Dream Trip 2009

Great Travel Moment

On a day so bright you tend to forgot that clouds exist, I went to the sacred Jade Dragon Mountain. On the way, across the main bridge to the mountain, I was threading over another sacred site. The Glacier River. The water melts down from the top of the sacred Himilayan mountain, thus is also considered holy. The people depend on this water. If a Naxi man wishes to marry, he must declare his love for his intended while standing in the freezing water, because one cannot lie while standing in such holy water. It's said that if you wash your hands in the river once, you get good fortune; Twice: good luck; and Three times: Good Romance. The water is so clean, it left a tingling sensation on my hands. It was not as cold as expected in december, in the Himiliyas, in a glacier river. Many couples that day wadded through the water, professing their love and warming themselves on the stones at the edge of the river.