There are more and more people traveling to Tibet in recent years. In addition to the natural beauty of Tibet, many people to a certain extent is not also used to hold Tibet this place far away from the ground, prices must be very cheap, so the cost of traveling will not be too high, that fact is not so! Of course, the tourist attractions prices will naturally be much higher, then Tibet why prices will be so high it!
Drinking a bottle of water three dollars, eat a bowl of noodles twenty, live in an experience not good hotel one or two hundred, facilities may not be complete. For the people who went to travel and spend money, this money is not much, in the scenic area five ten dollars a bottle of mineral water, it is not unheard of to drink.
But if you know, this expensive one or two dollars, the difference is not a little bit of experience, will be accompanied by you all the way to the holy land of Lhasa, whether you can still be so calm.
In order to see that paradise-like scenery, bite the bullet can not take into account, but the heart is always some lumps is not?
Now let's explore Tibet prices are higher than the mainland a cut of the reason, after reading perhaps also understand one or two, the heart can be quite frank.
The highest pass on the southern route of Sichuan-Tibet - Dongda Mountain pass (the following pictures are from the network)
First look at the Tibetan area of the main products:Yak
Barley
Barley
Barley
Cordyceps
Matsutake
These products must be familiar to everyone, but to the Tibetan area to run a trip to the people, there are few of these as the staple of these Tibetan products, at most, as a local specialties, to bring some home to send people. The traveler on the road to eat and drink or their own weekdays eat rice and noodles.
And all of these need to be transported from the outside world, that is, the mainland - where we live.
The most obvious thing to feel for the price of Tibet is perhaps the two dollars of mineral water into three dollars, both of which are reduced, the extra piece, should be categorized in the freight.
Some people would say that the higher the altitude, the greater the fuel consumption of the same mileage car traveling. What's more, they say that transporting one pound of gasoline to the past can consume as much as three pounds of gasoline. This statement is exaggerated or not, even at high altitude, the more fuel consumption is true whether or not there is no expert conclusion!
High altitude air pressure is much lower than the plains, which is well known, but the car fuel consumption in addition to oxygen content, but also with the engine running mode, travel resistance, travel speed and several other factors.
The smooth route into Tibet and the low air resistance of the plateau should be judged more favorably than these.
But the other point, poor road conditions, is good.
Jun see, under the cliff iron body withered bones, the road can be difficult and dangerous Shu Road.
Jue Bashan sky danger
The Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinghai and New Zealand, the four main routes to Tibet, in addition to Qinghai and Tibet, none of them is not treacherous, one step wrong, the corpse of the bones.
Just for this, this freight, should also be.
Again, Chengdu, Xining, Kunming, these more rich and convenient place, from the holy land is also a thousand miles away.
It's the cost of gas, and that's not a small amount.
See here, and then think of the expensive prices, is the heart to understand a lot?
Noodles
Actually, these packaged items are just a little bit more expensive, and half as expensive even if it's not.
Cooking noodles, stir-frying vegetables and so on, is considered really expensive.
The 20 to 30 percent price tag for vegetarian noodles is a lot of money, especially when you're looking at a piece of dough that's been caught in the middle of a chopstick.
The higher the altitude, the lower the air pressure and the lower the boiling point of the water. Plains boiling point of one hundred degrees Celsius, two thousand meters above sea level is only 93 degrees Celsius, and to 4500 meters above sea level, the boiling point of the water is only 84 degrees Celsius, under normal circumstances, cooking noodles and cooking that is almost impossible.
In this case, every grain of rice, every noodle, are boiled in the pressure cooker.
Again, a plate of fried vegetables, every piece of meat, every dish, are shipped from thousands of miles away, not fresh this is normal, the price is high that is inevitable.
Small fried meat
Finish eating, let's talk about living.
The price of accommodation in the Tibetan area is much higher than that in the mainland, and I'm sure that people who have lived here are well aware of it.
Not only that, more people crazy or - the price of high-end hotels, guest house experience.
Water cuts and lack of electricity, in the face of such a situation, I think even the most easy-going people must be crazy.
As for traveling, it's not bad at all, and it's basically the same on the inside, even though the price of gas in this part of the world is a lot higher.
Ranwu Lake
The reason for this is that prices in the Tibetan area are still inconvenient, coupled with sparsely populated and less developed than the mainland.
The Qinghai-Tibet Highway - the road to heaven
But this situation will improve as the western development deepens, more railroads are built, and the traffic situation improves.
As for such high prices, can locals afford them?
Personally, I think:
With the national policy tilt, the local people's living standards, the economic level has been greatly improved, such consumption, is not too high
And those we need every day, the price is quite high, maybe not the local people's necessities