Chapter 6 Environment
Although Tianlu Inn was opened, Lao Liu knew that his approach was no different from the ostrich that pierced his head into the sand.
Even if the inn is opened, it does not have the conditions for business at all. If you want to truly open business, you still have many things to do. The recruitment of chefs and waiters, the tables, chairs and benches needed by the inn, the beds and quilts needed by employees, the purchase channels for ingredients, fuel, kitchen utensils, refrigerator and fresh cabinets, etc., all need to be considered by the boss.
This place is not as good as the Sunshine City or the county town. To put it bluntly, it is the wild land. Although there is National Highway 109 and the Nala Expressway that is about to be built, it is really no different from the wild.
Within this radius of five kilometers, in addition to the public security checkpoint in the east, a shop that has become a grocery store and a public toilet across the road, there are more than a dozen Tibetans living in the pastures. Well, there are quite a few yaks here...
Therefore, it is much more difficult to open a roadside hotel here than to open a city.
Not to mention anything else, the ingredients alone require driving from the county town fifty kilometers away or the Sunshine City more than 100 kilometers away.
No vegetable vendor will deliver goods to you in this place.
Therefore, a pickup or micro-card for purchases is indispensable.
There are also chefs and waiters, so it is difficult to recruit. It is estimated that few people are willing to come here...
Otherwise, why are there not many roadside hotels on both sides of the entire Qinghai-Tibet Line? The difficulty and cost of opening a hotel or hotel in such a place are too high. However, if the hotel can be opened well, the benefits are not comparable to those in the city.
After all, this is the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, the busiest road entering and leaving the plateau, and the best traffic conditions and the most safe road.
Although the Qinghai-Tibet Line is high in altitude, and compared with the beautiful Sichuan-Tibet Line, the Qinghai-Tibet Line does not have the beautiful scenery of the four seasons on the Sichuan-Tibet Line, but drivers entering and leaving the plateau, especially those in the northern part of the motherland, choose to take the Qinghai-Tibet Line in the metropolis entering and leaving the plateau.
However, although there are many supply points on the Qinghai-Tibet Line from Garmu to Rikkong City, which is more than 1,100 kilometers long, there are not many hotels and restaurants for tourists and drivers to rest. The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, which has better natural conditions, has a village or gas station or something. Drivers entering and leaving the plateau on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway do not have to worry about supply issues at all.
But it is not possible on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. Experienced veteran drivers know when to start from Garmu, and at what speed to go to which hotel or restaurant to rest. However, it is much harder for tourists or drivers to enter Tibet for the first time to catch it.
If you don’t even pay attention and miss a few restaurants and hotels, you will have to go hungry on the road.
Through chatting with Zhaxi Dawa in the morning, Liu Mo'ang knew that although this place is more than 100 kilometers away from Sunshine City, it is already very close to Sunshine City. But even so, the 50-kilometer journey from the county town to here is only three or four hotels and hotels on both sides of National Highway 109, and most of them are still gathered near the county town.
If you are in the uninhabited area of the Qiangtang Plateau in northern Tibet, it would be no rare to see a village or supply point in fifty kilometers or even one hundred kilometers. Compared to the one in northern Tibet, this place is much better.
But even so, with this place as the center, no matter whether it is north or south along the Qinghai-Tibet Line, there is no hotel or hotel within a 30-kilometer range. If this distance is placed in Dongshan, it will be enough to run from this county to another county...
The second uncle decided to open a hotel here, and it was obviously a good inspection.
Not to mention that this is a tourist attraction, and it is also a must-pass way from Nikko City to Namcho!
If that magical spring water is added...
Lao Liu thought about it for a long time, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this restaurant was still very interesting!
Even though it is not open yet, I have at least poked up the stall and I will do the rest slowly. I don’t have to worry anyway.
On the afternoon of the second day after the inn opened, Lao Liu had just finished his work on the spring - he asked the decorator for some cement and sand, and then built the spring with a few bricks and covered it with a lid to protect the spring.
Although this place is a high-altitude meadow area, there are still many springs that emit water in summer.
Above your head more than ten kilometers away is the glacier of Nianqing Tanggula Peak, which has not melted for thousands of years. When the snow line rises in summer, most of the melting water of the snow mountain flows down the hillside. However, there are also many melting water of the snow mountain that seeps into the rock layer and then emerges somewhere below to form a spring.
A spring here that is not much more than chopsticks appears, which is nothing to the locals.
When the decoration workers saw Lao Liu laughing at this spring, they all laughed at him.
Most of the workers in Danzengjeb's decoration team are from Bashu. The people of Bashu are particularly hard-working and are close to the plateau, so the number of people from Bashu is still very large. Just like Sunshine City, now, the total number of migrant population is close to one million, but only more than 500,000 people with Sunshine City household registration are included.
In other words, the current migrant population of Rikkong City is about 500,000, and more than 80% of them are from Bashu. Even those with household registration in Rikkong City, the proportion of Bashu people is not small.
It is not a casual talk about Nikko City's reputation as "Little Bashu".
However, it is precisely because of these particularly hard-working and hardworking people in Bashu that the current prosperity of Sunac City has been created.
Lao Liu always has a respectful attitude towards workers who can endure hardships.
Old Liu happily fought with these workers - what do you know? This spring is very magical for buddy.
To be honest, this spring is really magical. Drinking spring water can eliminate altitude sickness, and the spring water will no longer flow out to a certain extent.
This spring, which is about the same thickness as the head of a chopstick, is not small, but it takes a whole day to fill the small puddle that Lao Liu dug with a shovel. Once it is full, the spring water will magically stop coming out, which keeps about ten cups of water in the small puddle, which is about two liters of water.
This is actually a very magical place.
In order not to waste, yesterday morning and this morning, Lao Liu sucked all the spring water in the small pit into a large mineral water bucket and used the siphon principle to store it.
This spring cannot be wasted.
In addition, it is rainy now, and although it rains heavily at night, Lao Liu was afraid that the rain would cause this precious and magical spring, so he protected the spring with his own hands.
After working hard for more than an hour, Lao Liu was about to go outside to smoke a cigarette and see the scenery.
When he left the door, Lao Liu's mood, who was a little irritable because of his busyness in the past two days, suddenly became better.
I have been busy with the inn these two days, and he hasn't even taken a good look at the surrounding scenery and environment.
Because there was no altitude sickness, Lao Liu walked around the inn and began to stroll around the inn.
Don’t think this is a plateau, and the altitude is more than 4,500. There are mountains and canyons everywhere here.
If you have never been here, at least nine out of ten people would think so. Because most people would think this is the roof of the world and the third pole of the world. There are countless mountains and rivers, and the ground is not three feet wide. This is the norm.
But when you really come here, you will find that you are wrong and very wrong.
The place where the inn is located belongs to Dangquka County in Sunshine City. It is the southern edge of the northern Tibetan Plateau. There are indeed countless mountains with an altitude of more than 5,000, but more are plateau grasslands that are almost flat.
That's right, the terrain of the northern Tibetan Plateau is completely different from that of southern Tibet and Hengduan Mountains. In southern Tibet or Hengduan Mountains, it can definitely be called "no three feet flat" and there are high mountains and rivers everywhere, but in northern Tibet, it is normal to be unable to see the edge of the grassland at a glance.
For example, the famous Kokoxili.
Although this place is far less flat than that of Kekexili, it is definitely a rare flat area in Hengduan Mountains or southern Tibet.
To be precise, this place belongs to the hot spring town - Nianqing Tanggula Fault Zone. In this huge fault zone, the mountains are "regular". Between the mountains and mountains, there are often broad and flat mountain structures of broad valley basins.
This place even includes Dangquka County, which is fifty kilometers east, which is located in such a flat valley.
The average width of this valley exceeds ten kilometers, and the length is more than one hundred kilometers.
Although both sides of the valley are snow-capped mountains with an altitude of more than 5,000 or even more than 6,000, the valley is really flat.
Otherwise, the famous Qinghai-Tibet Highway, Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Nala Expressway under construction would not have been chosen to pass here.
Tianlu Inn is located on the north side of National Highway 109, which is the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. It is about 30 meters away from the hotel and the national highway.
About three miles south of the national highway is the Nala Expressway under construction, but this road has not been repaired yet.
About 200 meters south of the Nala Expressway is the famous "Sky Road" - Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
Walk east along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, look up north, and you can see the "white-headed" main peak of the Nianqing Tanggula Mountain that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.
To be honest, although you can see Nianqing Tanggula Peak here by looking up, there is no shock when you look at Nianqing Tanggula Peak at this location. Even if the altitude of Nianqing Tanggula Peak exceeds 7,000, the hotel is located at an altitude of nearly 4,000.
Therefore, if you hadn't known in advance that the snow mountain was Nianqing Tanggula Peak, as long as you are here for the first time, you would never regard the mountain that looks like a "round head and round head" as the "round head and round head" peak. After Lao Liu came here and saw the "round head and round head" snow mountain for the first time, he would not think that it was Nianqing Tanggula Peak!
That's right, looking at Nianqing Tanggula Peak at this location gives people the feeling of being "round-headed and round-headed", without any majestic and steep. (PS: Everyone knows the cover of this book. This photo was taken by Lao Mo at this location. The snow-capped mountain with round-headed and round-headed behind is Nianqing Tanggula Peak. Doesn't it look very different?)
According to Zhaxidava, if you want to appreciate the majestic and steep nature of Nianqing Tanggula Peak, the best observation location is not in the south of the mountain, but in the north of the mountain!
Only by looking out across Namtuo’s Tashi Peninsula can you truly experience the shock brought by this peak at an altitude of more than 7,000 meters!
Shaking his head, Old Liu continued to walk forward. After walking less than a hundred meters, he arrived near the stone tablet of the very famous Namcuo-Nianqing Tanggula Mountain Scenic Area.
Although it is still 110 kilometers away from the real Namtuo scenic area, the Tashi Peninsula, this is the best place to enjoy the Nianqing Tanggula Peak in the south of the Nianqing Tanggula Mountain. Although it is not shocking to see that mountain here, at least I saw the famous Nianqing Tanggula Peak, right?
Chapter completed!