Chapter 93: Turning the Mountain
Kailash turns around the mountain for a total of 52 kilometers, if you are in good health, what kind of mountaineer, trekking expert and the like, you can turn Kailash in one day, the whole journey is about 15 hours to 18 hours, and the fastest he found is 13 hours to complete a circle.
He wasn't prepared to chase such a record. Finally came to Kailash, the sacred mountain in the eyes of the Tibetans, did he just ignore everything around him and just bury his head in the road?
So what did he do. Chen Xing chose a two-day route, that is, to stay in the mountains for one night, and only return to Taqin the next day.
This leaves a lot of time to photograph and document. You can also calm down and feel the respect and sustenance of the locals for the sacred mountain.
If you want to add Hou Xiaoai and Zhang Lin to them, you can only choose a three-day route, and you can arrive in two days, but it is also very tiring to do so, Chen Xing has learned that they have no experience in hiking before, so they can only say that they have adapted to the high anti-high and can barely go.
Zhang Lin saw how hard it was for Chen Xing to say how hard it was to turn the mountain, and the idea that had just arisen was instantly dispelled, and he persuaded Hou Xiaoai.
"Forget it, Xiao Ai, let's go to Shiquan River, I heard that it's also a big city." Big cities are not counted, but for Ali, Shiquan River is a very lively place.
Hou Xiaoai nodded, and before getting into the car, she glanced at Chen Xing deeply, and the two didn't say anything, as if the ambiguity that had arisen in that small room before did not exist at all.
Chen Xing watched their car drive away from Tachin before turning around and walking into the inn behind him. The environment of Tachin is better than that of the towns on the Ali Central Line, there is no shortage of water, and there are many hotels, restaurants, teahouses, etc.
The residential houses along the road are also neat, with beige walls and red roofs, like single-family villas, which are particularly beautiful.
Which city did this help? He thought to himself. The inland provinces implement one-to-one assistance to Tibet, for example, Sichuan Province is the counterpart of Qamdo, a few days ago he saw this table when he brushed the B station, Ali seems to be Hebei Shaanxi?
I didn't see it at the time. Anyway, the beep station will push a lot of things for you for some reason, such as one day you have a toothache, recommend some popular science videos of dental diseases to you, or you want to eat some snacks, and a good snack will come out with a few brushes.
It's as if there's a monitor in the room. The small houses on the road are not only residential houses, but also some are commercial, and Chen Xing saw someone enlarging the door and turning it into a restaurant, with a wooden sign common in Tibet hanging on it, which reads: Yak Restaurant.
Chen Xing went in and ordered a fried cabbage and a stir-fried beef with sour radish. Stir-fried beef with sour radish is not a big dish, but when you are hungry and want to eat, this dish is definitely the first choice in Tibet.
After eating, I walked out of the restaurant, and the snow-capped mountains opposite were very conspicuous in the sunset. It is not Kailash at 6,638 meters above sea level, but Namunani Peak at 7,694 meters above sea level, and the setting sun shines on the snow above it golden and reflective, like a bright blade, showing danger and cold.
Return to the hotel where you are staying. Everything is expensive in Tibet, and although hotel accommodation is also expensive, since you want this place, you can only accept this price.
Tibetans, who have lived in such an environment, do not find things too expensive. Chen Xing took a shower, dried his hair and went to sleep, he felt that the quilt was slightly damp, and he couldn't warm up for a long, long time.
While I couldn't sleep, I was thinking about other things. A year ago, Chen Xing would never have imagined that he would be curled up in Tachin in Tibet tonight, sleeping in a corner of Kailash.
Thinking of Hou Xiaoai again, I don't know what she is doing, the hotel in Shiquanhe should not have such a humid environment, they should be able to sleep well tonight.
At three or four o'clock in the morning, Chen Xing was woken up by a bustling sound of footsteps and talking. This is the first wave of mountain turners to go up the mountain, it should be that they want to complete the mountain transfer in one day, Chen Xing thought about it for a while, and then buried his head and continued to sleep.
At eight o'clock in the morning on November 14, Chen Xing came out to take pictures, the sky was still cloudy, but the huge Namunani Peak in the distance was bathed in a piece of sunshine, and there was a dog barking behind him, Chen Xing looked back and saw that it was a two-ha wagging his tail.
"Whoop ......" This Erha has been raised very well, but it seems that he has not taken care of it recently, and his hair is a little dirty.
Chen Xing touched its head. Friendliness is a skill that has always been useful, attracting people as well as critters.
Chen Xing didn't know before, but now that he knows, he won't be afraid of these animal companions who are already very close.
Chen Xing was about to find a breakfast shop to eat and start to set off, but this Erha kept following Chen Xing, he had no way to take care of himself while raising a puppy, after buying a pack of ham sausages in the supermarket and feeding it, Chen Xing hurriedly ran away.
Not to mention anything else, if he hadn't come by car, with a dog, Chen Xing wouldn't have been able to sit on a large number of vehicles.
Today's weather is good for outdoor sports. Strange to say, the timing of his visit was not very good, November was Ali's rainy season, and it had been raining here for more than ten days before they came to Kailash, but as soon as they arrived, the rain immediately stopped, and the sun came out for two days in a row.
I hope tomorrow is also the sun, don't rain, Chen Xing thought to himself. Chen Xing left most of his luggage at the hotel, carrying only a small bag with enough food and water for two days, and a camera in his hand.
He was alone, and he didn't ask for a guide, so he set off. After walking clockwise for an hour to the west, about three kilometers, you will arrive at Kailash's true entrance, the Tachin Prayer Flag Square.
Traditionally, the mountain turners will make three laps here and then offer a hata as a sign of respect. Another point is that here you can see the details of Mount Kailash above the chest, the huge rocks that descend vertically from the summit of the mountain, and the horizontal rock layers, when the two come into contact, form a shape that resembles a swastika, which represents a spirit of Buddhism.
Walk out of the prayer flag square and this one is taken into the Laqu Gorge. There are a lot of Tibetans here, and almost every time you walk along the road, you can see a few people walking around Kailash or making pilgrimages.
There are fewer walkers and more worshippers. Most of the people walking are still tourists, in recent years, Tibetan travel is a big hit, no matter when there are a lot of people, and Kailash this place, as long as the university is not closed to the mountain, there will be a steady stream of people walking towards this side, admiring the sacred mountain in the eyes of the locals.
Many of the people who choose to walk for two or three days are not confident in their physical strength. It is true that Chen Xing saw that many people walked the first ten kilometers with the climber a few steps and gasped, and when they reached a higher place in the afternoon, wouldn't they have to walk thirty steps and rest for ten minutes?
The two sides of the Laqu Gorge are also beautiful, with many small waterfalls that come together to form the Laqu River, which meanders at the bottom of the valley.