Can I post my travel notes here in Fodors?

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Thank you Hunuman. Well,is it available to upload photos?

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we look forward to your posting... just don't include any commercial request, but you can mention how to contact people that helped you and from whom you purchased things or places you stayed and the associated costs...

You can provide a link to your photos.

OK，friends, I decide to do this job. Maybe it will takes several months.

I hv a full-time job on hand. I can only do it at night...
Meanwhile , English is not my mother language,so, just try my best...

Actually it's the first time I post sth in the forign site.And till yesterday I recvd 4 responses. It makes me excited.. Interesting, huh ?

My journey of 1st section started from Chengdu of Sichuan province, to Lahsa via National way G318. （In China roads titled with "G" means National way. titled with "S" means provinced way,I guess it's somewhat equal to state-invested in U.S. ）

Leading Characters:

Tumbler Man, a middle-aged man working in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, who has 3 kids. That is definitely rarely in China.

Scholar: A man just married before the journey. He serve in a college located in Deyang city ,Sichuan province.

Ah Phi, A guy resigned his job in Shenzhen city to join us.

Mr.Wei, A student of grade 3 in the Shenzhen Polytecnic.

Then Ah Hong, Ah Jay, Li Kwai(a man of Mount Liang heros, don't know why he use this nickname,as he looks modest,don't like a robber at all), together with Mr.Wei, they're all cantonese.

We called up each other in the internet and then bought the tickets of train from Shenzhen to Chengdu.

Well, I nearly forgot the introduction of myself. People call me Tony. I was serving in a Hongkong-funded factory in Shenzhen City, until I quit in mid-June of 2010. Before that I joined into club of mountain bike in Shenzhen city from year 2009 and read all kinds of travel notes talking abt how to go to Xizang(Tibet). That's spiritual foundation of my impulse to realize it by myself finally...

I never read travel note of similar content in English. I don't know what kind of visual angle you might be interested. I'm Chinese? I was educated? Investigation on culture? on Religion? Things purchased and cost?

Come on readers, you can tell me what kind of topic is more popular here. I feel really fresh I can communicate with you so freely and zero-distancedly.

we like it all tony....just fill us full of details of all kinds...

Yes, all of it!

Tony, your intro has me hooked. I can't wait for more.....

Continued on Oct 19:

Before getting on train,I had sent my 600 USD bike to ChengDu by courier in advance which cost me abt 120 RMB. While my teammates carried their bikes about. I met Ah Hong and Mr.Wei, Tumbler Man at the station for the 1st time.There I helped them to unload the wheel and packed.the mountain bike can be put under the seat only if one of foot pedal was unloaded. It can be good reference for people go out by train taking a bike.

People found so big China is when they came here.The train journey took us a whole day.To save money we did not buy sleeper ticket. We played pokers, talked with each other to expect a wonderful trip.

I recognized a young girl who's from Sichuan and talked happily, we left QQ (QQ is mainly domestically used in China for communication purpose, just like Skype or MSN) No. to each other finally. That was the start of my teammates describing me "His mothers-in-law are all along the journey..."

At night of July 13th, we arrived in Chengdu station.I farewelled to the Sichuan girl. We took away all of our luggage down the train, then meet with Ah Phi who aleady wait outside the station.He's one day ealier from Shenzhen. Ah Phi lead us into a cheap hostel(PLA background) in which he lived last night.

It was my 3rd time being in ChengDu, So I felt nothing.I went to sleep quickly after bathing.

The next day morning my teammates get up early to buy racks matching their bikes.I got my bike back from courier distributing center of Chengdu. Then with Ah Phi we tried to find another youth hostel but not sucessful. ALmost all hostels were occupied by travellers from all over the world.

July is a travel season as it's in summer vacation for students of unerversity and college. Meanwhile,Chengdu is a well-known tourist city for forigners.

We had to spent the last night in ChengDu in a small hostel.Before that an ex-colleague,a pretty girl invited me for a good dinner. Impressive.

In the very early morning of July 15th, 2010,we got everything ready to start our bicycling journey. In the last minute a new member joined us,that is Li Kwai.

Everyone in the team has a legency. Elder Brother Li Kwai just purchase a GIANT bike one day before leaving ChengDu. He is a modest, polite man with all good manners.

We went into DuJiangYan City after a brief breakfast.

There is a worldwide famous China ancient water conservacy project called Doujiang Weir, located in Dujiangyan City.

That's a invaluable heritage becos it was constructed in BC 256 in Qin Dynasty lead by a man called Li Bing.

We aimed at it, however,did not enter becof of high price of entrance ticket after 4 hrs of bicycling.

Anyway, it's lucky that the project is huge enough to protect itself from damaged during the period of Cultural Revolution.

The road connect Dujiangyan & Chengdu is G314.

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." ~ Robert Byrne

Tony:

It will help us readers, instead of you sending more than 10 messages a day, perhaps group them and send 2 a day. Thanks!

I like it, keep posting.

Tony, I'm enjoying your story! Thank you for posting. I'm looking forward to more.

Hi Shanghainese, Femi, Althom:

OK, recvd yr advice. Thanks for yr support.

For me the problem is that I can not regularily update it.

Sure you can! Write away. We'd love to hear from you.

This is fascinating. Keep writing to us. I'm hooked.

Departed from Dujiangyan city,along G314, we went to Dayi County in which we stopped and lodged. We met with big rain but no worry becos we hv rain coat...

Today's Journey still within ChengDu Plain..It had ever been a rich area. During the time of Three Kingdoms it was ruled by Shu State. The king Liu Bei was well-known for he's know how to judge and use people. His assesor Zhuge liang is a person of great wisdom and resourcefulness, mastermind. In China we usually describe a clever guy as "Junior Zhuge Liang"

But in the end of Ming Dynasty, there was a ruthless killer named Zhang XianZhong, He almost killed out all people in Chengdu plain... So nowadays' Sichuanese are most of later generation of Hunan province,Hubei province & Cantonese after immigration following up the inner war.

In Chinese ancient history there was full of inner wars making population of a last dynasty down to a unimaginable low level. It was repeated and repeated,until the KMT-CPC civil war. Maybe due to the situation that from last centry people in China got to know the idea of democracy and human rights... Nowaday, in every aspect: food, garments, language,education and thoughts, all western style exist.

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Huh.let's get back to the journey. Morning of July 16th,we reached Qionglai city and had breakfast there-"uncongealed tofu",a kind of food seems like glue,between liquid and solid state. From Qionglai onward we were back to G318.

Ancient Tea Road: Beside G318 there's a recovered ancient ruins called "the bureau of tea-horse market." Before Yuan Dynasty Kham area and Tibet did not inclued in the administration of centeral government,China. We call them foreign land. People from foreign land good at feeding horse.They need tea produced from Inland China,so Tea-Horse Trade Market formed.
The centeral government purchase horse by paying tea. to support the war.

Just took some pictures. I went for Ya'an City.it's also a tourist city in Sichuan, well-kown for "ya'an's Rain, ya'an's fish, ya'an's girl". "Girl" here does not include anything pornographic, just affirm the beauty of Ya'anese girl. Besides, there's a Panda national part named "Bifengxia" locates in Ya'an district.

I waited under the Chinese Tourist Graph Sign"Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow" to collect all later teammates. We gather up, to have lunch together.

BTW, as I know that many foreigners's consumption cost higher in China. Somewhat due to "information asymmetry",people in China tend to think that foreigner is rich ones.They quote higher when foriegner inquire. Somewhat due to foriegners in my mind does not trust some low-end food and service. However,I do think that something from peasants cheap but good. If you try to find service and food from them it can save you lots of money.

Industrially produced food in China contain some potential risk. Even Chinese is very unsatisfied with milk, ham and egg,even fresh pork purchased from the super market.Those kind of hormone and additive threaten our health in daily life. Recent years it's more and more popular in China to join arig-tourism. So why not join them when you come to China? Fresh vetgetable just picked out of the field, raised chicken or duck from the farmland came to your table and became yr lunch...hah hah...

After lunch, we found a GIANT bicycle shop to fix our bikes.As I remember one technician advised that my chain need to be replaced.He said it's nearly broken. I ignored his adivice. And finally I went through the G318 to Lahsa,to base camp of Mount Qomolangma
,to Xinjiang province, without anything wrong with the chain.

Hi from Australia and thanks for your interesting report, Tony. I'm enjoying reading about your adventure very much.