许羽花 46710万字 69569人读过 连载
过份美丽的文字仿佛在我日记里永远也找不到……朋友们可以想像,我和水哥两个人一句英语都不会说,唯一能记住的单词只有“HI”,在北美自驾行走了30天,4500公里,只凭借一台中文的北美地图和一个快译通词典……旅途中发生无数可笑的故事……本文分为几部分:1:Gregory美国寻根之旅2:优山美地国家公园3自驾9000里美国西海岸-人生必去的五十个地方 美国一号公路4:洛杉机星光大道环球影城 回到童年5:墨西哥的北美文化 误入红灯区6:上帝创造了克罗拉多大峡谷而他确住在赛多纳7:拉斯维加斯的夜 小赌输了4300美金8:走马观花游 韩国GREGORY美国寻根之旅-(一) 走马观花旧金山由美国GREGORY公司,北京CORA户外用品另售业商会,户外资料网WWW.8264.COM组织的GREGORY美国寻根之旅在十月九日圆满结束了七天的行程.我和水哥又接着开始了为期22天北美.墨西哥.韩国之旅.在美国与GG公司的创始人伟恩先生和GG公司的两位高管及CORA中国公司的总裁曾维刚先生一周的相处,让我重新定位了美国人在我心目中的印象,GG人的热情让我们感受了美国人的文明......我真诚希望曾总能代我邀请伟恩先生和他的同伴们来中国\西藏,也感受一下我们西藏人民的朴实和雪域高原明珠-拉萨的千年文化……9月23日晚十点整,好友老铁如约在北京国际机场接我.拉萨到北京五小时飞机座得我难受得要死,晚上不想再东西.急忙赶到位于北京东直门附近的如家快捷酒店.好朋友上水赶来帮我填明天的证表格.我拿出提早准备的一大堆申请用的材料,一点点整理.半夜十二点多送走了上水和老铁,定好了闹铃一个人静静的躺在床上,伴随着醉氧,晕晕沉沉的睡下了.9月24日,上水提前帮我约好的见面证时间是早上900,我七点就到达了美国大使馆门前排队,9点半正式面,事实证明原本准备的所有材料全没用,证官只看了邀请涵和我的登山照片,便顺利的拿到了美利坚合众国的证.感谢GG公司能顺利让我拿到美国证,为我日后的环球之旅助一臂之力!10月3日我们一行五人笛子.王微.杨伟.水哥乘坐大韩国航空的班机踏上了为期一周的GREGORY美国寻根之旅.....第一站是旧金山,美国时间上午十点,到达旧金山国际机场,早早到达等候我们的曾总驾驶着一台公羊商务车接着我们直奔旧金山市区.安排了位于渔人码头最近的豪华酒店,信息了一会我们自行走马观花的转了下渔人码头.晚上吃了中国餐,感受了旧金山酒吧的北美文化.事实证明后来我和水哥在墨西哥旅行的见闻比旧金山要猛得多…..这里的夜晚才真是北美文化的最高境界…..五个队员分别是:来自云南昆明的出租车行业兵(夜班司机)-水哥(现任云南某电子公程公司总经理)后来的自驾之旅证明他的驾驶技术。来自天津某奢侈品商场的实习导购员(试用期)-王微(现8264网络团队一员)来自四川小金县日隆镇双桥沟的野导游(无上岗证)-紫笛(中国户外著名策划人)来自四川理县毕棚沟的领队(实际上就是背夫,帮游客背东西)- 杨伟(8264 CEO)来自西藏墨脱县(唯一不通公路的县城)徒步向导(杨伟说实际上也是背夫)-喜力(现8264驴友大本营暮野驴舍、西藏高山牦牛探险公司总经理)水哥拍照,我们其它四个人笛子 王微 我 杨伟韩国机场转机中IT工作者们水哥在上网(注意他的发型很整齐,后面的文章我再发水哥一个月没剪的发型)曾总亲自驾车来接站走马观花的浏览了旧金山唐人街(水哥拍摄)某人在装酷,水哥在拍摄GREGORY美国寻根之旅-(二) 参观GG总部本次有幸参观了世界顶级品牌GREGORY公司总部,GREGORY的公司文化深深的感染了我们……我和GREGORY创始人伟恩GREGORY公司为我们每人量身订做了带有自己名字的背包M55帮8264的美国员工带来的礼物,一把非常精致的扇子伟恩为我们详细的说明了活动行程,可见GREGORY人对本次活动和我们来自中国朋友相当重视,GREGORY公司的大厅前台的接待人员很热情([]
最新章节: 第521章 熊出没 ( 2024-07-02 18:16:20)
更新时间: 2024-07-02 13:40:51
其实这个国家在很大程度上跟中国相似但它妈的又在很多方面比中国神奇的多09月25日从上海出发飞加尔各答(2天),途经大吉岭(4天)———瓦拉纳西(5天)———克久拉霍(2天)———欧恰(6天)———普什卡(5天)———焦特普尔(3天)———杰伊瑟尔梅尔(8天)———库里(2天)———比卡内尔(1)———阿姆利则(2天)———达兰萨拉(4天)———里希盖什(7天)———赫尔德瓦尔(3天)———阿格拉(6天)———拘尸加耶(3天)———尼泊尔(29天)———拉萨(9天)———上海沙漠小村库里的沙丘阿姆利则的金庙达兰萨拉的金发女郎在加尔各答住在了背包客聚集地SUDDER STREET(萨德街),一个很平民化的地方清晨的萨德街正是劳苦大众忙着在街边的公共水龙头洗刷身体的时候流浪狗也在小巷子寻觅着食物街边的流浪儿早晨的去茶馆喝点印度茶再配一些小甜品糕点打出租车去5年前曾做过义工的特蕾莎仁爱之家仁爱之家旁边的一座神庙神庙旁边的水池供信徒们沐浴到了印度人力三轮车一定要去坐坐在萨德街比较了一下,就是这家兑换店公道一些,人民币可以换到8.3卢比店主也比较好说话喝甜茶、奶昔用的土陶碗土陶碗是一次性用品,喝完一杯后就摔碎掉。。。萨德街的路边小食摊背包客们的最爱要了一碗价廉物美的韩国泡饭因为5年前在加尔各答玩了6天,所以这次呆了2天就离开乘坐夜班火车去大吉岭。([]
旅行回来一周了,印度的高温让我感觉格外疲惫,即使现在每天的天气预报都说国内如何如何的高温,在我感觉,也是很凉快了,重要的是随处都感受到空调。空调在印度可真的是奢侈品啊~ 印度的攻略网上已经有很多了,比萨就不再详细写了,只把旅行一路的见闻与感受写出来,希望大家能更多的了解印度,这个神奇的国度~ 除了机票是提前预订的,火车票是在印度现买的,旅馆是走到哪里在哪里找,这些都是没有提前预订的。比萨也没有带任何的攻略,没有LP,没有地图。 去印度之前,很多人和我说不要喝当地的水,要买瓶装水,不要吃路边摊。但是我都没做到,我和印度人一样去水管接水喝,吃路边摊,也没有拉肚子,也没有发烧感冒,只是热的起了痱子。也印证了我强大的小强精神,身体好的hold不住啊~ 这次的印度旅行,我最要感谢的是随遇而安,整个印度之行,给了我很大的帮助。在没有地图,没有LP的旅途中,全靠随遇而安的后方支持了。还有旅行途中碰到的躺着也中枪,padman,广州女生小黄,mettar,路人菜菜菜,七七。。。他们都给了我很多帮助。 我也很感谢印度人民,有提醒我注意坏人的,在我火车没有铺位的时候分给我一个床的,给我免费升AC车厢的,免费吃住的金庙~~印度的行程:金奈——新德里——阿格拉——新德里——阿姆利泽——斋普尔——乌代浦尔——斋普尔——瓦拉纳西——加尔各答马来西亚行程:吉隆坡——槟城——兰卡威——槟城——吉隆坡91楼 新德里 https//bbs.8264.com/forum-redire ... 9-pid-20281054.html126楼 阿格拉泰姬陵 https//bbs.8264.com/forum-redire ... 9-pid-20284017.html262楼 阿姆利泽 https//bbs.8264.com/forum-redire ... 9-pid-20321588.html345楼 斋浦尔 https//bbs.8264.com/forum-redire ... 9-pid-20425839.html407楼 乌代浦尔 https//bbs.8264.com/forum-redire ... 9-pid-20521236.html473喽 瓦拉纳西 https//bbs.8264.com/forum-redire ... 9-pid-20680197.html487楼 加尔各答 https//bbs.8264.com/forum-redire ... 9-pid-20684047.html517楼 马来西亚 https//bbs.8264.com/forum-redire ... 9-pid-20688443.html机票:这次旅行是两个国家,印度和马来西亚。去年10月亚航大促的时候买的廉价机票。深圳——吉隆坡,吉隆坡往返印度,吉隆坡往返槟城,吉隆坡——天津,一共6飞,合成人民币是2200元。后来吉隆坡取消了天津航线,免费改到了吉隆坡——北京。证:印度的证是在淘宝上找的代办,680元。虽然代办费用比实际证费用多出100多,但是我不用去北京,比请假再往返北京,费用要省,所以选择代办。当时就提供了工作证明,和1万的资金证明(6个月)还有护照,其他的都是由代办准备了。十几天就下来了。马来西亚我没有证,去印度之前在LCCT只呆了一个晚上,过境,回来的时候,又在马来西亚呆了5天,不到120小时,所以也是过境。所以马来西亚的证费用省下了。火车:在印度我全程选的都是SL,没有空调,但是印度火车的门、窗都是敞开的,而我选的所有火车都是夜车,所以火车开起来的时候,还是很凉快的。而且SL的票价要比AC3便宜太多了,这也是选择SL的原因。轮船:买机票的时候,由于功课没有做好,买的是吉隆坡往返槟城的,其实应该买吉隆坡——槟城,兰卡威——吉隆坡。所以槟城到兰卡威买的往返船票。公交:印度大城市也是有很多公交的,但是不报站,不过天气太热,我大部分还是选择坐TUTU的。 买机票的时候考虑买深圳到吉隆坡,是想可以去香港玩玩,但是真到出发,才发现根本没那么多时间。但是可恶的深圳机场到底还是让我去了香港。 我到深圳市坐火车过去的,是住的沙发客,住在南山区,离地铁很近。我也是第一次去深圳的宝安机场,原以为飞国际的航站楼是B楼,结果发现不是,找来找去在最偏远的地方,找到了一个二层小楼,这时候离飞机起飞还剩40分钟。亚航是提前45分钟的,就这5分钟只差,让我对宝安机场及人员,失望透顶。 我进去的时候,那边的工作人员,在那里玩手机,我和他讲,我迟到了,因为航站楼很难找。那几个人连眼皮都没抬一下,说“飞机都已经飞走了,你自己的原因有什么办法,再买一张票好了”。我和他们讲,让他们帮忙想想办法,看看能不能进去,他们直接说,“大家都很忙啊,快中午了,都下班吃饭去了,哪里还有人啊,没人给人换登机牌,安检了” 我当时心里那个气啊,说的容易,你的钱是挣得,我的钱是大风刮来的吗。是我迟到了,但用不着这样吧,什么下班吃饭,飞机飞走了,从来只听过飞机晚点,没听过飞机提前起飞的。还有40分钟,这时飞机连舱门还没开呢,飞个屁啊~ 为了不耽误之后的行程,我买了一张香港——吉隆坡的机票,(亚航的廉价机票,改费用比重新买一张还要贵,当时最便宜的就是从香港飞吉隆坡了)。从宝安机场有直接到香港机场的大巴,过关后换成小车,直接送到机场。PS:如果有别国证,用护照可直接过关,不需要港澳通行证。香港机场LCCT去印度金奈LCCT要穿越机场,自己走上飞机~飞机上看金奈金奈机场在金奈机场换了20美金,机场汇率太低了,而且还要手续费,20美金才换了950卢比,很让人郁闷。不过我在印度,都没换到较高的汇率,可能我比较衰吧。在加尔各答听路人菜菜菜说,她最高的时候100美金换了5800卢比,5555~~我最高就换到5500卢比,损失大了!在出机场的门口,可以看见一个简易地图,上面写着如何到地铁站,上面写的是地铁,不过就是在上面跑的,也没看见是在地下跑。一出机场,我就有一种明星走红地毯的感觉,那叫万众瞩目啊,印度人看你是外国人,都不措眼珠子的看你。我兜兜转转问了好几个人,才确定那个地铁站的方向,因为我也不知道是出了机场就左拐,还是到马路左拐。不过走着走着就看到火车了。车票6卢比,到埃各莫尔站。出了埃各莫尔车站,在街的对面有很多旅馆,但是金奈的旅馆相比北印是比较贵的,所以我走了2个小时都没有找到便宜又干净旅馆,总之和想象中的有差距。这个时候已经是印度的中午了,也就是国内的下午,印度和中国有2个半小时的时差。背着大包的我又累又饿,所以决定还是先吃饭再做别的打算。打了一辆TUTU到金奈火车站,因为我要买金奈——德里的火车票。TUTU一定要和司机讲价啊,他跟我说120卢比,我划价到60卢比。后来到北印,才发现60卢比很贵了~这是我在印度吃的第一顿饭,Biryani。饭下面是一个鸡腿和鸡蛋,另外点了一杯chai,一共是85卢比。合人民币10块钱吧。(人民币和卢比,是18点多)金奈火车站是有外国人售票办公室的,在售票厅的二楼。我去的时候刚开始没注意挂着的牌子,然后问那边的保安,他们告诉我在三楼,我严重怀疑他们根本听不懂英语,不懂装懂。在三楼找了一圈没找到。到二楼,抬头就看到了提示牌,推门直接走进办公室,里面的工作人员,服务态度很好。问我要去哪里,什么时候的车,坐哪种车厢。一开始我想着,从金奈到德里,33个小时,印度又这么热,还是买AC3吧,结果只剩WL了,只有AC2,票价2280卢比,感觉太贵了。于是坚持买了SL,那个女的一直说,SL不适合我,太热了,但是我还是坚持要做SL,我告诉她,AC2对我来说,太贵了~事实证明,SL我还是能忍受的,没有想象中那么恐怖。比我在国内坐那种没有空调的普快凉快多了!买完车票,我决定去Mahabalipuram,离金奈市区60公里,有公交588,588B,588C通往那里。票价是85卢比,不过随遇而安和我说,他去的时候是70卢比,可能是没有空调的缘故吧。找公交588B可费劲了,我就围着车站走啊走啊的,终于在快要崩溃的时候找到了一个大的公交车站,也终于有一个人懂英文,直接把我带到了588B车的前面。超感激那个小男生。金奈火车站附近的交警,在罚钱,呵呵~路上看见有人在游行演讲,估计是拥护哪个政党吧。到玛玛拉普兰下车不要再附近找旅馆,往海边的方向走,快走到海边的时候,有很多GUEST HOUSE,我之前也没有看LP,随便找了一家看上去很新的住了进去。墙壁院子都是新粉刷的。我要了一个离露台近的房间,300卢比。不过我在印度第一次被骗,也是在这家。我给店主500卢比,他没有找给我,说是要开摩托带我逛景点。我想着天气热,200卢比也不多(我还在用卢比换人民币),于是就答应了。他也确实带我逛了景点,我进去,他就在景区门口等着。后来他又说附近有个鳄鱼公园很好玩,结果开到半路,他说他的摩托没有油了,需要加油,要300卢比。我本来是不想给的,但是这路上这么荒凉,他要给我扔路上,我都不知道怎么回去,就在加油站给了300卢比。后来到了北印,才知道500卢比是个什么概念,懊悔死我了,其实我当时强硬的不给他钱加油,也不会怎么样的,谁让咱第一次来印度呢~大家以后去印度,一定要提高警惕,印度商人的骗人伎俩~我就住在这家清晨房间我在印度除KEC吃过的最贵的一顿饭,一盘面条200卢比,刚到印度不了解物价~清晨的海边玛玛拉普兰姆面对孟加拉湾,夜晚这里凉风习习,完全感觉不到白天的烈日炎炎。我躺在露台的吊床上睡着了。我在印度唯有这一次睡在外面被蚊子咬了,之后发现印度很神奇的没有蚊子!会不会都给热死了?这里有很多世界文化遗产的遗址,票价是250卢比,可以看两个。印度人只需要10卢比就可以参观了~海岸神庙Shore Temple刚到金奈很不习惯印度的灰尘吹到脸上的感觉,第一时间选择纱巾,不过后来习惯了,没再带过纱巾~比萨自己一个人走印度,没人给拍照,印度人的拍照水平实在很难恭维,还好带了一个自拍杆旁遮达拉Pancha Rathas这个是那个旅店的小老板带我到的一个景点,免费的,所以我也不知道这个景点的名字,就是一个巨大的岩石~不知道是不是传说中的变色龙,在树上经常看到~可爱的印度小孩,无论男孩女孩腰上都会有个腰链,在火车上遇到过一个,材质就像那种钢丝锁~印度人超喜欢金光闪闪的东西,所以无论男女都喜欢佩戴首饰~我从金奈到德里的火车是晚上10点多了,所以我5点多退房。印度南部的旅馆大部分是24小时的,不用中午12点退房。按照我的估计6点坐大巴回金奈坐火车时来的及的,不过回金奈时坐的588C,而且又是金奈的下半高峰,让我小紧张了一把~从玛玛拉普兰姆——金奈有588、588B、588C,我来的时候是在火车站附近乘的588B,所以回去的时候我理所当然的认为588C也应该是到火车站附近,结果售票员告诉我588C并不到火车站,但是我可以到金奈市区换车,他到时会叫我。当时我以为他说的是公交,所以下车就一直在找公交车站,后来问人才知道原来是他们的城铁,就是在上面跑的地铁,而地铁站也是在一个大楼里面。这个地铁站真的很让我长见识,进去看就像一个没有完工的超市,空旷,只有柱子。随着人流找到了售票窗口,问他们要去火车站,在哪一站下。结果卖票的都不太懂英文,这是过来一个警察,他的英文不错,就在纸上给我画了一个地铁的路线图,写上了每一个站的名字,告诉我在parkdown这站下车,让我数着站,因为地铁不报站。我感叹我遇到了好民警!站台是在三楼,下班高峰,印度男人真的是多啊。我就在看不到头的男人群中,寻找印度女人。终于让我发现了小部分印度女人,兴奋,有一种找到组织的兴奋!谁会想一个人和几十号男人挤在一个车厢。印度人的味道,你懂的~即使是女士车厢,也是挤不动。十几节车厢,就这么一节坐女人,可想而知有多挤了,而且是没有车门的,车速也不慢,我可真是不敢靠外站,怕给挤下去,赶紧跑到车厢最中间,才会感觉有安全感。我发现不但数学学的不好,记忆力也不好。没几站,我就不记得数到第几站了,然后赶紧问周围的女生。因为公交路上堵车,再加上找地铁站,此时已经9点半了,我很担心我下了车,是不是还有很远的路才能到火车站。而且我是第一次坐印度火车,真怕找不到车,深圳机场给我的阴影太大了~还好有个女生,英语发音超级准,她跟我说,到站会叫我的。等到下车的时候,又有一个女生主动说,她要路过火车站,让我跟着她走,不用搭任何的车,出了地铁就能看见火车站,她可以直接把我送到火车站。而她确实把我送到了火车站的大厅,再次感叹,运气好,碰到好人了!女士车厢,手机在晃动的车厢里拍的,有些抖,我实在腾不出手去拿相机~当火车站的时候10点左右吧,然后就在液晶屏幕上找我的车次,但是并没有显示在哪个站台。然后就拿着车票问身旁的一个男生,我那趟车在哪个站台。他告诉我要看液晶屏,他也正目不转睛的盯着屏幕看,我就看见他的汗就顺着脸流啊流的,胳膊也在流汗,我才发现我自己也是这样,一点不夸张的说长这么大都没出过这么多的汗。过了一会儿,哥们儿的车可能是进站了,就和我说,现在你的车还没来,不知道哪个站台,你要站在这里不要动,看着屏幕,那上面会有显示。我点点头,心说,还不让动,等他走了,我还是四处转转,因为有些饿了。买了一杯牛奶,因为实在是奶香四溢,才10卢比,买了一个油炸的不知道什么东西沾酱吃。人饿的时候,是不会管吃的东西叫什么的。给我的感觉就是放了好几天的干饼,划嗓子,不喝水是咽不下去的!终于我的车次在屏幕上显示了,就往站台走,这个时候还不知道看站台的小液晶屏,上面有车厢号,可以走到相应的车厢号那里等车。我一路问的走到了S3车厢的位置,车来的时候也正好停在这里。当我放下背包的时候,整件T恤已经全湿了,贴在身上都变透明了,哈哈~我这一路只有一次是中铺,还被调到了AC,整个行程全部是上铺。这也是我买车票是特别要求的,在填表的时候都会写上UB。原因很简单,第一安全,可以把行李放到上铺,时刻看着行李,我没买链锁,太沉。第二,上车就可以躺着,中铺平常事放下来的,大家都坐在下铺,所以中铺和下铺不可以随意躺着。侧铺下铺窗子一直开着,我可不想嘴被吹歪了,侧上铺过道的电扇吹不到,很闷~所以对于我最理想的就是上铺。上车简单洗脸就睡了,正好有三个电扇冲着我吹,晚上还是蛮舒服的~当然是对我而言,怕热,怕人多的还是不要尝试。 车厢 车厢印度的火车可以充电,AC车厢很多,SL就再车厢的尽头,这张是手机充电的时候拍的。车晃,手机拍的也不清楚~早上是被饿醒的,吃了一个盒饭Biryani,35卢比,但是辣的很奇怪,没吃完。又买了一个面包三明治,这才吃饱。可能是天气太热的缘故,吃完就觉得困,又接着睡,直到把我热醒。正好是中午,外面吹进来的都是热风,我在上铺感觉都像在锅里,衣服全都贴在身上。因为印度女人不能露腿的,所以一直都是穿长裤。从包里找出短裤、吊带换上,我才不管什么不能露胳膊露腿的呢。从这天起,我就开始每天都喝一瓶藿香正气水。在印度期间没感冒,没拉肚子,没中暑,只长了痱子,也算奇迹了。换完衣服上铺是不能去了,太热,然后一群90后的印度小兵就坐着和我聊天,要求我给他们拍照,还要和我合照,呵呵。还有印度的大叔也要与我照相,总之,在太阳没下山之前,我又困了,继续爬上去睡觉。([]
我有些照片想和大家分享交流一下.我在2009年花了五个月一个星期的时间从乔治亚州的SPRINGER MT.背包徒步到缅因州的MT. KATAHDIN.完成全程共2,178英里, 或3,500公里, 越过十四个州.我拍了4,500多张的照片, 主要做个实地记录.因为东西太多, 人太懒, 除了原始每天的起末点外, 没作任何笔录, 所以文字说明就免了.但每个文件名都有日期和地点的对应.不过抱歉它们都是英文的.因图片储存的服务器在异地, 如果网络连接效果不好, 我也不打算再在这里上载了.若有问或高见, 我以后再一一回答和请教.2009 美国阿帕拉契亚小道直通背包徒步另外, 我还有其它几个影集顺便一起附上.希望不使大家失望. 我忘了附上一张全程示意图.我一直忙着科罗拉多小道,把先发的帖子给忘了。雨天看窗服!这么长距离开车都觉得累-是的,当我做完的时候,人非常的累。我的体重掉了20多斤,回去后3个星期里,走起路来浑身疼。雨天看窗下次可以end2end洛基山脉 -给你猜对了一半。方向大概一样,地点可能稍有不同,但资金是关键。大东从“科罗拉多小道”找过来的,稍后慢慢再看。谢谢分享!-这过程太长,同时既然要做,就要比上次做的好。我恐怕在最近的将来找不出时间来完成。我最近把2009年背包徒步的原始照片又重新看了一遍,对其中一些具有代表性和我喜欢的作了处理,上载到8264我的相册里。现在觉得手上有点时间,而且以前几位8264的朋友鼓励我将编辑出以与大家分享。我原本在徒步时并没有任何要发表游记或功略的打算,只是想尽可能多地记录下自己所经历过的,所看到的一切,给自己以后一个回忆的依据。在背包徒步中,由于前后时间太长,即使后来比较好的景色很快地便成了所谓的"审美疲劳"的产品,再加上按时完成旅途的压力,和天气等的原因,相当多的日子里,照片不是被疏忽了,便是寥寥无几。我的笔录除了每天的所到之处外,几乎没有任何其它的记录。我所能叙述的都靠回忆了,并且这也不是我的擅长。敬请谅解。阿帕拉契亚小道的全称为阿帕拉契亚山国家景观小道。它座落在美国大陆的东部,以乔治亚州的Springer Mountain为南端起点,贯穿14个州,直到在缅因州的北端终点,Mount Katahdin。小道全长约2181英里(3510公里,2011年更新),通过乔治亚州,北卡罗来纳州,田纳西州,韦吉利亚州,西韦吉利亚州,马里兰州,宾夕法尼亚州,新泽西州,纽约州,康奈迪克州,麻萨诸塞州,佛蒙特州,新汉普什尔州,和缅因州。阿帕拉契亚小道。阿帕拉契亚小道以相同的平面比例覆盖在中国地图上。阿帕拉契亚小道沿线的主要城市。这个基本由人类设想,人工刻意开辟的小道现由30个左右,当地小道俱乐部来维护,并受国家公园事务处(National Park Service),和非盈利性组织,阿帕拉契亚小道保护协会(Appalachian Trail Conservancy)的管理。其中参预的人员大部为自愿者。平时运作的资金来源于国家的预算,非盈利性经营,和各种捐款等。阿帕拉契亚小道最初在上个世纪的二十年代由几位先贤设想,与无数的参预者一起,克服重重困难,在短短的十几年中建成了绵延数千公里的贯通小道。小道的地势呈两端高耸,且较荒芜。而中段却与人类的居住与文明非常的接近。其最高点在北卡罗来纳州与田纳西州州界上的Clingmans Dome,6643英尺(或海拔2025米);最低处在纽约州的哈得逊河旁的熊山动物园内,只有124英尺(或海拔38米)。小道可以处在半径几百英里人烟罕见之地;也可以离纽约市只有34英里。小道沿线的植物种类繁多,温带的不说,阿尔卑斯型的高山,甚至所谓北极圈内型的植被都能见到。动物包括熊,郊狼,鹿,麋鹿,短尾山猫,猞狸,森林响尾蛇,等等。阿帕拉契亚小道的平面方向记为一白色的,5x15cm的漆印。一般在小道两侧的树上,面对南面和北面两个方向。沿线有共有250个左右的临时居住木屋,和营地,其中极少数是要付费的;而在此之外,更多的则是任意和免费的空间,只要符合管理当局的规定和遵守一般的露营常识就可以了。除去北端的一些地区外,大部分的小道均与道路交通线相交,走全线的背包徒步者大概隔每三,四天就可以由此进市镇去休息整理,补充给养等。这个小道原本的思路不是为了徒步者一个季节,一次走完。但"贯通型"的徒步却被视为最终极的方式。由于地理,气候,伤病,和时间等的原因,使得能在一个季度里完成全程3500公里的背包徒步成为非常的困难。在上个世纪,从起点登记上路的统计算起,通常完成全程的人只有10~15%。但在2000年以后,此成功率达到近30%左右。可能是由于网络媒介的传播发展,背包徒步的资料充足,及装备理念的更新导致了这种现象。一般一个徒步者要花上4~6个月左右的时间走完全程。基于开始时间和地点的不同,徒步者的行进方向可分为从南向北,或由北朝南,或分段跳跃似的,或从中间向两头去,或从两头往中间走。启程晚的徒步者在后期阶段,面临的可能已经是大雪覆盖地面的冬天了。阿帕拉契亚小道保护协会(Appalachian Trail Conservancy)对完成3500公里的阿帕拉契亚小道全程的背包徒步者作出统计,无论他们是一年内做完,还是分十年,二十年做完。背包徒步者必须要基于个人的诚信,如实地向其协会提出申请。从有史记载以来一共有一万两千多人完成了全程的徒步,包括一人完成多次的,一人分若干年完成的。。。我所知道的Warren Doyle16次走完全程,还有其他很多走完多次的人。我本人用了五个月另一个星期从开始到结束,包括相对长时回家处理事务和生病的时间。全世界从1936年起至今完成全程3500公里徒步人的总数,共一万两千多人(次?)。我名字在2009年完成全程3500公里徒步人的名单上。倒数第六。2009年4月29日当日起点 North Plainfield, NJ次日终点 Gainesville, GA距旅途终点Mt. Katahdin 2178.3 英哩里程数 0.0 英哩 (0.0 公里)天气 多云到阴一个星期前,我离开了工作岗位。 我是主动提出辞职的,但名字依然挂在公司花名册那里。这主要是公司的管理部门给我一个面子;我也希望公司能不能给予我一个回来,和内部转行的机会。现在一切都已明了,这次背包徒步是一次性的,在经济困难时期,既然出去了,就不可能再回来了。我租的房子合同在月底停止,所有的东西搬进了储藏室。我离家前所有的家当,和一颗执着不变的心。此时已经没有退路了!我的好友,Matt送我到他居住小镇,Fanwood的车站去。我把我的车子停放在他的家庭车道上。我在那儿搭乘NJ Transit火车到纽瓦克的Penn Station。2009年4月30日当日起点 Springer Mountain, GA, AT M. P. 0.01当日终点 Sassafras Mountain, GA, AT M. P. 11.2 距旅途终点Mt. Katahdin 2167.1 英哩(3486.9 公里)里程数 11.2 英哩 (18.0 公里)天气 多云到阴图中两红点之间为我今天所走的路程。我于2009年4月29日下午离开了纽瓦克的Penn Station,搭上南行的Amtrak火车,经过16个小时的缓慢行驶,于第二天的早上7点左右到达了位于乔治亚州的Gainesville。我走之前与那里的一个运载背包徒步者的人,Dave联系好,付钱让他把我送到离小道南边终端两英里的一个垭口。我从那儿再返回向南端,正式开始这3500公里的徒步。我在垭口停车场旁的留影,两小时后我从最南端开始徒步,又重新回到此地,向北行进。从我此时的体型上可以看出多年办公室生活的痕迹,虽并不太差,但与我在结束时相比,却有着很大的区别。向南的阿帕拉契亚小道。此段我要走两次。因为我若直接上最南端,要经过一段8英里的爬升,因上路晚,时间紧,所以多花点钱,让Dave把我送到更容易些开始徒步的公路旁。Springer Mountain,乔治亚州,阿帕拉契亚小道的南端终点。向南看去,仍然是一片群山,但延伸到阿拉巴马州时,便成为丘陵与平原了。阿帕拉契亚小道南端终点的纪念铭牌。在石头上放着的是长途背包徒步者到册子,一般的情况下,藏在下面的石缝里,以避风雨。这个资料由当地的俱乐部收藏。我才到阿帕拉契亚小道的南端终点便遇见一位背包客。我们相互介绍自己,知道彼此也做同样的事情。他的名字叫,John,来自佛蒙特州。在以后的近十天里,我们在一起徒步,露营,和进城休息。他替我拍了这几张照片。我坐在阿帕拉契亚小道南端终点的纪念铭牌旁。我们遇见一位当地徒步俱乐部小道维护者。他的户外名字叫,"Many Sleeps",年龄74岁了,晚上就在附近露营,直到休息日。他的主要任务为监测小道的状况,向徒步者提供各种信息,与政府管理机构联系沟通等。他是阿帕拉契亚小道社区的名人,真是老当益壮!这3500公里的直通背包徒步就这样地开始了,万里长征的第一步。我的基本信念是无论走多远,多么枯燥无味,走一步,就离终点少一步。没有太多可以去想的。在四月底,海拔高度1300米的山区已经看见树枝发芽了。但今后若干星期后在更高的高度上,季节似乎有所返回。小道旁的树干上清楚可见白色的方向记。我经过几乎一天的长途火车与汽车旅行,无法好好地休息,人现相当疲劳。以后的几个小时的路程,路况十分的良好,非常平整,上下起伏也很小。乔治亚州的小道给我的影响很好,主要是来自于当地徒步俱乐部的贡献。小道利用一个旧的山区简易公路。我在倒卧的树干补充了一些能量。我今天并没有与John约好一起徒步。这只是在途中两人相遇,我给他拍的照。他以后一段与我在一起的时间里用大卡车约翰,"Big Truck Johnny"的别名,直到他的女儿厌倦了父亲在外徒步"不顾家"的行为,给他起了个别名,"懒驴"。他告诉我他目前没有业务,有四个月的时间,想用背包徒步来减轻体重,但也想走完全程。我坦率地告诉他,这四个月的时间对他这样从没有背包徒步,体力不在最佳状况的人来讲很紧。他也同意走到哪儿就到哪儿。我从中午时分开始便开始听到山脚下连续的枪击声。我很早以前就知道,在这段小道附近的山下为美国陆军精锐的特种作战部队,Army Ranger,的基地或训练营地。估计蓝博属于此类。平民徒步者有时能在附近的小道上碰见路过的正在训练的士兵。我身旁的枪声连续了好几个小时,体现了一个军事大国的经济实力。我想这山叫,Hawk Mountain。陆军巡游兵的基地就在其下面。天虽然还不太晚,但我昨天的几乎一天的旅途使我感到相当的疲劳。与"大卡车约翰",及另一个背包客聊过后,就在一个已经建立的营地上安营扎寨。而他们却继续前进,准备再走4个英里,在一个避难所过夜。我的吊床。它的特点是体积小,重量轻,但舒适程度差,空间小。我在天转热后便放弃使用它,而用普通落地帐篷。由于这里是野外,理论上有熊及其它动物的出现,所以食物袋要高悬在树枝上。夜里事与愿违,"大卡车约翰"第二天告诉我,半夜里一架Army Ranger的直升机进行空降训练,正好在他露营的小溪上空,探照灯把附近照个雪亮,徘徊不走,吓得他不轻,半天没有睡好觉。我这儿却什么都没有听见。夜里飘有零星小雨,还不能真正检验我的吊床防雨的功能。 2009年5月1日当日起点 Sassafras Mountain, GA, AT M. P. 11.2 当日终点 Woods Hole Shelter, GA, AT M. P. 27.0距旅途终点Mt. Katahdin 2151.3 英哩 (3461.4 公里)里程数 15.8 英哩 (25.4 公里)天气 多云到阴图中两红点之间为我今天所走的路程。阿帕拉契亚小道经过许多国家和州立公园和保护地。这里的蓝岭与我后来见的蓝岭不知是否有关系。我一早离开营地,路过"大卡车约翰"的营地,他正好要开拔。于是我们聊了起来,因为明天就要暂时离开小道去补充给养,处理个人事宜,所以决定一起行走。我在小道上。乔治亚的平整地段,徒步起来的确相当舒适。小道就是沿着山脊,但并不是每个山头都去,而且放坡也很缓和。由于森林火灾,小道旁被烧毁的林子。沿着等高线或缓慢放坡的小道。由于土质的关系,走上去相当的舒服。来到Woody Gap,Woody垭口。回望走过的小道。在这个季节里,山区的水汽十分的充足,而且地表的温度相对较高。水汽在升入天空后,遇到冷空气,便形成降雨,这样的循环往复,造成雨天联绵不断。上午走过的群山。疲惫的"大卡车约翰"和我借着一个观景点,坐下休息。他一直夸赞我的体力比他好。我了解到他的祖上两辈均在纽约市作港口的引水员,有法国和德国的血统。而他现在为独立的承包商,住在佛蒙特州。我的自拍。大山虽然绝对海拔不高,但不断的上上下下,可以使人很疲惫。天空开始下起间断小雨。给才上路后不久的我一个心理上的小小冲击。在乔治亚州段的舒适的小道。雨过后,天空似乎在放晴。"大卡车约翰"和我在小道旁发现了一个营地。我们虽然知道避难所离这儿不太远,但大家都累了,懒得再多走几步,就决定在此搭营,明天上路也快。不过在后来取水的时候,我们俩还是去那避难所走了一趟,遇见了我在最后一天的徒步中仍然在一起的"萤火虫",一个来自明尼苏达,但以前在佛罗里达工作的女孩。我在徒步的第二天与"萤火虫"相见,途中几千公里,我们碰到好多次,在最后的一天我们在北端终点见了最后一面。我们从没有相约一同背包徒步,因为她是个很独立的人,而且我个把星期以后就"单飞"了。他们以后也曾邀请我一同徒步,但被我谢绝了,我想要更多的自由和速度。"大卡车约翰"在建立他的营地。那么大的个子,却住在相当小的帐篷里,为减轻负重,但晚上肯定不舒服。我的吊床。夜里雷雨交加,闪电呈各种颜色,就在头顶很近的地方,我唯恐会被雷击。所以露宿在山顶上不是件好事。这个经验我永远记住,除非我确信天气,和风景特好。2009年5月2日当日起点 Woods Hole Shelter, GA, AT M. P. 27.0当日终点 US 19&129, Neels Gap, GA, AT M. P. 30.7距旅途终点Mt. Katahdin 2147.3 英哩 (3455.0 公里)里程数 3.7 英哩 (6.0 公里)天气 阴今天的路程。昨晚的雷暴雨给我带来了两个在户外重要的信息。除非万不得已,天气不好的时候,特别在夏天,不要在山脊或山顶上露营,避免遭雷击;再是我的吊床,在风雨交加的时候,顶棚里面难免遭受雨水的侵袭,不是一个最佳的户外住所的选择。早上离开营地不久,便开始爬升。现在看来并没有什么,但当时经过几天辛苦的徒步,倒觉得挺吃力的。小道渐渐地上升,我可以看到Blood Mountain了。在接近Blood Mountain避难所前的一张多幅连拼。面对西面。"大卡车约翰"替我拍的。据他自己讲,他根本不会照相。我当时也的确担心没有结果。"大卡车约翰"。我拍摄的就大不相同,信心很高,哈。。Blood Mountain Shelter,一个几乎没有人敢在里面过夜的避难所。倒不是因为它有点陈旧,和失修,而是在它周围的故事传说。当年这一带居住着两个印第安人的部落联盟,以这里山脊为界。但不知为何引起双方的战事,彼此在此山头上争夺撕杀,弄得个血流遍地,这山头因此而得名。Blood Mountain两侧的景色。阳光透过云层,给我以短暂的希望。这里的有许多观景点。我感到有点兴奋,一生中很少看到过如此连绵起伏的群山。一张多幅连拼。"大卡车约翰"与我在此简短休息后,便下山,准备进城休息,补充给养了。在下山的途中我们赶上了"萤火虫",她因为经验不足,鞋子选择不当,给她的脚带来巨大的麻烦。我在这几天内也尽我所能给"大卡车约翰""灌输"一些户外装备和背包徒步的小常识。他很感谢我,说我为他的老师。但他不久就琢磨出应该怎样做很多事了。我们下山后来到今天的小道徒步终点,一个垭口,Neels Gap;和所经的公路,US 19&129。 这个垭口附近有个户外店。一般没有多少阿帕拉契亚小道长途背包徒步经验的人,经过几天的徒步,都会被建议或体会出,要在此更换或更新他们的装备。我与"大卡车约翰"说过,棉布的牛仔裤不能用于户外。他根据我的其它一些建议,将不必要的东西请那店帮忙寄回家去。在此之前,"大卡车约翰"与一个经营住宿的营地主联系好,让他开车过来接我们,其中包括至今一直独立行走的"萤火虫"。那户外店旁一个小客栈。我们嫌它过于简单,拥挤,而选择了较贵的木屋营地。我后来一直延用这样的做法,经过几天辛苦的跋涉,宁愿多花点钱,独自安稳的休息和恢复体力最要紧。负面的效应,钱包瘪下去地更快了。我以后若有这样的背包徒步,无论经济情况如何,我会选择这简单的客栈,因为可以见到更多类似于我这样的背包客,大家更容易彼此交流,联络感情。"萤火虫"与我与相互拍照。我在知道她的小道名以前,曾想过给她起个有中国味的,叫"豆芽菜"的名字,但后来很长时间没能见到她,无法告诉她。一个在大学学心理,后来从事于辅导不良少年工作的年轻女子。只听说她曾多次带那些少年进入户外的环境,想用自然的力量感化,纠正他们,因此自己也想多一些的户外经验。在等车来接我们去木屋营地。右边的是"萤火虫";而前面打电话的是一个从事运输业的独立经营人,一个乔治亚州带有印第安人血统的人,"冰雹"。 他选择了今晚呆在那个小客栈。被遗弃的徒步装备。可看出徒步者对它们的感情是如此的仇恨。木屋营地的主人,Bill终于把我们带到了独立的木屋。这里面有厨房,卫生间,客厅与饭厅,卧室连在一起。我们个人个占一间木屋,每晚。由于体力消耗很大,食物补充不很及时,我才进来时感到有点寒冷,但出乎我意料之外,屋里有暖气设施,室温不久就上去了。这木屋一般供短期度假,户外,及打猎等的家庭使用。他们可以在里面生火做饭,只要另付几块钱就可以了。应该说是经济实惠的。何况还是热水澡洗。我原本带了一套处理蛇咬的工具,但估计不会有太大的用场,就留在了这里。"大卡车约翰"的木屋。我们清理完毕后,准备请Bill开车把我们三人送到靠近的小城,Blairsville去就餐,和购买食物。"萤火虫"的屋子在山坡底下。Blairsville的超市,Ingles门口的停车场。那饮料看来是"大卡车约翰"最喜欢的。我们三人在购买晚徒步食品后,去了一家自助餐去改善下。"萤火虫"和"大卡车约翰"。饭饱后,我们走到市中心,给Bill打了个电话,等他来接我们。我们则闲着无聊,四处逛悠。当时在市中心有个旧车展。我买了一袋土豆片,大家分享一下。"萤火虫"和"大卡车约翰"。我,"Highway Man"与"大卡车约翰"。我的小道名望文生义的话,就有点不切了。我想这是Blairsville市的市政厅。我们回到了Bill的木屋营地,还有很多时间,便去他的接待厅看看电视,也好知道未来几天的天气。我以后在背包徒步中一直有这样的习惯,在市镇里歇脚时了解未来的天气,以掌握节奏和主动,直到最后太习惯于各种的恶劣天气,才不太介意了。([]
Northern Wilderness, Solo Traverse of the Great Chang TangMr YANG Liusong, a Chinese who just finished the first solo traverse over Chang Tang by cycling from west to east in recorded human history, shared his stunning Expedition with all of us through the forum 8264 https//bbs.8264.com/thread-512349-1-1.html . In order to share his legendary journey with those who cannot read Chinese, I translate his story to English here, which has been approved by Mr YANG Liusong. Hope you guys enjoy it.为了让杨同学的传奇能让全世界的驴友分享,俺决定把杨同学的帖子翻译成英文。为了避免麻烦,俺先来个免责声明:1。杨同学不认识俺,也没有授权俺,如果他说不要翻译了那俺就随时终止;2。俺没有商业目的,译版版权归杨同学,俺啥也不要,也不承担法律责任;3。没有杨同学授权,不敢擅自发在国外网站,发在原帖处,荣誉归8264;4。俺英语水平有限,欢迎指正,欢迎转贴。 Northern Wilderness, Solo Traverse of the Great Chang TangBy Yang LiusongIt has been three months since I traversed the unpopulated region in the Great Chang Tang. There are many like-minded asking me about it. I now present this thread to briefly tell everybody about my journey.The starting point of this traverse was from the highest peak of the western part of the Tibetan plateau, Jieshan Daban, and the day was April 20, 2010.I was heading eastward passing Bungdag Co, Yanghu Co, Rola Co, and Kangzhagri Mountain, which crossed over the desolate region from west to east. The journey continued northward to enter the unpopulated area of Altun Mountains, through Hoh Xil Mountains, Kunlun Mountains, Whale lake, ..., finally met some people by the Aqqikkol Hu and then arrived in Huatugou by vehicle three days later and that day was July 5. It had been 77 days in total. I had been all alone 74 days after leaving Jieshan Daban until arriving inAqqikkol Hu, which was about 1400km and about four months.[The Great Chang Tang] In Tibetan, "Chang Tang" means northern empty wilderness while narrowly, means unpopulated region in northern part of Tibet. However, it actually indiCATes all of the no man's land in northern. The great Chang Tang includes desolate places in Northern Tibet, Hoh Xil, Alun Mountains, and Kunlun Mountains, which are interconnected to form the unique and super empty wilderness in the world. Only because Hoh Xil is the most known name, most people just think this vast land is equivalent to Hoh Xil. In reality, Hoh Xil is only a small piece of the Great Chang Tang both administratively and geologically. The Great Chang Tang, the last land to chase your freedom and dream.The route that I traversed ForeplayI arrived in Tibet in the early March, a couple of troubles bothered me. The brand new plug got its positive and negative wrongly connected; the rivets of my rucksack eASIly got broken from now and again; and a multi-functional charger got damaged and so on. Riding my bike to Ngari for warming up of this journey, lost my rucksack but later got it back; lost my camera bag and got it back later again, and finally lost a big bicycle pannier in the street of Gyangze town under the eyes of police, including clothes, solar panel and so on.Without much choice, I returned to Lhasa to adjust all the stuff I would need in the wilderness. Then I begged some luck by going to Nyingchi to enjoy the blossoms of peach trees and to take a hot spring bath. I even had the privilege to enjoy time with ten girls in the hot spring. I felt my bad luck had all gone and then returned to Lhasa again to prepare going to Ngari. I did not expect that I was cheated on by some hustler and lost some money and delayed my schedule for a week. I had to find a car myself quickly to Nagri. However, I lost the tool for fast-parting my rear wheel on my way to Nagri, where was a remote area in Tibet and nowhere to buy the tool. Even if there was one in Lhasa it would take at least ten days for a special delivery service. I was lucky that my mate Duola asked a driver to bring the tool for me from Lhasa. I thought there should be no more nightmare like this but the nozzle of my brand new multi-fuel stove was broken. The next day I tried everywhere to weld them back together. The first three shops could not do the welding for copper. The fourth one said they could do it but could not guarantee a sUCCess. The engineer said it would be ten Chinese yuans if it was a success. I agreed. Just in seconds, my nozzle became crap in a flash of lightening. I was so upset. Again, Duola helped me by bringing her own MSR oil stove and Dingding's sleeping bag to Nagri. That was already April 16 and I did not have much time to waste. The following day I found a vehicle heading to Jieshan Daban.The sand storm over Yarlung Zangbo RiverA lonely peach tree blossoming in Yarlung Zangbo Grand CanyonNatural hot spring in wild, me singing and drinking (photo by a friend of mine) Day 1(April 20), 16km, Camping 5192mIt was a truck with a full load of iron wastes, arriving in Jieshan Daban at 6'o clock in the morning. It was still night and extremely cold and dark. Driver was not bothered to pop his head out of the driving cab. I climbed up on the top of the iron wastes, taking my bicycle down. In a hurry, I punched my old water bag. Fortunately I had another MSR water bag given by a friend of mine otherwise I would definitely fail without even starting my journey. For the first time for me to set up the brand new tent in strong, cold winds. It would be impossible to do so if the tent was not a whole piece. Extremely cold outside, about -15C, might be lower than that, I put my head into the sleeping bag but was nearly suffocated to death, honestly. The smell of Dingding's sleeping bag was, lol, so extraordinary. I woke up around 11 o'clock. There were still strong winds outside so that I had to use my bodyweight to keep the tent in place. At the time when I just started to cook and eat, four patrolling soldiers approached me. To their surprise someone, in this season, camped in Jieshan Daban. I was so nervous and afraid they were the people to block my journey because I was caught and deported from the desolate land last year. Luckily the four soldiers did not know my destination and were very kind to me. After they left, I immediately packed my stuff and pushed my bike into the depths of the unpopulated area just in case anything unexpected happened.The bike was very heavy due to the provisions and hard to control. There was even a quite small hill that I had to remove my bike panniers to get over it. This really struck me because this happened even the path was still the hardship one at the moment and I could not imagine what I would do once I entered the uncertain, endless wilderness. Until now I had not met anyone, even the nomadic pastoralists. I remembered there were quite a few of them roaming at the edge of the northern Tibetan plateau last year. All of these indicated it was not the good pasture season in such low temperature and strong winds. Around 16km there was a sheep cote, where I passed it last year, east of Lungmu Co. I was exhausted at this point so that I decided to camp in here and to rest my head. After arranging tent everything I went out to look for the wetland discovered by Duola and Liumeng last year. I was determined to find it.There were many hot springs in the wetland which were underground water with a constant temperature. The wetland therefore became an ideal habitat for some fishes and weeds under such harsh weather, which was the very unique land feature of terrain in this over 5200m highland.Perpetual snow in the valley blown to corn shape by strong windsThis wetland was discovered by Duola and Liumeng. The workers at a nearby mine did not know it and I too missed it last yearUnderground water with a constant temperature, an ideal habitat for some fishes and weeds under such icy weather 感谢大伙儿支持和加分,不一一回复了。特别感谢多啦,希望能有机会一起喝酒吃肉。 Day 2 (April 21), 0km, Camping5192mBlustering gale all night, up and down like ocean waves. The next day rather than continuing to travel, I stayed inside the sheep cote, hesitating and pondering over. Indeed, there were so many problems before this journey;I did not have sufficient physical preparation;the load had already reached its limitation; I still coughed a lot;the weather was so extreme and cold. All in all, I did not think this journey was well prepared and I did not have confidence in completing this journey mentally and physically. To do, or not to do, it was the question. Similarly I did not have confidence in my facilities, not knowing whether all of them would work functionally or not. The fact was one of the rivets got broken again and the front rack came loose. In the afternoon, I replaced all the rivets of the panniers with screws I had prepared before. This was an excellent job I had done which gave me no further troubles throughout my whole journey. I also re-adjusted the front rack. However I did not think it would definitely all right because I did not have a tool to do it. When the darkness descended,I made up my mind to continue my journey, which, of course, was not beyond any imagination. Orchid-like weedsSmall springs everywhere, clear and chillyA thin layer of ice covering the fresh spring water The sheep cote, it was the door under the sleeping bag, which was in the same place as last year, everything looked like yesterdayThe wetland at duskLungmu Co at dusk. You could hear the gigantic sound of wind if the picture had a sound Day 3 (April 22), 52.4km, Camping 5145mGot up in the morning, could not put everything into the bags. Without much choice I had to throw away three portions of tsampa, elbow pads, and crampons. Following the road of the lead-zinicmine I found the side path to enter the wilderness, which was on the riverbed and very hard to see. I missed this side path last year so that I had to take a short cut into the wilderness directly then. That was why I had taken extra care to find the side path. The following journey was to get over a big hill, which lay 5275m above sea level and was the highest point of my whole journey. Around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I passed the side path leading to Orba Co and started a journey which was complete strange to me. I ate a piece of pilot breads, which was frozen like rocks so that I had to use my spade to crush it. At 6 o'clock in the evening, I had pushed plus rode my bicycle for about 32 km. I reckoned I should have been able to double this if I did no carry such heavy load. The wind became stronger and stronger. I opened the parasail kits and tested it. The result was far beyond what I expected. With the aid of the strong wind I was just like flying over the wilderness. After 8 o'clock in the evening, I started to observe the water Source and to get ready to camp. Map showed there were successive springs along the path and assembled to puddles. But I had overestimated the water source here in this land and in this season there were endless wilderness inside the valley, where I could not see a single drop of water. As it became darker and darker, I felt a little bit nervous which resulted in three spokes of the parasail broken and became a useless rubbish. Anyway, it helped me to move forward 20km more which benefited me a lot later on. When time approached 9.30 pm, it was almost completely dark. I had to lie my bike on the ground and went on to try to find water on the north side of the valley. This was a wide and flat sandy land, where I could not see any ditches there and further was complete darkness. I returned to get my GPS to look up the contours and found the south part of the valley was closer to a hill so I took the way. Finally I found a piece of ice in a ditch. I smashed about 20litre of ice. The ice was quite shallow scattered with sheep poo. On my way back, my eyes were hurt by strong winds, which got me a couple of days to recover. It was nearly 23 o'clock after I set up the tent. It also took about 40 mins to melt the ice. I was so tired and my appetite was completely spoiled. I then had a little bit of milk. I had never expected thing would go like this, it was so distressing. Streams along the path, ice everywhereThe river flew into Matou Hu, in whose north part there was a satellite lake, a wonderful ice-skating court It took 40mins to melt the ice in midnight Day 4 (April 23), 31km, Camping 5028mA cloudy day with gusts. From now and again, hails chased me from behind. Sunny spell. Heavy sandy land made me have to push my bike. At 3pm, I arrived at Luxing Hu, where there was a house made of clay. This was the last permanent building of my journey. Last year, Duola and Liumeng once lived in this house for three days without meeting anybody. It seemed it was the same but the truck parking in front of the house made me worry about. I went to the sheep cote first to check over, where there were only a few lambs following me everywhere I went later on. This made me feel warm in my heart. I observed farther places using my binoculars but could not see any people or sheeps. After making sure there were no people around I opened the locked door using a screwdriver. The living room was very clean. There were two boxes of beverages on the ground and a string of cured lamb legs hanging over in the interior room. A pot of water was on the top of the stove, lukewarm, which indicated the host must be not far away from his home. I filled up my water bag and left the house. I also put the screws back to the door in order not to leave any trace of my visiting. I then took a spanner from the toolbox of the truck, which gave me great help for the rest of the journey.I left the house as quickly as possible. After last year's experience, the nomadic pastoralists were the last people I wanted to meet. A few hundred meters away from the house, the vehicle traces were fading fast. Even downhill, I had to push rather than to ride because of the heavy loose sand. From the route point of view, only after Luxing Hu it was the real unpopulated land. After many days, I thought of the lamb legs from time to time. It was pity that I then had plenty of provisions and the bike was too heavy to carry anything more. Continue to melt the ice under the morning sunshine, all of the sheep poo had been removed carefullyCamping site, the little hill over there was the place where I got the ice last nightThe house by the Luxing Hu, empty, the last permanent building I saw throughout my journeyDay 5 (April 24), 19.8km, Camping 4951mSet off at 10.30 in the morning, the weather was similar to yesterday. Probably this road was the high plain or somewhere the wind passed so that it was so windy. The average wind speed was degree 6 but could reach degree 9 in the blick of an eye. The road was still full of sand and very heavy to walk on it. My eyes became worse under such harsh weather. About three o'clock in the afternoon, I saw something in my right, looked like antenna. I went closer to see what it was and found out it was an iron tower (the triangulation station). In 1970s, a joint team from Chinese three military regiments entered this area doing research. They have left a lot of triangulation stations and benchmarks, which I had the priviledge to see them today.At dusk, I approached to a spring by the Bungdag Co, which flew into the frozon lake. The sand and soil, brought by the strong wind, scattered on the surface of the ice all over the lake. There were so many cracks around the icey surface of the lake. I geussed it must be caused by the springs under the water rather than by melted ice. In the west of the Bungdag Co was the side path leading to Keriya Pass, where a SUV could reach directly. I had looked out any vehicle Tracks but failed. The cloudy sky started to snow. I set up the tent comfortably because I knew that I was safe having such a sweet spring beside me.Triangulation station erected by scientists from the joint research team on Chang Tang of three military regiments in 1971[size=+0]The gap between water and ice in Bungdag Co, I guessed there must be some springs under the lakeThe storm just above the ground, a chaotic darkness[size=+0]Icy Bungdag Co,one of the four biggest lakes in Northern Tibet, wild ducks flying over this vastness and lonenessSnowing at any time, should not happen so frequently like this in this seasonDay 6 (April 25), 4.3km, Camping 5002mWeathering landforms everywhere around this area. Spongy volcanic rocks could be found easily. I pushed my bike turning around a small hill, seeing a big river, the Yinshui He, flowing from Orba Co into Bungdag Co, which I had been to its upstream last year. It was also a passage for animal migration. The downstream of the river was extremely wide and broad. The thickess of the ice layer could reach one meter with the main stem in the middle course of the river, very deep. There were a few springs along the river, sweet and clear.I only went forward a little bit more than 4km but I had walked more than 20km for finding my way. It was not possible to cross the main stem, let alone the north bank of Bungdad Co. What I could only do was to try to find a shallow place to cross. But the southern area was a even larger piece of wetland and forced the road turn towards west. I spent a couple of hours but failed to find a good point to cross the river. In the afternoon, I decided to follow the edge of the wetland. When I reached the hill foot, the wetland finally disappeared. Around this area, there were clearly volcanic feature of terrain and I even found traces of pasturing and cairns made from volcanic rock.Here was the last pasturing trace I found throughout my journey, I guessed it was a summer pasture area. After this, there was no clear sign of human activities in this vast wilderness. I had been looking for my ways until it was dark. I made up my mind where to go TOMOrrow. The terrain here looked like Yardang landforms, as well as volcanic landforms The Yinshui He river from Orba CoSprings scattered all over the river bank, painted green by lovely algaeThe river was very deep. The mixture of green and amber colour showed the sand and mud carried by the melted iceThick layer of ice, sunken surface caused by strong gustsThe south course of the Yinshui He, countless small streams. To the right was the wetlandLooking for ways in the east, a trace of pasturing and the cairn made from spongy volcanic rocksMy camp, opposite to the hillDay 7 (April 26), 11km, Camping 5009mI moved forward to the direction I found yesterday, turning around the wetland and walking toward east. At 2pm, I was blocked by the zigzag Yinshui He again and I had no choice but to cross it. The river was about 700m wide, covered by ice which appeared very different. The hanging ice, the folding ice, the piling-up ice, the icy puddle, and the sleet were everywhere along the river bank. Having noticed all of these, I reckoned the river would be receding at dusk, which was why there were so many different shapes and forms of ice. I put my slipper on, going into the main stream of the river. I found there were at least three different courses of the river, the thickness of the surface ice varied and the river water reached above my knees. I sighed there would be no way back once I crossed this river. There are many ways in one's life too, you can only take it once and you will no long have the courage to repeat it.I pushed the bike crossing the river. Some of the ice was a bit soft, jamming the tyres so that I had to use my feet to break them first. Some of the ice was a bit thick but with half-melted underneath, sticking the the bike completely, some of the ice was half-water half-ice with a sandy riverbed, which was really hard to pass. I had to remove all of the panniers at the last stage of the crossing. I spent the whole four hours to cross the river, my legs got many bloody cuts. At 6pm, the surface ice was almost disappeared completely, the river level rapidly rising to a chaotic status. I thought if I hesitated a little bit at that time, I could not have the courage to cross this river under such circumstances. The river bank was unimaginably sandy and was quite steep. I had to unloaded the panniers again to reach the top of the bank. By the time of sunset, the weather became exceptionally good. The sunlight from the descending sun, the blue sky, the faint moon, .... I liked such a colorful and peaceful Chang Tang and very much enjoyed my camp and myself bathed in such beautiful colour.The ice like this was very thin and suspended, far away from the main stemHard surface with half-melted underneath, the soft sand at the botton was most scaryThe ice like this could easily jam the wheels, hard to get it outI had to unload the panniersChaotic water and terrible hails turned up in no timeThe Chang Tang at the moment liked it used to be,a mixture of cold and warm tones under the golden setting sun Day 8 (April 27), 14.6km, Camping 5112mLast night, I forgot to bring in the odometer, which was out of order due to the coldness in midnight. Since then I used GPS to check the mileage. The digital thermometer was no longer working. I had to use mercury thermometer to collect data. Night temperatures were basically between –15℃—–20℃ while the temperature inside my tent was about –10℃. The advantage of the integrated tent was that it limited the ventilation so to keep warm inside. However, it got clearly disadvantage of heavy condensation and dew. Every morning, there was plenty of frost inside the tent so that I had to put my hood on First Before fully getting dressed. The winds in Chang Tang finally became consistent with the pattern I had researched the other day no or very tiny wind in the morning, strong wind started after 2pm, and then at around 8pm its strength was reduced again. The accuracy of this prediction was about 80%.The road was very bad today. I walked whole afternoon in an ancient riverbed and it was so difficult that I had to use all of my strengths to move a small step forward and then to stop to breath, slower than a snail. After five hours' struggling, my eyes got wet when I saw the grassy river bank. Finally! The nightmare was over.Cold and clear morningHeavy morning condensation in the interior, a lot of frost to clearSuch dawning sunlight indicated a cloudy day ahead Day 9 (April 28), 18km, 5072mIn the morning I entered a range of sandy roads which were so terrible. The solar panel specially designed for GPS got short circuited. After checking it was found to be the diode got damaged. Luckily I got a replacement. Because the GPS was exclusively supplied by a solar panel so that it was no longer a problem for the power supplement of GPS. In a period of 70 days, I did replace the battery once, which saved me a lot of alkaline batteries. I did have another solar panel of 5.4 W which was used specifically for 7.5V Camera, DV and other digital facilities. Unlike water, I had never been short of power.At 7pm in the evening, I arrived at Pur Co. The surface of this lake was very odd the ice by the river bank rose and the river bank was broken, I reckoned that was due to the strong winds. The ice there was mingled with something yellow, could be the stain of alkali. There were many wild yaks on the other side of the lake. There could be two brown bears but I could not be for certain. On the east side of the lake, there was a peninsula leading to the centre of the lake. I camped just opposite to the peninsula. At night , I smashed the ice to get drinking water, which tasted alkali. For the first time I cooked the cereals, which was brought completely by accident. This was just because I found there was a little bit of extra space when I was in Nagri packing the stuff for this journey so that I bought two packs of cereals. It tasted disgusting, probably there was too much alkali in the water. I threw away half of it. Later I realised that probably I subconsciously felt that the provisions was so heavy. I would rather make it lighter at any cost.Dry all my stuff in the morning sun, a routine matterA faint dusk in Pur CoThe river bank pushed up by ice and opened like zipper by gustsThe pushed up surface of the iceThe place where I got my drinking water, a thin layer of ice behind the ablation corns The moment just before sun set, glittering Pur Co, nothing was the same差点儿没找到俺自己的帖子,原来变色了。多谢各位鼓励。 Day 10 (April 29), 16km, Camping 5141mIn the morning, I walked around the north bank of the Pur Co, where it were continuous ups and downs sprinkled with light yellow sprouts across the sparse grassland. The wild yaks clustered into small groups. All of a sudden, there was a group of five of them running towards me, blowing a huge cloud of dust with the power of thunderbolts,I believed that anyone who did not know the characters of the wild yaks must be frightened to death under such circumstances. The fact was the wild yaks in groups never injured people. Rushing to you just to show you its territory. When they approached people at certain distance, they would turn sharply and run away, and then stopped somewhere high to stare at you. You can not imagine that the wild yaks were very cautious animals compared with its almost one ton of weight. Their first reaction, when meeting people, was to raise their tails, the front hooves rubbing against the ground, the horns pointing forward, the eyes redden, and the long body hair shaking, all of which showed their determination to fight.This was the warning sign that you should retreat. However, you should realise that this was only a gesture that they were afraid of you and wanted to scare you away. The thing was that if you were not afraid of them and moved forward, they would run away in no time. There were only some mad yaks attacking people, which was really rare to happen. In Chang Tang, an experienced driver know that it is very dangerous to pass directly from two or three lonely wild yaks. They always tried to avoid confronting them directly. If this was not possible, they would lit a cigarette, smoking, to wait until the yaks walked away themselves. This was because the wild yaks really could attack vehicles, which was not completely rumors. I once asked them why I had not been attacked. They told me that because my bike was so small they would not be bothered to attack it. My own experience was that approaching a wild yak very slowly, do not look into its eyes, and ignored what it was doing. As long as it moved forward a little bit, just stop and give the yaks a little bit of time to think. Because if you forced the yak, it could be themost dangerous animal in the world and nothing could stop them killing. Even a gunshot could not kill it but only left a small hole in its skin. In the past, the nomads living near this land would use yaks' skin as chopping board which was very much endurable. At noon, I lost my balacLAVA, which was brand new and I had never used it once. I could not be bothered to go back tofind it. This resulted in that I had to have my fleece hat day and night in the rest of my journey, which did not provide fully protection from the sun in the plateau. But somehow I was all right, perhaps because my skin is similar to those of yaks, lol. At around half past one, I found a deserted Jeep, upside down. I felt it could be there for years and it could be the vehicle of someillegal HUNTERs. Nowadays, we have wildlife conservation reserves in Chang Tang and the animals here are well protected. However, some people kills the wild yaks to sell them as the domestic yak's meat. In general, it is worth 10,000 Chinese yuans for a single wild yak. Therefore many people take the risk to make money. They often enter the unpopulated areas to hunt and their activities can reach 200 km in diameter. This is why the wild yaks in the deep wilderness are less afraid of people than thoseat the boundaries of the Chang Tang region.There once happened that a wild yak mother revenged its baby's murder in the Altun mountains. Its horns pierced the killer's chest and held his body over its head for more than ten days, which was very touching.Around 3pm, I walked out of the Pur basin. The next point was Hong Shan Daban and then it was the Yueya Hu by the Toze Gangri. At this time I found a vehicle track from south to north. I checked over but could not find the way where they had gone. I took my map, GPS, and compass, climbing up a small hill to estimate the location of Hong Shan Daban. The mountain was very round and it was hard to find the mountain pass. After determining the location of the Daban, I moved straightforward. When I passed a messy grassland, I saw something that I was reluctant to see more than hundreds of wild yaks' head scattered all over, which was definitely the scene of the illegal hunting. After that it was a very long ancient river bed with soft sand slowly rising until the foot of the mountain.There are some spines on the surface of the tongues of wild yaks, which are used by nomads in this area as combs. They use them from their teens to the time when their hair becomes silver.The deserted Jeep, could be left by illegal hunters years agoThe slaughtered wild yaks with the wheel size heads. Some of the skulls were chopped into half. Why was that? Could be taken away for making combs?My camp at the foot of the Daban underthe lingering golden rays of the setting sun. Tomorrow's weather must be wonderful, I reckoned Day 11(April 30), 20.4km, Camping 5120mThe surface of the road leading to Hong Shan Daban was very hard, most of them were small rocks, sort of gravels, plus a quite long downhill slope, I pushed my bike more than 20km for the first time after Luxing Hu. The mountain pass was quite flat, just like a broad ridge, it was 5256m above the sea level. Upon arriving at the pass, Toze Gangri of 6356m was in my sight clearly, very much round and there was no back bone like normal snow covered mountains. Most of the snow mountains in Chang Tang looked like this probably it was due to the geological movements. There were quite a few chirus or Tibetan antelopes in the valley but I was not interested in this kind of animals anymore after I witnessed a large scale of migration of such animals last year elsewhere.The herbivorous animals here are very quick to reach its original size of the population, such as wild yaks, chirus, Tibetan gazelle, pika, and marmot. When you go into the depths of the Chang Tang, you could hardly be surpised by the sudden appearance of the chirus because they are so common in here. At this time of year, the chirus have already male-female parted. You could see many pregnant female chirus but hardly see any males. According to recent research, Zonag Co is not the only lake for breeding. There are at least four of them in the whole Chang Tang. Zonag Co, Tuzi Hu, Heishi Beihu, and another lake I can not remember. I think there must be more than four of them and most of the populations do not migrant long way like most people used to think. They generally migrant from south to north between Central Mountains and Kunlun Mountains.The chirus looks very timid but are very curious about outside world. They are not really afraid of people, particularly in the depth of the Chang Tang. The nearest distance we can approach is about 30m. They just stare at you calmly and think who you are and why you move so slow. They would run in front of you. Look like they are afraid of you but the fact is they are playing with you. A man's own character shapes his fortune. This is of course suit for animals too. The chirus are the typical one. They have a super speed and a pair of sharp antlers. If they are crazy, three of them work together could easily kill a wolf. But as you might have known, their antlers are just for fighting to mate with females.Down the Daban there was a very steep and straight road, I tried to ride the bicycle but ended up with falling over. The front rack came loose and one of the pannier flew into valley. The foot of the mountain was the Yueya Hu covered by ice, which was alake full of heavy metal elements. Along the lake bank there were many stark rocks very much weathered, lining up just like castles or houses. This made me stop to investigate what they were from time to time, I did understand they were just rocks though but they were so real like the figures of real people. On of them even made me hide in a ditch, observing them again and again using my binoculars. There were also many black volcanic rocks. All in all, the features of this area were really unusual.Passed over the Yueya Hu, it was an endless ancient lake bed. What my GPS showed was this area was a big lake like tentacles. I looked around, it was endless wilderness without a piece of ice and a drop of water. Roughly, I estimated this lake bed was about 1200 square meters. I had to tell you that Chang Tang was a place where there was no high-resolution map. The marks in the map often were some kind of memory. Just like this ancient lake bed under my feet, may be it was full of water a few years ago. Who knows. Pushing the bike in such an endless lake bed was very easy to get lost. My mind was in a chaotic status too.The migration of the animals, photo taken last year The road rising up to the Daban, full of gravels, very hard, ideal for pushing your bikeThe Yueya Hu gazed at by the round and smooth Toze Gangri. At a glimpse, could you tell which was mountain, which was cloud?Ancient lake bed. The white stains were the alkali, look like ice. About wildlife (part 1)Declaration Personal experience for reference onlyDangerous wild animals and their threats to human beings are a ever-LASTING subject for those backpackers travelling in the wild.In Chang Tang, for example, there are two kinds of deadly animals, one is wolves and the other is brawn bears. As substitutes, wild yaks and crows might be dangerous to you in some circumstances that I will come back to this a little bit later on. As for how to protect yourself against these dangerous animals, I think the primary point is you do not try to hurt them because the emotions of human and animals are same instinctively. [Wolves]Throughout my journey, I met wolves a total of seven times, in which I confronted them five times. As you might have known that wolves have become more and more solitary animals, it is very rare they live in a large group nowadays. Please allow me off the point a little bit and talk about the ecological problems in Chang Tang. The problem is now not the decrease of the number of the chirus but the imbalance of the whole food chain, more specifically, the number of the animals on the higher trophic levels of the food chain has not yet reached its ideal level which results in this kind of imbalance. Particularly, the pikas and the marmots who have lost their predators rapidly expanse which results in the desertification of Chang Tang. As early as the middle of last century, wolves were the dominant predators in the vast wilderness. They became a threat not only to other preys but also nomads pasturing in this land. Therefore, the then government called on people to cull back the population of the wolves in Chang Tang, which resulted in the current situation directly. The last official record about wolves attacking humans was around 1970s, which happened in Bamaoqiongzong. A team of secientists was surrounded by a group of wolves and they had to shoot them using guns. Of course, at present in Chang Tang, wolves are absolutely lonely.In this traverse, the first time I encountered a pair of wolves, one of them staying in front of me pretending to attack me while the other staying behind me. This is the standard attacking strategy of wolves. First, you should not be nervous which can be easily detected by the predators. Second, you should not retreat even an inch because this means you are the prey rather than the predator. Do not make any large movement, of course you could take a picture if you feel safe to do so. You must look into its eyes for a few minutes or even half an hour. When the wolves can not work out who you are and consider you are not posing any danger to them, then they will leave. You should remember that wolves in this land do not lack of food and it is much easy for them to catch a pika than a human. Even if being hungry, they would evaluate how easy to get you done, What you need to do is to show them that you are not interested in them and you are not afraid of them at all, let alone to show your ID card to them. As for the wolves family, really, I have not heard for ages. If you really have an encounter with them and they have no other choice, then it definitely depends on your forture. In fact, for so many year, it has been very rare to happen that wolves kill human. But the rumours are still there, in particular, the road connecting Xinjiang and Tibet.The nearest encounter with a wolf throughout my journey, no conflict at all[Brown Bears]Brown bears are real dangerous animals to human. Every year there are some accidents happened in some regions of Xinjiang on the north side of Kunkun Mountains and steppes in Northern Tibet. More than that the bears could attack your house, smash your windows, and eat your sheep. Therefore, in Northern Tibet some local councils give subsidies to the pastorarists for compensating the losses due to the bears because they are not allow to fight back and kill the bears except their lives are in great danger. Once there was a nomad taught me a method to protect yourself from bears. He told me to pick up a stick to feed the bear and the bear thinks the stick is your hand which tastes disgusting. So the bear would leave. It was so funny but the reality is to find a stick in this vast wilderness is just like you win the lottery.Bears are omonivorous animal who are generally not interested in human flesh. You can find that in most of accidents, the bears did not eat any of the human flesh rather they just smashed them for kind of fun that we could not understand. For the reason why bears kill human, one explanation is the conflict between human and wildlife in this extreme ecological environment. The nomads invade the habitats of the bears, which results in these conflicts. On the other hand, it might be because bears have quite high IQ so that they think it is much easy to kill a sheep in the cote rather than to kill a pika in the wild.I have met bears five times in my traverse, in two cases we were very close to each other. I had even walked with one of them for quite a while, just like we had a date for a walk. The fact is it is not that terrible like you might imagine. The same rules for dealing with wolves apply to bears. Never provoke dangerous animals. A bear can run at a speed of 40km/h, do you think you can compete this in a highland 5,000m above sea level?However, there is a situation where it is really dangerous, that is the encounter. It is not easy to control your instinctive reaction to the external dangers. Last year once I turned around a hill, there was a bear just in front of me. The bear of course was frightened by me with its front legs holding up, waving in the air and roaring. At that time I sat on the ground, ignoring it. The bear then left in a few minutes. Chang Tang is a vast land so that this is not that easy to happen. But if it does happen, really only God can bless you.The nearest encounter with a bear throughout my journey. This bear disappeared in a herd of wild yaks, which I had tried hard to spot, really weird About wildlife (part 2)Declaration personal experience for reference only.[Wild Yaks]I have talked about quite a few, like in the post of Day10. I will no longer talk about it.This was the funniest encounter with a solitary wild yak, who did not warn me. If I sat down, it sat down too. If I moved forward, it stopped. Could not imagine what it was thinking about.[Crows]Crows are dangerous only when you fall unconscious in the wilderness. Of course they will be the first to taste your flesh in that case. Unlike their cousinsliving in urban areas, the crows in Chang Tang have a larger body like eagles. When they fly over your head, you could feel like it is a piece of cloud. They are scavengers but like fresh meat too. It once happened that a baby was killed by crows relentlessly, let alone the lambs got killed by them. Once a nomad asked me for fireworks to scare the crows away. (They are sacred birds not to be killed by human)It is easy to defend yourself against crows, that is to keep fighting, never fall in the wilderness.A short break attracted the crows. Of course, they were miscalculating this time, photo taken last year[Strategies Adopted]At the time when I met the four soldiers in Jieshan Daban, they said there were many dangerous animals in the Northern Tibet and asked me if I had brought a shotgun. I think if they knew that I would enter Chang Tang they would definitely check if I really have a shotgun. The so-called defence facilities I brought with me were the fireworks and pepper spray. I had never used them. The fireworks were ruined and thrown away when I crossed a river and I had never opened the pepper spray. I even had never thought about this when camping in the night. The reason was I did not feel the needs. During the day time whenever I met any animals I had never touched the knife I had brought. I did not have anything to defend myself when I walked out to investigate the route. The Chang Tang is really a vast area so as to be very easy to detect anything strange.By the way, you'd better to avoid mating season's animals because even tamed rabbits could be aggressive in mating season.The thing is even if you have a gun, it is not very much helpful when bears attack you. Therefore, your attitude is most important.I can tell you something. Dogs are more dangerous than these wild animals. I had been chased by Tibetan dogs, pounced on by dogs in mating season, also besieged by a group of dogs. I really feel it is more useful to know how to defend a dog.Declaration again The above experience is from Chang Tang only. Of course, the more you prepared, the better. Day 12 (May 1), 23.8km, Camping 5117mToday was May 1 -- the Labour Day, I had been walking in some lake area marked in the map but clearly dried up. The lake basin was flat and hard so that I even pushed my bike more than 20km. Let it be the special treat for my May Day. After midday it became cloudy with growing winds. Since the Yueya Hu that I passed yesterday, there were no big lakes until Yanghu Co (My route would be between Jianshui Hu and Bairab Co), there was even no light alkaline water to drink so I had to pay extra attention not to miss any possible drinking water supply to fill up my water bag. There were a few very small lakes but all were alkaline puddles which was very shallow, whose depth was no more than the length of a half-finger. These puddles were covered with a hard shell of the mixture of salt and ice which smelled stinking and decaying when getting closer, must be toxic water I supposed. On the shore of this type of small lakes it was muddy soil and very hard to get closer.There was no sign of tundra at all.It was almost half past six when I found some snow corns in a ditch, which was the only drinking water supply of the day. There was a thin layer of melted ice on the surface of the ground near the snow corn, which was very hard to collect and was contaminated by the alkali. The snow corn was the yet melted thick snow, which was shaped like a corn by wind. The snow was quite hard and dry,porous like ice. I crushed a few snow corns, putting them into the water bag.They would be my drinking water tonight. These snow corns were the only one in today's wilderness, I reckoned the reason why they were not melted like others was the soil underneath contained large amount of ice blocks which acted as a freezer.Very strong gale in the night, it was hard to bear the sound of the vibration of the tent. Small single tent was good in the sense that it would not be blown away as long as you stayed inside. But you had to be very careful to set up the tent. I once did not pay much attention when doing so, the tent was blown away by winds, and rolling over like a Giant lantern ... I ran after it, got it back, and was exhausted. In general, it is not possible to fix the tent completely using tent pegs because they were not very much effective like large tents. It was snowing around 23 o'clock, the winds were howling from north,then the falling snow flakes landed on my tent quietly, I finally felt at peace and fell asleep. The flat ancient lake basin, assisting me walking more than 20kmSmall lake en route, toxic waterSnow corns, the only drinking water supply today Day 13 (May 2), 0km, Camping 5117mWaking up in the morning and opening the tent, the heavy snow outside must be sent by the God to force me have a break for the May Day. After lying in for a while, getting up and walking on the snowy ground out I went to have a look around. As first sight there were a herd of chirus. They were plainly to be spotted because they looked like a clear black straight line in the while snow. I returned to get my camera and then followed them to take some pictures. But they were very much alert and kept a quite long distance from me. I felt they were a group of pregnant females, instinctively protecting themselves from any potential harm. I was no longer short of water, the snow gave me a precious supply of drinking water. The problem was that they were very petrol consuming. I tool 8.6 litre of petrol and the oil stove was Duola's MSR. The pot was of 1.5 litre, mainly for boiling water. After several days' experiments, I found that the liquid water needed 16mins and 14-15mins to boil in the morning and evening, respectively. For ice, it would take 35-40mins while for snow it took 45-50mins. Melting snow was a very time and petrol consuming process so if I had a choice between snow and light alkaline water, most of time I would go with the latter. Lying inside the tent, listening to musics,I smoked a cigarette while gazing at the more and more chirus around me. Because it was very cold I had been wearing my shoes all the time. Now I just put my bare feet under the warm sun for some fresh air. I found three cuts in my hands and one in my sole. The cuts were about 4cm in length, looked terrible but it was actually all right really. Half of my toes were injured by to much walking, quite painful. I fetched my medicine bag and found I only got four patches of plasters, a serious mistake. One of the cuts in my hand had never been cured until I was out of this desolate land so as to feel like this finger would drop from my hand at any time. The others quickly recovered in a few days then new cuts appeared elsewhere. This process occurred periodically. I felt that it was somewhat related to the cold, dry weather and the lack of vitamins. The snow rapidly disappeared, which is unique phenomenon in Chang Tang. Because of the low air humidity and the high radiation from the sun, the snow was evaporating very fast, much quicker than the melting speed. Owing to this, the ground was generally still dry after the snow disappeared. In most cases, it would be only 2/5 left in the afternoon around 2 to 3 o'clock and small patches of ground could be seen. It would be completely all right for walking the next day. On the third day there could be some snow left in somewhere the sunlight hard to reach. So generally it could give you three days of water supply after a heavy snow like this. One of the pannier was broken, the most expensive one from deuter series, supposed to be waterproof. I will come back to it at some point later. Everything was covered by snow, no way out Lying in the middle of Chang Tang, listening to Tian Zhen's songs, and smoking Baisha cigarettes, what else can you ask for? The pregnant female chirus in migration, probably heading to Heishi Beihu to give b
2013年春节,准备去越南柬埔寨看看。 原计划是从南宁陆路进越南,由北往南穿越越南到柬埔寨吴哥窟后回国。 做好计划开始买飞机票时发现,从柬埔寨暹粒回国的机票比较贵,从国内去胡志明的机票倒是比较便宜。 这次去柬埔寨主要就是去看那世界七大奇迹的吴哥窟,去寻找高棉的微笑,这是不能略去的。 于是就有了直飞胡志明市,由胡志明市去柬埔寨暹粒,再回到胡志明市,再一路北下,经过美奈,大叻,牙庄,惠安,顺化,河内,下龙湾回国的路线。 虽然去柬埔寨走了个回头路,但从节约自己并不充分的资金上来看,还是个不错的选择。 废话不多说,直接看图说话,虽然照片质量不好,但以量取胜吧。 一千多张照片记录了全程,并附有路线攻略。 春节前,赶上越南证涨价,我们是两次入境越南,需要一月两次入境,两本证花了1140元。 福州飞上海再飞胡志明市两人机票包括税费2850元。 因为我们的飞机是凌晨到达胡志明市,在国内预定了宾馆,2晚总计30刀,加接机14刀。 带了1300刀,剩余290刀。两个人总花费约10566元。 飞机正点到达胡志明市已经是凌晨1点了。 出关很顺利。 走出机场就看到有人举着我们名字的大牌子。 如果不是这么晚到达,根本不需要订酒店和接机,机场有大巴去市内。 在BOOKING订的房间总是不能让人满意,(但又能去哪里订纳?), 只有一个优点是提供早餐。 住在范五老街的小胡同里,走出胡同口就看见The SinhTourist的招牌。这个小帅哥是店里唯一会汉语的人。要不然,真不知道只会几个英语单词的半大老人怎么搞定买很多班次的汽车票。在The SinhTourist买了明天由胡志明市去柬埔寨暹粒的车票。本想买好回来时由胡志明市去河内的OPENBUS全程票。由于赶上了越南的春运。虽然现在是提前了一星期买票,但只有胡志明--美奈--大叻这一段路程有车票。而且只剩余4张票,赶紧掏钱把这一段的票先买了。其实在范五老街有很多家公司经营OPENBUS。我们从The SinhTourist出来,走了不到50米,看到一家公司卖OPENBUS票。可是售票员不会汉语,我们又不懂英语。正在对牛弹琴时,一位新加坡人也来买票,帮助我们买好了后半程的车票,而且还是全程卧铺车票。显然,这段路程的车票已经涨价。现在想想,The SinhTourist不是没有票,他是在等涨价再卖。涨点钱能买到票就好。我们后来遇到很多人买不到车票,从而打乱了整个旅游计划。我们避开了国内的春运,来到越南却赶上了越南的春运。看来,春节期间也要避开越南旅游了。这家公司的马路对面有换汇的,汇率比市中心区的金店低点。换了点越南盾去吃午饭,就在大街边上的小店。价格一点也不比国内便宜,越南人做生意是一致对外,内外有别。范五老街志性建筑。旅店有简易地图。范五老街距胡志明市的景点并不是很远,我们也想走路沿线看看。来前就听说越南的水果鲜榨汁很好喝,路边看到一家,结果是大失所望。晚上回来在小胡同的另一出口处,有一家现做现卖,有很多人坐在小板凳上等待,那个才是好喝。街边小公园街景在繁华的大街中央广场,有一尊骑马铜像,是越南的民族英雄陈元汉。他昭示世人,越南人民是不会忘记历史的。说到越南的历史,是离不开中国的。秦朝时,秦始皇派军队征服了越南北部,中国的版图扩大到越南。公元10世纪,五代十国时,交趾叛乱。爱州(今越南清化)牙将吴权在海门镇打败汉军,次年称王。968年越南丁朝建立,安南最终建立了国家,但一千多年来一直作为中国的属国或藩属国。19世纪后期,法国对越南进行殖民侵略,清朝派兵抵抗,冯子材和刘永福、黑旗军等参战。1885年,清政府与法国订《中法新约》,被迫承认越南独立。从此,越南彻底从中国版图独立,并沦为法国殖民地。1945年第二次世界大战结束前后,胡志明在越南北方的河内宣布独立。而南方还处在受法国殖民保护的保大皇帝管辖之下。1954年7月21,署《日内瓦协议》。《日内瓦协议》规定,越南以北纬17度为界,南北分治,北方由胡志明领导,南方由保大皇帝统治。1955年7月17日,美国撕毁了《日内瓦协议》,取代法国在越南南方的地位,设定了所谓的越南共和国。吴庭艳发动政变,废黜保大皇帝,自己当了总统,建立南越南共和国,首都为西贡。自此,越南南方沦为美国新殖民主义的殖民地。1961年,越南战争爆发,美国与韩国、菲律宾、泰国、澳大利亚、新西兰等国组成联军,介入了这场战争。中国出动军方和大量民力、免费物质,支持越南,援越抗美。1973年1月27日《巴黎协定》订,美国承认越南民主共和国在国际上的法律地位,退出越南战争。同年3月从越南南方撤出全部军队及其同盟者军队和军事人员。1975年5月,胡志明领导的越盟(即后来的越南劳动党)击败了吴庭艳政府。1976年7月,越南南北实现统一,定国名为越南社会主义共和国,首都为河内。为了纪念胡志明的伟业,将前南方首府西贡改名为胡志明市。陈元汉铜像前方是滨城市场,是胡志明市最大的市场。里面各类生活旅游纪念用品齐全。还有各类越南小吃。越南曾经沦为法殖民地,法式烙印无处不在,从早点的法棍到街边的咖啡店让人以为身处欧洲某小镇。中国元素也无处不在,从门面上的汉字到理发小作坊。刮胡子捏背与国内一样舒坦。无论大街小巷,摩托都是绝对的主力。原来以为越南是个穷国。现在已经颠覆了以前的认识。越南国家是不富,但人民却不穷。不像天国,国家富人民穷。到总统府已经快4点了,拍了张照片没进去。门前有妹妹执勤,很乐意与我合影。合影后还到没有路灯的马路上将往来车辆叫停,让我们轻松过马路。胡志明市路边有很多这样大的公园,供市民在公园里休闲歇息。从总统府走到红教堂只有几分钟的路程。圣母大教堂是法国人于1883年建成,据说建造教堂的红砖全部是从法国运来,是仿照巴黎圣母院钟楼的设计建造的。教堂不收门票,但只对游客开放前面一小部分。站在教堂的入口处,看那高大的穹顶和花窗,配上庄严肃穆的神像,显得庄重又有气势。从教堂前方看,两座40米高的白色钟塔直冲云霄。门前伫立着一座重达4吨的圣母玛丽亚雕像,红色基座白色雕像与身后的红教堂相配的极为融洽。红教堂的旁边是百年邮政局。从外表看是一幢普通的欧式建筑。但里面穹顶设计源自伦敦水晶宫的大玻璃屋顶。漂亮的地砖,红色电话亭,手绘的西贡地图和墙上巨幅胡志明画像勾勒出一幅豪华又安详的画面。我也不能免俗,在这豪华又古老的邮局里寄出一张写给自己的明信片。走出邮局,四周景色。红教堂正对着的路是胡志明市最繁华的一条路。路口街头的宣传画,好像又回到40年前的中国。中国统治了越南上千年,越南的很多民俗与中国一样。传统节日主要有春节、清明、端午、中秋、重阳等。现在春节快到了,路上张灯结彩,很有过年的气氛。也不乏高档商场,大牌云集。进百盛商场看看,世界各地的大牌都能在这里看到。二楼还有吃饭的地方。PHO24米粉连锁店在越南很有名气,但我不喜欢吃米粉,没尝试。走过百盛就是歌剧院,歌剧院的建筑风格是最具法属时期的建筑。([]
“徒手骑行206天” 中国拉萨出发,独自骑行穿过中亚、中东、东欧、南欧,到达埃及开罗A.前言:为了一个最初的梦想“在年轻的时候,希望有一个机会,可以去外面的世界走走、看看,并且做到‘让心灵去旅行’,如果有一天在路上累了,就回国、回家”。阿康选择27岁出去旅行,认为生活不仅仅是为了金钱和物质而奋斗,应该是花更多的时间为追寻自己的梦想与心灵的成长而努力,而奋斗。B.旅行时间:2012年5月24日,从中国长沙旅行出发,乘坐火车到达成都,然后直飞拉萨。2012年6月5日,从中国拉萨骑行出发,7月8日,国外独自一个人骑行开始, 12月27日,土耳其伊斯坦布尔,整个206天骑行结束(将近7个月)。2013年1月02日从土耳其伊斯坦布尔直飞埃及开罗。2013年1月09日从埃及开罗直飞中国广州,下午又活着回到中国长沙,整个231天旅行结束(将近8个月)。C.旅行线路:中国长沙(开始旅行)→成都→拉萨(开始骑行)→珠峰大本营→阿里地区巴嘎乡→ 新疆喀什→ 塔吉克斯坦→乌兹别克斯坦→土库曼斯坦→伊朗→阿塞拜疆→第一次格鲁吉亚→亚美尼亚→第二次格鲁吉亚→土耳其伊斯坦布尔(骑行结束)→埃及开罗→中国广州→长沙(旅行结束),详见旅行线路图。阿康为了自己的梦想一路上都在坚持,从没有放弃过,他将持续分享自己一路骑行的故事及景色。a.旅行线路图b.骑行前进的一路上c.从中国拉萨骑行出发图片:A.旅行线路图;B.骑行一路上的图片;C.从中国拉萨开始骑行出发。图片:A.旅游线路图;B.骑行一路上的图片;C.从中国拉萨骑行出发。A.旅行线路图B.一路骑行前进的图片; A.中国一个没有准备、没有骑行经历、没有出国经历骑行在这条路上、并且一路写下骑行微博日记的小伙。 从骑行出发到骑行结束: 骑行天数:0到206天;骑行距离:0到11600公里; 穿过国家:0到8个国家;微博日记:0到170000字;B.中国一个敢于这样骑行,并且一路都坚持在骑行前进的路上,经过重重困难,实现自己的梦想,并且最终到达目的地埃及开罗的小伙。 在短短206天的骑行途中经历:6次生死时刻;6次产生害怕;13次可能中止骑行前进;287次借宿。C.要想成为一个合格的骑自行车旅行的人,就不应该选择搭乘汽车到达目的地,要学会独自承受一路上的痛苦和困难,要学会独自去承担那份辛酸与苦辣。 阿康是一名来自中国的骑行者。阿康在骑行前进的一路上:“选择不曾后悔,永不放弃最初的选择”。 A.一路上最初从中国拉萨骑行出发有5个人,到达珠峰大本营后,变成为3个人,到达西藏阿里地区狮泉河镇变成为2个人,从中国喀什出境,到达国外塔吉克斯坦杜尚别变成为阿康一个人,阿康虽然没有准备,也没有地图、书籍、攻略、电脑等。但是他告诉自己:“这样机会可能一辈子只有一次,错过将永远不会再次拥有”,他为了自己梦想,选择了坚持。他把生命放在旁边,独自开始他惊险刺激的国外之旅,也可以叫国外的一次冒险之旅,因为对于阿康来说:“每天每时每刻都是崭新的开始,他对前面是一无所知”。B.在路上的风景,一路上很多的景色都是可遇不可求。C.在骑行前进的路上 阿康旅行的开始,骑行开始,一路都在为了自己梦想坚持,他在路上最终实现了自己的梦想,并且骑行的时间为206天(将近7个月)。2012年5月24日,阿康携带着简单的行李装备(因为老蔡对他说:“你什么都不用携带,就是携带一些简单的换洗衣服即可,很多东西我都已经准备好”)从中国长沙出发,准备开始旅行,阿康选择27岁去实现自己的梦想:“在年轻的时候,希望有一个机会,可以去外面的世界走走、看看,并且做到‘让心灵去旅行’,如果有一天在路上累了,就回国、回家”。他乘坐火车去往成都,于5月28日直飞拉萨。5月31日阿康直接在中国拉萨购买一辆自行车及骑行需要的必备装备,就决定跟随着老蔡一起骑着自行车去旅行,但是阿康从没有长途骑行经历、从没有提前做好接下来骑行的功课、也没有随身携带电脑、地图、书籍、攻略等相关的东西。2012年6月5日,阿康从中国拉萨骑行出发,骑行微博日记也跟随着他骑行前进的步伐开始,一路骑行经历珠峰大本营(A.直接选择高海拔线路骑行;B.坚持,一再坚持,还在坚持“九天时间内,独自骑行完五座大山的上坡路段”)、阿里地区巴嘎乡(D.自己选择的路,跪着也要走完“连续四天的时间,在无人区骑行”;G.精彩世界,需要自己去体验)、阿里地区噶尔县(A.围绕冈仁波钦神山转一圈;C.为什么这么说呀“可能国外独自骑行,老蔡与阿峰‘鼓励’他的话语”)、新疆喀什(A.没有准确的信息,直飞;B.艰难的选择“是后退,还是前进”)。7月7日,在新疆的喀什,老蔡突然对阿康说:“接下来,你一个人单独骑行国外,我就不带着你一起继续骑行国外。”最初阿康选择出来旅行,就是老蔡说:“是带着他一起骑行前进,到达目的地”,他才敢选择出来旅行,因为老蔡是选择骑行,他也跟随着选择骑行,中途(6月29日)老蔡又对阿康说:“变成为只带着他骑行一个国家”,可是现在变成为他一个人单独骑行前进。阿康非常的吃惊对老蔡说:“我从来都没有出过国;也从来都没有在国外长途骑行过;出国前什么都没有准备(旅行前的功课、电脑、地图、书籍、攻略等);出国前不会说英语俄语(只知道基本英语单词、俄语从来都没有接触过),中途不是说好,带着我骑行一个国家吗?”这时老蔡接着对他说:“你一个人独自骑行国外,我相信你应该是可以的,也是可以到达你自己设定的目的地。”(在中国境内骑行前进的一路上:1.因为身体原因骑行岗巴拉山的上坡路段,选择他人帮助骑行前进6KM;2.因为身体原因从珠峰大本营返回到G318,搭乘汽车距离102KM;3.因为塔吉克斯坦证时间有限,从阿里地区巴嘎乡搭乘汽车到达新疆喀什距离1320KM;4.听驴友说塔吉克斯坦首都杜尚别不能延的原因,从新疆喀什搭乘飞机飞往塔吉克斯坦首都杜尚别,距离3300KM,其他将近1500KM全部骑行前进。) 2012年7月8日,阿康入境塔吉克斯坦杜尚别,他从中国拉萨骑行出发5个人(阿康、老蔡、阿峰、食神、木木),到达珠峰大本营变成为3个人(阿康、老蔡、阿峰),到达阿里地区噶尔县变成为2个人(阿康、老蔡),到达塔吉克斯坦杜尚别变成为1个人(阿康),变成为单独骑行前进,并且经过在中国境内的喀什、乌鲁木齐机场的两次行李简化,从而也进一步变成出国前极其简单的骑行装备(一辆自行车、四条备胎、一瓶链条油、一套补胎套件、一个打气筒、一套露营装备、两副备用刹车、两条刹车线、一条备用档位线,他就准备开始独自骑行国外,接下来应该不叫骑行国外之旅,完全可以叫国外的一次冒险之旅。阿康一路骑行经历塔吉克斯坦(A,争取最后的一次机会;无依无靠“第一次产生害怕的感觉”;D.忘掉曾经一次次的伤痛,此时只有感谢与感恩“老蔡钱包丢失,寻求阿康的帮助”;E.一等,再等,还在等“等待乌兹别克斯坦的邀请函”;J.银行借记卡,失而复得)、8月16日,从塔吉克斯坦杜尚别出发,一路骑行经历乌兹别克斯坦(D.连续二次惊险借宿,差点死于非命;F.身边所发生的事情,得到的五种感受;G.精彩的四次搭乘顺风车;H.阿康是一名来自中国的骑行者)、土库曼斯坦(A.挑战自己快速骑行能力“4天骑行前进680公里”)、伊朗(C.夜间骑行,摔倒在公路上;D.这是在拿命在拼呀?拿命在骑行前进呀?“第一次骑行黑暗公路隧道;E.为什么会这样呀?“帮助阿康骑行黑暗公路隧道的汽车都一一开走”;H.挑战自己5天不用钱怎么生存?“挑战野外生存能力”;J.在警察局,警察准备拿抢出来,不允许阿康走)阿塞拜疆(A.深深感动,一直在流泪“生日当天,好兄弟通过微博传递祝福语”;E.再次拒绝,心灵破碎“连续5天借宿都被拒绝”);第一次入境格鲁吉亚(D.漂浮的心-短暂放下,身体状态-短暂恢复)、亚美尼亚(C.强壮的身体,是他生命安全的最后一道保障“晚上睡觉全身出汗”;E.骑行(骑自行车旅行)的含义)、第二次入境格鲁吉(A.行善事“不分大小、不分贵贱、不分人兽”;D.差点掉到悬崖;F.不想再继续骑行前进“再次摔倒在公路上”)、土耳其(A.e.是前进,还是放弃?“挑战自己4天单手骑行前进440公里”;A.f.差点就拿生命开一次玩笑;B.a.不走,是因为不敢走“说服路边唯一的一栋住房”;B.f.身体状况极差,外界环境恶劣;B.g.第一次选择后退去借宿;B.j.人未变,心已变;C.f.要么成功、要么失败、要么危及生命“艰难的最后一次借宿”;C.h.阿康已经尽力,以后就靠你们),阿康于12月24日骑行到达土耳其的伊斯坦布尔。(并且在其他8个国家骑行前进的一路上:1.因为边境警察不让继续骑行前进的土库曼斯坦,搭乘汽车去往伊朗边境的最后25KM;2.在伊朗骑行的一个晚上,发现继续前进有生命危险,选择搭乘汽车的45KM;3.在第二次入境格鲁吉亚骑行时下大雨,选择搭乘汽车的3KM;4.因为在土耳其伊兹密尔感觉身体状态急剧下滑,选择放弃继续骑行前进,从土耳其伊兹密尔搭乘汽车到达伊斯坦布尔,距离400KM,其他将近10100KM全部骑行前进。) 2012年12月27日,自行车被永远“留在”在土耳其的伊斯坦布尔,即整个骑行之旅结束。此次长途骑行之旅,阿康骑行前进的距离超过11600公里,在骑行前进的路上:A.成功完成3次挑战自己,“4天骑行680公里穿过土库曼斯坦”、“五天不用钱怎么生存?”、“4天单手骑行440公里”;B.实现自己的梦想“出来走走、看看”,并且也做到“人未变,心已变”;C.他已经尽自己最大的能力“想让更多的人知道,阿康是一名来自中国的骑行者”。整个骑行时间被永远定格在206天(将近7个月),骑行微博日记也被永远定格在回忆D206天。 谁说:“阿康是不能到达埃及开罗,他一路千辛万苦,最终还是到达骑行的目的地”。用血与泪,谱写着整个“徒手骑行206天”的历程。2013年1月2日,他从土耳其伊斯坦布尔直飞埃及开罗,到达最初在路上设定的骑行目的地。 1月5日阿康也把整个206天的骑行微博日记写完,但是他出国前从来都不写日记,也几乎从来不使用任何即时通信,并除中国外其他9个国家都是使用酒店和餐厅的WIFI,他却仅仅用手机写完一份206天长达17万字的骑行微博日记,即他的整个骑行微博日记结束。2013年1月8日,他从埃及开罗直飞中国广州,即将结束整个这次长途旅行。结束的原因:A.阿康想中国,他离开最喜欢的国家中国已经长达7个月的时间,难道他不想念它吗?每当自己在国外得到咱们中国人的帮助;每当自己在国外遇到来自咱们中国的驴友;每当自己在国外受到欺负时,他都是非常想念中国,中国是一个生他养他的地方,不管国外的景色再漂亮、人民再友善、自己的生活过得再精彩,但中国才是他真正的家园,才是他最温暖的家园,他永远都是炎黄子孙的儿子,他永远都是一名来自中国的中国人;B.阿康想亲朋好友,他离开最难以忘记的亲朋好友已经长达8个月的时间,难道他不想念他(她)们吗?每当一个人在外骑行前进;每当一个人去景点参观;每当一个人在餐厅用餐;每当做什么事情都是一个人时,他是非常想念亲朋好友,曾经与他(她)们在一起开心、快乐、相随相伴的岁月,时时刻刻都在想念着他(她)们,因为他觉得与他(她)们在一起自己的生活过得更加愉快、更加充实、更有意义。C.阿康想爸妈,他离开最亲爱的爸妈已经长达9个月的时间,难道他不想念他们吗?每当自己经历过一次生死时刻,他都觉得如果就这样死去,最对不起的就是最亲爱的爸妈!每当过节,他都是一个人偷偷躲在房间里面哭呀!每当看到借宿给他的一家人,欢聚在一起,他还是一个人偷偷躲在墙角哭呀!他是非常想念爸妈,时时刻刻都在想念着他们,因为他们永远都是阿康最爱的人,他们对于我们什么都不求,只求在外的我们过得平安、健康、快乐,只求在外的我们能平安回到家,因为他们会在家,一直在等我们回家。经过此次长途骑行后,对于他来说,骑行固然重要,但是亲情、友情、爱情更加重要。并且他不是一个专业的骑手,他仅仅是一名非常普通选择骑自行车旅行的新人。2013年1月9日,下午阿康终于活着回到中国长沙,意味着:“他27岁的长途旅行结束”。一共花费时间是231天(将近8个月),回来后,送给他自己的一句话:“选择不曾后悔,永不放弃最初的选择”。阿康在骑行前进的路上,第一次骑行,选择从拉萨到达珠峰大本营,一路都没有掉队。 目录1. 中国西藏拉萨 — 珠峰大本营:A.直接选择高海拔线路骑行;B.坚持,一再坚持,还在坚持;C.一名合格骑自行车旅行的人;D.与队友们的合影;E.到达第一个目的地;F.阿康没有掉队;2. 珠峰大本营 — 阿里地区巴嘎乡:A.最终的目的地;B.没有准备,就必须等待;C.踏上G219,一天就经历三重考验;D.自己选择的路,跪着也要把它走完;E.尽量选择借宿吧;F.到达第二个目的地;G.精彩世界,需要自己去体验;3. 阿里地区巴嘎乡 — 中国新疆喀什:A.围绕冈仁波钦转一圈;(一)B.可能国外单独骑行;C.为什么这么说呀!1D.证的时间有限;E.选择西藏旅行;4. 中国新疆喀什 — 塔吉克斯坦:A.没有准确的信息,直飞;B.艰难的选择:“是后退,还是前进”;2C.再次增加骑行的难度系数;D.“这不是在戏弄我们吗?”3E.这次就算了,下次一定要携带;4F.骑行、风景、坚持;5. 塔吉克斯坦:A.争取最后的一次机会;B.无依无靠;①C.一颗永不放弃的心;D.忘掉曾经一次次的伤痛,此时只有感谢与感恩;E.一等,再等,还在等;F.哥们,这是为什么呀?;5G.在外我们就是一家人;H.希望“它”一直离我们远去;6I.有想法,有行动,就会有收获;J.银行借记卡,失而复得;7K.除了感谢,还是感谢;6. 乌兹别克斯坦:A.终于可以顺利出发;B.身体状态下滑、眼前模糊一片;C.实在避免不了,就接受吧;D.连续二次惊险借宿,差点就死于非命;E.对未来骑行产生恐惧;8F.身边所发生的事情,得到的五种感受;G.精彩的四次搭乘顺风车;H.阿康是一名来自中国的骑行者;7. 土库曼斯坦:A.挑战自己快速骑行能力;B.借宿后,产生一种不舍的念头;8. 伊朗:A.只知道骑行前进就是对的;B.自行车一次完美的SPA;C.夜间骑行,摔倒在公路上;(二)D.这是在拿生命在拼呀?拿生命在骑行前进呀?;②E.为什么会这样呀?;(三)F.一个漂亮的伊朗女孩;G.骑行高速公路隧道;H.挑战自己:“五天不用钱怎么生存?”;I.有趣的大货车司机OSLI;J.在警察局,警察准备拿枪出来,不允许阿康走;K.遇到心爱的女孩SARA;L.观看演艺广场的表演;9. 阿塞拜疆:A.身上快没有现金;9B.深深感动,一直在流泪;C.明天早上必须得走;D.再次接受现实残酷考验!”;E.再次拒绝,心灵破碎;(四)F.曾经辛苦付出,总会得到回报;10. 格鲁吉亚:A.没有证,怎么入境呀?;10B.多次询问、一再坚持、再次转载;C.我们是一家人,一起高兴、开心、快乐;D.漂浮的心-短暂放下,身体状态-短暂恢复;11. 亚美尼亚:A.这个怎么骑行呀?;B.好心的餐厅员工JaKe;C.强壮的身体,是他生命安全的最后一道保障;D.强壮的身体需要,自己顽强的意志力更需要;E.骑行(骑自行车旅行)的含义;F.想睡个好觉,不容易呀?;12. 再次入境格鲁吉亚:A.行善事:“不分大小、不分贵贱、不分人兽”;B.盲目坚持、错误判断;C.质疑自己为什么还在坚持?;D.差点掉到悬崖;(五)E.多行善事、定有回报;F.不想再继续骑行前进;G.深山一个村庄,居然没有一个人居住;③H.太辛苦的五天连续骑行前进;I.旅行是好工作;13. 土耳其:A.格鲁吉亚巴统-土耳其安卡拉a. 汽车突然一个急刹车;b. 冒死骑行高速公路长距离隧道;c. 汽车从应急车道上超车;d. 为了身体,今天再贵也得住酒店;e. 是前进,还是放弃?11f.差点就拿生命开一次玩笑;g. 几乎没有力气继续骑行前进;h. 一个不会轻易选择放弃的人;12B.安卡拉-安塔利亚a. 阿康不走,是因为他不敢走;b. 越往前骑行,越是恐怖;④c. 一定会带着“你”一起前进;d. 雪中骑行,享受其中;e. 喜欢阿康的一个土耳其女孩;f.身体状况极差,外界环境恶劣;⑤g. 没有选择后退,那么将永远不能再次选择后退;(六)h. 一座漂亮的大雪山;i.让暴风雨来得更猛烈吧!;j. 人未变,心已变;C.安塔利亚-伊兹密尔a. 海滨城市-卡什;b. 土耳其婚礼;c. 去一个景点不容易呀!;d. 身体,给他一个重要反馈信息;13e. “路程再难,你总是需要骑行过去呀?”;f.要么成功、要么失败、要么危及生命;⑥g. 实在不行,就推吧;h.阿康已经尽力,以后就是靠你们;D.伊兹密尔-伊斯坦布尔a. 为送一份最真实、最真诚、最难得可贵的礼物;b.结束土耳其的长途骑行之旅原因;c.两张照片,变成为永久的纪念;d. 自行车被永远“留在”伊斯坦布尔;f. 骑行微博日记的正式结束纪念;14.埃及:A.到达骑行最终目的地;B.准备回国及回国后;15.附加:A.感谢骑行一路上支持阿康的人;B. 一路上的风景;C.一路上自行车的问及处理方式;D.一路上遇到的狗及应对方式;E.一路上阿康的身体状态;F.一路上来自微博鼓励阿康的话语;G.“让心灵去旅行”的含义;H.为什么一路上都在坚持借宿;I.为什么一路上都没有添加骑行装备;J.为什么他会坚持写微博日记及总结;K.手机地图定位的效果;L.各国旅游证的信息;M.一路自己写下的话语;(注明:“(一)”代表生死时刻;“①”代表产生害怕;“1”代表可能中止骑行前进)骑行到达珠峰大本营 在骑行G219的路上,远处的山峰就是冈仁波齐。 在骑行G219的路上,远处的山峰就是冈仁波齐。 2.从珠峰大本营骑行去往阿里地区巴嘎乡:A.最初整天就是吃着灰尘,在我们把它叫做灰尘制造机B.在骑行前进路两边的风景C.在骑行前进的我一路精彩的图片继续分享:2.从珠峰大本营骑行去往阿里地区巴嘎乡:a. 在骑行前进的路上,一天基本都是骑行在这样碎石路上,一路不知道吃了多少灰尘。 而且每次“灰尘制造机(大货车)”过来,阿康有时路都看不清楚。 b.虽然一路上都是在高海拔的地方;有时一路都骑行在充满的灰尘的路上;并且一路上的空气都是相当干燥,但是阿康武装好自己,依然在为自己的梦想在坚持,在前进。c. 无论是早晨、中午、傍晚; 无论是炎热、上坡、逆风; 还是自己身体缺氧、疲惫、饥饿,阿康一直都骑行在G219(新藏线)前进的路上。D.在G219的两边都是荒漠,而且有些路面迟早有一天都会被细沙给覆盖掉。E. 著名的马攸木拉山(海拔5211米,海拔提升400米,上坡路段10公里)。 此时的阿康的骑行能力,已经还可以,一口气骑行到达山顶。F.骑行在G219,前进路上的风景。阿康会一直先分享一路上的风景,因为在一路上的精彩故事,他还在努力整理中,一旦有一天他觉得还行的时候,他会按目录上再给大家分享。先谢谢大家的支持,阿康会一直加油下去!在27岁时,阿康骑行在G219前进的路上,风景分享:A.玛旁雍措圣湖的简介:B.玛旁雍措圣湖的湖水:C.在玛旁雍措圣湖旁边的阿康。 D.阿康第一次骑行前进,将近20天,他几乎变成为另外一个人。 他照镜子的时候,自己也吓了一跳。E.阿康第二个骑行的目的是:冈仁波齐神山(世界上公认的神山),一路都是遇上逆风,阿康没有放弃,而是跟随着队友们缓慢前进。F.路边的风景 H.1314阿康爱骑行,在图片里面远处即是神山;G.冈仁波齐神山的特写;E.在神山冈仁波齐下面的巴嘎乡,旁边的小溪有很多的鱼。阿康与队友们,每天晚上就靠它们来补充自己的营养。巴嘎乡,还没有户户通电,只是晚上旅舍的老板会用发电机进行发电3小时。在外骑行的人,是相当艰苦的,骑行在川藏线、拉萨到珠峰大本营、G219(新藏线)就更加。但是我们要想成为一名合格的骑自行车旅行的人,就不应该选择搭乘汽车到达目的地,要学会独自承受一路上的痛苦和困难,要学会独自去承担那份辛酸与苦辣。接下来,阿康将会上传:1.为什么阿康会变成一个人骑行国外!(5变成3,3变成2,2变成1)。2.在机场,为什么行李一次次被迫简化!(喀什到乌鲁木齐;乌鲁木齐到达杜尚别)3.他一无所有,依然选择一个人坚持在骑行前进的路上!(中国喀什出境,塔吉克斯坦杜尚别入境)。 这是最初阿康从中国拉萨骑行出发,一起出发的队友们5个人(从左到右老蔡、阿康、食神、阿峰、木木):到达珠峰大本营后,变成为3个人阿康、老蔡、阿峰。D25天的中午,在中国西藏噶尔县。最初准备一直带着阿康一起骑行前进的老蔡,突然对他说:“出国后,我们分开骑行前进”。当时阿康非常惊讶的回答他:“哥们,不会吧,我可是从来都没有出过国呀?也不怎么会说英语呀?更主要的是,我可是也什么都没有准备(功课、攻略、骑行一些必备的装备)、什么也都没有携带(电脑、地图、书籍等)呀?”这时老蔡对阿康说:“我相信你的能力,应该是没有问”。阿康只有无语的先接受老蔡突然说出要他独自骑行前进的决定,但是他因为还是害怕,厚着脸皮对老蔡说,至少要带着他一起骑行前进一个国家,老蔡当时的回答是:“到时候具体再看吧”。在D25天傍晚阿康与老蔡、阿峰(一起骑行前进的另外一个队友)用餐时,当谈到关于接下来国外可能是阿康一个人骑行前进时。他们(老蔡与阿峰)不但不支持,而且还说了一些“鼓励”阿康的话语,当时阿康非常无语的看着他们,并且心想:“自己本来对接下来的国外骑行前进,就变得非常迷茫,变得非常害怕,自己心里一片恐惧感,现在你们还火上浇油,我阿康一路应该是从来都没有得罪过你们呀!”阿康鼓起自己人生中最大的勇气,对他们俩说:“我一定会尽自己最大的能力一直骑行下去,而且我更会选择一路都坚持骑行前进,同样我也非常相信自己的能力,应该是可以做到(骑行到达目的地埃及开罗)”。 A.中国新疆喀什艾提尕清真寺B.从中国乌鲁木齐,飞往塔吉克斯坦首都杜尚别:接下来,就是国外9个国家的骑行故事与图片分享,“一路不断挑战自己,挖掘自己的潜力,被迫冲淡所有的一切,要求自己永不放弃去追寻梦想,”:a.中亚:塔吉克斯坦(39天)、乌兹别克斯坦(29天)、土库曼斯坦(4天);b.中东:伊朗(17天);c.东欧:阿塞拜疆(11天)、格鲁吉亚(两次入境共17天)、亚美尼亚(13天);d.南欧:土耳其(43天);e.北非:埃及(旅行7天)。2.阿康选择了坚持,选择了一个人,什么都没有准备,几乎什么都没有在前进的路上。D33天下午,在中国新疆喀什。老蔡再次突然对阿康说:“接下来,你就一个人单独骑行国外,我就不带着你一起继续骑行前进,当飞机到达塔吉克斯坦首都杜尚别后,我们就分开骑行。”阿康面无表情,非常无语的对他说:“不会吧,哥们,最初不是说好,先带着我骑行一个国家或者几个国家吗?我现在是一无所有呀?你这样让我独自骑行前进,不就是让我进行一次非常具有挑战的国外骑行吗!”老蔡又是再次对阿康说着一句重复的话语:“你一个人独自骑行国外,我相信你应该是可以的,也是可以到达你自己设定的目的地。”此时的阿康不知道接下来应该怎么办呀?自己是选择后退,还是前进呀?后退:意味着放弃此次骑行国外之旅,结束整个骑行之旅,结束整个旅行回家;前进:在什么都没有准备(对即将需要骑行到达的国家、需要骑行的路程、需要参观的景点等脑袋里面一片空白)、什么都没有的情况下,独自一个人第一次出国骑行,这不仅是一次非常高难度的挑战自己之前所学习到的能力,而且接下来的骑行可能就不叫骑行国外之旅,完全可以叫国外的一次冒险的之旅。阿康自己再次思考后,跟自己说了一句话非常鼓励自己的话语:“这是你的旅行、也是你的骑行,你是带着梦想出来的,与任何人都没有关系,并且这样机会可能一辈子就一次,错过我们将永远都不会再拥有。”3.阿康的行李在机场,两次被迫简化。第一次D33天,阿康到达喀什机场后,在机场办理登机手续的柜台,他把行李都放在行李传送带上面时,工作人员对他说:“你的行李已经超重,你现在选择要么就托运自行车,要么就托运驼包(自行车骑行专用包)。”阿康立马回答到:“不会吧,在我驼包里面(还是想托运自行车),有洗漱用品、碘酒、云南白药喷雾剂等都一些必备的生活用品及骑行中可能需要的药品呀?”工作人员对他说:“没有办法,你现在只能选择其一,要是想都托运,你就得另外付托运费用”。阿康没有立马给工作人员回答,而是自己一个人在办理登机手续的柜台旁边思考着,接下来怎么办?最后他得出的结论是:“节约费用,就托运自行车,驼包就自己随身携带登机,那些洗漱用品及碘酒、云南白药喷雾剂等到时候到达塔吉克斯坦杜尚别再去购买吧。”阿康终于换取到去往乌鲁木齐的登机牌,因为需要转一次机,阿康只有先从喀什坐飞机到达乌鲁木齐,然后再从中国乌鲁木齐飞往塔吉克斯坦的杜尚别。准备进入候机大厅,在行李安检处,阿康把自己驼包里面的洗漱用品、碘酒、云南白药喷雾剂等都拿出来交给安保人员,心想接受现实对他非常残酷的考验吧。当他把驼包放在行李传送带上面进行安检,顺利通过,阿康也就顺利进入候机大厅。第二次到达乌鲁木齐机场后,阿康快速领取自己的行李后,立马又去找,去往塔吉克斯坦杜尚别办理登机手续的柜台。当他来到柜台,办理登机手续时,被工作人员告知:“你的行李(自行车),已经超重、也超宽,只能办理收费托运,但是你的驼包可以免费托运。”阿康立马说:“不会吧,刚刚我才从喀什乘坐飞机,到达乌鲁木齐,自行车都可以免费托运,怎么现在又不行。”工作人员说:“国际航班与国内航班能免费托运行李的规定不同,没有办法这是公司的规定,我们也没有办法,只有遵循。”阿康非常无奈的回答到:“好吧”。阿康快速推着机场行李车,找到机场一个空地方,心想既然要办理收费托运,那么就从自行车的包装盒,拿出一些东西出来,自己随身携带(节约费用),然后在机场行李打包处,重新打包好以后,准备再次去柜台办理登机手续。当再次来到办理登机手续的柜台,这时工作人员又说:“你是自行车属于大件行李,需要去大件行李处过安检,你才能到这里办理收费托运手续及登机手续。”他于是推着机场行李车,找到机场的大件行李安检处进行安检,当他把自行车的包装盒放在行李传送带过安检机器,20秒后,工作人员说:“自行车的包装盒里面有两边刀(骑行在外,是一件非常重要的装备),不能携带。”阿康立马说:“不会吧,仅仅是托运,又不是随身携带,这样应该没有关系吧。”工作人员说:“不行,这是机场的规定,我们只能执行,现在你打开自行车包装盒,把刀取出来,再过一次安检”。阿康只有遵守机场的安检规定,重新打开自行车的包装盒,把刀取出来,交给工作人员,再次把自行车的包装盒简单封好,放在行李传送带上再次过安检机器,这时心想,再次接受现实对自己的非常残酷的考验吧!20秒后,工作人员说:“这下没有问,你现在去机场打包处重新打包一下,然后先去办理登机手续的柜台办理好自行车的收费托运手续及换取登机牌后。再过来,你的行李(自行车)将从这边上飞机。”阿康的回答是:“好的”,他快速推着机场行李车,来到机场打包处,把再次被拆后的自行车包装盒,又重新打包好。阿康一个人无依无靠来到中亚-塔吉克斯坦,仅仅是在老蔡的《中亚》书上拍了一张图片,就往塔吉克斯坦首都杜尚别的市中心骑行过去。塔吉克斯坦首都杜尚别的城市风景:咱们伟大的祖国中国,在杜尚别的大使馆。 遇上当地人举行的一场婚礼(我还拍摄了视频,很有意思)。([]
《 《星门》》所有内容均来自互联网或网友上传,绘阔sodu小说网只为原作者的小说进行宣传。欢迎各位书友支持并收藏《 《星门》》最新章节。