Holy water falls

Trip Start Aug 27, 2006

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Trip End Sep 13, 2008

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Flag of China Deqin, China
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

At 6:30 AM we woke up with Adrien while our Chinese friend were still sleeping to start the hike to holy water fall. As we start before the sunrise, the beginning of the hike was in the dark with the light of our front torch. We had a beautiful sunrise on the snowy mountains, on a way with Tibetan flag all around. The waterfall come from the mountain which has the shape of a hand of Buddha. As it s a holy mountain, there are procession of Tibetan all around the mountain, we met some who shared with us some bread and dry meat.
We almost try to go under the waterfall but as the sun was not shining at this place and that the temperature was quite cold outside, we decided to only have a look to the perfect scenery
As we did not get breakfast, on our way back to the village, we stopped in a small house to get some hot noodles and a coke. A Tibetan there gave us a kind of root (2 cm long for 1 m width) after eating it, he ask us for 50 yuans

. As he gave it to us as gift we did not want to pay for it. We payed what we ordered and we try to leave. The man try to stop us and even give me a kick. At this time I was almost ready to fight with him (those who know me know that I almost never fight) , the man understood that we would not give up and let us go.
On the way back there was a lot of Kerns on the side of the road.
Then if was the time of the departure for Deqin. One more time our Chinese friends organized everything to run smoothly.
When we arrive in Deqin, we went for diner and when we left there was a group of 30 Tibetans dancing and playing instruments in the street.
Deqin is just at the border with Tibet (maybe another trip)

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28 Tibetan dance in the street of Deqin	01 the lady mountain	02 the holy water fall	03 The holy water fall with a Tibetan flag
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08	09 The hand of Buddha	10	11
12 Small temple	13	14	15
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20 My group	23	22	24
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