（注：奥林帕斯C750UZ拍摄）

旅行不是用脚的，而是用心去旅行。

昏暗中，远方的路上……云的裂开处有光投下，这一份景象有一丝神韵，似乎预示着此次的旅程将有不可思议的事要发生……

D1：昆明 / Kunming

这种野花在这里是很常见的，路边、田埂、山坡上。。。随处可见。我想她们的生命力是顽强的！
蹲下身子，从比花更低的地方向上仰望。。。多么奇妙的视野——花的视野。。。

 

然而，低头望去。。。最美的花毯就在脚下。。。

 

我总是离开群体，独自一人去找寻美丽的芳踪。这些野花正在退去她们的花冠，等待来年的再度风姿卓越……

 

有人丢弃了蜂箱，它们安静的躺在湖边。。。

D2-3：昆明—大理  

喜欢云躺在山上，久久不愿离去的样子。

大理古城里的老太太在做当地小吃。

D4：大理—丽江  

Red City

(With English Explaination)

The typical scenery of the ancient town.

这是丽江古城的典型风格。茶楼、客栈、小吃店、酒吧处处可见。不走上坡的路，就几乎条条小巷有流水。这流水来自雪山，水高不过40厘米左右，里面有好多的金黄色野鲤鱼逆流游着。

别小看这流水，它的作用实在太大了。通常人们所知的就是它能饮用和观赏。其实另外还有两个隐秘的用途——如果你是第一次造访古城，复杂的地形也许会弄得你晕头转向。不急，逆流而上你就会出城，顺流而下，则会进入古城的腹地哦~。另一个非常重要的作用就是——古城过了夜晚一点半后，就会启用特有的装置，打开城中四个龙头，龙口中喷涌出的水会立即冲净街道。这自古以来的清扫方式直至今日依然还在沿用，不禁让我对古人的智慧叹服不已。

不得不提的还有这里的三七花茶、高原玫瑰等名产。茶楼里时刻传来游客的笑声和阵阵清香。洺一口雪水香茶，沁人心肺，看着巷子里的别致小景。。。心境达到了最上乘的愉悦。

谁扣玉川门，

白绢针对团月。

晴日小窗活火，

响一壶春血。

可怜桑选一生颠，

文字更清绝。

Can you image, as long as you open the windows, you'll see...osiers wave in the breeze, streams, golden cyprinoids... Innumerable streams and bridges covering neally each way. Streams here is not only for viewing and admiring. There are other two big uses for this town.

A) If it's the first time you come here, the complex structure are likely make you feel confused and lose the way. Don't worry, walk in the direction of a stream's current, you're go into the town; contrary to the current, you'll get out of town, Almost each way has a stream, and stream interpenetrated one another.

B) I've told you in "Return to Innocence 3", lots of resources are recycled here. I'd like to sketch in one thing, resources are being recycled since ancientry.

1) The water come from snow mountian, have micromineral, clean and sweet, good for health. People can drink it anywhere in town before 9:00am(Honestly, I was very jealous of local people, they can drink mineral water from stream for free every day, but I, city people should pay).

2) People can't drink water from stream after 9:00am, local people know that it's the wash time, such as washing vegetables or clothes...

3) Sencond day, the wee hours of morning, a machine will be turned on, water are spewed out of four stone dragon-heads in the centre square. All the streets in the town are streamed with water. That why you can't see even one cleaner here. This cleaning system were invented by ancient people. Now it's still used.

A sleeping cat on the windowsill

再没有一处能允许你这样的偷懒闲适吧，丽江的宗旨是“发呆”。就像这雨中的小咪一样慵懒一下吧！透过古香古色的小窗，支着下巴望着某一处小景，一动不动。。。发呆

A sleeping cat, several pairs of shoes, small rain. Have a good rest in this rainy day, hold up the chin on the windowsill, don't think about anything, just relax...like that cat. =^_^= zZ
 

Local people's fish tank

丽江的所有细节之处都不是刻意的。住民是如此诗意，树干掏空做出的鱼缸才是他们想要的。

客栈门外贴着的木牌 ，走近看看

像这样迷人的餐厅，随处可见。叫我忍不住冲进去，也不买吃的，只是拍照，只是看看。也没什么人管我，像儿时在老房子里串邻居家门，感觉棒极了！

主人搜罗来了当地少数民族的饰品和挂件，甚至还有马帮的行头高高挂在梁上（马帮类似于沿海地带的镖局）。。。马帮至今还存在，但已经大不如茶马古道的时代了。他们主要是将当地的玉器、大理石、银等特产带到印度和缅甸等地进行出售和交换等贸易活动。路途艰险坎坷，一年才一个来回。它为今天云南一代的文化、历史、商业的交流奠定了坚实的基础。

The wall and ceiling of bar
You can see such attractive bar everywhere. It doesn't matter that you just roam no shopping or buy any food in bar. For a photography fan, It's greet!
Bar owner collected various of decorations that hanged on the wall. you even can see the old equipment of "Mabang". Especially there's a bow hang on the ceiling.
Mabang:

Mabang -- "Ma" in Chinese means "horse", "Mabang" is a group of people who is engaged in trade--commercial transportation, goods carried by horses, goes backwards and forwards between some cities in Yunnan or Sichuan province and India, Burma. It takes one year for a single return and many dangerous place have to be crossed though... (you'll see the map that I upload next post.) The main goods is tea, jade, marble and silver.
Of couse this transportation method neally phased out. Instead, horse are gained favor by tourist and adventurist.

到了夜晚，灯火阑珊，古意盎然。细看被灯笼照亮的天花板上，写着许多古老的纳西族象形文字和图案……

I Left the bar and went to other shops. Beautiful lantern kindled the ceiling with picture...

 

贴满墙壁的纸，是游人们留下的想说的话，想做的梦，还有征询同行的伙伴。。。来到这儿，你又怎会寂寞呢？

The wall covered with notes. Tourists wrote down their dreams and words. According to some notes, you'll see someone was looking for parter for his(/her/their) trip...So, how can you feel lonely, if you come here?

夜间的古城，家家都挂起红色的灯笼，红色的浪漫有老电影中特有的暖色，人们有在巷子两边对唱情歌的、喝酒的……好不热闹！让我想起了新龙门客栈里侠客们豪放柔情。

At night, it's a real Red Town! Windows are completely opened, you heard someone was laughing, someone was singing a love song, the singing across the alley from this bar to that bar, after a while, you would hear another love song returned from that bar...

由于历史原因，很多八十多岁的老人都会说一口流利的英语。那是驼峰航线时代造就出来的一代纳西人。

According to some history cases. Lots of old people who over 80 years old can speak in very fluent English. They are a groupe of Naxi(one minority in China ) people who has lived in Hump Times.

Hump Times -- I gave the name. It's about a line(Hump Line), AVG (American Volunteer Group)*, Chinese and war.

D5：丽江—香格里拉  

在虎跳峡那里预见的藏族女孩……很美！随着离香格里拉越来越近的日子里，从内心到外表都在变化，连称呼都在一天天的更新。从最初的“小姐”到“金花”、“金妹”，再到今天的“卓玛”。

从这张照片开始，我们就进入了香格里拉，这是爸爸拍摄的我，我那时正在镜头里挑选风景。谢谢爸爸捕捉了我的样子，有时候从别人的镜头下看到自己拍照的样子觉得很滑稽。

这是香格里拉最典型的风景。没有人在放牧，牲口都是自由地在广袤的土地上吃草的。尚未到西藏，却已经是藏族人居住的地方了。他们的放牧有独到的特色，对于不了解的人看来，第一感觉就是自由以及与自然无尽和谐的美。这是在怎样的玄机中产生出来的人类与自然的默契啊！

好容易拍了三张寺庙的局部照片，回到家后衔接起来一看——甚是雄伟！可惜日志的展示空间很窄，所以我就取了局部。另一方面，也很对不起自己——来到颂赞林寺的时候，相机几乎没电了。所以寺庙里拍得很少。

颂赞林寺比任何我所见过的寺院都要美丽和气魄！然而又比江南的寺院简洁和纯朴许多。我想它正是靠着当地宗教中崇尚适度的气质来征服世人的。它是集朴实、壮观、智慧于一体的宫殿！ 寺庙的壁画中讲了很多神奇的故事，虽然是以神化形式呈现出来的，但仔细思索一下，不难发现这其中是有许多医学、哲理、甚至物种进化的知识包含在里头的。从年代考证来看，物种进化这一块竟然早于达尔文发现的时间。

 

D6：香格里拉—丽江 

去属都湖的路上，看见牛在公路上悠哉游哉地走着，这样的景象经常可见！
 

属都湖的气质是格外宁静高贵的！远方有两匹白驹在吃草。
 

这样的景象不止一次在我们的旅途中出现——就是当四周昏暗，只有一处被阳光照亮。
去属都湖的那天清晨是阴天，在墨绿中，远方的树林突然被一抹晨光照亮。
 

这是我们吃午饭的餐馆。很有特色的样子。连里面的墙上也绘满了美丽的画，就像在做立邦漆广告。

从餐馆出来的公路预示着我们将要回家了。。。
 

因为秋天，野花算是开得少的。但仔细找，还是能找到些。。。
 

我看见一个女人在山坡里采花。
 

途中经过了小中甸。这里是狼毒花的海洋，远远望去一片火红。

狼毒花其实不是花。它的叶子会在秋天变红，冬天变黄。狼毒有毒，无味，只对牲口有害。幸好，牲口天生就有识别能力，一般不会去吃。

 

跟随我们一起游玩的“小青蛙”正在狼毒的海洋里玩耍。

 

青稞架。藏区很大，不同地方酿制的青稞酒以及酥油茶味道也有区别。香格里拉不论是青稞酒还是酥油茶都很好喝（这不是我一个人的看法）！如果你说酥油茶难喝，那么请到香格里拉来品尝一下。

草甸的那头有一片美好的树林。在光线下变化出色彩斑斓的秋色。我还从金银的闪光中看到那里有一潭湖水。

但是要达到那片树林，就必须穿过牧场中间的铁丝网栏。。。

远处突然来了几个藏民。 而更远的地方也有一片火红的狼毒花。这儿秋季的草甸就是这样，一层绿色，一层红色，连绵不绝。。。

 

他们背着箩筐，悠闲地从湖边走过。于是我知道，神湖等待的不是仙女沐浴，它等待的是善良纯朴的人们，等待的是拥有一颗善于发现美好的心的人们的。。。

 

善良纯朴的藏民。

 

牛粪被堆积起来

它孕育着生命！

 

不知道我那时拿着相机在想什么，很喜欢姐姐抓拍的这张照片。
 

回丽江的路上，太阳奢侈的撒下金粉。云朵不断变化着，同行的人指着云说，他看见那里好像有一个男人在追赶一片云彩，后面还有一个女人和两个小孩一起追赶着。我们都点头说像。这让我想起云南名字的由来，据说汉武帝一天看见天边有一朵绮丽无比的彩云，于是命人飞马追赶，直至彩云消失。后来那个人追到了今天云南所在的地方，彩云再没有离开。于是，汉武帝就为此地取名为“云南”，意为“彩云之乡”。不论有无此事，这里的确能算得上彩云之乡的！
 

这是后来变成一个男人、一个女人、两个孩子的云朵。傍晚常常能看到这么美丽的云朵游荡在天空。
 

我们终于离开了，旅途中我们见过三次彩虹，其中第二次是同时出现两道（第二道很不明显，而且很快消失了）。这第二次就发生在我们回去的路上，好像要挽留我们的样子，它是不是应证了先前来路中看到的那道神奇的光呢？我说过，它似乎预示着这次旅途将有不可思议的事情会发生。的确，虽然旅程很仓促，但很多事都应着我们的期望发生了。彩虹的出现就是其中之一。当我们期待有第三次的时候，后来真的又出现了，而且是一条几乎完整的彩虹桥；还有，司机说，你们也许会见到车子前半身淋雨，后半身晒太阳的怪事，我们也遇见了；几个月不露面的雪山，也在我们爬上顶峰的瞬间出现了。。。很多很多。。。几乎神化的旅途。
 

正面是彩虹，回转身就是五彩的云。阴晴的两种天气就这样同时出现在苍穹之中！
 

D7：丽江

黎明中的玉龙雪山，渐渐有了日照金山的韵味。因为在车上，所以很难拍好。

当我们到达4500米以上的时候，看见云海中有一座山峰，似乎是传说中的蓬莱。

沿山道上行的景观之一。仔细看左下角有一个人，对比一下你就知道这个山峰的大小了。

唯一的遗憾就是这个季节的雪太少了，玉龙雪山的顶峰就在眼前，却只能看见一点点雪。

山脚下的白水河碧蓝碧蓝，而岸边的沙石金银洁白。

有人骑着牦牛在河中穿梭。

 

其实，今天的香格里拉已不完全是希尔顿在《消失的地平线》里所描述的的香格里拉了。

雪山、高原湖泊正在萎缩之中。许多文献中记载的一些湖泊成了沼泽或草场。人们打水的路更远了。。。而今年受到全球变暖的影响也尤为明显，作为匆匆过客的你，在沉醉于美景之余又是否知道这一点呢？

让我们珍惜这最后一片净土吧！

 

If you are interested in GEOGRAPHY or TRAVEL ...
If you're not sure there's also a rule finding the beautiful places. Please read this the following content.

The Most Beautiful Area

Take China for example, one reason is I’m a Chinese, so it’s easy for me to explain. The other reason is, the most terrains in the world can be found in China.

So, let’s come to discover the rule that can find the most beautiful area.

According to newest survey of Chinese National Geography, the most beautiful area are all close to the region where I marked by red pen on the map#01.

map#01

Why the most beautifu area are close to red-marked area?

China may be the only typical one in the world that has a very obvious "3 steps ladder" terrain. Combines map#01 and #02, you can see a rule in it. Those great nature beauty appear on the edge between two steps of land. Height create intricacy. Big canyon, waterfall, great river, rare animal, plants and even human being (fantastic minorities)… incredible and spectacular scenery is like none other, "edge-line" often gives you a feast for eyes or an unforgettable experience. I believe that’s the universal rule, look at the most famouse nature scenery in your country, it should be the same. 

map#02

Take the journey of Yunnan province in China for example, you'll see some beautiful scenery from my photos(in the last 3 posts). Yunnan is marked amaranthine color on the map.

There's a very special area in Yunnan, it's in northwest of Yunnan, actually is a huge valley organized by three valleys. Three great rivers in the world converge in a very small area because of the land's movement. We call that "SanJiangLiuYu". The legendary Shangri-La is just borned in or close to "Sanjiang". Of cause, there're many great nature beauty in the world, and also I believe Shangri-La is in my heart not in the real world. What I want to say is that the scenery of "SanJiangLiuYu" ("san jiang" is a name, "liu yu" means sort of valley area) is a really rare place that you ever know about. A cosmonaut revealed it's the most obviouse that it looks like a frowned area on the earth. As you can image that how complex the terrain of Sanjiang is. Local people also call "Zhongdian" is "Shangri-La" since a novel "Lost Horizon" known by Chinese, so it make some foreign tourists get confused with their bus or other vehicles' tickets, some of them are printed Zhongdian, some are Shangri-La. But Shangri-La is absolutely not the only beauty in Sanjiang, it's just an area that had been discovered. Also, the scenery of Shangri-La is absolutely not the only thing can prove how fantastic Sanjiang valley is! There're far more things waiting for you to discover. What I have known about is except scenery, you'll even see different civilization there, modern and ancient things and people coexist...just because of the particular terrain, because you can say that's the focus pattern of "edge-line". It may include various tastes beauty there.

 

The route of my journey in Yunnan: