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Old May 28th, 2012, 12:06 AM
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Re Shandy, Carrom & Carrabella, thanks for yr recognition. Yes I try to deliver something fresh to you. I'm trying and I'm keep paying effort on this...
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Old May 28th, 2012, 01:02 AM
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On July 18. We go on the trip to Erlangshan Tunnel. The old path should go over a poort of mountain Erlang. It wastes time (traffic jam happened frequently) and cause many traffic accidents. Then in 1995 the government decided to build a tunner and later in 1999 the mountain was get through. It saves 25 km totally. Huh , that's a good project, isn't it?

Just after 1 hour of mountain climbing road, I saw the entrance of tunnel far away.

That days' Champion belong to Tumbler Man. I can't imagine it.
An old Man who has 3 kids...Huh huh. I took a photo for him with a gesture of lifting his bike. That's a good memory. Before going through the tunnel we took a joint photo: Ah Hong, Tumbler Man,Ah Phi,Mr.Wei, Tony and Scholar.

We should write down the ID# in the house of armed police force. That's a sensitive area already. We're entering the area of Tibatan very soon.
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Old May 28th, 2012, 02:11 AM
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In the darkness we passed through the tunnel quickly. Luckily I hv a torch. All of my equipment was ready one by one from When I fall in love with bicycling.

Well,They were all stolen after I was back to Zhejiang province. my love bike, the torch, my helmet.spedometer. They kept beside of me thousands of kilometers on the way. All safe in Lahsa in, in Kashkar,in Tashiku'ergan . But was stolen by someone when I was back to "inland"(Developped area in China). That is life and reality.

I love the tourist area I've ever been .I hope someday to go back that kind of area to start a new life. But my mom advised that I should marry with some girl. I'd like to earn more money...Then I hv to stay "inland", put up with poisonous food, struggle to get a high-salary job,struggole to pay the loan for a house...struggle to death.

Yes the question is that, how to earn to live when I go back there? That's a question, Huh.
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Old May 28th, 2012, 03:41 AM
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Okay, let's stop the heavy topic. Anyway I still can breathe, I can eat, I can drink. I'm alive. Huh huh...

Getting back to business. The Erlangshan tunnel is the longest one I've ever passed.about 8900 meters long. Came out of the tunner we found the weather in the other side of the moutain is quite different. The tempreture also 2-3 degrees lower. We just saw the mist wreathed in the valleys.

Geographically we came to the district of higher altitude.

People may ask how we keep water supply and how to keep enough energy.It's not so comlicated, however, Just take some bottles of water of drink like pepsi or coca cola,Red bull. Yes Red bull. Many bicycler reagard it as "holly water". They all think of the drink make them full of energy when climbing. But I don't think so.

Don't worry for food too. Becos of the tour along G318 is so popular these years. You can buy food from any village or town you'll pass along. You can eat Sichuan cuisine every section of the road. If you want to make it a little more simple, Okay, hv some "fried rice with eggs".

As a Chinese, I think we focus on taste of food, instead of nutrition,e.g. protein, fat...I can't understand why Chinese people called Mcdonald and KFC "junk food". I believe they just to parrot what others say . In my eyes Chinese is not strong enough, The energy from daily food and drink is not enough. Meanwhile they do not like sport. That's why they became fatter and fatter if they went to KFC frequently.
There's no wrong with the food itself. Why food containing starch, protein, sugar and vegetables called "junk food"?

Yes let them hv a try, to climb a mountain of 15 kms of uprise road after hving a bowl of porridge ???
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Old Jun 2nd, 2012, 12:31 AM
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The weather shows really different one side of the Erlang Mountain with the other side. My English of except used in my job is really poor. I'm sorry I can not provide a detailed description.

Still rainy. After feeding a little vagrant dog. We went to Luding County. Regarding vagrant dog.It's related with Tibetan religion belief. They think as a human being, death is not end of a life. It's another start of life turnover. Maybe a man died and next turn of life he became a dog...
The dog may be the turnover life of his died grandfather. So tibetan people do not eat dog meat. There are so many vagrant dogs wrangling in the street of tibetan area.
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Old Jun 2nd, 2012, 12:44 AM
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Luding county is just a little county in China,maybe only 50 or 60 thousand resident live there. After accommodation Scholar, Ah Phi and I had a "luxury" dinner. It costs us about RMB 150. Afte supper I went to the most famous scene point "Luding bridge". Becos they do not charge after 17:00 P.M. Huh huh.We must save as much money as we can becos the journey is so long.

"Luding bridge" is made of 9 strips of iron chain. It has a historical fame becos there was a severe battle there between Communist Red army and Kuomintang army. Of course ,the winner was Communists Red army...The seized the bridge and creat the convienience for later troops to go on the "Long March".
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Old Jun 2nd, 2012, 08:34 PM
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Thank you Tony, I'm enjoying your travel story very much. Your English is excellent!

Good luck & safe travels from Sydney, where our famous Australian sunshine has given over to rain & grey skies.
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Old Jun 3rd, 2012, 02:27 PM
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Tony, I just happened to find your report today. When I saw that you started from Chengdu - one of only a few places I've been in China - I had to keep reading and now I'm hooked! It's very impressive that you rode through those mountains on bicycles - and impressive, too, that you can describe it so well in English.

I like your descriptions of the rides, and your commentary about cultural things like the food and the history of the places you passed through.

And now I'm greedy: I want to see your photos, too! Can you find a website where you can upload them for free and then paste the link here? I know when I was in China, we couldn't access Flickr, but there was a workaround. Or maybe you could try a site like Shutterfly here in the US? I'm sorry if I tempt you to have to do more work for us, with your already busy schedule!
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Old Jun 3rd, 2012, 07:12 PM
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Hey Bokhara, thank you.

Hey ggreen, thank you too.

Actually I hv attached many many photos into a Chinese website. It's a pitty that you can't read Chinese words.
That's also why I want to do the job again here.

http://www.tianya.cn/publicforum/con...1/320427.shtml

I was thinking about to find a English site which allow attaching photos. I'll do it later ,maybe.It depends on my leisure time.

Here I show you some web address Chinese saying English. "Chinglish":

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDA1MTA1NTc2.html
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzc3MDgyNDA0.html

Hope you like it.
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Old Jun 3rd, 2012, 08:52 PM
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Tony, the pictures look great!! I only looked at a few because it's very late here in New York and I must sleep before work tomorrow...

I took the caption for the first - group - photo and pasted it into translate.google.com. This is what it tells me:
"This is a family portrait photographs, goes before the turn because QQ is not enough pixel"

It seems to mostly make sense, although I don't know what it means about not enough pixel - that QQ can't handle the pixel size of the full photo? That's the trouble with automated translators! But IME, Google's is better than others, so maybe it's enough, along with your travelogue here, to understand what's shown. From your writing, I certainly knew who the girl was in the photo a little way down the list!
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Old Jun 10th, 2012, 12:02 AM
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We planned to look at Gongga Mountain but failed becos of bad weather. At the morning of July 19 we departed from Luding county heading for Kangding county.

Due to the large amount of exercise, Ah phi decided to take a car that day. Scholar insisted to ride with us. After Luding the weather shift to be better. And then another challenge to ride uphill under burning sun...
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Old Jun 10th, 2012, 12:28 AM
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Only when the road is closing to the rivulet I could feel cool and refreshing. The milestone along G318 always full of doodle by all kinds of donkey friend."Shiguang came here","I will be back here again". such kind.

Beside the road we can see some beautiful flowers. For example, sunflowers. A kind of flower specially in Tibet area "Gesanghua" ,"Hua" means flower in Chinese Romanization.

The Tibetan differentiate themselves into 3 branch: Kang-ba; Zang-ba; Wei-ba.

We were now in the area of Kang-ba people live. Mainly the tibetan area in Sichuan province.

People around Lah Sa city was called Zang-ba.Moreover, people around Shigatse city was called Wei-ba.

By the way, the pronounciation of Lahsa or Shigatse is more Smooth in English. I guess it's related of the colonial rule by British end of 19th centry. I'll find you some more proofs later.

For exmaple, as a famous brewery brand "Tsingtao Beer" will be more readable for foreign people.( The brand was found up when Germany occupied Shandong province. )Actually after 1949 we call it "QingDao Beer" instead. But "QIng dao" will not be read by forigners freely.

More example such as Peking. People now call her "Beijing "instead.
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Old Jun 10th, 2012, 01:32 AM
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When I entered Kangding county- The capital city of Aba autonomous prefecture. I found Ah Phi was there already. How come he run so fast ? ...Yes he took a car to reach there, so that one hour ealier than Scholar and me. Huh huh.
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