China's MOST Unreachable City Near India (Foreigners CANNOT Go!) I S2, EP83
I think there was an avalanche In this episode I am riding through the Himalaya mountains from Winter to Summer in one day descending close to the disputed MacMahon Line and reaching China’s mysterious, remotest and most isolated city - Medog Good morning everyone Today I am in Bome county In Xizang, tibet Now it's 8:30 in the morning And my today's destination is Medog The least connected city in China For many many years Mêdog is only accessible half a year every year because in the winter when the snow is heavy It buries the road Making the whole city unacessible And now it's still difficult to get there Because there is only road From Bomê to Mêdog There used to have 2 roads Connecting Paizhen to Mêdog But 2 years ago, there was an avalanche So til now, that road is still under construction And from Bomê to Mêdog There is a policy called even-in-odd-out So on a date which is an even number We can drive in On a day which is an odd number We can drive out So it's only one way traffic Ok, now this is very important Not everyone can go to Mêdog Before going there You need this A permission to go to some remote area in China And you have to apply for it before coming here My ride started from Bomê A beautiful city Nestled in the dense green forest and surrounded by snow mountains the Parlung Tsangpo flows through it and the morning air is moist and fresh Avalanche danger Drive carefully So this is a road once destroyed by the avalanche This is difficult, it's all big stones Hello. Go ahead hello Gansu province plate I've got friends Is it hard for your scooter to go up? What? is it difficult to go up? A bit It is very slow Are you alone? yes Be careful The road to Mêdog used to be a deadly road many sections have been repeatedly destroyed by the avalanche and frequent land-slide during raining season The road was completed only in 2013 52 years after the project started Half an hour later I reached Galongla tunnel And there was a long queue You can go ahead Go ahead of the queue Ok, is the tunnel under construction? Park outside the tunnel Don't get in Where are you from? I rode from Dali No, I mean you... from Anhui I'll go ahead slowly That's the tunnel It's still under construction We have to wait another 20 minutes Is it under construction? Yes, everyday It closes every day for a certain time It will reopen soon 11:40 Every day? Yes, everyday? But why? It's a control measure Brother, why it closes everyday? Construction work I see, inside And they control by sections Before this tunnel was built the road to Mêdog had to be closed for 8 month every year due to the heavy snow on the mountain pass soon the tunnel was open they let me go first so that I can get ahead of the heavy traffic The first kilometer after the tunnel was quite broken Everyone was driving carefully Soon the road got much better But no one wants to drive very fast The view outside is just stunning I saw one waterfall after another and as the elevation drops the vegetation began to change It gets humid, hot and I even saw banana trees Now it's 20km from Mêdog city It's getting so hot And look There are even bananas here The 117 km ride took me almost 4 hours In the afternoon, I reached Mêdog city In Tibetan language, Mêdog means Secret lotus as the tale goes that Guru Padmasambhava once practiced buddism here Mêdog city doesn’t look so special the street is quite busy there are cars from all over China all hotels are fully booked I met some other motor bikers and was invited to the famous stone pot chicken then I booked a room in Beibeng A small village 30km from the city so after dinner, I continued riding Due to the low elevation it's probably only 700m here Many other plants that can never be grown In other parts of tibet Can grow here For example, the banana trees And also the tea Brother, which ethnicity are you Monpa people. And you are talking in
Monpa language Monpa language, is it very different from Tibetan language? Yes, the difference is big So, if you go to Lhasa you can't understand their Tibetan language No, I can't I see, Monpa language. But the old people understand. I see So here, it is mainly Monpa people Compared with making green tea We take this much They take this much And they told me It's used to make tibetan Tea If any of you understand the language they speak Please help me to translate And this is the new ethnic minority I learned today So in China, Monpa people mainly live Mêdog and Monyul region And in Mêdog there are over 10,000 of them They have a very close relation with the Tibetans e.g., they also follows Tibetan buddism But they are different There are more Monpa who are living Otherwise of the MacMahom line Which is only about 20km from here There is also a small population of Monpa living in Bhutan So as I read from the internet I don't know if it is reliable or not Originally, Monpa are from Monyul And also from some parts of Bhutan And slowly, they migrated east to this area It is also believed that Monpa is the ethnic group that Is the closet to bhutanese So if you are watching this video from bhutan Please tell me whether you can understand their language or not Give it to me, it's heavy Not at all thanks My accommodation of the day So Mêdog is an expensive place Especially when it comes to hotel And if you check the price Normally it's more than 300 400, 500 That's a normal price And I got a small room in this remote village This is called Dengba village And this is my room It costs 130 at the moment And it is managed by the village committee I got 2 bottles of water And some snacks That's from my room, help yourself i want this sister, take this too Mêdog is the last county that Yarlung Tsangpo flows through before it enters Assam and becomes Brahmaputra there used to be many mountain villages in Mêdog today, most were relocated to lower places for safety reason This is the first time that I see a real old Monpa village The old houses are quite interesting So look at that The whole house is elevated And there is a big piece of wood here And I've seen very similar structure in the alpen region Differently, they use stones And for the alpine chalet This is to prevent the rats from going up So I am wondering if this serves the same purpose Only a few families live here But what about the rest? They have moved. To where?
To Beibeng? To Gelin village Oh I see Dengba is a small village of around 40 households The night is for collective activities for women, it is dancing but today they are just having a beer together and for guys it is archery Brother, do all men know archery Yes. All men? yes So you learned it since a kid Yes, but with old archery Now this is popolar So we use the new arrow set the arrows used to be different there used to be competitions every year Competitions? yes Yes, every year during the Tibetan new year Now, we used the arrow that make sounds I see, it flys with a sound Yes From them to the target, it's about 50m Now I am leaving Mêdog for Bome Because Pai-mo road ins't connected So now I have to take a detour Go to the same way back I really hope that That road will finish construction soon So that Mêdog can end its history of Even-in-odd-out And become more connected That's all for today I hope you enjoy watching this video If you like it, please give me thumb up Thanks for watching Byebye
2024-07-23 10:58
