【Ju Yun】 "Lover's Cliff" - Balian essay author Xiu Chengguo In Bali, we have two days of free activities, the organizer does not provide transportation, nor does it care about meals, everything is at your own care. as

【Ju Yun】 "Lover's Cliff" - Balinese Essay Author Xiu Chengguo

In Bali we had two days of free time, the organizers did not provide transportation, did not care about meals, and took care of everything. If you are willing to participate in the activities arranged by the tour guide, each person pays another 1500 yuan, 8 of us did not participate in the tour guide activities, other people participated. Considering that we are not familiar with the local geography, the language is not fluent, staying in the hotel is not the way, the same Lao Zhang contacted the domestic daughter, by his daughter from the Internet to contact a travel agency in Bali, spent 1,000 yuan, rented a van that can carry 8 people, also brought an interpreter, led us to play for two days, the Southern and Northern Lines of Bali Kuta Beach, Tanah Lot Temple, Lover's Cliff and so on have turned. Car rental, dining and tickets are all calculated, and the average of our 8 people spends 350 yuan per person, and each person saves 1150 yuan more than participating in the activities arranged by the tour guide. Those who participated in the guided tour heard about it and their eyes were angry. The two tour guides were thinking of ways to earn money from tourists.

　　 On that day, we came to Lover's Cliff, which is said to be one of Bali's most famous attractions. Lover's Cliff is a cliff next to the sea, although it is only more than 70 meters, not very high, but it is very steep, like a knife. At the bottom of the cliff is the turquoise water, no wind and waves rolling, there are wind and white waves. The cliffs are lush with trees and dense vegetation. A tour route winds along the edge of the cliff. People follow the tour route, all the way to the far side can appreciate the vast expanse of the sea; down can overlook the white wave reef under the cliff; look around to admire the exotic flowers and grasses; on the side of the road, you can see naughty monkeys jumping and playing. This monkey is not so fun, because they sometimes rob tourists of things, not only food, fruit, but also grab things, what hats, glasses, cameras, mobile phones, wallets, folding umbrellas, etc., catch what to grab, so the tour guide repeatedly reminds everyone to hide everything that may be robbed, but also reminds everyone not to tease the monkey, let alone provoke it, so as not to be hurt, because often people are scratched by monkeys. I was a man with a hat and glasses, so I was instructed to take off my hat and glasses, and the hat was in my hand and the glasses in my pocket. During the tour, which lasted less than half an hour, I saw several monkeys, either holding glasses that had been broken by them, or carrying a lady's sunhat, or drinking stolen mineral water. It seems that the monkeys there are very bad and lack of tuning, and what it brings to those robbed tourists is no longer the joy of tourism, but a kind of harm and threat. Whether it is appropriate for attractions to raise such barbaric and uneducated things is worth studying and thinking about.

　　 We were touring Lover's Cliff when we suddenly heard a shocking news that someone had jumped off a cliff! People are both panicked and depressed, how can such a thing happen? After a while, news came that a pair of young men and women in the local area jumped from the top of the cliff of more than 70 meters because of family conflicts and emotional disputes. When we walked to that place, but we saw the cliffs, straight as a knife, the rocks at the bottom of the cliffs pierced through the air, and the waves shot the case, thinking that those two people jumped down, it must be more fierce and less auspicious.

　　 The so-called Lover's Cliff of this Lover's Cliff is said to be named after young men and women who fell in love with each other and were blocked by their parents and jumped off the cliff here. Lover's Cliff, the name sounds romantic, but the origin is frightening. And the name seems to be wrong, I heard that there were many unfortunate incidents of cliff jumping there later, so that place full of romance was also full of sorrow and fear. However, there are still some people who come here, and there are also some young men and women who go there for weddings. During our tour, we saw two couples holding weddings there, and they were taking wedding photos in various poses, and they were smiling and smiling.

　　 Visiting Lover's Cliff and listening to stories about Lover's Cliff made me think that it seems that this tragic story of male and female love is constantly being repeated in any country and era in the world. China has the story of Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi, the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the story of Liu Mengmei and Du Liniang, the story of Lu You and Tang Wan, the story of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu... There are stories of Romeo and Juliet in foreign countries, anna and Karenin, Tess and Claire, Emma and Nana... Most of these stories are tragic endings, which make people sigh and even sigh. However, people do not have to do this, because this is a natural phenomenon of society, even in another ten thousand years, it is impossible to put an end to these tragedies, which are related to class contradictions, to traditional ideas, to the imbalance of underdevelopment of society, but even if classes are eliminated, traditional ideas are less intense, society is developed, love is free, the contradictions of love, the entanglement of love, the tragedy of love, it is still impossible to completely avoid. As Cao Xueqin said in "Dream of the Red Chamber": "Thick land and high heaven, lamenting the inexhaustible love of ancient and modern times; foolish men and women, poor wind and moon debts are difficult to pay." ”