subject: Chasing The Train Car To Run Tibet Experience [print this page] For car owners, the drive to Tibet is still full of charm, after all, the feeling of driving on the way is not the same, and also in the open grasslands to experience the feeling of running a train car chase. Qinghai-Tibet Railway opened on the eve of the first journalists to drive a stroll along the trip.
Ready From Beijing to Tibet, more than 8000 km
To Tibet itself is full of temptation to drive from Beijing to Tibet even more exciting.
Do a near perfect week in advance of equipment, sunglasses, suntan lotion? Also travels public pool that was to prevent altitude sickness drug preparing for almost a big bag.
Access to information learned prior to departure, the whole process from Beijing to Tibet has more than 8000 km, while the plateau sections accounted for one quarter. From Beijing to Xining, Qinghai's nearly 6,000 kilometers, or reassuring, at least from a psychological point is this. First, we had a fleet of 10 vehicles, mass, point out the slip road you can still take care of each other; Second, from Beijing to Qinghai in front of mostly highway or road sections of a better national highway, For almost a living for me to drive, let alone driving.
Experience My hand purple face prohibitive
Starting from Golmud, Qinghai-Tibet Highway and Qinghai-Tibet Railway is always accompanied by, and parallel to the distant Lhasa. The test of the vehicle body and also Golmud to Nagqu of more than 800 km, and this is also one of about 5,000 meters above sea level climb Tanggula and Nyainqntanglha. While in Xining when I began taking the medicine treatment of altitude sickness, but during this trip, or there is a clear in the altitude sickness.
Chest tightness, shortness of breath, slow the symptoms often seen in the book occurred. I and colleagues who, even some colleagues began to pick up oxygen. The most painful scene occurred in the northern town of Nagqu into Tibet, to reach Nagqu was already 21:00, and we also 500 meters away from the hotel's restaurant, after dinner, had been to their counterparts here, the proposal was a taxi back to my refusal, knowing that there is nothing like altitude sickness of my "Let's go slowly." When we, like the mainland as the elderly Liuwan back to the hotel, I have had shortness of breath. Front of the bathroom mirror, I see that they are completely a changed man, hand, face and lips were purple and even prohibitive. After the arrival of other areas, we are no any response. Fortunately, all the way to our car more than 8000 km without any altitude sickness.
Route: From Beijing to Tibet, the Qinghai-Tibet line the best choice
A Sichuan-Tibet route to Tibet, Yunnan-Tibet and Qinghai-Tibet and many other routes. However, the best choice from Beijing to Tibet, the Qinghai-Tibet line, because the Qinghai-Tibet Highway is a road into Tibet in the road more than the best route. Maximum speed of 60 km / hour.
Petrol: the best reserve of 93 gasoline-owned oil drums
Starting from Golmud basically auto fuel 90 gasoline. Basically, do not drive to Tibet vehicle modifications, if the conditions required to bring their own reserves of 93 drums of petrol, but petrol 90 can apply.
Food: Everyone along the Sichuan Restaurant is not
No problem eating the Qinghai-Tibet line, mostly along the Sichuan Museum, more suitable for mainland tastes.
