Tibet Diary by Zhou Yun

Saturday June 4th

We met a rainbow on our way.

After a week's stay in Nyingchi, we left for Shannan, a prefecture in the west of Nyingchi.

We start from Bayi town of Nyingchi prefecture, pass Milin county and arrive at Langxian county after five hours' drive.

We continue our trip after lunch. There are less trees and more sand as we drive west. The monotonous scenery made me fell asleep.

Suddenly, I was waken up by our driver. There are big stones in our way. We have to get off the car to move away the stones.

The more terrible thing is that there are still rocks felling down from mountains. We run the risk of being hit by big stones and quickly get rid of rocks in our way.

Finally we arrive at Bodangla mountain, at the boundary of Jia Cha and Qu Song county. It snowed when we reach the peak of the mountain, which is 5088 meters altitude.

We begin to climb down the mountain. And out of our expectation, we see rainbow. It is a kind of refreshment after such long trip.

Our driver told us that there would be at most 2 hours more drive as we head west. However, it seems that our trip will not be that smooth. We miss our direction as the road that we are going to take is under repair and we have to detour.

It is almost dark and we have to open the front lights of our car.

It is already eight o'clock in the evening and we are still trying to find out the right way. It is getting darker and darker and I become more and more nervous.

Finally we drive back to where we took the wrong way and find a Tibetan to ask the way. He tells the right direction and mileage.

It is almost dark and we have to open the front lights of our car. The driver also becomes very concentrated.

Hope arises when we finally see blacktop road. And the hanging stones in our heart finally drops.

It is 12 o'clock in the evening when we arrive at the capital city of Shannan Prefecture—Ze dang town.

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