Yakang Expressway, tunnel and bridge, beautiful scenery at 318 Tibet Road, very beautiful

Recently, many videos about a trip to Tibet have become popular on Internet. Some people even bought tickets and took train to Tibet as soon as they said they were leaving during Chinese New Year. On train, I met a group of like-minded friends, we sang together and enjoyed scenery along way. This cannot but envy people who are jealous of their courage to leave as soon as they say this, and jealous that they can appreciate such a beautiful landscape.

In fact, besides train, traveling to Tibet by car is also a very rare experience. If you are coming from south, Sichuan Province and other places, when you go to Tibet, you must pass this high-speed highway called Yakang Highway. You may have an extraordinary feeling along this road.

(1) Yakan Expressway

After leaving Sichuan Province, if you want to enter Tibetan zone, you must use this expressway. A few years ago, many were afraid to go here, because terrain was too steep, and entire track had a high driving experience. In fact, even so far this is a journey that a driver must go through in his life.

There is not only a very high test for driving skills, but also rare landscapes in real life. Along route all way to west, height also slowly rises, traces of human life gradually disappear from surroundings, only beautiful nature remains.

Between sky and grass, it seems that we are only driving one vehicle. Among them, there is a unique service area on way, whole service area is decorated with panda elements.

Let people relieve their fatigue and have some fun at same time. If you want to drive this expressway, it is highly recommended to take a short break in this service area.

(2) Erlangshan Tunnel

As altitude will slowly increase, we will pass through a tunnel called Erlangshan Tunnel. Mount Erlang is a famous high mountain located between Tibet and Sichuan, also prevents better communication between people of two provinces. Due to steep terrain, building a winding road was unacceptable, so planning at time decided to build a tunnel to open up traffic.

However, various elements are complex, and it can be said that this tunnel is very difficult to build, and many builders have been sacrificed. All of these builders are soldiers recruited by government, so many soldiers died here.

Since too many people have died in this tunnel, soldiers will be killed at every kilometer if they enter it. It can be seen how difficult it is to build this tunnel, but tunnel also greatly facilitated communication between inhabitants of two provinces and greatly reduced opening time.

Since air in tunnels located in highlands and plateaus is very thin, at a very early stage there will always be people who will pass by and report that it is a little stuffy here.

After research, country finally installed oxygen release equipment in tunnel to reduce degree of passenger hypoxia. At same time, since tunnel is too deep and too long, it is easy to cause visual fear in people.

Designers have also been hard at work, not only creating multi-colored lanterns of various shapes at top of tunnel to change patterns, but also using 3D technology to place signs at every turn.

(3) Shinkan Bridge

In our impression, it seems that places to go to Tibet are mountains and rivers, and there are no rivers, but this is not so. Here, in county of Ludin, there is a river Ludin. It runs between Mount Erlang and Mount Haizi. When bridge is not built, it seems that if you want to cross two mountains, you can only take a boat.

This is clearly not conducive to self-propelled tourists moving at high speed, so country has specially built a bridge here. Exiting Erlanshan Tunnel, you will come to Xingkan Bridge.

I believe that everyone who sees this will be amazed, and some will not be able to shut their mouths, because scale here is too big, so big that people can sigh that Chinese construction is too awesome! bridge crosses Kilometers, middle is all suspended, only on mountains and rivers at both ends there are two large supports for fastening.

Later, after reviewing information, I learned that this is called an anchor. Since mountains at both ends of bridge are different, mounts at both ends are also of different types. Specific principles cannot be understood at our level.

But what we can know is that after various tests, this bridge can not only withstand strong winds, floods and other natural disasters. Even seismic resistance level has reached ninth level and above, and it is difficult for ordinary small earthquakes to have even slightest effect on it.

Honestly, sometimes same landscape can make people feel different. When I first saw this bridge, I was amazed by superior technology of China and convenience of current level of transportation.

More and deeper understanding causes a certain sadness in people. How much painstaking human effort did it take to build this bridge? Sadly, how many people paid for this with their lives? Therefore, I hope that everyone who walks along this expressway can feel gratitude and appreciate contribution of original construction team.