Entering Ningxia, the spots started to go more, but driving, and some want to appreciate the King, "went to a" feeling. Shizuishan area high-speed, line not far from there to the lake's brand, according to the instructions direction, on its way. Along the road overlooking the south of Ningxia Irrigation Frontier Qili scenery of the southern rivers and lakes of the delicate features of the vigorous nature and rugged desert north as one of the stuffed Pearl - Sand Lake also squeeze in orbit, which is truly eye candy bar is also! Must be clear: the surging Yellow River have become so clear on this, is Weicong purification.

Listening tour suggestion, we drove to go swim Shahu Helan Mountain, the Hill Road (201 provincial road), depending on the horse Helan Mountain. Yue Fei's "River Ran Red," the generous excitement. "Riding a long car, walks Helan Mountains, Que", I still started to Poetry in the field visits. A hero is being stirred up sentiments, but what puzzled companion question: cutting gold drove the Southern Song Dynasty General Yue Fei's "Dragon House" is in today's northeastern Jilin Province, which belong to the Western Xia Song Si-Helan Shannan, not Jin's land is simply nothing in common . Could it be another one the Helan Mountains, perhaps "River Ran Red," is not Yue Fei? Find poetry Masaoki merciless victim of its own poor knowledge of history of eradication.

Speaking of the Helan Mountains, but it is mysterious. Lie in its north and south between the Alashan and Ningxia, due to the tall, affecting air, is a natural dividing line. Ancient set a good ecological environment, Shandong, Yinchuan plain surface, but the birthplace of Western Xia country. Shandong surface water into the Yellow River, Yellow River Road along the Helan Mountain Foothills Nekita flow, and later left the Helan Mountains, water diversions, but the ancient river interdependence, where? Passer-by can not be verified position, otherwise the excavation of some Western Xia culture, how good.

Car to zhenbeipu close to the east along the mountain road there are two ancient castle ruins, two south and the north fort, are sitting east west. Newcastle fortresses than the integrity of the wall formed by loess Ben Zhu, more than ten meters high. Eastern semi-circular barbican Piyou, the south gate there is a slope to climb the city walls. 5 m wide wall, the wall built assemble a 1.8-meter-high battlements Qiangduo mouth. Four corners of the original city wall built turret, turret-based site faintly visible. Wind erosion in the old fort has been exhausted, the only remaining Canqiang rubble as a reminder, the remaining shape.

New Town, the west side of Fort Hill Road, located a rare art of China Town, the former line is the Soviet Union yukou National Forest Park, where one can have in the Qing Dynasty Ningxia Hakkei "Mountain Chui Ping late." Under the hillside a few kilometers to the Soviet Union yukou Daoxing symbol of what a shadow is not to stay in, the asphalt road along the newly Yamaguchi miles north is the Helan mouth rock paintings, Yamaguchi scenery elegant, Qifeng stacked barrier, gurgling springs flow from the trench, a lot more than the individual pieces of rock art found in graphics valley stretching over 600 meters on both sides of the mountain rock walls. This is the ancient carved with delicate hands and chisel, the Man You breath of life. Screen shape rough vigorous, composition simple, natural gestures, very realism. People-oriented themes, like the first, followed by home build, birds and other wild animals, describing some animals Xiang Bo, hunting, animal husbandry and return from a variety of deer, tigers peck scenes. You have to patiently look for touch verified.

Helan Mountain has many valley, locally known as Yamaguchi. Such as the former Syrian-Soviet yukou, Holland mouth. Every pass, will be informative. Some deep open some of the narrow pass short; a side full of forests, bare rocks, springs Qinglie. . . Mysterious valley, so the ancients attention: Western Xia Emperor Shang Lin Yamaguchi built homes, Temple made the monks repair tower, the people kiln system, device, of course, the military value of the valley is also formidable, based beacon towers built into the wall passes. The size of the Helan Mountain pass, you think about it, can we not left many monuments do? But also open-air, just like ancient Chinese Heritage Museum. There are important Buddhist prayer sikou large outlet of the palace sites and ruins. Hey, this trip could not go, but tempted to say.

Temple Beit mouth, which is located a pair of hundred meters apart. According to research, where the Buddha temple was the seat of the Western Xia. In the two towers in the vicinity, there are many Green Glaze tiles scattered architectural elements, likely to the emperor the monastery, who?

Large outlet has dozens of stone masonry of the station base, stretching 5 km north and south, is a huge complex. Story platform and there are also a number of glazed tiles, owl kiss, Vatan, drip. With the Royal related to the legend is "ho palace," stand to reason?

Bell mouth rolling hills, steep rocks, trees and verdant, the towering beauty. In the Western Xia, the is "famous in the ancient Western Xia."
Three crossings of the Ming Great Wall, the Great Wall and the piers, vertical and horizontal stretch, beacon towers are about even, with the West-controlled choke points of the desert and risk. A poem reads: "100 block when closed Chihiro insurance, a labor security for the country thousands of years. Overhang know that after phone-in interest rates, a total that has been cold felt Qiu gall bladder."

Keiki is taking the hillside provincial road, the way the content of an infinite, Yamaguchi unlimited traffic excellent. Hey, that to the west of the Xia Ling. Also there to see? Yamaguchi is not so much to see, in the West Xia Ling to leave, pending the coming year.

State Road 110, turning to Yinchuan, we still hillside walk. The number of pass along. Members of trouble at the moment the car back, and wants to squeeze out of my co-pilot position. So let give way to the Western Xia, the women assert itself of. So do the back, so see the pass on the water, remember Yamaguchi remember you. Idle under the mouth and started to eat. Then out of the situation again, and drink too much to be convenient. Parking, there are cars head, is the team. Neat, the original officers and men is a zipper. A further one, slowly steaming time to do. Urgency number of cars it, pull the attention. The team is really huge, a Bola cannon, and a small gun Bola, and wave. . . Another wave, I was shocked, and dares. Full 40 minutes, saw hundreds of military vehicles. "Hold in bad bar in the evening to mid-ning you eat fresh wolfberry" Male Mix schadenfreude comfort.
Self-driving tour, a person apparently traveling too expensive. Short road filled, of course the most economical, but the remote do? Three of a car the most appropriate. The driver can not have fatigue, deputies should have to say way. Miao laughing all the way words are all, or discuss local history and culture and natural landscape; rear seat only one person, but it is a good logistical support. To eat drink delivery delivery delivery rub, with the take over there; driving tired, and can also take turns resting. Back is very hard work, many can not help but bad eating more leisure, but also Britain, it is inevitable from time to time to facilitate the request. Sit back row from time to time Naozhuo the convenience.

Line about 60 kilometers long and 109 national highway to join. On the G109 to the south, along the way to the stone, then the empty town.

"We went, from the town continue to walk the empty stone G109, travel Sumeru Grottoes, to Lanzhou, continue to G109, to Xining, on the way YOU Qu Tan Temple (G109/189 Department has directed), Xining, there are four days tour. Xining, then go to the G227 Zhangye, here refrain from that. "

Stone had plenty of what? Big empty stone temple, also known as the empty stone temple caves to see the Mogao Grottoes, where the first hot eye.

For travel, there's the concept: data and maps must be willing to spend money, especially when driving, to bring enough, and anyway would not have back then, Shen, and motorists are free to change lines according to local conditions, and information on how good选择. Information on the cost of my entire budget is the total cost of 5% ~ 10%. Along the way would also like to buy some, bad camera, love to buy album.

According to the map display: We are the stone away from the prestigious empty mountains near. However, the first thing to see is quicksand. I've been quite intoxicated with the brain's "Stone empty light" Let the quicksand awakened. "Mountain and a half tower Diange, Looking at the drawing rooms. To the night Fodeng monk candle, Bing if the USS" This is already a distant story. Tengger Desert merciless attack on the empty stone temple. The original trees grass, was once a green barrier, blocking the mountain north of the desert, but helpless human-chiao mining. Quicksand in the absence of the green block under the mountain toward the empty stone move its Yanmai, there has been Sagunto. "Sagunto numerous reference the wrong path, enchanted Southwest only a few peaks. Isshiki Ziyun San Shili, flying in the land of fierce-looking dragon." Ferocious stretch of desert. There are many statues of Buddha temple, clay, stone walls have been changed plans. But most were destroyed, some caves where the statue has long disappeared. Mogao Grottoes, Yungang Buddhist Grottoes are mostly carved rocks, where it is clay, in order to save money and effort? Tang Kai Cave Sculptures in vogue, but the empty stone temple fell into disrepair they were damaged, in order to not see a drop in the Tang Dynasty style, and I verified it is unintentional era. For tourism, will be cleared out of quicksand in the temple and rebuild pavilions, waiting for visitors, and my heart has been buried by shifting sands.

To Ningxia, there are two places must go, because it is the crystallization of human wisdom. The Yellow River green and transform the Sand Lake, there is the desertification of the Shapotou. By quicksand ruin the mood was set to see what happens. Because the construction of Baotou-Lanzhou railway masterpiece of Shapotou reputation, in order to fixed quicksand, to protect the railway, set up barriers to reduce wind velocity of sand and grass box, in the case of cultivation of low water vegetation, and results are obvious, the visiting foreigner technology an endless stream. However, in the consumption of vegetation, are said after the exhaustion of underground water points, which led to the decline of the sign, what should I do? To continue to study and explore. Shapotou tourism, local villagers Gaode very warm, sand-boarding ring the bell there are camels and donkeys. There's an old original water conveyance "sheepskin raft," 9 Shapotou crossing the Yellow River, one of acute deep stream, river, there is reef, the vessel difficult to access, with entire sheepskin作成bag, filled with gas, the Department of the a rectangular raft racks, small 8 9 bag, large as a dozen sheep on the raft. In the Yellow River Shapotou shore, dozens of rafts legislation placed in the room wall, a scene also. Sheepskin Raft need to corrosion, pest control, should be dried in the sun when not in use. The original ancient sheepskin rafts, reminds me of a recent news in remote areas in Shaanxi, farmers also follow the Qin era wooden wheel, which should have been entering the museum. In the vicinity of the Kitayama Shapotou on the subject matter is also rich in ancient rock paintings, apparently ancient true portrayal of the local ecological environment, was once clear water and Castle Peak. In the ancient era, due to low productivity, a strong dependence of human nature, can only choose to live in places with a good ecological environment, prehistoric ruins and rock art of the performance of the content, let me outline once clear water hills, plants plump. Now, the moon is kicking up clouds of trouble. We continue to rush forward, along the ancient post road, Qutan liangzhou.

Author: epicurean