Snow is a girl, and is a person, hitchhiking good ride, and I'm a big man, it's hard to say. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get a ride from the hotel I stayed at in Xinduqiao. The actual situation was not as bad as I thought.
I walked along the 318 National Highway with my duffel bag on my back, and the cars behind me were one after another, and I waved a few times, but no one took care of me. But soon a couple ran in front of me and stopped their car.
They are a couple who just got married a short time ago, and the two of them used their annual vacation to drive to Daicheng Yading to play. Both are Hefei people, from Chengdu rent a car to come, the woman in the folding of the mountain when the high reflex, they will be in Xinduqiao more than one night to live. I let them piggyback me to Litang.
The male driving, cell phone clip in the front window of the car, he from time to time and cell phone conversation, and then I see clearly, the original he was live on this trip.
All the way to the male is responsible for driving, the woman occasionally command, let's say she felt the car speed, the male will be slower; if you want to stop where to see the scenery, the male is also very cooperative. The whole journey they in addition to watching them live in the people flirting, is to talk about the scenery along the way. Occasionally, when the man's reaction is a little slow, the woman a little disgusted to say a few words to him, the man is not afraid to lose face in front of me. I can see that they are very much in love.
They want to go to the city of rice, and I got off their bus in Litang. The woman asked me why I want to live in Litang. The altitude of Litang is 4000 meters above sea level, and it is labeled as the "world's high city", so it is very easy to live here and get a high rebound.
I said because of fear, the more fear I want to try.
When I arrived at the hostel in Litang, I met a hiker. He set out from Yan'an, Shaanxi Province in March this year, and now it's June, and he traveled for three months to Mangkang. Unexpectedly, he was bitten by a dog when he entered Tibet, and because there was no rabies vaccine in Mangkang, he returned to Litang to get the vaccine, which delayed him for ten days. The first time I saw this, I had to go back to the hospital to get the money to pay for it.
This hiker also has a fast hand, sometimes while hiking live. He also asked his fans to donate old clothes to a poor family in Anhui. He is very kind-hearted, when I asked him where he started, he immediately said that he started from Yan'an City, what county, what village, how many, the kind of real strength let people feel very simple and lovely.
There are still more than 1,400 kilometers to Tibet. There is a cyclist in the hostel who is planning to give up riding because his bike broke down on the road and he doesn't know how to repair it, and he has been tortured by ten days of riding. He was going to mail the bike home, but the high cost of five hundred dollars for postage made him stop immediately. He finally called a hitchhiker, who charged him five hundred dollars, and then said two days to Lhasa.
After staying in Litang for one night, I went to Tao Cheng the next day. The first day of the year is the rainy season, and it rains every day. That rain is a burst, it is very easy to let people think of childhood to watch probably in Hainan to shoot a movie and television drama scene. I experienced a feeling that I had not experienced before in the mainland. It was like being transported into a fantasy world, where the air and streets were painted with heavy ink and colors, completely different from the world I had seen before. This may be the significance of traveling.
The city of Dacheng is a very comfortable city to stay in, and I walked slowly there. As I walked along the streets of Dacheng, the people doing business on the side of the road felt full of happiness. There is a sign on the bridge into the city that reads "The most beautiful county in China". Outside the city there is a white pagoda, and then there is a small hill with a small pavilion on the hill, you can climb up to see the whole county. I stayed in the youth hostel is a Henan people and other people cooperate to open, she is a 91 years old girl, I went to the time she was using a bucket in a faucet water, she said that the water is very natural mountain spring water, without any pollution. I asked her why she came here to open the youth hostel, she said the early years of the time to travel here, like, after graduation after a year of classes, not happy, and friends to come here to open this youth hostel in partnership.
I registered to stay, put down the luggage to the surroundings around, this street is a Tibetan-style buildings, but all are inns and hostels and so on. I made the mistake of entering a weirdly decorated house where a pretty girl was drying sheets. I asked her what this place was and she said it was an inn. I asked her again where she was from and she said she was from Guangxi. I was a little surprised, I thought there were more aboriginal Tibetans here, but I didn't realize that they were all from the mainland to escape the world.
I went back to the hostel and talked to the owner. She said that the business of the hostel is not good, a little confused, want to turn the inn out before returning to the mainland. Her partner was also a woman, and they watched American TV shows together in the living room at night, and when I saw how close they were, I suddenly felt that she was not without a story.
I stayed in Inacheng for one day and then continued to Lhasa.
Because of the late departure, the road from Batang to Zuogong, I how to wave no car is willing to stop for me, I have no choice but to take a local Tibetan old man's motorcycle to Drukpa Long Township, he learned that I want to go to Lhasa to worship Buddha, very willing to carry me.
On the road, I met a hiking buddy, saw him walking very slowly, I shouted to him "gas". I got into a Tibetan driver's car at the junction of Sichuan and Tibet. On the road, a van will ride a motorcycle carrying children to school Tibetan villager knocked down, the driver from the car down has been arguing, but not at all help the injured villager action, I was in the car of the Tibetan driver stopped will be knocked down the villager helped up. The gap between people and people, perhaps only in an action.
To Mangkang I heard a message, said in the Nujiang River seventy-two turns, there is a private tour of the car, carrying eight tourists directly into the Nujiang River, a few days have not been salvaged. I immediately felt fear in my heart. The road was suggested to me to take the bus directly to Lhasa, but I still insist on hiking hitchhiking.
Into the Mangkang is Tibet, it is clear that the Tibetan mountains are not as good as those in Sichuan. It's bare, the streets are full of Tibetan-style buildings, and the streetlights are also Tibetan-style, which looks staid and carries a sense of religious ritual.
I had heard before that I would meet savage Tibetans after entering Tibet, but I feel that people here are quite friendly. This rumor is also not broken.
When we arrived at Zuogong in the evening, the innkeeper offered the people who traveled there by motorcycle with a hada, and those people accepted it happily. This form has become a fashion.
The sky is still dark, I put down the luggage out to eat. After eating something in the streets of Zuogong walk. There is a square in the center of the county, but it's not the same as in the mainland, there is no one dancing on the square, and there are no lights on the square, it's dark, and there are a few people standing around.
I walked from one end of the county to the other, looking at the dark blue dusk clouds in the distant sky. Lamenting my journey.
When I was going back to rest, I passed an inn, and there was a man and woman standing in front of the inn. The man is a chubby young man, with glasses, its appearance, the woman tied two long pigtails, looks very beautiful, standing without talking, not shy kind, give people a feeling of coldness.
She eyes have been following the man. They see me also like traveling, directly over to ask me if I want to carpool together to Lhasa. I asked him why he wanted to carpool. The first thing I did was to ask the police to take a look at the car, and I was told that it was too expensive to rent a car, and that it was inconvenient to take a car with two people, so it would be more fun to take a look at the car. I said I have plans to hitchhike to Lhasa, not carpooling. We chatted a few words on the way, I told them to pay attention to the safety of carpooling, said seventy-two turns occurred in the car accident, but they were not too nervous. The girl didn't say anything, and I was a little curious about her.
"This is my girlfriend." Seeing that I was a bit puzzled, the guy said proudly, "I'm not afraid of those accidents, I'm going to show her the world."
The woman had a little shyness at this time.
When I returned to the inn, it was already more than ten o'clock. I live in the bed room, just lay down, came in a man. He looked at me and said he knew me. I was feeling strange, he asked me if I was in Batang to Mangkang on the road to a person refueled. I said yes. He said that person was none other than him.
Then he didn't even eat, didn't take a bath, and lay on the bed directly.
He said this is his fourth time to walk the Sichuan-Tibet route, the first time is a failure to do business, then he was doing business in Xinjiang, once out of the car, a car accident, a truckload of goods are gone, he was afraid of the heart, thought he would be in jail. But then it's okay. The second time is the loss of love, he is really difficult, nowhere to vent, that's when he took the Sichuan-Tibet route again. The third time I do not know because of what, and this time, obviously feel that he is in a good mood. We talked a lot of family life, let's say the parents forced marriage. He said he was at home and his grandmother's relationship is the best, once he was in Xinjiang is not willing to go home, his parents lied to him that his grandmother died, he bought the day under the grief of the original price of the plane ticket to fly back, I did not expect his parents to arrange a blind date, his grandmother did not have a matter of fact, he can be very angry.
He also said that when he traveled the Sichuan-Tibet route for the second time, he met a Hong Kong man in Lhasa, and that Hong Kong man had to ride to Xinjiang, so he rode with that Hong Kong man for more than 20 days. Then he had to go to Hong Kong to find that person, that person refused to see him, because the meeting will have to spend money on dinner, he did not want to spend money for him.
He also met a man who had failed in business, and started from Shanghai, the starting point of 318, and traveled to Nyalam County, the end point of 318, for more than half a year.
It was the World Cup in Russia, and he saw it late that night.
The next morning, I didn't wait for him to join me, and I continued from Zuogong.
I walked ten kilometers and caught a ride with a mother and son from Wuhan. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey. The mother is currently very satisfied with their son, the son is also particularly listening to the mother's words, let me hitchhike is the mother's idea. All are kind people. That mother also has some self-knowledge of their Wuhan people, talking to herself: the sky nine heads, on the ground Wuhan guy. I felt the son was a bit of a mommy's boy. They took me to Ranwu Lake.
Next, I hitchhiked from Ranwu Lake to Linzhi, and I saw the rainbow on Ranwu Lake that day. This section of the road is the most beautiful in the whole section of 318, like entering a dream.
When you get to Linzhi, it's not far from Lhasa.