Tibet Car Diary

Tibet Car Diary

Weather: sunny Early morning 3:00 AM, get up Early morning 4:00 AM, Hotel Golmud, Qinghai-Tibet Railway leave 6:52 AM, West Grand Beach, 4128 meters above sea level. Our average speed is 60 km / hour. At this time of the day just some polish. 7:04 AM, from Xidatan 34 kilometers out, we see the first ray of the Qinghai-Tibet line onto the sun-Everest, the snow-capped mountains near Golden, eye for the first time (4416 meters above sea level). This is the golden mountain ah, fell down the snow-capped mountains are golden, you can see a clear line of the Qinghai-Tibet on this in two rows of snow-capped mountains in the distance toward the horizon. 7:58 AM, after the Kunlun Pass. After Bu Dongquan, it is necessary to reach the front of the station to protect Suonandajie, however, started a roadside truck parked team fixed, many of them are the vehicles. At this time, saw a car refrain from expressing my views, under the Qinghai-Tibet line, in the wilderness on a slow crawl, her husband immediately to the spirit that we can not continue to wait here, we must hasten to bypass the first to start with our possession Take the car license and later became the possession of unlicensed vehicles with us. This is because in order to be able to secure her husband passed, he went off to try and find out, in the 4600 meters of altitude navigation for me. We are each holding a walkie-talkie in some places can not see the car sitting in the road, he relied on in the following command, to the left or right, he did, nearly three kilometers away, has finally seen the difficulties of hope. Tibetan driver who may have never seen a girl so bold drive, I have red thumbs-up. 10:50 AM, (elevation 4584 meters) from the beginning of Bu Dongquan, the Qinghai-Tibet Highway began to look completely different, where what asphalt, there can be decent, thank God on a dirt road. Because of the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, a variety of large transport vehicles and construction vehicles passed, so that the Qinghai-Tibet Highway has been overwhelming, being refurbished, the results of the renovation is simply can not take the same route, the original edge of the Qinghai-Tibet line of vehicles in the past by the pressure of a dirt road Even if the "new line of the Qinghai-Tibet", the local people call it "road." 1:42 PM, after Wudaoliang (4610 meters above sea level), no official gas stations, food and accommodation are some of the tents, did not stay and continue on their way. 2:52 PM, flames had Yamaguchi (4754 meters above sea level), not just across this great 10 minutes, feeling the voice of the wrong car, a parking, left the flat tire! At this time is 4629 meters above sea level, we have no more words, come up with their own work gloves, spent half an hour with a time of the tire replaced. 4:40 PM, along Tuotuohe to find the child up. Aware of the Qinghai-Tibet line up the price of this child? A child up to 100 yuan, cutting Kanjia, 80 yuan traded. Qinghai-Tibet line of the vehicle are not available, often have a small tent outside a branch brand, with the words "child up, welding, water tanks." It is later learned that the Qinghai-Tibet line will repair the three unique because the poor road, the car is most likely to commit these three problems. 6:38 PM, from the Tuotuohe leave toward the Tanggula Mountains along the mouth of her husband on the same day over the Tanggula I said to our psychological and physical (altitude sickness) had an important supporting role, while also bright days, and go quickly. I remember coming Yanshiping, the road also extremely difficult to go all the way big rock, car is more than 10 kilometers per hour, so we turned in the Tanggula Mountains near the mouth of 11:00. The early morning of 00:30 AM, arrived in Andover. In the dark to find Amdo County Hotel (like a shop carts), stay in a hurry, when the body has been feeling very uncomfortable, headache, nausea full-come, it is not clear to distinguish mountain sickness or 20 hours of continuous running the results of . We wrapped clothes, covered a large hotel and sleep a dirty blankets. Notes: 1, from Golmud to the security of the Qinghai-Tibet line, there is no mobile phone signal, Amdo County until after the cell phone only in order to work properly. 2, along Tuotuohe only be linked to China signs oil filling stations, but the color of the oil a bit strange, is the pink light. 3, Yanshiping not stay, only to eat. (Add: We have to check the possession of leather book Yanshiping said there will be room and board, way back then wanted to live in, when not found accommodation at the time, had no choice but to open 190 kilometers along the Tuotuohe can stay.) Places: Amdo County Hotel, the Qinghai-Tibet line to the direction of the multi-David, a relatively large on the right side of the junction, bridge, a crossroads about 30 meters and turn right into the right-hand side of both. There is a small parking lot. Banchuang plus accommodation is dirty blankets, water conditions from the corridors of their big scoop water Gang Li, a common basin, toilet is outside the public toilets, no electricity in the evening, candles points. 100 yuan / night.