Autumn in October, Zijia backpack, something big loop tour Jiuzhaigou (would like to use this documentation to the November 2002 after 1 trip to Jiuzhaigou's friend)
4, as the blizzard stricken East Link, Speed Azalea Mountain was originally prepared to backtrack along the West Loop in Chengdu, because, after all, the West Link, we have come a car on the road understand. However, October 20 (the day that we have into the ditch to play for a day) night around 11:30, I and my wife came out from the VIP floor, and went walking on the square Mizoguchi, by the way enjoy some of the surrounding Mizoguchi night. I was surprised to find that although the already pm to midnight, but there is still full of tourists, Chuanzhusi the direction of a constant stream of tourist buses in front of us opened the past. The number of a bit rough, a few minutes of time has passed 10 on the number of vehicles. Looking back at over 19 hours bars ridge bow sight near the traffic jams, I guess the West Link, children must have encountered the other side what the traffic jams, or else it would not be so late, there are tourist buses come rolling. If so, when you take the West Loop on the return journey was not appropriate, and the event is not blocked for several hours on the joke.
With this question, October 21 morning, I Mizoguchi, and his wife in the queue when the preparations for the second into the groove, they would inquire about the tourists next to the road conditions on the East Loop. We are just in front of a tour group that came yesterday from the East Loop, and an old man told us to go over there a good way to children. That being so, we decided to change his mind returned to Chengdu from the East Link.
At 5:00 p.m. on October 21st, I and my wife ended a two-day Tour Jiuzhaigou. With breathtaking scenery of the trench with nostalgia, we return to the VIP floor, yard, paused for consolidation, at 17:35 to drive the road, along the East Loop to kill to Chengdu. Before we have a good talk, open to Jiuzhaigou County (that is, Nanping County) in relation to stop eating, eating dinner continued on our way to the Ping-wu-site lodging, and sleep the next morning after a night (October 22) and then followed by Sheung returned to Chengdu.
No. 21, when the sunny weather when the overcast. 16:35 We are still rolling groove, such as Temple, when the sky clouds began to thicken, and sporadic light rain underground a number of points. Because of rain in the West Loop on the driving experience, I am drizzles simply do not mind, to a time when too much larger than the next. Where do want it drizzles later evolve into the mountain sky snow azalea, the raw material after the words.
Front have already said, the East Loop, West Loop road conditions better than many, but the driving of vehicles on this road are few. We encountered a few more of the few cars are basically driving on Mizoguchi between the South County, Colorado, and have a very difficult case of Nanping county vehicles. Is generally believed that the scenery along the East Loop, West Loop side than the children a bit better. According to our observations, it is probably in part thanks to the East Loop of those trees on both sides of the road, and that children in the West Loop over there is very little to see. When driving at night, on both sides of the trees under the irradiation in the headlights look very neat, in order to fence off the people who drive a safe, quiet feeling. Jiuzhaigou near the mouth of trees, and even show some color to the forest looks like.
Gradually, the greater the more rain the next, when the 18:30 when we arrived in Nanping county, has become a Mimizaza the rain. Dark sky and gradually down. Night mountain there is one point very irritating, that is, from time to time there will be falling from the hills, large chunks of falling rock in the road of the Central Cross-Island. Encounter such a situation directly to the car to open in the past is impossible, only an emergency deceleration from the next child to go around. As the road conditions and stagnant water, which will greatly increase the possibility of vehicle sideslip tail flick, there may be functional ABS car will be better. Nanping County in turn drove two laps, feeling this town is only four away from the Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, 50 kilometers away, and now the County claims to Jiuzhaigou County, but the face of the city is quite dilapidated look, as if that is a Lingnan is a small county in general, simply will not see benefit from tourism in Jiuzhaigou traces, and even smaller than the West Loop side of children with Chuanzhusi town. City residents face is also very earth, how can Jiuzhaigou Tibetan origin in the Western style trial of strength of those. It seems the modern commercial civilization, no moisture came here.
We casually looked for one called "the youngest restaurant" are ready to eat meal is coming from out of Xi'an warming meal after the first Dayton. Looking back, has been three days and a half we did not eat now make and sell their rice cooking, and these few days have been the bread and instant noodles, plus a number of ham sandwiches, beef jerky, salad dressings, fruit or something, these things we bring on board more than enough. Get in, "the youngest restaurant" to find a place to sit and female service Daoting warm, immediately poured us hot tea, serving a plate of melon seeds, but then no longer greeted us, nor has he proffered the menu asked if we would like to to eat something. This has us very strange, do take a few minutes after taking the initiative to her to the menu, ready to order. Surprisingly, she said there was no menu, and eat whatever went to the kitchen scene of all, they can do the dishes were arrayed in the kitchen. I rely on, it really makes me faint, but still the "simple and sincere" to such an extent! However, we do not say anything much better, sitting down, and also drank hot tea, and melon seeds are nibbling, and to do as the Romans under the kitchen a la carte bar.
Wife Ganzhe Shi line, let her to go to spot. Guolehaojiu wife was out of the kitchen from the adjacent children, saying that a point of three dishes - Maoxue Wang, fried potatoes, silk, Jiu Huang Chao Rousi, plus a tomato egg soup. I asked, "Mao Xuewang" is what the Tao dishes, his wife said a Chongqing dish, and she ate very well in Beijing, eat, see here can do so on the point of. This leaves me a bit unhappy, and said here this evening to enjoy a meal is not what is delicious, to say such a break county also can not make any delicious restaurant-breaking years. Come here to eat is simply to eat hot meals, drink soup, Treat about the past few days been ill-treated in the stomach, do you think to do out here, "Mao Xuewang" will tell you to eat in Beijing, a taste呀?
Wife by the criticism, it seemed not too happy, they want to go back in the kitchen Zaiqu that "Maoxue Wang." I say forget the point of the will to eat. Asked her point of how many of these dishes silver, his wife stool perplexing when The answer I do not know. This is what makes me more angry, how can black his head to eat the truth? How to eat the last being blackmailed to do? Then the waitress drink immediately snapped up to make her one by one newspaper vegetable. Sure enough, vegetable is simply mouth Hu reported that in the letter, a very simple tomato egg soup even dare asking for 6 yuan, outrageous!
This meal was not very pleasant to eat. The last accounts, a total was 39 per transaction. We have also come to the horizontal effort, cursed the stores would have dared to let him collect the money tomorrow, Hu close, and then Shuaixia 35 yuan of money and left leg lift. That the "youngest restaurant" who even did not dare to utter a sound child.
Therefore, we advise you that when you travel, do not think that he is everywhere get angry outsider swallow one's cries, which have to cross when the cross, there must be sub-Yi Gu, "I am I afraid of hooligans," the momentum child.
Originally planned to leave 19:00 Nanping County, bearing no time to think it's kinda long ton eat, 7:45 we again left the road, this time night had completely come. In fact, driving at night the only advantage is that you can determine in advance of the corners have come across to you drive, judgments based on that is opposite to the light vehicle injection. Therefore, when the car to the corner, I want to change several times the total distance light, in order to judge the situation.
Rain than I have just too big a word, the air cold and heavier. Open the lights, open the wiper, we are driving a car alone in the vast darkness of night before the line in the East Link, the next destination will be the Pingwu city. Temporary departure, we refer to the VIP floor of something big loop inside a map, which marked Nanping county and Pingwu mileage is 132 kilometers. Taking into account the wet rainy days, not daring to open soon, this section should take about two and a half hours.
But then increasingly to bad weather, and seriously affected our speed. With the start into the hillside, the elevation increased gradually changed the form of rain. Among the first heavy rain mixed with ice like a grain of rice, smashing the windows cracking on Baba. Rain quickly became as snow increases. Then that is pure snow.
Lamp irradiation of snow out of an unusual subtle channel, while the snow was going against the direction of vehicle forward rushed raging in our front window, it seems like broken window Entering. The snowy night, appeared extremely ferocious at the moment, as if at any time, there will be a monster from the air to land attached to the window on the tread. In this weather is no way to open the high beam, because the high beams not only the gathering of the beam can not be punctured the night sky, snowflakes in hand, in the front of the line of sight makes the increasingly blurred. Only open-beam lights and fog lights drive carefully.
Under the snow is more bigger, and gradually began to have snow on the road, and slowly thickening. And then gradually slopes on both sides of the road began to turn white. Soon Kung Fu, we are in a silver world.
But now, the mountain continues, do not know when to open Dao Tou. The more open hill, the snow under the more greater, if not quickly open to go back, the consequences be dreadful to contemplate. Accumulation of snow and ice roads make car uphill, when fatigue, loss of control when going downhill, accidents can happen at any time.
But the snow is too much, and the front sight a blur. Only the front lamp under irradiation within five meters of snow in front of wildly dancing, impossible to find a way where only relying on the roadside crash barriers reflecting the weak yellow light combined with the intuition to determine the road's direction. There are two of the corners I judge wrong, Poussin directly open to the other side of the lane to the road outside the red in the past. Fortunately, found that early and timely return to the positive direction only to avoid accidents.
More people fear that, due to exterior temperature is too low, the windows inside quickly knot on the side of a layer of mist, open energetically blowing warm air will not help. I simply let his wife with a towel, rub the window in front of me, a shining mist turned into water, the already blurred line of sight has become increasingly distorted.
After listening to people say, 21, late at night in the snow that we've opened into the mountain is called Cuckoo Hill, in the more than 4000 meters above sea level. Caused by the thin air of high altitude significantly affected the car's momentum. At that time we are linked with a stall slowly forward, but in any event not be able to raise the engine speed up, and actually felt a stall traffic lane weak; On several occasions, Poussin somehow put out a fire, do not feel that the pre - . A stall journey time is too long, channeling the water temperature up quickly, and further aggravated the plight of weak driving. Now think about it, cars these symptoms are the fault of thin air.
Snowy mountain azalea, our Poussin is akin to a Replacement Suspect, difficult to trek with. I do not know how long gone the road beginning to adopt a downhill trend. Downhill we dare not neglect, still hanging from a stall car forward. Because of the friction reduction, Poussin's car downhill in first gear is still red very quickly, in the corners had to rely on the brakes to help slow down.
Both want to open fast and it did not dare to open soon, we are so difficult with the wind and snow in the mountains fighting the cuckoo. This way, we did not encounter a car, the kind of unique among the mountains, snowy night almost suffocating sense of isolation.
As the cars go down the hill, the elevation change in the opposite direction to reduce the snow forms. Heavy snow, light snow, rain plus snow, moderate rain, light rain ... .... OK, we sailed out of the danger zone, finally relieved of the.
The road is still water, but more rain is too low. Wiper not need to work less frequently, and can be intermittently blowing windows. Driving out of snow brought me a sense of ease gradually accelerating speed, 20,30,40,50 ... .... Once I used the speed of 70 kilometers an hour in advance, Poussin this moment it seems particularly well-opened.
Front there is a corner, I habitually started slow cornering action - light brakes, depresses the clutch, picking stalls, ready to drop files ... .... Suddenly, the car appeared sideslip! ! ! The steering wheel is no longer listen to the command, he served as my left blow to the direction of the car still weird lines along the front of the slide to the right. The right side of the road at a time when not even a crash barrier at all.
The right side of a cliff, but wow!
My mind a blank, thought that the dead man. Those who have seen the mountains of the accident as tragic sight, such as flash of light, flashed my mind. His wife is also a rude awakening, Lian Hu: "how's going on? How the car."
Where do I know how a car? Only know that it is still the right front of the taxi, only to slam the brakes and hold tightly to know, subconsciously they brought a left-handed direction, the right hand pulling the hand brake.
Poussin cut down the speed of the right front wheel does not light does not hit the heartland of a mound on the stopped car, cars, put out the fire. Yaw in the car has not been seen when the crash barriers at this time went so far as batteries not to stand in front of less than 50 cm in front of the place. From there sliding into the car to stop, but up to 3,4 seconds, but I feel have gone a back and forth on the gate of hell.
Shaken me to re-Da Zhuohuo, opened the car on the highway, this time I can not step on the gas the. Poussin has maintained a speed of 40 km per hour towards the city Pingwu.
Now think of it, there should occur at the sliding time I picked stall clutch pedal that moment. Because Zhai file an instant after the car lost power, but also just a more rapid pace into the turn, the road to further reduce water tire grip, so the car had spun right in front of. If I was not simply dead brakes, but looting in first gear, maybe sideslip Bu Zhiyu less serious. But this will not occur Drift it?
Silent way. Experienced the "Speed" and we are carefully driving Poussin, never afraid to step on the gas. Want to come also, in just under the mountains had snow on the road to drive to a step 70 that there are some too fast.
On both sides of the road there have been some Tibetan houses, signs here is Baima Tibetan Autonomous Township. Occasionally saw one or two villagers toting baskets, holding a cattle, pigs, sheep what the roads. Outside the window a dark and do not know how they see the road. Looking back side of the West Loop to catch a group of children of the Qiang people are walking in the cattle and sheep on the road, while the people here only pull one, is this is a manifestation of poverty do?
Middle of the night 11:35 am, we came to a toll station. Here is the collected Pingwu to Jiangyou passing travelers. Jiaoqian collar vote and move on. Having just taken a few steps on to the Pingwu city.
Pingwu location on the East Loop, roughly equivalent to the West Loop on Maoxian. November 1 9 must have changed to a one-way traffic after the Loop, would Pingwu bring some business opportunities. Community-and-go traffic the East Link would probably eat in the parking Pingwu. However, under the Pingwu night view, there is clearly not yet ready to welcome tourists to prepare, restaurants, tourist shops were very low. What streets do not stop crossing of vehicles, but also the lack of pine-fan, the kind of brightly-lit style Chuanzhusi.
In my experience, such as ping-wu of this ordinary town, its best hotels should be a county or a county hostels. Sure enough, we rolled into town car is not far, we saw an advertisement light box, write "flat-wu Hotel, County House, the right line of 50 meters." In accordance with their instructions, we drove to one of the courtyards getting bigger, there has been full of all kinds of vehicles stopped. I guess these cars must be dedicated to local officials, car, hotel Pingwu certainly with all of the remote counties throughout China, as host meetings of local government alone can guarantee that it earned a profit pots filled bowl. Corruption, wow! ! !
However, Pingwu hotels who have lived here, there is no empty room. God knows they are really not an empty room, or bothered to receive individual guests, small place although the nature of people is very simple, but the Yamen inside when poor people have has that kind of Yi Gu child to servility into cattle trial of strength of the habit. Do not need to care about these, we continue to look for.
Drive from the hotel Pingwu come out the other side of the door, just in case of the Standing Committee of the House Pingwu. One can tell it is the original office, in order to address several office expenses, painted wall look at a few aluminum windows installed on the outside for business. A three-year-old man was standing at the door away a daze. See the meaning of our lodging as soon as we see the room warm and extreme zones. To tell the truth, where the conditions are too generalized, and where, as is the accommodation, known as traveling shop like it. Rates Dao Shi cheap, 15 yuan per person per bed. The room, only two single beds, plus a desk stood a single God knows can watch TV, apart from that is surrounded by white walls. In which a bed quilt or not actually completed nets set. Room, there is no toilet, OK have to go to the corridor to facilitate the toilet. Wash basin will use the room. If you have stayed here, tourists, I am determined that 100% of people that have long been used as a urinal basin of.
Children can not stay here and continue to look for.
In fact, Pingwu opposite the hotel there is a child looks quite new "Xiong Hao Grand Hotel", we still come a time when it looked at the door parking. Then bent forward to going to Pingwu hotel lodging, it does not consider it. Where the bar went to try his luck at the moment.
We drove around in a circle, along the way they saw several bodies Guest House, a "video company and guest houses", "Xinhua Bookstore guest houses", "Power House", is very earth is broken look. County, guest houses, disappointed with the experience of the Standing Committee, there is not ignored them, directly on Xionghao.
Pingwu the road to see a few more with the local taxi stop, a closer examination found that is actually the Chery. What a Chery car, be able to sell cars here, also made a lot of effort to the operator.
Xiong Hao was really good, surprisingly warm reception service, insisted on trying to convince them that we live here. The room facilities are new, a little taste of star-rated hotels, hot water is also a 24-hour supply. Particularly noteworthy is that a four-story small building actually has a lift. Backyard can stop, that is significantly smaller and a little bit, up to 10 cars parked on. According to service stresses, Xiong Hao is a private owner to invest in building, and had just opened less than three months, is Pingwu currently the best hotels, four star. Alone, it is privately owned it I would have a favorable impression of China's government-run thing as long as the people off-putting, privately run, most people in Ping Kong give birth to a real sense of ownership. Some bargaining, the standard rooms are not air-conditioned 80 Gaoding. We are seriously recommended younger brigade members in the Ping-wu Xiong Hao Hotel accommodated, but also regarded as the building blocks of economic construction of China's market bar. Let people earn money, so that those who corrupt Communist Party officials to make more disgusting to have to have more nausea.
Incidentally, the original claim that service in Jiuzhaigou International Hotel done it when talking about International Hotel, could not conceal a sense of pride. No wonder, the International Grand Hotel is a five-star Well. See we come from Jiuzhaigou, and he also asked me whether the encounter snow in the mountains in the rhododendrons. My answer is not just down the snow, still very great. It seems Xionghao boss is determined to a person, have aimed at in the future development of tourism in the future of Pingwu advance here raise an army, camp has. I hope business is booming bar Xionghao can. Friends of the younger brigade once again seriously proposed in the Ping-wu Xiong Hao Hotel lodging.
A night without words. The following day (October 22) morning 7:30, I and my wife, after some washing, slightly breakfast at 8:30 on the drive the road, continue to kill to Chengdu. The rain had stopped along the top of the hill there are some clouds in the wind around, but occasionally there will be sunny to sprinkle down.
Eager to go home last night, lack of enthusiasm enjoy the scenery, it is no way to enjoy the scenery with the snow for Replacement Suspect patronize the struggles. During the day the landscape are far better than the East Loop, West Loop better, more complete vegetation in the mountains, unlike the West Loop has been exposed in some places there children out of scabies-like mountain. I find most baffling is that the West Link, the rock side of the mountain of children with dirty looks, loose-as seems to be a mountain of garbage. Jiuzhaigou inside the mountain of rock is basically like this, so anyone who want to enjoy the mountain views Jiuzhaigou it can be tough. Not at all an exaggeration to say that I've seen Jiuzhaigou mountain is a mountain inside of the most ugly kind. What are tour guides who talked about "Hokyo rock", "Sword cliff hanging spring" look is very general, to shape, no shape, no color to color. Of course, except for snow-capped mountains. While the East Loop side of the mountain rock children looked on a lot of neat, with the Shaanxi Qinling You Yipin. Street can see that the river is very traditional, very old small wooden boat in the ferry, there is then a "lonely boat Toshio Baba, was the sole fishing trees and snow," in mood. There is also along the East Loop, West Loop and no one on the must - over and over charges of public toilets. We have not even seen a public toilet, either locally within the urgent time to resolve a small anti-environmental protection; or quickly stop when passing through a village to solve the problem, do not see someone charge. But this is precisely the market opportunities lie, and I believe sooner rather than later, with the November 1 after a large number of visitors from the east line into the Jiuzhaigou, where the charges of public toilets will be lined up.
Beichuan passing time, saw one called the "North River Yuanwang Dong" attractions. However, there looks deserted, there is no tourists. Attractions on the door was placed a very vulgar propaganda signs, paint brush into a kind. The above two relatively large monkey sitting in the middle surrounded by a pool a look that is painted to imitate Jiuzhaigou Haizi blue bark things. We appreciate the mood, drove roaring past.
Episode: October 22 at around 11 am approaching Jiangyou, from one called "horn-ya" in the tunnel opened out, head-on is a toll station. We turn in the paper last night waiting for inspection Pingwu. Unexpected that the recount have said that my note of yesterday, I am afraid that some trouble. This implies that this instrument had expired, and I have to re-purchase of passing travelers. I rely on, can there be such a reason? ! Last night we arrived in Pingwu toll is 11:30 at night, and even if we do not have accommodated Pingwu but to kill the Jiangyou night, the ticket has overnight. Fortunately, check-in staff fairly reasonable, in the consult another one of the men, wearing apparel after the traffic track down, she let us have passed.
On the whole, the East side of children's business sense loop is still lagging behind, still has not formed all around the Jiuzhaigou Tourism awareness of the provision of services. The kind of people still live along the sunrise and sunset of life of small-scale farmers. Jiuzhaigou in their minds is probably a very distant and had nothing to do with the place.
So, hey a tourist highway would become wasted.
Come from the horn-ya, and then walk less than 10 minutes, but also met a toll. Was going to go out and buy road, but was dressed in a uniform wave to let traffic past. Here is not the original charge. Then building a toll station is doing this for? It is depressed. Well, no charge, but is always a good thing.
11:15, vehicle to Jiangyou. Since then no I might even book, good roads are increasingly to become a cement pavement. Surging at 11:55 stormed into Mianyang, saw a lot of hanging Changhong brand businesses. Along the road at 12:15 Changhong separated into cotton on a high speed.
Chengdu-Mianyang High-speed One thing people are disappointed, it is nearly one hundred kilometers away is only one service area, located at the exit of Deyang, roughly in the middle of high-speed into the sponge. This allows high-speed before the emergency had been inside my battered. Civilization, such as what I have seen so mean citizens of the highway, I thought every 2, 30 kilometers it will have a service area, in Xi'an, is one such Well. Finally it is intolerable, the car parked on the roadside emergency stops to bring local solutions, can be considered to the street children of the farms have contributed a small way back.
Met in high-speed road traffic are most afraid of psychoses novice to open new car, we have met such a. I was in front of two cars and a coherent drive in the overtaking lane, in order to prepare beyond the driveway of a big trucks. From the rearview mirror I saw a brand new and has not blue on the immediate concern of the Baltic frantically behind me, slow down, after I kept using headlights Akira, hint to give way. What Huang Huang wow, do you follow me it wants to, do not look at Xiantaijiadu in overtaking? This moment can not even if I wanted to have children so that, should a right-hand to rub me not a big truck? After a large truck, etc. Of course I will give you to give way, this moment what can you presume wow? ! Damn perverts! When I drove back more than a big truck right Road, this car is the new Polo crazy amazing speed of at least 150 more than a step too far away. I rely on, a new car do so open? ! It can be said, this car Baltic crazy show my driver's favor in Sichuan destroyed.
13:25, we are driving under the speed to reach Chengdu, Chengdu-Mianyang.
(To be continued)
Author: silencebin
