hello everyone and welcome to qinghai link as you can see the lake is right behind me here and in
front of me the mountains and you see all these little tents and things here this is actually
where we're going to be staying which i think is pretty cool and you can see like the Tibetan
style flags over there and all of that um it's really cool so ours today we set out from shore
1 which is where we spent the night before and you know we traveled along the road and
you know we could see a lot of the you can see a lot of the desert beauty and things as you travel
around through here especially as you get into Ching hai you can see how the landscape changes
the landscape opens up it goes from these big big mountains and it opens up into kind of plains and
then you get up into the Tibetan Plateau which is where we are now and that's just a it's an
amazing feeling actually to to be able to say wow I'm here on the Tibetan Plateau I'm not in
Tibet per se but I'm here and it's an amazing thing and I was just down there at the water
a few minutes ago and wonderfully very clear and amazing experience so I think we're going
to probably go down there later today and you know just check it out some more you can just
go straight back to the to the lake from here and then we're going to hang out at the tents
we're going to you know drink and we're going to have some fun and just relax ourselves and
actually today is duanwu jie and as you can see by this this bracelet here so that's a really
nice way to spend a holiday go to a completely new place and see what's really new stuff and I don't
know I'm just really happy to be here I'm really happy to be here with my friends and all of that
oh by the way let me introduce my friends ah I'm sorry about that you should introduce my friends
there's crystal her you know and here's some new people okay if I introduce everyone here okay so
this is Frank right here he's the big man there's Mike he's the other big man just swill right here
yeah and this is his wife and this is I still don't know your name vivy all right so this is
Frank's girlfriend all right so all right then one thing that's truly amazing about being here
is the scale of everything how wide open and how big everything is it's so big like I know
when I show you this it doesn't look too big it doesn't look that impressive but actually man
when you're here it is so freakin big there's so much open and empty space that I haven't seen in
so long I haven't seen this much empty space in God knows hell that's one thing that's making
this trip really very different from my daily life in lanzhou this is one of the biggest it's
definitely the biggest in China not definitely actually I don't know at all you know first look
you can see Wow first of all it is big it goes all the way down I can't see the end down there
and the camera certain can't see the end over here all the way I really can't see the end anywhere
you can see the Tibetan influence going on over here with prayer flags and things like that and
you see people have built makeshift things or it could just be for fun I'm not sure I prefer
to make it a little more mysterious and pretend that it's altars no matter what it actually might
be but it's amazing to walk on the shores of this lake and know that while I'm on the
Tibetan Plateau and there is a kind of different feeling here there is a different feeling here
from where I was lanzhou.. things... there is a there's a certain vibe about this place and
now I can understand why people want to come to tibet when it come here very interesting
feeling with this place ring stone you know this honestly speaking I never really wanted to go to
Tibet doesn't seem to be much in Tibet it's just mountains and rocks and some Buddhist people but
I know that I've had this kind of feeling seeing kind of a mystery and the other necessities it's
really quite tempting to have a look or maybe I'm just reading too much into this this is why
we travel this is why we go to new countries and new places and see new things we come this is why
we're alive we're here to learn as much as we can and see as much as we can and do and just
experience new things things we never thought oh my god I'm going to die things that we never
thought we were going to see before and you know a couple of years ago or a few years ago
I was not interested in China in 2010 I was not interested in coming here but here I am in China
just live in my life coming here on a weekend man how things change how things change yes see