The Best of Xinjiang---Hiking in "Golden" Altay （4）

Day-4 Little Black Lake to Kanas Lake


Today, it was our last day of this hiking trail. We will finally arrived at the Kanas Lake, where is the Kanas National Park administration committee located. 















Since yesterday was all day up, as a result, today's route was downhill, elevation decreases from 3,500 meters (Black Lake) to 2,000 meters (Kanas Lake).


As the elevation went down, we could see spruces and birches again. Moss shifted to meadow. We cannot help with capturing this scenery with snow mountain, meadow surrounded by graceful clouds.

Carrying a huge backpack and down from 3,500 meters was not that easy. After almost 6-hour down walk, my knees got hurt badly.

Finally, we arrived at the Kanas Lake, which is famous for its lake monsters.  Years ago, people captured a video which showed that there were a giant creature moving underneath the water. Since then, the tale of Kanas monster became famous.

Due to recent tourist industry, the local children can have a chance to go to modern school and connect with outside world. 




The left pic was Kanas Elementary School. 

After 4 day hiking, without hot water, we cannot even take a shower. Right now, everyone need to take off their huge backpack and enjoy a hot shower.

The Best of Xinjiang---Hiking in "Golden" Altay （3）

They decided to hire dhorses, I didn't

Day 3 Hemu Village to Black Lake

It was our third day of hiking, which everyone felt tired. Yet, we had to face the most difficult part of this hiking, which starts from Hemu Village and ends at Black Lake. 

                             

Foggy Morning

       

Everyone said today would be the most challenging one, for the reason that today's hiking elevation is all the way up, from 2,000 meters to 3,500 meters above sea level. We can started from Hemu Village with a t-shirt; then we spent almost 8 hours finally arrived at Black Lake, we found out that we might need a coat. You can see this variety of elevation from different types of plants. 

Sunshine showed up finally

Golden Birches

My partner Lei Gao

as far as we went, high trees---moss

Kazakh and their cattle

The yurt that we are gonna to stay

Little Black Lake (Before)

That morning was heavily foggy, and many of travelers decided to hire horses and local guide to finish the rest. I still decided to use my feet to face this challenge.

That day, we were like meet all four seasons. It was spring in the morning, and summer come when the sun rose. As we arrived to the Black Lake, felt like autumn, since no more high plants, moss everywhere. Finally, as snow covered the lake and mountains, we met winter. 

That night, it was one of my greatest time of life. The Kazakhstan household of our yurt made some wine for us, and showed us how to play Dombra and sang Kazakh folk songs.

Little Black Lake (After)

With great wine and beautiful Kazakh songs, we are going to face the last day of this trip tomorrow. 

The Best of Xinjiang---Hiking in "Golden" Altay （2）

Morning Sunshine

Day 2 Halfway Lodge to Hemu Village

After saying goodbyeto the hospital Kazakh friend Jia Naer, my friends and I began to head to nextstop, Hemu Village, which is a Tuvinians’ village.

We are heading to Hemu Village

Tuvans are Turkic ethnic group who mainly live in southern Siberia. However there are still 3,900 Tuvinians living in China, and Hemu village is the largest settlement of those people. When I was in high school, I was taught from history textbook that West Turkic Empire was beaten by Tang Dynasty around 7th century; then they had to move all the way to the west and became the current ancestor of Turkish.  Surprisingly, nowadays, people can still meet great Turkic descents who live in the far west part of China. 

 

Tuvan and his horse

At the afternoon, we walked across a couple of houses of Tuvans. As we can see from the pictures, basically, they are nomadic people. Most of them raise cattle and horses. As the sunset "pour down" onto the hillside, cattle, horses and Mountain Alta, that looks fabulous! 

Handsome, isn't it?

For the second day hiking, some of suggestions online may tell you that you can spend like 4 hours to finish it; whereas my suggest is that take you time. Slow down. Enjoy the wonderful scenery. You can get up around 9 AM, and have a great lunch by the halfway creek. Then finish the rest, which this whole trail may cost you 6 hours.

why you staring at me?

I mean, not everyone can see this scenery   during their whole life, so why not you just slow down and enjoy this god's masterpieces?

finally, we arrived at Hemu village! ( See Top Left )

Tomorrow, we will face the most challenging part of this 4-day hiking, which begins from Hemu Village and ends at Black Lake. What is gonna happen? We will SEE...

《看见》的读书笔记之二

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p.117 柴静写道：“ 海子有句诗，深得我心，‘天空一无所有，为何给我安慰’。”

『我也觉得海子这句话问得好问得妙』

p.139-145, 柴静记述了一个叫郝劲松人的故事：“ 他是个普通的学法律的学生，连个律师证都没有，以 公民 的名义打官司。两年多，他打了七场--他在火车餐车上买一瓶水，要发票，列车员都笑了：“火车自古没有发票。”于是他起诉铁道部和国家税务总局。“在强大的机构面前人们往往除了服从别无选择，但是我不愿意。”他说，“我要把他们拖上战场，我不一定能赢，但我会让他们觉得痛，让他们害怕有十几二十几个像我这样的人站出来，让他们因为害怕而迅速地改变。”...“今天你可以失去获得的权利，你不抗争，明天你同样会失去更多的权利，人身权，财产权，包括土地房屋。中国现在这种状况不是偶然造成的，二十长期温水煮青蛙的一个结果，大家会觉得农民的土地被侵占了与我何干，火车不开发票，偷漏税与我何干，别人的房屋被强拆与我何干，有一天，这些事情都会落在你的身上。”“但一个人的力量能改变什么呢？”“看看罗莎·帕克斯，整个世界为之改变。”

 p.s：『帕克斯就是当年在阿拉巴马州首府蒙哥马利市公车上不给白人让座的黑人大姐。她说，我只是讨厌屈服。他的被捕引发了蒙哥马利市长达385天的黑人抵制公交车运动，组织这就是当年名不见经传的马丁·路德·金。这场运动的结果，是1956联邦最高法院裁决禁止公车上的黑白隔离，帕克斯从此被尊民权运动之母。五十年后，在帕克斯的葬礼上，美国国务卿赖斯说，没有她，我不可能站在这里。 这段儿历史，要记得。同时也要记得郝劲松这样的公民，吾辈之榜样！ 』

p.200-211,在讲述她做《新闻调查》的时候有一个案子是一个女子踩死猫的视频，她去采访然后再书里写道：“ 十九世纪初，英国有人提出禁止虐待马 猪 牛 羊等动物。提案在国会引起巨大争议，最终被下院否决，这是人类历史上首次试图从法律上肯定动物以生命体存在。1822年，世界上第一个反对虐待动物的法案在英国出台，之后，陆续有一百多个国家通过《反虐待动物发法》。不过中国目前还没有此项法律。美国最高法院的大法官霍尔姆斯说：“法律不是一个道德或是伦理问题。他的作用是制定规则，规则的意义不在于告诉社会成员如何生活，而是告诉他们，在规则遭到破坏时，他们可以预期到会得到什么。”...“有天翻书，看到斯宾诺莎在《伦理学》里说：“嘲笑 轻蔑 愤怒 报复...这些情绪，都与恨有关或者含有因恨而起的成分，不能成为善。”...斯宾诺莎还说过一句：“希望和失望也决不能是善。因为恐惧是一种痛苦，希望不能脱离恐惧而存在，所以希望和失望都表示知识的缺乏，和心灵的软弱无力。”这话太硬了，我消化了好久。他界定“观察”的实质是：“不赞美，不责难，甚至也不惋惜，但求了解认识而已。”

『记住霍尔姆斯给法律的定义，说的太棒了；斯宾诺莎关于希望和失望的解读也很棒。』



总结来说， 这是一本不那么小清新的书，作为一个体制内的媒体人，柴静仍是我的榜样，女神！

《看见》的读书笔记

  读完了柴静的《看见》，给我一种感觉，柴静不是在展示一个本真的我 而是在展示一个文青的柴静和她的生活工作圈子。而现实真的那么美好么？我不知道。。。

  现在摘录一些打动我心的句子吧：

p.16-17， “2003年2月...新疆地震，6.8级的地震，两百多人死亡，眼睛能看到的范围内，土木结构的房子基本完了，喀什噶尔平原上空空荡荡。”  『这事儿我自己一点印象也没有，也许是那年才初中一年级吧，不过当我22岁到了喀什噶尔，外加读过这段之后，把这一切联系到了一起』

p.34-39 “人民医院...这个有八十五年历史的三级甲等医院刚刚宣布整体隔离...天井，一个楼与楼之间的天井，加个盖，就成了个完全封闭的空间，成了输液室，发热的病人都集中到这里来输液。二十七张床几乎完全挨在一起，中间只有一只拳头的距离。白天也就靠灯光，没有通风，没有窗，只有一个中央空调的排气口，这个排气口把病菌传染到各处...墙上的黑板，上面写了二十二个人的名字，其中十九个后面都用白粉笔写着：肺炎，肺炎，肺炎...实际上都是SARS...人民医院有九十三名医护人员感染非典，急诊科六十二人中二十四人感染，两位医生殉职...墙那边一街之隔，就是卫生部。”  『现在读到十年前关于非典的那段记忆，除了震撼还是震撼』

p.68 柴静提到她的新偶像是意大利记者法拉奇，一个从不害怕的女人。她举了两个例子“一个实如何强硬态度去采访伊朗宗教领袖霍姆尼；另一个是采访以色列沙龙，指责他轰炸了贝鲁特的平民区” 『我只是不知道这个叫法拉奇的新闻人』

p.81-95页， 柴静采访孤独症儿童时，采访不顺利，摄影师赵铁林对她说“你想采访弱者，就要让弱者同情你。当初我拍那些小姐，因为我比她们还穷，我连吃饭的钱都没有，他们可怜我，让我拍，拍完了，她们还请我吃饭。” 柴静就有关同性恋问题问张北川教授：“我们的社会为什么不接纳同性恋者？” 张会达到：“因为我们的性文化里，把生育当作性的目的，把无知当纯洁，把愚昧当德行，把偏见当原则。”  『说的都很到位』

p.101-113 在有关家暴问题的一章里，柴静写道：“全世界都存在难以根除的家庭暴力，没有任何婚姻制度可以承诺给人幸福，但应该有制度使人可以避免极端的不幸...人性里从来不会只有恶或善，但是恶得不到抑制，就会吞吃别人的恐惧长大，尖牙啃咬着他们身体里的善，和着一口一口的酒咽下去。最后一夜，血红的眼睛睁开，人的脸也许在背后挣扎闪了一下，没有来得及尖叫，就在黑色的漩涡里沉下去了，暴力一瞬间反噬其身...Kim(李阳的前妻）被打后曾去报警，有位男性以劝慰的口气说：“你知道，这儿不是美国。”她说：“我当然知道，但肯定在中国有法律，男人不能打女人。”他说：“是啊，你说的对，男人不能打女人，但老公可以打老婆。”  『最后这个男人的口吻看得我牙痒痒，可是他却又说出来今天中国社会的现实，唉 无力』



今晚就先打到这儿吧，夜已深，心已远。。。
列位，晚安。