SHANGRILA - the Himalayan Utopia that turned Real I S2, EP76
(Maybe that's Tibetan folk song) (I don't understand a word) Hello good morning everyone Welcome back Now it's 8:30 in the morning And I am in Baisha ancient town In Lijiang Naxi autonomous prefecture I arrived 2 days ago But I got a cold recenlty So yesterday I took a rest This is my hotel room It's quite nice Quite spacious It's only 120 yuan per night And that's outside my window Wait let me show you from the outside That is yulong snow mountain The jade dragon mountain That's the holy mountain for Naxi people There are altogether 13 peaks That make it looks like a dragon And hence the name It's quite windy now But it's still quite sunny So today I will continue biking My today's ride is about 180 km I will start from lijiang And then go to Shangri-la Lijiang is 2400m altitude While shangrila is 3400 Which is about 1000m height difference The weather is sunny but also super windy So I wear this jacket outside My motorbike suit And I just used a lot of skin moisturizer And sunscreen Because the sunlight is also strong Lijiang is actually a very beautiful city It has 3 ancient towns Dayan old town which is in the city center And then Shuhe old town And then Baisha old town, which is here There is also this holy mountain yu-long-xue-shan But I am going to skip it Because first of all I've been to all those places Many years ago And 2ndly I am pretty sure that I will see plenty of holy mountains And villages on my way to Lhasa So it's kind of ok to skip this one I can't drive too fast on this road Now my speed is 16km per hour Now I can turn Finally a bit better The main ethnicity is Naxi people Their tradition clothing is quite interesting It's called pi-xing-dai-yue Because for the women There are decorations That symbolized the moon and the stars They have their own languages They have their traditional religion They also follow buddism They use hieroglyph i don't know how to say it in English But it's a written languag that Looks like paintings It's a market day The traffic is going quite slow It's the market day today Ji-dou-liang-fen Home made, yummy One please, how much is that? 10 yuan Ji-dou, maybe it's chickpea And then some carrots and radish Do you prefer a lot of or little chili? little This is my breakfast, ji-dou-liang-fen A bean curd Seasoned with different spices Soy sauce Chili paste Msg, of course (Behind that is the tiger leaping gorge) (A great place for trekking!) (It's again Yulong mountain) (Just from the other side) (Jinsha river is the upper stream of Yangtze River) They just finish paving this road So it still smells I think it must be very sticky I hear that the stones are hitting The Botton of my bike Starting from Diqing We will be in the tibetan area Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture Starting from here, you'll see Tibetan architecture Look at those house They are very different from the ones That we saw in Lijiang Haba snow mountain viewing platform (Maybe it's in Tibetan) (I don't understand a word) I love his performance After that lovely performance I hit the road again and in the afternoon I reached Shangri-La’s old town dukezong In fact Shangri-la is a fictional Tibetan paradise hidden in the deep Himalaya mountain valley it is from the novel the lost horizon accoridng to the author, James Hilton he based his story from some Tibetan material from British museum so nobody knows where it really is but the book is so popular that any places claim to be the real 'Shangri-la’ Including some places in northern India pakistan, Bhutan and China Sichuan But Zhongdian is the fastest In 2001, it officially renamed itself as Shangri-la Apparently, changing the name This plan was very successful After changing the name from Zhongdian to Shangri-la The number of tourists has been increasing And now Shangri-la has become synonymous with an earthly paradise And look at how many shops are there There are mainly those types of shops Shops that rent tibetan clothes That provide makeup or photography services And souvenir shops Handicraft shops Hi, can I have a yoghurt Yoghurt? sure Some sugar? yes Be it Mix it. thanks Sister, are you a tibetan? I see Are there Naxi people? No. I see, mostly are tibetans Thanks Bye bye I was wandering if there is any Naxi people here But she said no So it's mainly the tibetans And the tibetans here belong to the The Kham branch of tibetans Yoghurt made with yak milk Without sugar, it's extremely sour But I love it The incense burner Song-she, the pine tree The burn the pine tree needle leaves For the tibetans When walking the kora They always walk clockwise And those are the prayer flags And everytime When the wind blow them up It means that the script is read That is the largest prayer wheel in the world It's made of copper And on the surface is gold It takes at least 10 people to spin it That's the largest tibetan monastery in yunnan province Sumtsenling It was built in the 17th century By the 5th Dalai Lama And during the rule of Qing dynasty In the past The monks together with the nobles The high officials, were the ruling class So in other words That monastery used to be the most powerful And most profitable organization Now inside the monastery There are a lot of extremely beautiful Buddhist paintings Inside the monastery But filming is not allowed nowadays We tend to think of buddism as As words of eastern wisdom But in the past In certain social context Religion means access to power And being a monk means one can enjoy Certain social previliges...
2024-06-02 11:13
