What is the real situation of traveling to Tibet?

I often joke with my friends: If I am old and homeless, please leave me in Lhasa and drive Didi. The starting price of a taxi here is 15 yuan, twice as much as in the mainland. In 2016, I drove 318 to Tibet alone. For the first time on the road, I felt lonely and homesick. It was not because I had a high fever and was lying in a Tibetan home with no lights or signals, but because of a bowl of dumpling skins without fillings on the roadside. It sold for two Ten dollars.

In 2020, I also passed up Mount Everest because I couldn’t afford the nearly 1,000 yuan fee. Being on a plateau, with high prices and bad food is the real situation in Lhasa.

Any lake is 2,000 square kilometers, with an area 300 times the size of West Lake in Hangzhou. There are six of the fourteen 8,000-meter snow-capped mountains in the world. The Ngari Ring Line is 4,000 kilometers long. Driving on the Ngari Line is like visiting a wildlife park. Except in Tibet, I have never been so close to large wild animals in my life. I saw with my own eyes that they were willing to sacrifice their lives to protect their children.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the last golden ray of the sun disappeared on the top of Mount Everest. Before I could post on Moments, the Milky Way rose again. This is the darkest high-altitude dark sky protection area in the world, and every star seems to be within reach.

Traveling in Tibet is like having a dream, dreaming of a car driving on an endless road. It’s just that in this beautiful dream, I forgot about the ten-hour drive every day, the high tide, and the lack of traffic. Oxygen and the lonely life of eating instant noodles day after day. When I woke up, there was nothing but beautiful photos and memories, and only Huabei telling me that the day after tomorrow was the repayment day.

The last thing I want to say is that Tibet is not just for the rich. You can buy a train ticket for more than 200 yuan. Go when you want to go without any regrets. Work hard when you don’t want to go. , you don’t have to feel anxious because you haven’t been to Tibet yet, just live the present moment and be yourself. It makes more sense than blindly squandering money on the road.