My understanding of "Silk Road" and fascinating, began his high school days when the likes poetry. "The Yellow River is far on the clouds, the one isolate them Maninsan, Qiangdi why blame Yang Liu, spring is not crossing yumenguan." That's exactly how things look like yumenguan for me has always been full of mystery. The most impressed I was there off and soldiers in extremely harsh conditions, in order to defend the country and shown by bold and masculine, as well as intense pathos and romance. "Grape Wine Magic Cup, want to drink immediately pipa reminders, Zuiwo battlefield Jun Mo laugh, a few people back to the ancient expedition."
Such feelings and accurately is a kind of frontier fortress feeling, but the "Silk Road" beyond "frontier fortress." Because the "Silk Road" will be of Chinese civilization with the world linking two other civilizations. At the same time, will also be a number of Han Chinese ethnic minority with the linking of central Asia, the achievements of the Chinese nation today. Frontier fortress is a barrier, while the "Silk Road" is communication, collaboration and integration. For leisure travel for the family to shore extraordinary argument may be too serious. However, this complex has been accompanied by me, has completed the entire journey of joy.
Perhaps this can explain why I will be starting three days before the pillow is not sleep, leaving the day before, fundamentally to sleep without sleep.
This same, night after night when I turn pancakes on the pillow mat, that's soul must fly to the Western Regions ... ....

Urumqi impression

"Look, look, the bottom is the Xinjiang!" "Heavenly Lake" ... "Also a Tianchi"!
My companion in the release of his latest discovery. This probably was his discovery of the fifth Tianchi. I quickly opened my eyes. The aircraft, the gray-brown mountains, and continuously, occasionally a flash of clear water in which Bay. Originally, "Hu Zongbian" in action.
Sparse stand upright on the road on both sides of Poplar, was my first impression of touching the earth in Xinjiang, such as the tower-like pointing high crown, blue sky.
Urumqi into a car, we will face up to, would like to see the world's people know the Uighurs pretty girl. A result, even the locals are dressed in costumes of minority hard to find. Surprised to among one that is perhaps a Han Chinese are more ubiquitous in modern clothing. Even those urban construction, do not they have been square-shaped "matchbox" is covered Yao! This is perhaps the modern annoying side.
Street-level look spacious and orderly.
Before departure, his wife told me that her colleague had just arrived in the Silk Road. It is said that the last leg of the journey Urumqi, the least fun, I am not help for the planned Two-Day Tour of Urumqi guilty whisper.
Our travel plan is like this: start with Xiamen flew to Urumqi and then, along the southeast to Turpan, Dunhuang, Jiayuguan, Lanzhou, finally, from Lanzhou to fly back to Xiamen. Our line of seven people travel through the famous website "Ctrip," when in Xiamen easily booked accommodation in three cities, and another two long-distance calls using their own book. Our leisure travel is not through a travel agency, variable guide, do not follow regular travel to all the recommended projects and timing of trips. In the project and the associated time, its own way, play with the Xing.
Urumqi urban areas, urban people, really fits. Only available in the market grapes, cantaloupe, for the first time seen ± a ± a peaches and that air was filled with the lamb flavor, will make us feel that "a foreign land-Pax."
Urumqi Tianshan Range Rover down the highway to the Tianshan Tianchi not yet, and the mountains, we legislate both were fascinated by exotic scenery. Fields, the stretch of green corn, Huang Cancan as the sunflower. Highway or the ceremony with eyes like those, such as poplar. (Tree trunk covered with an eye on) the air more and more fresh and cool. Deformity Guaizhuang hill one after another, oncoming. The mountains are bare, and a Wo Wo weeds, seems to be the law nor the rules in interval was born, like some black head, not the long hair, but Asia's world city, sporting a long curly handful of extract.
"Why, is not that the mountains and the South do the differences: light long grass, shrubs or trees did not last long."
Cavity in the majority of mountains are thriving and vitality to covered with trees. From afar, the forest edge, as had been trimmed in general, arranged in straight lines and arcs incredible. The low-lying swamp lush trees in the vast expanses of contrasting dark and deserted slopes, make life even more beautiful, stubborn and precious.
As pale as the emulsion stream, meanders through the side. It comes from Tianshan Mountains, from just melting ice and snow.
Listening to shallow streams crooning singing, Looking to the height of summer when the still snow-capped Tian Shan mountains, my heart how cool, "you Which A Zhai?" (Southern Fujian: how do you know?)
Tianchi stopped beside the car.
Tien Chi, also known as Yao Chi, the legend is Queen Mother dinner 100 cents place. That wonderful natural scenery. Purchased from the mountains with a number of local people in the hands of fruit: cantaloupe, cherries, small apple. We will be laughing and joking along the depth of the lake to play away slowly. At this point, Hu Zongbian have a big fight is a good time, laughter, overwhelmed by a wave a wave ... ....
Deep Lake, visitors rare, flat low-lying land for the 23 separate written for the hills, each flat depressions are wooded. Yishanbangshui Department, there are always a few scattered yurts built. The woods on the slopes, from time to time through the sheep, riding horses running of the Kazakh people, flickering.
The first one to reach depressions, scattered inside and outside the yurts, four can be seen clearly last night, where overnight foreign tourists. There are also adult children. Into a look, then there is a price list before the yurt, with English (not Chinese!!) Marked enclose the cost of the day. Could it really appreciate the most primitive, the most natural scenery, the ones who are blue eyes, high nose, not a foreigner? !
The moment, we remember with affection, "regret should not be scheduled as early as hotels in the downtown!" Is generous, to be able to Tianchi the depths of the silence in this Youyuan, the shore of beautiful mountain scenery, stay a night, you say how much poetic? That there will be far away from becoming an immortal? !
When we crossed a hill, at the noon hours to reach the second low-lying land, the second one regret will be followed. Here's yurts, though small, service Daoshi enthusiasm, we arrived, someone asked: "Otherwise you want to eat a sheep?" "He Naicha or not?" (Able to come here, tourists, only two or three batches of a dozen people) . Although we very much would like to freely meal meal, and then easily play out, but the driver has been in the car park near the time for us booking another yurt. We had to swallow Xianshui, rest and play a while, the same route thrust backwards.
I most regret is unable to walk or ride five hours, ten hours into the Bogda Peak under the snow line. On the contrary, wants to turn. Not able to come right now at a tour of Tianshan has somewhat of a regret. Imagine that this road into the mountains, Qifeng different scenery, the natural into a fun, genuine, Heaven blend, where what appears in the human world!
Fortunately, comfort is that the "Hu Zongbian who" cry everywhere, "came in front of news has been grilled lamb, we hurry to the meal."
At noon that day, the driver helped us pre-lunch: roast lamb herders authentic meal, and now in retrospect I still get greedy cross-flow of saliva. Kebabs, block large non-greasy, cooked but not old, Meat delicious. Salty milk tea, distributing the faint of milk fragrance. Boiled mutton with boiled mutton with a large bone, rotten and flexible, sweet but fresh. Hand pilaf, with a small bone from the lamb and carrots cooked rice salt blocks firing, rice, oil-smooth, bright, soft, moderate, Fragrance Spreading for miles and taste excellent.
Tuo Lexie son, into the yurt, the owner will be the first on the tea, and then go start cooking. We took the opportunity to lay disorder "bed" on the rest. The middle of a yurt is a skylight in bed will be a glimpse of blue sky. "Yurt may be away from the nearest houses a natural!" Thought in my mind wanders the dark.
While kung fu, the master sent the first batch of kebabs, we immediately surrounded by over, after the clean sweep, but also their respective Tang Hui-situ. Such a round-trip, with a total of eight, nine, square to eat you two shine, mouth flow of incense. So free to enjoy the meal, true God people!
Fairview Park, Nanshan

If we say that the Tianshan Tianchi the sights, and the mainland there are many other great mountains and rivers in common (such as Jiuzhaigou landscape). So, to our visitors from the coastal cities, the Nanshan highland pastures, full of exotic, filled with a rare, beautiful and romantic.
The car we will not help the grass to a depth of pasture walk. There are many pastures, "mines" (horses, cattle, sheep faeces), there are some unknown flowers, and even wild white mushrooms. Jimuyuantiao, long green grass, like a huge carpet. Hill and dale, straight ups and downs in the surrounding hills, all hugged each other.
Walked 10 minutes, this has been looked suddenly discovered our excitement, Bu Juezhong have come to the edge of the cliff. It turned out that we are at the foot of grass, fell on a high hill. Point to the cliff down the hill a look: In the distance are undulating mountain in dense woods. Cliff, under a small stream, meandering winding by. The river, the grass is still green grass, mushroom-shaped white yurts sparse, sparse, Yi-lin, built Yanxi written for, as set in the collections of the green pearl of earth. Hallo! Now that's eye candy ah! We can not help walking in front of yelling, dancing: "Hey, hurry! Where the scenery is so beautiful! ... ..."
Suddenly, shutter sound, cries chaotic.
Then a young Kazakh Pegasus and to: "Want to ride?" We told him that all of us are busy with photography, as far as to say finished. Obstinately he first Zhizou. When we returned to the car, to the pasture to go deep when open behind him sounded a clip-clop. Youth pulled up just now saw big ticket Sagittarius hot pursuit, flew over the region. A stopped vehicle, he was surrounded by them. We could not withstand the temptation of riding steppe. One person asked for a horse, and even claimed not riding the ladies, and ultimately have on the horses with jockeys riding in the small and to lead, to the friendly visitors they think before they agree to take into account the most beautiful grassland Ben去.
Although we subsequently found that these children not only Renxiaoguitai good at riding, but also are good gentle knife (back when, intentionally take long Road to take us, and we look for questions, doubts and deliberately pretending to know the Chinese language. Finally, riding a three-hour The horse, five hours to count the money. depriving the two ladies suffered unspeakable pain of flesh, only with the shining white of the silver to buy a "band-aid" Xiaochou. my wife is also self-mockery to say: hey, pay more of the Even if the money to the children when the school fees of!)
We are riding on the hill. Inside the pasture, a slope attached a slope, there are grazing pastures, as well as grow half the height of the pasture grass, colorful wildflowers unknown, red, white, purple, yellow, in the verdant grass the Zhengfangdouyan.
Finally, we came to one of the most open pasture. Where We also Biede riding alone the impulse to live! Along the way, Haoshuodaishui until this time, before finally agreeing to a small riders. We are pleased to say the horse according to the book, "Tips" (legs clamp, forward, pull the left left, pull right turn right, pulling his hands back, and stopped.) Put horses away, sometimes walked, sometimes running, walk back and forth between feign the beautiful rivers and mountains.
"Worry warehousing, horses Nanshan" My heart no longer have any worries and only lost in everywhere heartily verdant, flower-decked, endless pastures.

Author: pig2000