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On October 9 (D6), I came from Xinduqiao last night and stayed at the "Plateau Image" hotel in Shangri-La Town, Daocheng County. Aden Scenic Area is mainly two routes, commonly known as long line and short line, the long line is to go to the milk sea, colorful lake, generally it takes a whole day, the short line is to go to Dolma Latso, the time is more than half a day, we plan to take the long line today, and take the short line tomorrow. This arrangement was made mainly to cooperate with the accommodation for today and tomorrow: we are staying in Aden Village tonight, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive for a long time. Tomorrow night is to live in Daocheng, there are still 80 kilometers away from the Aden Scenic Area Visitor Center (where the car is parked), and you can get out early if you take a short line tomorrow, and then you will have more time to drive to Daocheng.
There is an "Orange Cow Cake House" nearby, where we first bought some bread to prepare as dry food for climbing the mountain, and then had breakfast at the "Daocheng Xiangji Original Soup and Rice Noodles" next door. I chose rice noodles, X.J. chose noodles, my rice noodles were served quickly, and I felt good, but X.J.'s noodles didn't show up until I was about to finish eating. The boss explained afterwards that because of the high altitude, a pressure cooker must be used to cook noodles, and the rice noodles do not need a pressure cooker because the ingredients are originally cooked. This incident reminded me of eating Tibetan noodles in Lobulingka, Lhasa, in 2017, and I felt half-cooked, and I wondered why Tibetans love to eat raw noodles.
After dinner, return to the hotel, organize the items to be brought into Aden into two backpacks, put all other luggage into the car, check out and set off at 8:18, and arrive at the parking lot of the Aden Scenic Area Visitor Center at 8:31. The parking lot of the scenic spot is the same as the parking lot of the commercial center of a big city, divided into several floors underground, and there are many empty spaces at the moment, and we quickly parked the car.
The visitor center is more than 40 kilometers away from the Aden scenic spot, you must take the scenic transportation vehicle to get there, the boarding point is set on the high slope, and there is a special person on the way to the high to charge with a mobile phone, 266 yuan/person (scenic spot ticket + transportation bus round-trip ticket). X.J. Buy a full ticket, I only need to buy a transportation ticket, enter the ID number when purchasing the ticket, and then just swipe the ID card to take the transportation bus and enter the scenic spot.
"Golden Week" has just passed, there are not many tourists, and the traffic buses are departing one after another, and we can get on the bus soon after entering the scenic spot.The train departed at about 9:00 and arrived at the "Aden Village" more than 40 minutes later, and saw the Xiannairi Snow Mountain in the car, which is the highest of the three snow peaks in the Aden Scenic Area, with a peak of 6,032 meters above sea level. The passengers in the same car were all going to the "Zha Guan Beng" (traffic bus terminal), and only the two of us got off the bus halfway. There are 7 parking points in Aden Village, and the "Tibetan Culture Hotel" we booked was near Station 2, however, we didn't see the hotel after getting off the bus, and asked the villagers to say that they were going forward, but they still couldn't find it. Later, I met a Tibetan girl on the road, I shouted "Tashi Dele", she also responded enthusiastically, I asked her for advice, only to find out that the hotel was actually on the high slope next to Station 2. I have an experience in Tibetan areas, no matter who I meet, as long as I shout "Tashi Dele", I will definitely get an enthusiastic response.
The owner of the "Tibetan Asian Culture Hotel" is from Chongqing, renting a house from a local person to renovate and operate, claiming to give us a viewing room, but it is backed by snow-capped mountains and can only see the pastoral. When I checked in, I found that there were many trekking poles placed in the front desk, and when I asked how much it cost each, I replied that it was not sold, only rented, 20 yuan/day. However, after we went upstairs ourselves, we found that the waiter was cleaning the room where the passenger in front had just left, and several trekking poles were abandoned and thrown on the floor of the corridor, and we each picked up one. After entering the room, I tidied up a little, took out all the things I didn't need for today's mountaineering from my backpack, and set off lightly. When I went downstairs, I met the boss, and he saw that we were all equipped with trekking poles, and his expression was a little strange, but he didn't say anything. It didn't take long for a car to come at Station 2, and there were already many local villagers on the bus, and as soon as I got on the bus, I shouted "Tashi Dele", which also received an enthusiastic response, and an old woman also specifically told me that I should choose the right seat, because the scenery is on the right side.
At about 10:30 a.m., a Tibetan man sitting next to me chatted with me, and he said that Aden Village was originally a very poor place, but now it is developing tourism, and life is much better, and there is a season of cordyceps and a season of matsutake every year, and you can make a lot of money. I heard that I spent more than 400 yuan a day to stay in the "Tibetan Asian Culture Hotel", and he said that his family also opened a hotel, because it was his own house, and the cost was low, only more than 200 a day. He also gave me a business card, his hotel is called "Pengcuo B&B", and the location is also near Station 2. I told him that we had booked the hotel online, and he said that his hotel was also listed online. I asked him if he worked in the scenic spot, and he said no, today the "Chonggu Temple" in the scenic spot is going to perform rituals, and the great monks of many surrounding temples are coming over, and the ceremony is very grand, and he wants to rush over to participate. Aden Village is less than 7 kilometers away from Zha Guanbeng, and it takes only more than 10 minutes to drive.
We got off the bus at the "Zha Guanbeng Service Center", walked up the wooden plank road, and went upstream along a clear, turbulent stream, and the ice peaks we saw along the way were Xiannairi Snow Mountain.11:17 Walk to the "Living Buddha Pagoda" at the foot of the "Chonggu Temple", which is the transportation hub of the Aden Scenic Area, and it is also the fork of the short and long lines of Aden tourism: the fork on the right is the "short line", take the wooden plank road across the river to Chonggu Temple, Dolmara Tso and Xiannai Ri Snow Peak Observation Deck; The left side is a straight line, and 80 meters further along the Chonggu Meadow is the "Chonggu Temple Service Center", where there is a battery car directly to the "Luorong Cattle Farm", and then from the cattle farm to ride a horse or hike, you can go to the milk sea and Wushi Lake.
Chonggu Temple to Luorong Cattle Farm is about seven kilometers, the round-trip fare of the battery car is 80 yuan/person, and there is also a walking plank road on this part of the road, but most tourists choose to take a car, and rarely see anyone hiking. Milk Sea and Wuse Lake are located at the foot of the two snow peaks of Xiannairi and Yangmaiyong, and there are still 5 kilometers away from Luorong Cattle Farm, all of which are high-altitude mountain roads, of which the first 3.5 kilometers of the outbound journey can be ridden (300 yuan one way), and the next 1.5 kilometers can only be walked, and there are no horses to ride on the return trip, and the whole 5 kilometers have to be hiked. We took a long line today, there are not too many tourists, there is no need to queue up to buy battery tickets, the battery car is also very full, one after another, we quickly got on the bus. From the battery station, you can see Yangmaiyong Snow Mountain, and the spire appears and disappears in the clouds and mist. The battery car is fully enclosed, sitting in it does not have much impression of the scenery along the way, passing the "Holy Water Gate" on the way, it is also an attraction, but no one gets off the car.
Arrive at Luorong Cattle Farm at 11:45, the parking lot is located on a high slope, get off the car and stand on a high place to look, at your feet is a vast and beautiful cattle farm, that is, where local villagers graze yaks. The water and grass are abundant, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, compared to the area of the pasture, the yak seems to be not too much, the livestock capacity is not large, and the beautiful ecological environment can be maintained for a long time.
It was also from a high place, and there seemed to be no horses waiting at the horse riding point, so there was no need for us to rush over to "grab" the horses, and the two planned to relax first, take a good view of the scenery, and take pictures. There is a long wooden plank road built on the Luorong cattle farm, we walked slowly along the plank road, and the snow peak of "Yang Maiyong" was already in front of us, so we set up a tripod and took a group photo of the two of us, which was a check-in "visit here". Turning around and looking back in the direction we came, behind the entrance of the long wooden plank road is the third snow-capped mountain in Aden Scenic Area, the "Xiano Dorji" snow peak. The parking lot for sightseeing buses is also in the same direction, with a long line of green battery cars.
At 12:10, I walked to the horse ticket office, saw a sign with the words "No horses today", and asked the Tibetan female conductor, who looked indifferent and ignored it, it was estimated that we came too late and the horses had been booked. There is a hot box lunch for sale at the canteen here, and X.J. suggests having lunch here, and then going to climb the mountain, do what you can, and go wherever you can. He bought me a box of rice set for 40 yuan and ate my own morning bread. The set meal has rice and three side dishes, with only a few small pieces of meat in total, and the cost is only 10 yuan at most, and the only value is to be able to eat hot rice in this kind of place.
After eating, it was about 12:30, and the mountain climb officially started, the weather was very cold, it was drizzling, and I had to be fully armed. The road at the beginning was all wooden plank roads, and it was basically a flat road, and it was briefly sunny during the walk, but "Yang Maiyong" still only showed most of his body, and the peak was still in the clouds and mist. 12:49 Walk to the end of the wooden plank road, and then walk on an ordinary mountain road, although the slope is not large, but because of the high altitude (4200 meters), you also have to walk and stop.
13:01 I saw some stone shacks on the side of the road, which seemed to be vacant, and there were wild goats moving next to the shacks. There is also a waterfall nearby, which is pocket-sized but beautiful. There is a wooden observation deck near the waterfall equipped with eco-friendly toilets. I bought four canisters of oxygen in Danba, the original intention was to let X.J. drive on the plateau for emergencies, but X.J. didn't need to take oxygen all the way, and he took it all with him today, and X.J. insisted on letting me sit down and take oxygen, anyway, I had already bought it, and I didn't smoke it for nothing. However, the surrounding vegetation here is dense, and it seems that there is no lack of oxygen, and I feel that there is no difference between taking oxygen and not taking oxygen.
Continuing to move forward, the mountain road began to have a large slope, the endurance of young people was stronger than mine, and X.J. was always in front. When I walked a total of more than 2 kilometers, I saw a man and a woman in front of me leading two empty horses down, and someone asked how much it cost to ride up the mountain from here, and the answer was 200 yuan, which was too expensive, because the whole horse ride was 3.5 kilometers, and the fee was 300 yuan, and now it has walked more than 2 kilometers and costs 200 yuan, which is obviously too high. Seeing this, X.J. hurriedly stepped forward to stop him and expressed his willingness to pay 200 yuan to rent a horse for me to ride. So, at 13:06, I rode the horse that drove the horse and the hidden girl, and she looked very scared, repeatedly explaining that she could not tell others about renting horses halfway. According to my past experience, remote areas are simple folk customs, however, after commercial development, tempted by money and interests, the folk customs here have become no longer simple, we thought that the horse driver was going to send me to the regular horse riding turnaround point on the mountain, who knows, as soon as I got on the horse, she repeatedly warned, claiming that people like me are not capable of going to the milk sea, there is an artificial lake in front, the scenery is also good, just go there to take a look, no need to go up.In this way, after just riding a horse for 7~8 minutes, she asked me to dismount and charge me 200 yuan. However, I was fooled by her, and when I dismounted, I thought I had reached the turnaround point of the regular horse gang, but the real turnaround point was still far away. The horse driver charged me two-thirds of the cost of renting the horse, but only sent me less than one-seventh of the way. However, this Tibetan woman did not lie, the scenery of the artificial lake is really good, I sat by the lake waiting for X.J., by the way, watching the scenery and taking pictures, and I didn't feel that the beautiful scenery in front of me had any traces of artificial creation. It didn't take long for X.J. to come up, and we set up our tripods and took a photo of the two of us.
There is a horizontal wooden plank road about 130 meters long on the shore of the artificial lake, and it is a mountain road after walking the wooden plank road and then moving forward, and there is also a lot of slope, but I can still cope with the stop-and-go method. 14:16 I saw a group of wild goats again, not afraid of people at all, moving next to the mountain road, you can take pictures of them only 2~3 meters away, but if you want to reach out and touch, they will jump away alertly. The wild goats only eat pure natural food and ignore the feeding of tourists.
It started to rain while walking, and it wasn't too heavy at first, so I pulled up the hat of my jacket and moved forward. At 14:33, we finally reached the turnaround point of the regular horse gang on the mountain, and we have walked 3.5 kilometers since the Luorong Cattle Farm. The turnaround point has a wooden platform, as well as 3 environmentally friendly toilets, and several Tibetan women sit on the stage to rest, they are sanitation workers, who are responsible for collecting the waste brought up the mountain by tourists, and then carry it down the mountain, and the empty oxygen tanks account for a considerable proportion of the waste. I tried to communicate with the Tibetan women, but they didn't understand Chinese.
Tourists spend 300 yuan to ride a horse until they arrive here, and the horse gang puts the tourists down the mountain immediately and then goes to take on the next shift of tourists. Whether you come on horseback or on foot, tourists have to rely on their own legs from here, the Milk Sea is 1.5 kilometers away, and the Five Colors Lake is farther away. In front of this place is a very steep stone staircase, perhaps because the stone steps are too steep, the horse gang will no longer go forward. We rested for a while on the "turnaround point" platform and felt that our bodies were okay, so we continued to climb. However, at an altitude of nearly 4,300 meters, every step will feel difficult, the altitude of the Milk Sea is 4,500 meters, which means that it will be more than 200 meters vertically, and the rain is also a little heavy at this moment, X.J. still wants to continue climbing, but also emphasizes that everything is within my ability. To be honest, at this moment I want to retreat, but I still lack some explanations. It just so happened that at this time, two groups of people came down from above, and they all said that the milk sea and colorful lake on a rainy day were not beautiful at all, and they were not worth it at all compared to the hardships of mountaineering, and advised us not to go up. So, I had a high-sounding excuse, and X.J. had to say that the beautiful scenery didn't have to be seen all at once, so I left the milk sea and five-colored lake as a reason to come back next time! So, the two reached a consensus to turn back and go down the mountain at 14:40, and before turning back, according to my suggestion, they set up a tripod and took a group photo at the highest position we reached from the climb, which was regarded as a souvenir of "visiting here".
Return to the "turnaround point" platform to sit down and rest for a while, the plateau climate is like this, and it didn't take long for the sky to clear up again, and at 15:06 I took a commemorative photo and went down the mountain. Compared with the embarrassment when going up the mountain, walking down the mountain road is my strength, watching the scenery and taking pictures all the way, which made X.J. repeatedly remind: walk without looking at the scenery, see the scenery without walking. The weather was still sunny and rainy, but fortunately, it didn't rain much, and I even saw a rainbow. Our biggest mistake this time was that we were not equipped with raincoats, although both of us brought umbrellas, but it was inconvenient to climb the mountain, watch the scenery, take pictures, and use umbrellas.
returned to the artificial lake area at 16:09, and the two took a group photo on the horizontal long plank road.The herd of wild goats was still on the side of the road, and they hurriedly took a photo of X.J. and the sheep, but because of the rain, there were rain spots on the camera. Then there was another ray of sunshine, and a beautiful rainbow appeared again in the mountains, this time the rainbow could be photographed very clearly.
16:36 Return to the waterfall observation deck, sit down and rest for a while, there is a small couple in Tianjin here, chatting casually for a while, they are coming down from the sea of milk, the thin girl is fine, but the strong boy is seriously rebellious, the girl said that his boyfriend will not be able to do it as soon as he arrives at the milk sea, and it doesn't matter if he takes six bottles of oxygen. After paying goodbye to the Tianjin people, continue down the mountain, and at 16:48 walk to the entrance of the wooden plank road at the foot of the mountain, and the father and son took a group photo under the snow peak of "Yang Maiyong", which can be regarded as the end of today's hardships.
Non-stop to the Luorong Cattle Farm Tourist Service Center, take the scenic battery car, return to the "Chonggu Temple Service Center" at 17:54, and walk to the scenic traffic station of the "Zha Guanben Service Center" at 18:11. There are two waiting points here, one is to the tourist service center of "Shangri-La Town" and the other is to "Aden Village". The shuttle buses to Shangri-La Town were sent one after another, but the shuttle buses to Aden Village took a long time to come. At 18:34, back to the "Tibetan Asian Culture Hotel", the two noticed at this moment that there was a small courtyard with a good view in front of the hotel, from which they could see the two snow peaks of "Xiannai Ri" and "Yang Maiyong", and the spire of Yang Maiyong was clearly visible.
I returned to the room, rested for a while, and had dinner at the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel at 20:00, asking for two bowls of beef noodles and a scrambled egg with tomatoes. Beef noodles are 40 yuan/bowl, although a little expensive, but there is a lot of beef in it. I was lying in bed at night, and a waitress knocked on the door to measure our "blood oxygen saturation", I was 79.98%, moderate hypoxia, and Xinjie was slightly higher than 78%. The altitude of Aden Village is 3,900 meters, 200 meters higher than Lhasa, Tibet, and there is a paid oxygen service in the room, which we all said was not necessary.
On October 10 (D7), today I plan to take a "short line" in the morning and go to "Daocheng" to spend the night. Because the task is not heavy, I went to breakfast after 8 a.m. There is a kind of breakfast cake in the Tibetan Asian Culture Hotel that is very delicious, if it is not enough, you can ask for more, I want another one, the chef sent the cake and chatted with me for a while, he said that Aden Village was originally very poor, and there were not even girls willing to marry here, and now they are engaged in tourism, the villagers are rich, their landlords don't have to do anything, they can sit and collect hundreds of thousands of rents every year, and now the girls are rushing to marry into Aden Village. I asked him if he was from Chongqing like the boss, he said he was from Kangding, and I talked to him about the hotel room price, he said that although the room price is more expensive than others, the conditions are much better, and there have been guests who have booked other people's hotels, but they are not satisfied after seeing it, and they move here to stay. He also said that there are few tourists in the Aden scenic spot in winter, and their hotel will be closed next month and reopen in May next year.
Return to the room at 9:05, pack all the belongings, carry a backpack and go downstairs to check out, still waiting for the bus at Station 2, take the bus at 9:13, arrive at "Zha Guan Beng" at 9:27, get off the bus and re-walk the old road you walked yesterday, and walk to the three-way intersection of the "Living Buddha Pagoda" at 9:51. Today is to take a short line to the right from here. Roadside signs show that it is 180 meters away from Chonggu Temple, 1 km away from Zhuoma Lacuo, and 1.4 kilometers away from the "Xiannai Ri" viewing point. This distance seems to be a piece of cake, but considering that the altitude is 3,996 meters above sea level, and the so-called 180 meters, 1 kilometer and 1.4 kilometers are all horizontal distances, and you have to climb the mountain to actually walk, so this little road should not be underestimated. We were not in a hurry to turn right to climb the mountain, but first went to the observation deck on the left (it seems to be called Buddha Yuan Terrace) to take a photo, set up a tripod to take a group photo of the two, and also took a picture of the spire of "Yang Maiyong".
At 10:12, I returned to the "Living Buddha Pagoda", turned right across the bridge, and officially began the short-term journey. Yesterday, I gave up halfway through the long term, in fact, I didn't make up my mind from the beginning to go to the end, I just had the mentality of giving it a try. Today is different, I am still full of confidence in the short term, and I am determined to go to Dolma Latso and Xiannai Ri Snow Mountain Observation Deck. At 10:32, I walked to the Chonggu Temple, just sat outside the temple for a while, chatting with a few old Tibetan women, they were all going to the temple to participate in the puja, and the street sign of this place showed that there were still 850 meters away from Dolmalatso. Saying goodbye to the old Tibetan woman and continuing to climb, not far forward is the long steel frame climbing stairs, because of the high altitude, the climb is very difficult, I always control every 40 steps to stop and gasp, and then continue to climb. There are several small pavilions on the staircase, and I have to sit down and rest every time I go to a pavilion, and X.J. walks in front of me, often stopping to wait for me. On the way, I met two armed police officers who went down the mountain and encouraged me to have only 500 meters ahead, but I knew that these 500 meters were just horizontal distances, and the key was to climb higher.
At 11:17, I walked to a rest point on the steel frame staircase, where there was only a toilet along the climb, a relatively large pavilion, and a dirt road nearby that led directly to the ancient temple at the foot of the mountain. The road sign shows: From here, 400 meters away from Dolmara Cuo, 700 meters away from the Xiannai Ri Observation Deck, and from here on, 470 meters away from Chonggu Temple, of course, this is all about horizontal distance. Tourists have rested here, and squirrels and birds on the mountain have also gathered to rub and eat, and they do not shoot people, but get food directly from the tourists.
After resting for a while, I continued to climb, and at 11:38, I finally finished the steel frame stairs, and my vision suddenly opened up, and the Xiannai Ri Ice Peak also appeared in front of me. There is a water surface at the foot, which the locals call an "artificial lake", and in fact, it can also be clearly seen that it is an artificial dam that intercepts the stream to create such a small water surface. The road sign shows that it is 700 meters away from Chonggu Temple and 950 meters away from the "Living Buddha Pagoda", the starting point of our "short-term" impact today.
The steep mountain road is basically over, and there is no more difficult road ahead. At 11:47, we walked to a fork in the road, turned right to 80 meters away from Dolma Ratso, and went straight to 550 meters from the Xiannai Ri Observation Deck. The whole way is a plank road, and it is basically a flat road, we first cross a dense forest, it is located on the east side of Dolma Latso, and you can see Dolma Latso on the right through the gaps in the trees while walking, the lake is turquoise and the autumn leaves are golden. Walking out of the dense forest is a large open area, surrounded by short bushes, and the Xiannai Ri Snow Mountain also appears in front of you in full, if you want to take pictures under the snowy mountains, this is the best place to shoot. At 12:05, I encountered another roadside pavilion, this time I didn't need to stop to rest, and I had to climb a flight of stairs after the pavilion, but this place was not far from the "Xiannai Observation Deck".
At 12:17, we climbed to the observation deck, and today we had plenty of time, so we stayed on the observation deck for a long time, enjoying a simple lunch with bread and hot coffee in a thermos cup. I met a lady here who had just retired and admired me for being able to climb here at the age of 79. However, she is actually stronger than me, and she climbed up the sea of milk yesterday, but it was also because of the rain, she said that she was as tired as a lost dog, but the sea of milk was not good-looking at all, and it was not as good as the Dolma Latso here, which was completely disproportionate compared to the hardships she had paid.
The Xiannai Ri Snow Peak Observation Deck is quite large, you can see the snow-capped mountains very clearly, and there are also wooden tables and chairs for tourists to eat and rest, however, this is not a good place to take commemorative photos of the snow peak, because the surrounding trees are tall and difficult to photograph. The two had to walk down the observation deck, find an open space on a nearby hillside, set up a tripod, and took a precious photo of father and son traveling together in the snow-capped mountains.
13:09 Walk down the observation deck, and then follow the plank road to Dolma Latso, there are only flat roads and downhill roads along the way, it is very easy to walk all the way, and you no longer need to stop and rest in the middle, at best you just need to take a deep breath. After 10 minutes, we walked to the shore of Dolmaratso Lake, which is a small lake in the shape of a long oval, running north-south, and the wooden plank road is built around the lake, which is very convenient for walking and viewing. We just took the plank road on the east side of the lake, passing through a forest from north to south to the "Xian Nai Ri" observation deck, and now we are walking along the west side of the lake, from the southern end of Zhuoma Latso to the north end. The birds encountered on the road are not afraid of people, and they do not fly away when taking pictures up close.
13:41 Walk to the north end of Dolmaratso, this is the most beautiful place to see Dolmaratso, the lakeside set up an observation deck, the lake water is green, the snow-capped mountains are white, and there happens to be a woman in red posing facing the snow-capped mountains, and she secretly took the next one. Leaving Dolma Latso at 13:54, returning to the artificial lake at 14:08, the scenery of the artificial lake is much inferior compared to the former. However, the two lakes are close at hand and at the same allocation, and all tourists who can reach the artificial lake will definitely go to Dolma Latso, which is different from yesterday's long line, many tourists who arrived at the artificial lake of Yangmaiyong Snow Mountain have not been able to "go to another level" and climb to the milk sea, and I myself am one of them.
After passing the artificial lake, there is a steep steel frame staircase, but at this moment it is going down the mountain, and it is much easier to go down the mountain than the hardships when going up the mountain. 14:12 I returned to the place with a pavilion and a toilet halfway back to the steel frame road, and rested for a while. There were still birds and squirrels begging for food from tourists, and as soon as I sat down, an unknown bird flew up to me and looked at me eagerly, but unfortunately I had no food.
There are two roads down the mountain in this place, one is the steel frame staircase we took up the mountain, and the other is a civil staircase mountain road built of wood railings, which leads directly to the Chonggu Temple at the foot of the mountain. We chose the "civil staircase" road that we had never walked before to go down the mountain, compared with many stops and breathing when going up the mountain, the descent was non-stop all the way, and we walked very fast, and it only took 6 minutes to reach the gate of Chonggu Temple at the foot of the mountain. I met an elderly couple here, speaking Mandarin with a southern Fujian accent, mistakenly thinking it was a "Xiamen fellow", and came forward to chat to find out that it was Taiwanese, and the group came to travel here, and the young people in the group all went to the top, they were worried about physical exhaustion, and they did not dare to make mistakes, so they stayed at the foot of the mountain and waited. Chonggu Temple was performing rituals, and from time to time there were bursts of low horns, I asked the lama in front of the door, and he said that he was welcome to enter and could also take pictures, so we boldly walked into the temple, took photos, and also took videos.
People were holding rituals, and we didn't dare to disturb them, so we only looked in the courtyard and didn't enter the main hall. At 14:53, I walked out of Chonggu Temple from the side gate, took a group photo of the two of them outside the temple, and then went directly to the "Zha Guan Beng" bus point. At about 15:40, take the scenic bus, drive through Yading Village at 15:54, and arrive at the parking lot of "Daocheng Aden Visitor Center" at 16:30. This road is very dangerous, the road is narrow, there are many curves, the whole process is on the top of the mountain, fortunately, it is a scenic bus, if it is self-driving, it is really a little afraid to drive, but the scenery along the way is really good.
There is a "Burger King" fast food restaurant opposite the square of the scenic visitor center, and the two entered at 16:42, and X.J. said it was a make-up lunch. Beef burger, fries, and cola set meal is 60 yuan/serving, X.J. calls it expensive, but I think it's worth it because the burger is very big. I once ate a McDonald's burger set meal for 55 yuan at Xiamen North Railway Station, and the burger was only 1/3 the size here. I ate a full set meal, X.J. only ate one burger, and I took the whole fries away.
After dinner, I went to the parking lot to pick up the car, and at 17:25 I drove on the road, aiming for Daocheng County, where I will stay tonight. At 17:37, it passed through Shangri-La Town, did not stop, and at 18:42 it passed through the "Powa Mountain" pass at an altitude of 4,513 meters, and after descending the mountain, it passed the "Salad Flower Sea" observation deck at 18:58. The observation deck is actually a parking lot, a fairly large area, there is nothing, facing the vast Salad steppe, but there are no flowers in this season.
At 19:00, we saw beautiful autumn leaves on the side of the road, and then drove past the "Qingyang Forest" observation deck, we turned right under the stage, entered Daocheng County (Jinzhu Town), and arrived at the "Holy Land Image Hotel" at 19:10. I was very satisfied with the room, and there was a humidifier, and for dinner X.J. said it was free, and I had a pack of fries to accompany the tea, which was enough.
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