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It contains the contents of the previous four days.

fifth day:

After coming out of the Baima Tibetans, it started to rain lightly.

The weather in the mountainous area is uncertain, with light rain for a while, clouds and mist, and the sun for a while.

The mountains in Sichuan? This time, I have had enough of the mountain road addiction.

 There are very few cars passing by, and most of the time it is our car.

 

 

 Navigating from Baima to Huanglong, all the way to the mountains

Estuary rafting in Pingwu County is a great experience project. If you have a chance, I suggest you go there.

The all-natural canyon, drifting for 2 hours, goes down the mountain, the most important thing is that there are few people and beautiful scenery.

The two of them went rafting, and I chatted with fellow Sichuanese at the farm.

That dialect is really unique.

 

 

 

 When I returned to the hotel, my wife found that her bare skin was tanned

I said: It doesn't matter, it's not in vain anyway.

 

 Bet on the car for a while along the way.

During the traffic jam, local residents stood on the side of the road to watch. As if this is also a landscape. Everyone is interested in my car.

I got out of the car and smoked a cigarette with my fellow villagers, and had a chat.

I was very surprised to learn that I came here from Tianjin.

To travel is to go from a place you are familiar with to a place that others are familiar with.

When you look at other scenery, you also become the scenery in the eyes of others.

Every place and every person is unique.

 

 During the chat at noon, the local people said the terrible twelve crutches

I didn't feel anything after experiencing it myself

many things

Learn to cross the river with a pony

try it yourself

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Huanglong Scenic Area is located in Songpan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. The area is 700 square kilometers. [1]  It is the only well-protected plateau wetland in China. It is 100 kilometers away from Jiuzhaigou and has an altitude of 1700-5588 meters. Huanglong is famous for its "four wonders" of colorful ponds, snow-capped mountains, canyons, and forests, and it is also known as "seven wonders" together with beaches, ancient temples, and folk customs. The scenic spot is composed of Huanglonggou, Danyun Gorge, Munigou, Xuebaoding, Xueshanliang, Hongxingyan, Xigou and other scenic spots. The main landscape is concentrated in Huanglonggou, which is about 3.6 kilometers long, and there are travertine deposits all over the valley. Arranged in terraced fields, it is well-known in the world for its rich animal and plant resources, and enjoys the reputation of "World Wonders" and "Wonderful Wonderland". It was included in the "World Natural Heritage List" in 1992. In addition to the alpine landscape, a variety of forest ecosystems can be found here, as well as limestone formations, waterfalls and hot springs. The area is also home to many endangered animals, including giant pandas and Sichuan mute golden monkeys.

The character is so good that it just catches up with the annual Huanglong Temple Fair. Many things in life are like this. People of all nationalities near Huanglong put on festive costumes. Sitting on the grass at an altitude of 5,000 meters. Everyone may not know each other or even communicate with each other. It doesn't matter. Happiness is the same. This is the trip I want.

 

 

 

 

 So close to the snow mountain again

I want to let myself go

i want to fly

i want to sing

After a few jumps, I was short of oxygen, gasping for breath, high altitude, let me take a break.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Huanglong, drive 30 minutes to Chuanzhusi Town, Songpan area.

To stay in the hotel, the hotel is booked from Ctrip, the price is not expensive, about 200 including breakfast.

climbed the mountain all day

Hungry, 3 hungry animals are going foraging.

Tibetan areas, of course, to eat something special.

Yak hot pot.

The host is very down to earth.

Because of the Jiuzhai earthquake repair, there are not many tourists.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

chat with restaurant owner

She said that there was no tourism here before

The whole village gathers as soon as they arrive at the temple fair

The village head drives a tractor

Take the whole village to the mountains for a picnic

How happy it was. People at that time were very poor, but very happy.

Now we are engaged in tourism development, and every family opens hotels and restaurants

Sometimes they argue over the source of customers

Now I have a car and my wallet is full.

But I can't find my former happiness again

I don't know whether it is progress or regression

People, what exactly are you after? ? ?

 

 

Day Six:

 a good night's sleep

In the morning, have dinner at the hotel and go to Ruoergai Prairie.

Ruoergai Grassland is like a magnificent emerald inlaid on the border of northwest Sichuan. It is known as the "Oasis of the Plateau in Northwest Sichuan" and is one of the three major wetlands in my country. The climate is relatively cold, with an annual average temperature of about 0°C-2°C and an annual precipitation of about 600-700 mm; the highest monthly average temperature in Hongyuan County in the south does not exceed 15°C, and the highest monthly average temperature in the north is only around 10°C.

The Long March of the Red Army stayed in Sichuan for the longest time, covered the most extensive area, faced the most difficult and dangerous environment, fought the most outstanding struggle, and made the greatest sacrifice. . According to historical records, more than 10,000 Red Army officers and men were buried in grasslands (mainly distributed in Liandaoba, Baozuo Ranch, Banyou Grassland in Ruoergai County, and Sejiba and Longriba in Hongyuan County). on the verge of extinction

Tibetan meals include Zanba, Jiaoma rice, yoghurt, milk cakes, wild vegetables, Tibetan bacon, sausages, fragrant pork legs, etc.

 The average altitude of Zoige is about 3,500 meters, so careful preparations must be made before the trip, and raincoats and cold-proof clothing should be brought. It is recommended not to take a bath on the first night of arrival to prevent colds and mild altitude sickness. You can use oxygen-carrying tablets to resist high altitude sickness

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The advantage of self-driving is that it is unrestricted and free.

Often self-driving by bicycle, no need to wait, no need to make do.

Three people want to walk, want to stop. Wherever it is fun, just play for a while.

A JEEP, if you don't try every driving mode of it. I'm so sorry about the car.

I took a concubine, so I have to change my posture occasionally.

Turn on the mud mode and go deep into the Zoige grassland.

A visit to a herdsman's house.

 

 There were three children outside the tent, a little shy when they saw us coming.

Their clothes are not clean.

The hair is also a little frizzy.

It may be that water is inconvenient in pastoral areas, and it is cold, so I don’t take a bath very often.

We greeted them friendly, but they didn't seem to understand Mandarin.

After a while, their parent, a woman in her 20s, couldn't speak Chinese either, and she didn't seem to understand what we said.

 

 It doesn't matter if the voice is blocked.

Anyway, everyone was smiling. Friendly smile.

I asked my son to bring snacks, biscuits, potato chips, and dried fruit from the car to the children.

They will say thank you.

The hostess gave us 2 bowls of steaming milk, which was warm yak milk.

 

 

 

 Pure yak milk, that taste.

I will never forget it for a lifetime, and now I am back in the city, and I miss that taste very much.

Delicious and pure.

I drank 2 large bowls in a row.

 

 After a while, the male host also came and chatted with him.

The male host can speak a little Chinese, so we can communicate.

They graze in summer and have hundreds of yaks.

Children also go to school when they are old enough.

The living conditions seem to be difficult, but they are very satisfied and happy.

Grassland is an infrequent stranger, and he likes to chat with me very much.

The hostess was going to a nearby town to run some errands, so we rode away, and we waved goodbye to them.

Bless their family.

 When we came out of the grassland, we were approaching the paved road.

I saw 2 people far away, waving to us, a woman and a monk.

In the wilderness, if we don't take them with us, we don't know when they will wait.

My wife was a little worried, I thought: monks should be very kind, there is no danger.

Parking, AC.

Fortunately, the monk can speak Chinese.

It turned out that he was a monk from nearby and came to visit relatives in the grassland, and the woman was his relative.

He was the only one in the car, a town dozens of kilometers away.

Just drop by, get in the car. (From the experience of self-driving in Inner Mongolia and Qilian Mountains, the road on the grassland is very simple, as long as there is a road, just follow it.)

His name is Lausanne

He became a monk in Rongta Temple when he was a teenager.

 

 

 After arriving at the location, Lausanne invited us to visit his home.

The Tibetan monkhood is not the same as that of the Han people.

Houses are built around the monastery.

I built it with my own money.

One bedroom and one living room. There are two rooms inside and outside.

Entering the door is a stove, and there is a lot of cow dung beside the stove, which is fuel.

The one inside is dedicated to Buddha and learning practice.

We, as guests, were honored to be invited to the inner room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Lausanne brings us refreshments

And give us buttered tea to drink.

VIP treatment.

His family lived in a nearby village, and he came to the monastery to become a monk at the age of fourteen.

If you choose to be a monk, you will live your whole life.

Now he is also on summer vacation.

He has been to Tibet and loves photography.

His wife told him about our world.

He tells us about his world.

Wechat each other and became friends.

Fated to meet thousands of miles away.

You practice in a temple.

I practice in the world.

 

 Being a monk is also a way of life, and we are also a way of life in the city.

In front of and behind the house, there are also flowers and green grass all over the ground.

 Farewell to Lausanne.

Keep moving forward.

The tires display a low tire pressure warning.

I got out of the car and changed the spare tire, and found that my son had grown a lot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 No gluttonous meals.

The white clouds in the sky, the green grass on the ground, and the snow-capped mountains in the distance are the most beautiful accompaniments in the world.

 Stay in Tangke, the first bay of the Yellow River in the world.

Seventh day:

Grassland in the morning, the first bend of the Jiuqu Yellow River

 

 

 

 Altitude sickness varies from person to person

none of us

Maybe it's character! !

 

 

 Self-driving in Northwest Sichuan is actually not as good as imagined.

The body is in hell, the eyes are in heaven.

The weather is unpredictable, with heavy rain and hail for a while, and bright sunshine for a while.

Language barrier, but also to overcome altitude sickness.

The diet is basically beef and mutton, with very few vegetables.

The weather is very cold, even if you stay in a hotel, you don't want to take a shower.

The one on the picture is the bathroom on the road, or a higher-level bathroom.

While you're inside solving problems.

The whole head is exposed, and you can look around the scenery.

At the same time, you are also the scenery in the eyes of others.

 

 

 Today is destined to be a difficult day, going to Seda:

The navigation shows that there are two roads, and the time is about the same.

The distance is off by 200 kilometers.

If you choose a short distance, the road conditions must be poor. This is experience.

But it's ok, a rare off-road opportunity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

eighth day

Larung Wuming Buddhist College, also known as Seda Buddhist College, is the largest Buddhist college in the world. The monastery houses here are very spectacular. Thousands of crimson red Tibetan-style bungalows stretch for several kilometers, surrounded by several splendid temples and Buddhist halls, forming a spectacular small mountain city. People are dumbfounded, and it is difficult for any photo to express the shock of being there.

 

 

 Seda is located in the northeast of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. It is mainly Tibetan. It means "golden horse" in Tibetan. It was named after a horse-shaped gold nugget was unearthed in Seda in history. In the past, because the roads were not smooth, the original living conditions have been preserved here. The topography is complex, with broad grasslands, criss-cross rivers, dense lakes and swamps, towering snow-capped mountains, and long winters without summers.

 

 

 

 

 

 Sertar has long winters and no summers. May to October is the best season to travel to Sertar. After November, there are snow scenes, but in winter the roads are covered with ice and snow, which is inconvenient for driving.

 

 the world is so bitter

Lyserta reborn

fourteen year old me

junior high school

Always looking out of the window in class

Interviewed by the class teacher

The answer is that I can't understand the dark side of the world

want to become a monk

The teacher enlightened me patiently and took me back to the world of mortals

But I have always had an inexplicable affection for monks

If you can persist

Where would I be now?

What will it look like?

 

ninth day:

 in the vast world

look at the picturesque scenery

There is nothing in the world that can really be owned

Some are just the process of accompanying along the way

face life calmly

face life calmly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In the off-road circle of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei

There is a place called Laozhanggou in Zhangjiakou, Hebei

Crossing Laozhanggou can be a beautiful story

Self-driving in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

It's as if I've been in the ditch and never got out

My wife asked: Is it fun, is it enjoyable?

Me: This addiction is a bit big

God knows what we've all been through....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In a cross-country car rally, competitors have a partner

navigator

Its responsibility is to guide the driver, but more importantly, to relieve the driver's psychological pressure during the long and boring long journey

The navigator will point out the direction for you and move forward with you

Give you comfort and encouragement along the way

life needs such friends

Self-driving needs such a partner

My wife calls herself the navigator (my online name Yuan Hang)

with you as co-driver

The sky is big and the earth is big

go all the way

fearless

 tenth day:

Yaqing

Yaqing Temple is a more mysterious place than Seda

call it mysterious

Because all the monks who practice here are female monks

Called Juem

in Yaqing

There are also quite a few juems from big cities in China

these young beautiful girls

at the most beautiful age

Abandon worldly material prosperity

Come to this remote, bitter and cold place to clean up

what kind of free and easy

can't help but make me stand in awe

There are flowers

beyond the three realms, not in the invisible

Born on the other side brilliant crimson

Yaqing

a real place

There are a group of women who stay with the red clothes for life

 Yaqing Temple is 122 kilometers away from the city and 102 kilometers away from the city. The Ganbai Highway leaves Ganzi all the way to the west, crosses (4600 meters above sea level) and (4410 meters above sea level), and the blue water of Nalentso Lake next to Haizi Mountain plays with wild ducks. 200 meters before the 95th kilometer of the highway boundary sign, the 1st Road sign (Yaqing Wujin Zen Forest) points to the fork road on the left, turn into the fork road for about seven kilometers and arrive at Yaqing

 

 

 Yaqing Temple is located in the middle of the Zhangtai prairie. It is built on the grassland wetland surrounded by mountains on all sides. The terrain is open, the altitude is about 4,000 meters, and the temperature is relatively low. Even in July and August in summer, the temperature is only a few degrees in the morning and evening. The buildings surrounding the temple are huts where believers live Small box rooms ranging from thousands to 20,000 are built by practitioners themselves. The criss-crossing Changqu River surrounds the entire temple complex. In the early morning or at dusk, the smoke is filled with smoke, the river is shining with golden light, and the sound of chanting scriptures comes from far away with the wind, which is like the sound of nature and moves people's hearts.

 the eleventh day

From Ganzi - Aba - Guoluo - Nianbao Yuze (Lianbao Yeze)

 The most beautiful sea of ​​flowers I have seen in my life

Nian Baoyu issued a ban on crossing in some areas last year. In order to further protect water sources and grasslands, it was officially closed.

As for when it will reopen, or even whether it will reopen at all, it is not certain.

 

 

If you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes, you wouldn’t believe it: there is also a sacred mountain in Aba County, Lianbao Yeze, which is obviously the same mountain as Nianbaoyuze, but it has been keeping a low profile and few people disturb it.

It seems that Nianbaoyuze and Lianbaoyeze are very similar, even the pronunciation is similar. In fact, Nianbaoyu and Lianyuye are a whole, but the scenery seen from the two sides is different.

 Although the lotus leaf is not as famous as Nian Baoyu, the lotus leaf kept in the deep boudoir is even more beautiful. Because not many people know about it and fewer people come, it still maintains a very primitive ecology

 Lianbaoye is a branch of the southern section of Bayan Erla Mountain. The highest altitude in the territory is 5141 meters, and the average altitude of the peak is more than 4000 meters. head.

 Both Nianbaoyu and Nianbaoyu belong to the Bayan Kashgar Mountains, one is in Qing and the other is in Sichuan, but Lianbaoye is a secret place in a secret place, so far few people have disturbed it

 

 

 Aba is also very beautiful

Beautiful scenery all the way

Arrive in Gannan

Aba is Sichuan Province, Gannan Gannan is the south of Gansu

Gannan is located on the northeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, connected to Aba in Sichuan in the south, Guoluo in Qinghai in the southwest, and Dingxi in Longnan in the northeast.

Tourism resources are rich, original, mysterious and diverse.

Known as beautiful and magical

pure and holy

The world admires

Fairyland

Nine-color Gannan Shambhala

The three of us have entered Gannan, the story of Gannan is more exciting, and we can predict the next story

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