Renzailvtu-Tibet line diary - Alone Plateau
Text: cuma (Cuma)
June 8 Qing
12:00 am Wada - Yecheng Yecheng I thought the line as a new starting point for Tibet, Ali material supply base will be an extremely busy and the Han Chinese majority areas
Quemo thought here and the other small town in southern Xinjiang, like almost all the streets coming and going of the Uygur people, their Mandarin is mostly bad, can not in-depth exchanges, just wanted to inquire about riding the news will be futile.
Accommodation: Transport Hotel, Bus Station next to lay down their luggage, I went straight to Ali, a taxi office in Yecheng. Ali office is located at 219 State Road, from "0 mile" about two kilometers.
Conditions not up to much here, accommodation, catering, facilities, very complete. Compound parked two jeeps, one of which is designed to run Yecheng - Shiquanhe's. Uygur drivers say that there are seven, and then one way or another three on the starting price is 350 / person. This Jeep had only two rows of seats, the last row is the location of the original installation of the trunk.
Ali out of office, a few more near the parked truck loaded with cargo, the driver said, 300 / person, 12-point starting this evening. I think today is not gone, some things must first buy on.
Cold medicine, this thing is a life-saving when used in critical, non-purchase can not be.
Military cotton-padded clothes, I brought out from home is only two short-sleeved clothes and compassionate, and a coat. Capricious weather-Tibet line, particularly in very cold at night. Cotton-padded clothes such as the military also warm things cheap and value for money.
Han had wanted to buy some high altitude medicine, and ran several pharmacies had done so.
Thus visited the afternoon. Yecheng This place is really very bad. Unlike others here, a small town in southern Xinjiang, as clean and tidy everywhere in the road, is not the sub-section come from a thorough street has been dug to three feet, foot-off time, the dust barely had uppers. Winds scratch, a vast expanse of the street, followed by a sandstorm like.
Back to the room, no running water, hot water bottles are also asking a flight attendant to say no. Meng is really a little bit.
I sat in bed, and my heart empty. Thought we should set foot on a strange and dangerous road, and all the danger can not be predicted, my heart faintly uneasy. Families did not know I was here, I do not want to never see them.
June 9 is not clear Yecheng Bank of China, I had to go 60 kilometers away Shache County to collect the money, then went straight back to Yecheng office. Yesterday's two jeeps have gone. I sat in the big yard, to consider whether the truck is still sitting Jeep. Jeep open quickly, but a vehicle to ride 10 individuals, squeeze the hell, if it was altitude sickness in the car hypoxia will feel even worse. And there is no trunk Jeep, luggage must be put in the roof, on the road in order to take things to take away the film will be very inconvenient. Jeep Truck definitely better than sitting comfortable, but filled with cargo trucks usually open very slowly. Of course, there is an option is to ride in military vehicles, that is what I come to Yecheng preferred pre-planned. But the military vehicle is difficult to take, nor do I do not want to shrink in that a small circle of friends inside. I am undecided, just a few people have jumped on the vehicles, a jeep it better.
Out of the office door, 219 national highway Dongfeng truck parked cars, this car looks quite new, the driver said to go immediately to temporarily take only one Junsao. Do not know how did I take this car flew felt right, the way I always believe in your own intuition. Then straight back to hotel to take luggage Erhuamoshui. Driver said, etc. I half-hour, half an hour later I come to him if someone else set to go, and anyway, more people ride a lot.
Back to the office, just opened on the national highway truck, I put on after the car top bag, camera bags on the rear cab.
17:20 departure I did not think his plan more than a year-Tibet line is so hurried journey began. I had a couple of days rest would also like to Yecheng, I would also like to buy the original oxygen bag, I did not even have time to his family branded the phone.
Can not go back, and that来之,则安之bar! This car is transportation of cement, the driver, surnamed Zhu, 30 years old, is that the car owners, the other one surnamed Shen, more than 40 years old, is a big pull to run specialized Chu Ali. Junsao husband Hongliu Beach depot work, she went to visit relatives. They are Yecheng three people familiar with each other.
Days very hot, about 40 kilometers out of the driver is not opened. Soon followed by a Dongfeng truck to hang the Shiquanhe license, the original came to our peers. The driver said that the new Tibet-line travel unpredictable, usually two cars go hand in hand, on the road one another physically.
Retro cars are two drivers, two brothers, while chatting up two Tibetans. From zero to 6 km section of track is a whole new Tibetan commune online the best section of the road is the only section of asphalt road. Unfortunately, only 50 kilometers, after a six communes, potholed road up soon.
Location: 115km libraries in Osaka elevation: 3000? Time: 22:15
Is in our car is about to reach the base to the top of Osaka, the tire of the storm. Driver got off the tire change, but forced too fast and broke the iron discharge screws. Not the tools, with our peers has also been one step ahead of the truck down the mountain, we had to sit on the roadside waiting for vehicles crossing the road to help. This is a bare mountain rocks everywhere, mountains and many have been left behind by water erosion, dark hole, far looked like a ghost and a face hideous skull, along with where dust filled the air, mountain breeze blowing and how it all like the kind described in Journey to the West Village is full of Yaoqi place.
Medium in the dark for two hours, hit a Uygur people's car, there are tools do not lend us and cursed death Tulv Junsao gas. A Hohhot, Mongolia finally met a truck, our tires for an hour, they are also the roadside waiting for an hour. Like a good man's life safe!
Location: 160km library in elevation: 3000? Time: 3:30
Reach the library to when the strong wind blowing, the next heavy rain, through car lights I can see there is a depot, several restaurants and Xiuju Pu. We are knocking on the door to a Szechuan Restaurant, the boss woke up, lit candles for us to do noodles. Thunder rumbled outside, rain-soaked. I was cold and hungry and trapped inside the house. In the high-pressure pot noodles for nearly an hour, I hurried to eat a bowl, walked back room of the pass shop, attend to that dirty, smelly sheets quilt, at the end they sleep.
After midnight, there have been a car, the driver came in to eat lodging, noisy. I lay in bed, a Sleepless.
June 10 clear up at dawn, eat a few steamed buns two bowls of rice porridge, whole body relaxed. The car to the library to village, there are soldiers on the roadside inspection documents,
That gentle fat soldier, said: After you have here, then we should do border card, and libraries to the border management area now.
Today, Osaka mazar to climb. Said the climb is no exaggeration. Our car weight 8 tons, 15 tons of cargo, cars uphill when the speed is only ten kilometers away, thieves thieves slow slow. Clearly in sight of the place, it's to climb Huchihuchi a good long time. And around here, the road is also very, from one hill to another hill close to the distance, often have to turn on several big circle to get to.
Location: 241km mazar depot elevation: 4000? Time: 15:00 mazar Osaka driver said nearly 5,000 meters above sea level. Listening to music, and have a place 5,000 meters, and I do not altitude sickness, then afraid Gesha, again is Han in Tibet last year, I is not none. 哈哈哈哈哈! Seems to appear to altitude sickness and I really miss ah.
Mazar military depot next to several restaurants, we are here to eat. Junsao a bit of altitude sickness, drink a few pieces of glucose. Although I did not feel any discomfort, still is not taken lightly. Walk slowly and speak slowly. Eat a bowl of noodles whistles, drivers eat Taipan Ji. Back to the car and two Tibetan chat, they continue to complain about this car to go too slow, saying that if a suitable vehicle encountered on their way let me go with them chartered.
17:00 drivers are fed, Sheung.
Mazar military depot to the black card from Osaka flat terrain, the car could run very fast, but one to the black card Osaka resumed turtle speed of the car.
1丰田越野车from our side to open before, soldiers carried a small red horn We cry: after the team, please wait for passengers. Within a short while over dozens of cars during the first open-terrain vehicle, bovine B-smelling around us galloped from the off, roll up the long dirt. Later, they heard that the convoy commander, political commissar of so what's what.
The team has just passed, we have another storm of the tire, and spent half an hour for tires.
21:30, arriving San Shili, here is the new online largest supply base for Tibet, in addition to numerous restaurants, as well as depot, maintenance stations, medical stations.
Taking advantage of drivers to fill tires moment, I am off to eat a bowl of tomato egg noodles. That deflated tomatoes withered, and had not fresh. I only eat things that can be added when the physical, but soon found that eating here is the pieces of how stupid things. The car a road, sharp bumps badly let me like stomach discomfort. And went to early morning, the storm bursts Italy, my seat back chairs are too low, the entire upper body simply no place to rely on. In order not to nap, I am desperate eyes wide open staring at the road ahead.
Location: Rose Willow Beach elevation: 4000? Time: 4:00 Junsao get off here, her husband brought the driver to go for dinner. I have great difficulties, and sat in the car to take a nap for a while. Car cold cold, cold I can not sleep. I lay down on a bench that sat upon the cab, the driver a place to sleep on the road, the driver of the quilt cover and military coat, finally confused the past. Can also be a driver eat rice back, I had climbed since the warm blanket to sleep on a restaurant inside the shop pass. Jumped out of the car, I unconsciously carried bowed, my God! Sky pearls pearls of stars, Hushanhushan, and see I was stunned, drowsiness no.
June 11 to clear last night with a gang of workers in Sichuan's brother Ali, squeeze a pass shops, quilt is very thick, it still is the constant drilling to cold is still a Sleepless. The morning, we have three drivers of two vehicles have to respond. Grand Chu said, do not know how did each spend the night in the beach will have a response to Tamarix. This is the famous Hongliu Beach? I looked at it thin. Is nothing but a flat, not to mention do not see a Hongliu, that is, grass trees for nothing.
9:20 start. Because of more empty seats, my head can finally have relied on the back. However, the road is very bumpy, like comfortable relying on is impossible. Out Hongliu Beach soon my head began to hurt them. Do not know if there is a reaction to the altitude, and several days of fatigue or because it increases the lack of sleep increases caused by severe turbulence. I was tired, lazy, no strength, a move do not want to move, nose dry and hot.
40km away from the dead to the place where the ditch far away to see a couple of cars gathered in front of a bunch of people. It is a desert plateau, open a lot.
Nearly half an hour ago and we have to know where an accident. A Dongfeng truck when trying to overtake a truck hit the front of the rear impact, crushing the cab, sitting in the front row of three killed on the spot. Grand Chu looked back over the past, said the dead person is the owner, his wife, his son, the three men the night before we hit Yecheng refueling Shi Hai Guo.
I think of it, that is three Sichuanese the exclusive online freight business in the new Tibet. The night before we played a warm greeting, half an hour ago they still live life, now they are icy bodies lying in the barren cold desert on the plateau. I do not know whether it is four weeks wandering souls, whether they are looking for road to return home. I suddenly cold, very miserable, for the three vanished life on the road for this little restaurant for those who come all the way from Sichuan arrived at the young Ali to go to work for all to make a living and a happy life in this Along the way rushing people.
Location: 670km dead ditch elevation:? Time: 17:00
My response worsened, and two drivers to stop in order to solve problems of smoking, which makes me even more difficulty breathing. Groove to reach the dead when the driver of another vehicle vomit. And I, headaches, weakness, nausea, do not want to eat. Big Zhu said that the more we eat the first place the more pain. (Later proved that his words are right) I get off to a small restaurant turn a bit to see food on the nausea. Back to the car, sitting in uncomfortable, lie down and even worse, I lie on the window, on the suction Dakoutaikou.
Dead ditch, back when the Sino-Indian War, People's Liberation Army Cavalry Regiment way here, almost annihilated, dead ditch its name. Have such a horrible place names are actually very beautiful. It's not like I originally thought, as is the canyon of the Shangougou, where wide vision, near a small lake, the lake clear, the lake a large blue glaciers, the same as with the sapphire. That blue, I do not know how the Creator created, and Chun-chun, and Chun-chun, and so you do not have the heart to tarnish it. Lake of the distance, an attached one of the snow-capped mountains, shining in the sun under the golden holy.
Ditch the dead to stay for three hours, was eventually implemented. Remember that the information given in the possession of said new online landscape is very monotonous. I think it is that the dead before the bar ditch. DORMA from the dead to the ditch, crossing the Jieshan, clay Osaka, all the way and beautiful scenery. Especially in the 750km Department, under the blue sky, the plateau on top of a nameless lake suddenly appeared in front of us. Lake left is green, right is blue. Lake of the grass, large yellow flowers on a large lake around the plateau in the distance, surrounded by snow-capped mountains. Such a beautiful place, that is, Zaidao where pieces of well-being of the thing is, I think.
23:00, arriving Sodom. Often to walk a new line of Tibetan people are kept repeating one sentence: the most scary thing to ditch the dead of Sodom. By DORMA, the new Tibet-line basically is passed. Ali met here, just down the large group of people, talking about that today, the traffic accident on the desert, we are all looking dignified. Who does not know of such a tragedy will not, when it will happen to themselves.
I am still very much a headache, in a small restaurant asked for a bowl of, their teeth a few mouthfuls of the chops. A restaurant owner said that this year on this line particularly large number of people dead last month, a truck overturned at the mazar Osaka nine people died, most recently a two armed soldiers because of altitude sickness fell on this line. Even more of them people who live here year round, usually are always careful, there is a cold medicine on the hurry.
Chat with the owner of speculation, my head is not actually miraculously pain. I do not know what the reason is to eat, or the body has begun to adapt to this land.
June 12 2:00 sunny, in the driver after the eradication of a Taipan Ji Sheung.
This way drowsy and do not know when the Japanese had soil Bangong wrong.
11:00, arriving Shiquanhe. Here mountains, and the mainland town of no difference.
See the straight road, bustling crowd, feels like a rebirth.
June 15 sunny for three days here to rest, I almost have forgotten the dead three days ago, when the ditch was uncomfortable the first time.
But I remember that the lives of the three disappeared, then broke three solitary quilt covered the body.
Alive, nice! Tomorrow I ride to the ancient frame, Kamiyama, I would a small village in Tibet to live on quietly for some time and then went to Lhasa.
The new Tibet-line summary:
1) length of 1060 kilometers, most of the road is very bumpy, but it is not dangerous. This line of car accidents are mostly caused by driver fatigue, driving,
Therefore, we must find two drivers looking for car, the car is not crowded.
2) on the road a total of seven military depot: libraries, the mazar, San Shili, Tamarix Beach, tianshuihai the dead ditch, Sodom. Each side has a military depot where room and board, of course, conditions are very poor.
3) altitude sickness is not terrible, and forbearance, and forbearance on the one passed, but do not cold. For insurance purposes, it is best to buy on the Yecheng sweater knitted wool trouser,
Groove to the period of the dead even in the summer of Sodom is often snow.
4) Yecheng a good rest before departure, to the Shiquanhe is. The first day will not bathe, drink butter tea.
I wish you peace!
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My Route: Shanghai - Urumqi - Burqin - Hana Sri Lanka - Kuitun - Korla - Round Taiwan - Desert Road (Tower) - Wada - Yecheng - Shiquanhe - ( unfinished)
My Diary: Urumqi robbed | Green Hana Sri Lanka | desert storm | Highlands Alone | Goodbye Tibet
Cuma 2002 Nian 6 Yue 15 in Ali
Author: Cuma2001
