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《落花时节又逢君》

张贞慧

序……….“到处流浪，命运唤我奔向远方，我看这世界像沙漠，它四处空旷没人烟…… 到处流浪…… ”。一首《拉兹之歌》，让多少人对印度向往，就是这部印度电影，在中国大陆首先揭开了印度神秘的面纱。让无数人梦寐中或多或少带上了印度情结，什么时候能有机会去到那个并不遥远的国度，亲耳聆听那曼妙婉转的歌声；亲眼目睹那阿娜多姿的舞蹈；亲身感受那美丽迷人的印度姑娘……。随着国门的打开，蜂拥而出的中国人，开始漫向世界各地。印度的一切又逐次在中国人的眼前清晰起来；那无数精美的古代建筑、壮丽的泰姬陵和它美妙的故事传说、一千多年前的性文化雕塑群、多次荣登世界小姐宝座的印度姑娘、加上印度的脏、乱、差…….这一切让印度更加神秘、更加不可思议。2013年9月初，一个偶然的机会，到印度自助游去，变成了我的旅游计划。时间；2013年9月到2013年10月21日；内容；制定自助游路线。筹备所需资料和物品。参考去过印度的旅游攻略和印度文化建筑介绍。大致决定在印度自助游从东面的加尔各答开始，历时22天。到达最西面的阿姆利则后返回德里离开。具体路线如下；加尔各达（Kolkata）————菩提迦叶（BodhGaya）——————瓦纳拉西（VaranASI）————克久拉霍（Khajuraho）————阿格拉（Agra）————斋普尔（Jaipur）————乌代普尔（Udaipur）————热那克普（Rannakpur）————焦德普尔（Jodhpur）————杰沙梅尔（杰伊瑟尔梅尔Jaisalmer）———比卡内尔（Bikaner）————阿姆利则（Amritsar火车先到JALANDHAR贾朗达尔后，再转LOCAL BUS）————德里（New Delhi）印度自助游有关准备工作；换汇；印度很多城市可使用信用卡。中国人的习惯都是带上现金。那就在银行调换好美金备用。但，印度的换汇比率随时在变化。可根据自己的需要兑换成印度卢比（Rs）。我在印度期间兑换率是；10月23日在加尔各答机场，100$==5597Rs.10月24日在加尔各答萨德街上的换汇点，100$==6010Rs.10月25日在菩提迦叶100$==6050Rs.11月6日在焦德普尔100$==6020Rs。 11月13日在德里100$==6050Rs.相比之下，在到达印度机场时最好不换汇，那个差别实在太大了。出了机场到了市区，随便找家换汇点先换部分，以后随时可以在所到城市换取Rs使用。2，证；印度的证在亚洲国家里相对比较麻烦比较烦琐。个人旅游证需要提供如下资料；（1）、护照原件：（六个月零十天以上有效期）。（2）照片：2张白底彩照，5cm * 5cm正方形，(同美国证照片尺寸一样，需露耳朵，不接受扫描或不清晰的照片)。（3）存款证明：人民币一万元以上的银行存款证明原件（至少四个月冻结期）（4）、公司在职证明（英文版）（5）、身份证复印件：1份，正反面复印到一张纸上，（6）、个人证申请表（可在网上搜索下载）。印度出入境卡；印度出入境卡；印度一般是有效期三个月，30天的旅游证。网上有专门办代理证的公司。但费用比较高。可在网上查讯，有要690元的，有要850元的，还有喊价1500元的。我请北京的一个朋友帮我代办的证，是她亲自把材料送到印度使馆，30天的旅游证371元。这位朋友已只是在网上认识尚未谋面的朋友。网名彩云游子。帮忙如此热心，让我好生感激，不知有没有机会报答这位朋友这份情谊。证办好后，最好把你的护照首页和证页复印若干份，在印度买火车票和住宿都需要护照复印件和证复印件。你可根据你在印度旅游的时间来决定复印多少份为宜。3，交通；在印度国内旅行，铁路四通八达，价格非常便宜，所以，坐火车是在印度国内旅行的首选。火车有很多等级，Superfast, Fast, Express, Passenger。等级不同票价不同，车体的新旧也不同。应尽量避免Passenger，这种普客又挤又慢，车厢十分破旧。车票也分为很多级别。有2nd Class Chair（硬座）；2nd Class Sleeper（硬卧）；2nd A/C( 空调硬卧)，和1st A/C(空调软卧)等。空调车舒适度好，价格可能是2nd Class Sleeper的2-3倍左右，车上提供饮料和餐食，通常是印度富裕人士和外国游客乘坐。火车售票分为售票处（BOOKING OFFICE）和预售处（RESERVATION OFFICE），一些大站（如新德里）有专门的外国人售票处（International Tourist Bureau），可是有的International Tourist Bureau不售票，只提供咨询和休息，买车票去RESERVATION OFFICE。在德里、加尔各答、孟买等大城市购买火车票比较紧张，不大容易买到当天或第二天的火车票，如有可能最好在国内出发前就先定好在印度国内旅行的火车票。但一般中小城市买火车票还是很容易，很多城市还专门有外国人购买火车票的窗口和侯车室。这是购买印度火车票的印度铁路官方网站；https//www.irctc.co.in/。火车站内常用设施中英文对照：火车站在印度习惯讲：RailwayStation上铺〈UB〉、中铺〈MB〉、下铺〈LB〉，以及靠走道的上铺〈SU〉与下铺〈SL〉，火车问讯处：Enquiry或Railway Information 站台：plantform存包的地方：cloak room女士候车室：Lady’s Waiting room 车掌：TTE, Train Ticket Examiner候车室：Waiting room（通常有浴室和厕所）高等级车票候车室：upper class waiting room（一般指3A以上级别。印度人不是这个档次车票不会进来。您是老外，别管你拿什么级别车票，进去再说）普通卧铺候车室：sleeper class waiting room（人比较多，也比较脏）休息室：Retiring Room餐厅：refreshment room 查票：ticket checker 还要多少时间How many more times 来回机票；去印度肯定要考虑买好来回的机票，有很多这方面的攻略。主要是能买到最便宜的机票可以为你的旅行节省不少的银子，请要去的朋友最好提前半年留意机票信息，争取定到最便宜的来回机票。汽车；印度的汽车相对比火车贵点。下列是印度北部主要城市间距离和汽车价格（长途客车）。乌代普尔——阿格拉 630KM12小时180Rs乌代普尔——孟买 730KM16小时200Rs乌代普尔——德里 670KM14小时200Rs乌代普尔——斋普尔 406KM9小时 200Rs乌代普尔——焦特布尔 275KM 8小时 110Rs乌代普尔——科塔 6小时110Rs乌代普尔——阿埠山 7小时 100Rs 4，住宿;印度现在随旅游业的发达。住宿非常方便。每个城市乃至有景点的乡村都有高档的星级宾馆和家庭式小旅社、和类式青年旅社那样的小客栈。我个人不很喜欢住高档的酒店。这种地方，人与人之间的关系比较冷漠，无法真正接触和感知所在国家的真实状况、找不到贴近当地人生活的感觉。我比较喜欢家庭式的小旅社，小客栈。这样的地方有它独特的装修风格，甚至墙上有大量来往人员的涂鸦。住在这样的地方，你可以和老板、老板娘亲密接触。他们已多半有问必答，热心地为你帮忙和力尽所能的指点你怎样在这里玩的舒服。和大酒店比起来，这种地方价格非常便宜。哪怕你在旅馆里蒙头大睡几天，已不会心痛每天帐单上增加的银子数。 5，印度的饮食特点；A，糊状菜；如果说中国菜的特点是“清清白白”，色香味三者，色是摆在第一位的，因好看可以激发食欲；印度菜的特点则是“糊糊涂涂”，各种主菜都放一大把咖喱粉，看起来都一个颜色。荤菜不亲口尝一尝，很难区分是什么肉类；蔬菜也是捣成糊状，搁些咖喱。在中国人看来，长时间的煮熬使维生素尽失，令人觉得可惜，印度人则乐此不疲。说印度菜把香放在首位恐怕并不过分。不过，印度菜的香并非中国人所习惯闻的那种香味，而是太香了；印度菜的辣味也并非中国人所习惯的咸辣、酸辣或麻辣，而是“冲”鼻子的辛辣，许多中国人恐怕一时难以适应。 B，吃素；印度虔诚的佛教徒和印度教徒都是素食主义者，耆那教徒更是严格吃素，吃素的人占印度人口一半以上，因此，印度是典型的素食王国，素食文化是印度饮食文化中最基本的特色之一。 C，手抓饭；多数印度人，包括上流社会的人通常习惯用手抓饭吃。印度人进餐时一般是一只盘子、一杯凉水，把米饭和饼放在盘内，菜和汤浇在上面。印度人的主食主要是米饭和饼，他们喜欢吃的并非中国人的白米饭，而是把饭煮熟后，放些油和调料，饭的颜色呈黄色，或者同别的什么菜炒在一块。用手把菜和饭混在一起，在盘里搅拌几下，抓起来捏一捏，然后送进口内。 D，不抽烟不喝酒；受宗教禁忌的影响，印度人几乎不喝酒，嗜酒成瘾者或酒量很大者极少，从未见过印度人一饮而尽地干杯，也从未见过有人行酒令或醉倒过。印度抽烟的人极少，公务往来和红白喜事，从未有人敬烟。印度的烟仅10支装，印度人口袋里装一包烟、一个打火机的不多，一些烟民宁愿买一支抽一支。 E，香辣咖喱唱主角：　　印度人做菜用得最多、最普遍的是咖喱粉。咖喱粉是用胡椒、姜黄和茴香等20多种调料合成的一种香辣调味品，呈黄色粉末状。印度饮食文化也可以称为咖喱文化，这种饮食文化以香辣味道为特色。人们谈到印度饭，首先想到的十之八九是咖喱饭。咖喱饭可以是素食，也可以是荤食；可以是米饭，也可以是面食。印度人对咖喱粉可谓情有独钟，几乎每道菜都用，咖喱鸡、咖喱鱼、咖喱土豆、咖喱菜花、咖喱汤等等，每个经营印度饭菜的餐馆都飘着一股咖喱味。 F，野味无人敢问津　　在许多中国人看起来是美味佳肴的东西，印度人基本上不吃。印度没有野味店，不仅野味无人问津，就是蟮鱼、泥鳅、甲鱼、乌龟、蛇这些东西，印度人也不吃，至于吃狗肉、猫肉、鸽子肉等，更是想都不敢想的事。印度人基本上不吃各种肉类的下水内脏，因而价格便宜得不可思议，有的几乎等于不要钱。例如，5个卢比(相当于1元钱人民币)可以买到1公斤鸡爪。在印度可以看到和边几斤重的大鱼就在岸边游来游去，伸手可捉，但却无人问津。 G，印度菜的特点就是糊状菜，而且还加以各种色素，黄的汤，绿的糊，红的泥。如果没有一段时间的适应，是很难习惯的。此外，无论在家庭还是餐馆，印度人认为生水是最好的饮料，餐桌上总会有一杯凉水。印度主要食物列表： Dal：是主要的素食菜之一，由几种大豆混合香料，经长时间熬制而成。 Tandoori：印度式的烘烤。 Lassi：印度酸奶。印度甜品：香浓甜滑，非常值得品尝。 Chutney：印度小蘸料，微酸中带点薄荷的香味。， 6 ，语言：印度民族众多，语言复杂，据统计，印度共有1652种语言和方言。其中使用人数超过百万的达33种。英语在印度很有影响。除宪法规定的18种语言为联邦官方语言外，还规定英语为行政和司法用语。英语和印地语同为官方语言。北印度语言主要包括印地语和乌尔都语等。南印度语言主要有泰米尔语、泰卢固语等。印度东北地区语言主要包括那加语和米佐语等。印度中部地区主要有桑塔尔语、蒙达语等。还有安达曼语，主要流行于安达曼群岛。下面是印地语中常用单词的谐音。（仅供参考）。你好那玛斯第对不起；察玛加里伍。谢谢，达尼亚哇多。请，哥利比亚。是；哈伍。不是，那兴伍。男，布鲁丝. 女，斯多里.少女，拉鲁奇。青年，拉里加。小孩，巴查亚。单人房，埃克比得哇拉。双人多比得哇拉。钱，巴伊沙。价钱，达姆. 结帐，希沙布。吃饭，加纳。洗手间，巴多鲁姆多伊拉特。计程车，塔克西。船，那乌。列车，托里伊伍. 飞机，夏哇伊渣哈子。商店，多卡伍。邮局，坡斯特奥费斯。银行，巴伍克。医生，多可塔。警务督察，波里斯。日本人，渣巴尼印度人，兴多士塔尼。东，布拉布。南，达克西伍。西，巴斯千姆。北，沃太鲁。左，巴埃伍。右，达希纳。星期一，苏姆哇尔。星期二，码葛鲁哇尔星期三，布多哇尔。星期四，格鲁哇尔。星期五，苏克鲁哇尔星期六，谢尼哇尔。星期日，拉布伊哇尔1，埃克。 2，多。 3，添伍。4，查尔。5，巴伍。6，千。 7，沙特。 8，阿特。9，娜乌。10，达斯。100，斯乌。你叫什么名字？阿布加卡亚那母哈伊？你好吗？阿布加卡亚哈鲁哈伊？我很好，多谢。马因地哥夫达尼亚圭多。我叫张三。米拉那母张三哈伊。再见吧，费路米丽伍葛。这是什么？伊埃期亚哈伊？不知道。巴塔那兴。可不可以和你照张像？期亚玛因阿布卡弗多理鲁伍？印度是非常好的地方！姆谢巴拉多拍沙得哈伊！有房间吗？卡母拉哈伊卡亚？洗手间在哪儿？拉巴多里卡哈哈伊？请给我看菜单，曼纽的卡地尖。给我红茶，玛因查埃布因格。很好吃，巴付伊阿查拉格。结帐。比鲁的尖。想去医院。荷士比塔渣那哈伊。请叫医生。大格塔布拉的谢伊。不太舒服。塔比亚多的克那兴哈伊。什么时间出发？格鲁希期多你巴谢求弟哥。这是哪儿？伊埃卡亚渣那渣塔夫伍？请便宜点。加姆加路那阿。请带我去成都酒店。姆谢成都荷塔尔来查罗。我想去成都。姆谢成都渣那哈伊。这个多少钱？伊斯加达姆卡亚哈伊？不要。那希伍查亚伊埃。太多了。伊埃巴好托渣达哈伊。请给我一点点。托拉沙的伊芬。这个好。姆谢伊埃拍沙得哈伊。这个不合适我。姆谢伊埃拍沙得那希伍。我要买纺织品。玛因里斯面加布拉加里多纳察哈他。请给我看这条K金项链。苏耐期伊埃马拉地加伊埃。有没有钻石戒指？阿布朗巴斯希里期阿达地伊哈伊？你住在哪里？阿布加汗拉希地哈伊伍？我住在成都。马因成都面拉希达芬伍。7，电话；目前印度有14家移动运营商经营移动电话业余。印度移动电信市场竞争激烈，排名随时在变换。2012年底的排名是；Idea拥有5590万用户，BSNL为5520万。　　其次是巴帝电信（Bhart Airtel）；沃达丰爱莎（VodafoneEssar）。在CDMA领域排名靠前的还有Reliance、BSNL、塔塔电信（Tata Teleservices）等，它们均同时运营GSM/CDMA双网。在印度购买移动电话卡，最好买排名靠前的移动运营商的卡，这些公司在印度国内几乎每个乡镇都有维护网点。便于调整你所使用的移动卡任何问。有的小的移动运营商，即使其所销售的卡要便宜些，但如是打电话或上网有什么障碍，很难在你所在的城市找到该公司的维护网点，那卡就等于白买了。 8 ，费用；我10月23日晚上到达印度加尔各答。11月14日从德里离开，在印度境内呆了23天。除去来回机票不计。所花费用主要是；A，住宿，3800RS。（火车上渡过4个晚上，在火车站渡过2个晚上，在阿姆利则金庙免费住了1个晚上。实际只住了15夜。） B，景点门票；3000RS。（其中最贵的是泰姬陵750RS。最不值得的是德里的贾玛清真寺300RS。其他大多是200RS以下。） C，吃；我在印度用在吃上的钱不多，除了个别情况外，一般每顿200RS，就够了。在印度最奢侈的一顿是在千柱庙出来，吃了一顿自助餐，每人320RS。大约每天伙食费在600RS，23天在吃上用去13800RS。还包含每天必吃的酸奶。 D，行；在印度坐了七段火车，4200RS。从菩提迦叶到瓦纳拉西、乌代普尔到焦德普尔、比卡内尔到阿姆利则这三段坐的长途汽车，共用3100RS。坐tutu 车用去2500RS。交通费用合计9800RS。E，其他杂用；电话卡、小费、水果4500RS。在印度23天，除去机票不算，总共花费34900RS。折合人民币3500元左右。 9，印度人的习俗； A，印度人是用摇头表示赞同，用点头表示不同意。人们用手抓耳朵表示自责；召唤某人的动作是将手掌向下摆手指，但不能只用一个指头；指人时也要用整个手掌，不能用一两个指头。 B，印度人大多习惯用传统的佛教手势－－双手合十。互相问好祝安。双手合十时，把双手举到脸部前才算合十。这种招呼，显得比握手高尚、文雅。注意切莫在双手合十的时候，也同时点头,容易引起当地人的嗤笑,那就破坏了亲切和气的气氛,显得有点不伦不类了。 C，印度人吃饭，习惯用手抓捏饭揉成团送进口里。但必须是用右手。给别人递食物、餐具，更得用右手。这是因为人们认为右手干净。 D，公共厕所，按当地的习惯，只要有墙的地方就是厕所。甚至在Varanasi人头攒动的大街上都可以随时面对墙方便。印度人大便后不用纸，而用左手沾水擦洗。所以千万不要用左手递食物给印度人，不要用左手和印度人握手。E，切莫抚摸小孩的头，头部是人体最高的部分,也是人体中最神圣无比的部分,尤其是孩子的头,被视为神明停留之处,所以,在任何情况之下绝不允许触摸。切莫对印度人吹口哨，那是冒犯人的举动，是没有教养的表现。 F，印度妇女喜欢在前额中间点有吉祥痣，其颜色不同，形状各异，在不同情况下表示不同意思，它是喜庆、吉祥的象征。印度男女多有配带各种装饰品的习惯。 G，印度人走进寺庙或厨房之前，先要脱鞋。穿鞋进去，既不礼貌，也不圣洁。不论男女老幼，统统把鞋放在门口，赤脚进去。 P，讳白色，习惯用百合花作悼念品。他们忌讳弯月图案，视1、3、7为不吉祥数字，和印度人交谈，要回避有关宗教矛盾、和巴基斯坦的关系、中印冲突、工资以及两性关系的话。([]

破劫之锋：星荒少年

刘颖柔

我一向不喜欢跟团旅游，自2006年开始自助游后，更是一发不可收拾，向往途中那自由自在的感觉。在国内数次周游后，便希望往国外跑。但自己一不会开车，二不会英语，觉得出国自驾游似乎与我无缘，只是奢想吧。偶尔在与有点明白的闲聊中，得知他要到澳洲自驾游，他问：“你去吗？”，我大喜过望，回答是干脆利落的一个字：“去！”。接下来一连串的准备事项，诸如策划行程、证、买机票等都拜托有点明白搞定。还买了睡袋、防潮垫等，原想到时寻找佳景露营，最后我嫌要带的东西较多，就只带了睡袋，放弃露营。只可惜有点明白背了一大背囊的装备，也没派上用场。为了一偿驾驶房车的夙愿，有点明白在网上捡了小梁和猫猫，我们租了辆奔驰六人房车，准备用11天，到国内同胞比较陌生的塔斯马尼亚和大洋路走走。塔岛太大了，太美了，就是玩一个月也不够，几天的时间，只能是走走而已。我在几个月的等待和希冀中，夹杂着一丝忐忑：异国他乡的路好走吗？右舵车能开得惯吗？同行的网友好相处吗......？这些疑虑在旅途中，很快就消除了（这是后话)。行程：第一天：广州飞吉隆坡。第二天：异国他乡的除夕夜。第三天阳光灿烂的亚瑟港，果园的车厘子。第四天：名镇的石桥、教堂，树顶漫步。第五天：霍巴特(Hobart)撒拉曼卡市集（Salamanca Market）,古迹公路的小镇奥特兰（Oatlands）、罗斯。第六天：一尘不染的罗斯（Ross）镇，葡萄酒庄与湿地黑天鹅，酒杯湾。第七天：邂逅野树莓海湾，夜访小企鹅。第八天：休闲企鹅镇，惊艳斯坦利镇（STANLEY）。第九天：斯坦利出海看海狮。第十天：告别美丽的塔岛，登上塔斯马尼亚精神号。十一天：托基、高尔夫球场的袋鼠、洛恩、森林营地的考拉。十二天：晨曦中的考拉、在直升飞机上鸟瞰十二使徒，最后的营地。十三天：墨尔本的亚拉河畔。十四天：墨尔本的联邦广场、圣保罗教堂。十五天：墨尔本到广州。第一天：广州飞吉隆坡。凌晨1点半从广州飞吉隆坡，5点半到达，晚上11点多飞墨尔本，本来可以到市区逛逛，但一宿没睡好，我们都觉疲累，再也不想奔波，就在机场酒店租了个钟点房，养精蓄锐，期待明天的精彩旅程！吉隆坡机场酒店。第二天：异国他乡的除夕夜。凌晨坐12点多的夜机飞墨尔本。机仓宽大舒服，一觉醒来，也快到墨尔本了。今天最令我们担心的是：10点到墨尔本，12点就要飞往塔岛的霍巴特，早就听说澳洲入境手续繁复，若稍有拖延登不了机，即使能改机票，那每人几百个大洋也打水漂了，弄得我三人心里直发毛！多谢上天眷顾，诸事顺利，待我们办好了各种手续后，还有时间慢慢地叹番件热狗，再悠哉游哉地登机。机场餐厅8刀一份的热狗，大份好味，两人吃也饱了。在机上鸟瞰塔岛大地。“塔斯马尼亚（Tasmania）位于澳大利亚南面，是澳大利亚最小的州，面积只有67,800平方公里，也是澳大利亚唯一的岛州，地处巴尔斯海峡以南，与澳洲本土的南部海岸隔海相望，距离墨尔本仅一小时（或悉尼 90 分钟）的飞行航程。拥有与世隔绝的独特的地理环境，塔斯曼尼亚百分之四十的地区被列为国家公园和自然保护区，为塔斯马尼亚披上了神秘的面纱。200年前这里曾英国流放重刑犯人的地方，多少恐怖耸人的往事传说记载在历史的铁幕岁月中。今天塔斯马尼亚成为了澳洲知名的观光胜地，森林覆盖率位于全澳之首，这里有原始茂密的国家森林公园，天然纯净的原始湖泊，澳洲遗产阿瑟港旧监狱等。如此古老而美丽的地方使它成为了世界上最令人神往的目的地之一。大洋路是澳大利亚政府为纪念一战中牺牲的战士修筑的，整条公路顺着海岸线开拓，一边靠着蔚蓝的海，一边靠着山，山边是百万年风化的奇岩怪石，蜿蜒曲折，风景壮观，沿途勾勒出海洋与陆地撞击而成的鬼斧神工，展示出闻名世界的自然奇观，景致动人心魄，在众多的海岸公路中，可甚称是路途最崎岖、最美丽的观光地。” 脚踏实地后，第一件事就是在机场选取塔岛的地图和各种旅游资料（至关重要，全部免费），再与网上结识的两位素未谋面的俊男靓女会合，随即赶往附近的租车点取车。我们这次自驾游的朋友：1有点明白——此行的筹划者，一切行程计划、租车租营地、我的证等全靠于他，还兼副驾。最牛的是，只要地图在手，他就是我们澳洲行的指路明灯，典型的活体GPS。牛！2 皑皑——主驾+大厨，虽是首次开右舵车，但很快就驾轻就熟，英姿飒爽地驾驶着大房车，奔驰在塔岛和大洋路，一路上可是领受了无数的注目礼的哦，真可谓“引无数英雄竞折腰”！一路上更为我们做了很多蛋糕蛋挞，强！3 小梁——懒于考驾照，在东南亚蒲了N次，最拿手就是煮咖啡和煎焗肉扒，对于行程上的东东一概不管，自嘲“做个跟屁虫跟到底！”，人却是很随和的，哈！ 4 猫猫——事业型女孩，虽有驾照却不喜欢开车，也是多次进出东南亚，不善家务，主动承领餐后洗碗工作。呃！5 木子lili——就是在下，“二不”人员：不会开车，不会英语，但能煲“阿妈靓汤”，炒小菜更是不在话下，只是澳洲菜比肉贵，强项被埋没了，就煮好淀粉质食物和靓汤弥补吧！汗！ 9天来，我们驾车（我是坐车的随行人员，嘻嘻！）穿行在塔岛上，饱览了无尽的荒原、大片的牧场、安静详和的小镇、多弯的丛林、美丽的海岸。住进大海边、小河旁、村镇里、树林中的各种汽车营地，体验了自驾游的无穷乐趣。“1点半抵达Hobart,急急忙忙找到租车点，做个了自助登记，连驾驶证都没有亮，老外就扔来一个便携DVD机及钥匙--到车上自己看DVD研究去吧。里里外外，研究了大半个小时，想着边玩边学吧，于是打火，走人。话说其实右呔车没传说中那么难适应，这奔驰的房车很快也就上手了。（摘自有点明白的游记）”这是机场旁边的租车公司。待租的车辆。先亮亮伴随我们多天的大家伙，里面可是样样俱全的啊！澳洲是自驾游天堂，并非浪得虚名。（以下为网上资料） “首先，澳洲地广人稀，但在这样幅员辽阔的国土上拥有发达的公路网。其次，澳洲公路网沿途有美不胜收的景色，蓝天白云下，当你驾驶爱车走过牛羊成群的牧场，擦过英式田园乡村，路过怀旧的澳洲小镇，穿过恍如隔世般的热带雨林，你不会不被这移步换景的沿途风光所陶醉。第三，澳洲道路能给驾驶者带来刺激。当你在幽静的盘山路中快速通过数不尽的弯道，当你在悬崖峭壁的海岸线上追逐日出日落，你不会不感到驾驶的乐趣所在。第四，澳洲政府为自驾游客提供了完善周到的配套服务，让你能够在旅途中安枕无忧。每隔30公里的加油站和休息区为你提供从免费打气、免费洗车到快餐连锁、休闲娱乐在内的各种服务，“游客中心”则是为你排忧解难，解惑释疑的百事通，房车及露营营地为以车为家的房车游客提供了从充电、沐浴到烹调做菜在内的各种生活设施，遍布全澳的汽车租赁公司网点，随时为“自驾车”游客提供技术支援。由澳洲旅游部推荐、澳洲人及外国游客公认的最佳自驾游路线：时间，1000公里，让你感受大山的宁静，体验冲浪的刺激，沐浴瀑布的芬芳，膜拜十二门徒的尊容；五、南澳州环州游，8天时间，1600公里，有美酒佳肴陪伴你；六、澳北探寻红河谷与巨石，7天时间，1200公里，探访一片红色的土七、西澳淘金之旅，14天时间，2千公里，去看看为什么这片土地无论在过去的淘金年代还是在现在的资源大开发时代，都为澳洲人带来滚滚财富。” 一、昆士兰州热带风情路，两周时间，2千公里路程，让你欣赏到一幅从大海到莽原的壮丽画卷；二、新南威尔士州南部海岸之旅，8天时间，1000公里，让你从海港城市悉尼到澳洲首都堪培拉，感受南十字星座下这两座城市的魅力；三、世外桃源塔斯马尼亚岛之旅。8天时间，1000公里路程，让你在世外桃源里欣赏天造地设、鬼斧神工的自然景观；四、维多利亚州南部之旅，7天我们这次选的是“三、世外桃源塔斯马尼亚岛9天之旅”和“四、维多利亚州南部3天之旅，”，总行程二千几公里。借用“迪车会”照片一张，在此谢过！房车内的配置厨房：四头煤气炉，微波炉，锅碗瓢盆全在柜子里。到汽车营地接上水电，就可做饭。餐柜—全是六份厨房的沙发一拉开，就是双人床。电视机，可放VCD。有好几个这样的柜子，可放杂物。洗手间——因不想每日清理嘘嘘和臭臭，这里就成了储物间。每个汽车营地都有洗手间，方便得很。型仔驾车，出发啦！"说今晚住的地方没有任何商场，于是便途中在Sorell进行了好大一番采购。（有点明白）”买来的食品堆满了车上的冰箱——以肉为主，还有果汁和牛奶，那可是比矿泉水还便宜的。“ 往Pt Arthur的路上经过Eaglehawk Neck,原计划明天在这里潜两瓶气看海龙和海狮，于是顺路到潜店里了解了一下。经过对价格及水温、无潜导等各种因素的考虑，确定放弃潜水的计划。（有点明白）”。四个潜水发烧友非常郁闷，我却在一旁窃喜：不用担心他们的安全了——欺山莫欺水啊！留到东南亚潜个够路上风景。傍晚七半点左右便到了预订的Kevin Cottage,车就停在河边(后来发现原来这里应该算海)。在Hotel,Motel,Inn,B&B,Cottage各种名字的住处选择间,我通常偏好Cottage,因为Cottage通常意味着数量极少的民宅. 并通常隐藏在乡下郊外,而我们订的这家也如是.整片区域只有7-8间房子.老板Denis拥有其中四间,一间自住,另外三间分别叫The Classic Cottage,Kevin Cottage, 和The Old Ockwood. 169刀可以在如此安静优美的环境下住五个人,我们毫无疑问地定下。Denis（店老板）：‘Welcome，但我下班了，要不明早再来给我钱吧，钥匙已经在门上了。’（有点明白）”。我们今晚住的房子，靠山面海，鲜花环绕。温馨的客房，简单整洁。美女大厨：时间不早了，快做我们的年夜饭吧油焖大虾——嘻嘻哈哈！烧生蚝伴羊排——好事相伴。蒜蓉煎焗牛排——牛气冲天。白灼西蓝花——花开福贵！玉米马铃薯羊骨培根汤——盆满钵满！开饭啰！好一桌丰盛的年夜饭。举杯祝福遥远家乡里的亲人——新年快乐，如意吉祥！第三天阳光灿烂的亚瑟港，果园的车厘子。“塔斯马尼亚官方旅游图,红色的是我们途经的路线,黄点是每天的营地位置。（有点明白)”大年初一，先来一碗广式早餐。澳洲凡是大型超市都有李锦记的调味料和广东的米粉面条。再在空气超好的小阳台上叹一杯咖啡，惬意！([]

一品神卜

郭志宇

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第3815章王有道的...

赖宏达

一天，一天，秋风拂红了绿叶，阳光晒出了一片片金黄。院子里勤俭的老人们，晒了一地的辣子、菜花、青萝卜、雪里蕻，晒着丰收的心情。偶尔，夜雨坠落，寒气弥漫，惦记着热腾腾的火锅，也想念起温暖的夏季了。初夏，暖风四起。为了见到燕小培，我加入了零队的博格达五峰穿越队伍。第一次漂大厢进山，还是蛮刺激的。颠簸一路，还都挺开心的大风中，颠簸中，窝在人堆里，努力地卷烟卷第一天的路并不长。也是为了让大家适应。2号羊圈扎营之后，便是热热闹闹的火锅大餐。托小培捎来的即墨老酒，加了姜丝和红糖，煮热了，正好配火锅。聊着聊着，一不小心吃了个肚歪，喝了个微醺。收拾东西钻帐篷，听到营地正开始第二场活动。大家围着灯光烟火，和着欢快的歌曲，跳起了舞蹈。红姨啊，你的队伍是我目前遇到最能闹腾、最有活力的队伍了。第二天的路，虽然雇来了骆驼和马匹，但是顶着狂风行走并不好受。有点庆幸自己没有雇马匹。有大背包在后背档着，暖和许多。饶是如此，某些瞬间风大的地方也会被吹得站立不稳。大石背后好挡风牛气的骆驼，挂了许多背包因为前方积雪太深，马匹过不去。渐渐地，起雾了，风更冷了，小水点儿飞落走上三个岔瀑布，雪已经开始渐渐加大饶是寒风飞雪地，他们依然快乐雪越来越大……其他的山里看来也难幸免在队伍里和飞翔夜猫意外重逢了。去年狼V偶遇这位桂林领队，能背能走。雪越来越大。过冰面的时候，一步没落好，我的右脚直接踩破冰面落入水里，瞬间那个透心凉呀。后面每一次等待都得不停跺脚取暖。有些队员则因为早上轻装走路的时候，没随身带够衣服，不免有些着凉不适。零队找了个地方安排大家扎营。第一次在雪窝里搭营，好不容易踩出了雪坑，结果风一直吹得帐篷飞来飞去地，没法搭。一旁的广州骆驼已经把帐篷基本搭建完毕，招呼着别弄了，先进帐篷凑合一晚上吧。赶紧收拾自己的东西钻进帐篷，右脚几乎冻僵，冰水泥巴把鞋带粘得一塌糊涂。我想我那天基本是呲牙咧嘴地哆嗦了好半天才换下袜子钻进睡袋保温。而骆驼一直在外面，拉风绳，铲雪压帐篷，再盛回干净的雪，然后才进帐篷，开始烧水做饭。雪花继续飞舞。在这个小小的石围里，不弃、火星还有骆驼的帐篷挨在了一起。骆驼焖了香肠米饭，煮了锅咖喱菜，另外两个帐篷里，每个帐篷炒俩菜，大家一起分享。一轮吃下来，居然又撑着了。骆驼烧了些热茶，喝下去，终于感觉到温度全回来了。大风雪之后，通常会是好天气。早晨的耀眼的阳光驱散了所有寒意。毫无意外的鞋子冻上了，根本穿不进去。不管了，干脆把壶里的温水浇在鞋面上，化开了冰坨子，然后穿上防水袜，笨拙地扎好鞋带，套上雪套，走出帐篷。阳光真好~！没记错的话，旁边这就是4613米的“小珠峰”，中登协高山技能培训会有攀登“小珠峰”的项目。厚厚的新雪，走起来还是很舒服的。大伙儿的心情格外的好~小培这一身颜色搭配，俏生生拜山，许愿，还原前方有冰裂缝，零队带头，结组先行。差点踩进裂缝里保持距离，列队前进零队休息中的结组队员广州骆驼简单达坂下，午饭时间。倒是不大饿，煮了锅羊肉汤饭，喝得身上暖烘烘的。继续走着~“简单”达坂，不简单。新雪松软，零队在前面踩出脚印来，大家依次顺序而上，还得小心不会滑下坡去。翻过达坂顶，SOSO给“阜康简单”烧去纸钱，希望他继续保佑大家在山里平平安安。欢乐地下坡去咯过雪原到达三号冰湖附近，择地扎营。意外得知今天是“千寻”的生日，细心的“火星”拿来面条和鸡蛋，让我给“千寻”做一碗长寿面，他和“夜猫”则动手做饭炒菜。晚上大伙儿挤在姑娘们的大帐篷里，给"千寻"唱歌庆祝，分享美食，热热闹闹地聊成一片。大概星星们也觉得我们有点吵~今天要出山啦，要出山啦~。回头再见~还有冰裂缝。骆驼拍照的时候，包上挂着的杯子掉下去了。用手杖折腾好一会儿，捞上来了。由于一路下坡，温度渐渐回升，植被也越来越丰富，大伙儿的速度渐渐地也加快了一起搞个怪……群主被群杵？零队你拍个牛粪也那么敬业沿途能看到裂开的冰河再见小培，依旧美丽开朗，爱笑得没心没肺的。继续保持哦，为了爱你的人们和你爱的人们小寿星千寻忽然觉得你俩很默契~零队说了，出山会看到花海。然后我们一路寻找，沿途只看到零星的小花。零队说，每平方米只要有一朵也算……花海趴在地上拍微距也是蛮累的。。。忽然看到了成片的紫花，等待许久的摄友们激动了到达绝望坡顶，休息。天气暖和了([]

《瑶影未眠》

李佳颖

序：今年六月间，我攀登了阿拉斯加山脉的主峰麦金利。海拔6193米的北美第一高峰麦金利，位于北极圈附近，气候恶劣，虽然海拔并不高，但攀登的相对高度却超过珠峰，被称为登山家的坟墓，历史上有很多著名登山家在此殒落。麦金利可以说是我所攀登过的山峰最美的一座了，整个攀登期间，共拍了六千多幅照片。在整理相片时，攀登的情形不时再现，有时，心绪深深陷入在对某张相片的记忆里不能自拔，或悲或喜，宛如第二次攀登。照片本身我不喜欢裁剪或者过度PS，这样能尽量保持原状态。文字虽称诗，但谈不上是诗，最多只是一点心情，望与朋友们分享，更望指教，谢谢~　　另说明：1、此贴不是游记，详细游记《路的尽头》正在写作中，希望能在年底完成，呈现给喜欢的朋友们。2、不是按时间顺序写的，前后秩序有些乱，抱歉~　今年夏季攀登期间，法国和比利时两个登山家先后在滑坠而亡，痛惜并仅以此贴怀念。死亡，对所有登山者来说，都是必须要学会面对的课。同时，这种死亡也被赋予了另外一种悲壮的美，像一阵鼓声敲打着登山者的灵魂。对于登山者来说，雪山如同永恒的情人，爱有多远，路就有多远~从C3到C4攀登中，遇到刚刚从山上撤下来的登山者，脸上挂满冰碴，沧桑的样子特别悲壮。因为那一阵天气特别不好，得知有的队在山上已经等待了二十九天，还没能登顶，另有两个队员已经滑坠遇难，对所有没能登顶的队员我都心生慈悲，每每遇到他们，都会在心里向失败的登顶者致敬。从C2到C3攀登十分累人，每个人除了自己装备外，还要分摊公用物资，拖着雪橇在漫长而松软的雪上行走，极其艰难。可当我行进到这里，看到队友像狗一样爬行时的悲壮，在这种光与影的氛围中，突然因为卑微而感到做为人的幸运。在那个傍晚，没有黑夜（在这个季节，麦金利只有白天），只有无畏，只有一颗狮子般勇敢的心。快到C3营地时，当一个国外登山者孤独的剪影呈现在我镜头里时，那种温暖的感觉让我想起小时候的家。谢谢母亲。那天下午，在C3营地的帐篷里，我一直看着这哥俩在雪坡上吃力地爬着，雪坡和人都是那样的干净，他们干净的样子让我感动，难以描述，其实，山与人应该可以交融，人本就是自然的一部分~从C3到C4攀登途中，路过这个风口，遭遇强风暴。此前，法国登山家就是在此滑坠的~ 在这里，风暴如此之大，吹得雪坡都起了波痕，让人无法行走，就是站都站不稳，等了一个多小时，风仍不见小，只得再一步步胆战心惊地下撤。从海拔五千多米的山上向下看去，山下一如白色海洋，无声的波涛拍打着堤岸，宛如一曲安魂的歌，听着时，心，无限悲壮~即使远在北极圈附近的麦金利山，人类生活对环境的影响依然明显，雪线也在一天天的消退，让人揪心也让人悲伤。如果连麦金利的雪都消逝了，人类的命运也就开始了倒计时~对山我一直心存敬畏，却一直没有过害怕。我喜欢那种融入和被融入的感觉，虽然前面充满不可预知，但也正因为如此，吸引着我。有时候，你迈出了一步，就会看到另一种人生~有时，走在雪山上，雪山厚重、无言的样子，让我常想起已经离去的父亲，想着小时候，他背我上医院看病的情景。我尝试着与父亲对话，减轻我攀登过程中的疲惫、苦难和恐惧感，更想让他知道我对他的思念。坐在飞往大本营的小飞机上俯瞰阿拉斯加原生态立体风景，湖畔、草原，白云、群山层次分明，高大的麦金利山巅直入云宵，大地上的一切摄人心魄。看到群山，就想到了一辈子都在山中行走着的父亲。父亲从部队甫转业地方，就被打成了右派。父亲二十年右派最初的生涯是在地质勘探队里挖了几年的槽井中度过的，并落下了矽肺病，最终死于矽肺病引起的哮喘。父亲是个热爱大自然的人，棋琴棋书画无所不通，却生不逢时，郁郁而终。每每看到好的风景，或者登上了山，都想告诉父亲，但，也只能等到来日了。谢谢生我培养我的父亲，一生从没说过一句谎话的父亲！对我来说，对登山的热爱早已超过了对死亡的恐惧，但登山过程中，对那些离去者还是充满了痛惜，对生命本身还是充满悲悯~挑选这幅照片时，恍如一下又回到了当时。那天登顶下撤的过程异常艰难，最后走到大本营时，我双脚一共起了8个大水泡。行进中，袜子和血水粘在一起，每步都疼痛着。现在看着照片，已经不再疼痛，只有梦境般的雄壮和冷~那天沐浴在这样的阳光下，看着雪坡上的那人在蓝色阴影中一点点移动的身形，清风中，细碎的雪花在阳光中轻舞，一切如此美好。然而，人世很短、生命无常，这是无奈，也正是我们要珍惜当下的缘由呀~在雪坡上俯瞰海拔4300米的C4营地，小路上，一个人正在往回走着，还有三三二二的人正在帐篷外晒着太阳聊着天，有的要继续向上攀登，有的则是要下去了，但他们悠闲的样子，轻松、自在。有时候，当你看着这样美丽而清新的营地，就像看着自己曾经呆过的乡村，就像面对才见又要与之分别的情人~一夜大雪覆盖了C3营地，第二天上午的天空中，还在飘着细细的雪，看着眼前的一切，心中一片宁静，有很多的话想要说出来~在四号营地附近，有一个叫着“世界边缘”的地方，举目望去，悲凉的感觉没有尽头，整个时空仿佛都充满着深深的母爱~~这张照片上的文字是在中秋前夕写的，这个世上，我最愧对的，就是我的双亲了。我还没能好好孝顺他们，他们就走了。我经常在梦里梦到他们，每次醒来，枕头边都是湿的。在这里愿意天下所有活着的父母健康快乐~攀登雪山，走累的时候，就想睡觉，那是极度疲惫和高反的表现。看到前面的兄弟走的摇摇晃晃的样子，却无法帮助到他。在山上，一切只能靠自己~一些人走了，一些人却永远留下在了山上。有一些悲伤是短暂的，有些悲伤却很久远。在这个世上，正是因为悲伤，才使我们更加性情，才更懂得珍惜~风暴如此猛烈，横向穿过来，想将我们吹下山去。只有用这种姿势才能站稳，其实说不怕是假的，恐惧的感觉很冷~一场雪，突然而起，不是来自天上，而是从山坡下被风倒灌，吹得人像腾云驾雾一般，冰冷，站都站不稳，人类的渺小和无奈，人类的坚强都在这幅画里了~登山的风险无处不在，每个登山的人都明白，但还是来了，他们登的山，也是自己的梦。登山的时候，他们都是自己心中的山~快到C3营地的最后一个大雪坡，人类的渺小和伟大都在这样背景的映衬下呈现出来了，让我震撼无比。傍晚，两座雪山像两位端坐的老人，冷眼旁观着人世间的一切，冷眼旁观着登山者的一切，几千万年了，他们都是这样端坐着。看懂的人，能感受到他们那晚的慈祥。攻顶成功，下撤到海拔C5营地，晚上一轮明月又大又亮，与太阳余晖共存于长空。看到站在营地崖际间的老罗正在拍摄，面对此景，亲人和家乡的样子也越来越清晰，像流水不息~那天午夜，我目睹了一次太阳落下和太阳升起的过程，我经历了一次阳光将无数星星撒落在雪坡上的震撼。但这里的天空越美，就越让我想着纯朴的家乡——马鞍山~([]

逍遥小农夫

王涵阳

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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