Deep Inside China's Most Controversial Region (Tibet Autonomous Region)

Deep Inside China's Most Controversial Region  (Tibet Autonomous Region)

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tashi delek from the Nyang Valley 3,700 m up  in Tibet what a beautiful way to start a day off unbelievable today we're going to be  exploring the Bome County in Nyingchi not   very commonly explored jesus not very commonly  explored we're going to be going over mountain   passes around between 4 to 5,000 meters up through the snow capped valleys and snowcapped mountains   of Tibet we're going to be trying our best to show  you the real authentic side of this beautiful part   of the world of course we're with our designated  tour group here like I said we're going to be   doing our best to show you guys the real side  of Tibet up here on the side of this mountain   you can see it's draped in the five colors of  the prayer flags tons of prayer flags there and   this is actually one of the many many many holy  mountains of Tibet i'm not too sure of the exact   name but it is just as beautiful as the rest of  them so let's get this adventure started today and we are on the famous route 318 and it's  called the must go in your life street it goes   all the way from Shanghai to Tibet to Tibet  into uh Nepal border oh to the Nepal border   border yeah wow so total they have 5,300  kilometers from Shanghai to the end of the   Tibet site wow to the Nepal and from here  to Shanghai it's 4109 kilometers and right   now we're on 3,700 m of elevation and we're  going to go up a lot higher today yeah yeah   higher today the highest point is uh 4,780 m oh  my god we're all going to get altitude sickness   no I think we're going to be fine we're We're  accustomed now to the elevation I think wow just got off the bus in one of the snow capped  mountain areas and it's actually snowing i   didn't think it was going to be snowing oh my god  it's freezing cold and it's super slippery as well   of course as always I have the right shoes  on not I'm just wearing like Vans oh my god this feels like home feels like home for us feels  like Germany not Ireland but Germany oh this is crazy oh my god i just I nearly disappeared in the snow  oh my god check this out we're nearly at the   mountain top oh my god i keep Look at how deep  the snow goes i keep collapsing in the snow and   it's very difficult to breathe wow what a cool  experience though i keep falling all over the place snow is proper deep out here  we're over four 4,700 m up and you   can see for miles out there snow and ice  covered mountains it's very very hard to   talk very hard to construct sentences right  now but this is bloody beautiful out here i keep disappearing in the snow  unbelievable oh my god you can see   prayer flags in the snow and obviously  these ones here blowing in the wind and   the Tibetan people believe that as the  wind blows it carries the prayers up   over the mountains wow this is absolutely  crazy can barely feel my face out here oh   we didn't feel this kind of cold in probably 5 years or so, 4 years unbelievable you want a sweet tea oh yes please  can we have two oh maybe we can share That's the milk of the gods  right there milk of the gods i'm so cold I forgot how to drink what are we thinking for 20 RMB 20  RMB not bad not bad not bad very   good very nice now I look like  I'm really ready for the slopes we're going souvenir shopping they have everything this is the thing  that I want Luke the fashionista got a new pair   of sunglasses for 20 RMB and I have potatoes so  we're both happy so you can see the aim is you   need to shoot the small front there right the  little aim yeah yeah and it's so far away uh   for them is not far for us very far but for the  local people it's not far it's for the children   probably no yeah also you know the centre they  have if you shoot the centre the red things then   it's go wait a second i need to take a video  of you doing it show me show me how do you do why does it make a sound like that oh it's making a whistling sound yeah yeah  they have for you wow by the wind that's   so cool go through wind and then here's  a empty whistles go you want to try bes that was an insider not meant for you  bes okay babe go take a arrow um per   arrow it's two RMB oh so do 10 10 arrows for 20 you always giving it a go wow oh  did you hit he got close very close you give it a try what a bad ass there's the arrows over there do you have to wear the glove oh that was cool this is fun i think you  need a larger one a larger bow better when you pull try to make it a line let's go but don't shoot the lady careful with  the lady now pasang please be careful there was three three this is amazing this could be very addictive  you're going to pick up bow hunting now okay let's swap swap No no just finger like this finger  like this like this yeah yeah you're   pinching it back what if I hit  the uncle uncle get out of the way oh this is feels weird there you go oh too high how  do you say to chi thank you thank you i'm too high why is so high i have the long nails you're a bit down oh close close close last one last  one toss oh my Okay the nails let that be your lesson don't have long nails  and shoot bow and arrow it's not smart it hurts   what an amazing experience  thank you for showing us so cool wow check out this beautiful restaurant i'm going   to ask for the English pronunciation of the  restaurant here for a minute just came here   to have some lunch luke is outside  trying to make friends with a horse you see the horse and Luke but yeah let's  just have some lunch and maybe warm up   i hope that they have some sweet  tea i love the sweet what is the What is the name of this restaurant do you  know the name tashi tashi tashi and we're   going to try chicken yes chicken stone chicken  stone stone pot stone pot chicken chicken yeah   stone is from the me we have a area called Meadow  from that area this is a very famous stone pot   okay all over the world and this lady is the  owner yeah yeah hello she's so beautiful yes yeah try Tibetan mushroom hot pot this is serious  thank you thank you thank you oh it's so   good cuz of how cold it is outside it like  properly just warms up your your insides and   uh I think my nose is like clogging up  from how cold it is this is definitely   going to help me out now so good so flavorful  the broth as well oh chili so much chili okay spicy very chicken yeah chicken flavor  yeah it's like a chicken mushroom hot pot   good yeah it's properly like warms you  up from the inside bones really hearty do you put this inside this hot pot by the way is like crammed full of  chicken i did not expect that at all top base   layer of it is just loads of chicken mushrooms  and the broth it's flavored with all that goodness   too and then you basically just create your own  little pot of goodness here got the mi feng which   is the rice mix it in not sure how to say rice  actually in Tibetan let us know down below please   chili little spring onions and it all comes  together basically and it's delicious truly   delicious so good although I made the mistake  of putting chili into the broth and that just   made it like incredibly spicy but I'm  not mad about it it's still very good hello Tashi Delek yeah tasty huh straight from the Tibetan hot   pot so good so good yeah you like it  yeah i like it too it's very tasty yeah very tasty careful careful crossing the road wow this place is unbelievable no idea where  we are but found ourselves a little bit of a   market here we just made a quick pit stop  everybody else went to the toilet and we   saw the fruit so we were like "Okay let's  have a go to the market have a look at the   little market." Yeah the fruit around here  that's locally grown so everything here is   all locally grown here looks unbelievable  got like pickled and canned stuff and loads   of fresh fruit as well let's see what we can  get ourselves maybe some bananas or something chili is from here oh nice this lady is selling a lot of handcrafted  goods wow i think this is a knife is it a knife wow oh how do you open it look at how  beautiful that is there's no way   we could travel with it but Oh look  at that that was difficult for you yeah the I don't know what the name for this  is in English but it's made from wood that's   why it felt difficult for you ah probably that  is a beautiful knife if you want to ever get on   a train again in China you cannot take this  can't even take like a small scissors on a   train here yeah every time uh we get on a train  I have like I uh cut my own hair right so I have   hair scissors they always take them away from  me and I have to buy new scissors every time   look at that craftsmanship on this very beautiful  it looks like some completely handmade and you've   got like the proper heavy heavy Tibetan  beads the prayer beads and look at these do you want to get some nice unbelievable  you want to get some of the beads maybe   how much is the uh the beads 80  80 80 RMB beads is it good that's uh €11   is that a good price yes okay okay let's  get them too it's a good souvenir very beautiful qr codes even in  Tibet ah wow look at this the quality of this stuff  you can feel it like this   this doesn't look like much but it's heavy okay look at that our first souvenir from Tibet  jesus look at that look at that thing crazy wow what the hell is this oh this is a Look  at this something to scratch your back   with i don't know what it's made out of  what's that this is made out of uh it   looks the top part looks like a horn the  lower part maybe plastic Oh yak oh here you have the prayer wheel so you always  have to go clockwise if you're a Buddhist and   if you were a bun you go anticlockwise and  they place they place all of the prayers   and the the mantras inside of the wheel and  then the movement of the wheel is supposed to   basically send those prayers out and that's  how they chant got some really cool combs   here look at this perfectly shaped handle  how cool is this oh amazing it's amazing   so nice so much beautiful stuff that's the  the years that you were born the years the   astrology sign the Chinese one yeah local  people always check like this oh you have   one yeah yeah i have one small oh this this  is you wow for amulet wow that is gorgeous unbelievable it's heavy too can't believe  how nice it is so many cool things to see he is from Shanxi welcome to visit Shanxi oh yes nice he invite you local nice food oh yes yes oh 6 days 6 day trip wow amazing incredible  3,000 km 3,000 km wow what a guy bye-bye good luck wow crazy have a look at this scenery here i can't get over this bridge it's really   crazy looking the backdrop  of that beautiful Tibetan landscape i was trying to figure out which  products are from this local area the other   things that we bought were not from the area but  the tomatoes are from here and the chilies as well   unfortunately we don't have a kitchen but we can  eat tomatoes like this so tasty they're good yeah   and apparently they don't need to be washed or  anything like that because everything here is very   very organic and there's no added pesticides  or any other like crazy chemical stuff added   on top so they're just basically nice natural  Unbelievable i can't believe how sweet they are right let's go let's go and explore some more thank you we made it to a lake i don't know what  type of lake it is but we have made it to which is actually a river but people call it  a lake because in the summertime the water is   much much higher kind of to where the tree line  is over there and it kind of looks like a lake   all the way around of course when all of the snow  from the snow cap mountains uh melts or I don't   know if all of the snow melts but a big part of  it melts basically and then uh this entire area   here fills up with water in the summertime and  then it's called a lake but in reality it's a river oh let's go and see it if we can get a  better view of this river here river oo look   at this wow this is Parlung Zangbo River/Lake and  it goes through a massive valley that connects   a lot of Tibetan villages and ancient monasteries  as well and look at that for a beautiful site huh   even though the weather kind of took a turn  for the worst here today it's quite cold and   it's rainy but it is nonetheless jaw-droppingly  beautiful and that's a common theme that we're   finding so far here in Tibet everywhere you  go it's just stunning like unbelievable the   weather changes quite fast here though so  one second it's like beautiful sunshine   and kind of 15° or something you look around  the corner okay rain and cold amazing though what is very interesting to see is that when  we arrived in Lhasa a lot of the buildings   were actually built of stone because there's  not that much wood or forest growing around   Lhasa because of how dry it is of course this one  is also made from wood but here in the area you   can see a lot of buildings the traditional style  type of buildings made from wood which you cannot   really see that much of in Lhasa or on the way  in between Lhasa and Nyingchi at all it's very cool   to see kind of the difference and what people  use as building materials depending on what is available have a look at that  for a view it's a typical   Tibetan style house there and they have some  wood sheds where they're storing things actually   storing wood in that woodshed there on the left  and then the other one I think they're storing   some sort of vehicles possibly farming vehicles  or little things to get around this place is mad   we're currently in Bome County which is it's beautiful there's a viewing platform up here  you can get a Wow that's nice that's very nice got myself a coffee as well any type of movement up here [Applause] bye-bye bye-bye the local Tibetan  people are very special very very kind   some of the most warmhearted people that I've um  that we have ever met honestly they're also down   to earth very welcoming they always want  to take photos they're not used to seeing   many foreigners obviously because it's quite  difficult to get out to places like this for   a lot of Westerners number one it's a long way  away number two you need all the permits and   everything else you have to make all of the  travel like look at this here peach blossoms   they've been growing here in the valleys of the  Nyingchi area now for probably thousands of years   i don't know how many years but a long long time  it's the natural beauty combined with the Tibetan people it's so nice i think if you do  get the chance if you get the chance to   come and visit it's it's been on both of our  bucket lists for for a long long time now and   uh it's amazing to be able to say that we're here   it's a truly cool place i don't really know i'm  I'm actually I'm speechless uh the vast majority   of the time like I'm just speechless we spent  the majority of the day today in our tour bus   cuz it's a long long travel you have to travel a  long way to get anywhere really in Tibet and the   majority of it is on somewhat difficult roads  some of the roads are amazing some of them are   really not um but hey the scenery all along  the way during the whole time is just crazy   and every little interaction with the people here  is just special look at how big this mushroom is   you can buy lots and lots of different medicinal  herbs and spices and mushrooms here at one of the   pit stops which is so crazy to see this one just  check the size of my coffee beside it it's so big all right we have just arrived in Bome at  our hotel our hotel is called the Tibetan   King Hotel and uh let me take you around on  a quick tour we have this beautiful bathroom   apologies for the flickering lights don't look  here to the right and then this is our stunning   room we have two quite large beds uh but it's  kind of it seems to be some sort of a mix in   between single and double bed it's not quite a  queen bed but it's also not a single bed a very nice Recamiers to relax and this is our view out directly onto the mountain yeah this room generally very   very comfortable pretty clean i'm happy here  i think we can stay a very nice night yeah not   bad at all we're only here for one night so this  is obviously the hotel that gets assigned to you   uh as part of the tour so you don't like have  actually like a clearcut choice of a different   hotel or whatever but this is where you will  be staying if you are coming to Bome and   um yeah I think my favorite part about this  has to be the view so this is where we are   right now is Bome Town which is the base for  exploring around obviously Bome County and   um there's a lot to see around here and I  think that's what we're going to be doing   over the next day or so and what we did all day  today as well pretty much now today consisted   mostly of driving so uh it was 8 hours actually  I think on the road that we were on eight and a   half eight and a half a lot of uh driving a  lot of looking out the window but it's like   I said incredible views and the highlight  I think for us so far in Tibet has been the   warm people the incredible organic food as well  and the nature and the nature and we still have   so much nature so much everywhere literally  there's no like there's no escaping it even   in the the towns you just you're just constantly  met with beautiful mountains everywhere so we're   going to hit the hay we're going to take it  easy and then tomorrow we're back on the road

2025-04-18 19:03

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