through Batang Jinsha

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2009 late fall afternoon, the old tea speeding car in Litang average elevation of 4,000 meters altitude, direction, due west.
My destination that day is the small town of Batang Jinsha River.
Sichuan-Tibet line, there are winding brigade military vehicles moved into the west. military convoy kept moving speed of 60-80 km, see the back of the car to have taken the initiative to fight light avoidance aside, I know this is a discipline, but each more than one or honk twice to pay tribute.
way beyond, the horn's hands sore.
over an altitude of 4690 meters the highest point Haizishan Pass, gradually from the Sichuan-Tibet highway the desolate plateau.
80   downhill, 7 tunnels.
roadside vegetation more lush, full of vitality.
Jinsha River valley is a mountain side.
Batang in the Jinsha River Canyon hillside, away from the Jinsha River Bridge, there are more than 30 km, can not see the Jinsha River in the county.
already evening, the bustling town focused on three main commercial street, where the altitude of 2580 meters, the air warm and humid, the residents construction, costume diet, looks exactly the same with the inland towns.
Batang County Plaza in front of a large, light configuration in place, the place is jumping harp dance.
famous Batang Kham harp dance, read outside a roadside billboard giant harp dance, the heart was an oddly warm light.
old tea in Yunnan, Zhongdian Tibetan harp seen dance, grass-roots people's enjoyment. man bowed harp ( Huqin one), women long-sleeved dress, surrounded by a circle, singing and dancing, stamping their feet waving stitch step. harp dance movements are simple, nothing more than ;, eagle, flying in the wind streamer sleeves girl hh
(back after tea, went through the old network can not find how this contagious advertising photographs, and promoting tourism sector Batang negligence ah)
harp dance atmosphere contagious rhythm of the scene, you are only with the rhythm stomping walk away, but also blends the meantime.
gradually added as the onlookers, harp dance soon turned into a carnival.
(Folk harp dance artists refined by distillation, together with the music choreography is a feast for the eyes full of Tibetan song and dance rhythms)
asked one pair of square edges when young can see harp carnival, they said late 8:30 start, the old tea, stopped the car nearby, find a home filled with hope visible Square restaurant to sit down.
restaurant boss came in Chengdu, the tea also gave me a dipper of cold water poured: Square dancing harp to every festival or weekend .
pinch refers to the calculation, the day Shisanbukao. retain a glimmer of hope, dawdle in restaurants to 8:30, but could not square with any movement, only to find accommodation away bitterly.
town of bright lights, pedestrian scarce.
to Batang the suggestion, put forward a harp dance theater, daily show, called This town is willing to buy tickets the night of outsiders is difficult to see harp dance more than 10 people.
Before operating know, the Jinsha River to the edge of the Tibetan Drukpa Mangkang there is still a long road reconstruction works in construction, traffic is not normal . prepared the plan, had not left sidewalk Jinsha River, south along the Long Su wow, Mainz Wu, and back to Tak Wing. implementation of this plan will undoubtedly be a painful thing, the Jinsha River to Markam, or a blank to me, is derived from wing the third time to go, turning back a large section, very consistent with tourism economics.
Batang originally thought to be able to have a road on the West to judge, in the county asking people to find the hotel when you can go without a unified view.
thought ad, full of authority: Now we can go, if one wants to go tomorrow morning at 6:30 before the bridge, late to the bridge closure.
This is all the time on the bridge the first one that means I have 5 Point Hotel on the road a half ago drained away.
Oh, Renzailvtu, then we have to recognize the early.
before going to bed, the old travel information turned over to tea, all the Kham Tibetan dance dancing harp, and why The harp Batang most famous dance? here any incidental or consequential side?
(described by the Kamba harp artist Huang Yong Yu Dance)
next morning, I went to the dark bamboo bridge Baron, wrap a coat of armed police Sentinel made a routine document check and asked:
br> have another two Jinsha River.
Turn left to cross the river in Tibet, to Markam, Lhasa)
Sentinel no longer asked, lifting lever release, told the bridge could not stay.
center of the bridge, curiosity and parking looked to the bridge, even among black Pan-waves, feeling the Jinsha River Trent water is not urgent.
Oh, we passed this brand into Tibet, they counted.
Batang Jinsha River upstream of the bridge there are white, Dege, Shiqu, Yushu, it is planning the next trip.
always wanted to go big bridge Tongtian pay tribute once Yushu Yao Yao Mao-book heroes, he left there after drifting raft missing.
Yao heroes go, what the country's attention focused on blood man named to the upper reaches of the Jinsha River, and later, although a little trouble drifting team, their equipment, their prestige group of bile group, and their painful sacrifices Yao heroes drifting alone to look more tragic.
Yao heroes go, many people began to read his commuting West.
(Zhuantie Batang Jinsha River Bridge during the day)