After checking the information, this waterfall is located in Dushan County, Guizhou Qiannan Buyi Miao Autonomous Prefecture. If you want to get up close and personal with it for a few days, there is only one B&B nearby to choose from.
Then look at this B&B, located in the mountains deep in a Buyei village, and the waterfall is about 1 kilometer away, not highway, can only be hiked to. The first thing you need to do is to get to the top of the mountain and get to the bottom of the mountain, and you'll be able to get to the top of the mountain.
Initially, I naively thought that the so-called "no road, the need for horses to carry luggage" is just a gimmick, until the cab driver took me in the winding mountain road for an hour, and finally parked the car in an erected "scenic area is closed, prohibited entry! It was only when the taxi driver took me on an hour-long drive up the winding mountain road and finally stopped the car in front of a sign saying "Scenic Area Closed, No Entry" that I was convinced that the owner of the B&B was not kidding me. This is a provincial nature reserve, and the B&B is really only accessible on foot.
I contacted the hotel in advance to get a guide and horses to pick me up. A local Buyei woman, pushing a one-wheeled cart at the entrance to the scenic area, carefully packed my suitcase in a clean woven bag, fearing that the road would get dirty. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
The water here is really beautiful, the camera can not express a tenth.
Along the way to enjoy the beautiful scenery, listening to the sound of gurgling water, 2 kilometers of the trestle did not feel particularly long, the inner still thinking "mountain road is just like this," when the sister in a section of the stone steps before the stop, pointing to the end of the stone steps of a dirt road, said to me, "Horses tethered to the top, and go up the right way. I'm not going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it.
Sure enough, the path was rugged and narrow. Without realizing it, I had walked into a dense forest.
"Are there animals here?" I asked.
"Of course, there are wild boars, monkeys, goats, rabbits and whatnot. The monkeys even came to steal chestnuts when they were ripe the other day!" Big sister told me.
The villagers reclaimed land in the dense forest and planted tea. White camellias open quietly in the depths of the dense forest.
After walking on the mountain road for another 30 minutes or so, finally, a small village appeared in front of me.
When I came to this village, time seemed to be frozen.
This Buyei village has only about ten families. The wooden footstools are full of age, and everywhere the villagers are serious about their lives.
In the fall, the sunshine is just right, and the rice harvested this year is basking in front of each house.
When the villagers saw us, they greeted us very kindly. The local dialect was a bit hard to hear, so I wanted to chat with them a bit more, but I had to give up.
Through the village, my sister pointed to another depression in the wooden footstools and said to me, "Look, that's where you live."
Before arriving at the B&B, you will pass a milling house.
My sister told me that this mill has a history of hundreds of years. Next to the mill is a small stream. A long time ago, villagers used the water from the stream as a power to grind the rice into rice.
Walking into the lodging house, a cup of warm honey water was waiting for us.
On the table are white wildflowers picked from the woods. Outside the wooden window is a big silent mountain, and in front of the door, a clear stream, meandering through.
The staff of the B&B told me that because it is located deep in the mountains, the transportation of materials all need to rely on horse pack transport, this wooden hammock took six years to build completely.
The room we chose was located on the first floor, with a small terrace. The room is quiet and elegant, constructed of pure wood, with a faint odor of wood. Some books collected by the B&B owner are placed on the table for reading.
The cell phone has no signal, and the Wi-Fi is sporadic.
When you come here, it's as if you are cut off from the world.
The rest of the day is all about you and you alone.
Here, it is as if nothing matters except life and death.
The room is equipped with tea sets and green tea grown by local villagers, so make a cup of tea and read a book that normally says nothing, such as the Tibetan Book of Life and Death. Time, accompanied by the sound of gurgling water, quietly flowing through.
The twilight gradually rise, my friend and I ushered in the first dinner in the mountains.
In the mountains, there are limited supplies, so most of the food is locally sourced.
The vegetables that were just harvested from the ground were so fresh that they had a sweetness to them that you just can't eat on a regular basis.
Fried vegetables, preserved meat, radish and rib soup, and steaming white rice were served one after another.
As night falls, the terrace of the mountain house, far away from the city, is the perfect place to enjoy the bright starry sky.
I moved a stool and sat on the terrace to look at the stars.
There is no need for any professional equipment, just look up and you can see the brilliant starry sky that you can't enjoy in the city on a normal day.
In the middle of the silent valley, with the background sounds of insects and streams, a wide Milky Way crosses overhead, glittering with silver light in the deep blue sky.
Many years have not seen the fireflies, in the black mountains dance lightly flying, sometimes bright and sometimes extinguished, for a moment, people are a little bit of a trance, actually thought that the stars in the Milky Way, across the countless years of light, to me to come.
A good night's sleep.
The next morning, I was greeted with a bowl of steaming noodles for breakfast.
After breakfast, with my little school bag on my back, Waterfall, here I come.
Half an hour up the mountain, I saw the waterfall that I had been longing for.
The waterfall is much more beautiful than the one I saw in the picture.
The narrow waterfall hangs between the green valleys, splashing with water, and below the waterfall, a pool of turquoise water, warm and moist as jade, exudes a kind of extremely clear ethereal light.
The water in the pool is so clear that it does not need to be enhanced by filters, revealing a kind of purity and beauty that makes people unable to extricate themselves.
The most important thing is that there is no one else here except me and my girlfriends.
We asked the villagers in the village beforehand that we could swim in this waterfall. We changed into our bathing suits and immediately plunged into its embrace.
At this time, the sun is not completely on the waterfall, the first water, feel the water is a little cool. But when you put your whole body into the water, your body will quickly adapt to the water temperature.
Slowly, the sun's light began to shine directly on the waterfall, and the body was filled with electricity, a strange sense of warmth wrapped up the whole person. On the rocks next to the waterfall, butterflies quietly dance their wings, and the wind whips through the upright wild lychee tree, the ripe fruit poof fall to the ground. Everything has a kind of indescribable beauty.
The anxiety and distress that haunts us from time to time in our day to day life has become insignificant.
I think this is the powerful healing power of nature.
After swimming, I sat by the water and read a book.
My friend lit a fire to make tea. Drink tea and read a book.
We have been living in the hustle and bustle of life for too long, and we need to experience a slower pace of life.
Leaving behind the fickleness of modern society, away from the mountains and mountains of information, and live a few days with themselves in peace and quiet.
At this point, you will really realize what is called "the mountains do not know when the day is over" of the beautiful mood.
I'll leave the local cuisine for another post.