425. Everest Base Camp
"Hey, I'll be there soon" Li Zimu sat in the passenger seat and called Carl, telling him that he was almost at the place he had agreed to be, and then said some other things.
"Is there Mount Everest ahead?"
Zhuge Yinglong waited for Li Zimu to hang up the phone before asking, it's still early, but I didn't expect to drive for only an hour, and I went from Lasa to the foot of Mount Everest, and said quite quickly......
"It's still early, it's just that I'm in Shigatse"
Li Zimu shook his head and said, Shigatse is the second largest city in Xizang, and Li Zimu agreed to meet Carl here.
Shigatse is actually not very big, and it is not prosperous, most of them are low-rise houses, and there are basically no high-rise buildings in sight.
There are a lot of backpackers on the road, and there are also some locals who set up stalls to sell things, and this is still the edge of the city, and their destination is in the city center.
According to the navigation on the car, Zhuge Yinglong drove the car all the way towards the Sangzhuzi district in the city center, and Li Zimu instructed Zhuge Yinglong to stop the car in an iconic place, and then called Carl.
The latter was nearby, and it didn't take long for Li Zimu to find them.
"Boss"
Carl still shouted respectfully when he saw Li Zimu.
"Hard work" Li Zimu patted him on the shoulder and said, Carl had already come over a few days ago to prepare for Li Zimu's operation.
The first thing was to change the car, because the next road to go was not particularly easy to walk, so after Li Zimu parked the car in a parking lot, the group followed Carl with his luggage to the place where he lived here.
It wasn't a hotel, but a private villa, and Li Zimu wasn't curious whether Carl had bought it or rented it.
"Tsk, Mercedes-Benz big g, or two ......"
Zhuge Yinglong looked at the two cars parked in the courtyard and drooled excitedly, sure enough, it was really beneficial to follow a rich boss......
However, what disappointed him was that one of the two cars was driven by Carl, and the other was driven by them, but Li Zimu was worried about Zhuge Yinglong's driving skills, so he naturally drove the next trip.
Carl's car was carrying another man, who was their guide.
After a short rest, the two cars set off, Carl leading the way in front and Li Zimu following behind with a few people.
The car left Shigatse City and headed straight outside, and in more than half an hour, the two cars stopped at the checkpoint.
As a natural attraction reserve, Mount Everest is required to charge an entrance fee, which is a very common problem.
The person Carl brought was a local, who was very familiar with this place, and was chatting and laughing with the old man who was checking the ticket.
It didn't take long for the formalities to be completed, and the formalities of Li Zimu and a few people had already been completed, so there was no need to spend any more time on it.
After the trip from the checkpoint, Li Zimu walked once before, and it was on foot, there was no cement road, just paved with small stones.
I didn't expect it to be repaired after so many years, and there is still no pressure on the Mercedes-Benz big G to walk on this kind of road, but the car is a little difficult.
Most of the cars on the road are pickup trucks and SUVs, and there are no signs on the road, so local people who need to know the way can tell the direction clearly.
"Fortunately, I changed the car, otherwise our car would have been enough to go up this way......"
Zhuge Yinglong's body shook with the bumps of the car body and said, just now, they crossed a small stream, if they use Audi to run this road, it is estimated that their heads will be broken.
However, the scenery on the road is still very good, and the group is talking and laughing and following the car in front.
It took three hours to finally reach a junction that looked like a fork in the road.
The reason why it is said that it is a fork in the road is mainly because there is a large sign in the middle of the road.
"Zhuo Aoyou Peak Base Camp to the left, Everest Base Camp to the right"
Zhuge Yinglong looked at the sign and read out the words on it.
The Mercedes-Benz corner in front drove to the stone road on the right, and Li Zimu followed to the right.
Ten minutes later, the car stopped at a checkpoint, which is the checkpoint of Mount Everest, and the main inspection is some procedures for entering the mountain.
For example, there is a bunch of messy things such as border guards, but this does not need to worry about Li Zimu, after passing the checkpoint, it is the first base camp not far away.
In the middle, I passed by a small village called Tashi Dzong, the small and poor kind, with only one or two small restaurants where you could eat.
The two cars stopped and had a simple meal, a meal without vegetables and all meat, everyone had no appetite, but in order to replenish the body's energy, they still ate a little bit.
"The wind is so strong...... " said the spirit of the chiff as he stroked his windswept hair, although the sun was shining, but the temperature was very low due to the altitude, so they had already put on the padded jackets that Carl had prepared.
After solving the problem of lunch, the two cars set off again, driving along the dirt road, and Li Zimu could feel the rising elevation.
In fact, he was driving while using his divine sense to probe the surroundings, except for some people who took pictures, he didn't see anything, but it's right to think about it, if the hundred altars were in these places, it is estimated that they would have been dug up by the government......
"There's a post office here? What the hell, it's supposed to be the highest post office in the world haha."
Zhuge Yinglong looked at the post office they had just passed by and said with a smile, it was not a stone house building, but a large military tent. Next to it is written the words Welcome to the Everest Base Camp Postal Service Point.
"Who's going to come here to send something......
Chi Ling thought for a moment and said, it should be tourists who come here to send postcards to relatives and friends, so it is understandable why there is a post office in such a high place......
"Everest Base Camp!
Zhuge Yinglong looked at the large open space in front of him and said happily, they finally came to the destination of this operation, the base camp of Mount Everest.
It is surrounded by a large circle of military tent hotels, and two flags are erected in the middle, one is the Chinese national flag, and the other is the flag of the Everest Nature Reserve.
"This is just a camp, not a base camp for the mountaineers, just a scenic spot for ordinary people to see Mount Everest up close."
Karl smiled and said that this was not the destination they were traveling, and that the reason they stopped here was because they couldn't drive the road below.