Tibet and Sichuan-Tibet Highway Travel Notes
In November 2003 to late finally time to realize their desire to go to Tibet. Of which has not personally experienced the vicissitudes of people who can not understand. Write down Come on, can not let this experience Gone With the passage of time. . . . .
November 13-14
Flew to Shanghai, Chengdu
November 15 flew to Chengdu to Lhasa. Air ride is the aircraft. Do not discount tickets, expensive. If you want to save money, be sure ahead of scheduled military aircraft of the aircraft (twice a week can save about half of the money)
Overlooking the land of Tibet on the plane, feeling that she and the mainland is so different. Morning aircraft can see the sunrise, beautiful scenery. To the Lhasa airport, I feel very excited. Tibet gives the feeling that - the air is transparent, and days are always blue, the sun every day is always so brilliant.
Lhasa city, I personally do not like. More dirty, chaotic. Landscape of the urban area is not good. If you are not interested in the temple, then the Potala Palace, xx Temple simply do not read, read you will regret it. Anyway, I met no one not disappoint.
As for living there, I will not say. Can be found online.
November 16 consecutive altitude sickness makes painful, do not take it lightly. For example: a headache for even the first night I could not move, moving about as if the first to be cracked. Tragic.
¨ must be prepared to drugs, even if the final do not have access. The best way to eat
¨ Do not bathe
¨ must not drink alcohol
¨ must be a good rest
¨ must drink plenty of clean water per day (this is Australia an experienced trekker taught me, very useful); every morning before drinking - one liter
November 17 the first day of leave Lhasa, feeling suddenly different. In the end is a natural landscape makes a good mood.
Went to the Namtso Lake - very beautiful, must go.
Five of us rented a Toyota Jeep, 700 yuan; the same day to return. I think the night would not have had. Car rental can save money to see your experience, and no way to teach.
On the way back to swim in the Yangbajing - purpose is simply to hot springs effect. To not to be fine.
Lhasa, bars, restaurants are not as Lijiang, more than Yangshuo West Street, especially in winter, you will be on the bar.
November 18 Japan to plan to Shigatse, Nepal direction. Was eventually canceled.
Foreigners who like to go to Mount Everest.
Ali, do not want to go this season, because no people and you go. Cost is also too big, you're going to first think of a good.
The best possible decision to go Nyingchi, and then has been the Sichuan-Tibet line has completed. This decision is not easy, because it took a long time, very dangerous - is simply risky. I advise you not to try to Nyingchi bar on the U-turn.
The same day to the 81 town - a place I like. Clean, very fresh, regarded as paradise, while the necessities of modern life also have, you can rest look. Thus to the surrounding area.
Lhasa to Nyingchi good road conditions, car is also comfortable, do not worry. The scenery along the way, and Yunnan different. Niyang River Valley scenery is more atmospheric.
November 19 went to the Bason Lake - is the scenery beautiful, and another kind of beauty. Who do not been to Jiuzhaigou is possible.
November 20 rest, eat and drink. Here the price is very expensive, because I do not say.
November 21 left for the Bomi and began the difficult adventure Sichuan-Tibet Highway. The scenery along the way is very beautiful, full of primeval forest. Trying to fix the road is very dangerous. This section is a Toyota 4500 car ride that I sat in Tibet has the best car. Lu Though it was difficult, but because a good car, but also do not think that the. So that when the truck ride later I miss it every day.
Stay down at night, no matter good or not, always be the different feelings, census drawn is a small town bar. You progress downward, even such a small town were found.
November 22 had no car to go to Zayu, or you just wait a few days. Bargaining finally rented a small break Chang'an, first rawu then. A while was a fare expensive even my Jinling are distressed.
Broken car, bad road - the real suffering has just begun.
Noon to clear understanding of Uzbekistan, a very small town in Tibet. However, very authentic, because more than the Tibetans.
Traffic is always a heart disease - had no car to ah. Pretty good, found the only one to Zayu vehicles. The use of waiting time to go look at the Tibetan villages and primary schools. And then sat on the steps of a sunny street and past the Tibetans continued to say "le."
Ye went to the night road, 170 kilometers away for almost six hours, enough for bumpy - suffer呀. Also see the beginning of a beautiful Ran Wuhu, to the later is the lamp lit dirt road by now. A good long dirt road!
Is worth - that is, in the evening, when parking on the road, I reached for the road not see five fingers, standing on the land of Tibet for the first time to see the stars of the sky, then the bright, has never seen the Star. At that time, the quiet wilderness on the road, the rise of the evenings when they have a lot of thoughts and feelings. I think a lot, a lot of thought of God, space, life, life, as well as Shanghai. . . . . .
Middle of the night came to the dream Zayu - secondary school textbooks in the illustrations - Jiangnan of Tibet. The mood at this moment as I read last year in Shaoxing Sanwei Baicao Park and is the same, but also thought of his own childhood, student days, then far away - I was not really old, and started looking for a childhood dream of the time?
11 23 - November 25 here, but found that scenery is not as good as I expected. Was very disappointed. Sichuan-Tibet line is not due to Chayu the road is a ground-breaking way, is a military road. So few people come, really small.
Think back, to not do is to experience? Come in itself a comfort, what regret, just like life!
Call progress downward, the upper and lower Zayu. Sino-Indian border the road more difficult to go the lack of time will not go. Here is where the Sino-Indian war, war.
Zayu Village Yunnan Deqin close to the two hills. Unfortunately, there is no road. Can only take the caravan.
Take advantage of this small town a few days away in the numerous laps. The edge of the Brahmaputra also sat a long time. . . . .
Also went to primary school, because I love child. See that they thought of myself.
The final night of the truck finally go well. A chance to leave.
November 26 shortly after midnight on the up and waiting for a train. Only the barking of dogs and sleeping in a small town of yak.
The first 60 kilometers down the road walked six hours, because truck-mounted timber, open very slowly, the road should pass card.
Then broken into on the road. No mobile phone signal, no one to repair it. Only in the wilderness of the night.
Day of snow, very cold. Have nothing to eat, only to go home and go to the original Tibetan, buttered tea, sticky bar, raw yak meat cooked like rubber, - Whatever the reasons you have to eat it, do not Xianzang. Determined to be sufficient.
Night we went to the mountains check dead wood, and lit a bonfire heating. Body extremely dirty.
If you are a girl, or you alone, you scared? I think they do.
Slept in the cab, do not too anything, as long as warm.
Middle of the night awake frozen several times, sitting in the car to sleep and can not lie.
There are many do not say. . . . .
November 27 finally back to clear understanding of Ukraine. Ye fled. Lu is too difficult, and very dangerous. Overloaded trucks, wheels Crimping cliff on the edge of cultivation, in the icy mountain climbing, countless corners, a few hundred meters deep valley. . . . . Gripped with horror and I'm not exaggerating. Here are the lives of drivers earned money!
I dare not discouraged from taking the second time. The number of the signs on the road, one kilometer one kilometer, Hao Mana. Back to rawu I feel really good, finally out. Thank God!
Saw a bus bound for Chengdu, could not wait to jump up. . . . . , Run!
This is a road in Tibet, Sichuan migrant workers return home of the chartered, it is tough not to portray, you have to imagine the bar. In the ensuing 5 days, I basically spent in this car.
Stop the car at night, the two drivers, opened rotation. Basu - Zogang - to help reach - Markam - all unheard of names, a small town than a desolate What an experience! You got to go through it to really understand the suffering. Can I call it an ordeal ? Forgive me to say so!
November 28 at noon to Markam - Here is the Yunnan-Tibet Highway branch point, to Dali, as long as a half hours.
Continue to walk on to the Batang came to Tibetan areas in Sichuan. The Jinsha River to the natural separation of Tibet and Sichuan, over the bridge is in Sichuan Province.
As early as before coming to Batang heard a lot of horror stories, because the Kham Tibetan region, is indeed better than Tibetans in Tibet. Banditry, highway robbery of the things that is definitely not an exaggeration. Bus Fortunately, there were fewer trucks are very dangerous.
A severe drought and soil erosion area, I really do not like it.
Here the Tibetan people and Tibetan architecture and different. . . . . .
Night stay the night, still not taking a bath, because too much will continue Mountain - 5000 + meter pass. The mountains, endless mountains, how to go are gone expire. . . . .
November 29 and then go on is the Litang, leaving Inagi and Gulf of Aden is very close. The morning of departure, at noon. A very short path a long time.
The afternoon continued on our way in the evening finally arrived at the four Masato River - I finally took a bath here, to live a good hotel.
This is a bit remote but the charm of a small riverside town, but like the mainland had begun.
November 30 to continue to go to the MS Contin. Car did not go far on the bad in the way, a repair is a few hours, are not remember how much they crossed snow-capped mountains. The original thought out there is no snow-capped mountains of Tibet, and did not expect that here, more mountains, canyons and deeper. Road, all of the ice. Tire anti-skid chains tied cautious crawl. I thought to pray, cars do stop bad. Has been broken numerous times.
Twilight of the snow-capped mountains are beauty, you beauty difficult to describe. The moon rose up, like luminous jade just kept quiet the vast expanse of whiteness in the snowy mountains, beautiful beautiful.
Night of Kangding - than I imagined a large number of cities. And then forward really out of Tibet by.
Kangding town the night is quite distinctive, it is a lot of the meaning of the name itself. . . .
December 1st Time flies fast, 12 for months. Continue to walk away the morning, but there are several difficulties in front of a big mountain to go. Luding is the next stop, I saw the Luding Bridge. Lu Hen Lan, together with roads, the more difficult to walk.
Finally a big mountain called the Erlang Mountain, across the 4.5 km of tunnels simply like to another world. Desolate just disappeared, showing in front of the Li Li of the endless rain and dense fog, eyeful are green. Moist air leads people to think, Sichuan-Tibet line finished brisk walking.
We do not have to stay in Yaan this rainy city, directly on the highway. Poor car 80 kilometers away from Chengdu, the time has finally Paobu Dong, and completely broken in the middle of the night on the road.
I do not want to spend the night on the road, and jumped into another embarrassing truck toward Chengdu. . . . . Another in the middle of the night a small ordeal. Would go back to distant finally shook Chengdu.
I have a disheveled, just full of earth, and his face darkened the (to a later simply do not have sunscreen on, and face are the map, but also wiping what so be it).
December 2
Days in Tibet, his only experience, although also recorded a little idea, but they are fragmented.
Sitting on the plane back to Shanghai, Chengdu, its suddenly a little sad - Tibet is really just behind me, and I do not see behind the back.
Tibet's most moved me is not the scenery, but a devout Tibetans, as well as snowy Tibetan herders on the child and transparent eyes.
Before the age of 35, finally achieved the goal of his last trip, has completed the whole of China. I think I would never do a backpacker. Bitter bitter, but I am, after all, has completed the. The trip is among the most dangerous, by far the most memorable. It will bring my future life to?
I've come experience; also looking for inspiration. I did one they want and can do. . . . . I like to travel, like the road feel. . . . .
Dedicated to Ctrip, and the road friends. I love people and are also dedicated to all the good people. Amen!
In November 2003 to late finally time to realize their desire to go to Tibet. Of which has not personally experienced the vicissitudes of people who can not understand. Write down Come on, can not let this experience Gone With the passage of time. . . . .
November 13-14
Flew to Shanghai, Chengdu
November 15 flew to Chengdu to Lhasa. Air ride is the aircraft. Do not discount tickets, expensive. If you want to save money, be sure ahead of scheduled military aircraft of the aircraft (twice a week can save about half of the money)
Overlooking the land of Tibet on the plane, feeling that she and the mainland is so different. Morning aircraft can see the sunrise, beautiful scenery. To the Lhasa airport, I feel very excited. Tibet gives the feeling that - the air is transparent, and days are always blue, the sun every day is always so brilliant.
Lhasa city, I personally do not like. More dirty, chaotic. Landscape of the urban area is not good. If you are not interested in the temple, then the Potala Palace, xx Temple simply do not read, read you will regret it. Anyway, I met no one not disappoint.
As for living there, I will not say. Can be found online.
November 16 consecutive altitude sickness makes painful, do not take it lightly. For example: a headache for even the first night I could not move, moving about as if the first to be cracked. Tragic.
¨ must be prepared to drugs, even if the final do not have access. The best way to eat
¨ Do not bathe
¨ must not drink alcohol
¨ must be a good rest
¨ must drink plenty of clean water per day (this is Australia an experienced trekker taught me, very useful); every morning before drinking - one liter
November 17 the first day of leave Lhasa, feeling suddenly different. In the end is a natural landscape makes a good mood.
Went to the Namtso Lake - very beautiful, must go.
Five of us rented a Toyota Jeep, 700 yuan; the same day to return. I think the night would not have had. Car rental can save money to see your experience, and no way to teach.
On the way back to swim in the Yangbajing - purpose is simply to hot springs effect. To not to be fine.
Lhasa, bars, restaurants are not as Lijiang, more than Yangshuo West Street, especially in winter, you will be on the bar.
November 18 Japan to plan to Shigatse, Nepal direction. Was eventually canceled.
Foreigners who like to go to Mount Everest.
Ali, do not want to go this season, because no people and you go. Cost is also too big, you're going to first think of a good.
The best possible decision to go Nyingchi, and then has been the Sichuan-Tibet line has completed. This decision is not easy, because it took a long time, very dangerous - is simply risky. I advise you not to try to Nyingchi bar on the U-turn.
The same day to the 81 town - a place I like. Clean, very fresh, regarded as paradise, while the necessities of modern life also have, you can rest look. Thus to the surrounding area.
Lhasa to Nyingchi good road conditions, car is also comfortable, do not worry. The scenery along the way, and Yunnan different. Niyang River Valley scenery is more atmospheric.
November 19 went to the Bason Lake - is the scenery beautiful, and another kind of beauty. Who do not been to Jiuzhaigou is possible.
November 20 rest, eat and drink. Here the price is very expensive, because I do not say.
November 21 left for the Bomi and began the difficult adventure Sichuan-Tibet Highway. The scenery along the way is very beautiful, full of primeval forest. Trying to fix the road is very dangerous. This section is a Toyota 4500 car ride that I sat in Tibet has the best car. Lu Though it was difficult, but because a good car, but also do not think that the. So that when the truck ride later I miss it every day.
Stay down at night, no matter good or not, always be the different feelings, census drawn is a small town bar. You progress downward, even such a small town were found.
November 22 had no car to go to Zayu, or you just wait a few days. Bargaining finally rented a small break Chang'an, first rawu then. A while was a fare expensive even my Jinling are distressed.
Broken car, bad road - the real suffering has just begun.
Noon to clear understanding of Uzbekistan, a very small town in Tibet. However, very authentic, because more than the Tibetans.
Traffic is always a heart disease - had no car to ah. Pretty good, found the only one to Zayu vehicles. The use of waiting time to go look at the Tibetan villages and primary schools. And then sat on the steps of a sunny street and past the Tibetans continued to say "le."
Ye went to the night road, 170 kilometers away for almost six hours, enough for bumpy - suffer呀. Also see the beginning of a beautiful Ran Wuhu, to the later is the lamp lit dirt road by now. A good long dirt road!
Is worth - that is, in the evening, when parking on the road, I not see five fingers reaching the road, standing on the land of Tibet for the first time to see the stars of the sky, then the bright, has never seen the Star. At that time, the quiet wilderness on the road, the rise of the evenings when they have a lot of thoughts and feelings. I think a lot, a lot of thought of God, space, life, life, as well as Shanghai. . . . . .
Middle of the night came to the dream Zayu - secondary school textbooks in the illustrations - Jiangnan of Tibet. The mood at this moment as I read last year in Shaoxing Sanwei Baicao Park and is the same, but also thought of his own childhood, student days, then far away - I was not really old, and started looking for a childhood dream of the time?
11 23 - November 25 here, but found that scenery is not as good as I expected. Was very disappointed. Sichuan-Tibet line is not due to Chayu the road is a ground-breaking way, is a military road. So few people come, really small.
Think back, to not do is to experience? Come in itself a comfort, what regret, just like life!
Call progress downward, the upper and lower Zayu. Sino-Indian border the road more difficult to go the lack of time will not go. Here is where the Sino-Indian war, war.
Zayu Village Yunnan Deqin close to the two hills. Unfortunately, there is no road. Can only take the caravan.
Take advantage of this small town a few days away in the numerous laps. The edge of the Brahmaputra also sat a long time. . . . .
Also went to primary school, because I love child. See that they thought of myself.
The final night of the truck finally go well. A chance to leave.
November 26 shortly after midnight on the up and waiting for a train. Only the barking of dogs and sleeping in a small town of yak.
The first 60 kilometers down the road walked six hours, because truck-mounted timber, open very slowly, the road should pass card.
Then broken into on the road. No mobile phone signal, no one to repair it. Only in the wilderness of the night.
Day of snow, very cold. Have nothing to eat, only to go home and go to the original Tibetan, buttered tea, sticky bar, raw yak meat cooked like rubber, - Whatever the reasons you have to eat it, do not Xianzang. Determined to be sufficient.
Night we went to the mountains check dead wood, and lit a bonfire heating. Body extremely dirty.
If you are a girl, or you alone, you scared? I think they do.
Slept in the cab, do not too anything, as long as warm.
Middle of the night awake frozen several times, sitting in the car to sleep and can not lie.
There are many do not say. . . . .
November 27 finally back to clear understanding of Ukraine. Ye fled. Lu is too difficult, and very dangerous. Overloaded trucks, wheels Crimping cliff on the edge of cultivation, in the icy mountain climbing, countless corners, a few hundred meters deep valley. . . . . Gripped with horror and I'm not exaggerating. Here are the lives of drivers earned money!
I dare not discouraged from taking the second time. The number of the signs on the road, one kilometer one kilometer, Hao Mana. Back to rawu I feel really good, finally out. Thank God!
Saw a bus bound for Chengdu, could not wait to jump up. . . . . , Run!
This is a road in Tibet, Sichuan migrant workers return home of the chartered, it is tough not to portray, you have to imagine the bar. In the ensuing 5 days, I basically spent in this car.
Stop the car at night, the two drivers, opened rotation. Basu - Zogang - to help reach - Markam - all unheard of names, a small town than a desolate What an experience! You got to go through it to really understand the suffering. Can I call it an ordeal ? Forgive me to say so!
November 28 at noon to Markam - Here is the Yunnan-Tibet Highway branch point, to Dali, as long as a half hours.
Continue to walk on to the Batang came to Tibetan areas in Sichuan. The Jinsha River to the natural separation of Tibet and Sichuan, over the bridge is in Sichuan Province.
As early as before coming to Batang heard a lot of horror stories, because the Kham Tibetan region, is indeed better than Tibetans in Tibet. Banditry, highway robbery of the things that is definitely not an exaggeration. Bus Fortunately, there were fewer trucks are very dangerous.
A drought and soil erosion is rampant, I really do not like it.
Here the Tibetan people and Tibetan architecture and different. . . . . .
Night stay the night, still not taking a bath, because too much will continue Mountain - 5000 + meter pass. The mountains, endless mountains, how to go are gone expire. . . . .
November 29 and then go on is the Litang, leaving Inagi and Gulf of Aden is very close. The morning of departure, at noon. A very short path a long time.
The afternoon continued on our way in the evening finally arrived at the four Masato River - I finally took a bath here, to live a good hotel.
This is a bit remote but the charm of a small riverside town, but like the mainland had begun.
November 30 to continue to go to the MS Contin. Car did not go far on the bad in the way, a repair is a few hours, are not remember how much they crossed snow-capped mountains. The original thought out there is no snow-capped mountains of Tibet, and did not expect that here, more mountains, canyons and deeper. Road, all of the ice. Tire anti-skid chains tied cautious crawl. I thought to pray, cars do stop bad. Has been broken numerous times.
Twilight of the snow-capped mountains are beauty, you beauty difficult to describe. The moon rose up, like luminous jade just kept quiet the vast expanse of whiteness in the snowy mountains, beautiful beautiful.
Night of Kangding - than I imagined a large number of cities. And then forward really out of Tibet by.
Kangding town the night is quite distinctive, it is a lot of the meaning of the name itself. . . .
December 1st Time flies fast, 12 for months. Continue to walk away the morning, but there are several difficulties in front of a big mountain to go. Luding is the next stop, I saw the Luding Bridge. Lu Hen Lan, together with roads, the more difficult to walk.
Finally a big mountain called the Erlang Mountain, across the 4.5 km of tunnels simply like to another world. Desolate just disappeared, showing in front of the Li Li of the endless rain and dense fog, eyeful are green. Moist air leads people to think, Sichuan-Tibet line finished brisk walking.
We do not have to stay in Yaan this rainy city, directly on the highway. Poor car 80 kilometers away from Chengdu, the time has finally Paobu Dong, and completely broken in the middle of the night on the road.
I do not want to spend the night on the road, and jumped into another embarrassing truck toward Chengdu. . . . . Another in the middle of the night a small ordeal. Would go back to distant finally shook Chengdu.
I have a disheveled, just full of earth, and his face darkened the (to a later simply do not have sunscreen on, and face are the map, but also wiping what so be it).
December 2
Days in Tibet, his only experience, although also recorded a little idea, but they are fragmented.
Sitting on the plane back to Shanghai, Chengdu, its suddenly a little sad - Tibet is really just behind me, and I do not see behind the back.
Tibet's most moved me is not the scenery, but a devout Tibetans, as well as snowy Tibetan herders on the child and transparent eyes.
Before the age of 35, finally achieved the goal of his last trip, has completed the whole of China. I think I would never do a backpacker. Bitter bitter, but I am, after all, has completed the. The trip is among the most dangerous, by far the most memorable. It will bring my future life to?
I've come experience; also looking for inspiration. I did one they want and can do. . . . . I like to travel, like the road feel. . . . .
Dedicated to Ctrip, and the road friends. I love people and are also dedicated to all the good people. Amen!
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