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D1---In the morning, drive in the
west to Menghai, a small town surrounded by rice fields and vegetable
plantations, first see a very lively and noisy market, where local
people buy all kinds of stuff everyday, meat, fresh vegetable,
chicken, fish, fruits and various native produces ethnic people
brought from mountains. Continue driving on mountainous road to Bada,
a small town on China-Burma border surrounded by several Aini
villages, further to trail head, start hiking down mountains, for the first section it's walking mainly along a village
road with farm land on both sides, sugar, upland rice, hemp or tea,
then across dense forest to Manwa, a Bulang Village on hillside,
where we are going to stay with local ethnic family for night.
Today's hiking is around 2-3 hours.
D2---Wake up in the morning noise of villagers leaving for
farm work, pigs grunting for food, roosters singing around, after
simple breakfast, say bye to friendly host family and continue our
expedition, today's hiking is somewhat tough, start with a long and
pretty steep descent to the bottom of valley, then follow with a
long and steep ascent, fortunately there is always shade dense
forest cast over our heads. Arrive at Zhanglang, an old village of
Bulang people, pretty isolated and very traditional, after this
village we will do another down and up across farmland, small river,
forest and several ethnic villages to Xiding, a small town perched
on top of mountain, the end of our trial. Drive back to Jinghong.
(Hiking can also stop near Zhanglang, get picked and drive back to Jinghong) |
