Don't worry or go to the bathhouse! China-2017. Part 9. Lake Baofeng.
Wulingyuan 2017-06-03 Day 6
The sound of the drill was woven into sleep, pierced into consciousness, aroused children's fears and caused physical pain. Crawling out of an unpleasant dream, I understand that it is not a drill that screeches at all. A grinder screeches at a construction site right under our windows.
Seven in the morning!
Good morning))
Opposite the hostel, at a distance of two steps, a new hostel is being built, and ours, with a wonderful terrace, a functional kitchen, English-speaking employees and other joys of Laova, is catastrophically losing its attractiveness. The construction site not only squeals from seven in the morning and shamelessly stinks of paints, the new building blocks the sun, so the room is gloomy, damp and uncomfortable. If you add breakfasts to all this, which I don’t even want to describe, then you get a completely sad picture.
This hostel is the worst accommodation we've ever had on our trip.
Although, if not for the construction, the street is very pleasant.
Today we will not go to the mountains.
I love mountains, but more than anything, I love water. Rivers, lakes, waterfalls, streams, rain - all this delights me. Today we are going to the water! We are waiting for two lakes and one cave. And a waterfall!
I would like to say that in Wulingyuan there is something for a tourist to do. You can only walk in Avatar Park for three days. Or a week. How much power is enough. And besides the park, there is:
-Lake Baofeng,
-Huanglong Yellow Dragon Cave,
-Dragon King Longwangdong Cave
-and a very beautiful gorge Grand Canyon with a glass bridge.
We will not go to see the Grand Canyon for sure, I need Nadia alive. And I doubt the glass bridge won't kill her just by looking at it.
I once read about Luwandun and that's it. How and where to go, and what this cave is famous for, I did not understand. But I was not going to the cave at all, so I didn’t really look for its location.
And then all of a sudden I started to get together)
Huanglong Cave turned out to be more famous and accessible, besides, it has a lake (or a river, which is exactly the same for me), so we definitely go there. But first we need to go to Baofeng Lake.
To get to the lake, you must first get to the bus station, and then take bus number 1. You can walk to the bus station, but we still have a lot to walk, so we take a taxi. It costs 10 yuan to get to the bus station, and 20 to the lake. We take a taxi to the lake)
There is no queue, one or two and we are already on the territory. Around the mountain, incredible beauty.
Almost immediately we see the waterfall.
I have never seen such a classically picturesque Chinese waterfall. I drop everything - some phrase in mid-sentence, Nadia, fish in the pool and run to him. It's a pity that you can't go where the spray rises like a white cloud.
This is a work of art. It can be seen that a man put his hand to it, ennobled it, made a frame from a suspension bridge.
The thought even creeps in - isn't there a pipe in the mountains for the purity of the picture? )
What do you think?
The fish are also interesting,
but I have seen even thicker fish, but I have never seen a waterfall of such unnatural beauty.
We go further to look for the lake. The mountains around, although not Avatar's, are no less beautiful!
On the road, on the right, there is a footpath that leads us to a high staircase leading the tourist to the right, into the mountains. The sight of this staircase terrifies me, I understand that I simply cannot go up there.
Without thinking twice, I climb over the railing directly onto the roadway with the intention of stopping the bus carrying tourists up. Ha ha, I even wonder if he would have stopped? Most likely not. But, since no bus passed by, we will not know the answer to this question.
We walk along the roadway for a very short time, on the left we find another ladder, along which we come to the lake itself. There are no signs along the way, none of the employees were met. The map we took on the road didn't help much either.
Several monkeys are waiting for us by the lake, one of them with a baby.
The day is quite hot, the climb is steep, my strength is not enough for mountainous China, and I really want to sit by the lake and just enjoy the beauty.
But here they are just waiting for us. Tsigel-tsigel aylulu and we are in the boat.
The lake is beautiful, water and rocks - what more could you want.
A couple of floating houses, a short song for each, a leisurely story from a Chinese guide. Stop a moment.
But no, moments fly with the whistle of a bullet. We do not have time to look back, as we are already on the other side.
What I miss in China is places where you can just sit. The beauties are crazy, but the pace of their inspection is too fast.
We got out of the boat and immediately went down the stairs.
The stairs are also very beautiful.
Sometimes unexpected details.
Where does this miracle lead? )
If you are still thinking about whether or not to go to Baofeng Lake - go! Very nice place.
The stairs lead us to the salamander. Probably, I have not seen a salamander in my life and this salamander is very big, but it does not impress me. She sleeps like an inanimate deck in the corner of the pool, and construction is going on nearby, pipes are being unloaded. Bammm! - Throw another piece of iron into a common pile. A grinder drill screeches on a high note. She's following us.
I close my ears and run from there headlong. These sounds can drive you crazy. And I've always been sure that no sounds annoy me.
Again we go to the waterfall. Water flows and flows, soothes, smoothes agitated nerves. I would sit there for half a day, but the sun warms the top of my head. It's time to hide in the cave)
For those who will go to see Lake Baofeng, I inform you that if you go up that staircase that we ignored, you will find yourself in a beautiful place with a temple. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZapMbAlt7o/
