Overnight in Tanggula Hill Town
Early the next morning, the two of them had breakfast and started the next day's trip, and today's destination is Tanggula Mountain Town!
It is said that when you take the train through here, there will be a small station, called Tanggula Mountain Station, where the train does not get on and off people!
Since Ma Xiaoliang and the others are from Lhasa to Xining and cross the Tanggula Mountain, they will leave Tibet and enter Qinghai!
There are also many legends about Tanggula Mountain. According to legend, when Princess Wencheng married Tibet, when she came to Tanggula Mountain, she was blocked by the heavy snow and could not move forward, and when she was helpless, after the accompanying monks, the princess left the lotus seat on the golden sedan chair to leave the town wind, so that she could pass!
Nowadays, there are monuments and markers of the Qinghai-Tibet military soul statue and symbol tablet at the Tanggula Pass, and there are stone statues built to commemorate the laying of Qinghai-Tibet optical cables, due to the wind and rain all year round, although the thick auspicious prayer flags and Hada hanging have long been old and discolored, it is still difficult to hide the admiration and prayer of the passers-by for the sacred mountain and the soul that dedicated their lives to Qinghai-Tibet.
Standing in front of the snow-battered statue, Ma Xiaoliang quietly offered a hata, both as a tribute to the sacred Tanggula Mountain, and as a deep remembrance of returning here after many years.
Tanggula Mountain Town is one of the important supply points of Qinghai-Tibet Highway, it should be noted that Tanggula Mountain Town is not a Tanggula Mountain Pass, although it is a town, it is also a landscape, the area under the jurisdiction of the town is very large, but the population is relatively small, it belongs to Golmud City, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, is located at the junction of Qinghai and Tibet, far away from the urban area of Golmud City, more than 400 kilometers, nearly 8 hours by car.
The area of Tanggula Mountain Town is large, but the town is very small, along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway on both sides of the layout, but a few hundred meters long, you can walk for a few minutes to visit the whole town, because it is an important supply station, the business of the whole street is mainly based on restaurants and gas stations, the hotel is not to say, that is, there are 4 gas stations, the distance is close, the density is large, the mainland is rare, so, with the gas station hotel pile pile to describe, it is very suitable.
Zhao Cui came to the following for a walk, had a simple meal with Ma Xiaoliang, added water and refueled, decided to sleep in the car for a while, and set off again at dawn!
Before dawn, Ma Xiaoliang set off again to cross the Tanggula Pass at an altitude of 5130M, and left the north gate of Tibet to enter the Tuotuo River in Qinghai
The Yangtze River Source Bridge, known as the "First Bridge of the Yangtze River", passes through the Hoh Xil Nature Reserve, and is fortunate to see Tibetan antelope, wild ass, Tibetan antelope, Tibetan fox antelope and other nationally protected wild animals.
The Tibetan antelope viewing platform overlooks the Jade Everest Peak, and then passes through the Sonam Dajie Protection Station, and then goes to the Wind Crater, Kunlun Pass and other places, and finally arrives in Golmud.
After all, when I arrived in Golmud, I found a decent town, booked a hotel on the road in advance, and when I arrived at the hotel, the first thing Zhao Cui did was to take a shower happily, and then go downstairs to eat with Ma Xiaoliang!
The two of them came down from Lhasa all the way and felt a little more comfortable here, after all, they had been to Qinghai last year and were quite familiar with this place!
Zhao Cui remembered the big stone last year again, but she didn't expect it to come again a year later! But this time I don't plan to stay too long, I plan to go directly to Xining!
Of course, Zhao Cui has been out for almost half a month this time, and she feels tired, but she feels that Ma Xiaoliang is about to collapse, after all, she is driving by herself!
Zhao Cui remembered that it was better to let Su Xue stay, so that she could take turns to drive, but now she is not in a hurry, when she arrives in Qinghai, she stops and goes, and rests when she is tired, Zhao Cui instead takes the initiative to massage Ma Xiaoliang, and the mobile phone signal is also good, so she chats with her family if she has nothing to do!