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China 2010 08 08 Danba to Yaan

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Day 15 Aug 8th, 2010 Travel from Danba to Yaan


The Gubo Hotel in Danba was OK. A few problems with the bath room but there was hot water and standard toilet kind-of worked. I had a great rest and was up with the group for a 8:30am breakfast and a 9:30am check out and travel to Yaan. The big learning here is that the remote parts of China have standards for sanitation are not like our in North America standards. I basically took the whole experience as if I was camping.

Prior to the departure, I returned to the Tibetan shop with Donna and purchased a few more items, prayer flags and a Buddha poster. Then back to the cars for a 200+ Km trip south to Yaan. We were thinking we could do a few extra stops as the trip was so short.

Not to be true. The route south to Yaan was part of massive road and hydro dam construction projects. The were road closures, traffic jams, delays that some times took about 1½ hours. The whole trip to Yaan (including a few stops and lunch) took about 10 hours. Our altitude went form about 2,000 meters in Danba to less than 500 meters in Yaan. Did I mention that Yaan is like a tropical experience? Palm, Bamboo and Cacti grow with an abundance of other tree that make the environment look like we are in Thailand. Yes, the temperature was very hot. The bottom line is the drive was long, hot, rough, dusty and demanding.

The drivers were great. You really do need a 4x4 vehicles and a good understanding of the roads as there were very few signs. One last comment on the driving. In the north with speeds of 30 – 40 Km/hr, the random driving, passing, animals roaming, people shopping and difficult roads were some what workable. At 60 – 80km/hr on faster roads in southern Sichuan, the situation was very dangerous. People conducted their day to day activities as same however with unsafe traffic speeds. Only the future with tell what all these changes will create in China and to the northern parts of Sichuan.

As we approached Yaan, a rather large city, I could notice the smog and large city sights, sounds and smells. The people were no longer mainly Tibetan, but appeared to be more traditional Chinese in appearance. There were no more Sobas and traditional Tibetan prayer flags on the houses and road side.

We checked into the beautiful Hongzhu Hotel around 7:30pm and I took a long bath followed by a light vegetarian dinner. Tomorrow is the last day of the formal tour. We have a 2:00pm flight form Haan to Beijing tomorrow then Lauren and I will have three more days in Beijing to relax and sight see. Then back to Halifax on the 13th or August.



Steve Oliver
Aug 8th, 2010

A Mish Mosh of Moxi, China

Little Moxi still had a few more surprises for us. A hostel, small church from the 1920's (the same Church that owned the house Mao commandeered when he passed through Moxi on his Long March) and wonderful fields.

There is an abundance of hotels (building more every day), restaurants and shops catering to the many visitors to Hailuogou Glacier Park. Moxi turned out to be a very pleasant three-day visit but it was time to get on the road, one more time and head to Chengdu with its 11 million residents.

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Nous arrivons au bout de notre voyage au Sichuan et nous allons passer au Yunnan...

Hailuogou National Glacier Forest Park | Gongga Mountain Range (ගොන්ගා කඳු පන්තිය)

The Hailuogou Glacier Forest Park is situated on the east slope of the Gongga Mountain on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, to the southwest of Luding County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. It borders Kangding, the hometown of love songs in the southwest. The Hailuogou Glacier Forest Park is famous for snow-clad mountains, clouds, glaciers, forests, hot springs, sunlight and red rocks. Also it is known for the Tibetan and Yi corridor, ancient south Silk Road and Long March culture. This scenic area is 296 kilometers away from the provincial capital city Chengdu in the east, 100 kilometers away from the Kangding Airport in the north. In this area there are the tallest mountains closest to the big city in the world. The Gongga Mountain is the main peak of the Hengduan Mountains and is the king of the mountains surrounded by such as Emei Mountain, Siguniang Mountains.

理塘大河邊印象 Impression of the Dahebian, Litang County (China)

在理塘連鄉都稱不上的中途休息點,我們在這裡午餐休息.四周空曠,房屋稀少,風景卻出色.遇上從成都來的三人行小伙子,背著家當徒步旅行,終點是西藏拉薩,走了近一個月來到理塘大河邊,看他們遠去的身影,不禁肅然起敬讚佩不已.

Chian Sichuan Hailuogou Red Rock Glacier

Seven most dangerous roads of the world

World's most dangerous roads top 7. Guoliang Tunnel, Los Caracoles Pass, Sichuan-Tibet Highway, Skippers Canyon Road, North Yungas Road, Karakoram Highway, Trollstigen.

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Guoliang Tunnel

The Guoliang Tunnel is carved along the side of and through a mountain in China. The tunnel links the village of Guoliang to the outside through the Taihang Mountains which are situated in Huixian, Xinxiang, Henan Province of China.

Los Caracoles Pass

The Paso Internacional Los Libertadores, also called Cristo Redentor, is a mountain pass in the Andes between Argentina and Chile.

Sichuan-Tibet Highway

The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is a high-elevation road that begins in Chengdu of Sichuan on the east and ends at Lhasa in Tibet on the west. The road is 2,142km long. None-the-less it’s a regular route for truck drivers heading to the roof of the world.
The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, originally called the Kangding-Tibet Highway (a section of the No. 318 National Trunk Highway) takes you through vast, open landscapes with majestic peaks vaulting skyward. The plateau areas are dotted with castellated Tibetan homes and an infinite number of contentedly munching yaks. Travelers can enjoy the magnificent and changeable scenery ranging from warm spring to cold and snowing winter, which makes you intoxicated. This climate will be changing in front of you and you may think “days in heaven, but years on the earth”. The trip may take around 15 days if you you are not in a hurry. The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is also infamously known for bad driving surfaces and sharp mountain-side hairpins. Driving along single track sections in bad weather can be a great challenge to a less experienced driver.

Skippers Canyon Road

The Skippers Canyon Road, located in in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island, is today one of New Zealand's better known scenic roads and unbelievably scary as it’s totally narrow and different to manouvre your car. This gravel road, with a length of 16,5 miles, carved by hand by miners over 140 years ago is made from a very narrow cut in the middle of a sheer cliff face. It’s a road so dangerous that your rental car insurance won’t be honored if you drive on it.

The road was built during the gold rush, when a precarious pack track was the only access to Skippers township and the Upper Shotoverdiggings. Constructed between 1883 and 1890, the Skippers Road was considered a major engineering feat in its day. The miners who built the road in the late 1800s didn’t think much about luxury, though — it’s unpaved and very narrow. Should you encounter a car driving the other way, one of you will have to back up gingerly until you can find enough room to pass. Good luck figuring out which of you that will be. The road is so narrow that if two vehicles have to pass each other, one vehicle might have to reverse for anything up to 3 kilometres of winding narrow road to get to a place wide enough to pass. It’s one of only two roads in the country where rental car insurance is not honoured if driven on. Skippers Road is mostly one-way, narrow and steep with sheer drops of several hundred metres.

North Yungas Road

The North Yungas Road is a road leading from La Paz to Coroico, 56 kilometres northeast of La Paz in the Yungas region of Bolivia. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named it as the world's most dangerous road.

Karakoram Highway

The N-35 or National Highway 35, known more popularly as the Karakoram Highway and China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1300 km national highway in Pakistan which extends from Hasan Abdal in Punjab.

The Karakoram Highway (known informally as the KKH) is said to be the highest paved international road in the world, but at its peak at the China-Pakistan border it is only paved on the Chinese side. It's the road to paradise – if you like exploring the mountains, that is. It's regarded as one of the world's hardest alpine climbs
The Karakorum Highway connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693 metres (15,397 ft) above the sea level. The road is one of the scariest and hair raising jeep trip in the world. 810 Pakistani and 82 Chinese workers lost their lives, mostly in landslides and falls, while building the highway. The route of the KKH traces one of the many paths of the ancient Silk Road.The road has a length of 1,300 km (800 mi): Pakistan: 887 km (551 mi) and China: 413 km (257 mi). it was started in 1959 and was completed in 1986 after 27 years of construction.

Trollstigen

Trollstigen is a serpentine mountain road in Rauma Municipality, Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of Norwegian County Road 63 that connects the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma and the village of Valldal in Norddal Municipality.

China Sichuan Hailuogou Gongga Mt

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Gongga Mountain Kangding County_Gongga Mountain Drone Aerial Footage

Gongga Mountain Kangding County_Gongga Mountain Drone Aerial Footage.
Mount Gongga (simplified Chinese: 贡嘎山; traditional Chinese: 貢嘎山; pinyin: Gònggá Shān), also known as Minya Konka (Khams Tibetan pinyin: Mi'nyâg Gong'ga Riwo), is the highest mountain in Sichuan province, China. It is also known to locals as The King of Sichuan Mountains. Situated in the Daxue Shan mountain range, between Dadu River and Yalong River, part of the Hengduan mountainous region, Mount Gongga is the easternmost 7,000 metres (23,000 ft) peak in the world and the third highest peak outside the Himalaya/Karakoram, after Tirich Mir and Kongur Tagh.

Ya'an-Xichang Expressway

Expressway from Ya'an to Xichang in Sichuan Province,Western China.

Travel Hailuogou (Conch Gully) glacier,Sichuan, CHINA 2013

Hailuogou (Conch Gully) National Glacier Forest Park is located on the eastern side of Gonggar Mountain in Luding County of Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, Sichuan Province. It is 319 km from Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province and 105 km from Kangding, where administrative organs of the Garze Autonomous Prefecture are located. Glaciers in Hailuogou are typical modern marine glaciers, which are rarely found either in low-latitude places or at low altitude. Its lowest point is only 2,850 meters above sea level.

The park boasts many geographic attractions, including ancient glaciers, grand glacier cascade, virgin forests, wild animals and hot springs, etc.

Glaciers
Glaciers cover 31 square kilometers of the Conch Gully. Classified as Modern Glacier, they came into being 16 million years ago. The Grand Glacier Cascade -- 1,000 meters in height and 1,000 meters in width -- is the only one in the world. Its 6 km glacier tongue penetrates into the virgin forest, forming a rare natural landscape with the blend of glacier and forest.

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6 Killed, 4 Missing in SW China Rainstorms

Storms have left six people dead and adversely affected over 50,000 in southwest China's Sichuan Province, local authorities said Monday.

Six people in Yongxu County, Luzhou City, died in floods following heavy rain that started Sunday night.

Storms also affected 52,800 people from 10 other cities, districts and counties in Sichuan and resulted in direct economic losses of 59 million yuan (about 9.2 million U.S. dollars), the provincial flood control and drought relief department said.

Chengdu Railway Bureau on Monday said that 18 high-speed train services in the province had been suspended due to torrential rain. Another 12 had been delayed, it added.

Neighboring Chongqing has also experienced storms since Sunday night. Chongqing Municipal Meteorological Station issued a red alert (the most severe level) for storms on Monday.

Floods on Monday also left four people missing and three injured and forced the evacuation of 282 residents in Zhenxiong County in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said.
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July 22nd Landslides in Ganzi Sichuan

Road crews work to clear the landslides en Route to Ganzi (Sichuan, China) For a personal narrative of the disaster check out my website:

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Chengdu (Standard Mandarin: [ʈʂʰə̌ŋ.tú] (listen)), formerly romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China. It is one of the three most populous cities in Western China, the other two being Chongqing and Xi'an. As of 2014, the administrative area houses 14,427,500 inhabitants, with an urban population of 10,152,632. At the time of the 2010 census, Chengdu was the 5th-most populous agglomeration in China, with 10,484,996 inhabitants in the built-up area including Xinjin County and Deyang's Guanghan City. Chengdu is also considered a World City with a Beta + classification according to GaWC.The surrounding Chengdu Plain is also known as the Country of Heaven (Chinese: 天府之国; pinyin: Tiānfǔ zhi Guó) and the Land of Abundance. Its prehistoric settlers included the Sanxingdui culture. Founded by the state of Shu prior to its incorporation into China, Chengdu is unique as a major Chinese settlement that has maintained its name (nearly) unchanged throughout the imperial, republican, and communist eras. It was the capital of Liu Bei's Shu during the Three Kingdoms Era, as well as several other local kingdoms during the Middle Ages.It is now one of the most important economic, financial, commercial, cultural, transportation, and communication centers in Western China. Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, a hub of Air China and Sichuan Airlines is one of the 30 busiest airports in the world, and Chengdu Railway Station is one of the six biggest in China. Chengdu also hosts many international companies and more than 12 consulates. More than 260 Fortune 500 companies have established branches in Chengdu.

Aerial View Dakaimen to Gasa Expressway航拍大嘎高速公路建设

Dakaimen to Gasa expressway located in Xinping county,Yunnan province, the highest bridge in this expressway is Gasajiang bridge, 77m+170m+200m+170m+77m span, 206m high beam,pier 172.65m:



This bridge in fact cross Yuanjiang(Red River) river,Gasajiang is the local name of Yuanjiang. West of Yuanjiang there are a planning 17850 meters long Ailaoshan tunnel:

when it completed,will bacome one of the longest 4 lane expressway tunnel in the world.

This expressway(not including the 17850m tunnel)will completed in 2020.