D16 2003-9-27 Kashi (Accommodation)
10:30 am visiting the East Gate bazaar, shopping. This way, I bought a lot of ethnic characteristics of the arts and crafts, Si Tan, bedspread, scarf, bronzes, wood carvings, prepared to dress up the family room into a bar in accordance with masters Zhaizi. There are a variety of tasty raisins, dried apricots, apricot (a kind of shell almonds), the already quite full backpack bur swelling, but fortunately have been sent out a few home. 14:00 Guizhou People's West Road restaurant, good enough to wow component. 15:00 back to the hotel tired, rest, eat watermelon. 18:00 Zaiqu Gate bazaar, windy, and dirty. Has traveled throughout the bazaar, nowhere to go, back to the hotel again not willing to rest, this time a total feeling of staying three nights in Kashgar is still too much. At night, and Kobayashi, Hyc, Kitty, Mr. Chen went to the tea gardens hotel, saw some other ethnic song and dance.
[Quote: Today is Sunday, Kashi just a big bazaar (market) day, to lay down their luggage, we went straight to Grand Bazaar away. Days that, this is what the market ah! On both sides of the road are all sorts of street vendors, selling grapes, selling apples, pears sell, sell melon, and selling figs, and sell all kinds of pasta, selling a variety of production tools, selling musical instruments, to buy daily necessities, and sell clothing shoes and hats, and readily available, in the back of street vendors, it is in Xinjiang to see any animals, sheep, cattle, horses, donkeys, and even a camel. Transport vehicles and pedestrians, grab the road, go to the market to bring people into the city's donkey cart carriage, modern little motorized, three, carrying tourists walk through the taxis, voluminous public transport vehicles, there's really nothing of the lively. Look around, it felt to another country, a high nose beards deep purpose of man, the entire face with a scarf surrounded Yanyanshishi woman, completely incomprehensible language, so that everyone would feel a little "foreigner" in meaning. Local people's health habits, in my opinion is a little problem, but the atmosphere at that time, early forget these. Wrapped in leaves of the fig looks a bit suspect of corruption, but very sweet; the old man selling melons knife waved in the gray sand, but the melon crispy and sweet, people do not want to stop a further 1; lamb steamed dumpling of the exposed to a bit of filling the air, but after a good steaming hot in the aerosol, or distributed with enticing aroma; loaded glass of pomegranate juice antecedents everybody acting suspiciously, but end up Drink Up mouth full of fragrance of sweet and sour, when, who to consider the cup of the situation? If you wanted too much, would not be able to integrate themselves into the Kashi of the environment. No. 29, I rented a bike for a whole day visiting the in Kashi, traveled to the old town every alley. The kind of all-brown-yellow ancient Islamic architecture, sedimentation of the thousands of years of human temperament. Lanes in each shop may have been the hands of workshops over the years from generation to generation, there is no one small street to sell the same goods, wood products and metal products occupy a different corner, respectively, gold shop artists use the original Tools pondering the one piece of jewelry, then a piece to display in a small workshop, the dazzling to shine in the sun, takes away people's eyes; boxes of the workshop is also very interesting that these boxes form the appearance of ancient sculpture of the nation's floriation, there was so shiny metal casing is a combination of modern civilization and traditional do? I guess some years ago, it should be made of wood as raw material bar; have an alley, all of the shops are covered with a felt hat, mainly for men, wearing dark shades of the hat, I wonder if there are several thousand on the whole street a few hundred; selling food on the street is mainly Uygur traditional foods, baked buns shell coke incense the smell of mutton and lamb gas mixed with some other ingredients are strange smell when the whole street cast a strange hard to explain The atmosphere, on the kinds of tea, many people enjoy such a shop, rumble to drink and chat. A fan behind the half-open-closed door, a pink makeup Yuzhuo a small child sitting on two bright eyes staring stool looked wonderful in the world, their beautiful mother had finally decided to lay down a thick veil of doing housework in general while smiling face every curious traveler. Sun drying the body warm, and slowly the rhythm of people involuntarily to slow down the pace, originally Kashi is a slow-paced city, suitable for all those who ease the mood completely liberalized, feel the pulse of the city is different from the ordinary. ]
D17 2003-9-28 Kashi - English Jisha - Hotan (Accommodation)
9:10 start early, drove to England to buy hand-knife Jisha County, just getting on the city asking price cheaper than Kashi, so it does not ruthless rock bottom price, and bought two, one black horn handle, a white bone handle , stainless steel blade, hand-inlaid colorful decoration, to present to the husband, do not cut meat slice of watermelon is good. Note, however, Urumqi airport, forbidden to carry knives on the plane Ying Ji Sha, and even checked no one can make, because such a long knives have been part of the control tools, knife only in the nation where people can carry. Therefore, the best post bought back. Walking on the highway, sheep, horses and donkeys keep pace with the also, I am afraid that only the Xinjiang Cijing only. 11:10-14:20 through qara town, Shache County, Zepu County to Yecheng (new starting point for Tibet Highway), lunch.
Today is Sunday, all the way through the size of the town has a bazaar. 19:30 in the evening arrived in Hotan, also caught up with Wada's Bazaar, according to the book that this is the biggest bazaar in southern Xinjiang, Kashgar's bigger than that. The Bazaar bazaar atmosphere have placed a one stall in the street, some on the ground, some in carriages, some in the donkey cart, there is no classification, disorder, and dirty, and I love this ancient natural feeling. I have never seen eating sawdust baked with hot eggs, Hotan out of pomegranates, drank a cup I have never tasted a fresh pomegranate juice, and even belt seeds squeezed together, the taste sweet, but a little astringent. Also bought a very beautiful red pomegranate back to her husband when the gift on his arrival back to Guangzhou.
21:00 entrusted the welfare of Perilla admitted to Hotan military guest houses, four human ￥ 20 / person. Night, followed by Mr. Chen in the darkness to see Hotan suet Bai, Mr. Chen to us for the propagation of jade Tasting. Because we had never understand jade, looks a little too expensive eyesore point again, no shot.
D18 2003-9-29 Wada - Minfeng - Tower (Residential)
9:30 start, 11:00 by Celle, 13:00 by Yutian, 14:30 to Minfeng, in Minfeng county met a certain television station in Guangdong "survival challenge" program group recording programs, I usually do not look at TV confused, just heard that the audience register their participation, a Tingyou name program. Beijing, Guangzhou, handsome guy shoots TV The Way We want us to help buy their own string of roasted lamb, pay attention Oh, is not invited us off that we have to the PPP. We just eat lunch, do not want to eat meat, and no one to help foot the bill.
Afternoon along the Tarim Desert Highway, the end of the (522Km milestones) toward the north, has finally come into my dreams, charmed the Taklamakan desert, that did not let me down. Golden expanse of undulating sand dunes, Tuo Lexie stepped up, sand is very fine, very small, small enough to sew through the fingers, extremely warm in the sun. But the high sand dunes to climb really well, do not fall into the trap to say. Because it is quicksand, which is very soft and can not bear our body weight, often a step up, slide down to three steps. I photographed his own deep in the desert shallow footprints, footprints, as well as sand dunes have been blown off the surface of the beautiful folds.
Desert highway on both sides of the reed is China's original net sand-fixing system, and we care not to tread it carefully. In order to maintain the smooth flow of desert highway, the State laying and maintenance of these reed network, the cost of the fence is very high.
Datta in the evening to 19:00 midnight (Central Taklimakan Desert), from the tower on the 4th field dozens of kilometers, but could see some of the oil workers wearing red uniforms. Next to a gas station, almost all of the crossings where cars will add a little oil, and snacked on foot, mouth cigarette smoking. Today, we live here in the desert at night you can lie on the number of stars.
Put away luggage, immediately dashed off the road a few hundred meters from the sand dunes of the peak is really the hub up, because the contrary, it will more slowly sliding down. Captured in the soft sand in the Taklimakan Desert, the sunset, feeling like in the sea like the gorgeous sunset, the prospects for the same vast, undulating waves, but one is where the water of life, one is swallowed sand of life.
The evening a la carte, the price was also reasonable, and taste good. The boss said that the water you drink here, all brought in from the outside, to break out of the well water bitter astringent, can not drink. If the water in your oil. Kobayashi afternoon, bring bottled water with our mouth wash their hands, was severely criticized and denounced several of our sister, aunt and a pass, he will be aggrieved. Night under the stars in the desert by telephone to her husband and report to their thinking.
D19 2003-9-30 tower - wheel sets Populus euphratica Park - Korla (Accommodation)
9:00 start to the round of Taiwan from the tower next to a dead road Populus euphratica, bizarre twisted bare branches, leaves us with is the desire of its water, and the final struggle. Zero kilometers from the desert highway to the wheel sets the direction of the road leading to the right, slipped a Populus euphratica Park, tickets ￥ 8, but until the end of October is the most beautiful season, when the leaves of Populus euphratica all red. Unfortunately though, but viewing platform looked out this piece of oasis is still beautiful, and unfortunately too wide field of vision, the lens is not easy to catch.
From Populus euphratica park out of the cracks along the vast white of saline land. Looked very dry very hard, but it would fall into the trap to go one foot down, and Wangliaoshishui, anyway, it was caught by.
20:00 pm to reach Korla, second only to the second largest city of Urumqi, Han Chinese majority. Live in the Altyn Tagh hotels, four standard rooms, ￥ 50 yuan / person, the room very big ah, estimated that more than 50 square meters, the bathroom very big ah, the value of! Eat at the night market to eat the best pepper Rumex, baked (Bosten Lake produced five black), as well as a pair of elderly people to love each other to do their own yogurt.
Author: vivisun
