Backpack Travel Journal XIII. Hutiaoxia evasion ticket

June 20th was a thrilling day. Although the result is not satisfactory at the end of the day, as a life experience, such a result is more meaningful than plain and smooth.

The next stop in Lijiang is Shangri-La. On the way from Lijiang to Shangri-La, you must pass Yulong Snow Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain. There is a big gap between the two mountains, which is called "Tiger Leaping Gorge". Tiger Leaping Gorge has an internationally famous hiking route.

I forgot how I communicated with my companions at that time. It seems that they are going to hike the Tiger Leaping Gorge, but they don't have this plan, so they decided to separate temporarily. I'm going to climb Tiger Leaping Gorge and then meet them in Shangri-La. Lan Yue said that Shangri-La is the first place on the Yunnan-Tibet line with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, so it is necessary to stay there for three days to adapt to the thin air on the plateau and prevent altitude sickness at higher altitudes.

The end result is that on June 20th, I left Lijiang with my backpack on my back. The three of them are still resting in the same place. I had already forgotten this detail, but I didn't remember it until I wrote it here.

Besides, I have forgotten all the experiences before noon that day. When writing this memoir, I need to rely on the photos taken at that time to recall many experiences. Without photos, I can't remember many details. At the same time, even what I can remember is only fragments. On the other hand, if I didn't take pictures at that time, it must be because the scene at that time was unremarkable, so I couldn't have the desire to take pictures.

Fortunately, I occasionally post on QQ space. Judging from the conversation released on the same day, it is certain that we set off at 9 o'clock in the morning, first took the bus to the intersection of Lijiang and Shangri-La, then took the bus to Lashihai, and the rest of the time was on foot. Go, go, go, go all morning!

At noon, I arrived in Lashixiang and ate in a Muslim restaurant on the roadside. Impressively, the noodles in this Muslim restaurant are quite affordable. A bowl of noodles 10 yuan, what a big bowl! After running all morning, I'm hungry and full!

Good luck this afternoon! I set off after dinner and arrived in Daocheng by bus in less than 20 minutes. There is a couple in the car. It seems that the husband is much older than his wife, so he is an old man with few wives, but they are very loving. This car is dirty and messy.

On the way, I passed the observation deck of the first bay of the Yangtze River, and the host and his wife went in to see the scenery. I followed them and took some photos. There is a wooden sign on the observation deck, which reads "Yulong Snow Mountain, Haba Snow Mountain and Three Scenes of the First Bay of the Yangtze River" in red font.

It is cloudy at this time, and the clouds in the sky are very thick. From a distance, there are many hills, which are dark under the clouds. I don't know which mountains are Haba Snow Mountain and which are Yulong Snow Mountain.

It is said that this is the first big turn after the Yangtze River flows down from Tanggula. It is said that the curvature 180 degrees, so it is called the first bay of the Yangtze River. However, it may be because there is not much water in the Yangtze River now, and the observation deck is too high and too far away from the river. So it seems that the river is not as strong as expected. From a distance, it's just a bend of muddy water!

I forgot where my master and his wife put me. It should be halfway. Because later that afternoon, I met Feng He. They are classmates and Cantonese. Let's go out to play together. It was Feng Xian who came to chat with me and offered to add my QQ number, so the three of us became friends. They also plan to go to Tiger Leaping Gorge.

Later, it seems that the three of us got on a car together, which took us to Qiaotou Town, the starting point of Tiger Leaping Gorge. I remember that the bus was still very crowded, and it was very uncomfortable for us to sit in it. Seven years ago, after these things happened, I threw them into my memory and never thought of them again. Now, all by writing, I inadvertently squeezed these details out of my memory. But in the end, because of age, I always feel that these details seem untrue.

We got off at Qiaotou Town, and at the intersection of Qiaotou Town, several backpackers like us had gathered together in twos and threes. I even met an acquaintance, and Dou Xian was there. This time he is with his companion. His companion is a sister named Cheng Xiaodan from Nanchang, Jiangxi, and her personality is very lively. Cheng Xiaodan is not tall, maybe less than 1.6 meters, but he is carrying a 70-liter backpack with a blue tarpaulin like me. If you stand behind her and look at her, you can only see her calves and shoes, and other body parts are covered by backpacks.

Besides, I also saw Hui and Xiao Hao. I met these two people when I was around Erhai Lake and took a group photo together.

In addition, there are two that have never been seen before. One is Xiaowan, a sister from Shandong, a beautiful woman and a college student. With Xiaowan is a handsome boy whose name has been forgotten, except that he is carrying a black handbag, which is very special. I didn't notice this detail, but Dou Xian did. After Dou Xian came to Wuhan, we often recalled the past together. Every time he mentioned this handsome handbag, he kept laughing. It is said that he doesn't look like a poor tourist at all, but more like a rich second generation who ran away from home.

That's it, what a coincidence! Unfortunately, nine of us actually arrived at Qiaotou Town at the same time. We are all similar in essence. We are backpackers in backpacking, so we have the same topic and can talk well when we meet. So several groups of people merged into one group here.

We need to buy tickets to enter the Tiger Leaping Gorge Scenic Area, but none of us want to buy tickets. We sat at the entrance of a hotel on the roadside at the entrance of the scenic spot and discussed the way to enter the scenic spot without buying a ticket. To put it bluntly, it is to find ways to evade tickets.

There are two ways to evade tickets. One way is to wait until it is dark, the staff of the scenic spot get off work, enter the scenic spot from the ticket office, then find a place to set up a tent or stay in an inn, and start hiking directly the next day; Another way is to find a relatively gentle slope outside the scenic spot, cross the mountain and enter the scenic spot.

In fact, there is a third way, that is, find a hotel outside the scenic spot for one night, get up early the next day, and swagger into the scenic spot before the staff of the scenic spot go to work. I don't know why, we didn't consider this method at that time, but chose the first two methods.

From the point of time saving, the first method is the best.

We did choose the first method first, but a group of people waited in front of the hotel from 4 pm to 6 pm. I think there are still a few hours before the staff in the scenic spot get off work, and gradually, they are not very patient. Then, I don't know who started it, and said, let's just climb that mountain. As a result, a group of people readily agreed!

The mountains are gentle in some places, steep in some places, and there are no mountain roads. Almost all of us carry big backpacks, so it is quite difficult to climb this mountain. It took two hours to climb a few hundred meters.

For me, it was a thrilling afternoon! On the steep slope, the soil under your feet is very loose and there is no focus. There is only grass, no trees and no shrubs on the slope, so there is nothing to rob and borrow. The backpack on my back is influenced by gravity, like an invisible hand, which seems to drag me back and down. I was really scared at that time! I'm really worried that I slipped and fell to the bottom of the mountain! Because in that position, we have climbed very high!

While climbing the mountain, I don't know when I lost a handbag tied to my backpack. The handbag is filled with steamed bread, mustard tuber and other foods bought that afternoon, and it is ready to be dry food in Tiger Leaping Gorge. In addition, there is a thermos cup.

Finally, after two hours' trekking, I finally climbed over the hill.

A group of people had a rest at the foot of the mountain and leisurely entered the scenic spot, ready to live in a place with a homestay.

Is a scenic spot, in fact, it is no different from the mountain area composed of wild Shan Ye houses, except that some people turn around the mountain and set up stalls to sell tickets, which is just a machine to make money for themselves!

At eight o'clock, the setting sun set on the other side of the mountain and dyed the white clouds on the top of the mountain red. After the ticket evasion was successful, everyone relaxed and lined up in twos and threes, chatting while walking. However, what happened later told us that it was too early to be happy!

I don't know how long I've been walking on the road, but suddenly I heard a whirring sound far behind me. We turned our heads and saw a pickup truck coming like lightning. The speed of the pickup truck is obviously fast, and high dust is raised behind the body.

In our team, lively people like Xiaowan and the handsome rich second generation began to shout "hitch a ride! Go for a ride! Stop and take us away! "

But when I look at this pickup truck, I have an ominous premonition!

Sure enough, the pickup truck passed us and then suddenly stopped in front of us, blocking the way. Then a few people got off the bus, who should be the staff of the scenic spot, stopped us and said that we wanted to check the tickets.

Of the nine of us at that time, I don't remember who it was. He has a lot of ticket stubs for Tiger Leaping Gorge scenic spot that the driver gave him when hitchhiking. The purpose of giving him a ticket stub is to hold the plan of "in case of being caught evading the ticket, you can fool the past with this". At this time, several cheeky and courageous people in our team said with one voice that we had bought the tickets and took out nine ticket stubs.

Under the momentum of several of us, the menacing people gradually lost their aggressiveness, took the ticket stub, watched it over and over again, and finally had to drive away again!

Everyone is in a good mood, thinking that this matter has passed! But later, it turned out that we were still happy too early!

The gang went back to check the surveillance, driving pickup trucks at a high speed, blocking our way like just now. Said they went back to check the surveillance, we were not under surveillance, and someone reported that we had gone down the mountain. Then, force us to buy tickets!

At this point, we have a guilty conscience, and we don't know whether what he said about "checking and monitoring" and "someone reporting on the mountain" is true. Anyway, the momentum is much shorter. There were people in the team who wanted to argue, but when they saw that everyone else was silent, they had to lower their voices and finally shut up. Finally, six people bought tickets, including me.

The other three who didn't get tickets were, and Feng. They walked out of the scenic spot and spent the night outside. I have forgotten this detail, but when I chatted with Dou Xian later, he told me.

The other six of us, Hui, Xiao Hao, Xiao Wan, the handsome rich second generation and I, bought tickets and walked a long way to an inn in the scenic spot. Several people live in a room, which is a bed room.

At that time, I thought, this day is just another climb. It's hard to have a good rest tonight. I'll go hiking in Tiger Leaping Gorge tomorrow. Who knows, the "surprise" of this day is not over yet!

At night, it began to rain, not small, and the rain outside was still ringing!

At that time, we thought, can we walk in Tiger Leaping Gorge tomorrow in such a heavy rain? If you can't leave, didn't you buy this ticket for nothing?

Blue Moon also called me and said that watching the news said it was raining in Tiger Leaping Gorge, suggesting that I should not go hiking tomorrow, which is very dangerous.

The next day, someone saw the news that the Tiger Leaping Gorge scenic spot was closed and ticket sales stopped on the Internet. Several of us will discuss whether to stay. If you insist on hiking the Tiger Leaping Gorge, you will have to wait until the mountain road is dry enough to hike. It's raining now, I don't know how long it will rain, and how long it will rain is still unknown. Moreover, in the past few days when the Tiger Leaping Gorge Scenic Area has not resumed normal hiking, we not only have to spend room and meals every day, but also delay the travel time for several days.

Finally, several people decided to give up Tiger Leaping Gorge and set off for Shangri-La. No matter from the point of view of money or time, this is the most economical!

It's a pity that several of us went through so many twists and turns in one day in order to avoid tickets, and we were finally arrested and reissued, and then we called Shuipiao.

I feel teased by life!