A bike tour on the qinghai-tibet highway

A bike tour on theqinghai-tibet highway

The most impressivecycling routes I can remember are New Zealand's south island and China'sqinghai-tibet highway, which is relatively recent.New Zealand's south islandand dantalin road have also been cycled, but the memories of the film era havelong been blurred, and I am too tired to rummaging through my suitcase to findthe positive pieces that still need to be confirmed by magnifying glass. It ismuch easier to search the map files of qinghai-tibet road in the hard disk.

A year ago, I took partin a cycling trip on the qinghai-tibet highway. It was a very specialexperience.It starts at golmud, about 2,800 meters in qinghai province, andends at Lhasa in Tibet.All lines are riding in high altitude environment, thehighest altitude is 5375 meters, the whole road conditions are generally good,not difficult to ride, but high altitude so more difficult to trudge.

It's more difficult to ridea bike with a camera than it is to walk, and a duffel bag on your bike isbetter than a backpack on your back.The special thing about taking pictures onthe roof of the world is that the air is very clear and the visibility is veryhigh. If you just want to take pictures of the scenery, the panoramic depth iseasy to obtain as long as the aperture is reduced.

But there is a lot ofrubbish in many places, such as the Tibetan plateau, the permafrost, which willnever rot unless the PLA is sent to clean it up for several years....So, nomatter where you go, don't litter!

In the past, I read aboutthe qingkang Tibetan plateau in geography textbooks. Apart from being known asthe roof of the world, it is also a vast expanse of mountains and rivers, fullof wind, grass, cattle and sheep.Now there is no xikang province, so this largearea is called qinghai-tibet plateau.However, no matter how the name ischanged, the local people are still the same, and the landscape is stillinfinitely attractive. This used to be a big corner of the world map. It usedto be only a geographical term in high school geography textbooks, and I knewnothing about it except the roof of the world.

For granted is notkidding, the roof of the world's largest, but the qinghai-tibet highway trafficis very good, and the other to Tibet road is harder than the lowest one, whichfrom the golmud in qinghai province to Lhasa in Tibet, the 1154 km, is one ofthe world's highest road, to the top of mount tunggula of altitude of 5231meters, the average height of about 4000 meters, in addition to the altitudewas a fascinating challenge, along the way will pass through the desert,grassland, lakes, and in front of all the mountains, but also through theunmanned area of large area,After climbing to the highest point, they began todescend all the way to Lhasa, where the Buddha was in heaven.

For people who like totravel by bike, this is a dream with a magnitude of route, the elevation ishigh, but the road slope gentle all the way, most of the roads are laid flatasphalt, so in fact for a man who often engaged in outdoor sports, physicalburden is not how difficult, but the climate changes greatly, and resting forsettlement distant from each other, rain or snow and the sun is the biggestchallenge.

Riding on roads with anaverage altitude of more than 4,000 meters, I don't have any altitude sickness,just fatigue.To be fair, this period of more than 1100 kilometers of theqinghai-tibet highway, across the dangerous terrain, is not what a terrible slope,occasionally some slightly uneven road maintenance section, the most of therest are all very good riding a paved roads, it is no wonder that from mainlandChina provinces along the bicycle tourists in an endless stream, indeed this isthe most easy to enter Tibet a road.

This road straight withups and downs gentle, so for Tibet and mainland ShuYun arteries and the way ofdaily volume quite striking, was not to feel how far see trucks, wait until thetruck approaching, would like the large trucks, literally dozens of tons, atleast 20 rounds were more monsters, ride a bike after his side when thepressure is very big.Some of the overnight stops were just a few shabby,squalid cottages, hardly worthy of a hotel, but there was no choice because ofthe miles.Some towns are full of people, and are worth stopping to experiencethe exotic local customs, while the destination Lhasa is the largest city inTibet, with rapid development, modern and ancient coexistence, is the focus ofthe enjoyment, and is worth spending more time to stay.In addition to the mostrepresentative potala palace, there are other equally old and legendary templesare also worth a visit, the whole body let the temple special Tibetanaromatherapy pottery, bring back a body of reiki.......

Choose the right season,choose the right equipment, maintain the fitness, the rest is time, if there issuch a chance, I will take my car to go again.The natural landscape, localcharacters and eating habits along this road are all different from those ofmiddle earth, and full of mysterious ancient civilization sentiment. Atpresent, it should be the most representative long-distance entry-level bicycletravel route in China.But do not underestimate the entry level of these threewords, or must be fully prepared and physical ability to do so!

To overcome altitudesickness, the body can adapt by reasonable arrangement of the trip, and theliving conditions are almost close to the wild life, used to eat good livinggood city people have to adapt to such a way of travel, for example, many dayscan not take a bath, no toilet, even no accommodation...And so on.

But now has aprofessional travel agency can do STH for sb the qinghai-tibet highway bicycletourism activities, on behalf of the entire process all the travel arrangementsand accommodation, transportation also has support auto accompanying, greatlyreduces the threshold, is safe, at least for the wild life habit, is a luxurytrip, but to want to ride a bike and want to experience the roof of the world spectacularscenery of urbanite, as long as the money can solve the above problem, also bea boon.