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[baokamo]

••• Tributary of the Yangtze, Jinsha Jiang traverses, at times with torrential violence, the heartland of the Naxi people. Here, it cuts down south, parting the massif surrounding Haba and Yulong Snow Mountain. Both peaks towering at well above 5,000 m. Yulong, the "Jade Dragon", only revealing itself for those that push on, two, three hours to the northeast. Lying there, inconspicuous, in ageless slumber. I spent a couple of days by foot on Haba's side of the gorge, then continued by hitching rides from Jiangbiancun to Habacun and Gyalthang. •••