Early the next morning, as soon as it was dawn, the two of them and their dog had already eaten breakfast and started to set off.

After leaving the county seat, the highway has been moving along the Lengqu River. After walking for about an hour, a large canyon appeared in front of me.

"This is the Nujiang Grand Canyon, right?" Chu Qian asked excitedly.

"Well, it should be the Nu River Grand Canyon, and the bridge in front of it is the famous Nu River Bridge. But we can't walk on the old bridge, we need to take the new bridge. ”

"Wow, the legendary Nujiang Bridge! Liu Moang, drive slowly when crossing the bridge for a while, and I'll take a few photos in the car to commemorate it. ”

"Come on, it seems that you can't take pictures of the Nujiang Bridge, right? I checked some information before going to bed last night, and a lot of information said that the area around the Nujiang Bridge belongs to the military control zone, and the bridge is not allowed to take pictures. Although the new bridge has been opened, I don't know if I can take pictures. To be on the safe side, let's not take pictures. ”

"Huh?" Chu Qian looked a little sullen, "The new bridge has been opened, and the old bridge is not allowed to go, nor is it allowed to take pictures." ”

Lao Liu shrugged his shoulders, "Let's be on the safe side." ”

"Okay. ”

The new bridge is to the south of the old bridge, which is much longer than the old one. Before getting on the bridge, there were armed police soldiers on duty on the side of the road who reminded them to slow down after getting on the bridge. This is convenient for Chu Qian, she can take advantage of the slowdown to look at the old bridge in the north.

The west end of the old bridge is drilled out of a tunnel, and out of the tunnel mouth is the Nu River Bridge. The bridge crosses through a deep canyon, and the bridge deck is a hundred or dozens of meters from the river below, making the bridge even more steep.

As soon as he got off the bridge, Lao Liu saw an armed police soldier on the side of the road raising his hand to signal stop.

Chu Qian was a little confused, "I didn't take pictures, why do you want to stop the car?"

Lao Liu was also a little confused, but he still parked the car on the side of the road with the turn signal and dropped the window glass.

A lieutenant officer with a bar and two stars on his shoulder walked over and gave a military salute to Lao Liu.

"Hello, is this car going to the direction of Qamdo or going to the direction of Zuogong?"

Lao Liu didn't look like he was looking for trouble, so he simply pushed open the door and got out of the car, "We are going to go along 318 to Zuogong, not to the side of Qamdo." ”

National Highway 318 crosses the Nu River and crosses the Yela Pass to Bangda Town, then forks, and one road goes north along the Yuqu River, which is National Highway 214. The other one also goes south along the Yuqu River, which is National Highway 318.

Hearing Lao Liu's words, a smile appeared on the lieutenant officer's face, "Then can you still sit the two of you in the car, if you can sit down, I want to take you a free ride, and I will send someone to Zuogong." ”

Looking at the tanned face of the lieutenant officer, Lao Liu said directly without hesitation: "Okay, there is a place in my car, and it is no problem for me and my girlfriend to sit in the car for two more people." ”

"Thank you so much. Oh, by the way, my name is Wang Zexiu, and I don't know what to call you?"

At this time, Chu Qian also got out of the car, and Lao Liu said with a smile: "My name is Liu Moang, and this is my girlfriend Chu Qian." Qianqian, this big brother Wang Zexiu wants to take our car to send people to Zuogong. ”

Chu Qian smiled and nodded.

Wang Zexiu immediately beckoned over there, ꓹ A woman in her thirties walked over with two bags, ꓹ Chu Qian hurriedly greeted her and took one of the bags.

The woman smiled and thanked her.

Wang Zexiu introduced: "Mr. Liu, Ms. Chu ꓹ This is Liu Min, the wife of our squadron instructor, who came to visit our instructor yesterday and will go back today. However, our squadron leader and instructor received an order to go to the county for a meeting in the morning, so our instructor entrusted me to send my sister-in-law back. I'm waiting here for the passing bus, but today I don't know what's going on, and I haven't waited for a long time. I can only trouble you. ”

Lao Liu nodded, there are long-distance buses operating on the Sichuan-Tibet line, and he knows this. For example, if you go from Phamdoku to Zogon ꓹ, you can take the shuttle bus from Phamdo to Chamdo and get off at Bangda, and then take the shuttle bus from Chamdo to Zogong to arrive at Zogong.

Chu Qian said with a smile: "Brother Wang is polite, it is our honor to send the military sister-in-law home." ”

Several people laughed together.

Lao Liu pulled the back door of the truck and said to the white lion: "You kid be honest, don't scare people." ”

The white lion waited for a pair of innocent little eyes to look at his father: Dad, what do you mean? When did I scare people?

Lao Liu ignored the cute white lion and said to Chu Qian: "You and your sister-in-law will sit in the back seat for a while, with you, the white lion will not dare to make trouble." ”

Hearing Lao Liu's words, Wang Zexiu asked, "Is there anyone else in the car?"

"No, it's a dog I raised, and I have a wild temperament, and I'm afraid of scaring my sister-in-law. ”

Wang Zexiu glanced into the car, and a surprised expression suddenly appeared on his face, "Mr. Liu, are you raising a Tibetan mastiff or a snow mastiff?"

"Hehe, the elders of the family left it to me. Also, don't call me a gentleman, just call me Xiao Liu or Liu Moang. ”

Wang Zexiu nodded.

After the four of them got into the car, both Liu Min and Wang Zexiu were extremely interested in the white lion in the back seat. The white lion snorted twice at first, but after Chu Qian patted its head, the white lion was much more honest.

"Brother Liu, your dog grew up on the grassland, right?"

"Well, it's a mountain guard dog in the northern Tibetan grassland, who has been taking care of cattle and sheep since he was a child, and has a very wild temperament. ”

"This is really a good dog!" Liu Min also opened his mouth to praise.

The car drove steadily along National Highway 318, which is on the east bank of the Nu River. On the right is the Nu River, which is tens of meters deep, and on the left is a mountain of more than 4,000 meters.

"How many years has Brother Wang been a soldier?"

"I've been a soldier for a few years. I joined the army after graduating from high school when I was eighteen years old, and I joined the army here. However, I was admitted to military school the following year. After four years of college at Chang'an Armed Police Engineering University, I volunteered to come back here, and after graduation, I stayed here for another three years. ”

"Wow, Brother Wang, you've been a soldier for eight years. It's time to catch up with the war of resistance!"

Wang Zexiu laughed out loud, laughing heartily.

"Brother Liu, are you driving home from the plateau?"

"No, I'm sending my girlfriend home. I opened an inn in Dangquka County, Sunshine City, and when my girlfriend came home, I drove her down. ”

"Why don't you fly?"

"No way, the guy in the back doesn't do it. And Qianqian and I have never walked the Sichuan-Tibet line, so I took this opportunity to walk the Sichuan-Tibet line. ”

Wang Zexiu turned his head to look at the white lion sitting in the trunk, shook his head with a smile and said, "Sometimes it's not a good thing for dogs to be too clingy. Our squadron has a few dogs, all of them are good dogs, but they are too clingy......"

The car walked south along the Nu River for about five kilometers before leaving the Nu River to prepare for the climb.

Wang Zexiu said with a smile: "The next part of the road we are going to take is the famous Seventy-two Turns of the Heavenly Road! Are you two ready?"

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Among China's highways, the Sichuan-Tibet line of National Highway 318 is undoubtedly a very famous road.

And the Sichuan-Tibet Highway is also a highway that lives up to its reputation.

Although the Sichuan-Tibet Highway is only a part of National Highway 318, the 2,146-kilometer journey from Rongcheng to Nikko City concentrates almost all the scenery you can imagine except for the sea view.

There are many scenic spots on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, including mountains, snow-capped mountains, glaciers, forests, cliffs, rivers, canyons, grasslands, lakes, Tibetan dwellings, and ...... Driving on this road, the scenery is different almost every day.

There may be different opinions about the most famous scenery on this road, but the 72 turns of Tianlu between the Nu River and the Yela Mountain Pass can definitely be among the best.

After crossing the Nu River from west to east, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway will start to climb from the Karma Valley, which is 2,008 meters above sea level, and the straight-line distance from the Karma Valley to the Yela Mountain Pass is only a little more than six kilometers, but it has to climb nearly two thousand meters. The slope is so large that it crowns the entire Sichuan-Tibet Highway.

Such a slope is not possible unless there is an elevator.

Therefore, the ancestors who built the Sichuan-Tibet Highway used the original winding mountain road to climb this huge hillside.

The straight-line distance is only a little more than six kilometers, but because of the need to build the winding mountain road, the length of the winding mountain road in this section of the distance has reached an astonishing thirty kilometers, which can be imagined how spectacular the winding mountain road is.

Indeed, this place is known as the "Seventy-two Turns of the Heavenly Road", which is enough to show the difficulty and twists and turns of this section of the road.

Wang Erhu's Cool Lize Star can be strong enough, and this car is not difficult to climb on a winding mountain road of this difficulty.

Chu Qian chatted with Liu Min in the back seat, and Wang Zexiu chatted with Lao Liu in the co-pilot.

Climb all the way up along the winding mountain road, and from time to time you can encounter the section of the road that is being repaired, and sometimes it happens to catch up with the road because of the road construction and can only be opened to traffic on one side, and a convoy suddenly appears on the opposite side, so you can only stop and avoid the oncoming traffic on the opposite side.

However, the road conditions are generally very good, and those hard-working road guards and armed police soldiers have been fighting on this section of the mountain road all year round to ensure the smooth flow of this heavenly road.

After running for nearly 50 minutes for more than 30 kilometers, I came to the famous Tianlu 72 Turning Observation Deck.

The observation deck is located in the middle of an east-west section of the road above the 72nd turn of Tianlu, and there is a small parking lot here, and at least fifteen cars are parked in the parking lot, all of which seem to be self-driving tourists.

The parking lot is on the north side of the road, and there is a wooden viewing platform on the south side of the road, where many tourists take photos and videos.

Liu Min took the initiative to say: "You two go down and take a look, the scenery here should be very rare for you." ”

Wang Zexiu said with a smile: "My sister-in-law and I are used to seeing the scenery here, and there is nothing rare anymore." ”

Lao Liu parked the car and got out of the car with the white lion. At the foot of the hill to the north of the parking lot are five iron shelves inlaid with four large red letterings and a red five-pointed star.

The red five-pointed star is in the middle, and on the left and right sides is the words "72 turns of the heavenly road".

On the viewing platform on the south side of the road, you can overlook the 72 turns of the heavenly road that has just opened, although you can't see the entire 72 turns, but the most essential part can be seen.

Looking down from a high vantage point, the winding Sichuan-Tibet Highway is like a step by step, layer by layer, so that vehicles can smoothly go up and down this extremely steep hillside.

Anyone who sees such a highway that can be called a miracle of the world will have a sense of pride in their hearts, and at the same time, they will also sigh that it was not easy for their predecessors to build roads.

Lao Liu and Chu Qian also took photos and videos here like other tourists. This famous attraction is absolutely impossible to miss.

After staying here for about twenty minutes, the group drove up the car.

After crossing the pass of Yela Mountain at an altitude of 4,658 meters, I began to descend all the way down the mountain, and walked not far to reach Bangda Town.

The town of Bonda is not big, but its strategic location is extremely important. This is the meeting point of National Highway 318 and National Highway 214. From here to the north is National Highway 214, which can directly reach Chamdo. If you go south, it is the section where National Highway 214 and National Highway 318 converge, which can go straight to Muangkang.

Because he stayed on the viewing platform at the 72nd turn of Tianlu just now, he stayed for more than 20 minutes, and Lao Liu was not tired, so he went south directly.

The more than 100-kilometer stretch from Bangda to Zuogong follows the valley of the Yuqu River. Just like the Lalin Expressway and the section from Tongmai to Ranwu, the Yuqu River has always been by the side of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway. Never give up.

It was already past twelve o'clock when I arrived in Zuogong, and the home of my sister-in-law Liu Min was in the county seat. Because she had called in advance on the road before, Liu Min's in-laws had already prepared lunch.

Liu Min said that he would leave Lao Liu and Chu Qian for dinner, and under the hospitality, the two took the white lion to have a hearty lunch at Liu Min's house.

After eating, they said goodbye to Liu Min's family and Wang Zexiu, and the two were ready to move on.

It was too early to live in Zuogong, and Mangkang was one hundred and sixty kilometers away, even if they had to cross the Dongda Mountain Pass, Jueba Mountain Pass and Laoshan Pass in a row, and even cross the Lancang River, Lao Liu and Chu Qian still decided to stay in Mangkang at night.

Lao Liu didn't rest this time, because on the way to Zuogong, Wang Zexiu drove for Lao Liu for more than an hour.

Not long after leaving Zuogong, I began to climb the mountain, and after waiting for 50 minutes, the car with snow chains installed on the way stopped smoothly at the Dongda Mountain Pass.

"Liu Moang, isn't Dongda Mountain 5,008 meters above sea level? Why is the elevation here 5,130 meters? Doesn't that surpass Mila Pass and become the highest mountain pass on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway?"

Lao Liu scratched his scalp, looked at the monument that was similar in shape to the pyramid and said, "I don't know very well, it's the first time I've come here." ”

Chu Qian began to pull her phone decisively, and after a while, she smiled and said, "I see." In the past, the elevation of Dongdashan Pass was indeed 5008 meters, but later the latest surveying and mapping technology was adopted, and it was found that the altitude here was not 5008, but 5130. ”

Lao Liu shrugged his shoulders indifferently, for him, over the 5190 Nagenla Pass, over the 5170 Tujula Pass, over the 5231 Tanggula Pass, the 5130 pass in front of him is nothing.

However, this is the new elevation of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, and it is essential to take photos and videos.

After staying for about ten minutes, the two got into the car and went down the mountain.

Although Juebashan Pass is also a very famous pass, Lao Liu didn't think that this pass was very good.

The relatively bad road conditions made Lao Liu and Chu Qian not like this section of the road very much.

However, after Juebashan came to Rumei Town, the two of them felt much better.

Rumei is a small town, and the Lancang River runs through the town from south to north. However, there are two Lancang River bridges in Rumei Town. The one to the south is the old bridge, and it is said that the Eighth Army crossed the Lancang River into the plateau from this old bridge in the Chinese New Year's Eve. Now there is a bunker at the head of the old bridge.

The Zhuka Bridge is a new bridge, and in the north of the town, Lao Liu and his wife drove across the Lancang River here.

Crossing the Lancang River with majestic spirit, we will arrive at Mangkang, the important town of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, at the pass of Rau Mountain at an altitude of 4,338 meters.

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