Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China

About Line

First, the Lugu Lake - Aden crossing in both directions for - from Lugu Lake to the Gulf of Aden, or from Aden to the Lugu Lake. Lugu Lake, a little more than 2000 meters above sea level, the network Aden velvet cattle more than 4,000 meters above sea level, so more people choose to start from Aden, although the two directions are to be constantly up and down (through the nature of, and even the essence of life is such a right?), but after all, is the decline in the overall elevation of nearly 2000 meters, to be physically easier. The reason why we decided to select against the altitude-on, is mainly due to two considerations:

1, the economy: the Gulf of Aden has become a hot-line tour tickets rose to 128, network velvet tent cattle farm 50 yuan / person, wizards, and a horse rental costs are high. Facts have proved that our decision-making wise, not only to escape the expensive tickets, but also avoid the plight of high-priced rent horses from Aden rumbling imported horse cattle farm dam to the network fabric to be 65 yuan, and we only took two hours to have a wear by. At that time, there are 2600 in Aden and from the carrying mule wearing Jackets, carried the colors visitors Changqiangduanbao, channels Chong Gu Temple, Lao Shu aphonia summoned: "The whole market a mule!" (Or called the mule mating market is apt.)

2, scenery areas: Aden, Yemen, Autumn, and Cass Hell Valley is the western route through the essence of where the village from Lugu Lake to Cass has a flat, and some even be called monotonous, you might have imagined, from the beginning all the way to eat sour grapes What is the sweetest taste of one? With beauty, love of a handsome guy, the daily guarding a Tung-shih, Dairo, will be depressed more than one thing ah!

Second, the Lugu Lake - Aden crossing generally have two lines, the Eastern and Western lines, the Eastern longer need 8-12 days, relatively scenery along the way the United States, but not through the Cass Hell Valley; western shorter, the need 7-9 days, 5 days before the scenery of the Eastern than good, but after Cass Hell Valley to the stunning scenery of Aden.

Due to time constraints, is also Cass Valley Xinyi hell a long time, the West Line became our ultimate choice.

West Line:

1st day: Hot Springs - Kat Heung 9:10 accordance with departure / arrival hillside at 12:00 pastures, for cooking a rest / 13:40 the road, after crossing the road along the valley Yakou downlink / 18:30 arrive in accordance with Kichigo

The next day: According to Kichigo - 9:15 starting kava Village, continue along the valley to walk / 12:00 rest, to borrow the river a people's juh cooking, no member can be at a spring shower / 14:30 Sheung , over bridge and started up the hill / 17:05 arrive Yakou / 17:40 to Da Hadi village, move on along the Tongtianhe previous / 18:30 landslides hit road, detours / 20:00 due to lost, the last two people to dakawa Village

Day: Slip Village - g seco - 9:30 Color bitter village proceed along the lines Tongtianhe, basic gentle Road / 11:00 after "Rock on the people," from the middle of two rock and climb / 11:30 Guo Ke-seco / 12:00 rest cooking, then to the camping ground have not previously had water / 14:30 to continue the road, along the way slope, high-altitude climbing, the sun intense, water shortages, tired / 16:30 arrive Yakou to start down the mountain / 18 o'clock finally arrived stream, in between two mountains, a small camping Bazi

Day Four: g seco - Color bitter Village - 9:00 fellow Russian teeth start all the way Raoshan the line, basically for the flat road or downhill, a few small gentle slope / 2 streams passing through 11:00 / 11:30 passing through a family, near a fruit tree, from the village to buy peaches at supply, down to the valley water's edge, and then along the river along the way OK / 13:00 Color hard to reach the village primary school in the village to rest to the villagers to buy vegetables, and corn / 14 : 25 to continue the road, down to the valley at the end of the first, and then along the way line, a steep slope, over-thin strip of sky, Bazi and directly upward to reach a summit, very steep slope, do not take the right hand of the gentle slope / 15:30 arrive Yakou, after essential for the gentle slope from top to bottom, the middle of five or six uphill, always along the mountainside OK / 17 o'clock up to the highway and saw the pole as a symbol / 17:30 see the mountain opposite fellow Russian teeth to capture beautiful Tibetan residential / 18 : 30 teeth arrived in Russia fellow

Day Five: the Russian teeth fellow - Tung Yee Area - Cass Village 9:00 start line for 10 minutes along the highway, take the tractor 10 km, about 30 minutes / 9:40 start walking, all the way along the east-Yi River, the event to come from Qingdao lone crossing and groom / 10:50 passing a Tibetan village / 11:20 to reach the East Yi District, lunch, contact tractor / 14:00 by tractor to the Cass village, the road and bumps, there are three landslides Lot must be down and walking / 15:30 in a mountain stream to a tractor with water, rest, and those who come across from Aden swap tractors / 18:00 to Dacas Village

Sixth day: Cass Village - Cass cow 7:50 start up along the valley, a good one, multi-soft leaf mold, jungle scenery gradually Jia / Yang Maiyong 11:00 Yao Jian Xian Nairi and the Snowy Mountains , in the vicinity of a break Xiaobazi lunch, tea drinking fresh yak milk / 13:00 to continue the road, under the rock, which will soon reach the Hell Valley / 14:00 to camp cow, boil tea, reading sun / 17:30 dinner / 21:00 go to bed at night rain Xi Li

Seventh day: Cass cow - Aden - Inagi 7:50 to Yakou departure / 9:00 Closed / 10:40 Yakou 5300 meters up to the cloud heavy wind and damp and cool, no snow-capped mountains / 11:00 start down the mountain , passing the sea of milk, all the way down the mountain / 13:30 to Luorongniuchang / Guo Chong Gusi 14:30 / 15:40 to rumble Dam, a scenic area of Aden / Aden multiplied by 16 o'clock train to Inagi / 19:00 arrival Inagi.

About Time

If the Lugu Lake as a starting point, Inagi County as a destination, we are in this lake - Aden crossing time for eight days, including the first day of preparation time, so the actual crossing time of 7 days. Seven-day crossing can also be divided into three smaller stages: the first paragraph: Hot Springs - Russia fellow teeth, 4 days, on foot, hiring guides and mule second paragraph: Russia teeth Natives - Cass Village, 1 day, foot + Tractor + hiring mule paragraph: Cass Village - Inagi, 2 days, on foot + hire guides and mule

This division is mainly depending on the traffic situation, because you need to rent a different means of transport and wizards, caravans.

Varies across time, if you are a lonely hero, or a pair of fierce donkey, there is no load or load 30 kg climbing speed reduced, with only the wizard and not hire any mule, then the end of the five-day trip is also a mention of time , but that I do not expect to. Our six-member delegation, giving each a 10-kg backpack, to carry nine people four days of food, cooking utensils and other public goods, so the choice must be rented mule.

Hurry to say, people can tolerate hunger and hard work, overtime, or even Kill them catch up, but the mule not work. Our original plan was to use three days to complete the first paragraph, but before the first day of barely arrived in the dark before the Township in accordance with Kat. We concluded the meeting agreed that the delay time, there are two main areas, one is "from got up early, catch a late set," that is 7:00, the 9:30 was the official start; second is two and a half-hour lunch break too long, waste of time. Thus, in order to ensure the timely completion of tasks, party branch to decide whether to start before 8:00 noon, easy to eat, rest for an hour.

When we tell the wizard and groom party branch resolution, listening, they were bad to the negative: As early as the starting is no problem, but also ensures a certain rest time at noon. Why? Mo Piqi word brings us - the people can bear, horse can not stand. This is the case, a 3,4 hours to climb the mountain, pack a few pounds weight of the negative are tired mule sweat, whole body hair all wet, and keep deep breaths, and to a resting place, just one luggage unloaded from them, could not wait to roll in situ playing, the intercept has no stopping way toward the pasture. We are also looking at whose consciences are moved, but also really want to allow them to rest for a while, more importantly, the mule is not only a way of our only means of transport, but also headed the local villagers, the property of the event become tired horse, things may become significant.

Facts have proved that starting as early as the plan has become a bubble, even if to get up 7:00 every day, there is no more than two hours and still can not leave, because besides the people to pick up order, boil water to cook, there are craving for a mule, in addition to grazing, but also fed them enough maize, only weight-bearing strength to go mountain.

Experience 1: If you rented mule counterparts, they can not follow people's walking speed to calculate the crossing time, this time we crossed the timetable is roughly like this: get up at 7:00 am;

9:00 Departure

AM: walk 3 hours

12:00-14:30 lunch break at noon

PM: Trekking 3-4 hours

18:00-19:00 break camping at night

On the mule and transport

Want to horse? Must at the same time groom, horse feed, mule who not only get back the luggage baggage, but also pack on their own food, so looking at a big bag pouch imposed to our rented a six mule body, Go out two horses did want to "get old and sick" to prepare for emergency needs of the calculations are dashed. However, as we will continue to consume goods into the stomach, the burden of these guys every day less, to the later, but still can not work there are two !

The number of rented mule, according to their needs vary, each horse is a more prudent choice of insurance, because we need to take into account the way of any accident that may occur, such as the altitude reaction was a sudden illness, falls sprain and the like, in that only a mule can reach up to go when you need two or three days to reach hospitals where possible, or prepared all good. Also take into account the health of mule, this time we line the third day, when once there is a mule so tired shivering, groom did not dare to let it load, but holding it all the way to go, and we are worried, but it also considered a good showing, persist down near misses.

However, if the ranks of a larger size, may consider appropriate reduction in the number of horses. Can refer to our practice: we hire six mule 6, mainly on account of my left foot and 54-year-old Lao Shu comrades, the basic allocation is this: three horses to pack the negative baggage - 5 55 l large backpack, a 35-liter small backpack, a number of small items, a pack with all our food, the negative two bamboo basket, another 2 pack of negative boots, cooking, horse feed, groom, and the wizard Simple luggage. Should at least have one of the surplus.

To be able to successfully pass through with a partner is about to, we went to live in the lake and directly to the Tashi Rigby Island home, also too lazy to be trouble, naturally, where from the Tashi rented mule, which employs a wizard, horses every day 50 yuan / piece, the other grooms do not need to pay 100 yuan a day wizard. Tashi is the nephew of a wizard, Geno (in the Mosuo people's family, the uncle's position is equivalent to his father, to play the responsibility to take care of his nephew), while the groom is the Tashi's brother, also known as Tashi, I told him to tie West, brother in law, as well as husband of a partner. In fact, in this transaction, the lake Tashi plays the role of a broker, he also rented a vehicle to help us to hot springs, double-row seat, the driver is his nephew, another one, this way the whole house so that they can to the package, and Hehe.

In fact, this is also in line with the rules, in particular the increasingly well-developed lake in the business, just like all of you to eat and drink Lazard to a travel agency, by its help you contact airlines, hotels, restaurants and attractions, etc., but how much so that those of us who dismissive of the backpackers who travel to the psychological awkward, the way all self-help, how to Lugu Lake and became a travel agent's customers come from?

In the hot spring can rent horses and go directly to Hot Springs looking for Tashi brother, bargaining can speak of a daily 50 yuan / piece below please do not have a separate guide, and Tashi husband is the best guide, the road, Tashi brother in law not only in the Gan Ma, the way, look for the camp experience, etc., but also fully demonstrated that he is, hard-working, optimistic, friendly nature Mosuo people, every noon and night rest, we are tired do not want to share fell to the ground move, brother in law began to make arrangements for the firewood, horses, boil water, tea, cooking, care of food and vegetables. Therefore, we are most grateful to those who are brother.

You can also have another choice but to rent a horse one day, to the township in accordance with Kyrgyzstan and then look for the local horses, in their way is familiar, cheap, and every day 30 / piece. Went according to Kichigo secretary and Xialaduoji the high bar and ask them to help you solve the problem of accommodation and rent horses, do not forget the right to accommodation. But if I have the opportunity to once again cross the lake - Aden, I think I will still go to Tashi brother, and he is very trustworthy and good people.

Rent horses from the spring to Russia as long as you can with the teeth, and teeth from Russia to the east-defined area with 18 kilometers, and then to Cass village 45 kilometers, you can ride tractors arrived in one day, and Tashi is sent to Russia in general dental brother in law with the Ganma back. Sometimes, teeth with Russia to the east of the road may collapse justice can not be opened, it can also be employed directly in the Russian horses with teeth, we are only six individuals hired two horses (50 / hp) pack luggage. Fortunately, we have just start 10 minutes to help us groom stopped in a Shun tractor, free to ride our 10 kilometers to the east-defined evacuation of the drivers bottles of beer to show gratitude.

Tung Yee Village Road to the Cass relatively better, but there are landslides, especially during the rainy season. You can rent a car Tung Yee area, but more often can only pass the hill-road tractors, 45 km. There may be dragging the most expensive I've ever played, and we are 240 won, and more than 5 per kilometer of money! Maybe you can Kandao lower, but perhaps 300 before it is ready to go and see your luck. However, when we has completed that period of bumps that can use a "Pikairouzhan" to describe the ghost road, I feel that this price is not so far off the mark.

Cass village to continue to hire the horse across the valley to the Gulf of Aden Cass hell because it is the Gulf of Aden is the hottest this season tourist area, prices can imagine a horse to Luorongniuchang prices are 175, to the Long Long dam is to 263, uniform price, is not negotiable. The number of days here, not only the distance calculation, the average require two days through the middle night camping in the Cass cow, even if one day you can go, or the same price, but the villagers to find ways to get you to the Long Long dam, If you do not want friendship with the words they speak, you can also insist on the cattle farm, the next way to weight-bearing foot is no problem, or from the Luorongniuchang came out halfway rent horses, the price would be much cheaper. Aden Management Office is not allowed into the scenic area outside the village of Sagittarius to make money, caught should be fined, and our horses were stopped in the scenic spot, but the mayor also compiled a set of rhetoric has passed.

Reference to a certain zz from sina, but also hearsay, of Cass Hell Valley very difficult, we have fully prepared through repeated as appropriate, the plan bite the stomping, dusk one day through to the Luorongniuchang, it does not go camping in the vicinity of the sea of milk. But the program not keep up with changes, always catch up! The Dacas cow time is 12:30, but led the mayor say no go, here in the camp here. The reason is simple: not Luorongniuchang prior to dark, but before that there is no camping, turn the Yakou near the sea of milk after a high altitude, very cold, simply can not camping. We are busily working in vain throughout the morning and the morning had known this beforehand, why not sleep a Lanjue?

But you can never determine the true advantages and disadvantages. That afternoon, we lazily lying horizontal shaft lying under the enormous Xiaobazi Yanfeng, the person drank a bottle of yak milk. Yang Maiyong and sleep Xian Nairi behind the clouds, surrounded by quiet forests and gurgling water, the sun exposed face from time to time to, and thus, it was while watching the clouds while the sun was climbing height picture, it was listening to the CD both hands shuffle of this book, a few groom sitting together ... gamble ... maybe I do not know what freedom is, but I remember that the taste of the afternoon sun.

Experience 2: Plan can be comprehensive, but do not expect it to achieve hundred percent, and learn the times change, are adaptable.

From Aden to Inagi there 110KM, there are direct bus, take more than two hours, the fare 60. Of course, you can also chartered, Changan car prices in the 400 or so, according to seasonal fluctuations.

About Season

It should be said for the lake - Aden through the season relatively long, spring, summer, autumn can be, but the personal view that should be the best season in the fall, autumn in October. Because the essence of this route from the Valley to the Gulf of Aden Cass hell, but Autumn is the essence of Aden, when you pass through Cass Hell Valley, struggling to climb over the more than 5000 meters above sea level Yakou, Aden was like a bright yellow in autumn re-color ink rushing toward us, you are feeling is: drunk.

This relatively long rainy season, the line has been extended to late September, just two days before we begin crossing has rained, if it is in October before the start, we must do a good job in the rain and mud walking preparation.

The temperature in late September, except for the last two days across the Cass Hell Valley and Gulf of Aden when the high altitude low temperature at night can be 0 degrees, up to 10 degrees Celsius during the day; five days in front of the village from the hot springs to Cass, the temperature is still relatively high , and during the day are generally more than 20 degrees, 10 degrees at night also. However, if the encounter under direct sunlight sunny day, the temperature can reach above 30 degrees, but under the shade of a tree or into the valley would be suddenly lowered to 10 degrees.

Holiday many people's hearts knot, too would like to avoid the crowded scene, but also have to use those precious seven days. But there are some people who leave long, such as our YAN Wei-GG, to October 1 as the end of the trip, go home to your family reunion, and so the luxury of free time can be the envy of many.

Wishful thinking we had played like this: on September 12-27, visiting Lijiang, Zhongdian away last Haba and watch Lennart Meri, into the rain falls, and then back to rest 28 to Lijiang, Lugu Lake-29 in a daze, 30 began crossing, so enter the Gulf of Aden is October 7, a large number of tour groups finish at a show already, Aden Autumn is getting stronger, you can leisurely stop-go, maybe more than one night stay. However, the ancients said, well, wishful thinking are often unsatisfactory. Of Lijiang disappointment, rainy weather, Zhongdian's uninteresting, Haba snow-capped mountains of failures, so we are ahead of the first leg ended September 23 went to the lake. However, God took care of us fairly, 22, started out from the blue skies, eliminating the worry that I have been in the rain and mud through the difficulties.

To be honest, one week in advance into the Gulf of Aden, for me, the color in the fall to play a little discount on the down no serious problem with most worried about is the 11 led to a flood of holiday crowd. Sure enough, when I Yakou the way down, come clean blue sea of milk, a large come autumn soaked valley and wetlands, some leisurely walk yak, walk the line occasionally rub shoulders and fellow travelers to come to the famous The Luorongniuchang, although psychologically prepared for, or had been the head in front of startled whisper. Many visitors Luorongniuchang regarded as the end of trip to Aden, traveled through the entire trip I know Luorongniuchang Aden is the essence of the beginning! Even if you do not pass through, but also up to the Yakou, if you do not up to the Yakou, but also went to milk the sea, the sea of milk even if you do not go, then you simply do not go to Aden, at least 10 million do not let me know -- I will be sorry for your death!

Luorongniuchang to Aden from the entrance through the Chonggu Si rumbling dam, we only spent a little over two hours, almost a "jump-Vietnamese" by. Along the way visitors, such as weaving, Colts lifting dust, 8 days for the first time we saw so many creatures, 2600 mule, and a large team composed of tens of thousands of visitors makes me scared generation. We are a small number of those who often have to back away on foot, their noses with their deeds. Once again, I quote Lao Shu GG and LI Tong GG that can be eternal Liufang the classics right, to describe our October 2 at 2:30 pm when a passing Chong Gusi scene: "wow, where the whole market a mule!" " mule mating can also be said to be the market! "

Experience 3: If you are not Left, do not hot the moment during the holiday paradise into your yearning not only make you throw off the mood to appreciate and enjoy, but also for their aesthetic illusions. This time, if not all the way across the valley from the Cass hell over, went through a light rain in the serene quiet of Aden, but directly from the rumbling dam to Luorongniuchang to ensure that there is no second time. And now, I still dream of a 10-month re-visit to Aden in late autumn.

With regard to material preparation and eating

Every time travel, out the door, not only her father, even she herself always wondered, will not that a few pieces of clothes, a little medicine, toiletries, a pillow book, a few pages of information Well, how big the entire 60 liters package scare ? Go to a place on the scale, will allow the checked baggage by air standards. What have installed it?

It traversed the Lugu Lake - Aden, I would be considered to understand one thing, people are the most able to consume most of waste you produce an animal! And those put into the stomach and intestines are wearing off compared with the benefit of crop Dongdong, 60 liters of large packet count What is it!

List of the materials for bulk purchase of food - Collective Procurement: rice, noodles, vegetables, meat, eggs, tea, red Tong, salad oil, soy sauce, salt, mustard, instant noodles, hard tack.

Private provision - soup, sauce Laogan Ma. If you can spicy food, and multi-band two bottles of Lao Ganma bar! Is not just another stick adorned with fragrant, and the groom liked, when they come up with tsampa and yogurt child to share with you, this is the best reciprocity ah! Soup can also be multi-band, 2-3 packets a day, cook noodles, Shao Tang, when put to, never mind the more delicious!

Personal food: chocolate, White Rabbit Creamy Candies and other toffee, biscuits, lozenges, etc. American ginseng.

Drugs - cold medicine (which can multi-band, it can be to help the villagers along the way, they need the drugs), anti-fever medicine, gastroenteritis drugs, Generic anti-inflammatory drugs, anti-altitude sickness drug (which should be a few days before entering the plateau Start taking, but I do not know whether the effects), Yi Yao, trauma and bone injuries medicine, toothache security, headache medicine (altitude sickness can ease).

Other materials boots - though not how to spend, but a pair of boots, or the necessary preparations for the event of rain, one foot in some places could not pin down, and its importance to the boots of interest from the villagers can be seen, out of Aden After that, we each pairs of 10 yuan (original price 15) sold to the village of Cass groom were.

Raincoat - If you have a good waterproof pants (not necessarily have to be a more than 2000 pieces of Jackets) can not buy a raincoat, the other hand, prepared to a bar, 15 money, than the more durable Lijiang.

Plastic sheeting - because we did not bring tents, so take a collective buy used tents. Sleep did not rain as a moisture-proof pad used, resulting in Cass cow camp that night, at midnight rain Fen Yang, it also made us common "rain was."

Most materials can be in Yongning Township, procurement, but the high-energy chocolate, rabbits and other personal preferences of food should be bought in Lijiang, the main drugs but also in Lijiang ready, if there is a little left out, you can make a final Yongning to add a small pharmacy. Yongning Township in the Lugu Lake to the hot springs on the way, if chartered in the Lugu Lake, 1 hour to Yongning, first procurement of goods and lunch, and then sent to the hot springs, Tashi-row seat to contact the small freight price is 100 yuan.

Yongning Township, Jiva from Lugu Lake to the materials before the largest distributing center of the caravan along the way came from Yong Ning La goods. Yongning there is a big free market, in addition to the price of bacon is 8 yuan a catty, the other vegetables are very cheap. But the bacon is necessary, although some parts are fat, do not worry about waste, grooms and wizards like.

Tashi took our purchases in the free market, I all the way to say "enough", but still continue to hand out bags of Tashi tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers ... ... bought into a large bamboo basket inside proved Tashi experience, and later the village is not without vegetables, not to mention along the way is as high as outrageous by simply saying the sun exposure of the mountain, eat a tomato or a cucumber is a how luxury ah!

Experience 4: Now that it hired mule, as many as possible to buy some vegetables and egg bar (eggs are all double-cardboard packaging, generally not crushed), in the next week, they are guaranteed through a successful material basis. Moreover, before reaching the East, meaning do not expect any place to add the food, even if the Tung Yee is very limited.

To eat - we have lost quite a frustrating day of noodle, but for Lao Shu and generous also with a large bag of instant noodles, lunch on the difficult, just two hours to unload saddle, horses, tea kettle , cooking, rest, re-install horse, not the same as the night to eat rice cooking.

Boiled noodles is the best choice for lunch, you can bring some luncheon meat, sausages, and vegetables cooked together into the noodles, the respect of the Lao Ganma is called the one-xiang! But do not eat ham Shuanghui bar, which is along the way, no, even the most difficult life I've eaten food Dongdong, the end of the journey, I muttered: "If not to starve to death. No longer the Shuanghui of eating! "

Dinner was formally point, two dishes, soup, anyway, to a share of the tired, bacon fried everything its extremely fragrant, especially with the bacon bones cook a white radish soup, smell must be drooling. Looked at such a big pot of rice and a big pot of meat course was instant eradication of an empty clean sweep in general, are not believed to be one of us dry.

Breakfast with the rest of the rice the night before to be a fried egg, with Chen Gang GG's words, such a breakfast, which gave the strong, and can be top-noon. Of course, Had the wise, from the Yongning with two boxes of cartons of milk is even more perfect.

Multi buy some cucumbers and fruit, good-bye in the Yongning Township is a girl living in Tashi home give us two bags of blessings fruit, the first day was wiped out. Was not until the third day at noon, but they were hard to reach the village before the colored flowers to a basket of ten-dollar money for fellow family peach, though small, we still eat satisfying. Pocket two peach hiking, and my heart more than having peace of mind ah!

Cookers do not have to buy, could be invited to bring groom, they have experience, most people will bring a rice cooker cooking and water heating, and the other with a large wok stir-fry, soup, but the lunch boxes, a spoon to their own ready. General groom and wizards will be in charge of cooking, making tea, but that is one person's meal ticket (A total of nine individuals), no matter how tired, have to do whatever work, pick up the firewood, playing bucket of water, washing dishes trees, brush pot like a big family to live a few days, feeling very good. We are a team, is a partner with your peers, not living in a hotel to buy services, guides and grooms under no obligation to wait on you, partner and no! I do not like uncle like moving hands, how do you the nerve?

But also carry with them a few pieces of chocolate, toffee or something, climbing to exhaustion and takes time to replenish their energy.

Drink - carry a small bag will take plenty of drinking water, Tashi husband is responsible for the day, we cooked add red brick tea Tong, is said to be able to prevent altitude sickness, better than Rhodiola is good, anyway, the way we drink, and this drink called "Rhodiola." Best with two water bottles with a large Coke bottle can also be replaced by a uniform "Rhodiola", a fresh water, and the groom would like to ask in advance the situation in front of the water, never water to drink to the body light, face water on the timely replenishment.

Experience they will have to buy beer, caravan, be sure that enough is enough, do not look up and loose-tongued, groom drink, they have capacity for liquor, and take the mountain roads are Rulvpingdi, Do not talk to them Bipin, preserve good physical and mental.

Wear - can not be completely determined according to the temperature dressing, the number of clothes to wear, depending on your walking speed, physical fitness and endurance. In general: when you wear an unlined garment climb can be, but be sure to put a light coat tied a small backpack or waist and sit down to rest or start down the mountain, walking in the shade of the valley need to wear when on the jacket, evening wear jackets; from Cass Hell Valley climb into the Gulf of Aden Yakou grasp Fleece or sweater to wear when outside, wear cotton-padded clothes, or down jackets.

Unless, like this time we catch up with the big sunny sunny, there is the opportunity to rest at noon at the time of dry sweat clothes, and even as generous love of clean laundry under the GG, as in the spring, preferably a few more ready to close clothes, T-shirt or cotton shirt, because every day a lot of sweat can not bathe, not-for pieces of dry clothes very hard to accept and easy to cold. Coat has a sufficient, easily washable warm dry wind on the line, willing to wear Jackets can also be, we've no one to wear ranks. Cotton-padded clothes, or a down jacket, scarf, gloves, two may be just too Jiangya mouth. Waterproof pants are useful, high-altitude areas whenever they feel like clouds rain, and relatively warm, preferably with two quick-drying pants during the day for the wear, a comfortable cotton sports trousers and the like, sleep at night wear.

Finally, and most important - a pair of good quality high-top hiking shoes, especially as I sprained left foot, it also offers protection and ultimately, of course, a few pairs of comfortable socks, rather more expensive, do not the kind of 10 yuan five pairs of , or else suffer is your foot. Lao Shu GG on the popular pair of fake and shoddy Tubu Xie harmful, Sheung cracked mouth the next day, even every day, and want to shop around to find in the backcountry can not repair shoemaker and eventually had to wear a pair of Jiefang Xie completed the crossing, their spirit is commendable , foot version, it grind a bubble!

About Accommodation:

By Kat Township - when you reach the sky according to Kichigo late, as Sagittarius more, to find lodging for two families have been declined. There is a saying how to say that? "There are difficulties, to the government." Into the courtyard of the township government, village cadres, and the high Xialaduoji secretary is preparing to eat dinner, they warmly welcomed us and arranged a large compound in the township government accommodation, although not enough beds each one, but in the second floor wooden floor on the ground floor and light Banchuang playing the same. We can light a fire in the courtyard cooking, there are parts of the door bolt horses, we co-own hands and do two dishes, soup, tea at night around the fire chatting.

Xialaduoji and high-secretary of the veterans are often of frank enthusiasm, until help us make proper arrangements for accommodation began to eat, but has also invited us to drink beer together, give us the village situation. Night they and the villagers crowded around watching TV in tuck shops, while helping us with travel routes, but also recommended that we hire the village horses, groom and familiar way, the price and cheap, as long as 30 yuan a day, he says, we are all a little bit cardiogram and regret, but we will not go back on half-way without trust.

The morning to leave, we give a high-secretary of the 50 accommodation

Cava Village - kava is we have always been the most primitive, most closed of the village, the village is almost no one would speak Chinese, or at best will be able to bring into even the hand gestures to understand a word about the meaning, more than half of the time also produced misunderstandings, such as the reception that we stay at home have a 14, five years old boy called vathia, the village he told me that they are "Mo Su" people, I think for a long time is also thought to understand this is what the nation, until the village The only served as soldiers outside the men to come and talk with us before we find out was originally vathia said "Mongolian."

Cava was born in the village of administrative complex, belongs to Sichuan, Muli Tibetan Autonomous County, the Russian teeth Naxi Autonomous Township, kava (Mongolian) Village. A total of 31 village people, all for the Mongolian, almost does not speak Mandarin, communication is difficult, and only one had been a soldier in Heilongjiang men can talk with us, according to him, Kawa village was originally exiled to the mainland of Genghis Khan Mongolian descent, and we Wucongkaozheng confirm if this is true but we speculated that slip through the village one night, it may not be what Jiangyangtaidao, petty theft seen by the traditional Dao Shi.

Vathia home is the only village received kava travelers others, and even received the foreign travelers due to unclear, perhaps because the small vathia and his brother could speak a little Chinese, and foreign people can barely make the exchange of bar . Vathia house does not seem normal and out of the door, first climbed over a stone wall, climb down a tree hewn a wooden ladder, through his family downstairs PFERD, and then climbed a few stairs, turn on the on the second floor of the wooden railing, be considered to enter people's living space. In the absence of electricity at night, in such a complex terrain up and down, but also making life difficult for us. Vathia house is a two-story buildings, the middle is not a small courtyard, downstairs (also can be said to basement) is home to cattle, mules and pigs live in harmony, where the family or the toilet, people living in the second floor, and his family sleep in a stove in the big room, while two very small room to put their things to us live, it can barely roll out a few people, moisture pads and sleeping bags, two grooms and wizards Geno on the can only sleep in the corridor.

Along the way we are already on the hard hearts are prepared, but also camped and College Students Donate Sperm do not care about the environment. To complement the strength, we have his family bought two chickens, 80 although Guile Dian, but we can understand them, in such a poor isolated places, the villagers also raise chickens very valuable. But he asking price of 150 to resume accommodation, we do not live a little stretched, and because of language barriers, bargaining is also difficult, given the final say with two chickens 80, horses feed 25, a total of 200 yuan bar. However, the next day morning, they have already paid off yesterday, Ma Liu denied that the money I lost, but also longer accept 200, seemed very honest.

Made us chilling series of things happen in the next morning, when we use the remaining chicken broth cook Paofan last night, we found that chicken soup and rice have been his family ate the net pots dry bowl and pour this point not care too much to eat , and at least say hello to us that the ah! Look we buy a wine vat Mary Sullivan, were drunk, and liquor, we were also intended to send him before leaving home, they are indeed a do not take myself as an outsider! Fortunately, Geno had two bottles of pre-installed, ready to take on the road to drink, and it did not completely annihilated. It also fills the bar when the slips are Zilai Shu, and so are we to eat breakfast when we got several boxes disappeared, thanks to Tashi effort to find, only one east one west of the basket from his house turned out , the above also lie in ambush to built a sack, while the two were completely disappeared Yingzong flashlight.

Perhaps they were previously accustomed to passing foreigners go wrong? May be like that only can be used to chat in Chinese veterans say they are really committed a crime the descendants of the untouchables, not only cheating no leniency, but also petty theft Zhanxiaobianyi. In short, you can rest assured that they are not friends of the people, and vast grasslands of Mongolia, northern China is not the same guy.

Experience 5: Do not think that the more enclosed areas were more simple. The most incomprehensible situation is this: just open a small window not seen another picture, just found a new game they do not know rules of the game. Hadi before the village, we do not have contact with the next to take the friends can try, but I prefer camping, never want to revisit the village of Kawa nightmare.

G seco - Color bitter Village - With a passion for kava haunt the village the next day, we unanimously requested the sleep field. Camping place in g seco and color between the villages of a bitter Xiaobazi is a true "pre-Buzhuo village, after Buzhuo shop." Think of the road in the sky-river met the family's "rock on the people", from the heart, admiration, is the so-called "The river is a rock, rock, on a house in a house, on the houses to rock as the base, the next house to rock for the wall , at the foot of the river surging, housing in the landscape to develop their full, looking down from above, is a must to live. "

Goes on to buy their enormous big plastic sheeting is used for the purpose of this tent, but because the temperature is not low, there is no cloudy rain, grooms that there is no need for clumsy, and I would like to make a return to the daytime and a romantic thing . Expand Large plastic sheeting and moisture-proof pad, sneaking into the sleeping bag, wearing a sky the stars, along the Milky Way, Enron sleep. Middle of the night woke up opened his eyes, thinking that the roof of an embedded stars, that is what kinds of feelings?

That night I slept exceptionally deep, the morning wake up middle of the night 3:30 generous heard of frozen woke up firewood, light a fire for heating, how much moving, I was unaware.

There zz from sina said that the homes of villagers along the way there can be accommodated in tents is superfluous, it is not. There are several key factors:

1, if it is one or two people, to the villagers spend the night at home is easier, but if a vote troops, people live to eat horses, they may not be able to find a someone to spend the night, at least we met a setback in accordance with Kyrgyz village, not hospitality of the local villagers are not really there is no reception capability, do you think about it, if not to open hotel, someone's 10 years old and prepare the living room of individuals ah!

2, if the team has the speed is really does not work, can not be rushed to the village as planned accommodation, to bring tents on having peace of mind more.

3, into the village, they buy horse feed, in fact, only some corn stalk children, but the six horses one night is necessary to 30, while the camp does not exist this problem, groom would choose Bazi pasture, the horses put out to grazing.

4, according to my personal feelings, if not rain, with temperatures above freezing, camping in the mountains is a beautiful thing. Camping more freedom than live in residential areas, more pleasant, their own water making tea, everyone everybody lending a hand to prepare meals, you can also stream while enjoying to try to put myself washed clean and comfortable, and then Wai coffee at the campfire, the stars , Kanda Shan ... ... but if you want to know the local houses, folk, they should go live to the village, it is the best opportunity to make contact with people, but also routed to a lot of photos. But need to endure the bite of fleas, and they may be hiding around you for several days. If you encounter such people kava village, conditions not as good as wild, even so, still have to make money, but also quite cheap.

As long as the minimum temperature at night in sub-zero over a large plastic sheet can also solve the problem, it is best to bring sleeping bag, rain cover that can withstand sudden middle of the night to the rain. Sleeping bag is essential, not only in camp when the urgent need, that is, the homes of villagers is also indispensable, because you usually do not have bedding bed light board, or extremely dirty damp bedding, or the dusty floor. As for the sleeping bag temperature, 5 degrees above zero to zero more comfortable. Generous mark for 18-degree sleeping bag, it is no wonder that boiling water was frozen up firewood.

6, Russian teeth hometown - the same teeth from Russia when there is an hour away, we can see from the mountains across the Tibetan houses are pretty, patchwork land scattered in the middle layers of terraced fields. Exactly 17:30 pm, the sun down from the clouds in the transmission light wonderful charming white barley Qinghuang the formation of shadow, Kurai roofs shining in the sun. This is what I encountered this trip the most touching light, the murder of a good film a while. Hungry teeth is definitely a photo with enthusiasts and the nation building lovers wander the land, if there is time to stay two days, will be able to photograph the lovely evening and early morning.

Here, once again proved the "difficult to find a government" truth. Sitting on the steps in front of the township government and village chiefs, secretary of cloth fall as well as several villagers chatting to relax when I feel really a bit like coming home, that kind of guy for the candor of Kham inexplicable way a bit touched by people. In the fall of cloth with the help of the secretary and mayor, we found a local fellow, where you can buy a horse from his material, groom to follow him the way before pulling back Zoulehenyuan it simple and honest fellow smile imprinted on my memory. And from the villagers at home and bought two chickens and vegetables, to borrow the kitchen of the township government has done a dinner, bought from the tuck shops beer, wine, together with the mayor and secretary of the total Huan, spent a pleasant night.

We live in the township government meeting rooms, ground floor planks on the floor playing. The next morning, we bought a tobacco and alcohol as a mayor and secretary of gratitude, cloth fall between the secretary and LI Tong GG Tuirang reluctantly accept it for quite a while. Cloth autumn secretary gave a detailed introduction to the following road traffic conditions to help us the horse and groom (because the next day to take a 45 km section of the tractor, Tashi husband they have to backtrack a), but also for us to recommend a card Sri Lanka head of the village a small Tsering Dorje.

Cloth autumn secretary said he was in Russia to strengthen teeth have been carried out with the concept of tourism and public education, also found a few households can receive Kurai travelers, from the Japanese watts to Zhongdian, the highway will be repaired within three years pass, and that there will be a large number of visitors when the sightseeing car sitting in the same visit to the Russian teeth, the villagers were also will usher in the development of large tourism in the spring.

7, Cass village - in the end is away from the Gulf of Aden near tourist attractions, such a high mountains, dense forests of the village is actually the way most open and seen the world's boundaries. Because they believed that autumn secretary of the cloth, we are finding a way out of the tractor driver's invitation, persist in a small village to find Tsering Dorje's house.

A look that is engaged in a host environment, although the downstairs is also Pan raises a few horses and pigs, but clean very clean, there is no strong taste. Parks boarded a plane system of wooden stairs, is a big case was finally heard, "living room" area of the General Assembly to make every urban household envy. Kitchenware the middle there is a fireplace and a "kitchen", one end is placed in a variety of apparatus has carved screen of the "storage room", the other side is for guests of the "bedroom" for at least 20 people to sleep.

Tsering Dorje small village is not only a village chief, handling a variety of village affairs, and is also responsible for arranging the rental horse business, individual turns queuing, the same day at the same time to run for several hours, lots still needs to decide the allocation of the guests, and the rent Horse prices are uniform, no bargaining, from the village to the Luorongniuchang Cass 175, to the rumble dam is 264, regardless of the day, or take two days to go, only distance calculation according to price. Cass is really a model of egalitarianism!

Village head is responsible for the work also includes the village in charge of the propaganda machine - The first broadcast, to inform .convened , warning , are our "couch" next to that "broadcasting station" to solve. Second, cable TV, the village head home what to put VCD, along with his whole village to see what Hong Kong and Taiwan films, the absolute direction of public opinion.

Village chief or a village house "clinics" that night, we are sitting beside the fireplace while eating walnuts while other village, we saw a small Tsering Dorje came to teach, only to rush hello on the busy person wash your hands, opened a drawer to find something. We are a bit puzzled, how this village so neglected us? He was busily working side, while fellow explained that there is joint pain, one would want to come to an injection. We are much greater interest in, the village head has the gall part-time nurses, and asked whether the photographs readily mayor said no problem. However, so that the villagers came and took off his pants exposing half of the bottom spot, we would have embarrassed all together, the results of only photographed holding a disposable syringe heroic village.

And the village a person (including a village mother, the village head wife, sister village, the village head two daughters and two grandchildren) to eat dinner together, the village head that beautiful eldest daughter in charge of cooking, pressure cooker steamed rice Sure enough, softer more fragrant, simple and sacked two dishes, plus a bottle of Lao Ganma eating together with the. That's pretty daughter village come up with a new mattress wool blanket done, no person, one bed, there is one pillow per person, if you do not have sleeping bags, as well as a clean quilt, though also a ground floor shops, but the kind of clean, warm feelings like a lay down of a huge bed. Before going to sleep, I found a bucket in the corridor brush the teeth, Xile Lian, but also mayor of the small grandson giggling play to exhaustion, really feeling a little homes. Perhaps due to its warm family atmosphere here, infections, LI Tong GG brought all the way left to the village the pencil box is the second daughter in elementary school.

Village house for food and accommodation costs are counted like this: Zhuyi Ye, dinner (and his family together to eat a simple meal), a breakfast (butter tea, yogurt son and Baba, that is, bread), each received 25. Village head told me that his family received the first two Beijingers, departing each gave him 25 yuan since then the price has not changed. Says the mayor, the village also has someone else's home can be tourists, the price has ranged from 30-40, but he has been is the price.

Experience 6: groom who like to play cards when the break halfway gambling, do not lend money to them, if we have to borrow, you pay in advance with the good horse from the rent deducted, otherwise they may not be also, especially when gambling to lose time, money, while small, eight of the 10, but not used out of the bad habits, if it is to treat their children to school books or medicines, are different, but gambling is still such a thing Bale.

Experience 7: pay upon arrival, the groom who will unanimously find that there is no small change, of course, if there is no need to find the first little preoccupied, but you figure it out of large, small change, please be ready in advance.

8, Cass Cow - As the saying goes, "cautionary" the ancients Cheng did not deceive me! Cass camping ground in the cow shed, I have spent in this way the most comfortable and most pleasant, most Yonglan, the best of the afternoon, followed by, a light rain fell from the sky, with a wet, cold, sleepless nights of my thrown into hell from heaven. Before going to sleep, although there are more clouds swing to the rains, but the same village and the groom have all concluded that because of the wind, tonight was a sunny day, tomorrow we can see the true face of Kamiyama. But they are wrong. Xi Li to hit the night rain on the cheek, that feeling is cold and hard, pulling up from the foot of the shop goes on in the body, the great lower body covered in plastic sheeting, the above can only use raincoat to stop, fortunately only a light rain, God is not count completely heartless, if it is a heavy rain, can not imagine how we would shiver in the side of the curse in the side of the prayer.

Slippery by the rains torment the night, less than 6:00 on the helter-skelter to "get up Diepi", etc. their own stuffed inside a warm cotton-padded clothes and boots pack Tingdang found YAN Wei-Hua San GG actually head insisted on a tightly wrapped in sleeping bags in the rain in the Enron repose! Kua! Look at people that practice, that realm, that numbness!

Experience 8: no matter how good the weather, rain should be well prepared. Tent (whether formal or he has built himself), are very necessary. Do not completely believe the groom, they have read the day's experience, but there are Mashiqianti time.

The so-called cow, that is, the local herdsmen simple overnight accommodation, short and small, one or two people may be able to squeeze them a squeeze, but many people never do. Cowshed near the gates will be tied to a studio in Tibetan dogs, the barking more than to see the stranger. Generally will have a yak milk cow for sale, the price is not low, 10 yuan a bottle, but it tastes better fresh yak milk.

9, Inagi - if not of Aden, Inagi would not be so well known. Each out of Aden almost invariably spent the night in Inagi County, for most people this is also only one night. Daocheng County, the growth of tourist-receiving capacity of nearly the number of tourists from all over the rate of growth (Lao Shu Zeng Joking "Guangdong to organize a huge tour group of 800 people Aden immediate concern"). Many hotels, inns ordinary day may be spare, 1-51, 11 holiday on the overcrowding, and some poor sanitation, low-end hotels may have beds, but like the power hotels, Aden communities, such places do not even claim to fame is playing the corridor ground floor.

Lao Shu is a veteran relied on the advantages of electric power system, pushed to the bed in the power hotel was originally converted to use the restaurant's private rooms, but then get a pile blankets and other miscellaneous items was originally a large storage room, although the arrangement of a dozen beds , but in the end only the six people occupied.

Hotel restaurant in the power the United States and the United States to Chile Dun Sichuan, in order to complement Lao Shu birthday drinking beer. The only thing you want after fond a hot bath, but the whole county Inagi, apart from a few hundred block of standard luxury hotels, the hotel is not without the other device is insufficient water pressure, all without exception and so the name of a small plane and from 15 yuan to spend the money to three kilometers away to the hot springs, bathing each ten-dollar, the result is stuffing the spa owner, the United States of passenger drivers.

Spa bath lined up in front of every family, almost 24 hours, washing out all the passengers had punched and kicked occupation of the terrain, the scheduled time, on behalf of the people queue up, and even for everyone-Dazui Zhang's. We go home in Hot Springs that the most upstream, people are most Tibetans who had the number of employers have no time to point to count the money, you say how many people how much money he had received, of course, basically no man-made ten-dollar money to little more than newspaper , there are thoughts that have no energy in it. Hot springs can choose to shower and bath, as people in a variety of miscellaneous shower environment is relatively safe, at least we have the courage to dip into the million people that thousands of bubble bath.