Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
Thursday September 20th.
Today we took a chairlift to see Jade Dragon Snow Mountain from a plateau below the mountain itself. The chairlift climbed the slope flanked by spruce trees with views that stretched forever. Once at the top, we meandered along a plank walkway for about 500 metres through spruce and moss covered slopes to a large green open field within the forest. Here we had a clear view of the mountain before us.
The mountain is imposing and grand, overlooking the plains below with its permanently snow-capped peak often shrouded in cloud. You can clearly see the peak from Li Jiang, as it stands as a backdrop, towering over all around it.
In the days when the NaXi People had arranged marriages, lovers who didn't have their families' consent would climb the mountain to spend 3 days of happiness together before jumping off this local Lovers' Leap with the expectation that they would spend eternity in paradise together.
Today we took a chairlift to see Jade Dragon Snow Mountain from a plateau below the mountain itself. The chairlift climbed the slope flanked by spruce trees with views that stretched forever. Once at the top, we meandered along a plank walkway for about 500 metres through spruce and moss covered slopes to a large green open field within the forest. Here we had a clear view of the mountain before us.
The mountain is imposing and grand, overlooking the plains below with its permanently snow-capped peak often shrouded in cloud. You can clearly see the peak from Li Jiang, as it stands as a backdrop, towering over all around it.
In the days when the NaXi People had arranged marriages, lovers who didn't have their families' consent would climb the mountain to spend 3 days of happiness together before jumping off this local Lovers' Leap with the expectation that they would spend eternity in paradise together.
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