September 23 evening 8:22 boarded the Beijing West bound for Urumqi T51 second car, began longing for a long journey. Silk Road, Hexi Corridor were once the name is a very remote seems increasingly clear up. Sitting on the opposite side is a tall Uygur people, talked all the way and the Hexi region of Xinjiang have seen or heard, quite a long exposure, later learned that he was in Urumqi Supreme Court judges, Dunsheng admiration was intended.
At 9:47 on September 25 car to Dunhuang station is 130 kilometers away from the city of Dunhuang liuyuan. There are two options to get off the Dunhuang: CMB or packages taxi (mostly Poussin). CMB 15 yuan per person / person, Poussin 25 yuan / person. If time is tight, the proposed chartered: 100 yuan can handle that. We took the CMB at the station waited for 50 minutes before departure. After the car to the urban areas to find a home hotel stay there (Dunhuang Everywhere you looked all hotels ,80-100 dollars marked There is also a very clean). The afternoon went to the Mingsha Mountain, about half an hour's drive from the urban area, there are three Bus Direct, tickets 50 yuan. After entering Mingsha is the first time to see the real result of the desert, feeling quite shocked, suddenly the murder of an entire rolls of film, and then appeared in front of an artificial lake, was originally to prevent the Crescent Moon Spring dried up. When they finally reached when the Crescent Moon Spring side does not seem to find beautiful, is also surrounded by a circle with fountain iron fence, this ruins the scene, even the camera's courage gone. However, in charge of the old King of the roof and then climbed the sand hills, overlooking the Crescent Moon Spring, when, suddenly saw a soul-stirring beauty. I originally planned to watch the sunset at the Peak, the result of cloudy days, unlucky. Note: Mingsha park entrance is a camel, 60 yuan / person, but can only ride on Crescent Lake side, if you want even more money into the mountains by camel, black! Nature at night is to the night market famous sandbar, point of Donkey yellow noodles, lamb chops, etc. I feel in general, especially the yellow-faced, with shares of strange taste, apricot skin water tastes better. Sand things generally lower than other parts of the city expensive.
September 26 8:30 am the sub-car to the Mogao Grottoes and the Jade Gate (200 yuan / day). Moga cave is only open 10 tickets 80 Tai Yuen. Recommended to bring a good flashlight, useful! Visit the feeling words can not describe, even for the Buddhist culture and history, who know nothing about, when suddenly in the dark face of this centuries-old cultures, the awe and shock generated is self-evident . To listen to driver said Dunhuang caves open to a different morning and afternoon. If you rely on from the morning into the afternoon, it is possible to visit more than 10 caves. Visit the Mogao Grottoes and returned the next day to the Jiayuguan city to buy the Flying Express Bus, 69.5 yuan / Zhang. Then go straight to Jade Gate, along the way the vast Gobi, Barry not see signs of human habitation, the hearts of Dunsheng bleak. Yumenguan and Yang Guan two routes to the ancient Silk Road, an important gateway to the body is already out of the two closed out the Central Plains, it is an ancient strategic military powerhouse. Today's yumenguan has been weathered into a sort of a small earth station, I remember when Han Ban Chao to repel the Huns, the rate of armor 3000 Dunhuang, walking Yumen, expedition from the Western Regions for several decades old when he wrote to Ban Chao Han Emperor, only to survive into the Jade Gate to return to the Central Plains to the golden years, finally he achieved his wish died in Luoyang. When the history textbooks on the text and in the ruins of heaven and earth today, plunging by coincidence, the mind Thanks for the Memories can not be described. From the Jade Gate is 3 km north of the Han Great Wall ruins, along the way will pass through a lake, lakeside reed is very lush, wonderful scenery. There is a local shepherd Caichu paths leading to the lake, even the drivers, Lao Gao said Napian scene no one paid attention to before, we are the first, Oh, cool. After the hearing on the Lao Gao out of Yumenguan Yangguan introduction, that do not matter whether a direct return to the city to find the one to eat lamb, and the United States and the United States to eat a meal.
September 27 8:00 am Flying Express Bus departure time of about three and a half hours to reach Jiayuguan. The car will have a group of Costa Rica to Lanhuo, we are ready to go to the Great Wall of Jiayuguan City and the first pier, and then take the night train to Lanzhou, the last 30 yuan package by a Chery. First went to the Ming Great Wall No. 1 pier, in fact, first pier itself is not dasht color, is said to be the western starting point of the Ming Great Wall, and the east starting point of the old leader is too shabby compared to the point, but next to the canyon is spectacular, the distance of the Qilian Mountain Runs from the canyon and the snow off, water is a kind of white, water hurry. Then go to Jiayuguan City, Guan City tickets 45. Jiayuguan built in the most narrow pass between the Qilian Mountains, from Jiayuguan to the ancient capital of Chang'an Yimapingchuan a hundred miles off the plain, therefore, Jiayuguan is the ancient guard the last bulwark of the Central Plains. Jiayuguan is indeed a magnificent building, sub-inside and outside the Twin Cities, easily defensible, Yuan Wang capped Qilian, nearly arrived in the vast Gobi desert with big indeed well-deserved reputation. 10:45 pm that night bound for Lanzhou car.
September 28 as early as 7:30 to Lanzhou, Xining, to buy the car to the 8:45 start, 11:30 noon, assigned to Xining. First home to find hotels near the train station, in this recommendation: royal guesthouse, quasi-Samsung, standard room 100 yuan / day. Chartered afternoon, go to Tar, pay attention: Do not direct a taxi from the city to the Tar, a lot more expensive. The best way take a bus to obtain other-huang in the county stadium Simon taxi, 5 yuan / person or 20 yuan chartered. Tar is the Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, Living Buddha, founder of the birthplace of Tsongkhapa, tickets 35 yuan. Unless you are of Tibetan Buddhism have a certain understanding of, or request a tour guide, or at the door for good, unnecessary for them to smoke and mirrors and white trip. Contact the next day to go back to the urban area of Qinghai Lake's car and learned that Bird Island is currently without a bird, and the lake temperature is below zero at night, and forced to abandon the idea of accommodation in the lake, so they approached the one day tour of the travel , each paid 130 yuan, 100 yuan will be able to win later learned,残念... ...
September 29 Qinghai Lake is the last leg of this trip, starting at 7 am from the hotel, a short while into the famous river-huang valley. With Iveco gradually climbing up, is beginning to feel the charm of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a mountain feel every turn the clouds a bit away from my nearly the same time, saw the flocks of yaks. When the dealer to the pass of 3,800 meters, the snow-capped peaks appeared in front of us, peer of people excited, get off one after another crazy pictures. In contrast, Riyue, daotanghe sort of attraction is pure waste of time. After nearly 4 hours of bumpy, after an incredible blue into sight, Qinghai Lake has finally arrived. Qinghai Lake, the United States is self-evident, and we do not want to leave a long time. I began to regret should adhere to the lake Zhuyi Ye did, in fact, the lake pier accommodation is very good, a lot of hotels are built them, but I guess the price of money. Lifelong consider themselves law-abiding model, but this has not help-huang, the temptation to eat the fish with two national first-class protected animals, ashamed! In fact, Huang was not particularly tasty fish are local poaching, so I was studying in Germany under the bar. Note: Qinghai Lake line trying to fix the roads, so road bad to go to the next road repaired, from Xining to Qinghai Lake also with 2 hours.
September 30 swing a day in Xining city, and visited the Kanto mosque. I feel it is simply China's Jerusalem, Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Taoism and even magic are all here, the integration and coexistence down.
October 1 by as early as 8:20 Xining - Beijing West T152 plays for Beijing
Author: TalkingHead
