2004 trip to Tibet
In 2003 I went to Sanya, China's southernmost city, a new seaside tourist city. This year we have traveled a sacred Tibet.
I like to lie on thin soft white sand on the sea of looking at the immense, the sea breeze blows around the ear like the water gurgling sound of whispers. Dusk gradually approaching clouds contracted gold, the horizon gradually showing drunk red, everything slowly enveloped in a hazy incomparable among graceful. Surrounded by quiet, the sea is beating more and more appealing to purl. I would like to put the beach when the bed had been sleep on.
It was a good honeymoon or a leisure destination, save enough money for the journey, enjoying to relax and sway, are modern, learn from the West. Tibet is entirely different, it is the treasures were heavy, people appreciate mining, it is very mysterious,拒人于千里之外. Mountain Jiangchuan among bears for thousands of stories.
When the plane landed at Gonggar Airport, our hearts subsequently excited, guess all the legends, the veil will soon begin in Lhasa, there was terrible altitude sickness. This is the plane circled in the Brahmaputra on the shooting
Tanggula submerged into the cloud.
Altitude sickness is still relatively strong, just set foot on the land of Tibet, they feel dizzy, shortness of breath, we can not trot Rush, only a very funny way leisurely stride. Finally went to the car.
Car out the airport, along the Brahmaputra tributaries of the Lhasa River towards Lhasa. Beautiful scenery along the way is not suffocating, but a bit monotonous, in addition to the bare hills is the color of the river sediment. But she is different, and there is no fluttering of flags fluttering beauty of Jiangnan River did not cloud the colorful odd mountain rocks, and only continuous mountain rivers, due to climatic reasons, even very little green vegetation. Clouds are white, and presses is very low, golden sun is very bright, there is no industrial pollution, one looked to for ages.
Here the landscape is golden, and I am confident that the mountains full of treasure, a wide range of minerals and metals. But so far there is no large-scale mining, is said to excessive exploitation of local superstition, would destroy the aura of the land. Here is my very fond of this pair of photographs, landscapes form a contrast, light and shade overlapping patchwork, color rich, golden light lofty, people relaxed and happy, full of hope.
Arrived in Lhasa is 18 o'clock, as is located in the west, the sky is still very bright. Lhasa's charm lies in the Potala Palace, Lhasa, lies in the bustling Beijing Road.
It is equivalent to Shanghai's Huaihai Road and Hengshan Road, a commercial street the other end is very characteristic of small restaurants and bars. Restaurant is decorated with local customs, Tibetan architecture and furniture, the walls and ultimately, a symbol of evil spirits and the Potala Palace, the yak skull picture, in a restaurant I have also seen the Potala Palace, a very realistic simulation of plastic birds and beautiful, the ceiling, with the legend of Tibetan Buddhism-related murals. The first paste paper lanterns, wooden lattice windows, and red cloth of fine lines, as well as pottery vase container of red flowers, the tour guide Tibetans love bright colors. Tibetan meal with meat-based, in recent years, agricultural development, and vegetables rich in again.
I have no religious enthusiasm, but it is precisely that it constitutes a major part of Tibetan culture. We went to the Potala Palace, which is the Dalai Lama驻锡land, as well as to build the auspices of Princess Wen Cheng of the Panchen Lama, the Jokhang Temple and the largest non-law Temple Zhashen Lun Temple. A major feature of the temple is a pervasive flavor of butter, which is the oil lamp fuel. Many monks meditate in the corner, both hands and with dim candlelight scriptures attentively read, totally disregarding the crowd of visitors. There was a young monk, very interesting, he has been with us, and when I said, and his camera was then that I knew he was different from Chinese. I picked up the camera, clicks to keep him in my camera, he cheeky shy expression, let him come look at my eye, but he shyly turned away. But a moment, when we step out of hall, they saw he was watching us.
Although the majority of Tibetans living standards are not high, but locals fear for the gods and selfless evident. Appearance Qiyuxuanang temple, to the Potala Palace, led by glittering roofs are all powder brick. The temple, the structure delivered, a statue of the Buddha is also a gold and silver jewelry with hundreds of gold piled. These figures are shocking, I can not blasphemous, but it is still not live laments. Wani who came all the way to worship the Pacers, a few weeks or even months, lived outdoors, exposed to the sun and rain really amazing that their firm will and faith.
I came to viewing, so I prefer wood that wrong - World outside the Wonderland.
That mistake is the wood's second-largest saltwater lake in China. Tibetan Buddhism, one of the three holy lakes, which form a contrast with the Kamiyama Nyainqentanglha Mountains Jiao Hui, sightseeing pilgrims who come each year countless.
It is located in more than 4700 meters above sea level, surrounded by well-known Qiangtang grassland. Here plants horses, cattle and sheep flocks. We start the morning when the sky was raining, dense clouds. Noon, when we crossed the mountain pass when Nyainqentanglha out the sun. Is still very thick clouds.
We are bumps along the foothills of winding down. Si Xiali scenery is flying the yellow dust, and is said road so the original vegetation had been destroyed. Has opened loess, came to grasslands, feeling suddenly better. That exposed wooden wrong corner of the lake hazy, I am tempting to reach out, though I knew she was still far off.
Also driving cars more than an hour before we saw the wrong picture of wood.
God is love, so that the clouds dispersed, the blue sky is now exposed. That mistake like inlaid wood in the grasslands of the sapphire, sparkling. Variety of clouds, quiet lakes, grasslands filled with plump my eyes, my mind, I forgot that I am a tourist from the earth, I only belong to Namco!
In addition to temples, the wood that human error was the largest one of all attractions, but it is still a rare signs of human habitation, a radius of several miles on our pedestrians, as if this piece of land moment only unique to me. This is purely private environment in other scenic spots is very small. Herders in the fertile pitched tents pitched on the lawn. Yak wool tents are prepared wind again Zhe Yu. Heard that a good income here, herdsmen, a yak can sell two or three thousand. Pastoralists never kill their own slaughtering, the executioner put the yak to sell.
Highlands clouds many splendours, they peak Qi Jian, layer upon layer, erratic, and the blue sky mountain, that is, oil paintings. We sat cross-legged on the lake to eat lunch, a group of children in order to come, holding the newborn is only a small sheep, indicating that we take pictures. They do not speak Chinese, it will only hand gestures. I understand that they are to me to eat, and I put apples and biscuits to him, and give them four little boys pictures, they are scrambling to come to see themselves on the LCD. Their clothes are dirty, dark face, cheeks glowing red, the fingers are equally dirty. I do not have the heart to say that they are dirty, but they seem to never wash your hands and face. I gave them ten-dollar, the little boy very happy to move their parents around, hands waving Yang Zhao money and food. Windy lake, elevation 4700 is a bit suffocating, pretty soon we set foot back to passers-by. Tibetans just passing through the tents, we are the way to go inside to visit. Tent of about a dozen square meters, one entered the room, we saw piles of mahjong tiles, wooden table. The middle is the kitchen, not only for rice can also heat, both sides of the ground floor at night when the bed spread quilts. Almost no furniture, eat and drink Lazard in this one room. I gave them all the remaining food. They keep saying thank you. We saw a flock of sheep over, a young man riding on white horses, he looked at us, alien, friendly smile, I stepped forward to ask if he could take pictures, he did not understand, but turned away. Looking at his silhouette, this Shiqibajiu year-old child, I can not help but recall a documentary on Tibetan, a reporter asked him a similar young man, "What do you intend to do? This life in the most important thing is What is? "" sheep, married wives and children. "This is the most primitive life goals. They live in a different train in the only region, the relative occlusion to make their lives like primitive tribe. With the development of tourism, the local economy already has changed, herders know that through the most simple way to begging, using children to win people's sympathy, the children are the most innocent. Hopefully this phenomenon will be changed, a different group of children grow up with their parents are no longer simply allow the kids to begging, but rather to rely on his hands and wisdom of life. Even more reluctant to see is a superficial sense of business so that they can give up their most precious asset. This is often encountered in tourism development often contradictory. Cultural landscape often with the development of the tourism industry which is gradually disappearing.
The local government has taken note of environmental protection. To leave, the driver asked us to bring garbage.
I reluctantly looked out the window the landscape of greed, hoping always bear in mind, these beautiful. She makes awe, the United States was fascinated people. I was sitting on the grass, relaxed and happy, thoughts fly back to decades ago, the word can be described as in front of everything - "pure." I am engaged in, and at this moment my world is only that the wrong timber. Wide expanse of water, sky, air Qinglie also playing in the lake in the little life, all these have become the Tibet trip the most memorable scene.
Good-bye, pure land.
In addition to that wood right or wrong, we also went to the Nyingchi area, tour guides say that we pass by a big Jiuzhaigou's reputation Niyang. I did not see, and unceremoniously that if so, on the abolition of the original intention of the Jiuzhaigou trip. Nyingchi Guangdong aided emerging industrial town. Many of the local Sichuanese, when the tour guide, open restaurants, for small businesses. It is the 23 cement road, down the street is a one of the shops used to sell fruit and snacks, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the vicinity of the town quite similar. Season may be wrong, along the way is not the legendary Taohua Lin.
Wherever he went, streamer is the most common, especially Yamaguchi, streamer planes into the cone, hill like standing in each block Yamaguchi, locals and tourists must pass every one got off the hada presented, and along the way Long drift up, it is a printed piece of paper full texts. Even the river between the two sides are also steep cliffs of the streamer attached colorful bright-colored, like a rainbow from the date of river shelves. Local traffic is relatively backward, climbing up the cliffs is not easy, the streamer line to the other side is even harder. I lamented the power of religion.
Shigatse, Tibet's second largest city of Shanghai-aided. I am particularly proud of. The road from Lhasa to Shigatse in the repair, we can only pass away from the Qinghai-Tibet Highway Yangbajing. The formation of nearly 8-9 hours from the water-rich grassland in northern Tibet to dry after the Tibetan region, we crossed the two snow-capped mountains, we are delighted to see the large group of yaks live in the mountains looking for food, is the tenacious vitality of yak , and even can survive minus 20 degrees. Upstream along the Brahmaputra opposite direction. Some of the riverbed has been dry, and dry season is one such, but with the advent of the rainy season, river water abundance turn up. Peak of snow began to melt snow along the Mother River Road converged to this article. To get there, though not comfortable, or out to stroll around in a circle around the city, and in the new Shanghai Square stay for a long time, bought something to eat. Shigatse City is also a new city, also known as Sunlight City, is the Panchen Lama驻锡地. Local building and Lhasa similar to two to three-tier flat-topped buildings, roof painting printed on. There stand the local night market, is said to crowded, but we did not go. Shigatse an altitude of 3,800 meters, 400 meters above the Lhasa, the climate is also drier. Tashilhunpo sit landed here. Temple bar from a few temples composition, large and small halls of the former always have a yard, planting greenery inside. In a large courtyard where we see walnut tree, walnut tree in autumn each year to bear fruit Toyozane become another Aspect luck tasted fresh walnuts can do!
Finally, we come to another holy lake - Yamdrok Lake. Lake Hydropower Station on the famous sheep built there. The whole of Tibet, mainly from hydropower lake Yangbajing and sheep. Sheep Lake Wood different from that mistake, it is long and narrow shape, respectively, nine different patterns composed of a small lake. It is located in the mountains, there are no grasslands and cattle and sheep, due to topographical reasons we are only viewing a small part of the lake, If you want to have to spend a day touring around, and the scenery is almost the driver said the master. We also give up the idea of. Yang lake and did not give me impressed, because that wood mistake earlier, there is no sense of shock. Water is still blue, and different is that the sheep around the lake surrounded by mountains, and that the wrong area of wood adjacent to a very broad and Nyainqentanglha open, endless. Interpersonal rare along the way, the whole scenic area actually only our party a few.
Tibet tour soon ended. Return to nature away from the Madding Crowd I've begun to miss Shanghai, miss xiaolongbao, salt and pepper shrimp, and relatives at home, I am, after all, a secular person, I am very happy to be back to earth.
September 26, 2004
Author: yuguhan
