Urumqi - Urumqi to Turpan Flaming Mountains is basically a first-line high-speed road, ups and downs in the west of the wilderness of the canyon and the Tianshan Mountains, the two sides is the star point of the Populus euphratica, piece of the flock. Good weather, lots, you can well see the mountains of Bogda Peak. Daban windmill wind power plant next to the road on both sides, but the real location is in the wood barracks west of the names called "Chai West." Looked at rows of white pulp Ye Qi Shuashua to wave, I am holding a camera, straight fingers itch. Heard that traffic police in Xinjiang is very strict, the road will never be allowed in high-speed random parking, so that only honest in the car for a photo.
Wu - Tu - Ha (Mi) road from the Turpan city, after passing north of the road on the left of the long red mountains is the famous Flaming Mountains. Huoyanshan is another attraction, but the charging method is very strange, in a photo-point is said to be the best place to engage in a parking lot, the tree has a "Flaming Mountains" indication of the large stone, and then made a good car park, right to the car 5 yuan per vehicle parking fee income, as the number of tourists on board flatly whether only in the edge of open camel, wearing apparel photography Uygur and so forth, those who are willing hooked, really the business is booming. This is indeed an Avanti-style humor, because it is a few meters away from the open fields, Huoyanshan bare one, and there is no a fence, railing, in fact, is completely free to close.
Us? Of course you can imagine, is not out of this five money. Requests the Secretary Wang Fu pause a break in the road opposite (here, the general road, you can stop), then cross the road to the Dou Yiquan and take photographs.
Di Kaner off from Turpan to Di Kaner turn right at the fork in the road, you come to Uighur populated rural areas. Here for large areas of vine for the future, but added Huoyanshan can shoot photos, and signs, where there is called the "Flaming Mountains" in the village, is not it interesting?
Is open on both sides of the vine and melon ground, have unfortunately not yet harvest season, a string of grapes just forming, the entire string is only a finger thick, and each one there are only the size of sesame seeds. Uygur roadside houses are mostly independent khaki-colored compound, each a wooden door is always beautiful, colorful. Pre-hospital behind the house are planted with mulberry trees, and we were screaming to get off, and a bunch of kids with the collapse of the nose to eat mulberry Zhai. On the road, you can see the white-bearded grandfather was too and had to catch a donkey cart, light chin was driving three kids and teenagers, father and mother through the streets dragging motor.
Guo Tu Yugou to Piqan County Di Kaner Township, this is the last town, Zhou Xin-Wei took the men and women who pocket food market, so buying a cabbage, tomato, cucumber, filled the car. And then go to add a little tank, but also a big oil drum filled with attendant. However, the rural water supply shutdown (This allows us to deeply felt desire for water in Xinjiang). We are out of town, on-street Uygur farmers are using a motor-pumped wells to irrigate cotton, he willingly let us add water. The few of us from the car half height of a man carrying a large bucket, yelling to rushed forward, knowing there is no opportunity to do so a few days contact with water, and everyone not only to get a bucket full, but with enough effort drink Yeah, wash your face Yeah, that high nose Uygur uncle leaning on a hoe with a smile look at our quarrels will certainly feel that our old and interesting.
Di Kaner is a township, but it is also the most southern village of that name, again through the second, 30 kilometers off the asphalt road, in small pieces of sand dunes and tall mother tug library (that is, "Sand Mountain" in meaning) between the desert. This is a lonely oasis in the sand in a real village last. Many residents of the village, as well as small woods, streams, small bridges, small shops. The store can play long distance, you can buy a very ice beer. Commissary is a village, while the last room, and then fill out only one tire shop, then that is a big desert.
Dragon Inn was the no man's land, and grass-inch wheels, the bottom is a rocky beach a short disorder, in some places covered with rainwater flow through the penetration groove after the criss-cross. It was originally used to is the no man's land, though it is now very busy, a lot of open desert and the depths of mines, mainly copper and granite mining. Well you can see the wasteland of black dots one by one dragging dust. Near, those black spots are a long semi-trailer, all pegged to Henghengjiji in the wilderness, like the Hydra's body Niuzhuo run out slowly. These carts on the ground out of the deep rut printing press, and our off-road vehicles such as trains, like the railroad tracks embedded in this rut where India forward. From the copper out of the car, the green Copper rubble was high. A small piece of copper ore are broken, is fairly good. Granite car pull down the mold on the granite have been opened into a 2 meter square square stone, and then a big car can only just above the pressure in the rear axle of one, but also make people feel that this car will be pressed at any time Cross. Several times along the way we do see a broken shaft, broken plate, where the car lying in the nest.
Out of almost 80 kilometers after the village Di Kaner, in a broad valley where there is a shop, shop signs are "the driver's home", you can repair tire repair to eat. Ah, like that film, this store is around 1 200 feet the only place where you can take a rest, in the western desert where the sand is very eye-catching, can eat, can stay, most definitely is the housekeeper's actually a female boss . In addition to "Dragon Inn", I really can not think of other more appropriate names. Fortunately, she was very benign countenance, not like raising a child Tartar Ma turned to a human form.
Wildlife in no man's land living off the last iron ore, in the lee tent to sleep. Starting the next day to continue to the south, to be a real no man's land.
On both sides of a Rock Hill, saying that rock pestle may be more exact, because people can see, these mountains could have been a complete huge stone, after millions of years of sun and rain, and thermal expansion and contraction, natural weathering after the collapse into numerous palm of your hand the size of debris, no one has ever had them move, these fragments also maintain the original position, neat manner stood side by side each other to maintain a uniform gap, stepped up to do giggle sound, and elastic.
Gradually open terrain, has not see other vehicles, the ground is still visible signs of rutting, soil were crushed into a Suimo of vehicles has opened a dust. Some distance, tall mountains, near to have only a few dozen, 10 meters high and a small ridge, stretches too long. India would distort the rut from the ridge across a certain Huokou. And then straight forward, to the depths of the wilderness Rob.
Beyond my imagination, here is covered with a variety of plants. Around the ground, everywhere a green and yellow punta a punta Ephedra, Hippophae rhamnoides, camel thorn and feet are 1 meter tall, the size of each Peng and our round table is almost similar to grow very lush. Was said in the absence of these plants under conditions of water can also have struggled, relying on only a few days after the occasional rain, sand and soil moisture may still be a rapid turn green, absorb enough water, long a while, and then began to sleep, and so on under the rain. The most powerful can even be ahead of time this week, germination, flowering, fruiting, death, to complete a life cycle, until then there is water when the seeds of a new cycle once again. Of life, was able to use such a fragile way to express the tenacity, not satisfied with not work.
Continue south, the ground began to block a Fan Chu Yan Hua, perhaps Glauber's salt, I do not know. The more salt, more to go, shining white in a large, well looked like snow. In such an environment, the plants become more vigorous. Along the way they could meet a few springs, as well as drip into the river of 100 meters long. Must be a large spring around the reeds and the other does not know the names of weeds in some places the reed can be a long one person tall, dense I do not know the depth of the middle of the road only, and vehicles from the same width, we slowly drove through the Wei Cong, continually tapping the reed on both sides of the window, golden reed flocculation and red wildflowers in the wilderness of the sun and blue sky emitting a charming colors.
In Rob wasteland, the lack of human slaughter, wild animals have also finally found a little haven. All springs around the wet land, the animals can see footprints and hair colors.
Gobi is not surprising that the most of the animals are Mongolian gazelle, we have access to Lop Nur in the process of seeing a lot of groups. There is no doubt that all the legends on the Mongolian gazelle intelligence is true, these guys really stupid enough. In the high vegetation cover, if they Fuseshita body, it will never be discovered by us. The problem is that they are always energetically on the beach to run and even jump in the bushes in droves, thereby exposing themselves completely in our line of sight. Not only that, they tend to choose the most curious route to escape, the vast majority of cases, and we will parallel, seem to see who is faster and the same, so we have enough opportunities to get close to them. Look at them from the front of our car went right over left, when you see them in the high leaps beautiful white buttocks to see if they are forced into a straight line stretching limbs, to see if they stubbornly along the runners until they are to catch up with us and nearly was the right front wheel down to, and we are only 2 m from the Gezhejuchuang before suddenly realize a general u-turn.
Here we see the Mongolian gazelle, and the words than I have ever seen before that the total number of all wild large mammals need more, we have been very cheered by. So even though we know that they were in Lop Nor - Altun Mountain Wild Camel Nature Reserve, have never been able to expect to see more wonderful animals, but the north shore near the Lop Nur, approaching Jadin group that Wang Fu suddenly pointing to the left Division front, lowered his voice said: "The Wild Camel!"
It was 1000 meters away, a brown khaki-colored sand, a small point, if not towing a small group of dust, almost do not see moving. There is no doubt that it has found us, being a left turn, Wang Fu Division topography observed a moment, decided to uplift the hill in front of a veil to accelerate the move from the right side of outflanking the past.
Car mad rush, I took a small hand-sets are still behind Zhou Ji Jiao Wei quickly accelerate, I put 210MM lens, Wang Fu Secretary, turning half circle around the hill, an emergency stop in anti-slope and I made Lakaijumen on high out.
That camel did not expect that we will emerge here has been no change in running the line, we have gone beyond it, is blocked in its front, and only 200 meters away. It is high under the thick neck of the hair can be clearly seen. I started shaking continuously pressing the shutter.
And the Mongolian gazelle compared to wild camels enough to be regarded as a gentleman, and it is a huge body steady, the split step strode elegantly trot all the way to our sudden appearance did not seem surprised, it is homeopathic to the left again, running into a rugged land, it is the ancient Lop Nur Lake. We are no longer to catch up, Wang Fu and the small Division I also caught up with him, watched along with the smaller it gets run.
The suffering of the species rely on the extraordinary ability to adapt to difficult conditions, in other organisms can not be based on the lake where to find their last refuge. Thought of this, I suddenly felt a strong sense of guilt. The distribution of wild camels in China, only 200 Yu-feng, is far more precious giant panda species. According to the information that normally where wild camels live in the depths of Lop Nor, and only when it ran out of drinking water at regular intervals to, and always keep a distance from human. In other words, we see today, perhaps it is a hunger and thirst before drinking out of the guy, do not know the appearance, is not interrupted this time to add it. Even if this time it had enough to drink, due to experience with us, out of awareness of the survival instinct, wild camel, there will be a very long time did not dare to come here activity.
At the moment, we are a group of rude guests, it has been one of the few in this room has squeezed once. I indescribable to express their feelings, I would rather not encountered it.
Author: elisa
