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We decide to go this time further north, to a destination based unexpected: it is time to see this glacier Mingyong in the Tibetan region! The trip can be done in 2 stages, first of Shangri-la to Deqin, and then to Deqin Mingyong.

A monastery shortly after Zhongdian. It would be interresting to visit but probably prohibits tourists (which is not really evil).

Point A is in fact Zhongdian (Shengri it) and Point B is Dequin. There are about 200 km or 5-6 hours by bus on blanks mountains.

Many monks use this bus to travel between monasteries. Note also that they do not pay the bus, unlike all the others!

It is often landslides and accidents, which may make this endless journey. Here, a couple has been very hot!

At the top of the Baima Snow Mountain.

Deqin, a river of concrete flowing in a Tibetan valley. So the only real city in the surrounding 200km. You can recharge them easily, unlike the surrounding villages! We do not stop there, however, only to find another means of transport.

Not easy to find buses to get to Mingyong here. The alternative idea is to go to Feilaisi, but it does not seem to be a very good plan. Finally, after small negotiations with local taxis, they share directly Mingyong.

The road to Dequin Mingyong is really beautiful, even if much of the route is in the dust at the edge of ravines. We trusted the taxi knows the field as his pocket. Opposite Village Sinong (???).

After a night in a hotel in Mingyong (the choice is not wide, but after having visited a thrashing, I will advise you to first enter the village, and avoid at all costs when the last proponents are true scammers), climbing to the glacier.

This is a hike rather easy (about 1h30 to get there without jog).

I thought we were the first and only to rise, yet the Chinese were already dealing with their little stalls altitude and children bite sticks of incense on small temples.

Here the glacier Mingyong. He lost about 200m in length in just 4 years, probably a result of global warming, but there are other opinions (see Article www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/features/art19699.html).

The glacier is 17km long, and part of Mount Meili (also known as the Kawagebo, 6740m altitude).

Anni Zhilei - the dean of Mingyong - sends an old story: a stranger would come one day long ago, would have made a small model of the mountain and then would have melted, showing a great disrespect for the god of Meili and proclaiming the future of this place. But he has another theory: before they had no electricity, except that it destroys the glacier. The glacier is cold, electricity is hot, so the two can not coexist. The village elder does Would it not the Jean-Claude Van Damne Chinese?

Da Zhaxi, Mayor Mingyong, insists that the glacier is essential for the existence of his village, outside the village is thriving largely thanks to the arrival of foreigners (the Chinese Han are also considered "foreigners" here !)... it seems that this took place either in a vicious circle that we need to break one way or another.

Glacier, it was a beautiful view over the valley, where you can also see the small village of Mingyong fearful.

Back to Mingyong, we do not really know where to go, that is our next destination Dali ... the idea will eventually hire a Chinese place to take us directly to Zhongdian (after a pleasant meal in Deqin).

That's all for our little tour of the Tibetan side ...

Zhondian seems very far away, the car is not very fast, but you can still enjoy the scenery.

Sunset.

Before night falls, we have the chance to admire the Rizhui Mountain, near the Benzilan. This is the first hook of the Jinsha Jiang (later becoming the Yangtze River). Check-in 22h to Zhondian, not easy to find a hotel! We will not take too much spoiled for choice, so much the better perhaps. The next day departure to Dali, the last leg of our trip to Yunnan.