A person's Southwest Bank of Phoenix chapter
Since the Phoenix is my last stop on the southwest line, I did not need to be in a hurry, and to indulge his friends in the estuary to a new comfortable hotel bed Lai to 8:00, and this is the trip was the latest since the beginning of the. Under a light rain, the weather can be cold more than yesterday. Minibus ride to the station from the estuary to the Tongren new bus station, new bus station there is no car to Phoenix, they should want to go to Phoenix to go to the old bus station. Turn left out of station, walk uphill along the eastern great Road about 400M, also five minutes to bar the road to the left is the old bus station had. This is almost like an old station has been almost completely dismantled illegal buildings, Yang canopy covered with holes, and even parked cars are worn a lot, I do not know why not combine the two stations, both beautify Tongren, and convenient donkey were it not a win-win?
Cars on the dissemination of the thick smell of rotten fish, passenger car, the owner asking price 15 yuan, looking down "plan", the prices listed in the plan within the allowable range, there is no spoke to price. Within a short while, came four locals, with dialects and vehicle owners to bargain, each 10 yuan, loss, and later they remember donkey. After that four people on the bus first arrived in the back seat, then she quickly ran in front of their noses, the owner is busy with a smile accompanied Kuangpen air fresheners, Xiang Xiu mixed, taste a more offensive.
In this way, influenced by the left in Guizhou, Hunan, quick access to territory, Mangxiang friend made a short message, because the basis of personal experience in Western Hunan, Zhangjiajie, Yueyang, I Unicom's mobile phone short message can only be closed, but it is not like I do not know whether they have the same experience donkey?
Phoenix when arrived in the afternoon, a busy new city, no different from other places, braving the rain on her own pack of ten minutes walk to the ancient city that is. Wide concrete pavement slippery quartzite into a narrow road, can be seen everywhere wearing a blue shirt, wearing a huge headdress of the Hmong grandmother carrying a large basket carried on a thin body, both sides of the store and swaying red lanterns hung on the blue curtains every household head heel store move, wearing a uniform hat style of tourists come in droves to Chung, many donkeys were removed from them. Oh, this is the famous ancient city of Phoenix, I finally came to admire for many years in Phoenix!
Slowly in the bustling city, the sides settled for the want of "Tuo people", even though I do not know it and my own position, but the city is so small, there will always let me turn to. Sure enough, soon shifted from the streets back to Long House, Tuojiang people not to do is end of the road? Rushed entry, packet Aunt and her daughter both are sitting around the brazier, and two donkeys side Kaohuo, packet Grandpa portrait placed on the wall. Package Aunt sorry to tell me, are fully occupied, "are filled up?" Erupted in I do a bit surprised, and he switched to a thought, today is Saturday, may play people who are more short-haul it, and this, but online excellent reputation Tuojiang people呀! I was previously throughout the entire blame the liberal sense of the confused and the effect, and would like to say do not need an appointment. And packages such as Aunt chat for a while, by the way conveyed to them the greetings of Xiamen Mix jingle, they still remember the afternoon of New Year's Eve two years ago that wind and rain come home for the New Year in Xiamen girls.
Goodbye kind of packet Aunt, I find agreeable inn along the Street, both sides of the Inn very much the final at the East Gate to find the house bell tower next to the inn, on Tuo side, second and third floor have a balcony Linjiang , Triple (without bathroom) is only one person I am, 20. Stay there, the drop the backpack and that is returned to the rolling into the crowd. Chang spent 5 yuan to buy hand-painted maps, find what you want, for the various sites to full-scale raids.
Hongqiao stood overlooking the thousands of towers and Wang Jiangting, Tuo Pi wins with a camel in the haunted Tsui House, Graceful, lingering passionate, closed with the wins Tsui House has hidden the number of memories ah! Tracy has a beautiful and lively, whinny, and now Lake of Scented Souls not? South Mountain silent luxuriant, green Tuojiang quietly flowing, the love-hate earthly joys and sorrows, life to death, a blessing for their native land, the scenery of a foreign country can carry it? One year the swallows of deja vu came and went, passing a number of spring waters pink Liulv? The song is still in Miaonv misty rain is so sweet sultry, while the bustling leisurely walks, or pioneers, who is also being or is about to interpret the emotional story of how deep faint?
Watch finished 10000 tower, went to Wang Jiangting sit on, overlooking the Tuo River in the cuff started wearing a raft full of tourists come and go. Suddenly see a raft down a girl is very familiar, thought for a moment, remember last summer when the Three Gorges tour guides can encounter in a foreign land who know in another foreign land, but also be regarded as pieces of wonderful things straight so that we two complaints such as a small world ah!
Wang Jiangting side of many students in the painting, which focused look to my idle life ashamed. I went to Wang Jiangting side Longevity Palace, has been in extremely poor condition, leaving only a facade, and an old mother hen pecking on the stone stairs, only exquisite carving and mottled door allows us to see its old downtown a. From Wang Jiangting stone path along the north shore Tuojiang to skip visiting the Rock, during which sat under a willow Kanleyihui riverside opposite Diaojiaolou, many people are stepping up reconstruction Inn. The new wood of the yellow dun with the old house in stark contrast to undermine Diaojiaolou group's overall aesthetic vicissitudes of life, but each person has gained their wealth, the pursuit of happiness, I am a stranger can say?
In the jump-off rock Tuo, can take the single-plank bridge, but also take steps pedal. Madame Shi Shi Miao ran carrying a basket carried on the pedal in the off-step, followed by a long list of very carefully and yelling tourists, it seems pretty ridiculous. Jump rock at the north gate terminal is the starting point for boating Tuo, there is always an endless stream of tourists lining up waiting to board, to 30 yuan it, I'll wait for tomorrow or the day it took the early morning of 10 bar. After a Tuojiang, you walk on the north gate walls, walking on the walls, but can not see Tuo, and some fly in the ointment. A carrying Zhangqiangduanpao a "satyr" is Hmong grandmother inviting letting go, "satyr" compelled no alternative but to fish out a little, metering, and then repeatedly pressing the shutter, ha ha, but also a "satyr" I'm afraid a woman ah!
Passing Chaoyang Palace, the door wide open with, I do not know what the conductor to see on the road came a woman, turned around on the inside, I think, nobody selling tickets,咱also follow-up take a look. It into two or three steps, walking back in front of the woman suddenly said: "Sir, this place should be Mai Menpiao." Turned out to be undercover, I still treat her like our own people, but also rub ticket into the bargain.
Dusk gradually, the ancient city where countless red lanterns lit, and everyone began giving bursts Choi Heung restaurant, I had just eaten lunch because he feels no hunger, still wandering in the ancient city inside. Wander the old East Gate Bridge, a local restaurant near the sound of guitar, singing loud, busy in the past one and saw five or combed cauda equina flap, or skinhead rock and roll youth, is singing De Qijin restaurant. Old Place restaurant was packed, the business well, and I went to look for location, curly-haired chef that only one person saw me, they enthusiastically asked me to come back with them later just eat the one.
After dinner, back to the third floor balcony bells Inn, a person a long time to sit in the folder with strands of rain drift of the cold, drinking coffee, then drink Isatidis last drink Mussaenda detoxification granules. The lights dim across the stone on the road, shaking the red lanterns cast in Tuojiang broken blurred reflection sparse few passing hastily in Hongqiao and yet another hastily disappeared in the alleys of darkness, phoenix rain night belonging to such a Luo Ji, so desolate. . .
Night wind and rain the next day an early morning onwards, wear bells Inn's Aunt gave me a big hats, followed by Aunt in the ancient city where seven Shui eight around, from the Wenchang Pavilion primary side of the Southern Mountain National Forest Park. Aunt with End Road, on the back, and I was a bird-watching in the South Mountain climbing. But the Phoenix were high enthusiasm morning exercise is that I have not seen in travel extensively, so I am a big surprise. Although the floating strands of rain drift from time to time, Hill was filled up on the running of the men and women, and they ran side while also opening up the throat shouting mountain, the mountain foot of the mountain, dense forest of deep grass, one after another, echoed each other is comparable. Such a posture, so what the birds think? In the end, only to see two or three birds, one of the White-headed Black Bulbul is a type I had never seen, and be considered given me the slightest comfort.
Hasty end of the South Mountain bird watching, downhill side of a snack bar in the Hongqiao fritters and green beans to eat rice porridge, out of so many days, no one ate rice porridge, rice, sweet potatoes really miss home ah! After eating, back to Inn to take backpacks, another for home room with bath inn, 25. Then carrying an umbrella, walked the stone path to the Kikunami Hill, paid respects to the tomb of Shen.
In the mountain road to the Kikunami encountered a Woman is also exclusive use, so perfect mountain climbing. Look at the tomb of the rain, not many people Shen, and we quietly surrounded by multicolored stones, not to scare the elderly go to bed, only the endless Tuojiang of waves accompanied us, to accompany the generation of great masters to return home.
From Kikunami hill down, we where in the ancient city of wandering around a street a street to stroll, no pull down a street, bookstores, batik shop, Jiang Tang stores, studios, etc., regardless of all does not want to want to buy into the visit, that is pure In squandering time. Hungry and buy bamboo palm walking or eating, or went to the old local restaurant to eat; tired, to find a coffee bar. Barry in the wine, listening to soft music and the rain outside the window of waves leisurely chatted comfortably days to talk about their journey anecdotes, life feelings and insights on life, spoke of Xiamen from Beijing, from the "SARS" about Fang Fang's novel "landscape" and then to the film "To Live", what comes to mind say anything, like how to say on how to say. Front of a journey encounters a stranger, you have absolutely no need to prepare for anything, no longer wearing the mask of hypocrisy, chat turned into a simple, happy Shier, long time no talk too so hit it and liberties. Occasionally, you can daze, looking at the rain and diffuse Tuojiang step tread water, let thoughts drift in this confused with the misty rain in the border town.
Late at night, and rain was still, the beautiful but short-lived reunion is also the time to say good-bye. She look at me some cold cough, gives me two packets of powder, and I put the "Atlas of China" and I do, "the southwest bank plans to" give her a detailed proposal I wish I could for her goes on donkey-line help. Hongqiao is a rainy night in the street, we wish each other a safe journey home after waving goodbye and go out quite far before they think of each other with the names and phone do not know what, unfortunately!
April 21, home day. For rainy days shade to feel like I have at this time, one step back to leave Beizhao Bao Hongqiao, left the ancient city, and nothing taken away, but inwardly they are filling the landscape and personnel Phoenix, Phoenix will always remain in my Among the memories. 8:00 I boarded a bus bound for Jishou's in the car to help a photographer wearing a yellow windbreaker to the 40-year-old man raised a large bag, by the way the sentence: "satyr?" Hei hei, he smiled: "donkey ? "do not know the people who listened, will not think that the two men in a row?
10:00 to Jishou, take the side to the railway station, 3 yuan. Looked at, to Zhangjiajie, there are several trains, came to select 11:38 AM Nanning to Zhangjiajie 2412 times, that should take precedence over other road-crossing of the trips were less Zhangjiajie, 11 yuan. Sure enough, the quasi-point boarded, the entire carriages empty, few people come over that night from the Sanjiang 1474 times more cool. Were a few are diligent cleaning crew even more, the twice-round sweep, sweep clean, and it will actually tap water, ah, ah touched!
Multi-terminal arrived at 3:00 Zhangjiajie, Zhangjiajie came last year, and the impression is quite poor, tourism development is overdone, and the management is not in place, is entirely a Banded evil deeds. Not out of station, he was asked whether or not to a number of accommodation, car, tour guides who wrapped, the most ridiculous thing is to have a woman, close to my mysteriously asked: "To the city to do? 100."哈哈, loss of export that she was right, I sat the railway station square in 2-way bus CMB (railway station to sanjiaoping), 1 yuan! A common social practice can be seen here.
A few minutes later, 2-way Pakistan soon to the city, had been female conductor to ask how the airport by car, on the East Gate Bridge Station. Out of the car, 30 meters outside a Dazhuan Pan, to the right direction is to go to the airport. Very close to a bus station there, and so on for a while, to the 4-way car to the airport, and 1 yuan.
Buses only go to the airport gate to the lounge bar there are more than 300 meters. Outside the gate there are several eateries, to eat the Egg Fried Rice, the sky dimming, are inundated with rain, alone, empty crisp walk across the airport road. Waiting room, not many people, but most of them wearing masks, and according to a notice on the bulletin board, I discovered that from today onwards, in the domestic plane had to fill out the "Health Declaration alone," which got me started from the south-west line OK aftertaste in the wake, but also ready to join in the busy lives of work.
Today, Southwest Bank has in the past a whole month, but Phoenix still appears in my dreams from time to time, especially seeing the Phoenix Hang Yin Lu-yu Mix, let me miss it even more beautiful and sad border town. Can only look forward to the next release of self, a donkey chasing a dream trip, and I look forward to the. . .
zmuer@sina.com
2003/5/19
Author: zmuer
