On the way to Yisa 在去迤萨的路上
Yisa is the capital of Honghe county, where I am temporally working as an one-year-contract voluntary English teacher.
The very first visit to this small moutainous town is so impresssive that it will never escape from my mind in the days to come.
After Jianshui(建水县）was a 3-hour-long laborous trek, which should account as my first adventure. The big question mark of"What is our destination like and how soon will we arrive " haunted me all the way. The road ahead becoming tougher and tougher, my heart felt heavier and heavier while my eyes opened wider and wider. The carved-along-mountain trail looked scary though the roadside seneries were overwhelmingly appealing with various valleys unfold one after another. I must admit the matter of three hours witnessed my tremendous stress mixed with matchless excitment. The cliffsides were steep enough to made me freak out as hell even at a peek. Again, there were tons of danger zones where piled fallen stones almost blocked the narrow trail. At this point, I would looked up and down repeatedly and neverously to wach out for the possible crash.
No sooner our driver made it to a safe section than I conjured up a fary land for the far-far-away Yisa, for I believed only saints could choose to live in such a secluded wilderness. The altitude was increasingly high and it seems that you have reached a no-man’s land, except for oncoming vehicles accasionally appearing around sharp bends.
Simutaniously, beyond words was the idyllic wonder. The spectacular terrace was spreading downward from under your nose till some invisable point far far below, where it converged with other various equally vast rice paddies. Another greatest part was when we arrived at a roadside market where I saw some real-life ethnic minorities for the first time .Previously, I only saw them on all kinds of medias, who have got distinguished characteristics such as extra-colorful and silverware-adorned costumes . I was thrilled to watch them touting and bargaining in the husssle and bussle. Very very exotic and really really cool .
Finally, our stunning "walk on the wire" came to an end. But I felt dizzy during the last upward bends that were sharper and more intense. I was even puzzled when the driver told us Yisa was only a minute away and I was yet to see its tip. The very very last second, after a super sharp turn, Yisa, proudly dominating all the valleys we had conquered like a mysterious castle high on one of those peaks, presented itself without any reserve before its exsausted and eager visitors at the last moment,only in its own special way ——sudddenly, suprizingly and dramatically .
