When the bus just climbed to the height of 3200m, I deeply understood all the connotations of the word "vastness". The mountains began to recede into the distance like a flood, and in front of my eyes were low hills and prairies full of prayer flags. To make a vulgar analogy, Shangri-La in May is simply a magnificent and magnificent place. Whether it's the surrounding hills or the grassland under your feet, flowers are blooming everywhere. The sky overhead, thief blue. It seems to be a tilted glass carefully polished by the hand of God. On the mountain covered with prayer flags, several bright white clouds stood motionless, like elaborate stage scenery. In the distance, rows of snow-capped mountains are magnificent and covered with sheep fat-like snow. In the north, Balagengzong Snow Mountain is known as "the first peak of Shangri-La". To the east are the majestic Du Lang Snow Mountain and Tianbao Snow Mountain. Farther away, it is Baima Snow Mountain and Meili Snow Mountain. Under the glass-transparent sunlight, these majestic snow-capped mountains are shining with jade-like dazzling white light.
Meili Snow Mountain is a very famous snow mountain, which needs to be further explained in life. Meili Snow Mountain is its scientific name, and its baby name is Prince Snow Mountain. Its ice peak is towering, majestic and aloof. There are as many as 13 ice peaks at an altitude of six or seven kilometers. It is a pilgrimage site of Tibetan Buddhism and is called "Thirteen Peaks of Prince". Standing above the thirteen peaks is the main peak, Kagebu Peak, which is 6740 meters above sea level, ranking first among the eight sacred mountains in Tibetan areas.
This is a spiritual mountain, cold and mysterious, like an ancient taboo. It refused to conquer and approach it. Although its altitude is much lower than Mount Everest, so far no China or foreign explorers or travelers have reached its peak. For those who rush in, it can give not only disappearance, but also death. Some people call it "the third country on earth", and there is a touching Mosuo legend. On the grassland that stretches to the end of the horizon like a carpet, there are a large group of yaks as strong as black iron, Tibetan sheep as white clouds, and pack horses as agile as mountain wind, chewing young grass leisurely.
Shangri-La County, located in an open land, is the simplest and most humble county I have ever seen. It's a city, but it doesn't have the bearing and attitude of a city. In fact, it is just an ordinary plateau town, simple, simple and rambling. Like a scribbled sketch, like a short sketch. Most of the buildings in the town are mainly in Tibetan architectural style, three-dimensional, low and closed. Strolling through the streets of the town, you can't feel the noise of the city at all, and there are no cold and crowded buildings that block your connection with the sky and the earth. In Shangri-La, all the concepts about the city were abolished and faded out. There are no KFC, hamburgers, supermarkets or even a decent cinema. But there are buttered tea, Hada, Saussurea involucrata, Cordyceps sinensis, highland barley wine, saffron, an eagle flying in the sky and Zhuo Ma flying on horseback.