九塞溝シリーズ⑭ 夏は花盛り"Jiuzhaigou-Series(14) The summer is in full bloom."

まだまだ続く九塞溝

Jiuzhaigou    It still continues.

鏡の海も綺麗だけど

The Lake of a mirror is also clean.

そこに咲いている高山植物の群落もとても綺麗でした

The community of the alpine plant in bloom there was also very clean.

中には、チベット族の美人さんも民族衣装に着飾って

まるで花のよう

Ms. the Tibetan's beauty dresses up in a traditional costume, too, and it seems to be a flower.

鏡のような水面と綺麗な植物たち、自然の織りなすハーモニーですね

It's the beautiful harmony beautiful plants and nature interweave with the water level like the mirror, isn't it?

次の写真は前に空から撮っていた長海

とても綺麗ですよね

The location of the aerial photography to which the next picture was contributed before and Long Lake.

It's very beautiful, 

この美しさは、しっかり記憶の中にも刻まれています

This beauty is also cut in the memory tightly.

僕だけが少し疲れているように見えますが、元気でしたよ

Only I seemed to pine a little, but I was fine.

ここは4000mを超える高山地帯、やっぱり朝夕は冷えるのでジャンパー姿です

A morning and evening get cold as expected, so a high mountain zone beyond 4000m is the jacket form here.

枯れ木と美しい草花

Dead tree and beautiful flowering plant

自然の厳しさと優しさと言うか・・・説明の必要はありませんね

Whether you say the natural severity and gentleness... doesn't have to be the explanation, right?

駐車場には観光客を待つバスがずらりと

Line of the bus which waits for a tourist in a parking.

ここで現実の世界に引き戻されます

It's restored to the real world here.

ここも長海も鏡の海でした。

It's.......So.....Mirror Lake!!

僕の心も清らかに

Maybe my heart also became clear.

九塞溝シリーズ⑬ 鏡海 "Jiuzhaigou Series(13) Mirror Lake"

九塞溝ももうシリーズ１３回目

Jiuzhaigou already, the 13th time of series,

長いでしょ、ここは総延長が60km余りの景観ルートをたどりますからね

まだまだ続きます

It would be long, because the total length follows about 60 km of view route, this still continues.

ここは、国家最高レベルの自然保護と風景保護区

中国陸軍の兵士が要所要所で警備をしていました

Soldier of nature protection of a state most high level, landscape wild life preservation area and the Chinese army was guarding at an important position important position here.

先に紹介した珍珠灘大瀑布を横目に眺め新たな東側のルートへ入ります

I look while glancing sideways at the Pearl shoals large waterfall introduced first and enter a route on the new east side.

この九塞溝には114もの湖沼があり、大きな湖は鏡海と呼ばれているものが多数あります、滝群は１７か所

The waterfall crowd who has lakes and marshes as much as 114 in this Jiuzhaigou and has many something by which a big lake is called a mirror sea is 17.

水が澄み切って綺麗な上に、周りを囲んでいるのが4000mクラスの高い山々の間を抜けていく谷間なので、風が静かな場所が多いのでしょう。

Water is clear, and beautiful and it's the valley where it can be being removed during the high mountains in 4000m class to circle the turn, so the places where a wind is quiet will be a lot of ones.

湖の表面が鏡のようです

The surface of the lake seems to be a mirror.

静けさと美しさ、他にたとえようがないほどの素晴らしい感動でした 

It was the wonderful impression which is to the extent it couldn't be compared to the quiet and beauty and others.

いかにこの湖群が澄み切って美しいか、写真を見ていただけるだけで理解してくれると思います。

I think you can just see a picture, and however clear and beautiful whether this lake school is you understand.

この九塞溝では去年大きな地震被害がありました、この写真は震災前に撮ったものです、この美しい風景がどの程度いじできているかが心配です。

This picture big seismic damage was last year was taken before an earthquake disaster at this Jiuzhaigou, I'm worried which degree this beautiful landscape can maintain.

深い谷間を流れる沢の音、その音を聴きながらトレッキングをするのは最高の気分でした  

 To go trekking felt like being best though it heard the tone and its tone of the swamp which flows through a deep valley.

大自然の作り上げた、この世界、言葉では表現できません

This beautiful world great outdoors completed can't be expressed by a word.

先に説明した滝や湖に加え、カルシウム化された浅瀬５か所、泉が47か所、急流が１１区間・・・・1870mの高低差で１２個の雪峰の間を通り抜けています

Calcium-ized 5 banks and spring as well as the waterfall and the lake explained first go through 47 points and between the snow-covered mountain where 11 sections of rapids are 12 by the difference of ups and downs in....., and the 1870m.

通り抜ける水辺には多数の高山植物や花々が咲き乱れています

A lot of alpine plant and flowers are in full bloom in the waterside where I go through.

この鏡海も時間を追うごとに色合いが変化していくのでしょう。

Every time this Mirror lake also runs after time, the shade will change.

九塞溝、ホテルの夜 "Jiuzhaigou...Night in a hotel"

ここはインターコンチネンタルホテル

Here is Intercontinental Hotel in Jiuzhaigou.

巨大なガラスのドームがいくつもあって

その中は公園のような施設や古いチベットの村のような石組みの建物

この次の写真のようなレストラン街もあります

There are many domes of huge glass, and there are also a building of arrangement of a garden stone and a restaurant district like a picture next to this like a village of facilities like a park and old Tibet in it. 

綺麗なチベット族の衣裳を身にまとったウェイトレスさんが歩きまわっています

A waitress who fits a costume of the beautiful Tibetan on a body is going around.

いろんな料理の店がたくさんあるのですが、私が連れて行ってもらった店は

ここ特有の山の特産物をふんだんに使った鍋物をいただきました

There are many restaurant of various dishes, the store I had them bring there where received the food served in the hot pot for which a locally produced item in the mountain peculiar to here was used abundantly.

マツタケをはじめ高級な薬草などを使った高級料理です

It's a luxury dish using luxury herb including matsutake mushroom.

この鍋の様子では、価値判断は難しいですね

The valued judgment is difficult in the state of this pot, isn't it?

現地でも数万円、日本で食べたならとんでもない値段になります。

If even tens of thousands of yen of site ate in Japan, it'll be the unexpectedness price.

日本では無理かな??

Is it impossible in Japan?

お土産物屋さんも館内にたくさんあります

There are also many gift shops in inside of the building.

チベットの風景や人々を描いた絵も人気があるようでした

The landscape of Tibet and the picture which drew people also seemed popular.

僕の利用した部屋

ええ、独りでした・・・・ちょっと寂しいよね

They were the room I used and the room where two queen-size beds were put, I, with one person, it was used...., and were you slightly lonely?

部屋から眺める夕焼けも綺麗でした

The sunset I see from the room was also clean.

この写真がだんだんと山が赤く燃えるような色に変わっていきます

This picture will change in the color with which a mountain is burning in red gradually.

目が覚めると、朝日に照らされた山が眼前に

When I wake, the mountain compared with the morning sun is in immediateness.

観光客(特に外国人)を飽きさせない仕掛けがたまさんあるようでした

There were a lot of people who will stay long, too, so it seemed that the system that I don't make them get tired was set up abundantly.

新旧入り混じる黄山市 "Old and new blended Huangshan city"

黄山の市街地へ入ると

When I enter a city in Huangshan.

古い街角の入り口にはこのような古い門がある

There is such old gate at the entrance of the old street corner.

町を走っているオートバイや自転車、夏で日差しが暑いのか傘をさしています

The sunlight feels hot or puts up an umbrella by the motorcycle which runs through a town, a bicycle and summer.

交通安全上とても大きな問題がありますね

There is a problem that the road safety top is very big, isn't there?

新しい市街地はとてもよく整備され清潔な感じがします

New city is maintained very often, and clean feeling does.

次の写真も特徴的な古い中国を示す道しるべでしょうか

川縁の岩肌に大きな赤い文字が彫ってあります

Is the next picture also the signpost which indicates characteristic old China, the big red character is carved on a rock surface in a riverside.

川縁では、洗濯をする女性をよく見かけます

I often come across the lady who washes at a riverside.

次の写真は僕の泊まったホテル

天都国際飯店

The hotel where I stayed for the next picture

TIANDU INTERNATIONAL HOTEL

内部も、とてもゴージャスなロビーです

The interior is also a very gorgeous lobby.

次の写真は新市街地、新しい高層ビルが次々と建設されています

Newly developed urban area and a new skyscraper are constructing the next picture one after another.

僕はやはり、次の写真のような こんな古い町がいいです

As expected, I'd like such old town like the next picture.

通りに人々が座って談笑をしている、そんなシーンがなぜか心地いい

People sit down on a street, and such chatting Sean pleases.

そして、ある硯店の店先には、こんなにすごい石を彫った工芸品がある

And there is work on which a so wonderful stone was carved in a storefront in the inkstone store where it's here.

素晴らしきかな、中国の古都

Wonderful!! Chinese ancient city

佐世保と巨大航空母艦 "Sasebo bay and huge aircraft carrier

これは僕が佐世保の会社の経営をしていた頃

When I was managing a company in Sasebo for this.

休日には自転車で早朝からサイクリングをしていて撮った写真

The picture which was going cycling from early morning by bicycle in a holiday and took a picture

最初は入り組んだ入り江や湾の撮影をしていました

The beginning was taking a picture of complicated inlet and bay.

自転車を走らせていくと、遠くに巨大な船影を見つけました

Bicycle, when the huge outline of a ship was found far.

拡大してみると、それはデカい航空母艦でした

When it expanded, that was a large aircraft carrier.

ここからでは良く見えないと思い

湾内が良く見える山へ登ってみることにしました

I decided to think it doesn't look good from here and climb the mountain where it's often seen in the bay.

次の写真の奥の方は佐世保市の市街地

The inside of the next picture is a city in Sasebo-city.

ここにはアメリカ海軍の基地があります

A base of U.S. Navy is here.

拡大をしてみると、艦橋に76というナンバーが

When it'll expand, it's the number as 76 in a bridge.

調べてみたら

If it'll be checked.

ロナルド・レーガン

USS Ronald Reagan, CVN-76

太平洋艦隊（第7艦隊）第5空母打撃群　の原子力空母です

A nuclear aircraft carrier of the pacific fleet (the 7th fleet) 5th aircraft carrier blow group.

船上には艦載機(F/A-18F Block2)らしき機体がずらりと並んでいました

The fuselage which seems to be a carrier-based plane (F/A-18F Block2) was in line in a row on the ship.

この時ちょうど、東日本大震災が遭ったとき

他7隻の艦船と共に支援活動「トモダチ作戦」のためとして関東〜東北沖に出動した時でした(この時は震災の緊急支援でかなり貢献をしてくれました)

When an eastern Japan great earthquake met exactly at the same time.

It was when it was dispatched to Kanto-northeast offing as purpose of a support activity as well as a ship of 7 ships of 、 other ones "friend strategy", (It's contributed fairly by urgent support of an earthquake disaster at the same time.)

近くの湾内をみてみると、こんな船も

That it'll be seen in the bay around here, such ship.

これもでかい船で、補給艦でしょうか?

Is it this, too and it be a supplement ship by barge?

次の写真の船もこの空母打撃群の支援船なのでしょう

A ship of the next picture will be also support ship of this aircraft carrier blow group.

この佐世保港は海上自衛隊の基地としても有名な場所です

This Sasebo harbor is also a famous place as a base of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

仕事で 色々な場所に行くといろんなものに出くわします

I come across various ones at various places to work.