At that time, he always thought that he would see a few sturdy foreigners who looked more classic, because he had been traveling here all the time, and those who wanted to climb Qingtanggula Mountain were such adventure lovers. What he didn't expect was that this group of people was not like that, the few people who came were not young, only one of the four men was still strong, and the other three were wearing glasses and holding a beer belly. On the contrary, both women look relatively healthy. In addition, she was accompanied by a relatively young Chinese female translator, who was said to be an international student in Germany.

He looked at the figure of these people and felt that it was enough, but it was not easy to say anything at the time, so he took them into the car, the route was Lhasa→ Pai Township→ Songlinkou→ Duoxiong Lashan→ sweaty→ his back collapsed→ Motuo, he could walk the car, and if he didn't have a car, he would walk. The beginning of this part of Motuo's journey was nothing, and there were a lot of porters. You can rest along the way, and when you enter the Duoxiongla Mountain, you can basically enter Motuo, because there is no way back when you enter the mountain, and you can only go all the way.

As a tour guide in Xi/Tibet, you don't need to talk too much about being a guide like this, because many of the scenery can be introduced casually, and Aga is responsible for leading the way and contacting the rest point, he follows the team, and when he sees the famous mountain, he points and shouts, and a few foreigners hurry to take pictures. I didn't see any fatigue from them all the way, and it seemed that these people were not as useless as he thought.

The first five hours of the journey into the mountain were the first five hours of the journey, because the weather was very changeable in the afternoon, so they had to rush to the snowy mountain at noon, and he was very depressed because the Germans were not very cooperative, and they always insisted on stopping to take pictures.

In the end, it took about eight days from the departure to the agreed destination in Metuo, which was a slow walk, and according to the contract they would stay in Motuo for a week, and then cross on foot. At this time, a strange thing happened, and on the night of the rest, the female translator brought an old foreigner to their room to find them, saying that they wanted to discuss things.

At first, he thought they wanted to change routes, and he chuckled in his heart, because talking about money was not his forte, but they took out a map of Motuo, pointed to a location, and asked him if he could take them to that place.

He was very familiar with Motuo, and when he looked at the location he pointed, he found that it was a Menba mountain area on the side of the Brahmaputra River, which was not a tourist area, but there were many tourists who went there, because there was a very large and ancient lama temple, which was built on the mountainside, but it was not open to the public, and in the past it could only be taken from a distance at the bottom of the mountain to take pictures.

Then the female translator made a price, because it was not a violation of the law, and they were relieved at the time - usually such things would be negotiated when the itinerary was set, and then brought up again in Motuo, and few people would do this, because as long as their hearts were dark, they could raise a very high price at this time, and he was strange here.

At that time, they could only think that maybe it was the temporary idea of these foreigners or that the whole trip to Tibet was easier than they thought, so they wanted to make it more difficult.

In fact, he also admires these people a little, because their body shape is really not like that kind of person with very developed motor cells, but he can't see any fatigue along the way. Aga also praised them in English: "strong, tail sharp strong!!"

But in fact, they have just entered Metuo now, and if they want to go to that lama temple, they are not taking the tourist route, which also means that there are not so many porters waiting for you on the side of the road. This is quite a troublesome thing, because if there is any accident, it is very likely that they will have to carry the excess equipment, and they may even have to carry people - he is only 1.77 meters, and those foreigners are about 1.9 meters, and he can't carry them even if he is killed.

He told the female translator about the situation, saying that if you want to go to that place, you must hire a special porter, this money is not enough, it is the peak season, the porter is more popular, and many of the current batch are from Sichuan, and it is not easy to negotiate the price.

The two sides began to bargain, and the Germans had apparently done their homework before, biting at the price and acting very angry, threatening to terminate the contract if they did not agree and complain to them.

He and Aga looked at each other and laughed, and said in his heart that you are still playing this with me after you are in Motuo. ”

It's not blackmail. In fact, it's true that the Germans can get the price they offer, but they will have a lot of hard time. He has always thought that doing this line of work in the West/Tibet is a knife job, especially when it comes to Motuo, and it is indeed very dangerous to go back and forth through the snow-capped mountains.

They went to the local tourist bar and drank a few cans of beer for 20 yuan, and the female translator came over and said that she wanted to reason with them, saying that the foreigner's price was copied from those travelogues on the Internet, and the price they gave was twice as high as that copied by the foreigner, and he would definitely think that they were blackmailing him, which was not moral.

He was depressed when he heard it, now there are too many travelogues on the Internet, but often many tourists confuse help with hiring, Tibetans are very hospitable and warm, especially those girls who come in alone for life experience, in some dangerous places, Tibetans will come to help you carry things or lead the way, so that you can pass early. Many people think that this is a package business, and finally stuff some money to thank, people think it is a gift, not to lose your face, just want it, but those people go back to the Internet to blow nonsense, but I don't know that people are completely looking at your face, there are many places if you don't happen to meet, you want to hire someone else, no matter how much money people don't want to go.

He was telling the truth, and there were a lot of tour guides and tourists in the bar, and they all echoed him. The woman probably thought that this was indeed the case at first glance, and then went back and told the foreigners, and the price was set. But the foreigner was also real, and later apologized to him, which made him embarrassed.

After this matter was decided, he and Aga decided on the route, and prepared to set off the next day, so that after coming back, there would be time to rest and then carry out the next trip, because they still need to climb the snowy mountains, otherwise they will not be able to bear such a high-intensity hike.

This was the first time he went to the Jila Lama Monastery, and after he went, he fell in love with the place, and later opened his own small restaurant under the lama temple, and then the hotel closed down and became a boiler room. However, the experience of entering this lama temple at that time was not pleasant, because several foreigners wanted to sneak into the temple secretly, and were invited out by several lamas.

It is said that the Germans' purpose at that time was very clear, and it seemed that there was a plan to enter a room in the lama's temple, but it failed, and after the failure, these Germans did not go on the rest of the trip, but were sent back to the airport directly.

It seemed like a few arrogant foreigners doing it, but it took me a long time before I realized that it had made a lot of things inextricably linked.