Some Dried Up Terraces of Baitaishui 白台水
There are a few ways exploring Baitaishui. The first is to take the bus going to Baitaishui and head on to Lijiang. The other one was my method, which was to get the bus to Baitaishui and go back to Shangrila. Another way would be to first visit Lijiang and leave your stuff there and go to Baitaishui en route to Shangrila. I opted for the second one since that I would mean I would have to bring my backpack along. I don’t think it would be wise for me to do so. I wanted to go to the furthest place first and work my way back to Kunming, that way if any delay were to happen, I would still have enough time to get back to Kunming even if it were to happen far away from the big city.
Wooden Walkway at Baitaishui 白台水
Anyway, the trip to Baitaishui would take around three and a half hours. The bus went by some very mountainous terrain, but they were absolutely spectacular. I was wishing that I had a vehicle of my own so I can stop and take photos whenever I want. This is a serious advice, if you can afford it or if there are enough of you, take a van and they would let you stop along the way. The Tibetan villages at the foot of the mountains were really spectacular. The bus was winding through some very mountainous terrain until it reached a very large river. It was the Yangtze River one of the longest rivers in the world. I was fortunate that I didn’t suffer from motion sickness from all the zigzagging the bus was doing. Maybe it was because of the incredible scenery I was seeing. My only regret was that I was unable to capture any of them. Maybe next time?
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