Auto Stop around China - Part 9 - They want to eat me...

07.07.2010

I wake up in the night because I hear some sound of animal just next to my tent. He is breathing just next to my tent...I am silently searching for my knife, that I carry with me, in case someone will try to hurt me :D D: because I am quite often in the wild. I find my knife, and now just listen. My heart is booming...i am listening...I hear sound of steps and the animal feels real big, he is only half a meter or less next to my tent...I hear his breathing...He starts again to breathe even louder...I am ready to make a hit with knife if it will be needed..Then again steps..and now animal stands so I can see his shadow on my tent, because the moon this night is real bright...I am ready to hit him, to kill him...But actually it is only a stupid cow :D :D :D that is disturbing me to sleep. I scream at it, as I am real angry and she runs away :D :D Stupid cow...I go to sleep again

in the morning I meet with monk family, we have a great breakfast and then we go to see an amazing morning view...It is just great, fantastic...Imagine amazing morning clouds, that are hanging really low between mountains and lake...Everything reflects like in a mirror...The air is so fresh and clean...and silence of nature is all around me...

It feels that you have born again.

But we need to go again further. We sit down in a car and start our drive to Aba city, where is this region biggest temple. We really soon arrive there, say goodbye to my friends, check the city a little and then again go back on the road to catch a ride...Today I am going to Natural Park, that is counted as the most beautiful in China, called JiuZhaiGou.

First car takes me some 10km more far away. On this road there are almost no cars...Then I see a donkey with a carriage and i think i could try to hitchhike it :D: D but he turns off the road :)

No cars already for 10min...But I am not sad, I am walking the road, there are some Tibetan farmers who work on the field. They smile and greet me.

And after some moment I see a Jeep driving towards me, and they stop. It is a Chinese family who are real travellers and who love to travel and I start a journey with them. They are a little afraid to drive with me because i look really scary :D :D But they believe me that I am a good person and we start a journey. With them I drive for 100km.

We chat and have a great time, they also give me the main present - water. The time runs fast, and I am again on the road, and see that there is a car approaching but I need to run to the needed road to catch it, and I am really happy to catch a ride the same moment.

And again 100km more by the road. After I am again on another road...The weather is already real later it is around 6pm, that gives me around 2 hours only for future hitchhiking. The road in this road is horrible...just sand and one line in each way. Somehow I catch one more ride with drunk person in back seat...he tells me Hello and that he is Chinese man :D :D Ye it is hard to understand that he is Chinese :D :D After some time I start to get bored of him talking, and I decide to get out...

Again no cars, but then somehow i catch one more..Again some stupid car with stupid drivers...I say that I don't have the money that is why I travel b hitchhiking...and the driver all the time laughs like stupid...But I know how to talk with Chinese people...and after few minutes he understand that he is stupid and who is smart :D :D but I don't like them so I get out of car, because I see some hotel, so i decide for one night to stay in a hotel. As everywhere in Tibet also here are full of soldiers with machine guns...But I know psychology so I just wave to them and smile and they are friendly to me...And it appears there is no space in hotel...Today is some stupid day that is not really lucky...i again go on the road, and I am lucky I catch a ride again, for some 60km... They are nice Tibetan people who don't ask me money even they business is to transport people... I am getting happier as they are real fun...

At the end stop I am asking where could I stay but there is no place where to do it here...so I am left on the sand road...but I see a monk temple just next to it, so I go to check it out...But then I see one more car..and somehow I feel I need to try...It stops...and they say jump in, come to visit us. That was like a voice from inside stop this car, it will be great adventure...And it really came out great...We go inside this small village that have only 1000 people living in...And adventures start here again.... But about this in next part :)