Do you know what is the most painful, helpless and embarrassing thing about traveling to Tibet?

Altitude sickness is an annoyance for many people when they travel in Tibet! The headline embarrassment I experienced was-going to the toilet! Altitude sickness is uncomfortable, painful and troublesome, but it is not something that everyone must experience every day. Some people have no altitude sickness at all; Some people have altitude sickness only in the first few days. Going to the toilet is something that everyone must experience every day. In Tibet, going to the toilet means going to the toilet, and there is no need to use such elegant names as "bathroom", "toilet" and "dressing room". Those elegant names have nothing to do with toilets in Tibet. There is a saying in traveling in China: "Get on the bus to sleep, get off the bus to pee"

, and the second half sentence is either "Get off the bus to take pictures" or "Get off the bus to see the temple"

. If "peeing" is equated with "taking photos" and "visiting temples", it can be seen that the position of "peeing" in tourism culture is very important. Traveling in Tibet, going to the toilet is definitely the most annoying, painful, uncomfortable, helpless and embarrassing thing.

In Tibet, toilets in other tourist attractions are all "dry toilets" except the toilets in hotels

. The so-called "dry toilet"

means that there is no water to wash and wash your hands, only a few pits are dug in the land, surrounded by bricks, and there is a simple roof on it,

which is dirty and smelly, with flies flying around and stinking. All the people hold their breath when they go in, close their eyes and solve it as quickly as possible, and flee immediately. Here, everyone solves problems together, and no one can avoid others. Everyone "completes the task" under the anxious eyes of others < P >. In Tibet, as long as you want to solve the problem of excretion, you must go into such a toilet. After coming in, everyone does the same thing from content to form, and there is no difference. There is no distinction between high and low, and

everyone is equal.

people who travel frequently know that going to the toilet during the trip is something that must be taken seriously. The tour bus pulls tourists for hours, and everywhere they go, tourists can't wait to go to the bathroom. First, it has been in the car for a long time and must be solved quickly; Second, if we don't solve it now, I don't know how long it will take to get to the next scenic spot. If we are in a hurry, we will only have to endure it ourselves. No one can help you with this matter, and only you can bear the pain. In domestic tourist attractions, queuing to go to the toilet is also a big sight. In the case of internal urgency, "taking photos" and "visiting the temple" must give way to "peeing". No matter how good the landscape is, priority should be given to solving the problem of "peeing". People who have travel experience have another experience, that is, women often occupy men's toilets. The queue of ladies was too long, and they were anxious to wait. When they saw that the men's room was empty, someone held the door and the ladies went in to solve it. At this time, if a man wants to go in, he is stopped by the lady at the door and told that "there is someone inside"

, but it is actually "there is a woman inside"

. At this time, most men are generous enough to wait for the ladies to come out before going in. I have never seen a man haggle over every ounce at this time.

Toilets in tourist attractions in Tibet are all charged, one yuan per person each time, and two yuan in some places. Tourists feel that the charge is too expensive, and the service does not match the charge. However, there is no place to argue, and everyone is honestly queuing to pay in. The toilets in Tibet are expensive and the environment is bad, but they are "weddings"

. The most depressing thing is that the toilet in the restaurant where you eat is also charged. The toilets in restaurants are generally not connected with restaurants. But go out at the back door of the restaurant for 2 to 5 meters. On the way out of the back door of the restaurant to the toilet, there must be a big sister or aunt sitting there with loose change in her hand and a bucket on the ground next to it. People who go in, she charges; When people come out, she scoops water with a water spoon to wash people's hands. Looking at the crowds coming in and out, that's the rushing money drilling into your arms. Small dry toilets are a high-income industry. I have been in Tibet for about ten days, and the cost of going to the toilet is about tens of yuan.

What about the toilets in the famous Potala Palace? Most people take it for granted that the toilets there should be high-grade. After all, it is the seat of the highest authority in Tibet in history. In fact, the toilets in Potala Palace are also dry toilets, and they are also the toilets with the largest gap in the world. People stand on the toilet pit and look down. How high it is! It's about ten meters high. It's still so dirty and smelly. Its advantage is that it can be used for a long time without satisfaction-it doesn't need to be cleaned often; The disadvantage is that people who are afraid of heights are afraid to go up. There is no charge for toilets here.

in the scenic spot, there is no place to hide. First, all tourist attractions are full of people; Second, there are no trees and flowers in the plateau, and there is not even a shelter. Do you want to "pee" in nature? No way! I don't think Mr. Ye Yonglie had been to Tibet before he wrote this book. Otherwise, he will definitely put the toilet culture in Tibet in this book.

In fact, this experience of toilets in Tibet existed long before I entered Tibet. That is on the train to Tibet. "It's a magical heavenly road"

, Han Hong's heavenly singing accompanied us all the way on this "heavenly road" in the loudspeaker of the carriage. However, this "heavenly road" should also solve the problem of eating and drinking Lazarus among the people. Because you are walking in the "sky" (Qinghai-Tibet Plateau), you can't throw filth anytime and anywhere while walking like a train walking in the "underground" (plain), polluting the beautiful scenery in the "sky". This train can only collect all the filth until the Lhasa terminal. The problem is that the capacity of the container for collecting filth is insufficient, which makes the toilet on the train overflow. That scene is even worse than the dry toilet! Never open the door of the toilet. It's filthy and disgusting beyond words. Outside the window, the beautiful scenery attracts people-snow-capped mountains, blue sky, white clouds, grasslands, sheep, yaks, and occasionally Tibetan antelopes and wild donkeys. The unique scenery of the plateau deeply attracts passengers in the carriage. However, we don't look back, don't look inside the car, and don't think about our physical discomfort. We have to lie prone on the window, enjoy the scenery outside and try to forget our troubles.

some people will say that the train is so bad, let's take a plane. Teacher Kong Qingdong said that when he travels, if he has time, he still likes to take the train, because he can read books by train, so some people praise him for his realm. If this is a high realm, then I have already reached a high realm. Ge You Ge is afraid of flying and only takes the train, which has nothing to do with the realm. I am afraid of the air or smell on the plane. As soon as I smell the smell of the plane, I feel sick and often get airsick, so unless I have to, I usually take the train first. Traveling to Tibet by train, you can have a different experience from traveling in the plain. The train gradually rose from a low altitude to an altitude of 3, meters, 3,5 meters, 4, meters, 4,5 meters, and nearly 5, meters.

Looking at the rising scale of the altitude meter in the carriage, the scenery outside the window gradually changed, the air pressure became lower and lower, and the air became thinner and thinner. Some people began to feel chest tightness, breathlessness and dizziness, and some people began to suck oxygen. Outside the window, grasslands, beaches, lakes, sheep, yaks, tents, goshawks, Tibetan antelopes and wild donkeys gradually appeared. Every time these plateau scenes appear, people are jubilant, and people keep taking pictures through the window glass. The train passes Qinghai Lake, Hoh Xil, Tanggula Mountain and Naqu ... Looking at the endless plateau scenery such as snow-capped mountains, blue sky and white clouds, your heart and emotions will be excited and cheerful with the galloping of the train.

These wonderful experiences can't be felt by plane.

The scenery in Tibet is absolutely beautiful, magical and unforgettable. People in Tibetan areas are still running towards a well-off life, and the shortcomings in development are inevitable, and absolutely perfect things do not exist. However, we should try our best to improve so as to be perfect, instead of letting defects flood at will.