September 23, 2003 arrived in Zhongdian around 7:50 am with that fat man in Nanjing to join, go to bus stop. Originally intended to fight the past, the results of that guy said that he was passing the station before, very close, we will walk to. Oh, fools, it is quite far. Later, we on the 8:30 car. About 2:00 the car arrived in Zhongdian (Shangri-La). We are all very hungry, Oh, might be the reasons for the plateau, and I these days is very easy to be hungry, especially at night, when fast asleep. Zhongdian side of the elevation is higher than in Kunming, about 3000 or so. Let us find the youth hostels stay there, then back to the station the next day to buy tickets go to classes Meili Snow Mountain. At this time we are all hungry, on the station next to a shop to eat. Is a deep-fried pork ribs (surprisingly, later discovered here are the fried pork, but still quite good to eat), tomato scrambled eggs, soup and so on. After dinner, we went to visit here, the largest lamasery - Songzanlinsi. In the temple, we have spent nearly two hours, listened to a lot a guided introduction to Tibetan Buddhism there are many things still quite interesting. It has a kitchen inside, outside, Ms. written strictly forbidden to enter. Is said to be on the inside to drink butter tea, but I went to see the time, no one inside. Songzanlinsi indeed well-deserved reputation, built on a hill, the great momentum, a bit like the Potala Palace.
The evening the two of us go out shopping, going to buy disposable raincoats, Kazhuo knife (which is a kind of Mito, steel well known you can cut iron drunk, in fact, is very suitable for meat to eat), hats, sunglasses (to reach Zhongdian, the sun even more intense feeling that we should buy a hat and sunglasses, drink the sun) and other things. However, found can be caught in the glasses is difficult to buy sunglasses on. Finally he finally got a small optical shop (a total of have seen such an optical shop also) purchased, but also very expensive to buy. How to buy disposable raincoats are not; Kazhuo relatively small knives are also out of supplies, leaving only very very long is also expensive, and would not buy. Visit all street, we are looking at a larger shop to eat, specifically point a small pot butter tea. Ah, taste strange, but my wife is totally not used to drinking, they drank two small mouth. I am afraid to waste, or drink a lot, drink later also do not think so hard to drink, a little taste, a total of drank three bowls. Eat a good drink at night to find luck, and always stays the worse, is estimated to be too top-eat buttered tea, or fermented in the stomach inside the bar.
September 24, 2003 Temple early in the morning get on places to go Deqing flying the shuttle. We need to go over there chartered Mingyong. Today, his wife status is poor, on the bus on the motion sickness, eat two kinds of motion sickness pills, and have no effect. Afterwards, he spit inside the car. Sitting on the right aisle is a foreigner, a tall, old legs on the aisle, it can not release the next, and curl up and sit, it looks like fun. That a foreigner in the car reading a book in English called the south-west China, but also while watching the side of the mark. He did not bring a camera, but always in a small books which record what, who can not read. We estimate that he was a spy.
've Been here from the China-Burma border very near the road to face the police on the train one by one to check everyone's ID card is estimated to be the drug detection bar.
About 10:45 am when the driver to stop to say that eating, and then let everyone get off. Wife is still relatively uncomfortable, I feel the time is too early, there is no food. Fast on the bus when the driver saw his wife spit water hoses washed the things all of a sudden the car, an area of a lot of water. Driving is an uphill, the water had gathered behind the whole car buzzing in chaos. But this time, I have learned that the driver of the mean. Sure enough, the car will soon face downhill, everyone's screaming at the sound of water left in to the front of the flow out from the door. Hey, good oh nausea.
Nearly 3:00 pm the car to Deqin. Deqin 3:00 is the very last train sent out forever, we do not catch up. Precisely here are six individuals, all with the package on the car, sent flying in the afternoon of our Temple, tomorrow morning then we send out forever, and then at night back to Zhongdian. In addition to the two of us, as well as that fat man in Nanjing, Wuhan, two small husband and wife (and marriage to Hugh's), a Shanghai woman. That Nanjing and Shanghai women are overweight civil aviation system, and they all tickets are 2.5 fold, good cheap oh.
Flying cars and motorcycles to Temple, we are very surprised, here is just a small piece of flat land, a few small house. The original temple is only a very, very small flying the temple, we then went to see the view, nothing special. The reason why a lot of people go out forever on the road to live here one night, it all depends where sunset and sunrise, especially the sunrise, dubbed "the sunshine Jinshan."
We have a shop stay there, Oh, actually a "suite", we live in the years between the two, is a big bed, you can also bar. There quite interesting, whether a single inter-or seven earth, is 20 yuan a person, no matter how sleep. Open space outside the door, there are a lot of Mani Dui and the White Tower, there are a lot of people who switch from the front of the mountain came. Heard, Meili Snow Mountain is one of Tibetan Buddhism Kamiyama every year many people have switched Hill. Small Mt approximately 5-7 days, while big Mt to 3 months! This road is the size of the transfer to go through the mountain people.
We went quite far, to the edge of the so-called flying Temple went to see the view, temple is not what it meant, but the whole scene is still pretty good. By the way, walking in the highlands (where there are 3300 or so), but it is rather tired look.
Dinner we and the two couples together in a small shop in Wuhan point of the chicken (70 yuan, a feminist ah), tomatoes, fried eggs, bacteria sub. We had intended to meal and then watching the sunset (sunset is about 7:00 to 7:30), did not think that the chicken to do very slow, almost sunset are finished that we began to eat. Fortunately, can also be done, especially the bacteria son, indeed. This delicious meal is a hundred yuan, can be considered quite coincidentally. Fowl stewed in a big pressure cooker, we do not eat, shop owner said he could give us the next day under the chicken soup noodles to eat. We will soon finish the time, that the store began to eat, that Wuhan not drink butter tea, we have to two bowls of soup. By the way, they eat on a dish, is a bowl of pork from Deep-fried, I eat two pieces, quite good.
After dinner, stroll outside, other than the discovery of the stars here, so beautiful so beautiful, it should be here is because of the plateau there is no reason for the pollution. The sky was clear, Star face, the sky crowded, we have never seen so many stars. However, while the cold, we returned to the house. We lived on the second floor, and outside there is a corridor, we sat there a long article on the stool, facing the window looking outside, a good romance.
Time to eat dinner, to a lot of monks, heard that turn mountains, they are a small turn mountain, because there are elderly people, so seven days time, and then they re-turn. Said last night that they are living in the cave. They all refused to into the room may be the rules, are outside the house under the eaves of the big sit down, and then to babble of water and eat. We hid on the second floor, head out the window to see the situation of those monks. I saw those monks to sit down, one after another from inside the backpack to find something to eat. To see a lama to backpack upside down, scraping the bottom of the butter, the butter mixed in a bowl filled with barley flour. She also butter coated in their own feet, rubbing rub ah ah, perhaps in order to keep warm bar. They put together the barley flour butter mix well by hand, directly grasp eat. Soon the air is filled with the taste of butter, even though his wife did not like, but a kind of very special feeling, really far from the city, Manasarovar feeling. We and others have given them a number of tourists photographed a few phase, right, and they were wearing that I was a kid wearing the kind of sports shoes, very nostalgic feeling. They look after the plastic sheeting mat on the ground, covered with a little mattress, and then lie down, covered with their own sleep under the quilt wrapped inside a. Oh, seems now to Hill, is also not the same as before, and equipment, kinda complete. Others hear the monks of the shop owner said, "just face," Oh, get a land Fukuma many pockets.
Author: bjyr
