Turpan (June 4, 2000)
Turpan Karez after leaving the city we came to watch Uighur song and dance performances, the first time I watched Xinjiang dance is a childhood, when a nation come to our home condolences People's Liberation Army Song and Dance Troupe, dressed in brightly colored clothes performances by the actors left a deep impression on me . Today saw the singing and dancing in Xinjiang dance, the familiar scene, as if the good times back to childhood.
Played off is hawking knives and other crafts, food, a small market, vendors were very friendly, and see that we give them also took the initiative posed for some pictures so that we shoot.
Afternoon we went to 46 kilometers southeast of Turpan city, Ancient City of Gaochang partial tour. Gao Therefore, in the first century BC Urban, for the Silk Road city, was destroyed in the fourteenth century of war. In 1961, were listed as national heritage conservation units.
Gucheng ticket is 20 yuan, the entrance to catch a donkey cart, many Uygurs soliciting, a group of about 10-year-old Uygur photography and trafficking of children gathered around us like a small bell crafts.
We sat a few more donkey cart the city to visit, the ravages of war and the years have made gucheng beyond recognition, leaving behind only a khaki-colored clay cliffs built into the Can Yuan. Children were also riding a bicycle or on foot to follow us in, a long with a pair of big eyes, wearing a color robes, slippers, and wearing a cap of Uighur children is very pleasant, I turn one around, he and I left a few good photo.
To leave the Old City, and we took a trip to the city's children flocked to our car before waving goodbye to us. And my photo of the children are pushed in front of me waved, seemed reluctant to leave, looked at him sincere, lovely looks like I have some sad: "Good-bye! Kids!" We're driving the car slowly moved, the children also chasing cars waved, I have only started to bid him farewell Yang, in addition to just now it is money the city gave him, I can do? Auto melodies of the dust soon covered over his presence. Two years later, I still clearly remember him wearing slippers, waving goodbye to me chasing Pakistan's Nanshe look.
As the wind and sand large, Turpan, the sky is always gray, and later, we left the Old City along the foot to the famous Grape Valley Huoyanshan visit, taupe's Huoyanshan bare of grass grows.
Grape Valley is located in the valleys Huoyanshan, about one kilometer, half a kilometer wide, where tree-lined, water gurgling, full of grapes. In a simple little restaurant, more than 10 Uygur children eat around the dinner table. I asked them to do what is good when a boy stood up: "Today is my birthday!" No wonder so many kids. See that I have to give them photographs, these children immediately stand up, jump, jabber, some of Yang Shou, and some are doing all kinds of movements, facial features let me take pictures, a little not see health.
Sugong Tower was built in清乾隆年间, is the local Uygur people Sugong built to commemorate the Han people. Sugong sent to the Qing Dynasty, a local official for the Uygur people to do a lot of good, well received by locals. We can see that the Islamic architectural style with Sugong Tower saved well.
In the evening we went to visit the 3 ancient tomb. Along the tunnel into the inside, perhaps because the local climate and dry, vault frescoes painted more than 1,000 years ago are still clear design, with color are the United States.
Middle of the night 2:15, we boarded the train station to go to Turpan Dunhuang, Gansu, double-decker luxury tourist train.
Dunhuang (June 5, 2000)
8 am much, I have been guided in their sleep wake up. The train window is a vast expanse of the Gobi desert, endless, except when I see low profits thorn covered with camel grass, sand jujube there seems no other biological. 13:00 more in liuyuan railway station and get off, here is the passenger and cargo transit train station, the ground position is very important. As being located in the Gobi, liuyuan very short of water, domestic water is also a train shipped.
Only 6-degree weather, the next the ox hair drizzle. After lunch, we came to town to visit italics, which is a 1987 Japanese film company to shoot film "" Dunhuang "" The imitation of the ancient city, the city is the rows of Xinjiang, a common flat-topped Nipi room, there is also a race track , the actors were dressed in ancient costumes perform horseback fighting.
Said after the film finished, the Japanese film companies to sell to the city after going to the local No burning Fangsong City, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the officers concerned can, but to ashes back to Japan, the Japanese companies had unconditionally given to the Chinese side to the city.
Night stay at Dunhuang. It is built in Hong Kong is also the antique building.
Dunhuang - Jiayuguan (June 6, 2002)
Is not yet dawn we came to not far from the Dunhuang Sand Mountain and Crescent Moon Ming visits. Not far away came the waves of the Tuoling Sheng, pastoralists have been holding a camels waiting for. The sun came out, Asaka sky, golden stretches of sand hills, Ming-structured, I picked up my camera captured in this painting-like scene. We rode camels walked slowly to the sand hills, Ming, a crescent-shaped lake presented before our eyes, this is the Crescent Moon, which gets its name because of resembles a bright crescent, clear-as a mirror. It takes the cake is that it is surrounded by sand hills surrounding the quicksand with only a few tens of meters between the spring, for many years was no quicksand covered over, though by the eternal and not dry. Fountain is a temple temple.
On the sand hills, Ming would not be easy to do, and we shop in the sand along the surface of the wooden ladder to climb up a sand Peak are too tired to exhaustion. Down hard, the slope is very steep, calling such should be rolling down a hill to go before finally sitting in a small boat down to the foot of sand. Suddenly a person from the Peak down the steep sand Sharper hurling down the frequency of fast swing legs can not imagine Paode Man is definitely head down to roll down, too dangerous! We scream with. But people are still safe in the sand hills at the foot of a halt. Physical good and an inquire about the original is here herdsmen.
Back to the Hill to eat breakfast, we went to visit the Mogao Grottoes. Mogao Grottoes is located in Shandong Ming Sha Lu, is a magnificent building, painting and sculpture of the Palace of Integrated Arts. Here is the most famous cave paintings in the "Flying" and "playing the guitar." Hospitality of our guides are a great temperament, beautiful girl, decent and generous to explain the very standard. She said that the tour guides here, from the selection into the training requirements are very strict, no wonder there is such a good tour guide.
Afternoon, we embarked to Jiayuguan, the way or the vast Gobi, a rare car through, silhouette, it is difficult to get the birds. Is sometimes far to see some lakes, there are really, there are false, fake a mirage.
20:20 arrived in Jiayuguan City, Jiayuguan hotel accommodation.
Jiayuguan (June 7, 2000)
Jiayuguan Great Wall is a well-known passes, built in the Ming generation. I had already boarded the Jiayuguan dream, and just this morning, freedom of movement in the afternoon visit the Jiayuguan group. I decided to first go to Jiayuguan paint.
I spent 20 yuan, after riding a taxi to Jiayuguan's gates, I saw the high gates is not a plaque on the book of "best in the world off", perhaps outside the city to see my painting, and carrying a camera, thought I was like a painter or photographer, the gatekeeper does not even let me close my ticket went into the off. Guan is a seat inside the ancient building, which is like a small town out west, the front door off the ancient call of the Western Regions.
Standing on the front door on the high walls, facing an endless Gobi Desert outside the customs and difficult to imagine that the ancients there is no modern means of transport is how bad conditions in the Silk Road opened up to war battlefield of. Can only be used "straight Smoke in the desert," "west, Yang Guan without cause" and the ancient poetry to describe the feelings at that time. Down the tower, inside the door, I bought a 5 yuan of Jiayuguan Municipal People's Government printed out the customs card, holding this antique of exit permit out of the desolation of Wong Zao Guan really feel a little bit.
The sky overcast, cold wind whistling in off outside looking at the towering high-rise towers and walls, I can only be described using the grand Jiayuguan had.
Travel at night we boarded a special train to Lanzhou. 9 am the next day more to reach the provincial capital of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. Turbid waves of the Yellow River in the town there is a rolling of the iron bridge and a Qing Dynasty buildings for tourists to visit the giant wooden waterwheel, and then forward a bit is the famous sculpture "The Yellow River Mother." We crossed the iron bridge to the opposite hillside of the Muslims in a visit here, the housing uneven, the most prominent and most beautiful building is a mosque. Muslims in a very good tour guide said that in business, Lanzhou is China invented noodles, according to Islamic law, Muslims can only marry the woman, family man, a man can marry alien women. We take cable car climbing tours, steep slopes can be seen along the water pipe set up from time to time to plant the hillside automatic sprinkler can be seen here for many years a rare rain.
Afternoon we return to Shenzhen in Lanzhou airport check-in, the end of the Silk Road travel.
Author: zzy988
