风景人文篇：上海的阴冷雾霾的冬天似乎永远都不会结束了，虽然立春已过依旧春寒料峭，无数次的问春天什么时候来啊，却在一场又一场贵如油却不会一场暖过一场的春雨中期盼了一次又一次，失望了一轮又一轮。终于再也不能忍，7：30的早班机飞到了赤道边南半球的小岛，把那矜持缓慢的春天直接跳过，直奔盛夏而去。转机新加坡，折腾到巴厘岛，尚未落地已经暮色渐起，机翼上闪烁的灯光如初升的早星，此生最近距离的夕阳映红从未见过的异形云彩，好像列队的礼兵欢迎这不远万里追寻盛夏艳阳的心情。被炫目的阳光晃开了眼睛，在乌鲁瓦图喝个早茶，乌鲁瓦图又称“情人崖”、“乌鲁瓦图断崖”、“乌鲁瓦图天涯海角”、“望夫崖”，位于巴厘岛西南海岸，直面印度洋。每个绝美之地必然有段魂牵梦绕的故事，何况这个号称“情人崖”的浪漫盛境：传说很久以前一对青年男女相爱，却受到父母的阻挠，为了追求爱情的自由相约在此跳崖。从此，巴厘岛乃至全世界的青年男女都怀着对自由爱情的憧憬到此遐思，当今时代更需要那份单纯的勇气和真挚。相信那对炙热的恋人，融身在这地球最纯美的一滴眼泪里，化作海豚相伴相依或是鸥雁双宿双栖，也不负这神的美好恩赐。下午乘复古敞篷吉普前往海神庙（Tanah Lot）。一路热带风光，稻田椰树，伴着咸咸的海风轻轻摇曳在蓝天白云之下，烈日暴晒的焦躁早已抛掷脑后。整个印度尼西亚以信奉伊斯兰教为主，巴厘岛是唯一信奉印度教的地区。海神庙始建于16世纪坐落在海边一块独立的巨大岩石上，海浪凶猛地拍打着海岸，激起千层巨浪。岩石本身因风化形成天然石柱，将整个庙宇顶在巨石顶端。潮起潮落，岩石和庙宇时而被海水拥裹与陆地隔绝，如一座孤岛突兀于海洋；时而与陆地相连，身着白衣包裹头巾的朝拜信徒延礁石攀至庙宇，向庙里供奉的海神与千年蛇神献上敬拜。门口有一股喷涌了百年没有间断的泉水，即使与汪洋大海近在咫尺，依然保持甘甜而非咸涩，倒是像极了中国人尊崇的桀骜精神，任环境澎湃激荡，我自保持清者自清。偶尔有顶着重物的妇女，贩卖铅笔的儿童擦肩而过，这大海的民族自由怡然的精神就如海边飘荡的帆船风筝一般勇敢无畏。金巴兰的沙滩烧烤是当地一绝，一边品尝各式海鲜，一边看落日将如写意画法的大师泼墨将海天染成了一片绚绚丽剔透的红紫色。远处机场的跑道向海中延伸，飞机如流星划过天海交界，如旧日峥嵘码头有勇士扬帆起航亦有游子凯旋归航。夜幕中繁星渐起，沙滩上烛光点点，咸湿的风轻轻抚过脸庞，激昂的浪轻轻吟唱，叫人沉浸在这身心灵的饕餮，仿佛堕入了一个永不醒来的仲夏夜之梦清晨早起，沿海滩边跨马徐行，羡慕当地人策马飞奔的矫健，自己的小马驹只缓缓的被人牵引时而小跑几步就紧张的我浑身是汗。然而闲散踱步，马蹄踏得浪花起倒也在怡然自得。再过几天，就是巴厘岛的传统节日“魔鬼节”。传说这一天魔鬼会从整个岛的上空飞过，因为魔鬼喜好亮光所以整个巴厘岛都熄灯静寂，所有商店、酒家全部关门打烊，甚至在这一天里机场都没有起降的航班，家家户户闭门不出，只有魔鬼节大游行的人们举着各式魔鬼敲锣打鼓穿街过巷。所以路边随处可见为大游行准备的雕像，据说每家的男孩子自懂事起就开始跟父辈学习这门手艺，成年之后自然就负责起本家制作魔鬼雕像的任务，看着这些形态各异栩栩如生的庞然大物，叫人不禁钦佩这淳朴民族的智慧。比硕大的魔鬼雕像更壮观的，是满城飘荡的彩旗，原来适逢巴厘岛大选前夕，各个党派的候选人都在街边巷角拉起了招牌，候选人明媚的笑容对每个过路人绽放，只需在门口竖一把大旗就表明了支持的党派。我们苦苦追求探索的民主之路，似乎用一种近乎原始的简单粗暴方式实现着～民主的最大志便是位于岛中心的小婆罗浮屠。小婆罗浮屠实质是一座为纪念巴厘岛脱离荷兰殖民统治的抗争纪念碑，也是整个巴厘岛最高的建筑，佛教群塔的外观虽然没有爪哇岛上真正的婆罗浮屠气势磅礴，却也算得上壮观雄伟，登至塔尖，俯瞰半个巴厘岛，近处绿树掩映妖娆红墙，远方海天共享壮丽一色，万种风情尽收眼底。路边随处可见闲散的放学儿童，据说巴厘岛的孩子们只上半天课，其余时间全部嬉笑玩闹好不快活，其实何止儿童，就连成人，都三三两两坐在路边专门设立的发呆亭中，只为发呆。在这个只有拜拜最重要的国家，除了早中晚三次的敬奉好像真的无事可干，就连法律都为之通融。因为岛上主要交通工具是摩托，岛民又喜欢骑得飞快所以不戴头盔是重罚，但若你穿了拜拜的衣服，裹了传统的头巾，就视作敬拜的穿戴而可以不带头盔。神说，你为何事而担忧呢，你看那树上的鸟儿，神且叫他有吃食，何况是神最爱的儿女呢。([]

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好多年前就想去泰国，一直没有成行，这次也是受朋友之邀来了一次泰国游。我的坐骑。当地庙宇([]

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温宇轩

肩上背的手上挂的怀着某种急切的、甚至忐忑的心情，一层一层地打开自家的门。一切依旧，除了门口的一层薄薄的灰尘。放下行李，打开窗户，眼睛在日历上停留了片刻，那是出行时的日期——4月1日。我有点费力地一迭迭地撕，直撕到今天的日子——5月1日。它明我的自驾游已经走了一个月，或确切地说走了31天。旅行是一种生活方式。有一种风景具有长久的磁性的迷惑力，有一种文化会使我们更易于接受自然界的的诱惑，有一种向往自由的心使我们更敏感于刻板生活的窒息。于是就有了间歇性的、类似病理性的反应，轮回式地隔段时间去走走，去发泄，去观察，去欣赏，等等。例行文字： D1：福建省宁德市七都 D2：福建省泉州市开元寺、清净寺、洛阳桥、安平桥 D3：厦门鼓浪屿、南普陀、海滨浴场 D4：田螺坑土楼 D5：路上，晚宿广州市 D6：黄埔军校旧址、开平碉楼、赤坎镇 D7：路上，晚宿三亚市 D8：亚龙湾海滩、三亚湾海滩 D9：尖峰岭、天涯海角 D10：三亚湾 D11：博鳌、文昌市、海口市 D12：买轮胎、路上，晚宿北海市 D13：北海银滩、红树林 D14：明仕田园、德天大瀑布 D15：通灵大峡谷 D16：阳朔西街 D17：漓江漂流、月亮山 D18：大榕树、象鼻山，晚宿三江县 D19：肇兴侗寨 D20：荔波小七孔桥 D21：西江苗寨 D22：镇远 D23：路上，晚宿梵净山农家乐 D24：梵净山 D25：凤凰 D26：张家界袁家界、天子山 D27：张家界金鞭溪、黄龙洞 D28：路上，晚宿恩施梭布垭石林景区 D29：荆州古城 D30：钟祥市明显陵夜宿婺源 D31：兰溪市诸葛村——回家全程的第一张照片，记录我的新车公里数：3138KM 全程的最后的一张照片，记录车至朋友家门口的公里数：12103KM。12103-3138=8965，也就是说我们大约自驾游走了九千公里。在梅州市至广州市的高速公路上堵车1小时，始有了我的新车菲亚特/菲翔的首拍照片，是它的优良性能保证了旅途的安全。本次出游共4人：醉翁之意，即我，全程驾驶员；翁嫂，拙妻，刚拿到驾照，尚不能跑高速，只能作紧急情况下的备用力量；我的一位老友许先生和他的妻子（按照网络上的习惯，我正考虑给他们取个网名）。现在应早点进入正，其他的有关旅行中的实用性建议或经验教训等将在后续部分添加或补叙。第1天福建省宁德市七都4月1日由于一些琐事的延搁，我们直至下午1点钟才动身。心里想，筹划了这么久的计划终于去实行了。心一直为禁锢所苦，这下子轻快了，自由在前方指引。下午才从温州出发，跑不了多远，最远可到福州。但我对大城市毫无兴趣，从一座钢筋水泥跑到另一座钢筋水泥，有什么意义呢。且中国的城市大都千人一面，有特色的寥寥无几。闽北是温州的门槛，太姥山已去了两次，福鼎市也买过水产。想起上次看朋友手机上的一张照片，那是涂滩，河图洛书般的天书图案，抽象美啊。朋友告诉我那是宁德市的七都，今天就冲着去七都。5点钟到了七都，顺着沿涂滩的公路，雨势渐大。打伞去问渔家，他说拍摄点正在这附近，只是现在是退潮时间，要到潮水涨到半淹涂滩上的栅栏时才好看。我问，那会是几点呢？他笑着说，得明天11点。哇哈，等不及了，看来我不是摄影中人，没这份耐心。胡乱拍了几张“舟自横”的照片，就去宁德市投宿了。回温州后，我给我的一位热爱摄影的同学通了个电话。他说在七都摄影要侯天气、时间和潮水，要登上附近的山头，下面是他拍摄的照片，你看多美啊。第2天开元寺、清净寺、洛阳桥、安平桥说城市都千人一面也不尽然，比如说这泉州。当红砖白窗低层楼房初入眼帘时，你会眼睛一亮。但当大片的连街倒巷满目红砖屋出现在眼前时，你真有说不出的诧异，疑为进入异域。在这有着海上“丝绸之路”起点之称的，有着世界性文化沉淀的“海滨邹鲁”的回光返照下，我驱车到了开元寺。曾在唐开元26年，唐玄宗下令在凡因战争而造成重大伤亡的地方建寺，以超度亡灵，寺均以“开元”命名，因此全国以“开元寺”命名的寺不知其数。开元寺是福建省最大的寺庙，建于唐武则天垂拱二年（（686年）寺庙两侧为东西两塔，高40米，是泉州市的象征和志。塔为石塔，周身有点发黑，显现沧桑。下为佛教中大名鼎鼎的菩提树一代高僧多才多艺的弘一法师李叔同在泉州弘法修持是最长的。丰子恺、潘天寿均为其门下，下面的歌词即为丰子恺抄录。([]

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李正元

仨驴：西部传奇，8264和越野e族（马踏飞燕）资深老且色驴，第七次自驾进藏，去年单人单车自驾西藏月余。飞翔，强驴，户外领队。走狼C，登雀儿山、玉珠峰、哈巴雪山等。胆小如虎，企图发烧的老驴，老，更多意指年岁。2005年曾与西部传奇、机器猫仨驴单车自驾西藏（https//bbs.8264.com/thread-1686646-1-1.html）。.单车：Jeep牧马人·罗宾汉。保险杠，轮胎，减震器，后排座等做了更换改装，加装了绞盘，强光灯。.路途：郑州——绵阳——康定——理塘——（格聂神山，冷谷寺）——巴塘——西藏左贡——洛隆——边坝——（若果冰川，金岭冰湖）——比如——那曲——拉萨——（羊卓雍错，普姆雍错）——洛扎——（库拉岗日雪山）——江孜——（多庆错，卓木拉日雪山）——亚东——定结——老定日——樟木——（希夏邦马峰东坡）——老定日——定日曲当乡——(珠峰东坡嘎玛沟大环线9日徒步) ——萨迦——日喀则——拉萨——林芝——波密——左贡——芒康——云南德钦——(梅里雪山，白马雪山) ——大理双廊——郑州。2014年8月21日出发，全程42天。.若果冰川，仨驴的凌晨。冰川一直盘桓着云雾，云雾之上透射出繁星的幽光。冰碛湖下泄河水流动的轰响，时而冰壁崩落的撞击声，一阵雪霰对帐篷的沙沙敲打，构成天籁夜曲的交响。金岭冰湖（炯普错）。绝美山谷的辫状水系。野性的张扬。藏族姑娘清澈纯净的天使笑容。参天古树。羊卓雍错总是逃避不了地惹人神醉。浩淼的普姆雍措。多庆错北侧的华美湿地。卓木拉日雪峰。牧归。夕晖映照。古堡遗存。希夏邦马峰东坡。金色的珠穆朗卓若展翅冲天的雄鹰。在珠峰东坡仰望珠峰和洛子峰。措学仁玛的迷醉湖水。鲁朗林海。波密，云雾缭绕的山林。业拉山夕照。梅里雪山卡瓦格博峰。挥一挥衣袖，不带走洱海的一片云彩。第一天在郑州集结出发，由连霍高速经西安转京昆高速到四川绵阳。第二天经成都转318国道到康定。.看到此道路指示牌，遂决定探访二郎山老川藏路，并计划在山顶露营。驶上二郎山老川藏路，我顿时热泪盈眶。我父亲曾在张国华将军麾下的十八军五十四师一六二团任团参谋，挺进大西南时，参与了川藏（康藏）公路的修筑。那个时候出生的两个姐姐因此分别起名叫玉（豫）川、玉康。在我儿时，父亲就教会了我那首高亢激越的《歌唱二郎山》。由于已修建了二郎山隧道，老川藏盘山路基本无车通行。沿路偶见废弃的工棚和房舍，无人居住。山道已显得较窄，茂盛的植物几乎将个别路段郁闭，车辆勉强通过。雨水顺着山路流淌，溅起的水幕不时遮住前挡玻璃。老川藏路盘绕在二郎山的山际。向上行驶了半个多小时，山体塌方挡住去路，只得遗憾回返，留下的是无尽的缅怀。隧道虽然快捷方便，但失却了盘山道所给予的山顶风景。过了二郎山，继续往泸定、康定的方向进跋。夜之穿城而过的折多河，让《康定情歌》以更激情的方式宣泄。(

棚户区卖潜

翁启来

自10月21日乘火车去成都，至11月12日乘机返回济南，22天历经成都、康定、稻城、香格里拉、梅里雪山、丽江、泸沽湖、西昌、峨眉山、乐山大佛、重庆歌乐山。身体倦矣，心里美矣。回来整理照片，慢慢写游记，供诸同好，真是莫大的享受。在8264论坛上先发了个帖子，诚邀驴伴，回帖、打电话，有意项者多，能同行者少。有位济南的驴友本来说可以去稻城，邀他在山东省图书馆见了一面，说起行程、花费，对于一个刚毕业不久的他来说，费用是大了点，在我的劝说下，他经过慎重考虑，放弃了去稻城的计划，改为游历其他的地方。和几位驴友通了电话，说是去稻城，但都没有说定。经常一个人独自登上远去的列车，没有同伴就独行吧，先到成都再说吧。从济南乘火车到成都用时35个小时，是俺山人平生坐火车最长的一次，济南2136开车，第三天0845，到成都，区间里程 2295公里区间时间 35小时9分。从济南乘火车到成都(K208/K205)，一路经泰山、兖州、枣庄西、徐州、砀山、商丘、开封、郑州、巩义、汝州、平顶山西、南阳、邓州、襄阳、谷城、武当山、十堰、安康、西乡、汉中、广元、江油、绵阳、德阳、成都。在火车上除了睡觉就是聊天，睡了两个晚上，很有意思啊。夜里有打呼噜的，有婴儿啼哭，有神经病患者黎明前放声高歌，晚上睡不了几个小时。好在常在旅途走，什么样的情况都能应付。最不愿坐飞机，一是贵，二是把行程大为缩短，一点意思都没有！还是坐火车一路走来，一路看景，一路思考，这是火车的好处。在火车上晚上睡一觉就过去了，白天最难熬，但俺山人有几大发明可以熬时间，祖传秘方，不传外人啊：1、找美女聊天；2、看书；3、上网；4、散步；5、坐禅；6……办法有得是。只是聊天聊得口发干，看书看到头晕眼花，上网上到手机没电，散步散到警察把你当特务，坐禅坐到别人把你当成神经病。火车上见到一位女游客，心无旁骛，专心致志地在刺绣，布面上有亭台楼阁。大庭广众之下，不急不噪，专心女红，真奇女子也。上前搭讪，方知她从济南上车，要去绵阳。因经常乘火车，学会了刺绣，一上车就拿出针线，红绿黄蓝青靛紫各色细线一一备好，穿针走线，布面上的风景由模糊变得愈来愈清楚。我本男儿身，不擅针线，否则，拜她为师，飞针走线，该有多大的乐趣。全身心投入到刺绣事业之中去，既可破闷，亦可修身养性，亦平生一大乐事也。一座楼阁绣不好就到成都了，一定不会觉得路途遥远。中华儿女多奇志，不爱武装爱红装。刺绣者，网名繁华如沙是也。她到绵阳后，还发来信息说：绵阳有直达九寨沟的大巴，绵阳平政汽车站，早六点半至中午十二点，滚动发车，全程需八个小时。回忆是温馨的，点点滴滴都充满着一种温情。但愿我能把一路上经过的事儿与人记得更准确、更详细些，不求宏大，但求细致，但愿能想起更多的细节。突然想起了火车上的乘务员，她是位中年妇女，应是青岛人吧，生性豪放，她说现在列车硬件质量差，亲手指着用了不长时间的地方生了锈。还说遇到了一位驴友，工作一段时间挣够了钱就辞职出去旅行，花光了钱再去工作，老板惜才没让他辞职，完成了工作量就准许他出去旅行。其真驴友也，出行时间长，工作都放在了第二位。我辈乃笼中鸟，养家糊口之余方能挤出十几天时间云游四方，惭愧惭愧。在成都梦之旅国际青年旅社，上网时在赶一篇稿子，12点写好后。听一位驴友说，去稻城最好先乘车到康定然后再去稻城。听了他的话。就决定买去康定的大巴。计划已定，去了青羊宫，参观完以后就到车站买了到康定的车票。我住在成都梦之旅青年旅社，已买好10月24日到康定的车票。在梦之旅，碰到广州的小谭，他本来就没有明确的目的地，我说稻城美啊，不是一般的太美！经不住诱惑，小谭同意一起去稻城。早晨乘出租车到旅游中心客站，小谭买到了票。我们同乘一辆大巴，晚上到康定，一路风景壮观。住在贡嘎青年旅馆，遇到不少去稻城的驴友。有美女理云、帅哥小轩，四人打的到康定老城”老友记私房菜”吃晚饭，又邀了美女叶儿与小唐，队伍已发展到六人。第二天（10月25日）小唐与叶儿坐班车去稻城，我们四人包面包车到稻城，每人是150元，车上又与美女程程邂逅，一行五人奔向稻城。从康定包车到稻城一般得1000元，我们算是便宜的。到了成都，先找住的地方，梦之旅青年国际旅社就在武侯祠马路对过（南面），那是驴友扎堆的地方，以前曾住过，条件尚可，就住那吧。从火车站乘车极为方便，在武侯祠那站下车即可。住了个十人间，30元一个床位。寄存好包后，乘车去青羊宫。几年前去成都，参观了在广汉的三星堆，在成都的杜甫草堂、金沙遗址。青羊宫是川西第一道观，离武侯祠不远，坐落在成都西南郊，南面百花潭、武侯祠（汉昭烈庙），西望杜甫草堂，东邻二仙庵。青羊宫具体位置是成都市一环路西二段九号，经过“青羊宫”的公交车车很多，也就几站的路。济南至成都火车卧铺（中）大概是450元左右，成都梦之旅国际青年旅馆一个床位30元，青羊宫门票10元，从成都至康定，新南门车站发车，从8点10分到12点，好像有四班，票价大概是120元左右。我是乘的8点10分的班车，大概是下午四五点钟到。一路经雅安（这一段是高速）、泸定，在翻过二郎山前一个叫王老四的饭店吃的午饭，每个菜大概15元，和小谭要了两个菜，只吃了七成饱。在二郎山前路一直比较好，快到泸定路就不好走了，康定贡嘎青年旅社一个床位大概是35元。我们当时时在翻越剪子弯山时看到的贡嘎雪山，看到的是应是其北坡（或者西坡）。当时12点左右，阳光明媚，看得较较为清楚。我们正此盘桓半个多小时，尽情领略贡嘎雪山的神韵。到卡子拉山时大概是下午2点20左右。一路风景优美，这是包车的好处，想停就停，坐班车就不能随便让司机停下来照相了，你眼中的美景人家天天看，不会一见到雪山就发出“哇！哇！”这样的惊叹。。我拍摄主要是记录行程，但愿能把一路的美景都装在心中。终于见到了兔儿山。兔儿山海拔4696米。过兔儿山就到海子山了。海子山多石头，堆在一起，气势磅礴。当时天色已暗，这几张是当天最后的照片了。从理塘到稻城的风光非常壮观，可惜天完全黑下来，至稻城一直没再拍照片。海子山绵延几十公里，在傍晚时分，面包国行驶在海子山中，不时能见到海子与硕大的石块，苍凉之感扑面而来。在稻城住妈妈青年旅馆，我和小谭、理云、小轩、程程五人乘面包车先到，叶儿与小唐乘班车后到。到稻城重庆火锅店吃饭，人多菜少，也就吃个半包。饭毕，他们几人在超市购物。乘车云妈妈青年旅馆分店，条件太差，老板不地道，把我们忽悠到了一个非常偏的分店，基本上没有人。一见到一位小伙子，他说是老板的弟弟，非常气愤地说：“明天就要关门了！”怎么找了一个这样的地方！基本上都是我们这帮驴友。晚上和小轩同床共枕，一夜睡得很香。第二天司机师傅曲米定好早晨7点出发。看傍河要从主道上向西走几百米。傍河风光，早晨看很有味道。在《秘境稻城》一书中，作者说傍河夕照，色拉晨雾景色最美，我们没有看到傍河夕照，也没有看到色位乡的晨雾，但却看到色拉乡早晨的太阳照在大山之上的美景。在此拍摄的驴友还是很多的。由色拉乡向南走不远就是热乌寺了。司机曲米与一起去亚丁的驴友合影。曲米自称是山歌王子，一路上不时要唱上几句，为我们带来许多欢乐。在海子旁，大家拍照留念。翻过波瓦山，路基本是是柏油马路，很好走，到赤土乡曲米家去喝酥油茶。曲米的父亲为我们煮好了酥油茶，火炉里木柴烧得正旺，阳光透过窗户射进来，喝一口酥油茶，暖暖的。在他家呆了半个小时，看了他家的佛堂，登上屋顶，远望整个村子。曲米大哥的面包车出了毛病，曲米帮着捣鼓了半天，车也没有修好。在赤土乡呆了有一个多小时。我们继续赶路，路一边是溪水，黄杨树的叶子是鹅黄色的，嫩嫩的，煞是可爱。当地的杨树其实是分青杨树与黄杨树，我们分不清，一律称黄杨树吧。杨树叶子是色的，其他的树叶子是绿的，与碧绿的溪水、醋枯黄的草搭配起来，组成一幅美丽的画卷。溪流清澈而又湍急。曲米的家到了。围在曲米家火炉边，温暖、温馨的感觉油然而生。藏族人家的房子真大。色拉乡的乡村非常温馨的地方。赤土乡是个风景区美丽的地方。([]

吻抱浓密桃源

陈裕俐

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 birth([]

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