Long-distance buses in cities and towns outside the car finally stops down the street, our backs was heavy luggage, and jumped out of cars, two-foot plateau in the solid land, look around, towering mountains, looked to the front, an imposing The ancient city gate storage stand in front of a heavy dark red brick wall in the late autumn afternoon, bright sunlight exudes old, solemn and mysterious atmosphere, gates at the top of scoring two golden characters "loose state."
Songpan is a city with a thousand years of history, located in the southwest frontier fortress traffic arteries since ancient times is the battleground, contested by well-preserved thick, tall, long ancient wall silently speak of its history. Songpan inhabited by the Tibetan, Hui, Qiang and Han nationalities, the city inside and outside the houses are mostly wooden structure, simple and generous, great features, the city there are two well-known wooden covered bridges, Dubbed the "Serenade Bridge" and " Salon Bridge ", antique, carved the mighty river through cities. Songpan now because of the surrounding beautiful landscapes on the plateau - peaks, alpine meadows, forests, lakes, clear streams, clean air, and in particular its unique equestrian tourism attracts many tourists to come, but also foreign tourists than domestic tourists to be more than a year in May to October is the golden season of equestrian tourism. Xuebaoding have been opened on the 4th trip, Munigou 2 or 3 day tour, Huanglong scenic tour and many other lines, tourists can freely choose according to their own circumstances line, the number of days, you can also link directly Colts in-depth sightseeing tour of those is still little known to outsiders, the original attractions, with an average payment of 80 yuan per person per day, including daily riding, eating, outdoor, camping and so should be a fee.
We have an immediate link to the Songpan Colts, apply to participate in the next day riding tour on the 3rd Munigou procedures cavalry easy to find, on the roadside outside the city and the procedure is very simple.
Evening sun in the city river hotel door to settle, the hotel facilities very good, price reasonable (to counter-offer), but also package the next day's breakfast, and departure from the Colts close. Settled, we went through the thick doors of the ancient city visited the city, stroll the streets at random, Songpan city's large-scale maintenance, the streets have all been dug, roads very difficult to walk. Then a street a shop, there are yak butcher, the highly Tibetan color bead jewelry and crafts shops, video stores (there are many Tibetan songs disc store for sale, we bought a few, came back a very good sound quality production of rough, the proposed purchase of video stores in Chengdu), as well as a variety of restaurants, because a lot of foreign tourists come to Songpan the street also opened several western-style restaurants. According to the recommendation of cavalry, and we arrived at the main street on the "Magnolia restaurant" meals, and stores are not large, clean, shop owners were very good, more than 50-year-old, just like a Moslem, and the gas gas, good service. Specialty of "five-spice yak meat" dishes, eaten red pepper dip the end, and then store owner recommended to us to drink the local brew of highland barley wine, brown, 11 degrees, the entrance sweet taste very good Oh, the price is also cheap, four dollars a bottle.
(B)
Dawn twilight, I woke up early in the excitement. 8 more minutes, we came to Colts, luggage storage, only to bring boat, mineral water, camera, flashlight and other portable items, lightly armed departure. Tourists, tour guides, horses in attendance, Munigou 2 day tour and 3-day tour of visitors a total of nine, starting with the 3-day tour of the addition to both of us, there are two six, 70-year-old South Korean old man and the remaining five 2 day tour, there are two girls in Shanghai, a pair of Taiwanese youth, as well as a small group of Guangdong. Each visitor has a horseback guide, so that we line a total of 18 were 18 horses. Each horse horseback ride on both Tuozhe thick pouch hung from belt, built-in food, tents, sleeping bags, pots and pans and other wild life should be an object, so when we step onto the thick horse ride sitting on the pouch hung from belt, is really a bit proud superior effort, feel quite soft and comfortable, I rode a black horse, tall and robust.
Colts starting, and 18 well-trained horse to take one to line up a long one team Shui out of alleys, along the narrow rugged path embarked on the hill. Just started a little nervous, a simple guide to how I ride essentials, his horse holding the reins, riding for a little while, and slowly found the feeling of riding, you can easily enjoy relaxing front of the beautiful scenery, and my horse walk in the the top of the team, led the Colts down the steep hill along the climb to the summit. Several horseback tour along the pleasant hum of Tibetan folk songs, voice and rugged, bold, and our feelings are the same as the sun was shining light. I saw mountain peaks, towering peaks, winding layers of clouds In the meantime, the Peak has been put on blanketed by the sun from time to time to penetrate clouds sprinkled on the hillside, little by little to drive away the cold early morning in late autumn. As the terrain increased, the scenery more and more the United States, looked to the valley, deep valleys, lush forests, streams clear, and underwater acoustic dodger dodger. Looking at the surrounding hills looked, into the film is a row of trees Young trees have been doing dye, showing a large area of a large bright yellow, there is a red clumps of shrubs, green pine forest, and take away the world's very colorful embellishment. Snow-white sheep scattered on the grass slope on the occasion also saw the 12 black sturdy yaks graze at the roadside. Long with a beautiful feathered birds in the woods, jump, crisp, mildly tweet across Qing Ji of the valley. Steep mountain mud, horse was breathing heavily, from time to time to bow their heads to play two sounds the nose, reaching touched the horses neck is already sweating.
Colts turned on the hill, in the frost shop more than 3000 meters above sea level ground to walk on the plateau, where no trees and shrubs grow, and only large tracts of alpine meadow, broad vision. As soon as exclaimed Jimuyuantiao, far from the rolling white peaks, relieved against the blue sky and clouds are so holy, solemn and mysterious, awesome breathtaking, the moment I seem to not breathe, the immediate beauty of completely shock, this shock the United States, I find it difficult to express in words, but will never forget.
Started down the mountain, because the roads muddy, steep, downhill horse horse prone to the risk of loss of the premise, so we have to dismount to walk. Maybe I can be miserable, because the road conditions in advance of the underestimation did not wear Dengshan Xue and mountain is so muddy, slippery, plus is at an altitude of more than 3000 meters in altitude walking tour along the way despite the support of well-meaning still slip the N sub-wrestle, in the end is out of breath, his legs trembled, it seems that even the road will not go. Therefore, I remind planning to participate in equestrian tourism a friend, be sure to learn from my painful lesson, never wear a pair of waterproof, anti-slip properties of a good Dengshan Xue, otherwise when the time suffered enough blame Oh, I did not warn. Although the hard way, do also no lack of fun in the mountain guides suggest that you at Kaoquan Yang, so the implementation of AA system, we chip in on the road to buy a fat sheep herders, Zhe Xiake lively, and sheep, unwilling to take the life and death, a guides put a few pounds heavier sheep's back, one can not be honest sheep, call out the way forward, struggling, so Lianren Dai Yang fell in the mud together, the Aries become a black sheep, we laugh was Zhibuqiyao years, the last from a few tour guides with a rope belt with pull-pull, stumbled, stumbled to get down the hill, the speed actually faster than we do.
(C)
Camp in the valley side of the road a large open ground, in open land surrounded by bushes, the mountains covered with lush pine, below there is a large stream flowing through, really a good place to camp. One to the camp, we sat on the ground these tourists rickety rest, Colts guides deft hands and feet work together, remove the saddle, Qian Ma feeding, erected tents, pick up branches, a pot of rice. Of particular interest is that they are to reward their hard work engineering the horse will be broad beans fell on an old basketball, the third hole in the top opened, with a rope hanging in the horse's head to Diaozhu horse feed, so that each horse lips are set in a basketball, very loud to munching, they humorously called "Anti-SARS, wear a mask", we see straight happy. Soon we ready for lunch, and a human hair a slice of the cake (a very big cake ah!), We circle sat in the middle basin of white sugar mixed with tomatoes, cucumber salad bowl, drinking hot tea and horse , eating together, is probably the reason they are tired and hungry, along with the wild enthusiasm of fresh meals, we ate very fragrant.
Arranged for us by the afternoon of the two on their own Munigou sea, hot springs tours, tickets to the attractions at their own expense, we have bad luck, ticket prices just started two days ago, from the original rose to 33 per each 70 yuan, and, scenery is in general, far less Haizi Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve, the so-called hot springs, the water temperature only 21 degrees Celsius, the tour guides play called "cold seeps." Been proposed or plan to Jiuzhaigou Mix who do not have to travel the two Munigou the sea.
Sunset West Ramp after midnight, we walked back to camp, chill getting heavier and heavier, far curl saw smoke rising above the camp, camp on the school of a busy, lively scene, bottom of my heart not help give birth to a burst warmth. The central government has ignited a lot of the camp bonfire, a good fat sheep had been slaughtered, with a long Kieda wearing, tall frame in turn fire on the grill, pine branches lit the bonfire with Wang Wang, baked whole Yang exudes alluring fragrance. As night fell, and everyone sitting around the campfire beside a roaring fire in the valley in the night to drive away the cold, beating the flame shining on our faces on the exciting, bold and the plateau guy who Pengchu deep wine and green trees, in order to We sang one song after another pleasant songs, wine and barbecue in the hands of the transfer, sharing responsibilities to you Heyikoujiu I Heyikoujiu, you eat a piece of meat I eat a piece of meat, song and laughter shock valley, two South Korean old man is also deeply infected by this atmosphere of joy, singing a song of songs in their home. ... ... Late at night, and everyone said good night after another inside their tents and rest, quiet valley, looking upward to see the sky, yeah! Stars flicker, twinkle stars blinked bright eyes are watching us do, even on the plateau also stars in the sky above the city than we should be more to light ah!
(D)
The sun rises high places, and I get up and drilled tents, cold, ah, full of white frost on the ground, a layer of mist floating in the valley, activities, events waist and legs, feeling back pain, it is no wonder that, on horseback Well one day on the bumps. I took a deep breath, full of flowers and fragrant forest of my Heart and the air slowly Qinru and felt refreshing. Move back and forth and found that our horses invisible, and tour guide pointed to a huge valley side slopes that face, "in there feeding it!"
Carefully looked, and indeed see many horses are running on the grass slope distance horse in the grazing leisurely, as well as horses are running in the bush in the looming, a few to a few to go, as well as horses are running in Tibet do not know where to go. Approaching departure time, a number of tour guides decided to climb up the hillside opposite the horse back. Oh, hillsides so big that if let go, I am afraid may not be able to come back one morning. I saw they moved very quick, soon appeared on the opposite hillside, slowly became a distant movement with a few black dots, in the woods when the fade out. Dimly saw one of the Department of the black robes on the red belt was very eye-catching, close to the distant hilltop. Yuemo Then, after more than a half an hour, the tour guides after another rushing to find their own three to five horses down the mountain, and North Korea that we go back. Eat and drink the night I saw the horses belly rounded, Biaofeitizhuang, God-shaped handsome, shiny fur in the sun light, all tall and fit and full of energy, with yesterday's heavy burden under the horse, if sentenced to two things, no wonder there are sentences so called "horse grass fat-free night."
We also rode horses set off, the sun gently shines on the body, leaves shiny, my heart is exceptionally good, could not help but want to burst into song. Yoshikatsu horse has a strong heart, when a horse behind the horse is aware that it would like to go beyond it, it will quicken the pace to prevent the back of the horse over, while the horses are not far behind the back, so in a relatively wide road launched children often will conduct a small-field race, do not have some fun. Finally, the 2 day tour and 3-day tour's men to be split up, everyone waving hands, reluctant to part with each other farewell, the two teams split Sagittarius.
We are through the Tibetan villages along the way at the junction there is a large and small stones piled up high Mani Dui, colorful streamer fluttering in the breeze, a brilliant smile street children, the lovely little face upturned black and red, loud in English and we say hello "Hello! Hello!", face the two Gaoyuanhong were so lovely, and beautiful.
At noon we have reached another camp, this is a large open circle, the sunny grassy slopes, surrounded in turn by colorful shrubs, green forests surround the distance you can see the stretching of the peaks. I have been here in the deep beauty of intoxicated and lying on the soft grass slope, looking round the sky, sky blue, such as washing, cloudless, but no one clouds. Here there is no cell phone signal, is really isolated and no longer need to think, feel like arriving in a ideal world, human wonderland, spiritual feel particularly clean. Plateau, said the weather as they please, suddenly I do not know from where a piece of cloud rains suddenly fall from the sky, there were numerous underground in snow, and we sat in the tent, the roast on fire, drinking tea, horses, watching the sky fluttering snowflakes, not while the white of the ground. Strange is that, except for the dark clouds overhead, the distance around the horizon is still bright and sunny blue sky. About half an hour passed, and had stopped snowing, and dark clouds of illusion and National Cheng Kung University duo great duo of white clouds floating in the blue sky, the sun speckled hillsides, and we ran out of the tent playing snow battle. Night, we Yueshuixiaoxiao very harmonious, we and the Koreans are basically simple gestures to communicate in English Canada, interestingly, although the cavalry guides are not very understanding of the word, but because and countries, contact with tourists is much more speak more than the national language, many provincial dialect, of course, simply a few sessions. And their life together a few days, feel that they are knowledgeable, optimistic, humorous, hard-working simple, good-natured. Hung old man should guide our request played famous Hui sang local folk song "flowers" from January to see in December, singing simple, authentic.
(E)
On the third day, the return of the Songpan. Way to climb a mountain, at the top of the hill, we saw a beautiful, famous Xuebaoding, while the distant mountains at the foot of Songpan town glance, see Songpan town, we realized that the joy of the journey the past few days come to an end , we will have to return to the original that the secular world, we must begin a new life.
November 3, 2003 finalized
