Sleepless in the Qinghai-Tibet line
Flying stone
The Hoh Xil nightfall, people infinite desolation, the sound of wind sound, wrapped me at this time lonely and numb my soul and become buoyant due to oxygen ... ...
1, confused the Tibet Tour
2003-10-7, Da Qaidam - Golmud - Tibet, the Qinghai-Tibet line overnight sleeper car.
Since the morning a bit early, the way line has been used to early awakening. Easy to eat something, go next door to the market to buy tomatoes, cucumbers and fruit spots, in order to take the point of the Qinghai-Tibet line to make material preparations.
From the Da Qaidam to Golmud in Pakistan car earliest 10:30, and was also a National Day holiday last, so a lot of people by car, car is sold-out to leave the station.
The only bright spot along the way Salt Lake is the result of that moment, bottomless salt bridge is the world's roads in the history of a great spectacle. In fact, there are a lot of Qinghai, Xinjiang, is about the same with the King, that the end of the boundless expanse of desolation is also very spectacular, but its just walking for a month in Xinjiang, once again see a similar scene, far fewer natural arousal.
13:30, arrived at Golmud City. Autumn has started here beautiful. Said here is the world's largest city, the largest area of land, did not go to verified its authenticity.
My eldest brother are in Tibet, Hebei, under the car transport company he wanted to hang out here, but I do not want to stop a moment to continue to Tibet trip. We waved goodbye and thank such a big brother who was a stranger, with me the most lonely life spent a few days.
Tibet transportation company at this time only a day trip to Lhasa car, three in the afternoon opening bell, 160 yuan / person. Outside there are pheasants car in soliciting, prices cheaper, it is recommended not to take the car do not worry about the safety of people that I do not know when to wait before opening it. The car transport companies will go after the point, even if it is not a passenger. This season, the next plateau, a large population, few people on the plateau, after the spring and vice versa.
Qinghai-Tibet line, road more than I thought it would be good, large traffic volume is far beyond my imagination. Qinghai-Tibet Railway has also been accompanied by road trip. The way the scenery ever seen in Xinjiang is almost a replica of scenery. Only 10 passengers on board, only I am a backpacker, the original wood in Georgia that can hit Seoul idea of peers who have been dashed.
The vehicle has two drivers, who had no drivers, Shaanxi guy, with me talking a lot about the story of the Qinghai-Tibet line, and now can remain in the memory already running out. I have a section of the deepest impression is that I asked him if the car encountered severe altitude sickness on how the do? He easily answered, to be able to place calls, call the police, and then lay down, they will not either if it is to stay in the car accident ... ... I do not have the deep ask why they have done so. Here, life is fragile, it is not valuable, and died a Tibetan antelope is sometimes better than losing a human life caused by the world's attention.
The driver asked me what to do in Tibet, is ah, I went to Tibet to do? Had not thought before, then could not think of a reasonable reason. The best excuse is that I want to go home, in northwest China's Xinjiang completed the journey, I have to go back, I do not want to turn back, therefore, the return to Tibet, Sichuan, the south, is my best way of not turning back, As to how the road if they are completely beyond my imagination of the column. I am a bit of an idiot.
Kunlun Mountains are waiting for me, waiting for me in the Hoh Xil, Tanggula waiting for me, not knowing the severity of altitude sickness are also waiting for me ... go there ... but I do not know what to do in mind, it is only one way home , one does not know how long the road to go far, just as day to face the same life path, I do not know has always been, I do not know how long to go, I wonder how many Ideal during waiting for me with unhappy ... ...
2, the Qinghai-Tibet line sleepless nights
After a Kunlun Pass, Ngau Tau do not know why the monument broken into two parts in the cold silent. Along the way from time to time to see the hordes of Mongolian gazelle, they have become accustomed to the traffic of harassment, as well as those groups of the same will only close to the ground like a kangaroo hopping of birds, but also saw Sonam XX Protection Station, Qinghai-Tibet Highway side on a simple building, inclusive of the voluntary environmental protection from around the country's great love, here, there were too many moving stories.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway construction, so that life would have restricted the Qinghai-Tibet line, crowded. Along the way, because railways have been damaged ecology, probably will never be restored. Human beings with the wisdom, diligence and high-tech to accelerate the retreat of the natural environment here, the process of completing the so-called conquest of nature's great creation. In addition to the strategic significance, I can not find the second necessary to repair the railway excuse, I was ignorant.
As night fell the Hoh Xil, people infinite desolation, the sound of wind sound, wrapped in my lonely and numb at this point, my soul become buoyant due to hypoxia.
In the twilight, the car stopped at the five beams, the driver told us off for dinner. A door, shaking involuntarily hit, this time at night here, the temperature was minus ten degrees. There are as many cell phone signals, but also saw fixed-line telephone card.
There are some simple roadside restaurants are open from Sichuan Chongqing. Entered the room, warm a lot, this is a person to open a small restaurant in Chongqing, saying that after one to weeks, but also removed the plateau family home in the New Year.
Seen the kitchen, there is a pressure cooker cook rice out of that I think of it, since eaten a return to the Pamirs in Xinjiang rice, I have a full 10 days of time, do not eat a rice, and pasta all the way ration let me Southerners somewhat unwell. I even forgot that I grew up from small to eat rice, I saved his memory, the Qinghai-Tibet line is actually a small restaurant.
I ate two bowls in one breath, he committed a fatal early plateau of the first error (not overeating), braving the cold and then running forward to going to WC, then committed a second plateau early fatal error (non-violent Movement). In this back and forth about 23 100 meters of the run (do not run too cold also uncomfortable), etc. I have an up to the board, the immediate chest will not do, like heart has shown signs of beauty, the old to the voice I want to be held down to channeling, feeling a little vomiting, limb hit the same anesthetic is not raised up, not controlled by. I know that altitude sickness came.
5,200 above sea level here, the hotel owner told me, as if not the same as with the subject on the map. Although he is not the first back on the plateau, but has also been before from Qinghai, north Xinjiang, Pamir Altun came high-altitude areas, has been thought he would be all right, but the effect, or let me suffer.
Lifetime, the most tough night, and thus coming to me. There is no preparation is both fortunate and suffering into your favorite way. I tried to let himself fall asleep, then wake up tomorrow, fantasy, Lhasa will appear in your eyes, and sadly it can only be an illusion.
I have a picture of a big ripe pomegranates, at any time off from the same burst.
Drivers to sleep soundly, the car a few other people are quiet, I do not know whether there are people like me uncomfortable, I can not let other people know that I am vulnerable at this time. Car is a converted semi-horizontal, and seat space is very small, only half-lying down, feeling uncomfortable, I tried to stand up and tried to get to the last row of the upper berth, there is also an area bigger flat.
I climbed up, there are already one in here to sleep. Finally was able to land straight asleep, and it bumps the powerful, I was like a rubber ball, in the premises with the bouncing back and forth between the roof, around windows and off, lax, wind has also squeezed along for the ride, it seems also laugh at my incompetence.
In extreme pain, spent every second.
God has let me destined to become one of the victims of this world tonight. (To be continued)
Author: AHAO7
