25 May - As we depart 丽江 and move to 香格里拉, we booked a driver for this journey, dropping by 虎跳峡 and 白水台 along the way. It was a pretty scenic drive, with beautiful mountains, raging river and beautiful white terraces. What an amazing work that God has created!
24 May - Today is the highlight of the trip, going up to the highest point we ever reached in our entire life, 玉龙雪山观景台 at 4506m. As I still have not recovered from my bout of cough, I gave up climbing to another higher platform at 4608m. To start the day, we woke up super early at 5am just to catch the 日照金山 view. Before that, we listened in to a safety briefing on 高反 as the cable car that is going to bring all of us up will be ascending 1000m in 10mins. Pretty much a high risk event that most people will experience some sort of discomfort. To lower the risk, they recommended some 中药 mixture that will help elevate the oxygen content in the blood so that the risk of 高反 is lowered. Well, health is more important, so we just buy the mixture and drink, especially we just saw a news that a Malaysia tourist died after visiting 玉龙雪山 a few weeks before this trip. To prepare for ascending 玉龙雪山, a common advice widely circulated is not to wash your hair 1 day before and after as washing hair might increase blood circulation and make the 高反 worse.
23 May - After we are done with 丽江古城 last night, we started the day with 白沙古镇 and later 束河古镇 mainly for 打卡 and touring the old towns. 白沙古镇坐落于玉龙雪山脚下，拥有观赏雪山绝佳的无遮挡视野, 同时也保留了纳西族原汁原味古都的风貌.
22 May - Today we bid farewell to 大理 and proceed to take a train to our next destination 丽江. As usual, 2nd class seating means we need to rush to secure the limited luggage space on train. After 2 hours journey, we arrived at 丽江, 2400m above sea level, which is 400m higher than 大理.
