At that time in Tibet, although the road is very bad, but belongs to the real Tibet, the air, the environment, the cost is the best as expected.
Now it's different, countless checkpoints, highly commercialized attractions, and unguardable consumer traps, and the price of gas there is as high as the altitude.
Even so, there is a chance that I will go to Tibet again, in another stage of my life, to enjoy the mystery and tranquility of Tibet again.
When traveling in Tibet, what is the most troublesome, painful, difficult, helpless and embarrassing thing that everyone must experience every day? The most important thing is the plateau reaction. No! It is the toilet! Although plateau reaction is very difficult, very painful, very troublesome, but it is not everyone must experience every day. Some people don't have altitude sickness at all; some people only have altitude sickness in the first few days. Going to the toilet, on the other hand, is something everyone must experience every day. In Tibet, going to the toilet is just going to the toilet, and there is no need to use such elegant names as "washroom", "bathroom" and "dressing room". There is no need to use such elegant names as "washroom", "bathroom", "dressing room". Those elegant names have no connection with the toilet in Tibet. In China, there is a saying in tourism: "sleep on the bus, get off the bus to pee", and the second half of the saying is "get off the bus to take pictures", "get off the bus to see the temple". Will "pee" and "take pictures", "see the temple" and so on, visible this "pee" in the tourism culture in the station's The status is very important. When traveling in Tibet, going to the toilet is definitely one of the most troublesome, painful, uncomfortable, helpless and embarrassing things. In Tibet, except for the toilets in hotels, the toilets in other tourist attractions are all "dry toilets". The so-called "dry toilets" are those that have no water for flushing and washing hands, and are only a few pits dug into the land, surrounded by brick walls with a simple roof on top, which are dirty and smelly, with flies flying about and the stench is overpowering. All the people who go in there hold their breath and close their eyes to solve the problem as fast as possible and escape immediately. Here, everyone works together to solve the problem, no one can avoid the others, and everyone "completes the task" under the anxious gaze of the others. In Tibet, as long as you want to solve the problem of excretion, you have to enter such a toilet, after coming in, everyone does the same thing from the content to the form, there is no difference, there is no high and low noble and lowly, it can be said that everyone is equal. Regular travelers know that going to the bathroom on a trip is something that must be taken seriously. Tourist bus pulling tourists run, a go is a few hours, every place, tourists can not wait to go to the restroom. First, in the car held for a long time, must be quickly resolved; Second, if not resolved now, to the next attraction do not know how long to wait, in the middle of the emergency only to endure. No one can help you in this matter, and you have to bear the pain yourself. In the domestic tourist attractions, queuing up to go to the toilet is also a big landscape. In the case of internal emergency, "photo" and "see the temple" must give way to "peeing", there is even better landscape, but also to prioritize the solution of "peeing! "The problem. There is another experience of people who have travel experience, that is, ladies occupy the men's room situation often happens. Women's queue is too long, waiting for anxious, see no one in the men's room, someone will hold the door, the ladies go in to solve the problem. If a man wants to go in, he is blocked by the woman at the door, who tells him: "There are people inside", but in fact it is "There are women inside". At this time, the general men are generous to wait for the ladies out and then go in, have not seen any men at this time to be unforgiving. The toilets in the tourist attractions in Tibet are all charged at one yuan per person per visit, with some places charging two yuan. Tourists feel that the charges are too expensive, the service and charges do not match. However, there is no place to argue, everyone is honestly queuing up to pay money to go in. The toilets in Tibet charge high fees and the environment is bad, but they are "full of people". The most depressing thing is that the toilets in the restaurants where you eat also charge. The toilets in restaurants are usually not connected to the dining room. Instead, they are 20 to 50 meters away from the back door of the restaurant. Out of the back door of the restaurant to go to the toilet on the path, there must be a big sister or woman sitting there, holding loose change, next to a bucket on the ground. For those who go in, she charges a fee; for those who come out, she uses a water scooper to scoop up water for people to wash their hands. As she watched the crowds of people coming in and going out, she saw the money pouring into her arms. The small dry toilet is a high-income industry. I was in Tibet for about ten days, and the cost of going to the toilet was about a few dozen yuan. What about the toilets in the famous Potala Palace? People think that the toilets there should be high-class, since it is the historical seat of the highest authority in the Tibetan region, which combines politics and religion. In fact, the Potala Palace toilet is also a dry toilet, but also the world's largest drop toilet. People standing in the toilet pit looking down, really high ah! About ten meters high, dirty or so dirty, stink or so stink. The advantage is that it can be used for a very long time without being full - it doesn't have to be cleaned often; the disadvantage is that people who are afraid of heights don't dare to go up there. There is no charge for the toilets here. Mr. Ye Yonglie has written a book about washrooms, bathrooms and toilets around the world. He has seen a lot and visited many washrooms and toilets. The most interesting thing is that in an airport washroom somewhere in Europe, he found that someone had written a point of view on the wall, then someone behind him wrote a criticism of the point of view of the person in front of him, and then someone criticized the point of view of the second person, which seemed to say that it was boring for you to criticize other people now. In saying so, no one behind could even think of criticizing the third person, and then they would fall into the trap of criticism set by the third person. Mr. YE Yonglie found it very interesting that this is toilet culture. In the toilet in Tibet, I remembered what he said about toilet culture. But I didn't dare to open my eyes and look at the wall - it was dark and dirty; I didn't dare to inhale - it stank; I didn't dare to move my feet - it's no fun to fall down! --I had no desire to write anything in the toilet, I just wanted to get out quickly. When I think of Mr. Ye Yonglie's time in the lavatory of a foreign airport, studying those toilet texts, it was so luxurious, so pleasant and so pretentious. What kind of mood is that? If not for the aroma, music, cleanliness, comfort and spaciousness, who would have the leisure to study toilet culture in the toilet "writing and inking". Mr. Ye Yonglie also said in the book, in the country gave him the deepest impression of the toilet in Xinjiang. Xinjiang is a sparsely populated area, the car is a drive out of dozens of miles, no one on the way, and even more no toilet, often find a remote place to solve the emergency. The feeling of "peeing" anywhere in the wilderness of nature left a deep impression on him. When I was in Tibet, I envied Mr. Ye Yonglie very much. It was so pleasant to be able to "pee" in the nature's wilderness without any restriction or stench and without having to pay a fee! As I said in another blog post, I saw countless military vehicles in Tibet. When the military vehicles stopped for a rest, the soldiers were probably suffocating and stood on the side of the road with their backs to the highway to "shush". But in the scenic spots, there is no place to hide. First, all the tourist attractions, there are people everywhere; Second, the plateau is empty without trees and flowers, not even a shelter, want to "boo boo" in nature? No way! I think Mr. Ye Yonglie must not have been to Tibet before he wrote this book. Otherwise, he would have written a great deal about the toilet culture of Tibet in this book. In fact, this experience of Tibet's toilets came long before I entered Tibet. That was on the train into Tibet. Han Hong's heavenly voice accompanied us on this "heavenly road" all the way through the speakers in the compartment, "It's a magical heavenly road". However, this "heavenly road" also has to solve the problem of food, drink and transportation of the people. Because it is in the "sky" (Tibetan Plateau) walking, can not be like in the "underground" (plains) walking train, walking side of the obscenities thrown at any time, anywhere, polluting the "heavenly" beauty! This train can only carry all the filth and dirt to the "underground" (plains). This train can only collect all the filth, until the end of the Lhasa terminal can be cleaned up. The problem is that the containers for collecting the filth are not large enough, making the train's toilets overflow, a scene worse than that of a dry toilet! The door of the toilet must not be opened, the dirty stench and nausea can not be expressed. Outside the window, the beautiful scenery attracts people - snow-capped mountains, blue sky, white clouds, grasslands, sheep, yaks, and from time to time appeared in the Tibetan antelope and wild ass, the unique scenery of the plateau y attracted the passengers in the carriage. However, we don't turn around, don't look inside the car, don't think about our physical difficulties. We only lie on the car window, enjoy looking at the outside scenery, try to forget our own troubles. Some people may say that the train is so bad, so let's take an airplane. Mr. Kong Qingdong said that when he traveled, if he had time, he still preferred to take the train because he could read books on the train, and so he was complimented for being in a high realm. If that is being in a high realm, then I was in a high realm a long time ago. Ge You Ge is afraid of airplanes and only takes the train, that has nothing to do with the realm. I'm afraid of the air or the smell on airplanes. I smell the smell of the plane on the nausea and often airsickness, so unless I have to, I generally travel priority choice by train. Traveling to Tibet by train, you can have a different experience than traveling on the plains. Train from the low elevation of the place a little bit higher to the elevation of three thousand meters, three thousand five hundred meters, four thousand meters, four thousand five hundred meters, close to five thousand meters, looking at the elevation table in the compartment of the scale continues to climb, the scenery outside the window gradually changed, the air pressure is also getting lower and lower, the air is getting thinner and thinner, some people began to have a chest tightness, suffocation, dizziness, some people began to inhale oxygen. Outside the window, gradually appeared grasslands, riverbanks, lakes, sheep, yak herds, tents, eagles, Tibetan antelope and wild asses ....... Every appearance of these plateau scenery has caused people a piece of joy, through the window glass, people keep taking pictures. The train passes through the Qinghai Lake, Coco Sicily, Tanggula Mountain, Naqu ...... looking at the endless plateau of snow-covered mountains, blue sky, white clouds and other plateau scenery, your heart, your emotions will be with the train's rushing march and excitement and joy, these wonderful experience is to take the airplane can not be felt. The scenery of Tibet is absolutely beautiful, magical and unforgettable. The people of Tibet are still in the process of becoming well-off, and shortcomings in development are inevitable, and there is no such thing as absolute perfection. However, we should try to improve so that tend to be perfect, rather than let the defects arbitrary flood.
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Ten years ago, I went with the group tour. The Potala Palace that toilet is the most impressive. Piss is blown up by the wind and splashed on the face.
The sky is pale, the field is vast, the wind blows the grass now cattle and sheep, lama, temples, simple Tibetans
Tibet is a place where you have to hit the card in life! Pictures are all my own shot ~ no photography title ~ I just like to play, mysterious, holy, are the shock of their own mind, back to Lhasa, back to the Potala Palace, see the gate of the Da Zhao Temple Tibetan Buddhist believers with all their savings and even life to prove their piety, your value of life is not sublimated a lot? Another is to understand that there are two most profitable industries in the world, one is the life-threatening drug trafficking! One is the local tour guide! No longer govern Tibet this piece of holy land will be the same as Sanya and so on!
The closest thing to heaven is the place where the sky is the most clear and blue, where monks and temples can give you a kind of peace and quiet outside the world, and it is best not to go with a tour group, or you will regret it
The pilgrimage to the Buddha, worshipping the Buddha, the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang are flooded, why?