And then to Yunnan (5) - Ming Yong articles
Text / Chart Herbert Wang
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April 26 overlooking Kawagebo
0840 Departure -1100 benzilan lunch, had arrived in the East Chikurinji -1,500 Deqin Akinaga -1645 to -1600 on the grid to see the arrival Kawagebo -1900 Mingyongcun
Car from Deqin out, circled in the mountains on one side is a mountain, on the other side is a ravine. Time seems to have stopped, mountains and rivers has been stopped.
In the Tibetan moving train, the way will be playing the Tibetan songs. Singing loud and clear, as here, the high talent in the field, use the "Travels of Lao Can" and described Mr. Wang Xiaoyu song's words, "as wire thrown high altitude." In Shanghai, sound is so harsh, but here is very occasion.
Ming Yong from Deqin to the way flying just over Temple in the sky Kawagebo reveal his majestic appearance. Thick blanket of clouds, exposing a sharp peak. Tibetans all over cars cheered.
Merrill's people are pilgrims from washed him, in the nine Tibetan holy mountains, he was the only male Kamiyama. This year, the Year of the Goat is his Benming year, so this year once the equivalent of Mt Mt usual twelve. To this end, April 28 held a grand temple will also be flying activities, there is Living Buddha to come.
April 27 Mingyong, pilgrimage Lennart Meri, flying in the afternoon Temple
0740 starting up the mountain -1,030 taizimiao -1100 Lotus Temple -1,335 to -1,200 started down the mountain scenic spot to leave the door -1,500 Mingyongcun -1,600 to fly Temple
Mingyong is the lowest elevation temperate continental glacier, the next from the Lancang river, just 800 meters. However, when you first saw glaciers, but he out of my expectations.
After walking uphill for more than an hour to reach a small bridge, cross river by. In its upper reaches about 30 meters of water from the gray block out under the hood, which is glacier tongue. Up, is a tilting cover gray, mixed-ran, such as boulders, it seems there is no coin Bai glory.
Miaohou in too late, we have a clockwise turn for a week; in Lotus Temple as well. When the Tibetans and the only difference between the annual hajj pilgrimage is not kowtow. I do not believed in Buddhism, mind has come to also Bale. Prince Edward Temple office to have a second viewing platform for the steel-framed wooden plank road along the right side of the glacier has been tie-up, even to the first observation deck. At this point, you can see a huge ice cracks and crevices of Yingying green.
The upper glacier first glance, like a construction site on the lime, was massive, piled on the hillside. The mid-day sun, the ice melted, issued a loud creak giggle. So ugliness is my first impression, I can not understand the nearly 30-degree temperatures why it has not completely dissolved.
Deqin by 3:00 pm shuttle back to the temple flying under the auspices of the Living Buddha of the monastery to wait for tomorrow's ceremonies; of course, one important reason is that want to see a magnificent view of sunrise golden dome.
Stay there, the time is too early to be sitting on "the Merrill Inn" (MEILI JUNCTION) the door of the sun to see snow-capped mountains and chat. Time throughout the afternoon on a quiet mid-stream to this. This is the journey of the most relaxed moment.
Merrill Inn is like a base camp, from where four of the tourists will be set. There are four young people from Guangdong who have been here to stay four days will be at 5:00 every morning get up, quietly the stars, moonlight, and the pre-dawn sky, changing colors. The purpose of their trip out of a book to introduce the local scenery. Therefore, their equipment, so I envy: PAJARO more the more cars, APPLE portable, full range of digital cameras. This brings me started to seriously consider digital devices. Plus hand-held camera, the weight of the equipment with me quite, but the unit cost is much lower photo, which also makes it possible to mass of the photography to improve the success rate of the work.
Evening, four teams invited to dinner with them. Said to be dinner, in fact very simple: medusa stewed chicken, sand cabbage, Chinese chives. 10 Personal eat very happy to continue to chat until late at night after dinner.
April 28 pre-dawn hanging in the air bringing a Kawagebo
0500 wake up and see Kawagebo -0600 Kawagebo appeared -0650 sunrise, sunshine -1.0 thousand Jinshan Temple, -1400 starting to go away fly -1.83 thousand arrived in Tribulus terrestris Tribulus terrestris in the -1910 to the "wine Inn"
Get up when the air there is a lot of dark clouds, only not fresh Hanxing the flicker. I thought today do not see the sunshine in Jinshan. Sit at the Inn of the corridor, keep looking at the sky, watching him from the long lead into a dark blue gray.
6:00 look, the sky began to light up. Well the camera frame, waiting for the arrival of sunrise. Suddenly, a small Gu shouting, "Look there!" Down to her fingers, the dark blue background of Kawagebo reveal his bringing a presence. By dark clouds which cover the mountain, only the peaks hanging in mid-air, high, Qingli look. Just put down a tripod, on the corner of his white clouds rolled up a group, more than 10 seconds of the time covered. This Yi Sha, he's white, pure, leaving not only the surprise is not.
Sunrise, the clouds finally retreated again. Sharp Kawagebo is the rising sun shines, the one golden; his wife, accompanied by Goddess Peak in the quiet side.
Have no major trips to photograph. Eating breakfast, waiting for the arrival of the Living Buddha. Tibetans in the Tibet side of the road a small table to sell incense, Pak-chi, and streamer with the rising incense smoke covered the sky. Living Buddha did not say in advance that occurred, but added police car off from Temple and cleared. Ten more have not yet moving, he would ride back to Deqin.
To Tribulus terrestris in the train at two in the afternoon before driving. So we eat a lunch, shopping. I chose the two knives as souvenirs, also bought a Tibetan Nepalese cap, brown, cool look. As usual, returned to Shanghai packaged.
From Deqin to Tribulus terrestris, the highway was built along the Lancang River, along the way to turn the Yunling. Looked at the Lancang River more than 10 meters wide from a few tens of meters wide river into a river. Mountain yellow to red from the soil, covered with green plants. The river has not, such as his name look good, all the way are all yellow, rapids Mashimo. The way, saw the two horseshoe-shaped bend, the river stretching from the hillside is a green, simple is the world outside the pick idyllic park; for the first time saw the Liusuo, each Department has two, but also colorful streamer with the guidelines.
Tribulus terrestris in the famous bridge is only a medium-sized concrete suspension bridge, cross the bridge in the village is Tribulus terrestris. Village built on the hillside, from the bridge to the center of the village church a full 30 minutes away. Along the way, the local review their homework after school and primary school students at the roadside brings us to the only inn in the village "wine Inn." This is a pretty strange name.
Opened the door, in the narrow narrow lane, there are a donkey body sideways blocking the avenue. Carefully around it and into a courtyard. An old man doing carpentry, like a child sleeping in bed. He stopped the hands of the work, we introduced a house, said, "more rabbits, I have a new rabbit cage, was divided them. In just a moment, you first take a break." Thus, on our side his rest, while watching him saw wood, nail, and visited his family's "Zoo", a total of three pigs, two bigger chicken, two chickens, three chickens, one plus one in Tai Wo box of rabbits, a cat, as well as the door when you see a donkey. Was finally completed in about half an hour later.
Dinner is a very good and very easy to eat local food. The staple food is rice beans, and vegetables are fried leek roots, cold mountain tofu and egg. Fried leek root is well worth mentioning, is said to be a combination of local broad-leaved leek roots dug washed, steamed before drying. Look before eating fried with sesame oil, put some salt. Tastes crispy and fragrant.
When we finished, the main talent and his wife for dinner. Drink homemade liquor.
Meal, the owner told us he surnamed Liu, a Naxi people, this year's 65-year-old. Early in Kunming read primary and junior high school. And then read the Teacher's College for two years after graduation to teach in the Deqin II. You have not seen a few years, he was back in the Benz. The house, as well as his sister's house next door were his own cover.
There are 100 small Tribulus terrestris to households, mainly Tibetan, Naxi and Han. Now that the young people out to work at, all mixed marriages, so there has been Lisu, Yi, Bai and so on. 80% of the villagers to Christianity, the rest of Buddhism. The village church was built in 1875 by two French missionaries built, just next door to his house.
After dinner, chatting in his room, he invited us to drink his own red wine. Taste is very Qingchun. He told us that, in addition to red wine, he has also stuffed white wine, highland barley wine, rice wine. So he named the inn as "red wine Inn." Tribulus terrestris in a good geographical location, temporary slope water, climate temperature and humidity, a prolific fruit: every family kinds of grapes; In addition, there Yamanashi, apple, loquat, oranges, bananas and other dozen.
Over and over again he used to do piano mapiri cauda equina pulled two lively Tibetan song. Listening to him read his brother in the Teacher's College, the job finished college, the election of deputies to the NPC on the Diqing; now retired, but still Yunnan Provincial Party Committee member.
We have decided to turn Biluo tomorrow, snow-capped mountains. His wife went about helping us to find the two wizards, are Mr. Liu students. The Jiao A tall race, Chinese, said some better Christian; the other is called dual-power, to Buddhism. Reward they reached an agreement to return home ready to go.
Night, quietly.
Author: herbertw
