Diary of the Western Regions Lepidium
10.3
Morning 5:30 to get up, wash after smoking a cigarette, everything is ready. 5:45 left home and began my trip to Xinjiang.
Go out there would be no cars, the reason is probably too early, daybreak only days away from the sun also rises early. After walking for 10 minutes finally found a taxi to take me to the Civil Aviation Bus Terminal. By Vic, fares 70 yuan, 6:00 departure, half-hour intervals. 6:30 I got on the bus, via high-speed road, the East Fourth Ring, Lufthansa and other places to the Beijing airport terminal, time 8:45.
The airport is very beautiful, many people, but it is quiet and suitable for a diary. Security is also not as purported "terror", watches, cell phones and other metal items only, I forgot belt on ZIPPO, only looked at Naqu did not let me lead a security door. May be curious, my cigarette caused by X-ray device inspector's attention, explain over them. The whole process is actually quite a pleasant experience.
9:20 I entered the waiting area, equally beautiful, but also considerable recreational outlets. The only problem is I did not find the smoking area, it seems that this region is not clearly marked as no-smoking areas.
10:00 check-in, 5 minutes later I took my plane. China Northern Airlines aircraft, a large, a row of seven seats separate the two aisles, too lazy to number a few rows, but were told to "sit lightly after row of 23" seems to Beijing boarding of passengers alike. So far found out, the original plane apart faster than the train, do not sell standing tickets are no different than the rest.
Flight attendants are the petite PLMM, sounds very good to listen to, and work quite hard. Much higher standard of living, not just senior level cadres and wealthy, tolerance in order to board an airplane to fly is also smells a various actors, some people are really very Qianzou.
Aircraft are not new, I have been cracking at armrest of the seat.
10:30 the aircraft started taxiing, ready to enter the runway, my trip started on the 7th of Xinjiang, and in front of what? I do not know, only know that in a place called Urumqi disembarked. I do not even know will be living there.
Flight attendants to start playing and aircraft facilities, life-saving explanation, I do not know when the aircraft stopped.
10:37 re-taxiing aircraft, this time to be true, and can feel the acceleration and speed bumps, there are several planes on the tarmac to see other aircraft. I went to the runway, ready to fly.
10:48 really big airport, aircraft stopped again, has pointed at the runway, the aircraft again, after 30 seconds, moving up. This is true, inertia and pushes people to seats, eardrums began to hair tight, huge noise, 2 minutes, all the ground has become small, I seem to be in a huge sandbox to scrutinize.
11:00 fly an industrial city, do not know where is, only to see the city's major buildings and a touch of smoke. The sun is always in my left hand, we move to the northwest. In fact, the passenger does not feel the aircraft speed, all the daily habits of the frame of reference have disappeared, only to accompany the sun, and she can not as a reference. Fly slowly piles of mound, it is clear that those who may have to walk several days to climb the mountain.
11:30 9 of the Yellow River, the Town is not easy to distinguish, but this should not mistake the typical landscape. The Yellow River, which is in any case would not miss the rivers. Though the style has never been witnessed, even if deep in high-altitude, you can still come to a recognized her. When you use their lunch boxes with the following cities in comparison, it is natural to think why do not straightening it? Clearly, well aware that one is still looked at several thousands meters wide river will never be conquered easily.
11:50 If my geography knowledge is not an error, the following should be the Tengger Desert. Luxuriant yellow sand to spread to the horizon, interspersed with some things I do not know why the black or brown area, some large, should be an oasis bar, looking in the yellow sand of the variegated land it seems some of the traces. Open to the river to lay out far away, even though at an altitude of several kilometers, it was not beheld the end.
12:00 saw the Yellow River, she was being eroded with the desert. River is very wide, but the middle of adding to the several sand. Blue river flowing in the middle of the yellow sand.
12:15 We are flying in the clouds above the beautiful and shapes. The gap can be seen through the clouds below the mountains, the white of the bare rock Zeng Zeng. This is a 6 or Helan Mountains, bar, the case, then the mountain has become barren of.
The desert is still immense, and only occasionally look at changing colors, fish scale-like arrangement of the sand dunes. Occasionally, roads and rivers can see a slim, such as a sudden, he will be engulfed in general. Have been 30 minutes, and still is desert. Increasingly less mottled areas, and only occasionally was seen. Sand Daoshi more and wider.
14:00 finally flying out of the desert. Xinjiang, with clear blue skies greet her guests. Bogda Peak a great show in the skies of infinite beauty. Neighbor's YLmm speaking, only when the weather was fine and could see the whole picture Bogda, so the journey in Xinjiang is very fortunate to see Bogda, the local Uygur drivers will be thrilled.
The woman is very warm, so I am the legendary hospitality of the Xinjiang people's chipper. In a brief exchange, when she learned that I do not book hotel during their stay is only looking for a hostel to me recommend an excellent accommodation, worth recommending - Petroleum Hotel Urumqi Mingyuan. The following will be mentioned on this hotel.
After boarding the plane, I found a place to sit by the window, it seems to be the first time for every one common aspiration of people travel by air. Neighbor is a girl, sit down and start playing with her cell phone after, air tickets, documents and other items, busy and colleagues, or friends on the phone until the plane ready to take off, flight attendants called for the closing phone. Also come up with some fruit - Beijing supermarket to buy the kind of cut watermelon. I was also surprised - to pack in her ticket, I saw her ID card, albeit flashed by, but the little characters at the top of my cast and the Arabic alphabet. So I wonder, one from Xinjiang, this beautiful town rich in fruits of the people, how will Beijing supermarket fruit and bring the aircraft up. Of course, I do not have time to think, when I was very anxious to hand out into the outside porthole patted the nose of another aircraft.
After taking off, the girl sent an invitation - to eat watermelon. I would because of personal modesty and the beauty of the hungry and outside the porthole - it is I have never witnessed the scene, "politely decline" the. At that time, this face expressionless Choulian necessarily difficult to see.
After nearly two hours, it has been this way, I covet your neighbor in the window of the scenery that I am shocked, and she was eating her watermelon, look at magazines onboard - a very boring reading. I do not know when, between the neighbor lady look back already asleep.
I freed up two minutes to look critically at this girl invited me to eat watermelon. This woman does not lean nor fat can be, should be attributed to "plump" is used. Looking good, can be "ruddy," the word. Short hair, dyed it seems baked, into a brown, slightly bent, backwards grabbing, it is capable look. Handsome or should we say good-Jiao, with a small box of gold glasses, looks like there are three or four hundred degrees, adding to the somewhat pedantic down, somewhat beautiful, this is a very pretty girl in Xinjiang, seems to be a the kind of cute.
In the leap desert for an hour, in addition to the long yellow sand dunes and occasional Yulin Zhuang, and then can not see a little trace of human foot. I can not help but think that if they were in the yellow sand, the removal of dead who would want to me an invitation. So I asked around unsettling girls, as well as how far from that, which started our exchange.
In a half hour later, we talked a lot - of geography, language, work, and 11 recalled no one would like to watch the length are not allowed to 2:35 p.m. landing at Urumqi airport, we seem to know a long time friends and go off together to recommend her to my hotel, with lunch.
Urumqi is the old city, formerly known as Dihua. But seems to be a new city, full of construction sites, new buildings crowded together in rows. There is no public transportation from the airport to the city car, a taxi about 30 yuan. Timid people who do may not see a speed table, otherwise you will find the driver of Urumqi in the 130 kilometers per hour, the side of the input side of leisurely Xizhe Yan playing mobile phone. On the street barely see the police, all of the vehicles appeared to have been based on intuition or experience to get away, forward setting, and good bike is also less than car is a pedestrian street.
I would like to live in a place called "Ming Garden" was originally Sheng General villas, now owned by the Office of Xinjiang Petroleum Administration Bureau in Urumqi all, that is, Karamay. The garden is very quiet, tree forest. The end of a long avenue is a circular fountain flower beds, carrying a number of yellow and red chrysanthemums. Forest dotted with a few Mongolian-style pavilion, Lin is a white stone outside the corridor linking the second floor of a small European-style yellow, should be old to stay. So the whole garden has a unique taste.
YL led me to bypass the fountain, path to a new courtyard, the entrance with automatic doors, made a parking yard, about five-storey hotel building is oil, yet oil still in the habit of people known as guest houses. Prices are not cheap, 102 yuan / bed to more than 500 yuan / rooms all have, but it is a standard three-star configuration, though not to the ratings. Hotel great, but does not seem to lift. To run the procedures, she took me to the room, a standard double room, at present I am the only one. TV, lamp, telephone, toilet, bath room readily available. Washing desks are marked with the hotel wash supplies, coffee table, placed very neat ashtrays, mugs, thermos flask and green tea. Managed by the computer throughout the hotel, room keys and the internal power supply from an IC card control (50 deposits). Window shade hung curtains, bedside control of all the electrical appliances on a few keyboard. If only one person is living a very comfortable place, I like the comfortable place.
15:20 all the arrangements Ting Dang, we went down to eat on the trees in the garden in a small veranda. The first time I eat in Xinjiang, Xinjiang noodles and barbecue, incense. I decided not to eat kebabs in Tianjin, the whole a fake. And the need to give you attempt to use food as the main purpose of the proposed Mix - If there are no good magnanimous, it had better come back and thought in Xinjiang, or else it will hang a bad stomach. The fact that this meal had been possession into the night 11 o'clock, that I renewed the idea of eating something.
During the meeting, I joke a question YL, I am not afraid of the bad guys do?
The first replied: "You're on my site, I afraid of?" Is the Xinjiang people's sense of humor or a little girl's self-confidence? I would not tell do not want to distinguish.
The second replied: "In fact the world, this society in very good shape, all the bad things are the people who want to come out of myself, and mutual trust between the unsound?" Classic, brilliant, with a little girl's innocence , good, very deep feelings.
4:30 she must go home, I would also like to start alone, wandering in the city. Breaking up the former has asked me to arrange travel to keep on playing good and considerate girl!
In the Ming garden gate bus ride one way to Red Hill. I remember the Tibetan antelope has mentioned this place where there is an airline ticket - because of the need to rush back to attend the wedding, I will fly back to Urumqi, Kashi, and then fly back to Beijing - but there's Northern Airlines ticket office , but tickets are not discounted. Fortunately, two ticket office not far apart, separated only way across.
Urumqi has a major traffic crossing the tunnel connecting with each other, and Beijing is similar, but almost every newsstand inside tunnels. Some tunnels, such as the Hongshan this as much as a small open-air interchange rounders, which are small traders in selling clothing, bags crafts and other items. To the opposite road to go back about 100 meters is a Singapore Airlines ticket.
Due to the relatively long time in advance tickets (airline tickets in accordance with the number of days in advance of different discount), the two tickets were 2,000 yuan (Kashgar - Urumqi, 540 yuan; Urumqi - Beijing, 1460 million). Thus, in 20 minutes I used the 540 yuan to buy back two days time. Ticket lady Daohai passion, as I worked with in Tianjin, Urumqi, an agent contacted on behalf of the Department Kashgar - Urumqi, tickets, so they want to say Gao Ding. Miss for me out of Urumqi - Beijing, said after the ticket did not find the information I suggested that I put together to buy air ticket out of Kashgar, leaving only one of the. Oh, it's not my fault missed appointments. Of insurance to hand over 2040 yuan Gao Ding return ticket, the purse immediately deflated a lot, but a lot of peace of mind.
Anyway, still early, holds all the bag inside a hundred yuan, I decided to go erdaoqiao, this has been zz from sina is described as weird and wonderful wonderful place. Shun looked at Hongshan travel agencies, to the post office to buy a 30 yuan of IC phone cards, IC card phone Urumqi there are many, with the cards not only to keep the mother报平安and can save an enormous amount of mobile phone roaming charges, Xinjiang is said to be roaming ah.
18:00 Take Bus 101 (and a road route almost) to the erdaoqiao market. Unfortunately, there are infrastructure projects, dug a mess. Some can get off to go back to see the new erdaoqiao market. Is a new building, there are currently 1 ~ 3-layer open, feels like a big alley and Tianjin, Beijing's Ladies almost. Hawkers are chartered building counter. Say that a lot of thieves, YL also reminded me on a bus to be careful. However, buses are not many people can sit down and enjoy the peace of mind scenes erdaoqiao is also very quiet, although no zz from sina describe the din of the erdaoqiao bazaar, but no reduction in the enthusiasm of vendors - though commercialization, regardless of their nationality, to start small business like Binjiang Dao, big alley, Women's Street hawkers like the Han, Uygur people's enthusiasm, but still to be Zhang Yang.
Stopped in front of a musical instrument in the booth and asked often see on TV in Xinjiang tambourine. The boss come up with the size of a dozen, the price of course, different. When you say that when you do not knock, that Uygur picked up a boss to tell you right away - very easy. Spoke self-serving manner will knock up a very lively rhythm. Hands-on teaching you, is not ambiguous. Unfortunately, I dumb, studying for a long time still can not, as he did, knocking two children were crisp hand drums, loud. Even though I have already indicated he did not buy it, he is still unwilling to give up, until I used one hand to win their rhythm before a string of crisp let me leave.
In a booth selling shawls, I found the original of the PLMM Uygur everywhere. That little girl of about seventeen or eighteen-year-old appearance, apparently accompanied her, and its appearance can only be "scared if Heaven" to describe. She personally for me and tried on a big wool shawl can be wrapped inside her own kind, as long as 80. Although the pieces of her shawl YL say only 50 yuan on getting out the face of such a beautiful girl, but I judge according to the price of 80 yuan, and are not expensive, so there is no counter-offer on the buy down. Of course, shawl itself is very good, soft, and thick, color very good, very pure. Very suitable for men and donkeys were sent to their wife, or like me "elite" To my dear mother.
It is necessary to say that - in Urumqi, a beautiful girl who is almost pure wool shawl the necessary equipment. As the large temperature difference between day and night, the girls can do during the day wearing a T-shirt or other beautiful clothes, to the West Ramp temperature drop after the sun, from the carry-out of the bag has a beautiful shawl, not only like to wear sweaters like warm, and transform a style so popular all PLMM of all ages. YL from the afternoon of my own eyes out of her bag inside a large black and red and white checked scarf wrapped immediately from a stocking full of grace into the Western Regions in Beijing white-collar style PLMM.
There is also a worthy erdaoqiao see stall. Shun the escalator up to the 3rd floor, at the edge of the escalator there is a glass brick enclosed the shops, corner shops son to have a middle-aged Uygur people selling musical instruments, is the kind of homegrown musicians. Of course, he did all the normal size of Dong Bula, hot wap and other instruments probably one of about two thousand dollars, the average donkey (like me) can not afford to buy. However, if you are lucky enough good, you can hear his own playing. Shells very good, and I listened to a full half an hour, until his closing did not leave.
1 Xinjiang characteristics - all in the Mainland are used for decorative miniature instruments, while in Xinjiang, you can always see the hawkers who sell miniature musical instruments piano to small Dong Bula, singing songs.
21:40 received YL phone, he wanted to try some tea a few friends and asked if I was interested to go together. Of course! Be able to learn more about a few of Xinjiang friends, learn about their lives, understand their thinking and that I wanted to do. When she learned that when I was erdaoqiao seems a bit puzzled, and wonder why I am a person in a strange city to go so far. No way, Who I am a donkey does. And her invitation is also difficult for the majority of donkeys want to get a chance? Pretending to put off what, I undertake to immediately return, not to mention money spent enough.
Out of the market building, was found walking down the street in front of a serious traffic jam, had to walk, bought two Nang and a kilogram of white grapes 4 yuan. After leaving the traffic jam section of a road to catch the return journey bus at 22:30 to return Ming Yuan. Reported that the safe call at home, re-YL asked her to call PARTY things, but, like her friend something happens, PARTY can only be canceled, sorry. Can you ask her innocently with me to the train station to buy tickets to Kashgar? Of course not, for a people who work in the Mainland, the 23 o'clock almost the rest, unless I can not remember such a non-cross-bed mad at midnight, it appears that she not.
11:20 at the hotel entrance to the train station to catch the 2-way bus, hoping to buy tickets go to Kashgar.
Urumqi railway station was being renovated, everything works in the temporary building. Ticket at the station entrance to the right of the empty field inside a hall. There are few people late in the night do, ticketing and refund in the same windows. Station is not more than 2 days pre-sale tickets, have to go to the city outlets to buy. Wanted to get over 2400 on the list, but found that ticket to go to work 24:00 am until 8:30 back to work. Return, not help worry about - you just do not pay attention when the bus hours of operation, it is now late at night I do not know whether there are 2-way car is running. Went to the station found that 2-way car still being operational, a minibus, at a time 23:55.
Many buses in Urumqi, basically no tickets, only the light was money. One dollar a day, and have a 22:30 on the rose to 1.5 per one of the. Beijing and Urumqi, as the same as a dedicated bus-way street - the sidewalk between the main lanes, there is separation zone and barrier-separated, but the person is not easy to distinguish between early and the driver of Urumqi, even in such a one-way speed of cycling Road is not reduced, so pay attention to safety.
Back to the hotel has 12 points more, Fortunately, there is a 24-hour hot water, but not too hot, just wash your face. This feel hungry, eat a half a sheet of Nang and about half a kilo of grapes, full. Diary written decision tomorrow on the Heavenly Lake and can be asked a travel agency to buy tickets. To sleep, good to catch up with the morning team of travel agents. Hours 1:50 am, there is Phoenix Satellite TV to watch.
Author: access123
