Yesterday (May 6), I left Lhasa city and headed north, along the G109 Qinghai-Tibet line towards Nagqu.
Crossing the 5,190-meter Nagenla Pass of the Nianqing Tanggula Mountains, you can see Namtso, one of the three famous sacred lakes in Tibet. Namtso is also the third largest saltwater lake in China, with an altitude of nearly 4,800 meters above sea level, surrounded by snow-capped mountains on all sides. How can you describe her beauty? My answer is just two words: purity. Every visitor to Tibet wants to see her true face.
Namco is located in Dangxiong County, and he stayed at the county guest house last night (6th). The government guest house was an ideal place to stay for business trips in the 80s. In this way, I slept soundly in the guest house at an altitude of 4,300 meters, listening to the roar of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway train.
Today, after passing through Naqu, we passed through the first uninhabited area on the Qinghai-Tibet line, the Qiangtang National Nature Reserve. The scenery on the road changes greatly, with large grasslands, lakes, flat straight roads, and snow-capped mountains in the distance like continuous white hills. The lofty mountains, mountains and valleys, rapids and rapids, primeval forests, and steep slopes and sharp bends on the Sichuan-Tibet line are all gone.
Today, Sunaqu Amdo, a county town floating on the white clouds, at an altitude of 4,800 meters, people describe her: one step and three breaths, wearing a leather jacket in all seasons.
Really a little short of breath.
On May 8, he did not dare to rashly break into the no-man's land of Hoh Xil
Today is the most challenging day. Despite my mental preparations, I ultimately failed in the challenge.
The Amdo to Golmud section of the Qinghai-Tibet Line is more than 700 kilometers long, and the whole journey is at a high altitude of four or five thousand meters. It usually takes more than 13 hours to complete this journey. We crossed the 5,231-meter Tanggula Pass, and it was already half past one in the afternoon when we arrived at Tanggula Mountain Town, the first town of the Yangtze River. I made up some oil, took a short rest, continued to move forward and began to enter the no-man's land of Hoh Xili, at half past four in the afternoon to Wudaoliang, people were bumped and dizzy, there are hundreds of kilometers of no-man's land in front, the key is that if you can't catch up with Golmud before dark, the unknown shell craters are really shells. Forget it, don't fight the battle of uncertainties, Wudaoliang stays.
Wudaoliang is the place where the drivers of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway play the tip, there are about twenty or thirty households, all of them are a model, a restaurant in the front, a simple hotel in the back, and a bungalow style without a bathroom. The one we stayed in was a bit like the Dragon Gate Inn, and the owner was a man with a story. Sure enough, the boss is from Sichuan, and in his youth in the eighties, he worked as a cook in Taiyuan and a local girl fell in love to death, and later ...... The story ends, and there is no aftermath. At that time, thousands of miles away was a Himalaya, and it was difficult to climb over. The boss warned us that this is the central area of Hoh Xil and that after dark, wolves and bears are often infested, so don't go out. Hey, I don't dare to drive my car when it's dark, what else is going to do?
Today's scenery on the road is really drunk a few times: the face of the white clouds and the snow-capped mountains of Tanggula Mountain; I want to put a drifting bottle in the Tuotuo River and send a note to a friend in Shanghai: I am at the head of the Yangtze River, and you are at the end of the Yangtze River; The wild donkey of Hoh Xil races with the train of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway; There is also a group of guys who look like Tibetan antelopes squandering young grass on the grassland......
Don't force yourself to reach the goal, Golmud, see you tomorrow!