it looks like we may have arrived! So the hotel is -- right here behind me ---
or it's in front of me actually. We may be able to stay here, may not be...but...
I like that view!
ah yeah -- you know you've arrived. Feels good
it's been a long day i gotta i gotta unpack this day!
for real all right! welcome to Langmusi! this is just gonna be a little walk
around of the town, and we're just gonna talk
about it and see.... see what we can get up to!
yeah, it's a place that not many people know about - not many people have heard of....
the altitude's kind of getting me walking up this hill it's um....
it's about 3 500 meters maybe like 12 000 feet
in elevation, and yeah - just coming up here in the last 24 hours,
you can feel it. Yeah, this is the main entrance to one of the
temples. One of the centerpieces of the city - where the city is named
after! We're gonna be hitting this tomorrow,
but yeah this is a this is a crazy beautiful
little town! like this -- the scenery surrounding it is absolutely
epic! There's so many little villages, so many
little pockets of people.... and every single place is so beautiful
so yeah first impressions this town is pretty cool! i love the aesthetic
but it is actually it's very very touristy. there are a lot
a lot of people, especially from gansu... well you can't deny as you're walking
down the street it is really cool looking...
very aesthetically pleasing yeah there's just it's it's
fairly crowded it's fairly crowded but yeah i imagine like once you get
up into the uh like mountains sort of doing a few hikes
yeah you'll be you'll be alone enough you know
i've been noticing um more gansu accents than
sichuan accents here so that's interesting because i haven't had
i haven't heard a gansu axiom for a long time now that we've established that
we're actually here like you have been driving like crazy
yeah it's a long one it's been a long one but like what's the what's the plan
for the rest of today like what are we doing
uh well today it's already almost seven so we'll walk around a little bit so you
guys kind of get orientated and i can show you some of the things
like here's the uh temple on the sichuan side and then there's another one on the
gansu side over there all right so yeah real quick this town
actually splits the border between gansu and sichuan
there's a river that runs right through the middle of town and
on both sides of the river are different provinces so
yeah that's just a little point so um yeah so we'll just check out some things
tonight we'll do a nice barbecue and then we'll discuss
some plans right behind me there's a couple nice hikes one's about 15 k's
up towards the left and there's another one off to the right it's about 20.
and then there's a couple shorter ones you go up to this uh temple here
about 45 minutes off down and the other side has those like red rocks so
a lot of hikes you could do around here you could do horse trekking
and uh tons of stuff you can check out these monasteries you can spend
really all day just in town you know it's definitely the kind of place you
could spend a few days to a week at easily
right so like and i know you've been up here before like uh how often do you do
these trips well in general i do short trips like
you know for two or three days uh every weekend like shorter ones but the longer
ones like this um every month or so or every couple
months i'll do like a longer four days to like a week trip a few
times a year and if like people want to get in
contact with you like how can they do that
um they can look at my website bikewestchina.com
or jenkinjrj gmail.com so all right both of those will be in
the description so you can contact jeremy
like uh if you're already in china or just when you get to china whenever
that's gonna happen uh but yeah definitely check him out
because he does so much cool stuff like i've seen
i've been seeing his trips for a really long time and uh i've been
supremely jealous of the kinds of places that he goes
and uh yeah it's he's the real deal he's a real deal should definitely
check him out to say that long musa is a religious town is a real
understatement it's a town of four thousand people and
it's got not one but two monasteries and multiple
institutes there's a philosophy institute akala chakra institute and
a tantric institute there's also a mosque and
whenever you go around town you see people
that are affiliated with these places it's a really cool mix of non-religious
people muslims and tibetan buddhists and all of
that coupled with the landscape and the kinds
of things that you see on the way there and while you're there
and when you hike above the town wow it's just
it's something else it's a place that i really recommend going it's not exactly
easy to get to but you should go if i were to offer a
piece of like practical advice for Langmusi or Ruoergai or somewhere
in this area.... i would say get ready for the altitude
because it's gonna make a big difference in your experience like how you react
to the altitude so i would say a couple of things you need to hydrate
hydrate like crazy and then also you can take these uh they're these pills it's i
think potassium chloride potassium something... i'll put
the chinese name and i'll put a picture of the box on there
you can take these pills and they're really good for altitude sickness like
it'll help you adjust better and it'll help your body
handle it and also um maybe bring something to help you
sleep because i haven't slept in two days just again
because the altitude insomnia is a is a big concern with uh
altitude before you do a really big hike you need
to stay in town for a couple of days just get used to it
so that when you start your hike you're not
you know trashed and there it is a little bit of my feelings about langmusi
...my first impressions and some practical advice and i think
i'm going to wrap up the video here thank you all very much for watching and
i'll see you all next time
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