18-9-2015
早上，天气良好。数位摄影组员再次回到落霞沟，拍照日出美景。
早餐后，告别了友善的酒店老板，在九点十五分左右，离开红土地，朝向400 公里外的普者黑前进。这是一段需时超过六、七小时。
途中，我们参观了两个少数民族的古老村落。我们见到了农民们辛劳的工作，但充满热爱及快乐的生活。他们生活清苦，但脸上还都显现笑容。
中午时分，我们经过一段偏僻的荒野，有一辆吊车正在操作，吊放巨大的水泥电线柱子，把马路一半给挡住，只有超小小型车辆及摩多车才可以通过。我们只好等待它作业完毕后才通过，预算需要半个小时左右。
突然，缺乏耐心的指使，司机决定冒险利用一半路肩通过，但却没料到那是非常松的泥土地，巴士右边的前后两轮都陷入泥土中，动弹不得，而且非常倾斜，有翻车的危险。
欲速不达，只得等待吊车半个小时之后，作业完毕，要求帮忙。
吊车司机老虎开大口，索取人民币2000 元才愿意帮忙。经过一番讨价还价，肉在栈板上，巴士司机没帮法，只好照付而已。
在这荒野地方，最近的救援，也需数小时，也不知是否能够找到。我们心里也非常的慌张。当时天气时晴时阴，有下雨的可能，其中还有一位两岁的孩童呢。
我看着巴士的倾斜度，非常的危险，祈望在吊车的过程中，不会翻车。
很自然的，求助祷文马上念个不停：『吁玛丽亚，无原罪始胎者，我们向你求助，请为我们转求』; 『主耶稣，求你垂怜，俯听我们的请求』 。那时候，除了人力之外，神的助佑同样的重要。
经过了一番折腾，吊车徐徐的巴士吊上路面，大家一阵释怀，还给了一阵掌声。经过一番检查，巴士倒是没有损害。
感谢天主，一个半小时之后， 我们可以续程往目的地前进了。
这是整个旅程中，最惊险的时刻。
我们在下午近两点才用午餐。
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18-9-2015
The weather was good, so few of our group members went out early morning to take pictures of sunrise.
After breakfast, we bid goodbye to the friendly hotel owner, and left at about 9:15 am for a 400-km, 7 hours journey to our next destination - Pu Zhe Hei, South East of Yunnan.
En route, we visited 2 ancient villages of minority tribe of China.
The villagers in one of the villages are tobacco farmers. Yunnan is a major tobacco supplier throughout the country.
At noon , we were stopped at a remote area on the way because of a crane lifting heavy concrete lamp posts in the middle of the road. It blocked more than half of the road and only small vehicle and motorcycle were able to pass through.
We decided to wait out the operation, which would take another half an hour.
However, our bus driver was feeling impatient and decided to drive through using the road shoulder. Unfortunately, the soil was loose and soft, thus the right front and back wheels of the bus were stuck, and the bus was heavily tilted to one side.
The only option was to wait for the crane to complete its operation, and seeked help from the crane driver.
With no possible help and remoteness of the location, our bus driver has to accept the demand of RMB 2000 from the crane driver to lift the bus.
We were in the middle of no where, the sky was changing, it might rain ... we have no shelter. I was also worried that during the operation, the bus may tilt over ...
" O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who has recourse to thee .." " Lord Jesus have Mercy, help us ". I prayed unceasingly.
After a tense moment, the crane successfully lift the bus back to road surface. Everyone heaved a heavy sigh and gave a round of applause!
The whole episode took more than one and a half hour.
After a check on the bus which suffered no damage, Thank God, we continued our journey and had lunch at about 2 pm in a small town.
What a great misadventure!
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