Chapter 40 The highest point of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway
After leaving Pana, I ran along 109 for about an hour, and then I arrived at the first high mountain pass that exceeded 5,000 meters after I left today - Tuojula Mountain Pass.
The Toujila Mountain is also called the Toujila Mountain. It belongs to the remnant of the Tanggula Mountain and is known as the Little Tanggula Mountain.
When Liu Mo'ang drove to the Tuojula Mountain Pass, he got off the car and took photos as a souvenir.
Originally, Lao Liu thought that climbing over the Tujula Mountain Pass was a very ritual itinerary, but he didn't expect that he would come to this high mountain pass at an altitude of 5,170.
Today, Lao Liu has been driving for more than ten hours. Only along the way did he completely feel the difference between the 109 Qinghai-Tibet Line and the 318 Sichuan-Tibet Line.
Although Liu Mo'ang has not walked through the Sichuan-Tibet Line, he usually uses Douyin and looks at pictures and knows the situation of the Sichuan-Tibet Line.
On the Sichuan-Tibet Line, the altitude difference between the high mountain pass and the low place is more than 2,000 meters. The winding mountain road can make people dizzy, and when you walk around the winding mountain road, you can even make people confused.
But on the Qinghai-Tibet Line, the so-called "lower" is about three or four hundred meters lower than the highest point. You can hardly feel any climbing, and you will accidentally come from the "lower" to the highest point.
As for the common winding mountain roads on the Sichuan-Tibet Line, they are almost impossible to see here! Even Liu Mo'ang walked along the way, he often thought he was driving on the national highway in his hometown of Dongshan.
Just like Lao Liu drove out of Pana, when he arrived at the Tuojula Mountain Pass an hour later, he didn't realize that it was the high mountain pass with an altitude of 5,170...
His sisters, this is 5170, why is it so unceremonious? What is the mountain that I imagined is small? What is the imagination of being a mountain that I imagined is going to be a lingering head?
No, nothing!
The altitude of 5170 is absolutely truly high. If this height is placed on the 318 Sichuan-Tibet Line, it will definitely be the highest mountain pass on the Sichuan-Tibet Line.
But on the Qinghai-Tibet Line, tsk, stop making trouble, 5170 is nothing, it seems that there is a higher pass in front of it...
If there wasn't a blue indicator plate on the side of the road with the words "Tujula Mountain, 5,170 meters above sea level", Liu Mo'ang wouldn't even know that he had arrived at the Tujula Mountain Pass without knowing it.
Next to this sign is an iron rack about two meters high, with a crashed white sedan on it...
This shocking "warning sign" will give the drivers the most intuitive warning!
The sun hangs high in the air on the left, emitting endless light. But at this height, the sun shines on the body without feeling warm at all.
The violent mountain wind blew on the face was nowhere weaker than a knife...
He took a few photos and two short videos casually, and then took a few selfies with his arms around the white lion. After less than ten minutes, Lao Liu took a photo and continued to move forward.
The distance between the Tuojula Mountain Pass and the Tanggula Mountain Pass in front is not far. The altitude of this section of the road is almost about 5,000. If Lao Liu had not drunk the magical spring water, a single section of the road would have killed him.
Before arriving at the Tanggula Pass, Lao Liu stayed on the road for less than twenty minutes because he actually found a group of Tibetan wild donkeys with about five or six heads on the road!
There is also a small group of Tibetan antelope...
This is a rare national first-class protected animal. For this reason, Lao Liu did not hesitate to park here and took several videos and photos.
Well, not only was he shooting, but four or five cars were parked here to shoot. The license plates of these cars all came from provinces in the northern half of the motherland and were all self-driving tours.
However, when the white lion made a brilliant appearance, this guy immediately took away the scenery of those Tibetan wild donkeys and Tibetan antelopes.
When many tourists on self-driving tours saw the tall and mighty white lion wearing snow-white hair, they immediately turned the lens of their mobile phones or cameras to the white lion, and even Lao Liu was also a "Internet celebrity"...
But what no one expected was that after taking the photos, Bai Lion actually roared at the Tibetan wild donkeys and Tibetan antelope.
As a result, the cute creatures were so scared that they ran away in a distance, and within a short while they ran away and disappeared.
Old Liu had to pull the white lion into the car as well. If he didn't run away, he would definitely get beaten up...
Not long after he fled in a hurry, he arrived at the famous Tanggula Pass.
This mountain pass is probably the most famous mountain pass in China. It is estimated that many people cannot name the fourteen high mountain passes on the Sichuan-Tibet Line, and they may not have heard of the passes on the XinTibet Line with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters. However, whenever the name of the Tanggula Pass is mentioned, I am afraid that nine out of the ten people will nod and say "know"!
But in fact, the Tanggula Mountain Pass has a huge reputation, but it is really low-key.
At least the memorial stone tablet engraved with "Tanggula Pass, 5,231 meters above sea level" is extremely low-key. Compared with the stone tablet of the Nianqing Tanggula Mountain-Namtuo Scenic Area with a base with a cup height of more than three meters, the stone tablet of the Tanggula Pass is really low-key and can't be low-key anymore - if it weren't for deliberately looking for it, many tourists would probably not see this stone tablet.
The height of this stone tablet is really inconsistent with its famous identity at home and abroad!
Compared with the Tanggula Pass memorial stone tablet, the "Lanxi-Sila Optical Fiber Communication Engineering Monument" next to it is more eye-catching.
Standing at the highest pass on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, looking around, the endless snow-capped mountains in the distance, the undulating grasslands near, and the vast and boundless sky... This made Lao Liu deeply understand what it looks like when the combination of roughness + vastness + wild beauty is.
Standing here, you will really involuntarily feel that the world is great and the insignificant. That feeling is also indescribable.
Lao Liu looked at a certain app downloaded by his mobile phone and found that the air pressure at Tanggula Pass was only a pitiful 520 kPa!
You should know that a standard atmospheric pressure is about 1,000 kPa. The atmospheric pressure here is only a little more than half of the standard atmospheric pressure. This is really a bit too scary...
Compared to the places where I just saw Tibetan wild donkeys and Tibetan antelope, there are undoubtedly more tourists at the Tanggula Pass.
In this environment, the white lion undoubtedly once again became the focus of everyone's attention, and Lao Liu also became popular for a while.
Not to mention, when the white lion stood there, the white hair on his body was blown like the rippling water by the strong mountain wind, and coupled with the powerful mane of the white lion, it looked like that.
Some tourists even boldly wanted to have a co-star with Bai Shi, but Lao Liu naturally would not refuse. Of course, Lao Liu had to hug Bai Shi's neck when the co-star was co-star.
Maybe it was because he met Zhao Mingquan and his family of three in a hotel before, and later met Dunzhu Zhuoma on the road, Bai Shi is no longer very resistant to taking photos with strangers.
At least as long as Lao Liu is around, this guy will no longer grin at strangers, and this guy has learned to POSE without any instruction...
PS: Bow and thank the boss "mimi4153" for his reward.
Chapter completed!