A Comparison of Two Common Four No Man's Land Traverses

Why did you write this article in the first place? First of all, we do not do the four uninhabited areas of the north and south of the commercial line through the team; Secondly, we are not trying to make these two lines to make the advantages and disadvantages of the comparison, just according to their own practical experience, the two lines will be objectively presented to you as a comparison, as for which line you think it is worth to go is a matter of personal opinion. The main purpose of sharing this article with you is to share more knowledge about traveling in Tibet, that's all.

Around 2010, the Chinese outdoor cross-country circle began to rumor that there is such a super cross-country road: from Gansu Dunhuang began to cross the Lop Nor uninhabited area after arriving at the Qinghai Huatugou, and then from the Huatugou departed from the Algiers in turn through the Cocoanutian, Qiangtang, the Tibet Twin Lakes arrived in Lhasa at the end of the entire trip. This line in turn China's four major uninhabited areas, known as China's top cross-country line, countless aspiring people with their own unique way to open this extraordinary trip.

We have been engaged in commercial teaming activities for uninhabited area traversal since 2015, and we started out on this north-to-south four uninhabited areas north-south traversal route. Around 2018, a new four no man's land crossing line appeared on the market, of which the first half is basically no difference: Dunhuang began, crossing the Lop Nor, Huatougou rest, and then after crossing to the whale lake in Arjin, do not turn to the direction of Cocosily, but directly south to Qiangtang no man's land Xiangyang Lake, Duoge wrong Rengqiang fault, then folded to the northeast from the vicinity of the Lake of Lexianwutan into Cocosily, through the Sun Lake, Qiuer Karka checkpoint, from the Qinghua Mining near the road, in the connection between Huatugou and Golmud between Gansen on the oil road, generally choose to end the trip in Golmud, the follow-up team members can be their own through the Qinghai-Tibet line to Lhasa. Because the second half of this line from the track, similar to in the no man's land to walk a big right hook, so we industry generally call this no man's land crossing line for the big right hook or ring line crossing.

Even in the increasingly strict management of uninhabited areas today, there are still a small number of people in the organization of the big hook uninhabited area crossing line, while the north-south crossing line is now rarely seen in the organization. What is the reason that a classic crossing route that has been traveled for nearly ten years has been completely replaced by a new route at such a fast pace? Around November 2017, Arjin, Coco Sicily, Qiangtang three uninhabited area management bureau issued a notice - strictly prohibit personal purpose illegal crossing the uninhabited area; in early 2018, Tibet Naqu City, Shuanghu County, north of the Puruogangzhi glacier into the ecological restoration period, rejected all tourists to enter; Tibet is a Tibetan autonomous region, the local for the higher level of policy implementation intensity is strong, is not easy to adapt. If you understand the above three points, you can also understand that in early 2018, along the uninhabited area of nearly ten years of north-south crossing line massively into a large pair of hook crossing.

Is there a big difference between the scenery of these two routes? As a passer-by who has traveled both routes a few times, I don't think there is much difference in the composition of the scenery and the number of wildlife on these two routes. After all, the first half of these two routes in the Duo Ge wrong Rengqiang wrong before the line is almost overlap, in the Duo Ge wrong Rengqiang wrong after, although the direction of the two, but similar altitude, the same climate, the terrain does not change much, so that the two traversing the route of the landscape composition is basically the same, although the line of hooks can not be close to touch the Pueruo Gangzhi glacier, but there is a Gang Za Ri glacier as compensation, and the Qiu Erkaka! The wildlife in the neighborhood is slightly more than the second half of Qiangtang uninhabited area.

What is the difference in difficulty between these two routes? The difficulty of the first half need not be mentioned, because the line is overlapping, north and south across the uninhabited area of the second half of the main difficulty is to cross the river, crossing the Wuquan River and the Dongwen River. There are no traces of human activity in the No Man's Land, so if you want to cross the river, you have to wait for the weather temperature to be low enough to cross the river in a state where the river is completely frozen, and if you are not careful, you may fall into the cracked ice. But if you choose to cross the date enough in the center, such as December or 1.2 months, the temperature is low enough, the ice is frozen solid enough, then the north-south crossing of the biggest difficulties will be solved. If you start from Huatugou, according to the north-south line crossing, about 5/6 days can reach Shuanghu County, plus one day can reach Lhasa, if it is the hook line is generally need eight days to reach Golmud, the hook line length is longer, more time, more difficult, especially the new Qingfeng section is the most difficult. From the material logistics difficulty, travel expenses, cost control, line difficulty, etc., generally speaking, the organization is not willing to go to the hook line, but forced by the actual situation and have to choose to go to the hook line, some organizers in order to compress the expenditure, and to the hook line for the "improved". Improved is to arrive at the sun lake this Qiangtang no man's land after the edge, no longer deep, directly run to the sun lake go, fast in and out, in the Qiangtang no man's land on the edge of a hot pot. In this way, roughly 5-6 days from the Huatugou arrived at the end of the trip Golmud, but also a large part of the team for this "shrink" version of the trip expressed their strong resistance.

Through the above description, it is not difficult to see that the complete line of the hook than the north-south crossing line, more difficult, richer in scenery, longer travel time, and is the new line, it is reasonable to say that should be more popular with the uninhabited area crossing enthusiasts. Is this really the case? The actual situation is probably because of the historical heritage reasons, but also from the line through the complete degree of the majority of crossing enthusiasts still more favorite north-south crossing line.

Putting it last, at this stage, no man's land crossing, especially the back three continuous distribution of high altitude no man's land, the management is more and more strict, more and more difficult to enter, more and more high cost of entry, a lot of ill-intentioned organizers began to play up their own small plan, as a peer we can not say anything more. But we think ah, no man's land crossing is now a demand for more than the actual form of supply, the real organizations crossing no man's land crossing, basically as long as relying on the introduction of old customers and repeat customers, a year of the group will basically arrange to come, and will not bother to bother to go to the various platforms to find team members to post, to answer all kinds of novice questions, and then have to be screened in both directions. If you ask me to cross the no man's land what team recommendation or the north and south and the hook to choose that line is good, maybe my answer will let everyone disappointed.

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