chicken and serve at home soon to get more or less been eliminated, and the next time you pour on the soil of the bottom of the pot made of chicken soup, boil after you can eat hot pot, as, like shabu-colored dishes, that soil chicken delicious aftertaste in the mouth for a long time.
Home that night eat delicious chicken Tibetan, Naxi driver assing secretly with me, Dinah, Tony said, took us to the hot springs, such a good idea, of course to immediately accept. With a curiosity, along the rugged mountain path, he drove into about a dozen kilometers away from Zhongdian, where I saw a large stone tablet inscribed with the words "best in the world soup - Tianshengqiao Hot Springs." Shipai passed the door, is a long ladder leading down the mountain spring, turned out that Hot Springs is built on this piece of col inside. Down and saw a bigger than the other two open-air hot spring pool, pool water vapor in the smoke to a vast expanse of whiteness, set off two rows of houses which, under the eaves hung with red lanterns swaying gently, as if the general fairyland. Let us first in the room where a hot spring bath soak, even though the temperature outside at this time at least minus 5 degrees, but I am still unable to withstand the temptation to go open-air hot spring bath towel wrapped in a toilet. Large pond, almost the equivalent of a small swimming pool, the water temperature neither cold nor hot, it may be in the water there is the relationship between the sulfur and other minerals, the body immersed in water feels a bit like a wrapped silk, smooth and soft. The most wonderful is that the pool surrounded by steep mountains tall and straight, surrounded by the plot of the rise in the starry sky, and threw himself at this time I was bathed in the embrace of nature, landscapes and a heaven and earth, and one, I This landscape has completely dissolve in the rooms of the.
This "best in the world soup" is indeed a well-deserved reputation reputation.
In the tiger jumped - Teacher Chang, the road home,
In order to save travel time, there is a night that we live in an interim decision to Tiger Leaping Gorge in the Gorge Hotel. Fortunately, such a decision was later discovered not only ahead of us the next morning in the tiger jumped down to the time, perhaps we should feel the taste of living in the mountains. In Gap hotels, a lot of people know its English name of Tina's, it is next to the Tiger Leaping Gorge valley, a small hotel there are the upper and lower layers, there are about 40 beds, many Chinese and foreign guests come to Tiger Leaping Gorge adventure will be here lodging, and left few words to express Tina's, the emotion of the Tiger Leaping Gorge. Boss said she was the most valuable here is that a few of the visitors left the world Notes from the notebook. Because it is on their own power generation, after 11 pm So, Tina's on all the lights of the interest rate. The surrounding hills, Blues Wong, Mandala silence, while I was on my second day in the end Zouna lines to worry about the tiger jumped. Generally come from here in the tiger jump Yadi, people would choose to go to a local Teacher Chang out of a mountain, said although this road is quite steep, but faction Teacher Chang wizard, and is pretty safe. The other way is full of dangerous signal, the main road is too narrow for some. Is only one person passed, at the foot of a cliff, people need to keep abreast of the cliff, pulled tight rope on the cliff cable Caixing. Sounds Daoshi adventure with a strong color. Turn to turn in bed and there, finally would like to understand that the trip relax is true, need to do what, he decided to go home, the road Teacher Chang.
The next morning we followed the guide carefully Teacher Chang sent to the tiger from the mountain before the end of lines Tiaoya. Psychology is one of the local school teacher, because the family lived here, can be considered reflects environment Everyday bar, with some people, shovel out a winding mountain road, in the Peak to Yadi to go on the road with a band of small Lock the small wooden doors, small doors on one side of the mountain, the side is a cliff, I think that after the small wooden door in the evening should be locked. Although it is cleared out of such a mountain is not easy, but still there are many dangers. Along the way rugged rocks, sand landslides, in some places can only be adopted by one person Panzhe precipice. Guide said that he usually only 15 minutes to go to the tiger jump, and we even slip zone is almost crawling, hands and feet and spent an hour finally arrived at the magnificent valley in the Tiger Leaping Gorge. Tiger jump while standing on rock, watching the surging waves of the Jinsha River and the water rushing over, or rather point of pride not only for this magnificent sight, but also for their persistence and choice. Way to go up the hill on the pragmatic and calm, despite the time it takes much longer than the downhill, but the road has been familiar with the situation, step by a steady, even with intermittent asthma returned to Tina's, there has been a stew was overripe, juicy incomparable collectors chicken waiting for us!
Tibetan driver "Ya masters"
I was sitting in the car drivers are Tibetan, Mingjiaoaya, some more than 50 years old. Because the driver in Shanghai, used to refer to as "masters", so we also called him "Ya master." Ya the original master in Zhongdian, a government office to drive, and now retired. Ya master of this Mitsubishi Jeep own spent 10 million on the purchase down, of course, vehicle age has certainly been a lot, but look, maintenance was not bad. Ya chef has 25 years of driving experience, the first world to we can be assured that the winding mountain road in the upper side of dozing off in the exercise. Ya master a look at is a typical Tibetan people, the black inside of the face was rosy, spoke a little taste of Tibet in Chinese, the most interesting is that he wants to hear Tibetan songs, singing Tibetan songs. We are on the road for fear of boredom, with a lot of pop music, tapes, and later I discovered that several times, Ya master found that we did not voice, and know that all asleep, we quietly replaced the tape to pop a tape of Tibetan song . A long time, and we all fell in love with the Tibetan songs, blue sky, white clouds, steep mountains, rivers, and for this ethereal and melodious Tibetan songs, it allows you to really feel the nature and human seamless. Later, the same car compatriots in Taiwan Lao Zhang, Laozi and Zhuangzi even bought a lot of hidden songs CD, said to be slowly brought back to listen to taste.
Perhaps a local simple and sincere, people may be ajat good chef. Anyway, we go, as long as the car stopped, Ya master and Naxi drivers assing it will help make arrangements for meals, rest, do not know whether knowledge will be warmly received us. Often is that we play, and Ya master will find a place, while Kaohuo, while drinking tea, while waiting for us. Depriving several times I almost do not want to play, and want to work alongside the master Ya guarding it warm fire, while drinking tea, while listening to him the story of the local Tibetans.
In fact, in Zhongdian Tibetan area, there are many masters such as Ya, their way of life, dress has become increasingly finished by. Ya master's two daughters are in Kunming, one has graduated from college and stay in Kunming work and bought a house in Kunming; there is also a daughter, Kunming university. I asked Ya teacher, later to live with her daughter will go to Kunming, he said not, but it will always go and see them, now from Kunming to Zhongdian is also very convenient.
Ya master said he had used at home, up every morning to drink a pot of butter tea his wife children do.
Lugu Lake, and Gesang Hua
Speaking of Lugu Lake, people know that it is very characteristic of a nation - Moso tribe live. It has a feature where "Assia walking marriage" marriage means and Moso matrilineal family way of life.
Not enter the lake when the Ya master and assing the car stopped at a pavilion overlooking the lake next to. When we look down when standing on hilltops, and almost everyone with a variety of onomatopoeia sent a lot of one's feelings. Clear, pure, crystal clear transparent shaving the lake like a bright pearl inlaid in the incomparable between Castle Peak, but also as a generous beautiful girl, grooming was spotless, quietly waits for her beloved children to parents who ask her, hug her.
To the Lugu Lake is naturally to boat tours, and I saw Dinah the shore Mosuo people's clothes rent, we are delighted to pick his favorite color to wear on the Mosuo people do want to try the taste. Give us a man and two women, rowing is a real Mosuo people, said to her family, on their side while rowing with the Moso language saying something, and accompanied by bursts of laughter. It is so much uninhibited laughter, then cheerfully. I asked what they are laughing, they laughed even more breathless, saying it was to say that man to take the marriage when wearing pants backward. That laughter is so infectious, attracted we could not help laughing. Dinah said she has been a long time there is no such comfort and burst into laughter too. Shuitianyise between the paddles gently across the surface of the water, laughter reverberating sound of reading aloud the sky, the beauty of the lake has been soaked into the hearts of each one of us.
Prior to the Lugu Lake did not feel that it should be a beautiful scene, but the relatively backward areas. However, there are as many side of Lugu Lake about ten bars and cafes, which we did not really think of. Night we walked into a decorative feature-rich bar - Gesang Hua, went before know that this bar has just opened three days. Owner is a Tibetan name Gesang girl, grew up in Lhasa in Chengdu on the university, after graduating from the Sheraton Hotel in Chengdu work. A few months to come here to travel, have been confused by the lake's style, and back to Chengdu resolutely resigned from his job, more than a month ago for money to meet the bar. This is a wooden house near the lake, through the window out of the Lugu Lake to see scenery is indeed beautiful, the room a few lines of simple wooden tables and chairs, desk lamps hanging above the rich colors, it is Gesang travel to Nepal when to buy it back. Bar, no employment other hospitality, Gesang said she did not worry, every glass must scrub themselves clean, and she likes to watch the guests to enjoy a variety of drinks out of their modulation. Asked her why, she said that now 24 years old, she was allowed to own 26-year-old to do crazy things before, do you want to do anything she likes to Lugu Lake, like the people here, she had to slowly feel.
Perhaps Gesang Hua bar would be closed after a year or two, but I would like to the eyes of Gesang, Lugu Lake gentle feelings will always be accompanied by her.
Sun in Lijiang
In fact, the most regrettable parts of this trip is the short time spent in Lijiang, almost only a day and a half's time. Prior to Lijiang, there've been a friend told me that this place is worthy of Lijiang, a good stay for a while, as long as a day to take on a book, in Dayan town to find a pub at random, to the cup of tea, you can sun on the day of the sun. Many come to Lijiang tourism or short-term residence of people is to find a safe and comfortable living, where you will find the rhythm of many people and things have slowed down involuntarily.
Naxi ancient music in the town, when listening to the stage of the chairpersons of such a story: a visitor to see an old lady sitting idly in front and asked what she was doing, old woman, that did not do what . Tourists asked what she was thinking, the old lady said that I have not thought of what I was sunbathing. Tourists say you this not a waste of time, old woman, that a person's life, he was only one destination - the grave, and you go there, why they are anxious to rush it? !
Old lady, would it be justified, I do not want to comment on in vain, but I really wanted to put the sunshine back to Shanghai to Lijiang. When you wander the streets in the town Square Street, when you stay in rooms filled with a Dongba culture, shops, when you stop to drink a glass bar stay in the river, when the sun will wantonly Lijiang pour in your body. You'll never want to leave, could not bear to blue brick town homes, reluctant to flower color of stone paved road, could not bear to clear bottoming out of the creek water, the most reluctant to warm sunshine all year round or is it really the left to their own time to slowly enjoy this moderate sun.
Lijiang is the last stop on this trip. We are in Lijiang the genial sunshine hurriedly finished the meal simple and delicious Western-style lunch, reluctantly left the Dayan Town Lijiang airport to rush back to Shanghai. Eight days of travel to not only these places, nor is it only able to use these written language to express praise. But I think enough, is not the goal of travel is to enjoy the mountains, the sentiment moments of life do?
Emotionally moved by the Shangri-La, I am sure will come back!
Author: manne
