Review of Ali Ring Line (1)
When the same train enters Tibet, some people are prodigal and some are prodigal.
At the end of April, we decided to go to Tibet and tour Ngari, and then we started to form a team. In the previous small team of Xinjiang Dukuxing, Dr. Wang was overseas and busy with work in Heimen. In the end, only three people made the trip, Xiao Kai, Lu Juhua, and me.
Throughout May, everyone was busy with their own work, planning their itinerary, and making various preparations. There were many accidents during this period. If it was really an accident, then this plan would also be an accident. Fortunately, there were all near misses. Although they are not in the mood to work, but when they think about going out for many days, they can't put their work aside a month in advance. What's more, this year has been delayed for a long time, and they don't dare to be lazy. They can only suppress the excitement in their hearts and pretend to be Show effort.
According to the plan, we set off on June 2nd and would be able to return home around the 20th. The difference between this trip and the past is that we found a guide friend who often runs the Ali Line in Lhasa, and left all the problems of route and accommodation to him to solve. We just followed his reminders and made various preparations.
Luggage includes but is not limited to clothing for all seasons, sleeping bags, and various medicines and foods. The original plan was to fly to Chengdu and then to Lhasa. Later, Lu Juhua suggested taking the train (Z164 direct from Shanghai to Lhasa). She got an immediate response and bought the ticket immediately. It was a soft sleeper, 47 and a half hours, departing on the evening of the 2nd and ending on the evening of the 4th. arrival. And I need to go from Weifang to Shanghai on the 2nd. In this way, I have to stay on the train for almost 3 days. And because I had this personal journey, I only prepared my own clothes and other supplies, while my friends in Shanghai started a period of shopping like wartime reserves. Words are not enough to express the wonderful things, so I will add pictures later.
June 2, 2020
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The box contained down jackets, sleeping bags, spare shoes, and some clothes. Anything that couldn't fit was put into the middle handbag, and anything that couldn't be packed was stuffed into the gaps in the camera bag. In short, these three bags were all bulging.
Normally, when you go somewhere, your friends will usually have booked a restaurant and are waiting for you. At the beginning of my journey, my friend had opened a room and was waiting for me.
Considering that we have to take a train for two days and two nights, it would be best to take a shower before departure, so we came up with this idea.
Eat a burger, drink a beer, take a shower, and prepare to start your journey.
To facilitate our travel, Ji Tai spent 20 yuan to buy a small trailer. Two SF Express No. 5 boxes were filled with food needed for the journey, and a large amount of supplies were sent to Lhasa by express. The soldiers and horses have not moved, but the food and grass go first.
Meeting Lu Juhua at the train station, he brought a watermelon in addition to his daily luggage. This amount of luggage is no different than moving. It shows that our requirements for food and drink on the way are higher than the trip itself.
In order to relieve the loneliness of the journey, Xiao Kai brought a bottle of Wuliangye. After entering the station, Lu Juhua went to buy some beer, enjoying the scenery, drinking, and singing along the way.
In a private room, we had two upper berths and one lower berth, and the person in the other lower berth was delayed in arriving. This made our fantasy for many days come to nothing. Since there was no one around, he started to take a stance on the lower bunk.
Wuliangye is placed at the highest place, showing its status in the supplies for this trip. Below is my favorite Tsingtao beer, as well as various snacks. The mobile phone box contains the tea that Lu Juhua brought, and Xiaokai brought it. A portable tea set with just three cups, which can be used for drinking tea or wine.
The development of modern communication methods has reduced the sense of distance to a minimum. The frequent contact before departure made the joy of meeting us lack the excitement of reunion after a long separation. Everything was going according to the established plan, as if we had been together before and today was just setting off according to yesterday's arrangement. That’s all.
Perhaps it was because Wuliangye’s red bag was too conspicuous, and we made no secret of the purpose of carrying it. As soon as we got on the train, the conductor came to sell us lunch for the next day. He also made no bones about it and said that our Wuliangye must be paired with their set meal to not be considered a waste. Our impression of food on the train is still in the era of "beer, drinks, mineral water, peanuts, melon seeds, ham sausage". We always feel that we need to "tuck our legs", but we didn't expect that we can actually order food. 200 yuan, five dishes and one soup, that's it.
June 3, 2020
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Zhengzhou Railway Station
At about 5 o'clock in the morning, we arrived at Zhengzhou Station. The people who were temporarily transferred to our carriage last night have arrived. The journey was in a hurry, but when he woke up he had returned to his hometown, and we were continuing to move towards someone else's hometown. The morning light was gradually rising outside the window. I got off the car, smoked a cigarette, and chatted with the conductor for a few words.
When it comes to travel time, the conductor asserts that we are all self-employed, otherwise we wouldn’t have such a long vacation.
If we follow the scene in the old movie, when we arrive at Zhengzhou Station, there may be small carts selling breakfast outside the train window, and maybe we can have a bowl of steaming hot spicy soup. However, outside the car window is a clean platform with travelers in twos and threes. If there was a hand that could travel through time and space and bring a bowl of spicy soup, I'm afraid it wouldn't be able to face our two boxes full of tightly packed fast food. In the days when you could buy spicy soup from the train station, you couldn’t reach Tibet even by taking a train for two days. No matter how much we like "the slowness of the past", we cannot accept the "slowness of the train".
For light sleepers, a night in a sleeper berth is actually no different from a night hanging out of the carriage. To say that he woke up, he probably couldn't bear the torture anymore and opened his eyes.
6:05, a bowl of instant noodles. I don’t know if instant noodles are the food that appears most frequently during travel, but this form is indeed very convenient for it to sell itself to millions of travelers.
Coffee at eight o'clock and tea at nine o'clock. After all, it’s still early before our lunch party, so we have to find something to do. Traveling through the Central Plains, the landforms are also common. I am not interested in looking out the window. I am more looking forward to what the food ordered on the train will be like.
Xi’an Railway Station
Since there is no spicy soup in Zhengzhou Station, there is no Roujiamo in Xi'an Station. But noon is here and the food is about to be served.
The value of the small trailer was maximized. It lay across the two bunks, carrying two cardboard boxes, and formed the main body of our dining table. The tablecloth was yesterday's People's Railway News. During the layout, we also discussed whether it was inappropriate to treat the People's Railway News like this. Later, we felt that we should vigorously publicize such good services on trains, so we resolutely used it as the bottom line.
The aroma of wine overflows.
According to the positioning on the mobile phone photo, we are located in Weiyang District, Xi'an City at this time.
Changle Weiyang.
Spread eggs, pickled pork with pickles, xx chicken nuggets, xx beef, mushrooms and cabbage, tomato and egg soup. The environment has a great influence on the diet. Since it was an unexpected gain on the way out for fun, the taste of these dishes was also blessed.
While drinking, many people came and asked where these dishes came from, so we started to promote it voluntarily and pointed out how to order. The work of the three of us is to pay for others to shout for others. Nowadays, it is rare for us to pay for others and still shout for others. It can be seen that traveling can open people's hearts and learn how to give.
The empty cup stopped, and outside the window there were green mountains.
Entering Gansu Province is considered to be the territory of Xiaochunchen. In the evening, we will stop at Lanzhou Station. I imagined that Xiaochunchen would wave a handkerchief to me on the platform to say goodbye.
Lanzhou Railway Station
The reality, of course, is that there is no beef noodles and no Xiaochun. We just passed by here and stopped briefly. After drinking, I was a little tired. At 9:30 in the evening, I had to change to the oxygen train at Xining Station. Since I couldn’t move in the car, I changed my dinner to a late-night snack and waited until I finished changing cars.
Lu Ju brought a big watermelon and other fruits. There is a video of the process of opening a watermelon. First, using a hand knife proved to be unfeasible, so I poked a hole in it with chopsticks, and then Xiao Kai performed a hand-tearing watermelon.
Self-heating rice, self-heating hotpot, a good companion on the road. If you feel like you don’t have enough food in the self-heating hot pot, I suggest you buy more lunch meat.
There is diffuse oxygen supply on the train, and we are getting closer to Tibet. I had imagined a way to get to Tibet before, but the only way I didn't expect was to take a train. In a narrow space, it's like playing a push box game, constantly moving the space upside down.
In the relatively well-sealed diffuse oxygen supply train, the aroma of the hot pot base quickly spread to other carriages. While I was eating, I heard a sentence full of surprise: "They are eating hot pot!" It is estimated that someone will ask who is eating hot pot later, and this person will tell him that it is the men who are drinking.
That night, we passed Qinghai Lake. The bright moon is in the sky, and the lake is sparkling. I tried to take pictures with my mobile phone and camera, but it was difficult to do so in low light, so I simply gave up and lay down in front of the glass, slowly admiring the lake and moonlight.
Outside the window is a day and a night. The lake is like a black jade plate across the night. The only light comes from the moon. In this vast world, it is so small, like a lonely traveler, but so cold, like a so-and-so. An awesome poet who doesn't like to talk to anyone either.
As the train gradually moved away, the lake also moved out of sight. There was occasionally a dim light outside the car, very far away, and it suddenly disappeared.
June 4, 2020
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Geermu Railway Station
It’s around four o’clock in the morning, Golmud Station. Lu Ju got out of the car and smoked. I originally wanted to be confused for a while, but I couldn't, so I had to get up and look out the window as it gradually lit up.
Naturally, you will have different feelings when watching the sunrise in different places. Just like lying on a train sleeper, watching the distant mountains covered with snow, and the first light of daylight, my biggest feeling is that I am really sleepy.
The scenery on the plateau is exciting, although we know that in the next few days, we may see such scenery every day. People will feel more at ease when they leave their usual environment. Once they feel at ease, some states that are rarely seen in ordinary times will be revealed. It can also be said that although being released from prison is not as good as being released from prison, it is still better than nothing.
Naqu Railway Station
The altitude of Nagqu is no longer low, but as a smoker, I still insist on getting out of the car to smoke. It was a bit cold, so I stubbed out a cigarette before finishing it.
It started to snow not long after the train left Nagqu Station. This road passed through countless tunnels, one black and one white, one white and one black, which gave me the illusion that many days had passed. And the abdominal bloating caused by sitting in the car for a long time makes my days feel like years. It is said that when they got here, some people were already vomiting.
I am not a person who is very good at going out, nor am I the kind of traveler who can enjoy hardships. A small difficulty can easily defeat me. Therefore, when these side effects on the way began to appear, I I kept thinking, why bother? Why bother?
At Naqu Station, the lower berth of our box was bought by a Chengdu man who was doing business in Lhasa. After he got on the train, Lu Ju chatted with him all the way, and by the way, I learned something about "Lhasa" in daily life.
Getting closer to Lhasa.
Compared with Nagqu, Lhasa is indeed livable. Looking at this cow lying crookedly under the blue sky and white clouds, I had this idea. When we arrive on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, how can we miss Tsangyang Gyatso?
"On this plateau where the Buddha's light shines, you can reach heaven in three or two steps."
Paradise is not something you can enter casually. You need to fill in certain information, both paper and electronic. We wasted a lot of time on this just because of the poor cell phone signal. But the train kept its promise and arrived at the station on time, so it kept stopping.
Along the way, we often mentioned that when we reached Lhasa Station, the journey was over. We drank wine, saw the scenery, and arrived at the plateau. As long as we packed our luggage and went to the airport to go home, it was perfect.
Arrive at the station, get off the bus, queue up, leave the station, queue up, get on the bus and go to the hotel. Before the high tide arrives, go out for dinner.
The exhaustion of sitting in the car for a long time made me unintentional to wander around. In this case, my eyes seemed unable to see anything more. I originally wanted to find out what the charm of Lhasa, which is highly praised by so many people, was, but at this time, fatigue and hunger took over. I just wanted to finish my meal and go back to sleep. After searching around, we chose a Sichuan restaurant. There are so many Sichuan restaurants in Lhasa. It should be said that this Sichuan restaurant chose us. There is a loudspeaker at the door that automatically plays a greeting to attract customers. The speech is very fast and cannot be recognized. It is noisy and anxious, which makes me feel bored. A quick victory, and a large part of this night was filtered out of my memory.
June 5, 2020
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When I learned about the opening of the Potala Palace on the train, I hurriedly booked tickets for the 5th. Logically speaking, you should just stay in the hotel and start playing after your body adapts. I hesitated when I got up, but then I gritted my teeth and went for it. This behavior was very irrational, and it directly caused me to enter a very uncomfortable state that afternoon.
But when I went out, everything was fine. Nothing more than panting and constant exhaustion.
The RMB angle viewing platform is not open, but there are still people looking for a closer angle to check in. We walked directly into the square and walked slowly.
Now that I'm here, I have to take a photo. However, the sun was scorching in the sky, and besides drinking water, I just wanted to lie down. With my mind blank like this, I also took one according to the punch-in method. Seeing that it was almost time, I went to line up to enter the Bu Palace.
I probably finished visiting the Potala Palace in a daze. Many of my impressions during this period are blurred. I remember that we went to a cultural relics exhibition, marveled at the power of history, and sat in a corridor for a long time.
Stop and go, stop and go, at this time, I really wish I could lie down. This wish lasted throughout my entire trip to Tibet.
Majestic buildings, tiny people. In my current state, I am even more impressed by the infinite possibilities of human power.
After returning from Bu Palace, the rebellion became more serious. I could only lie down in the hotel and take oxygen.
June 6, 2020
Lunar Calendar Leap April 12th Gengzi Year of the Rat Renwu Month Gengchen Day
According to the plan, we should set off today. But my high reflexes continued and tended to get worse, so I temporarily decided to take another day off. I said at that time that if I still didn't feel better tomorrow, I would go home directly and they would complete the rest of the journey on my behalf. Xiao Kai and Lu Juhua were in good condition that day. They continued to go out and even drank beer during lunch, although they didn't even finish a can.
I stayed in the hotel with an oxygen tank.
After staying up until the afternoon, the two sluts came back. They went to the clinic downstairs of the hotel to inquire about it. The doctor had a lot of experience in treating high reflexes, so he came back and took me to see a doctor.
How would you describe this clinic? It's like a small hospital made of building blocks. In several workstation partitions, there is a doctor sitting in each, and this partition is named XX Department. The doctor who examined me chatted with me for a few words, but I always felt that he wanted to tell my fortune. Later, I did a test, intravenous fluids, and oxygen inhalation. Three hours later, the treatment was over, and the preparations before departure were sufficient. Food and grass arrived, and people were given injections. Let's set off tomorrow.