Autumn y, misty dusk fell for good. I walk the path along the tram tracks, under a row of old, magnificent poplars. Uncomfortably cold air nips at your hands, face, squeezes under clothing.
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splash of water splashing on the white tiled counter. In China, this type of shelf with a slightly raised edge that water does not flow down to his feet standing next to her person, it serves as a universal sink and wash basin. Wash your face here, food products, as well as washes the clothes. Typically, however, that flew from the tap water is very cold, especially in the mountains and the South. However, this water is very warm. It flows directly from the hot springs, many of which are in the area. Pairing, pleasantly warm zziębnięte hands.
It is mid-January and peaks of mountains across the valley from the old rail stops is snow, but in the valley no trace of white. There is a lot for this dust. Bumpy, rutted lined, winding roads around this valley, situated on the slopes of a Tibetan village, like a cobweb. Everything is beige and gray, dusty. The ubiquitous dust, moreover, is probably an inherent attribute of Tibet. Mountains are everywhere - big and majestic, as compared with them, man is very insignificant.
From above surrounding each embankments house of dried mud and clay, emerge from the crown of old pear and walnuts. These trees, which add so much friendliness and hospitality of this, in fact, wild and bleak, full of stones, dust and dried clay area, here are the commonest, and at each visit to the local people can be a snack - just nuts and pears. And, of course, tea. Strange is tea, because of the salt, butter and crushed nuts. It tastes more like a soup can, but in cold, windy day what better comforted and will not add strength? Often, when I go through, from behind farm gate fall disheveled and grimy Tibetan children, run up and squeeze my hands ripe pears and nuts. Although the area belong to the poorest in China, the local people are still warm and friendly.
Nearby, on the other side of the ravine, lies the town of Yanjing, which means "Salt Well." The name comes from the ancient and still here the method used for obtaining salt by evaporating brine emanating from sources near the river bank. The water that the local villagers to collect the barrels that then bring back the steep paths up the slopes of the ravine, where he supported on wooden piles, the so-called "salt box". They are a platform built of boards, then covered with silt and mud, which is poured into brine to evaporate. Then, on the surface of the mud there is a thin, white layer of salt crystals, which is carefully scraped off, packed into sacks and carries on his back to lying above the "salt fields" of town, where she goes further in the World. Once the local salt was famous and respected in this part of Tibet and nearby Yunnan. It was only later noticed that the very poor in iodine causes thyroid hyperplasia and many other ailments. In this way, the salt of Yanjing had fallen to the rank of the product for the poor.
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