June 28: Shuo Du lake today is the day break. Since July 3 should be started early in the morning to take the eight Mix 8:30 flight fly Kunming, tour Kunming, Dali back to Singapore after July 1. The Diqing airport away them, Everywhere you look around, noisy one car I immediately disappeared, the long road ahead on the left-chen Ying, De Kun, Toshio and I had thought of waiting for us to visit the Inagi Aden, the hearts of a sudden Ascension up a storm at a loss.
However, only a momentary sense of loss as soon as tomorrow, go to Sichuan towns and bought a bus ticket inagi switch, Iveco briskly out towards Shuo all county lakes, mood suddenly open up. Looked at the landscape, we can not help but work together to now eight companions on board the aircraft regret: This is the real Shangri-La, a pity that you missed!
Each person has his mind Shangri-La, Shangri-La in my mind is a cattle and sheep flocks, flowers filled Yin, days of high Aqua Blue, snow-capped mountains embraced place. A few days ago due to the impact of the rainy season, days have been gloomy, not to mention what the days of high Aqua Blue, snow-capped mountains also have been a months JANSEN cloud cover, haze in the Shangri-La is a general. Today is different, sunny, clear sky, full of pastoral landscape along the atmosphere, forests, valleys, shallow lakes, combined with hill and dale, colorful wild flowers and weeds carefree nature to render the whole of the U.S., let us group of guys can not wait for the flowers in the car to jump Zuoyi Hui, and then pretend that we are fortunate to say thanks to all the girls on the plane, or else they saw this scene in the flowers of non-clamoring to stop the shot enough photos only then proceed to so many beautiful scenery along the way, today we are not Shuo Du how, also went to the lake.
With a bald my pen to write exactly the way it is the beauty of scenery, in short, when you reach the lake Shuo all four of us travel all the way since the mood is the most enjoyable - and in the coming days journey Lane will continue to become more pleasant.
Shuo Du Du Lake is a lake also translated, but also known as Shuo Du sea, elevation 3705 meters, an area of about five square kilometers, belongs to the plateau lakes, to cover the hilly terrain surrounded by the jungle, while the valley between the hills are extended to the lake, a natural pasture. Shuo-side there are two hills in Hubei: tadpoles Hill and Shuo Du Gang; around and between two mountains from east to west distribution of the three farm: initial batch pastures, rangelands and Shuo early waves are Gang ranch; Shuo Du Lake Shore is a gentle slope, and large tracts of virgin forest. The reason for such a detailed description of the topography, because our trip to Lake Shuo all will be a six-hour trek on foot, we must make along the geographical explanation.
Shuo Du Lake is probably the most cost-effective place we have always tickets as long as 15 yuan, but also the students half-price ticket, and another four only took a mere 30 yuan, almost the equivalent of Jiuxiang a student ticket, and go after no other charges a. This is probably not the same Shuo Du Lake Tourism Bureau Zhongdian highly recommended tourist attractions related to. Zhongdian important aspects is recommended to tourists baishuitai, Bita and Songzanlinsi, but this place is neither Shuo Du Lake is a rare landscape, like the former or the birthplace of the Naxi culture, but also unlike the latter two as close to the town; Tourists want to flee, then spent a day time to baishuitai want to go within a day, a few places, then went to Bita Lake, Napa lake and Songzanlinsi, less likely to Shuo are located near Lake such a dilemma is not near the location of attractions. Therefore, we have observed this day visitors can see along the way no more than ten people, the huge lake like Shuo are a pedestrian is our private garden, all without the hustle and bustle of domestic tourists in most scenic spots, such as the river carp situation. The reason why we have come to Shuo Liu lake is completely from the master's recommendation, we originally planned to go to the bigger name Bita Lake, Bita Lake, he told us to be better in spring and autumn scenery, and now the spring has passed, fall is still far from , Bita Lake is only an unusual lake in the meadow just, nothing special attractions, less than Tathagata quiet Shuo Du Lake walk. After we arrived it was found to the right place.
Shidianzuoyou morning we said goodbye to the small lake was Shuo are deeply dog meat restaurant of the temptation to not move a step Step Master Liu began Shuo Du Lake walking tour. Our line is: along the anti-clockwise circle around the lake, first through the primeval forest to reach the south of the beginning of batch ranch, where they rest, lunch, and then along the forest trail to bypass the tadpole-foot waves to reach the beginning of grazing, Tang Shuo Du Gang Shuo all overlooking the lake, down the mountain end of the whole.
Forests a very long, accounting for about two-fifths of the whole, where due to higher elevations, the forest species relatively simple, basically upright towering cedar, although far from perfectly manicured fir, but the As a very tall, mountain cedar cover the sky put a JANSEN, the forest is extremely shady and cool. In addition to some of the little fir tree outside of the most dwarf branches is only two meters tall, covered with vines hanging down, Linmusensen unique feeling. There is a path on the ground, it seems that people left behind by past logging, this path on and off, sometimes completely lost track of our own groping forward in more than 10 minutes after the re-finding, which is often disconnected areas hardest by the Lin Jianxiao Creek, mud, wetlands and other terrain. For thousands of years grass, shrubs, leaves, humus accumulation on the surface, coupled with vertical and horizontal streams, the formation of large tracts of wetlands: the reservoir appears to be a bunch higher than a lot of grass, stepped up, but after soft ground subsidence it down, suck in the grass the water in the immediate immersion uppers. My high-help Jiefang Xie everything well, unfortunately it was cloth, not waterproof, accidentally fall into this trap every time the Fed Gaode strange painful feet wet, but also affect future trek. (It is said here, humus fairly small, the lake was even more thick, 30 meters water depth, which alone accounted for 15 meters humus.) In addition, even if it is normal for the road also tend to encounter as a lightning down-and - tall trees across the middle of the road, or a large bogs formed after the rain road closures, must be well bypassed.
In this complex terrain around the four of us hand in hand with each other at a distance 5-10 m, carefully search forward, mainly by the first two people to look for a way into a dead-end if the first one second to find him an immediate U-turn passers-by into a new pacemaker in. This path we are moving in the forest among the nearly three hours on the way once numerous journeys to the grass out of the forest along the lake walk and found these beautiful flowers, green grass of the lawn are all below water across them exceptionally difficult, I Haoyongdouhen had in-depth aquatic plants to the central, the results of long suffered untold sufferings and finally before returning to the forest zone, suddenly felt the wetlands where plants come than it is considered as heaven.
The most painful was about to reach the beginning of grant ranch, we reach the virgin forest in a valley, the lake's aquatic plants in deep wedge originally contiguous forest, we looked at the forest not far from the opposite could not be passed had along the grass to the edge of a circle around a great deal, spent nearly an hour to get to a straight line under 10 minutes you can reach the road opposite the woodland, the original to the ranch lunch program is also under the bathing of fatigue and hunger, we have around the half hurriedly sit down to eat to replenish their energy by. Master Liu told us later if there are local people as our guide, if you can find plants in a dry way across, I can hardly believe that there is such a subjective existence of a road, and further the Communists can be repeated across the Canbingbaijiang radius of hundreds of kilometers of aquatic plants feel extremely admire: I have a young and vigorous bar young man, pack light is still afraid to cross the line a mere tens of meters wide, a small aquatic plants, their ages so-called "rabble", back the equipment in a hermit not to mention a myriad of additional supplies of the plants completely Lane marching for several days, is it a miracle?
Through the front of the forest, then across a thorn in the initial batch is a beautiful ranch, and the ranch is located between the forests and mountains tadpoles, there is a stream running down from the hills, the ranch is divided into two and a half into the meandering Shuo Du Lake, there is the river of moisture, and Shuo-rich lake water have this piece can be described as lush pastures, and mountains on three sides, one side bordered by a lake, but also form a natural barrier against storm hit, and livestock have no way to far Yi, is the ideal to the extreme. The afternoon when we arrived around 1:00, groups of horses are full of sunflowers on a leisurely grazing in pastures, many of them male and female play, mother and child dependent wonderful lens, we lost a lot of film so; the shore of the large number of yak drink saturated water, in the Khmer Rouge leaders, led by shaking a word connected to a round swelling in the stomach slowly and Duo back to pasture. That led Yak see us stopped after the alert to stare at us, we seize the opportunity mad press the shutter, we have two parties this way across the river for a long time, Wang Dan's light yak probably could not see any big tricks, to continue to lower his head to go forward, it is behind the yak subjects were also to follow up, but also look askance at us from time to time in silence on the one.
In such a beautiful and secluded ranch, the four of us for quite a while before continuing Liulianwangfan the road, I'm still the roadside bushes sang a folk song - this is when you go to Shilin guide told us that Local Hani people have called to sing folk songs on the toilet, no joke to think that we had somehow sentence saying that all the way - but this time to sing folk songs to sing the defects left after Syria. Into the foothills of the tadpoles and found that there are a very good Lin Jianxiao Road, Forest Park, which kind of like a normal path, take up very comfortable with the previous two world toiling trek completely, and in looking the other side we have just overlooking Lake through the virgin forest, we saw airtight, a dark mass on the hillside while the cedar forest, even in hindsight, still feel a lingering fear. I think if it is autumn, then this piece of virgin forest row of trees to make dye, Colorful, certainly very beautiful. Now looks like the same color green secluded only.
This tree-lined walking trail was soon out of reach early tadpoles mountain waves ranch, where pastures smaller than the first installment of many, but also did not see any animals, but there also has a small river flows through the ranch into the Shuo Du Lake, which The river's channel after another curved extremely complicated, we are too lazy to be traced back to the upper reaches of shallow river office, he decided to cross the river downstream. Looking for a long time, finally found a mouth covered with a few pieces of wood, think it was established by the management staff here, but now the rainy season, the river widened, about three meters or so, the original wood seems too short, a frame on shore, the other end not in the river water. Toshio ready to come to the river along this piece of wood jump in the past, did not expect boards used to be just floating in the water, he stepped up a whole collapsed so I had to end up apprenticeship Czech Republic, the body does not die before long to make heroes of water whole body, but fitted clear-cut passed; Dekun see such horrors gall Ju broken heart, alone, looking for a place to go upstream to cross the river, and later saw him was still wet with two trouser legs, surely had not escaped; I Chen Ying to decide their own bridges, to find another of a long board, one connected to the original old wood submerged in water, the other end of the frame in the other side. Easy to say, you really want to frame may spend a great twists and turns, but in the end, after all, was successful, so two of us were unharmed over the river, but this is not considered finished, probably due to "flooding", he side has formed a grass land, but this time inescapable can only bite the bullet and go through. Fortunately, there is a pasture, leaving behind a lot of yak dung, cow dung tread them, finally stays good and bad is coming.
The last hurdle is to have post-seok. This can continue along the foot of the mountain around, about 20 minutes you can reach the entrance. However, we intentionally do not give themselves a better life, having been on foot for five hours tired and thirsty and hungry, but still want to charge everybody a hero, not even half the words they did not strive to climb up the hill. This mountain does not seem too high, visual, less than 100 meters, can only be considered a "99 Hill" only, but the relatively large slope, steep at about 60 degrees, we walk on this side there is no the path to follow is completely up front along the wide grass slope climbing. Even worse: we went to they think the "Peak", it was found here, just a platform, followed by a steep slope is almost exactly the same. Because there is such a platform, we look up at the foot of the mountain when you mistakenly think that this is the hill slope behind could not see. The results have to pull themselves together under fatigue to continue to climb up again about 100 meters, it be considered ascent. However, in retrospect, thanks to all posts in the Shuo exhausted to climb this one back, be adapted to high altitude in mountaineering activities, or later in Aden climb colored sea, the sea of milk and other non-scrap is not.
Shuo Du Gang as its name implies, is a long hill, after the summit is a long ridge, its end is a pagoda is said to have here is Lake Panorama shooting Shuo place. Here I captured a road on foot you can put all our panoramic photos, and even the next hill and I ride Chen Ying of the bridge are clearly visible.
Shuo have to leave the post, and we realized that this is the real time Shuo Lake walking tours are really tired and miserable, and I could not even walk down the gravel feel tired After an uncomfortable foot of the mountain, eat a dog, waiting Our six-hour teacher is anxious Liu boats come to us ready to take it. Unlike the Tiger Leaping Gorge on foot, then once he was down at those of us who can clearly see the black dots in the High trail ahead. This time we walked mainly in the forest, Liu master could not see us a little time has dragged on for so long, of course, a high anxiety. According to him, few tourists come here as we walk around the lake this week, and are generally used for boats directly to the first batch ranch, and then through the Natiao like an immortal mountain path to early tadpole wave ranch, where they sit launches come back, full enough as long as two hours, and launch costs are 20 yuan per person.
We are all hungry Buxing Le, and quickly so that the master Liu us back to town to eat dinner, car door to eternal life, I suddenly yelled, gold hit breaking up, this staff do not know. . . . . . Less serious, but that it did scare me half to death: I found my purse disappeared, which has all my documents and will be referred to Liu to be the master of the rental cost of recall, I am certain that when you have just lost to sing folk songs During the initial batch of bush pasture, they must let the other three get off their own trying to make a Mix, I have to return to the same teacher Liu Shuo Du Lake. The Road King Jiubeng mention the tension, until I sat boats rushed to the scene and found unharmed purse lying there, a heart was down, can not help but glad that no tourists here, and if I've lost the kind of flow, such as the Stone Forest Local tide may over, but they feel that they did not think the logic here: If it is really the Stone Forest, then I can not be expected to sing folk songs in the wild, then?
A storm finally In the past, do not count my life a big big accident. To return to Zhongdian County, is 19 o'clock, when many had to hurry back to Lijiang Liu master it, we must at this different. Just think back for my negligence Shuo Du Lake, round-trip delay Liu teacher for two hours, and my heart felt particularly sorry for, and quickly stuffed the money to give him 200 as a reward. I found a roadside hawkers selling corn together a video to help us, they parted with the bruiser to go to prospects of each.
Master Liu is now remembered, his bold and rugged look as if still in front. He was swept across the southwest of the Second Field Army officers and men of the future generations, the father is Han, Naxi mother, from childhood growing up in Lijiang, Yulong Snow Mountain in the adult foot of the forest by car pull wood, ten years ago to open the coach. Lijiang, an increasing reputation as the sound of the ancient city where the house he rented out, a people living outside the city, Naxi, wife of the unit with poor performance down the post, her daughter was reading, it is time to spend the whole thanks to his family's expenses on a person to make money out of the car.
Master Liu in particular love his daughter, often described to us he was rushing home for several days after his daughter brought him the happiness of his sandals time, the ED also recommends that the next low season, when we come to Lijiang and he hit a drive to a few Laojunshan days of hunting, of course, was with his baby daughter. . . . . .
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