In order to continue yesterday's unfinished journey, check out our 6:00 departure. Today's trip was the Great Wall first pier, Guan Jiayuguan City and Mingsha / Crescent Moon Spring. For ease of travel, we pack the car driver yesterday, saying that a good Jiayuguan Guan City - first pier - Dunhuang - Mingsha / Crescent Moon - Jadin - Yulin Cave - Jiayuguan line, non-food, accommodation , fare 1,000 yuan. After yesterday, a day of research, for his skills and personality is also very at ease.
Breakfast is still beef noodles, but I am far less appetite yesterday, actually eat.
To the first pier a short journey to the time the sun has not come out. Is a mound 23 meters high, is backed by a ram into the Great Wall of loess. I used to always wonder: As long as the Great Wall has a starting point, the Huns can bypass the years, stretching from the sea Shanhaiguan the end of the straight, then what should the leading Jiayuguan what it look like?
Fans at the end of last opened up: the Great Wall first pier originally built according to a river valley, the valley side is the vast expanse of the Qilian Mountains, on the other side is the Great Wall, valley itself is about 10 meters wide and deep, on both sides rise steeply, it is difficult climb, the river flows all year round the Qilian Mountains of snow, no wonder can not be bypassed!
Out of the car is cold, this season there are more than 20 degree temperature difference between day and night. People can board the mounds, without any protective measures. Seen the sunrise photographed and went to Jiayuguan, the road is far from sight of the second pier. Kwan arrived in Jiayuguan City, until 8 o'clock, visitors still limited, we have twisted my main gate, clean in a side street lined with many shops are not open the door, at the end is a parking lot, surrounded by flowers all over the kinds of colored plates, Here I took photos, the last to be the best one. Sunshine has been a little warmth, we can see today is a good weather.
Toilet quite healthy, and free of charge.
Guan Jiayuguan City, tickets 45 yuan / person, printing rough. Inside the circle will have a great one, Kwan is a nine previous spring lake, next to the also has a children's playground, there is a very small Bainiao Yuan. May be, we were too early, we saw a pair of the visitors to take photographs. Came close only to know right or wrong, here, there is a side door, has stopped a lot of vehicles travel the great chair car.
Guan city than I had imagined big. Inside the outer city is a good big one, roadside Beilang and the world with big booths, but the monument is the Qing Dynasty. Outer city wall is the ram on the loess, very heavy. Jiayuguan images are usually photographed under the setting sun, silhouetted against the sunset, the loess wall looks a orange, beautiful.
After a small temple, opposite a stage, then enter the Barbican. In the rise in Urn around, as the courtyard surrounded by high walls and towers. Can imagine the ancient armies fighting the enemy into Barbican, and then both sides of the gate Qi Guan, an ambush on a non-commissioned officer in the walls thousand arrows hair, and was held in the Barbican's absolutely impossible for people to escape so Dajie. Into the inner city through the Barbican. On the inside walls are brick, and can also be mounted to. The inner city was a different story, a small courtyard, is a guerrilla general government, maintaining a very bad, and were occupied by shops. Outside the hospital there is a small Mimizaza forests, rare in loess gray bricks eyeful a seductive green. There are maple trees at the roadside trees, garden trees a brilliant yellow leaves, but Chen Chu Guan city desolation. Guan Jiayuguan City in recent years been renovated, and if there are tour guides, will hear the story of restoration of a brick. Climbed the walls, you can almost see three towers, they are the same as the standard, is quite distinctive. Deng overlooking the city, one side is the Montenegro, one side is the Qilian Mountains, blowing in the Gobi Desert, then a lonely fortresses.
Drivers and we are talking about here, to play a half-hour is enough, but we spent two hours after a cursory look around, because an appointment with 10 points and the driver went to Dunhuang, hurried out to go. There is also a children's park goose pond, and raised a large white goose, a look at the advent of Xian Renjiu ah ah ah over, appears to be frequent visitors feeding. However, we do not have anything to eat, geese were all disappointed with the final walk of the.
Boarding departure. From Jiayuguan to Dunhuang take 312 National Road, a distance of approximately 380 km. Some people chartered tour first pier, Guan City and cantilever the Great Wall (known as "the Jiayuguan small Badaling," we believe that it is not worth.) Fare for the season 100 ~ 120 yuan / vehicle, off-season 80. However, like us chartered, these small Kiss of the negligible.
Some Travels introduced from Jiayuguan to Dunhuang on the road a few spots:
Big Windmill: to yumenzhen will be taken before the right hand of the road to see a dozen Siemens wind turbines, 10 meters in diameter, white big guy, very cute, and Lex should be sufficient.
Bridge Bay, the ancient city: After a yumenzhen a place, there's folk museums, private open tickets said 8. Exhibits Kangxi years, killing a corrupt, skin blindfolded into the dark, his son's thigh was made drum hammer. Such silly things we do not have to visit.
Small Yardang Landform: Absolutely not Jadin, not worth stopping. If we look at, to see the real that.
After a small Jadin, left the road there is a huge lake, off the road and very close to the water blue, and we come to see the look at parking.
This sparsely populated hundreds of miles, separated by only tens of kilometers village. See along the way are the Gobi, the toilet is of course not, but fortunately some of earth mounds, some big points become everyone's first choice. See the number of base stations, but I did not boot, do not know if the signal can cover the entire process.
National Highway road conditions quite well, Xiali can open to 120 step. However, the technology drivers is also important because even the heavily overloaded trucks are the speed of step 100. After Qingquan (according to the Jiayuguan 70 km), yumenzhen reach the Anxi, where there are 130 km away from Dunhuang.
Anxi Anxi's special is the Taipan Ji, I used to eat this dish in Xi'an: The whole is slaughtered only Chaiji chop small, combined with potatoes, meat, pepper, onion, accompanied by colored spices and pepper, meat, fresh material feet, a great weight. Anyway, when we went to Anxi already 13:00, and simply where to taste pure Tai Panji.
The result is the wrong hotel. Anxi is only a small town, no decent restaurants, the casual side of the road found a Menlian. A small family-run shop, small dishes, and vegetables-all temporary to buy, serving and slow. Chefs may be her husband, absolute Deli skills, stir-fries taste not as good as me, Da Panji than I eat in Xi'an, a far cry. Gansu, eating chili is also quite fierce, and even a tomato scrambled eggs should be put chili! This meal took us 2 hours and not eat well.
However, people are very kind-hearted driver, he ate our meal, give we bought two bottles of beer, is when the property Xiliang beer. On his advice, we all try a glass, taste a touch, a little sweet, even my least favorite beer of the people feel that taste good.
After a Anxi, but also more than an hour desert scenery, the afternoon sun is very toxic and a long-sleeved T shirt to wear less to live. With the Jiayuguan Transportation hotel experience, and this time we allow the driver to contact us at hotel. He quickly in accordance with our price ceiling (standard room 150 yuan / room) to contact us a good sandbar Dunhuang hotels, I have seen online before.
4:30 Dunhuang has finally come, first passing through the airport in Dunhuang, Mogao Grottoes, and then through the village, only to the urban areas. In the village are the cotton fields, a lot of people picking cotton, women are very distinctive thick with a colorful scarf bag his head. The building is not here, as in Xi'an, Shanxi, or to see - both towards the side of the roof, rainwater flowed all their own in the yard - but a very ordinary appearance, but every family has a glass roof loft-like Dongdong I do not know what useful. If yes drying grapes used, but I did not see a vineyard.
Dunhuang, a small urban area, the car flashed on to the busy location, on the road to see a mosque, the white dome, glittering silver Xingyue signs. Hui said here a lot of very good to eat mutton.
Sha Chau Guest House is located in the town government sandbar where the T-junction, facade looks pretty good. We looked into the rough room, very general, but the price has no room for negotiation. I do not want to trouble, and egg on the opening two rooms stay there, and the driver arranged to meet 5:30 to take us to Mingsha Mountain. However, a stay there on the Taihushangdang: Give us a room on the first floor arranged black-and wave conditions are very poor bathroom, not only no soap toilet paper, even the doors are gone.
The other two friends, and pulls a Peter insisted. Out of the hotel, 10 meters on the street there are 5 meters apart hotels, we are separately looking into the inquiry room, price, conditions and shoals seem to have similar, are, we are disappointed when, Marshal, and Yuki found hanging spring hotels, 2 star, 24-hour hot water, standard room is 150 yuan / rooms. Back to the sandbar Check out, though only put less than 30 minutes luggage, they will still charge us 30 yuan each of the charges, but more so the more we have to leave. Encountered at the hotel door to pick our driver, he learned the news is very unhappy, and we speculated that it was affecting his commission.
Sure enough, much better suspension spring, and to lay down their luggage to go out immediately. Mingsha is only 5 kilometers away from the city, on-line was introduced to talk about can rent a bike ride, but when we went to Mingsha are roads, taxis need to village to look around, if the bicycle, then some bad road recognition is not a good one.
Drivers in the parking lot waiting for us, our four mountains. Through a long section of the market, on both sides is full of arts and crafts stalls, camel velvet, batik, and cheating foreigners fake antiques. There are people along the road selling masks, saying it was a great sand, but with the raincoat and gloves in Huangshan buying experience, this time I have not fooled. Weather very good, there are buzzing overhead, the sound, it was playing power glider, 50 yuan / person.
Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring is together. The door is a set of Tang Dynasty architecture, Qingli the atmosphere. Plaque is a Qi Gong's masterpiece. Peter to buy a ticket, 50 yuan / person. Had heard that camels here, we went straight to a door into the past. Camel There are several options: just go to Crescent Moon - 30 yuan / person, plus Mingsha Crescent Moon - 60 yuan / person or 80 yuan / double. We chose the latter, in order to save money, severely heart camel riding double bar. Jiaoliao Qian received after next group where camels. Camels were obediently, and back Tuozhaohongrong cushion, lying on the ground. Smell, and no one else seems to describe so much. Their eyes are sentimental, and people can not help but touch, but the camel's hair is very stiff then I do not like the family's pet fur. Soon to wait until the call number, a handsome little brother like a Uighur pointing us sit across two camels. Some of the white camel base, dark brown, very smart, but we are sallow these two, and heads are not too large, and Hump were very small, a little disappointed. Camel's back than I imagined wide, sitting very uncomfortable, especially the double camel riding, the person must sit in front of front as possible, so that must be close to the cushion on the thigh of iron handrails, Ge was leg pain. Later, until I saw a girl who is also riding a camel double legs wooden frame in the head on the cushion This find the best position.
When the camel stood up and knees, a little bit frightening, must pay close attention to handrails, should it really tall legs, not jumping about not stand by itself. Several more screams, we open the. When camels walk like horses, buttocks twisting, a little jolt, but also very slow. Our two camels are tied into a pair of brothers in front of pulling away. The immediate scene suddenly changed, and a huge sand dunes seat flat into the sky, the hill is the edge of a string of black dots are climbing tourists. Hillside Tuodui you come to me and I seemed to peak when the bustling Silk Road caravan. Some camels very grandiose, neck hanging Camel, ringtones simple and bleak. This is what we came to understand, the original hump spacing is small, can only sit one person, so all of the two-hump camel is nothing. I see it a little hump Waidao want to help it up, and did not expect that simply could not move, hands grasping the like wood, not a bit of meat texture.
Foot of the mountain was to photography, these photos and sand-boarding, when the same film, will be washed as soon as possible put into a large 8-inch photo, placed in the doorway, 20 Yuan / Zhang's sold to those who have been shot;, of course, you can not buy If that is not satisfied with words. For this imposition of consumption, Peter and I have always turned up their noses.
Along the "in"-shaped route, we went to Mingsha the Mid-levels, camels can only be up to the so high. The Peak are of Sharper, you can sand-boarding. We Heart of. Pull the camel's little brother to help us look at shoes, along a wooden ladder to climb sand hills. Yu climb sand hills, though not written by a "step back three steps", but it is indeed difficult to go, fortunately there is a ladder, saved us a lot of effort. Can see that those carrying a pile of sand-boarding onto the plate easily to the staff, I really envy their good physical strength. Just to the way the sand a lot of camel dung, here, there is no sand is warm, and thin, as if walking on the beach. The sun is no longer climb the Peak poison endless Sand Sea, in the eyes of those of us plain, it is strange style. We take pictures, and then line up sand-boarding.
Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring has a sand-boarding, the former steep slope and the short, 10 yuan / person, which Pohuan long, 20 yuan / person, but we later see. From the top of them are listed Mingsha, Sharper very steep, very afraid, and I want to back down either has Jiaoliao Qian; but then get on skateboards, wind of the red ears went downhill and feel really feel so cool.
Crescent Moon Spring is because even rush, rush out of here. I Peter camel is very personality, stood up and refused to get on the ground on, get on the ground and they refused to rise again. It finally agreed to hit the road, the sky gradually dim down. Camel slow Let me anxious, but the sun has come surprisingly quickly. To go through an artificial lake can be hooked Crescent Moon, to the lake, the sky is quite dark, and so on camels came to stay at the sky is completely dark enough, shops bright lights. We hurriedly ran fountain, however Heiqu Qu, and has can not see anything, and the night sky can be hazy to see Crescent Moon landmark buildings - the shadow of that tower. Even here, there is not enough lighting at night! Sand Hill also play sand-boarding, flash has also come and go, but we missed with the Crescent Moon ... ...
Marshal tells us that black is the corner to the following spring, but she was surrounded by reeds, railing, and just across the vast expanse of the night, and she can not see me, and I hope see her.
Some people in the mountains at the foot of tent camping. We are melancholy camel back. From the main entrance to the Crescent Moon Spring are battery cars, stirring up a lot of sand, which will certainly not comfortable to sit on. Buzzing overhead glider is still beating about the bush, we have no time to play. If the next time come here, certainly do not listen to local people, then what is sun again, there are no three to four hours is simply to play, but come. If there is no yesterday's episode, today's time should be adequate.
Sure enough, the photo was photographed being placed in the door, but they look good, we do not have to buy four.
Zuoche Hui Hotel, the driver features a move to the nagging that Jadin bridges, there is no way to go, and everyone is a bit Xingxing Ran. Yesterday you did not board the glacier, and today they did not see Crescent Moon every day a little regret, Are we still bound to re-visit here?
Local characteristics of the camel to eat dinner palm, do not know if they elected the wrong hotel, a small one on the 60 yuan, the taste is very common. Meal asked hospitality to Jadin is not in the road, miss the oil over last year, said Lu. Depending on which phase we are looking, Jadin to set the. Hotel outside, the night market, there used to sell fruit in stalls, as well as kebabs, is now cut leg of lamb is roasted, 5 string angle on the local beer, food, taste is very delicious.
Night call to the Post Hotel Q-vote thing, was told that booking fees rose to 80 yuan / piece, and does not guarantee votes. No way, like a living dead horse farriers it, to agree to talk.
Call to the driver about the starting time for tomorrow's drivers do not mention the bridges, and only said that 6:30 to hotel to meet us. We set out to tell him something less than a vote, he promised to help us find a solution.
The next day was over.
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