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South freedoms (a)
2006 年 2 21 - April 3, a total of 42 days old couple take our son - dog Koala, drove from Beijing to Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet along the Sino-Vietnam, Laos, Burma, China and India conducted a southern border travel.
along the southeast beach of our first port,shanghai escort, Dongxing, through Shiwandashan, after statute and son Friendship Gate , Germany-day falls, who went to Yunnan Yin, through estuaries, Xishuangbanna, Ruili, Tengchong, six libraries, Gongshan, but also by Weixi, Deqin along the Yunnan-Tibet line to Markam, Zogang. Zayu into Tibet from rawu area, watched the McMahon Line. and then by Banda, Qamdo, Riwoqe, Nangqian, Yushu, Maduo, Eling,, Lanzhou, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia on April 3 and returned to Beijing.
Here is our diary.
2 月 cloudy Tuesday, 21 点 10 分
7 continuing. is still our family of three: babies and the son of our old pair - dog Koala.
7 Point Du Jiakan toll by 35 points out of Beijing. far out of Beijing, we went into a rest stop refueling. In fact, the fuel tank car is still full, I'm the first to join a little to make time in Hebei ethanol petroleum , so that cars encounter the adaptedness. how about the fuel in the end, there is no problem, I was not the end of the file found from the Internet to see, 30,000 km above the need to clean the tank car, and my car has a 150,000 km old car, and has not been cleaned, one by addition too many ethanol petroleum will liquefy too many impurities, causing congestion, so I decided to gradually addition inside against the ethanol gasoline, gradually dissolved impurities in the oil tank.
look to take this weigh is correct, all the way to run always kind of smooth. After a
Xuchang, Henan, paid under the main lofty speed by on the Pingdingshan to Hubei, the night we stayed in Hubei Jingmen. full speed.
in Jingmen find a hotel near the exercise station stay, standard room, 50, a large room, cold. southern winter quilt and bed room is cold and humid, but fortunately we have entirely arranged themselves with the electric bed.
arrangements for accommodation, cafeterias close the hotel we went to dinner, had wanted to beverage beer, but beer is a small Pinger here, just a sign of the real estate, and 5 dollars a bottles. hotel landlord said it was the provisions of the city this year, not allowed to sell additional beers, we can only sell Jingmen local beer, and is five dollars a vial. This easy to deal, do not beverage. We have to two bowls of eggs noodles , 8 dollars to dine the abdomen.
2 月 22 号 Wednesday Yin
7:40 begin. koala we base the mood halfway right, look closely, his eyes have cracks, and minor bleeding . suddenly memorized this morning, the koala on the open space in front of the hotel's Huagou teenagers face a very fierce. a adjoin, the koala to horrified back to the car, we do not take too many placard.
now It seems the problem is solemn, the koala's eye was torn open, although no injury to the eye, but the place was torn stitch in time whether you do not, the hereafter may leave scars. koala looked favor the poor, truly heartache.
We anxiously drove very quickly, and rapidly to a relatively large cities in quest of animal hospitals. soon we to Changde, which is a zone. We walked all the way to find out, find one animal hospital. This animal hospital children in the street, the little half sell animal drugs, supplies, half of the animals accustomed to see a doctor.
when we arrived, there are a few cats and dogs in the infusion, the doctor was a youth man, he looked at test drag the eye and say: small bruise does not stuff. We propose to do to give it stitched eyes, and he mentioned not seam, the resilience of muscular animal and will not quit scars. we'll must give up.
he kick Koala two anti-infective anti-inflammatory acupuncture needles, but also on a digit of eye drops, said two days Jiuhaola. here is really cheap doctor dog, koala played two acupuncture and a flask of eye drops a total of eight dollars. If the Beijing will light ten enrolled.
out of the 319 National Highway on Changde, 13:20 to heaven .04 paradise in May we had been there, when is the spring, the thronged, and now the bad season , desolate, deserted. from paradise south, the road gradually worse, it began to rain, the car among Tai Hang Siu Hang dance, finally gave in Britain in the mire. the cars are full of muck glue, merely the elemental color. as roads, we can only take the detour, the road was consecutive rain soaked, but likewise by the massive vehicles to and from a oppression, deep ploughs are very difficult to wade, from Changde to one hundred and eighty kilometers away Yuanling .17 points more than 5 hours from 25 to Yuanling toll, for we had some time to proceed to .18 points Huaihua way to the morning of 40 River County, the shire is not small, very neat, live it out tonight. with yesterday's experience, we detect a family with warm ventilation air-conditioned hotels - Post hotel stay, the criterion 70 yuan, warm air-conditioning, 24-hour peppery water, very agreeable.
koalas along the way has forever been restless, to the front in the car for a meantime, one will go back for a moment stop. our hearts whispered straight, do not know it because of eye anguish, or because doctors injection response, do not have any problems. very worried. night stay, the It is quite normal to see a meal before they put snacks.
2 月 23 号
dismal Thursday morning on the rain together, our 9 point of departure, direction of travel to the Liuzhou 20 .10 points over Huaihua, 11:45 Bridge over Yuanjiang. The bridge is very special, in the medium is the railroad bridge, either sides of the expressway bridge. crossed the bridge, the car by the Yuanjiang ahead the trip, the rain has been coming, periodically big, sometimes small. Amidst the foggy river, inverse the mountain like a splash-ink painting, naturally, dull do not have some flavor.
our destination because today was in the Sanjiang. In truth, until the Guilin from Huaihua, but this direction we had passed, not want apt work repeat the path. car has been in rotate in the southeast hills approximately, soak curves are keen, one along one arm and elbow, turn granted Fan Yun. it rained and rained, the road sleek, the car not rapid, not numerous cars on the road, but I can not speed . through attach, Jingzhou pm 17:45 into Guangxi. There namely not too distant away from the 3 rills, turned the huge curve and saw the bus stuck in the mud in front of a few more can not get out. I stopped the car, go scrutinize the terrain. It is a valley, very long, namely a section under construction. We determined to detour nigh the hillside from the next to go. for, first here waiting for buses in the quondam, do not understand how long to await. II Even the last bus passed, we do not necessarily pass, because of the rain the road has become a mire road, numerous locations have become ponds are great vehicles rolling, Goukan very broad, deep, and these water Tong with carts in the past are very complicated, not to mention our car was.
street a few emigrant laborers are aiding cushion Road bus. I had the car turned into the steep mountain road, around reservoirs, up easily under difficult. my wife down to the car holding the koala, I was driving down the steep, narrow mountain road, the slope is too steep to see my wife in the back afraid, are scared to air out, until I The steep road down to the small road smoothly, she loosen, take a koala carefully down to the lower slope. Our car just down to the road, a few workers to ask us for money, that is they built a chip of mountain , so they should be given 20 dollars, we not survive them, to get out of the 15 dollars.
us in the mud and went twenty or thirty kilometers in front of the countryside is through a Crossroads, while Link Three Rivers, side to Guilin. we are surely going to Sanjiang, where also two thirty kilometers away from the three rivers. but we did not steer far away to see a few more small trucks came, and said not to go too big puddle in front of . these are local car vehicles, they challenge not go, how defiance we go. I asked about the local villagers, the villagers said that this road is a large puddle in front, you make life difficult.
So we decided to return to Guilin direction. This did not go into the three rivers, air and rain did not see the noted Dong F, Sanjiang Mulou, I listened Sanjiang Mulou is distinctive in the globe needless hook the layer, close at hand can not go today very sorry. But people ought prefer, know how to give.
direction to Guilin Road, is still very difficult, bumpy clay road, the rain is still falling, it was getting dark, the car's headlights and was mud paste to live, headlights have to be cleaned off every once in a while, and soon afterward also splashed with mud windshield, spraying cup of water has not bring an end to ..., can only go amenable a tiny bit adhere. eventually we came to a town, there are hotels, we are in This parking accommodation. deluxe standard chamber was 50 bucks and the chamber very clean, we are very satisfied, but cold and rainy, but fortunately we have with the electric bed, not wrong. What is the appoint of this town did not reserve track by far. On Friday
2 月 24
cloudy in the morning, and saw it was still raining, there is no way to must go. starting at half past eight, there is only 23 km from Longsheng, the road is very bad, We only arrived at half past 9. From there Longsheng Terraced Fields to 25 km, travel the road is still good. we went to the area of ​​the stamp, tickets 50 yuan per human, ticket office staff are very responsible, tells us namely Owing to the rain, into the place could not see everything, say you bought a ticket now, may not be returned. I queried, and the visibility here now than we do. He said not as good as here. We repeatedly as fitting, to give up. May 2003 We have come here because it was during the SARS pestilence, does not open, we do not see. This time we went to here, because of the somber rain, do not have to see. We return to the chief road, Guilin, Guangxi in the vicinity of Willow on the high-speed. two o'clock, through the Tropic of Cancer, has officially entered the tropics. five afternoon through Fangcheng, we came to the southern border of the six cities of Dongxing.
people say is a motorized coastal cities car of the world, Sure. arrived near, there is a lot of motorcycles began to come around Showmanship. We do not bypass them, driving a car into the city.
90 years I've been here, when equitable a Dongxing very, very small little fishing port, only a three-storey creating, two or three small hotels, siteline trade has only equitable begun. road bridge had been blown off because of the warfare, and from the corridor of merchandise have to rely on a small boat vehicle.
Vietnam was willing to behave cross-border trade with China, but China is not eager to carry, transport vessels must be invested by the Chinese side to allow the Chinese to make money. Vietnam's transport warship is not allowed to dock in China. I had been to take a transport ship Mong Cai. Transportation ship is a very simple small wooden boat, can only take 6,7 person, with a bamboo pole cross the river. on the way to bring an end to ... two superficial, shallow place in both, the ship was stranded here by the boatmen punt jumped into the water, struggling to carry the boat over the shallows, and then use the bamboo pole across the river. such hard work, not the boatmen Xu Yuenan dry, up to the Chinese boatmen to dry.
to the other side, a French construction market, I looked to the market, all servant productions. there are asset in Vietnam, there is naught to buy. out of the market without anyone concrete road and pavement, the motorcycle coming and going, loess shrouded,astounding age male asked, cars are broken most of broken rotten licensing East Germany by truck. there like a piece of motorcycle locusts. boundary line is a bar to get leash, guarded by three Vietnamese, the main check passing vehicles. and the petite Vietnamese than I am tall and fat, one can see, not the local residents. tour guide with the bar before I went, I was a little language barrier, had no alternative but to them laughed and nodded, elevating heaving bar since I crossed the bar into the Vietnamese territory. (in fact, is the Vietnamese side of the country)
to the voyage guide said the same, you can take the motorcycle to Hai Phong, Hanoi, and even go to. road is very bad, irregular precarious. I would not go. saw by the big mart, but also by canoe behind to the Chinese side of the town of Dongxing.
when the goods from Vietnam, coconut is the largest one, there are a large number of strap . Strikingly, a sack of bag of pangolins, civet cats,shanghai massage, snakes and various unnamed kind of savage animals, is alive. was very fashionable in Guangdong eat wild animal.
Vietnam need a variety of light industrial products in China, what impressed me most is produced in Guangxi beer, which is very much welcome the Vietnamese beer trademark, not only playing but also play the Chinese Vietnamese, some Vietnamese businessmen could not help, on embark open, on the spot to drink.
Dongxing was in addition to businessmen, there are tourists coming from Vietnam, and their destination is China Dongxing, as is China's buyer goods. in no way Ho Chi Minh City there is Saigon over to China Dongxing tourism and shopping. from South Vietnam over the matron clothed in pearly veil, dressing a big cap, as if the just virgin of the Middle Ages. retreats, Seeing beauty, Marty, my eyes are straight.
Vietnam was by far open to the border to China is not simple.
Dongxing today I do not know. This is a modern metropolis, the original bridge has long since gone , criss-cross the metropolis streets, tall erections. We find in the downtown, a small home hotel stay, the standard 20 yuan, 30 yuan there, we lived a 30 yuan. find a good accommodation after began to ask about going to Vietnam peregrination thing, did not calculate today is Friday. Saturday, Sunday is not working, the visa office to rest, I am really very frustrating, anything must wait until Monday to apply. from here is still relatively Mong Cai simple to do a short-lived card, there is a tour guide can take you in the past, but must come back the same daytime, can not go anywhere else. We came to the visa office in the Public Security Bureau, and local human talk for a long time, since we want to go to Vietnam , going to Halong Bay and Hanoi.