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Published: February 20th 2011
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we are on the new road from my village to Yangyu chang Two days’ trip to Yangyu Chang and Wenhai
It has been for about 2 years that I haven’t been there to visit the wonderful people there. Every time since I heard anything about there, I really miss there, especially the people in village. I still have very good memories when I guided for our cust omers to there to visit.
Before we can start hiking from my village directly to Yangyu Chang to visit, but now there is big road, so it is not interesting for us to long walking on big road. We choose another way, first driving about 1.5hours to one of most big Yi village in my hometown, then hiking about 5hours to there.when we get to the Yi village, we can get very nice views of snow mountain, part of Lijiang city, Lashi Lake area…today we see something very interesting for me: there are Yi women uses mune to plum the fields. This is my first time to see, mostly only the men plum the fields. So I walk close to them and ask:“why do the Yi women plum the field, instead the men?” they told me, usually also the men do just like Naxi,
nice weather
hiking on path, we can see the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, blue sky... but these days, men works outside to own money, that’s why they come to do it!
After we say” Bye” to them continue our 5hours’ hiking. On the way we through different kinds of forests depend on the altitude: pine forests, oaks forests, fir forests…also some small plants, because it is dry season and cold now, there isn’t flowers under your feet. During summer time, you can see many wild flowers everywhere and mushrooms. On the way we stop a lot to take many pictures, even it is not most beautiful season, but also very nice views of mountains and forests. Around 5pm, we finally arrive the village where we are going to stay for the night. Two years has been passed, but looks nothing was changed during these two years. Mountains, rivers, buildings, people, animals…same as before. I feel very happy to come back to meet the local people. We all so excited to see each other again since two years. This time they treat us from the old school( community’s centre), many people are busy to preparing food for us. When we just sit down, they bring baked potatos for us with chilly, looks we all a
little hungry or maybe long time to have the most delicious from here, we thought this should be dinner, so we eat all of them out, then talking to them about life, work, especially our customers who visited here before. When we all enjoy talking, someone says“dinner is ready”, then bring a lot of food to in front of us! They told us they are worrying about we got hundry after long hiking, so let us to have something first. Only now is dinner.
After dinner, we get together around big fire in the middle of the countyard to talk and get warm. It is much colder than Lijiang area, because the altitde. If you stay outside, it is kind of chilly. There is one meeting in this village, only around 9pm we go to one of family to sleep. We walk around 30minutes walk in dark to the homestay, they are so welcome and make fire for us, also toasting some pieces of pork for us too. We are worrying about how we could sleep in such cold night, but when we come to bed room, all the things make us feel more comfortable. There are many nice,
clean and comfortable blanket for us to us. It is very different from when I visited before, looks the life is much better than before. I heard from the own, now there are many young people go big city to do some work and own money for family. Before we go to sleep, we brush teeth outside, it is so great for me to so many stars in the sky.
We slept very well since long day hiking from yesterday, when the own calls us, we woke up and go breakfast in another family. After breakfast we start our another nice hiking day for Wenhai, today it will be more hard than yesterday. For the first day, there isn’t much hiking up or steep down, today is we need climb up and down from steep path. So maybe will spend longer than yesterday. It is another nice sunny day, but still a little cold. For the day, we spend about 5hours to Wenhai, on the way also through many differents of forests: fir, oaks, rhodendron, bomboo, also valley on the top of mountains. After we see the Wenhai area, we also can see the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain with
a lot of snow. The lake looks like a blue jade, the colour just like sky, the water is so clean. It is dry season in Wenhai, there isn’t any crops on fields, but we still feel very nice and comfortable, because the lake with a lot of water. On the path, we still can see some few small wild flowers.
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