September 30 clear Lhasa - Yamdrok Lake - Card Yala Glacier - Gyantse - Shigatse an appointment with 7:00 start 6:15 get up and see the outside of the day or Heihu Hu, and clean up is completed, and the Pig to the to go outside, eat breakfast, did not expect a quiet street, surprisingly, all the shops were shut the door, and we Liu Dadao Asia hotels, (the two of them live in Asia Guest House), that the driver had been waiting at the door, came up with the driver playing voice calls, not long until they, along with car back on the auspicious day to take our luggage, formally set out.
On the road chatting with the driver, the driver called Phuntsok, but unfortunately does not speak Chinese very well to help him find tourists Kanjia his relatives, and Phuntsok gave him 200 yuan acting as intermediaries fees, in August of this year to spend of 50,000 yuan from the hands of someone else bought the car. Because Chinese is not very good, so he's not much, quite depressing. Along the way that only four of us in the chat. Miss an older two more, and we called her sister Zhang, the other a young and more, and called, she was Sally. They are Qingdao people, who likes to self-tour, go to a lot of places, Zhang sister fast 40 people, and no plans to children, holiday's that play outside, and is pretty chic. Xiao Zhang is the force at home, it seems also a senior cadres and their children in her just fine, did not see the cosseted habits.
Go to Shigatse is taking the old road winding along the mountain is bare, no trees, bare mountain, and sat in the car so that we began to feel hot and depression, although the Yamdrok Lake in front of the beautiful, but also can only give his thoughts a consolation.
We are stuffy to sleep later, do not know when, Puncog master's car stopped, and gambara Yamaguchi, more than 4800 meters, we are out of the car was immediately surrounded by several children for money to be sugar, pocket Lane took out candy given to them, and pass very cold, the streamer hung flutter, in the Yamaguchi overlooking Yamdrok Lake, with the front of a blue world, I know that Yamdrok Lake is up. Books, records, Yamdrok Lake, known sheep lake, the three holy lakes in Tibet, one of more than 4400 meters above sea level, in Tibetan means: "Swan Pond", with a total area of 638 square kilometers, the shape in order to narrow the main northern Himalayas Lu's largest inland lake. There are many Crossings Yang Lake, like branches of coral, like, so it is also known as the Tibetan language in the "above the coral lake." Nature is always the best the best of Eastern Tibet, the deepest, just still find it all the way boring, but then turned over a more than 4800 meters of the pass, but at this time but for a beautiful world.
The next walk is a dirt road, think about the design of this road must be an unusual love Lake Sheep people to go down this road, allows you to enjoy from a different perspective to appreciate its beauty. Sunlight sprinkled on the surface of the lake, making this way too different color changing lake levels.
A distance Sheep Lake, akin to a quiet girl, close to her, he saw the whole film the lake bathed in warm sunshine, the distant snow-capped mountains hugged the lake accompanied by waterfowl, the lake showing a spotless dark blue, clear, quiet. Vehicles finally stopped at the lake, I went to the lake, his hands gently Juqi nest of water, placed in his mouth tasted carefully and thoroughly cool. According to a few images, then quietly looked at the lake a daze, lake reflected upside-blue sky, white clouds, green hills and surrounded by day and the clouds, the breeze was blowing, her beauty fascinated people.
Zuoshang Che set off, he drove very slowly and follow the curved surface of the lake felt her colorful and sheep along the beautiful lake to go for more than two hours, to the county Nagarze she disappeared from our sight. We Nagarze County to eat lunch, a small town, there are more than 3800 meters above sea level, in order to remember we have been here, we have specially to the post office to buy postcards, and covered with a postmark. But here, we finally see the famous anti-Ning Gold Sand Yala Glacier Peak, and cards. Mountain snow and ice streams merged into the flow of sheep winding lake, shining in the sun like a silver ribbon. We get off camera, a group of Tibetan children surrounded us, saved his hands from the glacier glaciers stone to sell us, watching them skilled Kanjia, and they have long been accustomed to such transactions.
15:00 more to reach Gyantse, Gyantse is a Hero City. Here, there have been some epic Anti-British history, in Gyangze County Center, stands with a castle, which is the world-famous Zongshan Anti-British sites "were mountain fort." Would have liked to see on the site, but went into it, yet leaving us too daunting, too high, in order to preserve the physical, so we decided to give up. Let Phuntsok master drive took us to the baiqoi monastery.
Baiqoi monastery is a pagoda with a typical Tibetan Buddhist monastery buildings, towers, there Temple, the temple has tower, Temple of natural muddy as complement each other. Into the hall to visit the temples of the monks are very friendly. In Tibet, this place is very strange to the Chinese people much less than the foreigners, and now better, so the Tibetan people's English is generally better than the mainland, many of them are monks speak English, Chinese speak good, or even do not speak. We have a simple conversation with the monks, they gave us to see the temple collection of scriptures, scripture is the whole paper into Tibet with a bamboo pen stained with pigments made of hand-written, very fine expensive. There monks also took a special worship in the main worship Buddha through the books to us before the friction top, perhaps the language barrier's sake, there are many places that are not yet clear. The baiqoi monastery is quite famous for murals, frescoes mostly Tantric Buddhist story of mainly rich colors and feel very beautiful.
Baiqoi monastery next to the tower of white home of "hundreds of thousands of pagodas" in reputation, it is called Bodhi tower, Tibetan, meaning "water vortex at the tower," while water is Nianchu Shigatse. Baiqoi monastery is because the tower and full of charm, this is not an ordinary tower, which consists of nearly overlap between the temple in turn set up, there are nine-story tower, up to 32 meters, there are 77 Buddha Hall, 108 doors, shrines and Jing-tang, etc., in China's architectural history is unique treasures. Enshrined within the temple there are more than ten thousand Buddha statues, hence the name of thousands of pagodas, Kan said the museum statues.
Leaving Gyantse, in the afternoon arrived at 5 am, Shigatse. Wanted to live in the Everest Hotel, but because the hotel was full and was admitted to the Post. Did not expect at this altitude of 3,800 meters, Tibet's second largest city where more than 2 points in the middle of the night because of altitude sickness - headache and wake up, eat two painkillers, but also spaced to sleep the past.
October 1 clear Shigatse - Lhasa, Shigatse, Tibet's history is also called upon, is the second largest city in Tibet, more than 3800 meters above sea level, is the reconstruction of Shandong Qingdao and Shanghai city. As Xiao Zhang them run, to Shigatse, to see so many familiar names, Qingdao Road, really can be described as extremely cordial. Shigatse most proud of attractions should be Mount Everest, and it stretches from Tibet and Nepal, but to see Everest from Nepal in that direction, but the scene is fragmented and, from the Tibet side view, list view is no doubt, it is not to Everest is a piece regret. We originally focused on the Tibet trip is to Mount Everest, but because the pigs border cards had to give up the location of the real line is the biggest regrets in Tibet.
And also before and after the division of Tibetan religion. Historically, Shigatse Tibet after reason to become political and religious center, there is a factor, a master Padmasambhava is said to have been preaching here in self-cultivation. The monk had predicted that the center of the snow in Lhasa, followed by in Shigatse. Later, devout Christians who have set up here, county, and thus develop into a reservoir after the "first city." By the fourteenth century. Tsongkhapa founded the Yellow Sect in Tibet, Shoutu missionary, of which two disciples, and their later incarnation is the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama ruled Tibet. Since the V Dalai Lama after the strengthening of theocracy in Tibet, the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama before and after the possession of these two religious leaders in the political and economic jurisdictions also implemented by the rule. This gradually formed after the division of spheres of influence in Tibet. Falling out with the Dalai Lama, but also the formation of the far side of the situation. As a result, the region became the Panchen Lama in Shigatse jurisdiction, Shigatse has become the rule of the Panchen Lama Center.
Tashilhunpo is a must go to a Shigatse monastery, which is located on a hillside west of Shigatse, the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism (Yellow Sect), the largest region in the post-Tibetan monastery. Shigatse is very far away from the road, you can see the Golden Tashilhunpo glittering in the sun. Panchen Lama's monastery and later a four-Panchens驻锡land is divided into the palace, Lama Temple, by the academy.
The entrance to the temple, you can see the spectacular temples community. That all the gold-roofed white houses above the brown building complex, that is, the successive Panchen Lama. The right front is a tall white walls, every holiday, giant pair Thangka on display here. Straight from the temple gate, turn left along the trail up the mountain, the first from the left began to visit the Buddhist temple Buddhist temple Jampa. It is the most spectacular Temple of the entire bundle of a hall. Basilica dedicated to the gilt bronze Buddhist statues Jampa, is the world's largest seated Buddha. This beautiful Buddha statues statue reflects the superb skill of the Tibetan people. Re-turn to go east hall lined with three, namely, the tenth Panchen Lama Temple, Temple IV and V to the Panchen Lama and the Panchen Lama Temple burial. We have spent more than three hours before the basic transfer finished rolling Temple, bar the grand temple to us has left a deep impression.
As the border certificates, Everest can not go, then drove back to Lhasa. Their return journey is taking the new road, this road would not have any scenery to speak of, and along the way only see the bare rock, almost desert road dust has been accompanying us to Lhasa, is still living in the auspicious day hotel.
Author: hxrabbit
