Chapter VI Environment
Although the Tianlu Inn was opened, Lao Liu knew that his approach was no different from an ostrich that stuck its head in the sand.
Even if the inn is opened, it does not have the conditions for business at all. There are many, many things that need to be done on your own in order to be truly open. The recruitment of chefs and waiters, the tables, chairs and benches needed by the inn, the bed covers needed by the employees, the purchase channels of ingredients, fuel, kitchen utensils, refrigerators and fresh-keeping cabinets and a series of other issues need to be considered by the boss.
This is not as good as Sunshine City or the county seat, here is a bad sound, it is a wild place, although there is 109 National Highway, and the Nala Expressway that is about to be built, but here is really no different from the wilderness.
Within a five-kilometre radius, apart from the police checkpoint to the east and a shop that has become a grocery store and a public toilet across the road, are the houses of a dozen or so Tibetan families scattered across the pastures. Well, there are quite a few yaks here......
Therefore, it is much more difficult to open a roadside restaurant here than in the city.
Not to mention anything else, the ingredients alone need to be purchased from the county seat 50 kilometers away or from Nikko City, which is more than 100 kilometers away.
No greengrocer will deliver to you in this place.
Therefore, a purchased pickup truck or micro truck is indispensable.
There are also chefs and waiters, and it is also difficult to recruit. It is estimated that very few people are willing to come here......
Otherwise, there are not many roadside hotels on both sides of the entire Qinghai-Tibet line! The difficulty and cost of opening a hotel or hotel in such a place are too high. However, if the hotel can really be opened well, the benefits are not comparable to the hotels in the city.
After all, this is the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, the busiest highway in and out of the plateau, and it is also the highway with the best traffic conditions and the highest safety.
Don't look at the high altitude of the Qinghai-Tibet line, and compared with the beautiful Sichuan-Tibet line, the Qinghai-Tibet line does not have the beautiful scenery of the four seasons on the Sichuan-Tibet line, but the drivers who enter and exit the plateau, especially the drivers in the northern region of the motherland, will choose to take the Qinghai-Tibet line when entering and leaving the plateau.
However, although there are many supply points on the more than 1,100-kilometer Qinghai-Tibet line from Galamum to Riguang City, there are not many hotels and restaurants that can provide tourists and drivers with rest and dinner. The Sichuan-Tibet Highway has better natural conditions, and there is a village or gas station almost every 20 kilometers, and drivers entering and exiting the plateau on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway do not have to worry about the problem of supplies.
But on the Qinghai-Tibet highway is not good, those experienced old drivers know when to start from Karmu, with what speed and when to rush to which hotel or restaurant to rest, but the first time to enter Tibet tourists or drivers, to catch up with so much more difficult.
If you don't even pay attention to it, you will miss so many restaurants and inns, and you will have to go hungry on the way.
Through chatting with Tashi Dawa in the morning, Liu Moang knew that although it was still more than a hundred kilometers away from Sunshine City, it was already very close to Sunshine City. But even so, in the 50-kilometer journey from the county seat to here, there are only three or four restaurants and hotels on both sides of National Highway 109, and most of them are still gathered close to the county seat.
If you are in the uninhabited area of the Qiangtang Plateau in northern Tibet, it is not uncommon to see not a single village or supply point for 50 or even 100 kilometers. Compared to northern Tibet, it's much better here.
But even so, with this as the center, there is not a single restaurant or inn to be seen within 30 kilometers of the Qinghai-Tibet line, whether it is north or south......
When the second uncle decided to open a restaurant here, he obviously did a good investigation.
Not to mention that it's still an attraction, and it's also a must-see way to get from Nikko Castle to Namtso!
Add that the miraculous spring water......
Lao Liu pondered for a long time, and the more he pondered, the more he felt that this hotel was still very interesting!
Even if it can't be opened now, but after poking the stall up, the rest of the things will be done slowly, and there is no hurry anyway.
On the afternoon of the second day of the inn's opening, Lao Liu had just finished working on the spring—he asked the renovation workers for some cement and sand, and then he used a few bricks to build the spring, and put a lid on it to protect the spring.
This is not an alpine meadow area, but there are still many springs that bubble out in summer.
More than a dozen kilometers away, overhead, is the glacier of the 10,000-year-old Nianqing Tanggula Peak, and most of the meltwater flows down the slope when the snow line rises in summer. But there are also many snow-capped mountains where meltwater seeps into the rock formations and then emerges somewhere below, forming springs.
There is a spring here that doesn't produce much more than chopsticks, which is nothing to the locals.
Seeing Lao Liu's rare spring, the decoration workers were happy to ridicule.
Most of the workers in Tenzin Jebu's decoration team are also Bashu people. The Bashu people are particularly hard-working, and they are close to the plateau, so the number of Bashu people on the plateau is still very large. Just like Sunshine City, counting the total number of floating populations approaching one million, there are only more than 500,000 people with household registration in Sunshine City.
In other words, there are now more than 500,000 floating population in Sunshine City, of which more than eighty percent are Bashu people. Even those who have household registration in Sunshine City, the proportion of Bashu people is not small.
Sunshine City's reputation as "Little Bashu" is not something to be said casually.
However, it is precisely because of these Bashu people who are particularly hard-working and hard-working that this has created the prosperity of Sunshine City today.
For workers who can bear hardships and stand hard work, Lao Liu has always held a respectful attitude.
Lao Liu Lehe
To say that this spring is indeed amazing, the spring water can eliminate the high reaction when drunk, and the spring water will no longer bubble out to a certain extent.
This spring, which is about the same thickness as the head of chopsticks, is not small, but it takes a whole day to fill the small puddle that Lao Liu dug with a shovel, and once it is full, the spring water magically stops bubbling outward, which makes the small puddle always maintain about ten cups of water, which is about two liters of water.
It's actually a magical place.
In order not to waste it, yesterday morning and this morning, Lao Liu sucked all the spring water filled in the small pit into a large mineral water bucket using the siphon principle.
This spring water must not be wasted.
In addition, it is the rainy season now, although most of the rain falls at night, but Lao Liu is also afraid that the rain will harm this precious and magical spring, so he protects the spring himself.
After working for more than an hour to protect this spring, Lao Liu was going to smoke a cigarette outside and look at the scenery.
Out of the door, Lao Liu's mood that had been a little irritable because of his busyness in the past two days suddenly became very good.
In the past two days, he has been patronizing the busy inn, and he has not even taken a good look at the surrounding scenery and environment.
Because there was no high anti-reflex, Lao Liu walked around the inn and began to walk around.
Don't think it's a plateau, and it's more than 4,005 meters above sea level, it's full of mountains and canyons.
If no one had ever been here, at least nine out of ten would have thought so. Because most people will think that this is the roof of the world, the third pole of the world, there are countless mountains and rivers, and the land is the norm here.
But when you actually come here, you find out that you are thinking wrong, and you are very wrong.
The place where the inn is located belongs to Dangquka County in Riguang City, which is the southern edge of the northern Tibetan plateau, and there are indeed countless mountains with an altitude of more than 5,000 altitudes, but more of them are plateau grasslands that are almost a flat river.
Yes, the topography of the northern Tibetan plateau is very different from that of southern Tibet and the Hengduan Mountains. In southern Tibet or the Hengduan Mountains, it can be said that the land is absolutely flat, and there are mountains and rivers everywhere, but in northern Tibet, the steppes that cannot be seen at a glance are the norm.
For example, the famous Hoh Xili.
Although it is far from being as flat as Hoh Xil, it is definitely a rare flat area in the Hengduan Mountains or southern Tibet.
To be exact, this place belongs to the hot spring town-Nianqing Tanggula fault zone. In this huge fault zone, the mountains are "regular", and between the mountains and the mountains, there are often wide and flat intermountain tectonic wide valley basins.
Even Dangquka County, 50 kilometers to the east, is located in such a flat valley.
The average width of this valley is more than 10 kilometers, and the length is more than 100 kilometers.
Although both sides of the valley are snow-capped mountains with an altitude of more than 5,000 or even 6,000 altitudes, the valley is really flat.
Otherwise, the famous Qinghai-Tibet Highway, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Nala Highway under construction would not pass through here.
Tianlu Inn is located on National Highway 109, which is the north of Qinghai-Tibet Highway, and there is a distance of about 30 meters between the hotel and the National Highway.
About three miles to the south of the national highway is the Nala Highway under construction, but the road has not yet been repaired.
About 200 meters south of the Nala Expressway is the famous "Heavenly Road" - the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
Walk east along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, look up and look north, you can see the main peak of the "white head" Nianqing Tanggula Mountain, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years.
To be honest, although you can see Nianqing Tanggula Peak when you look up here, there is really no shock to see Nianqing Tanggula Peak at this location. Even if the altitude of Nianqing Tanggula Peak exceeds 7,001, the altitude of the hotel is close to 4,006.
Therefore, if you didn't know in advance that the snow-capped mountain was Nianqing Tanggula Peak, as long as it was the first time to come here, you would never think that the peak that looked like a "round head and round brain" was Nianqing Tanggula Peak - after Lao Liu came here, when he saw the "round-headed and round-brained" snow-capped mountain for the first time, he didn't think it was Nianqing Tanggula Peak!
That's right, looking at Nianqing Tanggula Peak in this position, it gives people the feeling of "round head and round brain", without the slightest sense of majesty and steepness. (PS: Everyone knows the cover of this book, this photo was taken by Lao Mo at this location, and the round-headed snow-capped mountain behind it is Nianqing Tanggula Peak, doesn't it look very unlike?)
According to Tashi Dawa, the best place to see the majesty of Nianqing Tanggula Peak is not in the south of the mountain, but in Namco in the north of the mountain!
At the Tashi Peninsula in Namtso, you can truly appreciate the thrill of this peak at an altitude of more than 7,000 meters!
Shaking his head, Lao Liu continued to walk forward, and after walking less than a hundred meters, he came to the very famous stone monument in the Namco-Nianqing Tanggula Mountain Scenic Area.
Although it is still 110 kilometers away from the real Namco Scenic Area, which is the Tashi Peninsula, it is the best location to enjoy the Nianqing Tanggula Peak in the south of the mountain. Although there is no shock to see the mountain here, I finally saw the famous Nianqing Tanggula Peak, right?
It is precisely for this reason that the state will also include this place in the scope of the Namco-Nianqing Tanggula Mountain Scenic Area.