2003,8 - from the Qinghai-Tibet Highway to the China-Nepal Highway (1, look back-line preparation)
Want to go to Tibet is the last couple of years things planned for this year's Shangri-La to the Sichuan-Yunnan region, but let me mudslides in Sichuan into Tibet, the interim plan. Go to two weeks leave, online searching for information on Tibet, to run the border card, on the road, starting August 1, 19, home. Was originally a man, now have a wife, a person's footprint into two pairs.
Our route is the railway from Shenyang to Beijing, Xining to Golmud, and then along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway in Tibet; to Lhasa along the China-Nepal Highway to Tingri, Everest climbers to protect the region view of Mount Everest base camp. Basically on the highway from north to south across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, as something from the Nyingchi to Ali can only wait until after the crossing. The taste of the northern Tibet grassland nomads way home tsampa and tea, suffered a shortness of breath and headaches crossing the pass, came to worship the three holy lakes in the Nam Co and Yamdrok Lake, visited the major temples of the ancient Buddha statues, the most important is the end of the Everest trip, in a sunny morning, naked and placed in our present. That feeling of both pride and sense of loss, pride is the world's first peak is at hand, we can not step on the foot, but we can clearly see her without a pore (of course, to aid of a telescope), truly smell Her body odor (Everest base camp on the edge of snow water flow, you can taste. However, many do not drink, I drank two at night on the diarrhea, and cold wind Toru buttocks, it can feel good taste.); Lost is that this stuff actually so clearly volt in front of me, as if beauty had just been conquered, my first sight of the pleasant surprises in addition, there are waves of dull. However, this route has been largely a taste of Tibet's rivers and mountains can be spectacular and rich style. We are the first time to high-altitude areas, the initial Erdaogou feel shortness of breath headache, but not seriously, in the rest of the night, Nagqu very intense headache, but the rest did not feel a night on the 1:00, and arrived in Lhasa in the evening heads pain, Rest is also all right for one night. Entire nasal cavity dry, nosebleeds are inevitable, to the Everest base camp of the 13 o'clock does not matter, because we have adapted to high altitude more than a week. Therefore, it is recommended not cause illness in the body of the young people can go this route. In addition this route lavish spending by people, a few thousand dollars be sufficient, but does not advocate too much to save, or can easily turn into self-torture, physical and psychological harm to those who do not experience a significant unaffected.
The two of us each a backpack, plus a Eurya pocket. I have a special heavy, go inside the station platform, I thing that strikes you dizzy feet light, trainee a bit of altitude sickness, altitude sickness is indeed true then and this is almost, it is recommended to minimize equipment, and reduce the burden on the body.
Our backpack loaded the following objects:
1: Documents Category: ID (I), the military officer (her very helpful. In the Golmud detained, the police actually only looking for her testimony, the menfolk as a group of us to do nothing. Across the border checkpoint, the sentinel even just take a look at her documents, even the registration is free of; and she also helped run the driver through the back door of the border ahead of schedule permits. This is something for the future. Every August 1st part of the attraction concessions at other times only the museum discounts.), Border Pass (Public Security Bureau in the household residence registration window seat, with a simple identity card and two dollars handled the subject of writing tourism or visiting relatives to go to the border areas are written on one.), the military passes (actually useless, once all never seen, each time a military officer on the light ok), marriage certificate (also useless, hotel never see.) driver's license (unless the amount of self-drive or buy a used car, or basically useless, because in the highlands No one would lend in the field truck driver opened, unless the owners want to potentially fraudulent.), student card useful, attractions and tickets can be discounted.
2: The cost categories: cash number (must be prepared to some corner of the notes, unless the charity every time you gave a dollar. Note that, starting from Golmud, there is the phenomenon of rejection of coins. In addition, more than the estimate prepared in Tibet, nothing is certain, unexpected expenses at any time.), Dragon (only used in Lhasa, the field card withdrawals 1,000 yuan, 5 yuan collected fees), IC cards (personal feeling that the fight is only a local call, because the Lhasa over and over the telephone on the street supermarket, long-distance four corner / min, while the IC cards and seven angle / min.) 200 cards completely useless.
3: clothing categories: sun hat, sunglasses, short-sleeved T-shirt (when the sun can only be worn on the inside, I wear out one afternoon, the consequences are swollen arms. To Dress, be sure to arm Tu Sun cream.), long-sleeved shirts (basic region can adapt to 3,000 meters), thin knitted wool trouser (3000 meters to 5000 meters of pulling the transition), Down down pants (high altitude necessary in summer, too.), a trench coat (which can prevent wind rain Gechao, field essential. However, the streets of Lhasa on sale at 30 yuan -40 million), sleeping bags (if not in the wild sleep, zero on the can, only in the Nam Co, Everest base camp and other poor unsanitary accommodation point.) sneakers (strong light you can fit, without climbing shoes like the professional line of heavy head.), slippers, scarf hat (useless), mask (very useful, most of the roads are dirt roads, Toyota 4500 car are dust masks can make the lungs less into 5 grams of dust per day, of course, far more than the dust into the lungs of this number.). With two sets of clothes, enough, auspicious days, Hachiro science and other backpacker guesthouses can be laundry, in Lhasa, the strong sun, a morning will be dry.
4: Tools: We did not do the field walk, not ride a bike, not a self-driving, so with a very small tool. Only knife, multi-purpose military water bottle (only use the most basic functions), knives, paper cutter, mobile phone, flashlight, batteries, utensils, toiletries, disinfectant wipes (often used), razors (without the also, I like a lot of people in Tibet, a beard.), photography equipment, pen and paper and so on. Telescope did not take, I think it is regrettable.
5 food categories: hard tack, pickled vegetables, ham, canned food, chocolate and fruit. He had watched online posts that Lhasa's food is very expensive, so carrying the whole food. I am tired of vomiting blood, in fact, no need, with enough to eat on the road trip. Not only is no shortage of food in Lhasa, is the way to Mount Everest is also a way Szechuan Restaurant, eat very fragrant.
6, drug categories: cold medicine (User Lao Gao to listen to the words, Isatidis drink every day.), Anti-inflammatory drugs, sunscreen, throat tablets (not used), lip balm (no butter tea useful), eye drops, the wind essential oils, health stomach digestion tablets, glucose (strongly recommended injection so that the open-drink packaging, as in the wild may not be enough time brewed into tea. There is no appetite in the Qinghai-Tibet line, when, thanks to the bottles of glucose to support me through.), Spirulina (digestible protein, and contain a variety of trace elements, and can replace good deposit films every day to eat), VC, rhodiola capsules and plateau on (both proprietary Chinese medicines can be every day. Xining, Golmud, Chengdu, Lhasa pharmacy are on sale at 20 yuan -30 million), oxygen (packaged, canned both, pharmacies hotels available, being prepared, without the use of in Lhasa, you can sell at a discount.).
7, data categories: I brought the Al polar self-tour of Tibet Series in "no man's land north Tibet Qinghai-Tibet Railway ?" "China-Nepal Highway ? Lhasa ? Shannan", it is I have this line, which the map is full, the train flight schedule (no-line, almost mistake made), a simple Tibetan (basic useless). Are in accordance with a pre-trip preparation information, but walk again know the information and the authority will not be very precise, plans often change. Go this route in addition to the meticulous preparation, but also of your adaptability, communication skills and considerable luck. Remember, frustration is not unusual, and to maintain the optimistic attitude, and take the Qinghai-Tibet highway on the requirements of spiritual strength is much higher than the physical strength; strong-willed person who is more suitable than the physically strong here, both men and women.
8, companions and friends: Go along the Qinghai-Tibet line is strongly recommended that, if there is collusion of the best friends of Tibet. That a few roads into Tibet, the Qinghai-Tibet Highway is recognized as the best walk in, but do not say bad road conditions, but also fraught with danger. Local friends was very afraid of this road, each rider must inform the family license plate number and time, if you can find trouble. It is said that every year millions of people ride on the road after the disappeared, disappeared on the vast Qinghai-Tibet line. Online said that Tibet is very low incidence of criminal, I think that the low reporting rate, and here there is a great relationship, a thousand miles no man's land, in addition to the perpetrators and victims that no one outside the report. Although the grasslands of the Tibetan herders are good, but the road is the most Han Chinese and Hui people, Salar people, and wandering in the town on the Tibetan people is not all goodness of the generation. Years ago in the train on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway are the frequent occurrence of rape, murder, robbery, after great effort to rectify an improvement, let alone to come and go ride a trace of the strange vehicle, so advice to single people, especially girls, do not ride to walk. After all, then America is not worth the landscape with their own lives to smear some unnecessary colors.
Oh, Southwest Airlines flight attendant was very beautiful, I hope that this route will not change their altitude moving smile and dainty waist. There is no personal feeling southwest China Southern Airlines gown skirt sexy uniforms, especially the flight attendants on the neck of knotting a small towel added with more charming. Digress for a moment, but the left Lhasa, particularly of the beautiful feeling. To listen to master speaking, Tibet's beauty in East Asia, Linzhi area, this time I did not go, you go, then, I remember a few pictures made. The streets of Lhasa are mostly in Sichuan younger sister, I really admire that they bring Spring into such a bitter cold land.
The road in their knowledge and attention to matters that I will be introduced in the next sub-sections. In this Yaozhu in Tibet, Guo Yongxiang brother, Tsering Dorje, multiple, and the rule of the master, Lao Gao Ping happiness, congratulations and my colleagues a small bell, old Zeng, Old Lee father and son, Chen, Lao Yang, South Korea Lee, and I do not know names of brothers and sisters have a hard but not yet glorious, short-lived but brilliant long-lasting memory.
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August 24, 2003 Sunday
Author: xb7674
