D8: Munigou (November 15)
Morning woke up, I feel a foot warmer at night no sleep, I heard next to the Sun turned to turned to the voice, that he is middle of the night after the body turned a few of those covered by robes do not know where to go was turn to the results night all slept well, so sleep in sleeping bags must be honest oh. That foreigners want to come inside the house also slept well, because every time I wake up hear Hang Hang the cough was heard. The weather can be imagined to Xuebaoding Relying on such a thin blanket, some frozen sleep.
Outside the window the sky has been micro-ming, a look up, and outside the world like magic in general, it is already a vast expanse of whiteness world. Whole Munigou, the hills, woods, houses were covered with a thick layer of snow, only the hut of the stream is still flowing merry way brawl. Wow, my first time seeing Southerners heavy snow in it. Walked outside, the snow on the ground of soft, loosely, and the imagination in the same, and finally realized what it meant to "step on the foot of the snow creak sound" feeling.
Pine trees on the snow formed a Bing Leng, translucent crystal. At this time, the sky has become bigger and brighter, the sun is rising, the blue sky white clouds passed, was actually a very good weather, it seems that last night's snow in the sky all the moisture under the shape. Log-house guides have also started a new wake up a busy day. As usual, is a fire, cooking, horses, they have done quickly and orderly. We returned to the house Kaohuo come up with yesterday from the Songpan back to the bottle of water, which actually has been found to form ice, but the house last night enamel cup of tea drinking horse left, and Ying Ying Du Dong became ice block, we can see how cold at night. Thought the least we can sleep in the cabin doors and windows closed, the tour guides are sleeping four to take the air in a big house, I really do not know how a cold-law, so a guide to the Colts addition of a layer of hard experience.
Fire horse tea boiling hot-opened, have a drink of the cold of the night, watching the colt guides and surface deep-fried cake, that the oldest of the guides are in a very thick grilled bread very thick, suddenly found that they with a pot of this basin is really magical wand look, fried, fried, roasted, stewed, boiled everything apply. We are in the fire side of the cup-opening a little ice intended to wash a face, MY GOD! The water almost did not put my fingers freeze off and managed to wring the towel dry, two hands is almost no perception, and I would like to get snow even if the direct facial much better than it, or hurry back to the fire edge . When foreigners are also up, HELLO, morning! It seems they do not than let's antifreeze, went straight to fire away.
Tour guides seem to have division of labor, usually a charge of cooking the care of a horse, Hung uncle, and that shy young man had disappeared, pony guide is to look for horses, because horses are placed at night to eat on their own grass, the next day to find them again. But then the thick snow, horses eat the grass they do? Have enough to eat, then how do we get back pack? A string of a string of questions about my heart, like under the eaves of the ice run, no one of very open.
Eat breakfast, ah, hot cake and bake cake sprinkled points, sugar, taste pretty good, pony tour guide told me that if we are day tour, pie is the third day of food, ha ha, I know why yesterday afternoon foreigners ration of cold cake. Horseback guides the production of several meals all by heart, and three meals a day diet has been largely fixed. Foreigners eat very little, piece of pie in the hands of just nibble a little, that if the old uncle was quite small, but it is always playing gestures allow foreigners to eat, it may feel good to take care of the guests is a dereliction of duty bar . They have been looking for outside horse back, horsehair hanging on both broken Bing Leng, a wild look with knowledge is the result of sleeping, can not stand the cold horse do?
Guide to every horse neck hung a ball, which is our leftover rice patches and the like, horses were on the cold leftovers no comments, one by one buried Huan eat ravenously. At this point have not seen Uncle Hung sight seems a little not good. Sure enough, the colt guide walked back outside, saying that Uncle Hung horse disappeared, that I rode, now looking for Na. Alas, the horse will not eat at night find themselves Songpan ran back to the bar, depressed.
Guides foreigners have begun to pack up, they walk the road we come back to Songpan, than let's start. When you think to the bare mountains, Oh, enough of them to go. Colt suddenly ran into the tour guides are pleased to have found for the horse! Oh, once again feel lucky. So foreigners soon after starting, we have embarked on a journey back to Songpan.
Munigou out from the gate, I found that surprising because of yesterday's heavy snow, the whole valley became a blanketed by trees, and to time quite different. End up with thin ice on the road, horses will be slippery to walk on from time to time, tour guides told us to use the front foot stirrup tread stability, so that if they do not, the horse threw slipping away. After riding yesterday's practice, I have sympathetically, on horseback, went so far as can be relaxed about stare and enjoy the beauty of snow along the road. In front of four or five hundred meters away, and foreigners can be seen from time to time a line of four figure, they walked slowly, and we hurried up gradually to the ground they started to Po on the mountain, we just catch up, still have time directed at them a friendly wave of his hand.
We continue to move forward along the road, the sun shines into the valley, roadside tree pops in from time to time on the snow fell to the ground. Passing a Tibetan stockade, housing are covered by snow, local residents grown accustomed to looking at our little caravan. Line to a road junction with Hill Road, Hong uncle and pony let us down to rest, because to begin immediately and crosses the. Another Sagittarius here, have a first, about men and women of 56 foreigners and a Chinese girl, did not think that Chinese girls chatted under the Guangxi actually is our hometown! Her freshman year in college in Beijing, this is a person to travel to participate in a happy trail of Munigou day tour, and the companionship of a group of foreigners. We told her that just Munigou snow under the cold waterfall there will be colder, girl unafraid, he said he brought a sleeping bag. A break for a while (where your toilet odd, to 1 yuan), we all have continued on our way, we bid farewell and small hometown after the turn on the trail up the mountain, thinking that next time will not see this little fellow? Sometimes the world really small. . .
The way up the mountain snow-covered from head to toe one, but it did not come when the hill high, Within a short while on the last to the roof top of the hill paths have been first come, stepping into the mud, like the horse happens to walk by the outside side, at the foot of a steep slope, although I have great confidence in the horse, but the thought here, been to the snow, maybe there is ice, if slippery, then whispered to one side ... ... Sun Road: Today's really strange, crows are talking . I immediately got the message to shut the mouth. Fortunately the horse did not live up to their confidence in me is still walking very stable.
After a one pass, from here down the mountain, and tour guides let us dismount, because the mountain this side of the snow is very shallow, basically has become a dirt road, the snow after the slippery, steep mountain, people are not riding down the mountain, and must take go. Pony that is not too far down, they walk 5 minutes, we walk about 20 minutes on the list. Talk about their experiences both on the holding of the horse go first. I though Sun has been psychologically prepared, but they see this slippery steep Hill is still perplexing, because we are ordinary wear sneakers can be no slip of ah. But since it has come here, people can not joke, would rather slow. As a result, closely waist, lift their buttocks, on the wound and bite the bullet, the next bar!
This way, real-ism can be used to describe the sole glue a thick mud, across a few steps necessary to rub Yiceng, although concentrating on several occasions I almost slipped, and Sun are simply threw twice, the only Fortunately, not yet turned into Ni Hou, thigh muscle has been in a state of high tension, and my heart could not help swear, next time will definitely wear real hiking shoes.
With great difficulty down to the base of the mountain, tour guides are already leisurely swim to rest trying to get to Kazuya, I think colt will overestimate our ability, we are more than just spent 20 minutes ah. Continue to be implemented, this is the last time launched, because the Songpan County, not far. Preparations to the county, the Sun actually riding the horse suddenly Rear Window Fortunately, Sun's pretty stable, and did not fall down. Idioms of "Mashiqianti" the mood so that Sun has been a real experience, real envy. Walk for 30 minutes, we entered the Songpan county, the city has also been to the snow, but a lot thinner than the Munigou. On the road after a Goddess of Mercy Temple, a Muslim places of worship, note here is where Buddhism and Islam coexist. Hong uncle also refers to us a hilltop near the ancient city of Songpan on the door. The town center at the crossroads before the last time we dismount, and according to the provisions of Center Street is not on horseback. Guide to the Colts office holding horses away and I slowly followed behind the Sun, from the inaccessible Munigou to the bustling town, you can not help there is a trace of inexplicable loss.
Happy trails room, the Netherlands, two foreigners had been first, and is adjacent to Kaohuo Wai in the electric furnace. We finished horses to pay the remaining costs 200 yuan, and the ponies and Hung on the uncle farewell, but unfortunately it did not leave Hong uncle home phone. Good-bye, memorable song fan riding trip.
Bus terminal next door to the Colts 6:00 am tomorrow bought a ticket back to Chengdu (It is said that the best shuttle is dragon air-conditioned buses, 50 yuan / person). Take on the baggage, Colts owner with a foreigner, and we went to live in the Netherlands Pine State Guest House opposite the City View Hotel, there is a county government guest houses. Standard rooms here, shut the bathroom, so 20 yuan / person, the room than in the ordinary state of inter-song a lot better, but also electric blanket, we are still quite satisfactory. A break for a while, we intend to go to public bathhouses bath, because the body riding up and down these two days is not an ordinary dirty, Hehe. This time we decided to change a bathroom, the last to go across the alley where pine-Lan Yi-ching a family, to go along way to find and found that there seems cleaner, is the Moslems open inside the same pattern, adequate water sprinklers, but also There Yuba, so wash very comfortable. But today the sun is really along the way, I forgot to rub suntan lotion, nose sweated it really hurts: (, it seems is inevitable, the peeling.
View from the edge of the evening we went very close to the Magnolia restaurant for dinner. Walking along the street a distance came the voice of Muslims in prayer, in this dusk of Songpan town, appear to be so sacred, distant, makes a kind of out of this world feeling. At the hotel, we have a point of green beans stir-dried yak meat consommé Jia Luobu 23 million beef stew is delicious. After dinner stroll in the streets, allegedly leading Alibaba has not come out because it is cold put Shaokao Tan, and on the street only a smattering of two or three stalls. We are at the crossroads of a barbecue on the eating baked potatoes, lotus root, dried bean curd, baked jacket potatoes, crunchy, bite-opened inside the heat emitting Yi Gu, delicious, that is, stays in too. The owner of the pretty sister to give away to another string of potatoes to us, can only be praised belly decline, it could not eat啦.
Back to the hotel, thought of the coachman to get up early tomorrow, but also on the early and got into a hibernation-like quilt to do. . .
Experience:
1, in the words of Songpan live if we are all ordinary, the City View Hotel hotel much better than the loose state.
2, Songpan to eat recommendations to Magnolia Hotel, the street can also be baked potato taste. Xi put a lot here, cook pepper, cabbage is no exception, and generally under the salt-heavy, do not like pepper person must be brought forward to tell the boss.
3, Lan Yi Qing bathroom bathroom to be better than the song, cleaner and there are Yuba, cold weather to wash more comfortable.
4, needs riding, then if and guides cooked at home can be linked directly to a phone call to guide, or an appointment in advance with the Colts know the boss guide.
5, which a friend to go riding guides are experienced full-yong Ma Guang-yuan or so, please help us ask good, say yes in November to get them to look after the two Munigou Guangxi friends. Best to help remember what Uncle Hung home phone. My mailbox is nntlixiang@163.com, thank you.
6 The key to riding up the mountain yes when the waist down when the forward waist behind; tighten the reins is to allow horse stopped, pull the reins on the left is to let horse Zhaozuo go, on the right empathy; wet feet when you step on to use the former tight stirrup to Anti-crushed; horses trot to live when pedal stirrup leg strength with big hips as far as possible to leave the saddle.
7, horse riding tours are dangerous activity, requiring 10 million visitors should pay attention to safety and to maintain a stable state of mind. For example, do not panic the horses.
8, cold, then do not have to go with water unless it is an excellent insulating glass. Because, while pack is a Malay, but also the water formed a little sense of ice, and hot tea in the cavalry is often drunk, because basically the camp fires burn from morning to night.
9, the best comes with some meat, such as halogen cooked beef, raw beef and dry, Songpan County, where a lot of buying. Because the Colts are the elements provided by the meals (and do not worry about a lack of vitamins), a day or two can still work more than three days must be made of non-added meat. If you and guides familiar with so that they can help if you can buy it, would be cheaper. Heard that also allows guides to help to buy raw leg of lamb or even half of the entire sheep to roast, but estimated that familiar Caixing and tour guides.
10, the best way to backpack covered with rain cover, both are not afraid of water, while maintaining a clean bag. My bag was later let me brush it well hard.
11, understanding the work of tour guides, most of them very well, working very hard work.
12, the best equipment, the regular camping supplies, such as backpacks, thick sleeping bags, Dengshan Xue, rain coat, flashlight, gloves and so on.
13, love the clean cups had better bring their own chopsticks and bowls, Colts Lane are mixed.
14, If they live in Songpan East Gate near Chengdu in the buy a ticket could raise them for car around to the other side, so that would not have caught up with him early in the morning north door.
15, Munigou Jiuzhaigou scenery is visible, definitely worth a visit.
Author: nntlixiang
