- Jedi

January 22 afternoon, I came from Shanghai, Kunming, Yunnan 18 degrees. Kunming trip is not to say, and anyway, most impressed by is my New Year: bridge garden bridge noodle taste good.

Dali:

We start from Kunming to do 5 hours of high rapid bus, came to Shimonoseki.

Now that the marble is actually Shimonoseki City, whereas the real marble, that is, the ancient city of Dali, in fact, there are from Shimonoseki more than 20 minutes by car. Old Town Village prohibit any motor vehicle access, but also do not see a bike, and I intend to live in the city inside, and then to the city gate, you can only walk into the inside of the.

Bai encountered a middle-aged man on the road, I heard that we are to travel, they take the initiative to help us raise package. Became clear that this person named A, Ming-Fei, Jiaoa Fei:) is not cool ah Only later did I know that it is his English name Afay, is a foreigner to take, and the most interesting thing is that this habit of the Bai people actually in English and We exchange, he said to himself can only say that without looking, all foreigners to teach him, and also out pile of postcards, and indeed foreigners are sent, then a few days, he became our guide in Dali .

In the afternoon, we went to the nearby Hi Dali states, visit the Bai homes - Yan Courtyard, watching five golden flowers, performance, taste a bitter aftertaste of the two Gan three tea and three well-known hi the state Baba (Baba similar to the pie , but some thick, soft, some, done very slowly, and then we tasted in Lijiang Lijiang Baba, but he's still hi state big eaters).

Heard a very famous tie-dye Bai, strict Courtyard out, we went straight to the nearby Butterfly Spring Bai tie-dye workshop, in fact, Bai is a compound, a door to see two big-block, immediately reminds me of Sima Light hit in that tank, tank is Banlangen dye, I heard that do not fade after soaking. The courtyard also planted a Banlangen everywhere Liang Zhao tie-dyed semi-finished products. Taking into account available online to sell a good price, I bought a semi-finished products, the boss taught me how to warm untie the knot (tie knot is because these places do not dye when immersed into the dye, untie the past is white pattern), but it is similar to the opera, Xiang Yu after the hat thing unlock what is, I still do not know.

Hi way back from the state, we truly experienced the wind of Dali (Dali to romantic known for Shimonoseki wind is the wind, flowers are the flowers off, snow is snow Cangshan month is the Erhai monthly), four do In the three motor vehicles on, and the wind is only a layer between the curtains, cars rocking around the outside completely in the dark, the road there is not even a street lamp. We like where the lonely boat in ocean storms, Yuemo an hour, finally drove back the ancient city of Dali. Fortunately, however, the road to see the evening with three towers, quintana lights on in the night where were particularly noticeable.

In Dali, we are living in an ancient city inside the elm park, Dali, there are several well-known inn, one is the MCA (the Chinese name of the Mekong River culture and art exchange center), one is the Four Seasons Inn, and another is that we live in elm An garden. The surroundings here are unique, the door is a large garden, the side is a teahouse, garden pavilion and some jagged areas. Here is the Internet, western, morning tea, car rental, laundry and other services, style, and the International Youth Hostel is similar, and the residents are mostly young people who travel on foot (International Youth Hostel in Lijiang, the door read, suits and ties who will not be received ), due to be booked in advance, the boss gave us the best room arrangement is a small stone hut in the garden.

Break one night, the next day, afay on with our ride on the Cangshan, then the jade belt along the road to visit Cangshan on these sites. Up to the elevation of 3,000 meters, Cangshan Piaoqi the sun on the snow.
Cangshan on the seven Dragon Pool and longan hole, Eichhornia holes are a good place, seven Dragon Pool is attached seven waterfalls of various shapes, particularly suitable for the summer, where a bath; I was deeply impressed Eichhornia hole, in fact, come from a cliff below a prominent place, sitting very broad field of vision. This is a place to sit is called fairy bed, I heard that you can live year-old lying on the above, I would lay up, feeling cold, turn the body is a cliff, so think of Yang Guo and Maid practice areas.
Pallas Road nearly 20 kilometers, so down the Cangshan back to the ancient city is already night. Dali night can not fail to mention洋人街. The street is a large concentration of the book bar, bars, cafes, restaurants, West. The reason is called洋人街, because there a particularly large number of foreign devils, but we seem to Dali, where the devils are concentrated in our room at night to go star pizza is the foreigner to open, as if was their own cook, and do deep-fried onion rings in particular there is taste.
During the Spring Festival, the ancient city where the special excitement, in the Po-ai Road and洋人街the intersection of the stalls full of fireworks and firecrackers, we put in there side to buy side.
On the third day morning, we stroll around in a circle up early the ancient city, but by 10 points after the bus left the Dali.

Lijiang:

Dali to Lijiang 4 hours to come, Lijiang is a taxi starts at 6 yuan, a lot of cars are not playing the table. Car parked in the ancient city gate, the side is a big water truck, feeling like a symbolic thing, but that I left Lijiang, there is no clear front of the large tankers on the significance of the city

Gossipy less Syria, we have this entered the famous Old Town of Lijiang.

Water runs through the city, into the city a total of three days of the Square Street Road to the city center, two streams in the middle, where a river flows westward after reaching the Square Street downtown location to another big stone bridge, and the other one Square Street passing through the right side of the bridge, and then continue west across the entire two ancient river, clear waterborne transport is essential, I put in the day despite a river from upstream to downstream away again, or has not been spared The Lost in the ancient city, to get to a friend Inn spent more than an hour due to neglect the other a river. But to no avail not worry, because almost no one has not lost in the city, (our landlord told us that there are guest 16:00 give them a call, saying it could not find, so that they pick up.) Moreover, the ancient city of everywhere are wc, so you can do while visiting the while slowly looking for. My experience is to run through the ancient city of two rivers from upstream to downstream pass away again, note the places should be based on water-based, so ensure you will not be lost.

Integrity of the peak day into the city, but also heard that La snow road closures, can not enter the big guys are all crowded in Lijiang, it is generally the inn are full, and I booked a Jiaohua Malaysia's Inn, the location excellent, are large stone bridge next to the bridge water lantern, and heard some of the room open the window that is able to see the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, but this Inn's standard rooms offer 380 a night without a bathroom is between the S & P should also be 280, I immediately canceled scheduled, so the whole city to find the Inn. Not bad luck that night, we checked into a local Naxi a residential compound.

Compound is a sedan Yibi pattern, that is, on three sides is a wing on one side is the interior, in the middle around the compound, inside the wall is a garden, chickens, vegetables, vegetable cages between groups and wc. All the locks are not the same, garden (that is, wc) and the compound is a U-shaped between the latch, and our door is the old latch the door from the outside view of the ouch ancient doors, which is used in a modern security locks. Layout of the compound with very nice bonsai.

The landlord is the authority of the local Naxi more old, and his two daughters can not be used simply to describe the beauty, hair, a long, one short, my friends and I joked one is Rosamund Kwan, one is Maggie Siu.

In addition, it is worth mentioning here is that they are using a solar water heater, which directly led me in Lijiang 5 days without a shower washed the simple reason that, every time I always come back late, but there is no sun at night The. So, I projected here, the law certainly have a good life.

That night, we came to the square outside and fight alongside the people jumping. Hit-hop is the name for the local people is the big guy around the bonfire, and the Naxi music, dancing together. When we went to play dance has begun, there is a good few laps around the bonfire of people, wearing traditional Naxi "Phi Star with Moon" dress the old Naxi mother, there are a lot of young people living in the Metro. Rode an end, and we hastened to plug into it.

Hit-hop dance for each song is different, but in general is not difficult to learn, a few songs down, we also can join the locals, and the dance around the campfire turning. Distance, the mysterious Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, under the stars shine, I feel as if came to the Paradise.

Hit jump after the end of the bar side of the river we went to a small makeshift dinner. Lijiang Old Town Hall are a lot of bars and snacks to open at the side of the river, along the river a lot of desk chairs. Once they are sitting down, feeling the cool breeze blowing gently, floating along the river from time to time to a load a red light, the distant night sky, there is smoke in the place, I can not help but drunk.
The drunk, we drunk the next day two in the afternoon, This reminds snow-capped mountains and the Tiger Leaping Gorge is also no go, hurry up and arrange a few days after the trip.
The next morning, I finally saw the dream of the snow-capped mountains.
We take the ropeway up the mountain has an elevation of 3,500 meters of the Maoniuping. Temperature of about minus ten degrees, the cold, we have a string of mountains on the Mengchi roast yak. Roasted yak string stall in the mountains is probably Wu Buyi posts, a 10-step Kong, Oh, no wonder is called Maoniuping.
Yulong Snow Mountain to go up there are Yunshan Ping (that is, a small cableway) and Maoniuping, Maoniuping to be higher. The reason is called Ping, I guess because it is relatively flat snow-capped mountains on a small plain, Maoniuping about 16 square kilometers. Many attractions on foot distant, in the mountains there are caravan, so we simply get on a horse, to the distant snow lake. Along the way an excellent overview of the mountain scenery, but also through a Tibetan tombs, Unfortunately, the snow lake, it was found had the frozen lake; heard that the best season on aerodromes in the spring, full of green grassland the wild flowers.
Snow way back, leaving the others to a Fanzhuang dinner, and I think the scenery is not as good meal, so he and companions everywhere, roaming the land, but still really had wandered by us.
It was deep down in a large piece of flat land, a bit like a stadium, the middle of a lake, lake blue, and see that they are quoted from the mountains down on the water, the lake surrounded by a circle around the snow, and then came around the circle golden beach, and then out the green vegetation. Deep down where this piece is a misty look to the future of the towering snow-capped mountains, vast grasslands that in the future, the side in the distance a large statue of Dongba religion, there seems to be ideal world, we hurried to stay the shadow, feeling results should be good, because the level of color is clear. Go back to the way we asked the driver know where the latitude to develop into the world's highest golf course, God, the wind so much, how to play golf.

We go to Tiger Leaping Gorge package car driver for twenty years when the military vehicle Battalion soldiers, long-term driving in the Yunnan-Tibet road, we Natiao the way to the Tiger Leaping Gorge has been to Lhasa. The way, we take the opportunity to go to the first Bay, the Yangtze River.

The so-called First Beach is to say the Yangtze River Yangtze (Jinsha River) water here, turning a 135-degree bend, but continue to press forward after the stream, if not the bend, then there is no "rolling in the Yangtze River East recherche du temps", but "Spring River Flows southward flow" of the. Coincides with the day to go cross country fair, we are fortunate to get on a small ferry to the first Bay, a small sandy cay middle. The beach here is really nice, soft, and the Jinsha River water is green, I heard that this season the water is the best; island location is also very good side of the Yulong Snow Mountain is the other side is a quiet town of Shek Kwu; due to is around noon, the island no one there, friends, go to the end of the island taking pictures, I would simply lie on the beach punched a soft nap.

Afternoon we ate lunch in the town of Tiger Leaping Gorge, then hastily rushed to jump on the tiger, which is the seat of stone tiger jumped. Tiger Leaping Gorge as a whole is divided into three sections, the middle and lower, where the tiger and the tiger jumped more spectacular jump on foot and the general ride from Lijiang to the bridge, then jumped from the bridge walk in the Tiger stronghold of Hetaoyuan, rest One night, has completed the next day under the tiger tiger jump a big jump with the final a return from the big. Speaking of Hetaoyuan, then it is famous. Several years ago, a woman from the United States to come here, think it is a good place, they married local people, and where business hotels, to and from the foot travelers.

Tiger Leaping Gorge entrance to the Yangtze River rafting is also the starting point for the period from the entrance into the road, the edge in the Haba mountains opened up, (and Haba Snow Mountain is the other side of the Yulong Snow Mountain, in the middle across the Jinsha River, which is Tiger Leaping Gorge) has not been repaired, when the car went with Akira's like an earthquake, but also frequent occurrence of dangerous situations. Earthquake about 10 minutes, and then walk nearly a thousand stairs, Tiger Leaping Gorge and the tiger jumped stone finally YR eyes. That water is spectacular, really rare. As the gap and the bed rock weird position, already very eager and turbulent flow in particular, where the water is only one color - white. Fortunately not many people here, my friends and I jumped away from the tiger stone quiet place very close to doing a good moment to appreciate that the flow of water such as volcanic eruptions.

Finished the snow-capped mountains and the Tiger Leaping Gorge, I have a serious illness, so the remaining two days, in addition to the Yulong Snow Mountain near the national bird sanctuary Lashihai looking bird, which had been soaked in the ancient city.

By the way, the bars in Lijiang, Lijiang of bars taste very good, can also be arranged, but also than the bars in Shanghai have a unique place. You are here bar the door can often be seen Tiger Leaping Gorge or elsewhere in the map (these maps as in the ancient city of Dali and Lijiang, as are the hand-drawn map, and I guess Tiger Leaping Gorge hiker hand-drawn map, or foreigners a), which also have many pictures of Shangri-La or the snow-capped mountains, which means that bar is where the exchange of tourist information. One morning, we pass a pub called the cc's bar, he saw a map of the entrance to Tiger Leaping Gorge, then go ask for this reason that the boss on the passion to guide us how to Tiger Leaping Gorge on foot, because she had just visited in November, as expected, are pasted on the wall do a lot of photos (the boss is a girl in Beijing to Lijiang tourism, like here, so he stayed here a lot of bar owners seem to like this style, a little like Hetaoyuan owner:)

Back to Kunming, the day before, we have finally seen all the famous ancient Naxi Ancient Music Orchestra and Mr. Xuan Ke (as if a group of newly excavated artifacts - Xuan Ke language), ancient music was a bit disappointing, but added the 21-year prison auspices of Xuan Ke style gives the impression that left deep, Lost Horizon, a classic joke, the story to the effect that: New York Times reporter went to Lijiang, lived for some time after the deeply felt here's a leisurely pace of life is slow. One day he met a Naxi elderly people in the street on the right the old man said: Your life here is not our Western Well, there is no heater, no cars, no ..., the elderly, said: yes ah. And then the reporter say, you know why we have so many things because of our fast-paced life, doing all hurry; As a result, the elderly replied: You know, we are Lijiang old saying goes, all the were born, they moving in the same direction, that is grave, since doing so, you go so fast, hurry to dry?

To leave the Old Town of Lijiang is not an easy task, because even now, whenever the city reverberates to hear the street Hulusi playing the "Moonlight Bambusa Multiplex", I feel like going back in there. Write here, my travels be drawing to a close, and really miss the people there, where the King, if the words still have the opportunity to ...

I remember there was a restaurant near the ancient city gate and the edge is called Palace, a letter to eight characters, "and in the man-made, with the edge of Heaven," only these eight characters gave me pleasant companions and friends along the way, I wish you all good .

- Jedi 2001.2.5 nights Shanghai
Author: jediming