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Text / Chart Herbert Wang
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April 20 Maoniuping Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Maoniuping - Baisha Mural
Last night, before the break about the driver, starting 8:30 am to tour the Yulong Snow Mountain.
Out of Lijiang, after Ganhaizi, Guo Yun Shanping directly to the Maoniuping. Riding up the mountain, more than an hour destination.
This is also a plateau at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain lawn, but lower than Yunshan Ping Gao and large, there are ups and downs. Dismount after a half-hour trip along the turf to protect the wooden plank road a step by step uphill. Huangcao wanders the dark blue sky, snow-capped mountains exposed first step in a long, indicating the present. To the other end of the lawn, face the snow wall, sit-in clear thinking. In such places, in addition to not doing anything and still have the enjoyment do better than this?
Return in the passing Dongba God Garden, overlooking a huge wooden carving of totem; in cottage and bought two kinds of jade to eat local thing, first, the same thing as the hawthorn, taste is acid, like, the other for the pod, looks like a broad beans, but the folders inside the flesh is thin, the nuclear large. As one would like to see preserved for six centuries the town Baisha murals. Where the original 20 pieces of paintings, after the Cultural Revolution, leaving only the one. Close to watch the painting has faded, but the features fairly clear: multi-religious unity of the Buddha's teachings of reincarnation heaven and earth; colored black, red, blue, yellow, green, mixed with paste gold, precious stones embedded.
Out of the small temple in the town of Baisha walked quite a number of ancient atmosphere. Brick-wood structure of the old house, around the display of blue calico, a stall on the gadgets, very eye-catching.
April 21 shopping, bars Heilongtan - Old Town of Lijiang
Early morning pain, but still went to the Black Dragon Pool. Back there again, the sky is blue like the water is the same clear, no water on the last paper lamps, feeling much better.
After the return to the city, go shopping. Small Gu bought some clothes. Two hand-painted T-shirts, the moon is the Dongba gods and totems. There are a bright red pants, divided into before and after the two, very fun, you can wear at the wedding. There are some Miao embroidery clothes, very beautiful, but too expensive, and were dropped.
Hint of the sun in the afternoon, sitting at the Venice Cafe for more than two hours, quiet. Nothing to do, where they see people coming and going; catch a glimpse of the newspaper to the State Department's notice to cancel 51 holiday, it seems, "atypical pneumonia" has been very powerful, otherwise the Government will not give up this much and promote consumption a good opportunity. Some people in the portrait, there is a long-haired guitarist for the two tourists, he wrote to sing the "Lijiang." Tune pretty good, that is, a lack of passion when singing may be the reason too many times to sing bar.
The sky dimming, bar street lights up, shaking in the breeze, it was placed in the stream of light to see it to drift far away to go.
Author: herbertw
