Sichuan-Tibet line Happy Times (excerpt)
Flying stone
A story I once, and often I do not think myself that "I" just play one role, but now I am just one away from "him" of more recent audience. It re-opened branch of this messy scribbled words the phrase the road logs, and then look at the photos to stay off the road, will soon be gone from my story seems almost a bit. With memories to plunder memory itself is a painful thing ... ...
2003-10-13, sunny, Lhasa - bamboo Gongka - gongbo'gyamda - 81 - Bomi, boarding Bomi.
National Day long holiday away, but also swept away a few days ago, still bustling crowd.
I packed luggage, and at dawn the wind in the door out of the auspicious day, just the car we came to, and living in Asia have been sitting in the hotel helen Fu Jia-bit, while those from Shanghai, Jiang Sheng and ginger too, as early as have been on another car waiting at the eight school corridors.
Ginger Ginger too have come to Tibet, honeymoon, they put life's most cherished days, left Tibet, left the Sichuan-Tibet line, which I was lucky enough to become a happy time they witness the Sichuan-Tibet line people. Happiness, it can sometimes be difficult to comprehend by the. In fact, she looked for a few days before the two of me, because we go after the transport of non-uniform, so I was ready for a person's intention to take the Sichuan-Tibet line, did not expect the end, we still come to a come, perhaps, This is often said that the fate.
We hit the road, in the dawn, do not clip with no nostalgia and embarked on the Sichuan-Tibet line. In this three-month long journey in Tibet, but I am returning as a way station for it is not a starting point, nor is it terminal, but the Sichuan-Tibet line, destined to become my life, the road traveled, the most obliterate I will, one way.
Late autumn of the Sichuan-Tibet line is a continuous stretch of the beautiful people dazzle picture. After a Lhasa Bridge to Dazi, bamboo Gongka then gongbo'gyamda, along the way are endless splendor of Autumn. Mountains in my tired eyes.
Zipper case of out troops, nearly 500 vehicles a few dozen kilometers of the team, wait, wait ... ...
Also saw a group of kneeling long head of the Tibetans, the forward direction to go to Lhasa. Walking in the Tibetan days, this scene can often see, but in the hands of the camera has not been aligned to their figure, could not bear the hardships of others and devotion, into a landscape of their own eyes.
Is also a monk, but we go on to support the spirit of motivation are quite different. A strange foreign land, never seen scenery, I always go on the driving force, and support they have been walking, only a simple belief. Our eyes just stare at this life, so present pleasures, and their world, only for the afterlife, so day ascetic.
Climbed over more than 5000 meters above sea level, after the Mila Pass, you enter the Nyingchi realm. Niyang has been accompanied by the highway and lines, such as the emerald green river, exquisitely carved landscape of the river, let me without any explanation out of it, as the most natural one of the most beautiful rivers. Seen it, the Kanas River in northern Xinjiang is also able to go to be not to go.
16:00, 81 cars reached the town, stopping for a second fuel today.
Nyingchi county started to climb from the color Zillah Pass, is walking down the Sichuan-Tibet line, the first difficult encounter a mountain pass. We are faced with road crosses the process, and take a very awkward position, the first did not give halo are considered good luck in turn.
The Yakou Department, we are very fortunate to see the Namjagbarwa, Sichuan-Tibet line up the most beautiful snow-capped mountains, the world's first 15 peaks, such as from a dream pop out of the same show in everyone's eyes, a dark band just hanging In Feng Jian. The famous Brahmaputra Daguai Wan, on the Namjagbarwa nearby. Although the这么些年来, seen countless snow-capped mountains, but since many years ago after the Meili Snow Mountain, another great emotion, I snow-capped mountains. It is like an old world will never be able to read quietly runs through that, he served as wind, frost, snow and rain erosion, loneliness boundless.
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Dark hours and more than seven minutes, we came to the foot of the mountain town of rouland, this is a beautiful town, spring and summer season, which boasts such a fantastic mountain countryside. Unexpectedly, the light crossing the one-color Qi La Pass, it took us three hours. We rouland to set off after dinner.
At this point dim lights, it illuminates the loneliness of the Sichuan-Tibet line, as if ready to be the same as the night swallowed. Driver Adong kept smoking to lift tired, but fortunately, sitting in front of the helen had been with him said, and some of his spirit.
From rouland to Bomi, there is a Sichuan-Tibet line among the most dangerous and most vulnerable sections of the Rolling Stones landslides, it is tangmai natural barrier. At night over tangmai a natural barrier, psychologically, we are more secure, since not see anything, but if the slightest slip of concentration, alas, still do not think it is better ... ...
Car seems to run in the rubble heap, not the national highway. Roads to narrow, downhill and turning and constantly, opposite the car reached the most worried about over, so that we can only be trapped in the car to stay put until after dawn to see if there is no way to wrong driving. Fortunately, the time until we reached the bridge tangmai only when there is a car to see the bridge is slowly living a bridge, there is one waiting at the other side of the bridge is a one-way street at night there are police guards. This is also the road from the rouland to Bomi, we encountered only two cars all night.
Over the bridge, that is, tangmai town, a small village. After a pass wheat, traffic much better, 1:00 or so, we finally reaches a Bomi county.
After 17 hours of driving, as soon as possible to find a place to lie down, put you on hold to dawn, is the only thing we want to do.
That night, no reason to sleep well.
2003-10-14, cloudy to sunny, Bomi - rawu - Basu - to help up, boarding up to help.
Is not yet dawn, we got up, and only knew last night did some rain. Cars off of oil increases, it continued to set out.
Bomi County is not on the road on both sides of some buildings, and similarly, Sichuanese constitute the mainstream of the population here. The rise of the surrounding snow-capped mountains visible in the fog erratic, there are like fairyland. Sichuan-Tibet line of people came to know, Bomi, is the essence of Sichuan-Tibet line picture of them. Bomi beauty, it is difficult to describe in words, and then the rhetoric, in the Virtual front would appear to be so naive pale.
About half an hour or so on is the sumzom town, starting from here, in roads, traffic blocked from time to time, we often have to walk down. Roads on both sides of the mountains, into the existence of discrete pieces into gold, into the existence of discrete pieces into the red, vague shapes of blue sky snow-capped mountains and streams, people dazzling. I have not but sigh, last month ran a special trip to Northern Xinjiang Kanas see Autumn, but also far less speechless name here the section of the road.
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11:30, arriving Ran Wuhu, parking, flew to the lake, we want to rely on here is not gone, and the constant urging of the driver before we get on the train. Ran Wuzhen from the section to continue due to road closure, we can only Raozhao Zou pavement.
We are the wrong path, has embarked on a provincial highway 201 to Zayu until the 34KM roadmap Department, was only running to catch up in the back of the car, the driver Iowa angrily told us the wrong way, turned out he had been after visiting the chasing us (telephone no signal), Adon Zhigu car and had never noticed, but we are concerned about corruption look at beautiful scenery behind the car also did not know that there are abnormal, getting two cars seemed to engage in the same rally. Landscape has already let the United States where we do not care to walk, and even the driver said this section to the wrong value.
The upper reaches of the original Ran Wuhu there are two lakes, both as a barrier lake along the road to the Zayu's been along this road, you can see them, another is called an Head Lake, was the same as with Ran Wuhu long and narrow shape. The most upstream of the lake like a telephone handset that the shape of two big middle small, the lake is a large tracts of fields and farmhouses, and we looked down from the hillside, scenic beauty of the ordinary. Here there is a glacier, called in ancient glaciers. Returned, by looking at the map, probably can be sure that we saw along the way that a mountain should be called Kangri Gabu Kamiyama.
Roads incredible difference ... ...
During the walk through of the two streams, over the first time, Iowa's car in the middle of the river and died, Iowa on the barefoot into the cold snow, while Jiang Sheng wife could do nothing but trapped in the river. Adong's car to drag it, just drag the shore, the rope snapped off, and really hanging! Over the second river, the river is also deeply than the first, I really worry about cars and then turn off that we do not know how to do. Car washed it down, sparking a splash submerged front of the car cover, the front of the car windshield all flooded, and we are all frightened of stunned in the car, but fortunately, the car did not stop the smooth mobility of the past. However, after landing, two cars stopped to check the brake pads, full water, and do not dry the way it is then in danger.
Pavement in the end in the long run I do not know how long the anxiety has finally turned back to see the national highway. Three o'clock, we went to a cow riding a ditch in front of asphalt due to the traffic closure. This and so on, do not know until when, went to inquire, saying it was going to open until early morning, halo! We did not give up, but also Paoqu Wen construction workers, and that the evening should be able to open, but now only 3:00呀! Alas, only desperately waiting for.
Being bored waiting about two hours after a sudden were being told that cars can be passed, because the shop in front of the oil equipment is broken, the workers knock off early. 哈哈! Is really opening the eyes of God. Here is a newly paved asphalt road surface, is also a line from Lhasa, we passed the best road, drag racing it, Anjou La Pass will soon be our rejection in the dust, in the dark when the seven-point multi - minutes, we came to the Basu county.
Dinner, vehicle refueling, the road, completely black days down ... ...
After a Nu River bridge and began to climb the most famous Sichuan-Tibet line 72 Shui Po, and trying to fix the road, the road widened considerably, but in this case very hard, too powerful a bumpy road, but too much dust, difficulty in breathing.
1 Po 2 Po 3 Po Po ... ... 4 people sat in the car, has lost its sense of direction, as if never see the road climbing high point. A sky full of the stars in the night sky appeared to be very clear, she felt like walking in the air, the moon has climbed up, with the incessant Road, turn left, turn right and see the moon rising on several occasions from the jian Das CIO. Finally, I saw the wind drift of the streamer at the roadside, that is, we have reached the industry's highest point of La Pass. I told the driver to stop, down a daze for a while, at nearly 5,000 meters above sea level Department, the stars the moon and feel very different ah. This night, this quiet, this Star is the happiness I will never forget.
Good walking down the road more, around 11 o'clock at night, cars to help reach, located in 318 national highway and 214 national highway intersection, a fork in the road. Jiang Sheng my wife out of the car, the driver still helen goodbye, they will continue their progress, it may arrive tonight Zogang can only wish them well. In particular, helen, a girl, a single person to go to Nepal, but would also Inagi really not easy, really wish her all the way good luck!
Highway to help achieve the Qamdo are also roads, is also a half-clearance half-closed, is now 11 pm, and to the direction of the car has been all Qamdo ran, only to spend the night here, to say tomorrow, Jiang Sheng couples also agreed to spend the night here tonight, after all, in the Sichuan-Tibet line today, we spent a full 16 hours.
Stay here, almost all together with wooden compartment, narrow space, a bed, that is, rooms, and watched several, conditions are similar and will have to stay there with a pick. 0:30 after the full blackout here.
That night, I did not like with the outside piles of Tibetans choose the night at the roadside is a big mistake, after all, I took my tent sleeping bag.
Helping up, I have enjoyed the conditions of this life slept the worst hotel. Also in this day, I saw the life of the most beautiful scenery. God is fair.
Author: AHAO7
