Jiayuguan is the end of the Great Wall, but it is not our end, our desert journey has just begun. Walking in the 312 national highway, we have a cantilever over the Great Wall, the wheels roll, rush with its passing, which is the last paragraph of the Ming Great Wall is very low, it may not stop people climb, but enough to stop the enemy's cavalry avenue. Then taken the short distance, we see a broken beacon towers, and even tour guides did not know its name, perhaps it would, and here, the soldiers guarding the year, like an obscure forever. From Jiayuguan to Dunhuang, along the 300 kilometers of road, such a beacon towers are still many Zuozuo raised in the vast desert, they will favor imperial era of the harem concubines, as always with the lonely until it disappeared.

Into the vast Gobi, in addition to a rocky beach, land beach, beach, and occasionally road would be open to the front of a car, the window is almost lifeless silence. Piecemeal manner, we can see Achnatherum, camel thorn and Tamarix, they grow in such a barren Gobi desert, known as the "Desert Sambo." They are food for camels in the desert. In the desert, in addition to animal manure, which is that people light a fire material. Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in the clay Buddha, Buddha is to Achnatherum as skeleton, together with the soil to shape up.

Car speeding on the road bumps, flat landscape with the cool air-conditioning, people are feeling sleepy. But they've always can not do so, just as you are getting into the dream, the car will be because of the bumpy road from a big shock, the Duke of Zhou was scared off, and broke away eyes, or the vast Gobi, gradually feeling sleepy again come, the result or from the complex with the last encounter. In this way they sleep awake, woke up went back to sleep, we came to the bridge Bay, Bay Bridge, the car stopped beside the ancient city of Xiao Xie, we see the Bay Bridge, not far from the ancient city.

Bay Bridge, the ancient city began Jian Yuqing Yongzheng, where personal Pi Gu, head bowl legend, physical display at the local mini-museum, but we are not interested in it, but added a soft spot for the ancient city of Bay Bridge. Its small size, perhaps due to see along the way on the "historical monuments" historic landmarks, are fixed by the people was a new look, and today finally see "genuine," even though it is a history of only a mere 270 years, but have live up to this line gives the feeling!

After a city on the Bay Bridge, approaching Anxi, but there is a feature of a desert where necessary to look at and that is the unknown Yardang Landform. Speaking of karst topography, Danxia landform down a lot of people know, also known as limestone karst topography, On the most, preferred Guizhou Alou Kwu Tung; Danxia landform of its crimson-colored rock was well-known, Guangdong Danxia Hill named for its typical and Fujian Wuyi Mountain is one of the representatives Danxia landform; Yardang Landform is the topography of the desert wind erosion, to Lop Nur region, wind Jadin named most typical landscapes, in addition, also in Xinjiang many typical Yardang Landform, which is the better known parts of Mo Guicheng Qitai. Xinjiang, a tight schedule, though not Yardang Landform here as a friend brought back from Xinjiang photo is so magnificent, but the psychology of luck holding, the only thing as comfort "into the Golconda never empty-handed" psychological啦!

Seen Yardang Landform, Beijing is already seven o'clock, the sun is still in the sky is high, the slightest idea did not go home to rest. In order to hurry, we have a more interest in the car bumps, like a leaf boat as the waves hit. Dinner time is up, perhaps the sun is not downhill, his stomach did not issue a protest against the "cuckoo" sound.

Anxi county has finally come, this is not our destination, we arrived at Dunhuang for dinner, the window is the rows of willow, which is "Water Margin" Lu Zhishen in pulling down the kind of, but people here do not call as "Chuiyangliu", here called "left the public Liu." This left the public is none other than that day in Xi'an Forest of Stone Tablets can see, the "Heaven and Earth righteousness Stele" is also the author of General Tso! Left to the public, Hunan who Caigaobadou, when one of the leaders Hunan, it was Tseng Kuo-fan's trust in the Tseng Kuo-fan, "exterminate" the course of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he has repeatedly make plans for Tseng Kuo-fan, but In the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he was banished, and Tseng Kuo-fan, like escape the fate. Power changed hands, he was sent after the military governor of Gansu Mita. We now see the willow, is that left to the public in order to sand-fixing, soldiers planted the tree of life.

After a Anxi, the sun finally tired, its height began to rely on the horizon to go, and finally it can no longer accompany us too tired to go home, and watch to see is more than 20:00, and do not! 9:30 a faster close. Sunset step by step, drop, darkness gradually fell, Dunhuang in the step by step close to my heart beating more powerful. Tomorrow, tomorrow I will board the Mingsha Mountain to watch the Crescent Moon, as well as to that to foreigners shocked the Chinese people deplore the fact that caves to see, despite the "Dunhuang" has most of all collections in overseas museums, but There also left behind the 10 million people with admiration for the Buddha.

Pen on: Dunhuang Hotel

Author: tanpei