Shuanglawadi Gorge

　　Shuanglawadi Gorge is located 45 kilometers from Liuku. The valley slopes are composed of marble and gneiss, with elevations exceeding 1,500 meters. The two sides of the valley are very close to each other, and the valley bottom features fast-flowing water with high rapids, forming numerous dangerous shoals. It’s truly a place where “even goats can’t find a path, and monkeys would fret.” Please look across to the farmland on the cliffs — it hangs like giant posters on the rock faces, which is why we call it “cliff farming in the gorge.” During planting season, nearby villagers use slingshots to shoot corn seeds up onto the cliffs. When harvest time comes, they climb down from the mountaintops and haul the remaining corn — what the squirrels and other animals haven’t eaten — down to the riverbank using ropes, then cross the river using pig trough boats. (Pig trough boats are mainly made from logs, measuring about 4 meters in length and 0.5 meters in width. In addition to the rower, the boat can carry passengers. Because the boat resembles a pig trough, it’s called a “pig trough boat.”)