The next day, I got up early to go to the visa, but also because of the fear of refusal to wear that piece of Tibet after the casual suit, and then feel awkward, put on the usual clothes. Nepal's consulate in Tibet changed place, I according to the original route in the vicinity of Lop Burin Ka did not find, asked the owner of a store, she said moved to the Tibet Hotel.
I found the Tibet Hotel, in front of the hotel, there are a few Tibetan big brother, they look at me to do the visa, said to two-inch photo, but also need to make a copy of a visa form, fill out the content of the hand over. I do not look like they are bad people, follow the big brother to copy the form, he seriously guided me to fill out the form, paste the one-inch photo I had prepared, photocopies of the passport, stapled together, and then clamped in the passport. He also gave me a business card and said to call the number on it directly if I left in the afternoon.
I went to the consulate inside, a wear glasses, dark skin, very and the Nepalese inside, I put the passport and table to him, he took the table looked, I do not know what to think. I was afraid of being refused a visa, in case of refusal, to Nepal this wish may have to be postponed.
"When are you going to Nepal?" He looked up at me and said in very fluent Chinese.
"Today, this afternoon." I had wanted to delay my departure for a day, but I was so afraid I would be denied a visa if I said so that I had to say today.
He laughed and then wrote a slip and told me to pick up my visa at 4pm with that slip.
I tweeted to Hua that there was no problem with the visa and that I was ready to go back and pack up and go.
After lunch at the inn, everyone joked that I should not be brainwashed into doing things to harm the national interest when I go to Nepal. I think the chance of this happening to me is almost zero. Because a friend said I am very stubborn, is a very full glass of water, has poured into it can not enter anything.
At 2:40pm, I left the guest house and took the No. 25 bus from the Chong Sai Kang station to the District Construction Bank station.
As soon as I got off the bus, the Tibetan guy called me at my phone number that I gave him earlier, and when I said that I had arrived, he said that his car was almost there. The first time I saw the car, I was able to see the car, and I was able to see the car, and I was able to see the car. The Tibetan elder brother greeted me and asked me to take a rest inside. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it," he said.
At 4:00 pm, the door of the consulate opened, and I lined up to go in and get my visa.
The car also came, I got in, and the car drove out of Lhasa.
I wasn't sure when I would get to the border, or when I would be able to leave the country for another country, and this was my first time out of the country.
It is not clear when I will reach the border and when I will be able to go to another country. If you go to Nepal by land, the car will cost you 400 dollars from Lhasa to Gyirong town, 50 dollars from Gyirong town to the border crossing, and the rest will be 150 dollars from Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, which can be paid to Nepali people at the border crossing.
The car all the way to the west, more than 8:00 pm to Rikaze. The first time I saw this, I had to go back to the house, and then I had to go back to the house, and then I had to go back to the house. I wanted to buy a packet of peanuts at the kiosk there, but when I paid, I realized that the production date was 2017, so I gave up.
When we arrived at Shigatse, a couple of old couples in their sixties and seventies came up. Age so old still come to Tibet, and from Tibet to Nepal to play, which in itself makes me surprised. Rikaze is said to be our Shandong people aid construction, I suddenly found here and the mainland is not very different, buildings, shops, pedestrians are like a small county in the mainland. Pure Tibetan style disappeared. Instead, the road to the small villages, you can see some Tibetan-style architecture.
The car from Shigatse, the day slowly darkened, nine o'clock before the dark sky, this time most of the villages in the Mainland are estimated to enter the dreamland. Then, it is all the way uphill, I sat in the car at the end, can not see out of the window, I feel that there are always around the light in the light, some time is the street lamp, some time is the nearby villages.
The road is not deserted.
In addition to the elderly couple in the car, there are two young people, a middle-aged man and two business women. The two business women sitting in the front seat, it seems to be under the people lost what goods, to pay for the loss of more than 10,000 yuan, one of them in WeChat and the person talking to the big rage, said who lost who is responsible for, she will not spare any one person. Her words made the whole car tense. The middle-aged man and the elderly couple kept quiet. I sat in the back with the two young men. The young man next to me told a story about how the sign in the toilet of a Tibetan hotel was not "Flush when you're done" but "You're going to the toilet, not offering a hatha." I don't understand the underlying message.
The car has been traveling, in a daze I feel nausea, stomach is very bad, I do not know what reason, the afternoon to eat the noodles in the stomach, want to vomit out. Later to the Everest that viewing platform, the car stopped, I came down to blow the wind, vomited. I feel much better.
At this time I saw the sky full of stars, really bright stars, glittering, I have never seen such a starry sky. I immediately thought of the song, A Sky Full of Stars, and the melody rang in my heart.
Later I realized that the highest altitude of the stretch of road we were walking was over 5200, so I must be suffering from high altitude sickness.
When we arrived at Jilong County, the young man next to me got off. He is going to do engineering here, that time about 4 o'clock in the morning. After another two hours, the car arrived in Jilong town, only 20 kilometers away from the port, the middle-aged man and the two women doing business were the first to get off. The driver took me and the young man and the elderly couple to a Sichuanese hotel to rest. The driver took me and the young man to a hotel run by Sichuan people to rest, and the young man and I opened a standard room.
The driver told us that we would be called to leave at 10:00 a.m. to go to the port.
It was already seven o'clock in the morning, but it was still dark.
I hastily fell asleep and woke up at 9am and the young man next to me said he wasn't going to Nepal, he was here on a project. I think it was just me and the elderly couple traveling with me to Nepal.
We went to the Public Security Bureau at ten o'clock to prepare the case, and then the seven-seat car came up a Sichuan brother and three Nepalese. The car is not only a good choice, but also a good way to get to the border, and it is also a good way to get to the border with the rest of the world. Because of the border, the road check is very strict, after several checkpoints, have to get off to check the ID card.
When I arrived at the port of entry and exit hall, the female clerk asked me if it was my first time out of the country, I said yes. He also asked me if I was trekking to Nepal, and I said I came to Nepal to do volunteer work. She gave me a look of disbelief and I thought I would be prevented from traveling to Nepal, but she let me through. I set off for Nepal with the elderly couple, whom I later called my aunt and uncle.
The uncle and aunt were blacklisted because they could not take domestic high-speed trains and airplanes because they had guaranteed a business for the son of a comrade in arms, and the business had failed, and they had been sued by the court. They enrolled in a tour group and asked if I wanted to go to Kathmandu together. I agreed.
We got on the travel agency to let them find the man's car, but because the seven-seater car, three people go will be a waste, they want us to wait a little, spell enough seven people and then get on the car. After a while, came seven people Chinese, together. The Nepalese man told us to get off the bus and let the seven people take the bus first. We were very angry. Got into another car and waited, but at this time there was no one out of the crossing.
Another Nepalese driver asked us to charter a car for 1500, how could we? Later, my aunt and uncle called the people in the tour group, and they came up with a way to ask us to pay 300 dollars each, which is considered a chartered car. I agreed, so that we set off to Kathmandu.
Along the way we sat in the car like a bungee jumping, bones are almost upside down.
Nepal's highway is more than ten years behind China. Along the way, the yellow soil flying, potholes, in Tibet by car, all the way all flat, the surrounding scenery is very beautiful, and here even if the surrounding scenery is beautiful, but also let a person can not calm down to appreciate. The car went from the poor border all the way to the capital Kathmandu, in the middle of the road passed many villages, we also saw barley, wheat and cottonwood trees.
It was only after crossing a superb mountain that we reached Kathmandu.
I went to the address given by Yunna, the owner of the Kathmandu guest house, called Durbar Marg, the busiest street in Nepal. He told me to wait inside the KFC because there was no wifi inside, and the wifi of the other one was not connecting, and I couldn't reach Yunna, so I suspected that there was something wrong with my cell phone. The Nepali woman in the store was eager to help connect, but it still didn't work. If I can't find her, I guess I'll have to toss around Kathmandu on my own.
I waited half a day and saw two Chinese men at the door, I said I needed internet, they turned on their personal hotspot and I contacted Yunna. someone came to pick me up soon after.
Note: This article was first published on March 31, 2019