Lovers of Lhasa, Nepal, India free line-camphor (3)

2007-11-16, 9 a.m. 10 enters the Potala Palace, visitors are not so many, to buy tickets hillside 100 Yuan/piece, there is a real treasure of the Tibetan people, and profound, let our mind-blowing, worth a visit, and about one and a half hours of the end of the tour.

After that follow the crowd walk clockwise along the Potala Palace, then walk along Beijing Zhong Road, Beijing Zhong Road and Niang hot junction-Sabah Hotel side, bought tomorrow morning 8: 30 to 55 xigaze, Yuan/piece. The song, "hometown hanhong" kept us very long to Shigatse, this also is to choose via xigaze to camphor. Buying tickets, walk back to the hotel, has been in the hotel's courtyard in the Sun, a good maintenance of the body.

Night to go to the "Nikos code Teahouse" drink the sweet tea, go to the supermarket to buy points the way to eat tomorrow, back to the hotel finishing ahead of finished smartly room, tomorrow will run to Shigatse.

11-17, today is my and my wife first met on the day of the Festival of the two of us.

7 o'clock in the morning, a taxi to the bus station, Sichuan SA hotel is on the opposite of jade hygiene package restaurant to eat breakfast, the breakfast is very rich, very good. 8: 30, on-time departure, great condition, pavement are tar road, we sat in the driver behind the 1, 2, location, a wide field of vision. A road along the road all the way to Lhasa, scenic beauty, but almost all rivers and bare mountains, relatively dull. Fast to Shigatse, broad river, very beautiful. 1: 30 pm or so, reach Shigatse. Into the car Hotel across from the Golden Dragon Hotel, to the Sun to Sun's standard room 100, ask the front desk to an ADSL cats can also free Internet access. My wife had a cold, I still have a higher altitude, xigaze did not go out to play, the room for rest. Settle down, to stop buying tomorrow morning 8: 30 to the wood of the car, now just want to get away from the plateau. Midday and evening in the out Dragon Hotel across the road forward within 5 minutes walking distance of Chongqing snack bar food. After dinner, accompanied his wife to wash the hair.

11-18, our 8 am not just to the bus station.

Go to the wood of the car is a small block 17 bus, the car was pulled into the 8 point 15, the roof load and others, all the way up to 9 points out of 10 only. Car out of xigaze soon, I almost have a very dangerous traffic accident. At that time, there is a belt of motorcycles in front of our car to exercise, in front is very near to us when it suddenly turned head to the left of the road, our drivers a slam the brakes, steering wheel to the right of the quick-hit to the left, then hit the anxious Margaret shaking, rear-wheel almost fell into the Street outside, also good driver skilled, stabilize the car. Vehicle passengers frightened angry, after very non-drivers to speed up the motorcycle front car stopped, motorcycle see nuggets, u-turn back left, thank Goddess of asylum in the Himalayas, we saved, bon voyage.

Too old to deliver soon no longer be asphalted road surface, the car passes, special big bumpy dusty, badly.

The most difficult to go nyalam County to camphor this way, all the mud road, and is very steep, the car travelling very slowly. However, the project team are the road, it is estimated that one year later be repaired. About nyalam County and then walk over to the car over the snow downhill all the way after the start, the two sides of the Hill start slowly begin to green, then the way they are diffuse, green, and the preceding a stark contrast to the section. The night falls, the Moon is high up in the sky, vaguely see the green mountains on either side of the road, cars like the road in the Mount Emei. Fancy Tibet there so as the same mountains in the South.

Fast forward camphor, traffic jam jam over an hour to arrive at 11 o'clock at night, at the edge of the wood of the station of Taishan hotel, standard room, $ 80.

11-19 morning 8.67 changed 2000RMB, coins, feel a bit low, the Renminbi exchange rate against the dollar, but on the actual depreciation of the currency.

10 points to the Bank of China pulls a little 7.4419 dollars, here for dollars to Passport Office on the second floor of the bank charge for the photocopying 1 2 element. (Caution, chapter, currency exchange rate is higher, the wood, we drove to Kathmandu Chinese money most of the hotel is also only high, plus all 8.4 dollars, money not cost-effective). Walk to Chinese customs, customs clearance is easy, do not have to fill in a form. Then 10 yuan/person carpool to houyiguan. In Nepal side fill a table of passport cover a chapter on OK, do not have to pay. Then and Nepal cattle on good 500, coins/person to the Tamil, cattle took us to a pick-up truck, the back is sitting three United States girl, I and my wife sat in the front row, sit next to the driver, the car start at once.

Halfway in a small restaurant for lunch, Curry 50, coin 1, a foreign girl to borrow notes 40, we pay for the meal, then back to our $ 1 and some powder RMB, we told her too much, put $ 1 back to her.

All the way to the countryside, beautiful scenery, 4 p.m., the car to enter and all, when Maoist students in parades, a jam for 2 hours.

(Shigatse to chapter wood small bus)

(All the way to the snowy mountains accompany)