The weather in Hala Lake.

Golmud is the first stop of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. There are two routes from Xining to Golmud. One is to go to Golmud via Dulan. This route is boundless in Gobi, but the distance is relatively short and it takes less time. The other one passes through Delingha to Golmud, and the lakes and waters around Delingha are beautiful. In addition to Wang Hongfei Cuihu, there are Crook Lake and Tuo Su Hu, which are called "Lovers Lake". Hala Lake (Black Sea), known as the second largest saltwater lake in Qinghai, is the Aiken Spring on Mangya, 700 kilometers west of Delingha. Eye spring was photographed by a drone.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway goes to Delingha. Halfway, after consulting with Old Master Q, Old Master Q gave up Dulan and took the steering wheel to Delingha Expressway.

The weather was bad, and there were two traffic jams all the way. First, at the tea card toll station, the carts and cars were jammed, moving at a snail's speed bit by bit, and finally moving to the toll station. Boy, the long queues of two artificial toll lanes blocked two fast ETCs into slow lanes. I really don't know why there are so many cars without ETCs, which is both unfavorable and unfavorable. During the traffic jam, a motorcycle with license plate number "Joan" caught people's attention. Cyclists are a young man and a young woman. It's raining lightly, and they don't even have a rain slope. The motorcycle has no luggage or equipment except the helmet box in the back seat. Is the girl sitting in the back seat of a motorcycle brave or stupid? Can you ignore it for love?

Old Master Q in the driver's seat glanced at the "romantic" motorcycle, and pointed to several RVs and SUVs with "Joan" license plates. One of them was running on a motorcycle, just like the young men and women. Well, I didn't meet a wandering lover, but a rich girl, who shrank back and watched the rain hit the windshield wholeheartedly.

The second traffic jam was a construction on the expressway. People on the bus got off one after another, mostly young men, old people, children and women, with short-sleeved skirts and long legs. Most of them were dressed very cool and shivering on the windy and rainy grassland.

A teenager ran out of the car with the "Chuan" brand hanging in front, and looked out on the roadbed with a telescope. He didn't want to step in the mud, and his soles were covered with mud. The teenager wiped his shoes with a paper towel, instead of throwing away the dirty paper, he took it back to the car. I can't help but give this environmentally friendly teenager a big compliment.

Near Delingha, there is a lake called Gahai, which is close to the highway. In the rain, the misty mountain is a mountain, and the lake lying at the foot of the mountain shines with a touch of clear silver from a distance. Attracted by the beautiful scenery, I got off the highway and followed the navigation instructions. After running for more than ten kilometers, I found a clean and beautiful "Gahai" surrounded by green trees. Turning around and returning, I quickly picked up a car and contracted the whole grassland road. The world is long, the road is high, and I own it. Isn't it soon?

This carefree feeling of "all by myself" was felt again when I entered Delingha to book a hotel. "No bathing" is one of the rules for entering Tibet emphasized by Master Q. When I booked the accommodation in Delingha online, I found a new hotel opened this year. The standard room price of hotels in the same location is around 300 ~ 500, and his family is only 198 yuan. The one without bathroom is cheaper, just 168 yuan. I remember three chapters of Old Master Q's contract, so I booked a big bed room with no bathroom at night.

At night in Delingha, it is a small town full of neon lights and tourists. On the roadside, a group of tourists in red long skirts and red down jackets come and go. A noodle restaurant on the tip of the tongue is crowded with people. Most of them are tourists. Old Master Q likes noodles best, and soon "the bowl is empty", and there are very few bowls left. Not bad. It was my sudden diarrhea. The enthusiastic shopkeeper gave us the key to his apartment behind the building when we came back. Unfortunately, I don't know how to eat my stomach. Fortunately, the most medicine I take with me is "Huoxiang Zhengqi Water", which is specially used to treat diarrhea. Just smell and taste. If I am at home, I would rather have loose bowels than drink, but on the way, especially on the way to Tibet, I will hold my nose and fill my stomach.

Delingha "means" golden world "in Mongolian. It is located at the edge of the Qaidam basin, with an altitude of 2980 meters. It is the seat of the state capital of Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture with a population of less than100000. It is an authentic highland town. What makes this plateau town famous is not the fiery Jade Lake in recent years, nor the site of a foreign land many years ago, but the poet Haizi's "Sister, I am in Delingha tonight".

Before I entered Tibet, I transferred all the photos that had been stored for more than 500 years in/kloc-0 to my computer, and emptied my mobile phone photo album. The mobile phone, which I didn't want to empty, is as sensitive as I thought, and its response at high altitude is as slow as that of people. I really regret not bringing my SLR camera. Then the shoes are light and comfortable, but not waterproof. A small puddle on Delingha Street will make the soles of your feet cold.