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| The map -provided by Tina's guest house |
Started early at 7 on 1 May in Naxi guest house with a special porridge prepared by Sarah - oats, hot water, sugar in a paper cup stirred and eaten with the handle of a comb. Class!!
Followed by Yunnan coffee/ banana pancake (looked suspiciously like a pizza) and eggs and ginger tea for Jo:)
The sun put in a brief appearance as we set off at 8:15 onwards and upwards to conquer the 28 bend track.
Sarah raced off and counted 38 bends before stopping and retracing her steps to help carry Deluth's rucksack.
The viewpoint is normally guarded by a local demanding ¥10 per person but as we were very early no one charged us.
Round this bend we finally caught sight of the rest of the river below and lost the pounding of the bridge construction site.Peaceful walking at last!
Only a few Yaks on the track and us.
We arrived early at The Tea Horse Guest House in Yu Cha village and had more ginger tea to warm up. Found another friendly walker to take our group photo.
Too early for lunch, we continued to our overnight stop.
Many of the guest houses have sign posted rocks along the track to entice trampers to stop for a break/ food. Although an indication that we were on the right track, Deluth and Joey still managed to head off in the wrong direction and were rescued by Sarah once more retracing her steps for extra exercise.
The sheer drop down the cliff face down to the river, the magnificence of the mountains opposite and the peacefulness for at least half the day, were the highlights.
Shame about the electric wires following the track and the pipes.
Descending once more, we reached BenDi Wan village and our overnight stop at the 'Come Inn'. Supposed to be recently renovated, the bed was more of a sheet and electric blanket on top of a wooden board, we could see through the floorboards to the floor below and hear the people above, and the insulation around the window was an orange plastic tape.
Not too much strenuous exercise in either day's walking and definitely not enough for Sarah as she took off again for a stroll around the village after a quick lunch.
Jo has been walking very carefully/gingerly (must be all that tea) so as not to slip. The track is currently very dusty and despite the occasional dump from horse and Yak incredibly dry.
We were invited to a BBQ dinner with Gerry the owner and his family and friends at The Come Inn. Drank lots of Dali beer with “Ganbei” (bottoms up) toasts to all taking turns to sing songs in English, Tibetan and Mandarin. Tried rice wine but set your throat on fire! The star of the evening was the young lad singing Canto pop with Joey and Deluth
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