Road trip to Tibet, Day 1---the earthquake memory & first time taste buttered tea !

Finally , I start my road trip to Tibet , where I want to go many years ago . In my college period , many Chinese liked walking to Tibet or by bicycle ,even now , still can see some people cycling to Tibet .

You can see many flat like this in the whole trip ,it have five color , is a culture of Tibet , use for blessing.

I join a small group in this trip , include the leader ,just 5 people , is easy to get close with small group ,and we 5 in similar age. Another, 2 Inner Mongolia uncle follow our group , total 7 people.

The first stop is Wenchuan Middle School(汶川中学). In 2008 , there was a destoryed earthquake in Wenchuan, and this Middle school stop the time at that moment .
When we visit this ruins, we talk about our memory at that time , Peng said when the earthquake happened, they were still in classes , and when their teacher found the earthquake , she asked all the students stay in class. I was surprised and said "why ask you stay in class ?! when earthquake happened we should go to somewhere open field ,right ?!"
I just can said , before that earthquake , many Chinese have less earthquake knowledge, especially in villages.

Left there , we keep on the trip , a strong fog in front of us !

A village we take rest , this is one of their building , someone taking rest under stairs , their life are so peace !

We found a very old bridge , how dangerous it is !!! How they go through this bridge at the past time ?!

Most of their cars/trucks have many ornament , that's used to keep their safe.

Danba Village, a tribe who build the houses with a special style in mountains , when you drive enough high ,you can get a great view for the whole village.

The hotel we stay tonight , a full of ethnic flavor hotel , I like it !

And our dinner also with ethnic flavor ~

This is the buttered tea, a famous tea in Tibet , it have two taste , salty and sweet , this time we try the salty , it taste......I think I will like the sweet more .

Travel in Chengdu, Day 3---the way to Moxi Ancient Town(磨西古镇)

I join a tour group to Hailuogou, normally I don't like to join group when travelling , but I found drive in Chengdu seems very difficult , the traffic is very crowd and mess, join group should be better !

In Chengdu , the sky is grey color, but go through a mountain , the sky turn blue ,wonderful color !
The first stop is Luding Bridge ,it is very famous in our history , almost all Chinese know this bridge. I just take photo at side .

even it is so famous , but for me , it still just a bridge . if you want to go though , seems need to pay CNY 10.

Then we go forward to The Red Rock Beach. Although it's name call Beach, but actually it local at the halfway up a mountain ,it's a red stone garden.
the red matter surround the stone is a kind of red-orange algae, cause there have a special weather for this algae, so they are growing fast and make this special view.
On the way up to the mountain , we saw more and more snow cover on the trees , we can see the snow mountains near us , fantastic view ~

We arrive Moxi Ancient Town ,this is my room , not bad ,in this small town, this was a good place to stay.

Our dinner was a local specialty hotpot, the sauce is mix by yourselves, and the food is unlimit, the best dinner in this trip .

We watch a Tibet show at night , some Tibet songs , Tibet style dance , Tibet Fashion show, and also a part we can go on the stage dance together with them~

Moxi Ancient Town the building are special with other Ancient Town, and many building are new, but less for the town residents, most for the tours, they all build by the same style.
In Ancient Town, the standard configuration is a Bar Street, there have a few small Bar , not very loud , you can enjoy some music and drinks there.