Go to Heaven on Earth - Yunnan Meili Avalanche Village

Yunnan has a lot of beautiful scenic spots, of which the Meili Snow Mountain Avalanche Village is more known to the world as the "body in hell, eyes in heaven", this article mainly introduces the Avalanche play and the nearby must-see attractions, line recommendations

?1.Avalanche Introduction

Avalanche Village is located in the eastern foothills of the Meili Snow Mountain, Deqin County, Yunnan Yunling Township, surrounded by mountains, unique geographical environment, altitude of 3,000 meters, only through a stagecoach and the outside world. Yupeng is located at the foot of Wuzifeng under the Lianci Peak of the Meili Snow Mountain. The beauty there can not be described in words, the morning sun, evening Yang or a moment of misty clouds, will make you feel like a fairyland. When the first rays of the morning light up the highest point of the main peak Kawagebo, the pyramid-shaped main peak began to be slowly colored red from top to bottom, Kawagebo like a hero was draped in a bright red cloak, and the legend of the same handsome and sturdy. And the southernmost Mainzim peak is also the wife of the legendary main peak Kawagabo, her shape is similar to the main peak, but there are some more handsome and graceful, this time is also gently lit, and her feet, is the real place of this trip - Avalanche

2.Avalanche village of peculiar

Merry Avalanche village is not only mysterious and beautiful, the ethnic customs are also quite beautiful.

The Yubeng village in Meili is not only mysterious and beautiful, but the customs of the ethnic groups are also quite peculiar, which will surely make you drop your jaw.

Although the village is isolated from the outside world all year round, there are still a lot of simple Tibetan folklore in the village. One of the most bizarre is that brothers marry one wife, isn't it amazing? Isn't it amazing? The people of Yuping village advocate that there is only one mistress in a family, and after a brother marries his sister-in-law and goes home, as long as the brothers are not separated, the younger brother also treats his sister-in-law as his wife, and the family lives like this for the rest of their lives. Some people will certainly ask a question, the child should call who "dad", that is, the child on the brother will call "dad", not divided into affinity, and happy.

3. Recommended travel time/consumption index

Best time to visit: May-September full of the world, are green, everything is vibrant. This time is the flower season in Rainbird, the flowers bloom and flowers fly flowers all over the sky. But June to July is the rainy season, the mountain road is more difficult to walk, although it is the rainy season, basically is also a fine rain, but will let itself have a sublimated feeling, everything is so fresh, so beautiful. 10-November, full of the mountains are all the gold paved with the color, from ancient times in autumn sadly lonely, the Avalanche autumn is better than the spring. This time is also the most beautiful season of the Meili Snow Mountain. after December, usually snow, before and after the Spring Festival if the snow is too big may be closed.

Consumption index: Due to the inconvenience of transportation, some daily necessities and some ingredients in the village of Avalanche need to be transported by manpower. Therefore, the price of goods in the village is relatively high, a box of instant noodles ranging from 10-20 yuan. Transportation is mainly by horseback riding, which costs about 200-300 yuan, and accommodation is basically in local farmhouses, which costs about 200 yuan.

4. Attractions/Features

Attractions: basically every attraction in Yupeng needs to be hiked to. The sacred waterfall, the main camp of Xiaonong and the glacial lake are the must-see attractions for everyone who goes to Yubeng.

Note: The rain crash hiking is not suitable for solo action, find a guide to lead the way safer. It is recommended to ask the horseman, the horseman at the same time can act as a guide. Because hiking is more difficult. Walking can not ride a horse, if the energy is good hiking, the horse can hump luggage. The cost is about 300.

Meili Snow Mountain

Meili Snow Mountain is located in Deqin County, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and the junction of Tibet's Tsatsumi County Meili Snow Mountain is the Hengduan Mountain Range, 849 kilometers from Kunming.

The Meili Snow Mountain belongs to the middle section of the Nu Mountain range, in the world-famous Jinsha River, Lancang River, Nujiang River, "Three Rivers" area, she curved north, stretching thirteen peaks, peaks magnificent. Due to the obvious vertical climate, the climate of the Meili Snow Mountain area is unpredictable, snow and rain in the instantaneous.

Merry Snow Mountain has both the snowy plateau of the magnificent, but also the beauty of Jiangnan. Under the blue sky, the white majestic snow mountains and blue soft lakes, the reckless sea of forests and vast grasslands, whether in the feeling and color, all bring a strong impact.

Avalanche is a Tibetan natural village at the foot of the Meili Snow Mountain Goddess Peak, walking between which is quite a sense of paradise, the true epitome of Shangri-La. Yuping waterfall is also traditionally a holy place of Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage. Every year there are thousands of believers from Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu and other places from thousands of miles to worship.

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Avalanche glacial lake

Avalanche glacial lake is also called the "base camp glacial lake". Ice Lake altitude of about 3800 meters, but also in the village of Yubeng reached the highest point, it is about an hour away from the base camp. After going upstream along the stream by the camp and over a big rock with a waterfall, a small alpine glacial lake appeared in front of us.

? It is as turquoise as emerald, holy and peaceful, can not help but gasp in amazement! Ice Lake is a typical ice-stained lake, is formed by glacial movement erosion of the surface, ice lake on one side of the mountain beam where we are, on the other side of the vertical rock wall and almost hanging in the air of the glacier, the blue glacier and emerald green lake water and the corresponding interplay. Climbing up from the rock face, you can reach the main peak of Kawarpog, when the mountaineering team climbed up from the rock face on the side of the glacier lake.

? The lake was constantly replenished by huge glaciers and snow that would fall from the wall into the lake; others spread out to the edge of the lake in spectacular fashion. We sat quietly by the ice lake, looking up at the blue sky, snow-capped mountains and glaciers, drinking a mouthful of pure lake water when we were thirsty, and a kind of thought to stay here forever slowly grew out from the bottom of our hearts.

The Yubing Divine Waterfall is located in Yunnan Deqin County, Yunling Township in the territory of the south side of the Kawa Bogh Peak, there is a hanging rock cascade down the waterfall, known as the "Yubing Divine Waterfall", Tibetans to Yubing Divine Waterfall bath as a kind of purification of the soul of the cultivation. "Yubeng" means scripture, and its name is not unrelated to the "Stone Seal Book of Heaven" scenic spot not far from the village. Yubeng is the highest village on the Meili Snow Mountain. The scenery of Yubeng waterfall changes with the seasons. Spring and summer ice melt, the waterfall water flow increase, fall into the ground, splash foam flying, rainy season waterfall is more spectacular, usually just hanging down the mountain like a huddle of thousands of strands of water line.

It is said that Yupeng Waterfall is Kawagabo Zunjin from the sky to retrieve the holy water, can divine the fate of people, but also can eliminate disasters and give grace to all beings. Tibetan Buddhist believers pilgrimage to the Meili Snow Mountain, must bathe in the holy waterfall of Yubing.

The sunlight oblique rise, visitors through the waterfall can see the rainbow around the body. In the fall and winter, the water flow becomes smaller, the mountain wind, and sometimes the sky throws the ground, and sometimes stick to the wall cascade down, changing thousands of changes, as seen from afar, such as silk flying, close to look like a pearl dropping. Pilgrims regard the waterfall as holy water, competing for bathing, drinking, but also into the bottle to bring home for worship.

Note: The correct way to turn the waterfall: in the village of Yupeng. First clockwise around the White Pagoda 10 laps, and then set off to the sacred waterfall. When you turn to the waterfall, turn 3 times from left to right. Then take a kettle to the next spring to get the water to drink, but also to pick up a small stone to put into the kettle. You can't wear a hat when you turn, and the less you bed on your body, the more pious you are. Legend has it that standing under the sacred waterfall, bad people will drip water, and good people will have rainbows with them. If you see the two-color rainbow under the sacred waterfall, remember to keep this formal moment in the image.

It is best to respect the customs of the locals when entering the sacred site.

Smiling Nong Base Camp

Smiling Nong Base Camp is located in Deqin County, Avalanche on the village of 13 kilometers (near the main peak of the Merry Snow Mountain). 1991 Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering team to build into a mountaineering team is to climb the Merry Snow Mountain Kagbo Peak of the base camp, to go to the village of Avalanche tourism must go to a place, the altitude of 3600 meters, there are cattle fence can be done as a resting place, if you want to go to the 3800-meter high ice lake, you can go from the ice lake to the village of Avalanche. meters of the glacial lake can be from the laughing farm base camp this place.

? After the snow melts and stays from the Kawagabo Peak, some people let their horses loose at the Laughing Nong Base Camp, which is a place of great scenic beauty. Kawagabo known to the world, since then Kawagabo to the thick human connotation, colorful scenery displayed in front of the world. Smiling Nong base camp is the base camp for mountaineering activities

Scenic features:

When the sky is clear in Yulun Avalanche, the best place to shoot the Merry Snow Mountain is in the Na Zong pass, Yulun Avalanche on the village of Merry Inn, and Yulun Avalanche down the village of the God Falls Inn and other locations, spring and summer seasons, the snowy mountains sunshine is 6:30 in the morning, fall and winter seasons in the morning at 7:30.

There are a lot of scenic spots of various sizes, and they are all very beautiful, but if you go for the first time, it is not a good idea to go there. All very beautiful, but if the first time to go to play, it is best to go with a professional to avoid unnecessary danger, but also a detailed understanding of the local human geography

4.Dining / Accommodation

Dining: the Avalanche region is rich in potatoes, and other vegetables are rare. Accommodation is relatively poor. The villagers eat very simple, ghee tea, poop, potatoes can be a meal. Those who are not used to it can bring their own food. Before entering Avalanche, you can buy some chocolates and processed meats for yourself, just in case. Rainbird inns all have restaurants, accommodation and meals are settled in one.

Local Accommodation and Food Introduction

Ghee Tea : Ghee tea is a specialty drink in Tibet, China. It is eaten as a staple food together with tsampa, and has the effect of keeping the cold out, refreshing the mind, and quenching the thirst. This drink is processed with ghee and strong tea. The first amount of ghee into a special barrel, with salt, and then injected into the boiled tea juice, with a wooden handle repeatedly pounded, so that the ghee and tea juice dissolved into one, was milky that is. Some ethnic groups adjacent to the Tibetan people, also have the custom of drinking ghee tea.

Barley wine: has a mellow fragrance, sweet and refreshing, after drinking the headache, thirst unique style, in the strong hands like a forest of liquor industry is unique, in the western ethnic areas enjoy a good reputation. Because of its "unique geographical environment, brewing raw materials, unique ingredients, unique ingredients, unique wine-making process, unique product style", barley wine soul inherited for 400 years, and still thriving by the national brewing experts as "Pearl of the Plateau, wine forest wonders".

Tsampa: the Tibetan staple food. Tibetans have three meals a day tsampa. Tsampa, the name sounds fresh, is actually barley fried noodles. Tsampa production method is, the barley (belongs to the barley category, there are white, purple and black two kinds of) sun-dried and fried, ground fine, but not sieve, so that made of fried noodles is edible tsampa. Tsampa and China's northern fried noodles are somewhat similar, but the northern fried noodles are first ground after frying, while Tibet's tsampa is first fried after grinding, without removing the skin. To eat tsampa, put some ghee in a bowl, brew in tea, add some tsampa noodles and keep stirring with your hands.

Pipa meat: a traditional curing method for the Zhongdian Tibetan area made of meat. The specific method is to take out the internal organs and bones of the pig after slaughtering, and keep the whole carcass. To be slightly cooled, sprinkled into the pepper surface, grass fruit surface, salt and other condiments and white wine, gently rubbed, the openings will be stitched together, in the suture line coated with water or sesame oil seasoned stove ash, and with wooden plugs or corn cobs to the pig's snout tightly plugged to prevent insect infestation. Then press it on a stone or wooden board to dry, and when it is dry, it looks like a pipa, so it is called "pipa meat". Pipa meat has a long history of production and is preserved for a long time. If it is not cut open, it will not lose its flavor for three to four years. Pipa meat meat color transparent, color fresh flavor, unique flavor, is the Diqing Tibetan, Yi and other hospitality and household delicacies.

Accommodation:

Upper Avalanche Village: Deqin Avalanche Watchman Shambhala Inn

Note: Deqin Avalanche Upper Village into the village to the south 300 meters, near the Avalanche Village Committee. Deqin Avalanche Watch Shambhala Inn is located in the Avalanche scenic area, is the guests come to Avalanche scenic area to stay at the popular hotel. The inn is full of mood and cozy atmosphere, with 40 rooms of different types and styles, simple and full of local characteristics of the mood. The inn offers local specialties.

Upper Rainbird Village : Paradise Corner

Note: The inn was newly built in 2018, with hot water baths, independent bathrooms, electric blankets, blankets and panoramic standard rooms, where you can lie on the bed and watch the beautiful view.

Yubeng Village Tourist Line Introduction

5. Line

Line Recommendation:

In Yubeng, it takes at least 4-5 a day if you go through all the attractions. Into the Avalanche tour generally need 4 days, Xidang to Avalanche word less than a day, Avalanche to the base camp, the waterfall of the gods are each to a day. The fourth day from the Ninong Grand Canyon out of Avalanche. Do not go back to the line.

Practical information

6. Practical information:

Equipment:

a, equipment: please try to choose waterproof and non-slip hiking shoes, walking shoes. Backpack 30L that is enough, mainly in the Meili Snow Mountain and rain crash scenic migration; sun hat, sunglasses, punching jacket (spring and winter need to fleece), warm clothing (morning and evening temperature difference); lip balm, sunscreen, personal medicines (anti-reflux drugs, anti-mosquito drugs, cold medicine, band-aid, motion sickness stickers, etc.), personal toiletries, and other personal think need to bring the clothing and supplies.

b, a small amount of beef jerky, chocolate, Snickers, Red Bull can be timely supplemental calories of dry food, you can supply in Lijiang, you can also go to the Feilai Temple to buy, Avalanche on the way to a number of rest stops, the Tibetans have ghee tea, instant noodles, fried rice for sale, so do not need to bring too much dry food;

c, Avalanche has been the whole village of electricity, cell phones and cameras can be charged, and there is free wifi! Use;

d, Avalanche Village, our accommodation for standard rooms are equipped with solar water heaters, but the conditions in the village of Avalanche is limited, the lack of water and power outages may occur, especially more people or lower temperatures in winter, hot water is in short supply, please be mentally prepared. In addition, in order to reduce the risk of high reflex, it is not recommended to take a bath in Yupeng village, donkeys and friends can wait until after returning to Shangri-La to wash.

e, we have to provide each person with a hiking stick and raincoat, partners need to prepare 300-500 yuan cash change can be, easy to hike along the way to buy road food and so on.

Special Note: Due to different blood types and skin types, some people may be bitten by insects, sensitive skin donkeys need to prepare mosquito repellent water.

Language:

Yuping is a Tibetan village, Tibetan is the main language, but the people in the inn will speak Mandarin, so don't worry about communication problems.

Banks:

There is no bank or ATM in Yuping village, all expenses need to be paid in cash. Therefore, have some cash ready when you enter Avalanche.

Telephone:

In Avalanche, the cell phone signal base station is powered by solar energy, and currently 4g has covered most of the area.

Hospital:

There is no hospital in the village of Avalanche, so it is necessary to prepare some first aid medicine before trekking Avalanche. If you seriously need medical attention, you can only go to the nearest county town of Deqin for medical treatment.

Internet:

General inns are equipped with wifi, the Internet is more convenient

7. Transportation

Yuping village has a unique geography, sparsely populated, since ancient times, there is only a man and horse post road to the outside world, horseback riding and hiking is the main way in and out of Yuping.

Car: to go to Yubeng, generally in Shangri-La by car to Deqin County, and then transfer to Xidang Hot Springs, in Xidang Hot Springs chartered car or horseback riding to Na Zong Pass, after arriving at the Na Zong Pass, it is necessary to hiking or horseback riding to enter the village of Yubeng.

Deqin County Bus Station is the closest bus station to Yubeng, Xidang - Deqin shuttle buses depart at 8:00 am every day. For the return trip, you can charter a bus from Xidang Hot Spring to Deqin Bus Station and then take the shuttle bus to Zhongdian.

There are four buses from Deqin to Zhongdian every day, the ticket price is 65 RMB at 7:30am, 8:30am, 9:30am and 12:00pm, after 12:00pm you can only charter a bus to Zhongdian.

Internal transportation:

Horseback riding: Xidang Hot Springs does not have a rental horse, you need to pass through the village of Xidang to put the rental horse. You have to call the head of the horse team to inquire first. After the appointment of departure time, it is best not to let the horse team wait for you, otherwise the horse team people may ask you for extra time fee. It is recommended to store your luggage in the inn at Feilai Temple before going to Rainbird, and bring only the necessary supplies.

Guide: It is best to hire a guide to lead the way in Yubeng trekking, which can avoid the danger of getting lost

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