Rural Life in China’s Most Controlled Region (Tibet)
all over the mountains inet are local people living at extreme elevations and I want to meet them I've been traveling through one of the most restricted places for foreign Travelers in the world at an average elevation of 4,380 M or 14,000 ft Tibet is the highest region on Earth We're on the roof of the world and today despite altitude sickness for one of us tort we're going even higher to try and meet one of the world's most remote families along the way we'll see some of the most beautiful sites in the world do some things I've never done before I've uh never done that before and take in what is one of the hardest places for foreigners to visit Tibet our first stop up in the mountains here in Tibet coming from laasa to shat their stop that kind of overlooks the entire mountains there's a lots of animals they have and what do is basically like they dress them up then if you want to take like a photo or video with them you have to pay so yeah there's there's that I hope they have a um Workforce labor for the animals hello hello how are you no thank you those goats back there were like tied to the one spot on the wall I don't personally like stuff like that um and I won't support it so that's just my personal choice oh I feel so bad for the yak they're so cute though do I have any favorite animal you do I have any your favorite animal we should get you a yak thing instead thing can I have a yak no not not a toy like a yak and we're currently about 2,000 no no 4,280 M um up and I'm still not feeling any altitude difference or sickness um which is very very lucky I don't feel any different to where I was in Lassa and I really didn't feel any different in Lassa this is my last video however if you did watch it Michael had some issues so watch that one after this one and I'm pretty sure this is called like the roof of the world we're on the roof of the world if you watch the last video you'll know that Michael is suffering with extreme altitude sickness here you go we're back in the car um to continue our journey to shagat but Michael just needed to grab some oxygen he's not feeling um um the best I just don't handle it well no because we're going to be in the car for so long today I'm just going to grab a peach that I bought yesterday in Lassa to eat along the way something I've been so excited for was seeing Yaks I didn't agree with paying to sit on them but at least I could see them in the wild Yaks aren't found in many places and are generally localized to this General region of the world y hi cuties oh they're so cute they have one baby oh little baby oh my God that's so cute we will see the leg other side so oh wow leg did you see that yeah wow yeah one of the three bers l in bed oh really yeah can I get a coffee here yeah yes today is a good day coffee and Yaks so we've just stopped at this second stop if you know me you know I need a coffee and if you don't know me welcome hello I'm Josie I need coffee to function it says Coffee what is it like 10° yeah 10° you don't want a coffee or tea tea let check what they have for coffee Michael is really struggling I think with the altitude not well it's a fun trip for me yeah you're not feeling well water pleas okay yeah I'm fine but I think we've gone up another probably 7 to 800 M just roughly off the top of my head and I don't think it's really meshing well since he was already sick when we got to Lassa um he's been sick since we got here I am being pretty irresponsible though like there are people walking around holding oxygen tanks and I'm trying to be too proud like I can do it without it but like everyone's walking around oxygen tanks I saw one of the drivers who must do this all the time sitting in there with one of the ones attached to his nose like it obviously affects people and it's not a stigma to like look after you but I think I know Aussie maale thing to just try and like tough it out so the driver's going to get me [Music] some oxygen in a can and some water and then it gets to the point where we fight because I'm like just take your goddamn oxygen I know I should I know I should I'm used to this being like I I'll get through or whatever or not making a fuss I'm used to not making a fuss very pretty I can see some Snowy Mountains from here it is absolutely insane I've got a a yak back this way oh my goodness that's a yak yak's my new favorite animal and look they've got all the Poo here they're saving the Poo he just told me they burned the Poo so they' just got like poo sitting on these shelves oh that's so funny there's lots of prayer flags up here it's really awesome cappuccino latte uh cappuccino ex Americans okay I'll a cappuccino cow oh yeah yeah so we are just currently on our way to uh a local Farm where we can actually have some local lunch with them it's a long time in the car today I think we're in for about 8 hours going through these mountains so your girl really needs a coffee yeah coffee shop from 4,677 Ft no meters meters he he lives here right in in the mountain yeah how does he uh feel the DM he come to the C and the night will go down to the hotel he goes down to a lower ler does he does he need oxygen does he find it hard you're okay he's if he not run then everything's not for me Texon text and Company text and Company no I don't sorry no what what I want to what I want to make make friends and what uh relation relation oh it's okay I have I have a boyfriend I almost got another boyfriend while you were gone leave you alone yeah he wants my number you your husband yes hello he's my friend oh your yeah see you travel have a good trip you too safe travel back to China you doing all right yeah get you back to the car good thank you Michael was already struggling at Lassa at an altitude of 3,700 M and at this point we were over 4 ,300 and Rising but I was completely fine we ended up stopping at a local spot for lunch a few hours later so we've just got to this uh town for lunch um but I need to go to toilet and I literally just realized it's probably going to be a squat toilet your girl's never done that before okay Moment of Truth oh gosh okay okay okay okay oh gosh okay um I don't know how to do it I I don't know how to do this I I don't I don't know how to do it what do I do how do I I have pants on I have pants on where where do they go when I when I when I well that was an experience squ only I'm traumatized squat only all right I'm chilling I have to ask you guys if you've ever gone to a squat toilet before do you take your pants on or off like I just didn't know what to do how do they work no one's ever taught me so in case you don't know you can't actually come to Tibet as a foreigner without a government permission so you need a permit to come they are our permits to get into Tibet and you have to have a guide with you basically the whole time this tour is by experience to bet I'm going to leave them in the description bar below they've gifted me this um whole tour in exchange for me making content for them um which I said in one of my short forms that it's easy to make because it is so beautiful here um but thank you to experience debet if you are looking to come to debet that's the company I with I highly recommend them not just because I'm getting gifted to me but because just of how well they've looked after Michael um when he's been sick with his altitude sickness um and how friendly and helpful they are during the tour as well so yeah I'm going to leave them down below they are my um suggestion or recommendation um for your trip to toet I am a fiend for noodles I swear I love noodles pasta noodles all different types of noodles this is delicious okay I think we have a change of plans all right clean clean clean clean clean sorry we're not going to Shikata anymore we're going to gang Guang g g g g g g you say it for me ganty thank you listen to the expert we're going to go there instead we've got about a 3-hour journey to that City it is absolutely stunning though we are driving through the middle of all of these mountains Mountain we've come through these two mountains and one of them in the middle of them is this massive like Glacier with snow on top and it is just oh it's right there wow it's just white it's so bright it's like blinding me like this the reflection on the snow it's like bright lot how many met 7,200 M at the top of the mountain yeah top of the mountain W the top of the mountain we got yeah the like holy M you that CL uh I mean I probably could to be honest with you I'm a little I'm a little mountain animal you are I'm a yak you are a yak I'm a yak in a past life by the way wait where's the altitude we are up to 5,000 m in altitude and I am singing songs and dancing in the rain how are you feeling horrible absolutely horrible but this is beautiful this is worth it it's it's worth being in disc guys I have never seen anything like this I've never seen snow I've never seen snow on a big mountain I've never seen snow on a big mountain this close to me this is insane true this is crazy I like the the mountain is so close to the the clouds that you can see the cloud Shadow see the cloud Shadow wow and yes yes I like his thumbs up okay so we're 5,20 M up wow wow this is so incredible yeah sh sh glacia thank this by the way top of the the mountain up there is like in the clouds that's how high we are bye pretty Mountain bye bye as we left the really White glacia Mountains realizing I had never seen anything like this ever before we headed to our new destination of gang to spend the night okay we have to check in with the police register with the police um that way here so this monuments is for the Tibetan Army you got an need B just let me do this first H the camera okay okay from it to tomorrow 10 yeah yeah should I oh get the tank okay a tank yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah to look after it's just an oxygen tank chill out you need it you're going to die otherwise Here Comes Your oxygen it's embarrassing you have the oxygen at the room okay then you can use the yeah yay come in whoa oh cool thank you Jacuzzi Jacuzzi as well stop it they finish okay we bring it to your room okay thank you thank so much thank you okay so because plans changed and now we're stop stopping here in this city rather than chat um she had to book this on the fly on the spot um this is so that we can go back and do a village um see a local Village and and a farm um a lot of the people here in Tibet he was telling us are farmers um so we're going to go have lunch with a local Farm uh with a local farm with local people on a farm with a farm we've got this really nice room um we've got two twin beds we've got a place over here for you to sit and work with a massive TV there's a really nice bathtub and he said there's a Jacuzzi a western toilet a big shower um and a really nice space for us to kind of spread our stuff out in um I have to repack my bag a little bit oh and I have to set up Michael's oxygen tank now I think if I turn this curtain one [Music] it'll yep good [Music] night just before we head out for the day um and go to like a local rural Village um I just want to remind you that if you do come to tobet or any like well any place actually at all if you leave your house put on SPF this is not an ad I just use this one um and because the sun is so strong up here the UV rays is really really harsh I went out for like an hour the other day without sunscreen on and my face is super super red and burnt and so is my neck I don't know if it's gone away that up no mad all right let's go we started the long journey in the car today to see a farming family in the mountains of Tibet I've already said that you need a guide to be able to come here at all but you also need permits which were checked at multiple stages throughout our trip I will say that my lips are like super super I don't know cracked or wind bured or something I don't know if that has to do with altitude it doesn't usually happen to me but I don't have any Vaseline um that's probably the only symptom that I have um with the altitude my lips are really really bad but Michael's still struggling today didn't sleep last night he kept feeling like he was going to like die and stop breathing in his sleep so fun fact peaches and apples are the thing that mainly grow in Tibet because that's what the climate allows to grow um the rest of them are imported but I've been living living of peaches and apples since we got here they're actually delicious all good good thank you thank you [Music] so we came to stop to have a look at the base of this amazing like ice Glacier but I found a little coffee shop so I'm going to grab a coffee from here you want one no thank you um someone there I can make it myself this is such a like photographic spot this place is just so picturesque hello sorry no coffee but no no electric oh no electricity yeah no electricity damn okay because actually they have the generator but they don't have the gas Lings okay hello hello thank you how do I say thank you in TI oh no coffee next stop we'll try again wild sheep yeah the wild sheep yeah we call Blue Sheep blue sheep like the color blue yeah because their eyes is the blue you know oh that's what they call the yeah the blue sheep with is the man and he not the man a cool the Second National Protection animal yeah okay uh I think I need to use the nature okay somewhere um I made the mistake of drinking water to try and keep hydrated and now I need to go to the toilet so I'm going to they're picking a pal for me to use in the bush there's no way to go the bridge you can use the under the bridge okay okay just a second oh I see in the bridge like a troll okay all right be right back so I'm going to head to the toilet just in here well safe to say I've uh never done that before we've been driving for a while and on this side we see the Himalayas over there across this r River and on the other side of that is Ban wow we really are far away from everything out there yeah after hours of driving we arrived at the Tibetan family's house they had prepared a traditional lunch for us made from the produce they grow in their own Gardens hello hi poop yeah from cows Y and Y what is it what's it for up there fire in the winter time oh they they burn it yeah they burn it it's everywhere so we've arrived at the local family's PL cows hi cuties climbing up through these stairs and houses to get upstairs whereas he was telling us that the animals mainly stay downstairs and they live upstairs wow hello hello hi hello wow this is pretty sweet tea or butter tea yeah uh sweet tea for me sweet tea please cucumber that's cucumber yeah no potato and the green pepper it's really really nice they've prepared this food um I'm not oh this is the uh cheese cheese that's right the cheese the really hard cheese we saw in the markets in the last video and the bread okay they made at the homes all the fruit you know all the food and drinks all they made at their home you know oh all homemade yeah they Cheers Cheers that's good I again can't go wrong with fried bread actual just potato he's um he's peeling it but I think I feel like T skin is actually good for you so I'm I'm probably just going to eat it you didn't eat with I guess yeah it's good that's cheese come closer look at that do their um cows have names CS normally it's not no name no no no no names because too much normally one family they have um sometimes you know six seven more their turns you know that's way can I name them of course yeah all the way out all born here yeah and this is to say that she's married right you told me yeah yeah yeah yeah she's married can you ask them what their um day normally looks like yes they are like half NORAD and half Farmers they have a lot of the Ys wake up at 7 yeah 7:00 okay then the mens okay they go for the Yaks okay they're looking for the Yaks and okay the girls get start milkings milk yeah yeah so normally the girls will get uh responsibility at the home yeah the man they go outside too [Music] yeah I got my bowl of the food that they made he was telling me that like the Cucumbers the potato all of that stuff they grow in their own Gardens and I had a taste of it already the potatoes are so good they are it's like they're meant to taste like this and we'd have different stuff but anyway I got a little bit of pork with some grains um capsicum delicious I'll have some I'll have some try the butter one yeah so butter tea yeah butter tea oh wow that's different than sweet tea yeah yeah totally different it tastes like butter like funnily enough that's good sh I think I do prefer the sweet tea um the butter just tastes kind of like butter which for me it doesn't usually go in tea so so this would be how they make the butter tea so they put oh it's heavy so they put the butter in here along with the tea and the water and then you like manually do it somehow which and a salt oh and salt which is crazy they keep water in this one my first video um copper is really prevalent in Tibet um why why why do you have copper again I forget because we have the mine the copper mine copper mine yeah so everyone uses kind of copper to hold things yeah yeah yeah also they keep this very long time you know not like other yeah it last a long time so you'd have this for like 10 years or something or more more at least 100 years what yeah really yeah 100 yeah 100 years yeah at least means at least so like your mom or dad or something yeah yeah yeah they live yeah yeah 100 years yeah at least 100 years yeah also met by copper you know for Waters here oh yeah for the water show you real quickly this view sitting out here and that is your view it is beautiful you live in a beautiful looking place she means she live the most uh beautiful place in this area live in the almost the middle of the leg oh yeah sure very nice house oh sugar sugar sugar this was cheese Tea Station yeah and the T ah you said for the morning yeah yeah yeah Zamba yeah so that's okay you can you can mix the cheese okay if you like sweet you can mix the yeah Sugar Sugar yeah a cool roasted B the winter they use the stock now it's really cold here right yes the winter time okay they use the stock at the middles okay they they do the morning tea and dinner so how many people would live in this house is it all one family yeah one [Music] family six yeah this is where they would prepare oh is this butter is that butter be B beer like alcohol yeah Al oh good thank you delicious away drink how others live their daily life is so interesting to me and I'm so grateful to be able to be here to see it fir hand [ __ ] you like this so you do you're telling me that you make a like a prayer and then you pull this right yeah that's right so what does the Turning symbolize because I told you the inside there have lots of scriptures scriptures way she sorry that he turn into crop WS it is similar he recite the man that's right normally when I meet people from different parts of the world I normally ask them what they would like to tell the world can you ask them if he has anything to say uh hold walls peace yeah because uh right now they have lots of Wars inace that's way he means okay the world peace is that his most you know wishes and again it's shown to me that while we may live so far apart on a map our wishes aren't all that far apart after all that was beautiful let me name their cows hold on this one's name is Cappy Cy cuz that's our dog's name yeah this one's name is Milo Milo yeah Milo that one's name is spot spot yeah spot um one drinking's name's h for hangover H and yeah the Milo is my favorite there there's a horse oh there's a horse bye friends wait what do you call C tur t t this one's called snow and this one's called milk you like it not milk because of the [Laughter] color thank you thank you sure goodbye [Music] sure we are a few hours more into the journey that started at early this morning we're just checking our permits again and passports almost back to Lassa almost the 4-Hour drive back to Lassa gave me time to reflect on what has truly been anep journey I came here with the same thoughts about Tibet that the rest of the world has but I didn't come here for any political or investigation based reasons I didn't come here to prove a point or to change anyone's Minds I came here to experience true stunning Beauty and I found it in one of the most beautiful places in the world I met welcoming people who are kind enough to share their culture and home with me regardless of what's happening in the world or in a specific region of the world it is just confirmed what I learned over and over again when traveling people are the same we value similar things we want to love and be loved and despite what the people who are supposed to represent us do on our behalf we all want peace with each other because that makes life better for all of us
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