Tibet's Journey to the West-The first 1 1 day, I went to Yecheng.

Photography: New Dad

Eleventh day, June 9? From Ritu to Yecheng

From Ritu, Tibet to Yecheng, Xinjiang, the whole journey is1180km.

In order to get to Yecheng that day, I set off at six o'clock in the morning on time. The whole plateau is still asleep, and only the stars in the sky are awake. The Big Dipper, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are all so clear. A huge galaxy like a river is shining with bright white light, with two particularly bright big stars on both sides, flashing ambiguous light on each other, as if facing each other from a distance, expecting each other and calling each other-the Milky Way and the Altair and Vega separated by it.

There were no railings at the Japanese-Turkish checkpoint, but we woke up the police on duty and registered one by one before leaving. The morning star is particularly bright in front of us, and Bangong Lake has been accompanied by the roadside. Under the dawn and night in the east, the lake is dark, and only the morning star shines under the water, but it is changing its shape in the waves.

Crows and armed police

The checkpoints in Sodoma are particularly good. The police put a pot of red charcoal fire under the bench and table near the window, and put a pot of water on the fire for their own heating and for passengers to wait for inspection. Travelers can help themselves. In order not to burn the table, they are all made of iron.

We made instant noodles, which were warm and comfortable to eat.

I saw a flock of black birds like crows on the dam outside. Almost all places on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are like this kind of bird, as big as a crow, as black as usual, and its cry is like a crow's' quack, quack'.

I'm shooting birds. Dad Xin came out to see me. When he saw the policeman at the door, he pointed to the "crow" and asked, Is that a crow?

The checkpoint is guarded by armed police. The young man on guard is handsome, young, dark and brave. The policeman said solemnly, "That's not a crow, it's an armed police." Say it in silence.

Dad Xin, I and several other policemen all laughed happily, including the armed police young man. Because he was at work, he had to smile and gently scold: "Guawazi".

It is estimated that the armed police are also from Sichuan. Only Sichuanese take this sentence as a mantra, sometimes it is a real curse, and most of the time it is just a casual sentence, including mutual ridicule and abuse among friends.

Later in our car, "that's not a crow, it's an armed police" became a classic joke. Every time Xin's father is sleepy when driving, we use this to cheer him up.

What's more, at the spring lake checkpoint, a group of armed police were training on the ground, and there happened to be a group of crows flying in the sky. Bow wow said, "Look, there are many armed police." Teacher Zhang said, "The armed police are flying and crows are practicing.".

? Visual fatigue of Tibetan antelope

In the early morning sunshine, herds of Tibetan antelopes concentrate on grazing on the grassland, and see our repressed excitement and their cameras. Some female Tibetan antelopes look at us gently, just like putting a pos for us to shoot, but we don't see us continuing to eat grass, some leave us a silhouette, and some throw us a round ass and a short tail.

The long horns of the male Tibetan antelope shine like black gold in the morning sun. When they saw us taking pictures, they ignored them and continued to eat their grass and go their way.

There are two long horns facing the long horns. I don't know whether it's a play or a duel.

Since dawn, we have seen too many Tibetan antelope and a pair of wild yaks. One of them is old, and walks a little shambling. The other one looks a little old. I think it's his wife.

Later, when Tibetan antelopes watched too much, they stopped getting off and taking pictures.

I hope that all travelers passing by and Tibetans who live with them day and night will have a caring heart for wild animals like us and never disturb them.

Because of love, so far, because of love, so far concerned.

Because of love, our earth will always be a harmonious family.

Tibetan antelope and Xinjiang antelope

After the sign of "Border of Southern Xinjiang Military Region" was hung on Songxi Daban, we were greeted by a beautiful lake named Longmucuo. On the left side of the lake is an unknown snow mountain, and on the far right is a snow mountain showing a small face in the shadow of white clouds.

Four Tibetan antelopes are grazing intently on the grass far from the lake but close to the road. When they saw us stop, they looked up at us quietly, not running away, not panicking, so cute, so docile and so trusting.

At this time, the picture under sunrise is so harmonious and quiet, with snow-capped mountains, lakes, antelopes, grasslands, blue sky and white clouds.

Let this tranquility and harmony last forever between heaven and earth. We only take a photo lightly and cherish it in our hearts forever!

At 649 kilometers of 2 19 national highway, it officially entered Xinjiang, and a stone was written with the words "hidden secret place".

After entering the border of Xinjiang, you can still see herds of Tibetan antelopes. A companion said in the intercom:

"This place is not called Tibetan antelope."

"What's that called?"

"Xinjiang antelope."

"Why?"

"Just in Xinjiang."

"No, they didn't register at the checkpoint. They are illegal immigrants, or they can only be counted as "Tibetan" antelopes, but not as "Xinjiang" antelopes.

Further on, the grassland gradually became sandy, and there were no "Tibetan antelope" and "Xinjiang antelope". The farther forward, the more serious the desertification is, and the vast plain has more sand and less grass, and finally becomes a saline-alkali permafrost zone.

After crossing the Japanese soil, the road seems to have completely become a dedicated lane for our three cars, and almost no other cars pass by. We were flustered by the traffic jam in the city, and we completely found the fun and smoothness of driving here.

? Wuxuehongliutan

Before climbing the 5206-meter Brotherhood Mountain, I saw a dark cloud in front of me.

After climbing the mountain, we walked towards the dark clouds and then entered the rainy area. When going down the mountain, the rain turned into small hail and hit the car glass. The whole process of going down the mountain is all hail, rain and snow. It didn't turn into snow until the end of the mountain, and it went down to the bottom of the mountain and turned into blue sky and white clouds.

At the foot of the mountain is Hongliutan, where there are only a few bungalows, no gas station and only private gasoline, so we eat and refuel at "Shaanxi Fuyuan Hotel".

Only No.93 gasoline, calculated by barrel, an iron barrel is about 36 liters, 450 yuan. Very reasonable!

Although the mountain is finished, the altitude is still 4260 meters. When I got off the bus, the biting cold wind blew on my face. I quickly put on my coat, shawl and hat, hardly feeling a trace of warmth.

While waiting for dinner, the snow on the mountain came after us, and soon it was full of snow.

Shaanxi special snack "spicy noodles" lunch.

The proprietress is a young Shaanxi woman. She is mixing noodles now, making fresh noodles with a simple noodle machine, and now making red oil and seasoning. It's delicious. Everyone has eaten all the soup and bowls, but there is still something missing.

By the time we started after eating the hot food, the snow had basically stopped.

? Wolves and sheep in Karakorum

From here, we walked through the Jiapigou of Karakorum Mountain for five or six hours and hundreds of kilometers. I can't get to the end. Turning a corner is a deep ditch, climbing a mountain and going down to the bottom of the ditch. There are mountains on both sides, and I feel depressed all the way.

However, to our great relief, it is worthwhile for us to walk in the mountains. When the peak descended to a height of about 3500 or 600 meters, it finally gave us comfort and showed us several kinds of wild animals in its embrace, and the journey suddenly flew out of the clouds.

The first thing that appeared was a small yellow animal on the cliff, dragging a big tail like a squirrel, but not as fluffy as a squirrel's tail, and its head was much bigger than a squirrel. Its fat twisted ass and round body are very alert. When someone saw it, it fled to the hillside, the valley and the gap, leaving us with an extremely lovely back.

We call it "the weasel"!

This side is still snapping off the fat ass of the weasel, and someone there exclaimed loudly, rock sheep, rock sheep, two!

Yellow is exactly like a rock, you can't see it without paying attention. They are also watching us warily. There's another one over there, * * * three.

When the rock sheep saw that we stopped to look at them, they ran up and behind the rocks, and were quickly blocked by the rocks, so there was no time to capture their beautiful images!

We are lamenting that there are animals in Kunlun Mountain. We thought we could only appreciate the bare rocks, the thick ice in roadside ditches and the barren mountains.

At this time, the "weasel" and the rock sheep appeared in the valley. They were very alert and ran away as soon as they saw someone watching them.

The most generous is argali. Its pair of big horns, bending from the center of the head to the left and right, is the most obvious feature to identify it. Eating grass in the valley in twos and threes, I saw someone taking pictures of them. Some dared to run a few steps away from us and looked back at us. Some were not surprised at all, but looked down at us eating grass again.

Karakorum wild donkey family

What surprised us even more was that there stood a lovely wild donkey "big family" on the roadside, with a father, a mother and several small ones, obviously children.

Mom seems to be pregnant again, with a big belly.

They came to the middle of the road and saw our car coming. "Dad" led the family and stood on the side of the road, not in a hurry, not in a panic, not in a panic.

We have never observed any kind of wild animals so closely, so we quickly got off the bus gently and tried not to disturb them, and quickly took some gentle and docile "family photos" for them.

Look at us, holding a big black man, so close to them, they are so trusting, so serene, so calm, so undefended, just looking at us quietly, their eyes are as pure as newborn babies.

The more so, the faster we leave.

Here is the mountain, the mountain belongs to them, and we are only occasional passers-by!

"Di Ku Border Inspection Station"

When I first entered the boundary of Yecheng and started climbing again, I was glad that the mountain was finally completed. The climate in mountainous areas is changeable, and it is sleet as soon as it goes up the mountain.

This piece of Kunlun Mountain will never be finished. Still mountains, several mountain canyons, several mountain canyons. Fortunately, there are 30 Li battalions, also called 30 battalions, and troops are stationed. It is said that it is only 30 miles from India.

Finally saw the sign of the checkpoint in front, and finally saw a group of people.

Located at the bottom of Jiapigou, the "Di Ku checkpoint" is a bit like a sword gate, guarded by one person and invincible by ten thousand people.

The inspection here is very strict, and there are many people queuing to enter the door in turn. While waiting in line, a young man saw that too many of us were separated and offered to let us pass. As soon as I opened my mouth, I knew that he was also from Sichuan and Langzhong, Nanchong, so I chatted with him.

He said that he had been running transportation here for five or six years. Today, this is the second time he has passed the checkpoint, because he has to check before and after, and the inspection is so strict.

Starting from Hongliutan at three o'clock, it was already half past eight when we arrived at the Di Ku border checkpoint. The inspection took more than half an hour. I didn't leave the checkpoint until nine o'clock, and I was catching up with the road repair. I can't let it out, and it has been delayed for nearly half an hour. When I started again, it was almost ten o'clock.

After leaving the checkpoint in Sodom, Tibet, you no longer need a Tibet border card.

After passing through Di Ku checkpoint, Xinjiang border card is no longer needed. Geographically, it has entered Xinjiang, but it seems that humanities really started here.

Di Ku Town, located in the depths of Kunlun Mountain, is a small open area at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by high mountains.

The town was covered with trees, so we didn't go in. A group of black sheep on the roadside walked slowly home while eating grass.

When I passed through Osaka, Di Ku, it was already past 10 in the afternoon. Fortunately, the plateau was dark at night, and there were no guardrails on the way up and down the mountain. I feel it climb from the bottom to the highest. The road surface is being maintained, and it is uneven. Without the protection of the guardrail, it will slowly get dark, which seems to be more dangerous than the natural barrier of Tongmai. Especially those sitting outside, dare not look down, cliffs, abyss. If the road is bumpy and the body leans outward, they have to dare to close their eyes and pray silently in their hearts.

After 1 1 in the evening, I really couldn't support it and fell asleep. I don't know how to get down to Yecheng.

Arrive in Yecheng at midnight 12: 30, check in Aba, check in Yecheng Office Hotel, standard room 120 yuan. The conditions are quite good, the bedding is clean and dry, and hot water is readily available.