Snow-capped mountains, sheep, fruit and incense
------ Autumn Tour in Xinjiang
Work has been busy this year, was originally thought that the planned trip could not take place in Xinjiang, but the morning of September 3, her husband drove to work the way I suddenly asked me: "If you want do not want to go to Xinjiang." I said: "If you want ah . " He said: "That's tomorrow, go buy a ticket to the other side have a friend receive." I say "good." So, the next day, I brought in three days off, plus a weekend for two days time, though not enough, but no way, they can only case. We booked a return trip from Xi'an to Urumqi.
September 5, 2003, Xi'an is still raining, 3:50 Xianyang airport from the time of going to dark overcast days, to Urumqi, Beijing time 7:00 o'clock, the sun bright, the temperature about 30 degrees, very heat.
Friend's warm reception in Urumqi, we in Xinjiang's first seafood dinner turned out to be quite a bit disappointed, to, I want to be good to eat every day Xinjiang barbecue, Nang still pull strips. But although my friend said: "Do not worry, these two days will make you eat your fill." I also had in no hurry, and did not expect that the next few days is to eat enough of it.
1st day: Tianshan, Tianchi, lamb feast
Ten in the morning, also equivalent to the 8 o'clock Beijing bar, we drove straight to Tianchi. Out of the Urumqi urban areas, across such Gobi Desert, looking some desolate, unlike in other cities into the suburbs are all pieces of farmland and trees. After about twenty minutes, high-speed road on the left look past a long green shelterbelts, friends said it was Fukang City, on the return road, friends, give a lift to get something in Fukang. A small, clean, almost can not be called city of the city. Few people away from Urumqi, so close, but so quiet.
Under the high-speed into the mountains at the junction, there are many Shuiguo Tan, filled with melon, watermelon, like the local fruits, we chose two parking watermelon, ready to eat into the mountains. Drive along the mountain into the mountains, on-street from time to time groups of Yanger shepherds whiplash rushing, sheep were all with long curly sheep, goats can climb friends say, looked up and looked, and sure enough, the steep Peak goat figure flashes from time to time, they went so far as to climb so high to pasture, compared with long-haired sheep who are more stupid, relatively behaving. Beyond that the mountains go, the roadside river, the river clear, the river a lot of tents, lasted a very long way. This is a local minority business family restaurants and inns, there are also Uygur Kazakhs. Our car has always been open to the days of pool, Heavenly Lake is not large, Cheng Lan's water, pine forests, snow-capped mountains constitute the picture is also really beautiful. Tianchi is a tour of Xinjiang's traditional attractions, and some people say boring, how can the United States Kanas Lake. But I think, has his sights everywhere a unique place, each will have a place to a different feeling, where all can not be completely replaced elsewhere.
Took a speedboat tour Tianchi seem brake landscape, but the time constraint, we can only make this choice. Otherwise, just for the sake that "Jade Pool meet" the beautiful legend, but also a good understanding of the experience. Friend of a friend is Tianchi scenic Office, his warm hospitality of the Cesi melon us, sitting in the corridor outside his office on the grass next to the downhill is the blue Tianchi. I asked the director: "Every day here and certainly a good mood it." He said a long time, is also tired, too quiet.
Come down from the Heavenly Lake, in the mountain next to the Select a yurt family restaurant. Selected a plump sheep, we have six or seven people sitting inside the yurt and enjoy lamb feast. Kebabs, Shouzhua meat, onion and tomato salad pilaf there, Baijiu is the first time such a big mouth to eat meat, big mouth and drinking, so cool. Yurt on a small river, the river flows down from the Tianshan mountains of snow melt water, clear cold.
The next day: Turpan Grape Valley Lu Fan, Jiaohegucheng, the Kaner drive from Urumqi to Turpan, about three hours drive. High-speed on the road there is a landscape must be mentioned ---- Asia's largest wind farm, on the high street, and the countless large white windmill. Wanted to stop taking pictures, high-speed side of the road traffic police simply do not allow parking in Xinjiang, were dropped. Is a continuous stretch of highway on both sides of the Tianshan Mountains, from afar, like a mirage scene, very special, very real.
Turpan Grape Valley well-deserved reputation, let us be more appropriate at this time. Uygur people here run a restaurant under the grape trellis, but also family, and we look at the grape trellis Uygur girl dancing next to hand off the shelves clusters of Thompson Seedless grapes to eat, very interesting, you can casually eat , but can not be taken away, to bring the words can only be bought, eating is not to money. Note that, to Zhai grapes to eat, to be clusters Zhai, if there was a bunch of grapes just Zhai How many pieces, then this bunch of grapes would be a bad tree.
Karez nothing nice to be Jiaohegucheng should be a go. Jiaohegucheng, Uighur, said Le kwolla fruit jars, located 10 km west of Turpan city, children are Ya Zi ditch 30 meters cliff platform, South Kan mounds, north-controlled cross-river, the terrain is very advantageous. Surrounded by water, gucheng shaped like a willow, to a river heart continents, north and south is about 1650 meters from east to west at its widest point about 300 meters, was once the front car division of the Kingdom of States. Cross-river city cars that were built by the division and construction as early as the Qin and Han era, about 2000-2300 years ago. Car division is also called regardless of division, are living in here, the original inhabitants of the earliest.
Jiaohegucheng now it is a waste Tucheng to see brief description, a square known government office here, there are houses, monasteries, as well as the tomb of an infant, buried about more than 200 babies, why are there so many babies buried here, the legend, there are two, one argument is a plague that year, resulting in a large number of infant deaths, there is an argument is a war, the people fled here when these babies can not take away, or buried their dead. Both stories are absolutely terrifying. Standing in the city heights soil stage, to imagine the bustling scene of the city that year, but this time only a silence and loess.
Day: Karamay oil field, Mo Guicheng
Karamay trip is not the original plan, my intention is to use two days a trip to Kashgar, Xinjiang, however, because he held a few days, "things will trade" round-trip ticket is not a little Kashi discount, a full one-way ticket is necessary to a more than 1000, the time is such a short ride even more too late, I had to give up. But just a friend to Karamay things, just to see his car along with oil fields and Mogui Cheng.
Karamay liked the name, Uighur means "black oil", Karamay City, more than 400 kilometers away from Urumqi, more than three hours by car. First time I saw a little bit excited fields. Roads on both sides of the Gobi Desert, hundreds of thousands of pumping units (commonly known as kowtow machine) while at work, an estimated hundreds of thousands of units bar, it is spectacular. Distance, the end boundless horizon. This piece of barren desert area below, exactly how much oil buried, distant more room below, how much oil is there for people to dig, exploitation and use, I do not know.
Karamay this oil city beautiful and quiet, I heard a lot of rich people here, but particularly large number of family problems, a lot of husband and wife, also are on the outside lovers, the high divorce rate. May be the reason life is so comfortable, it is perhaps too remote location where the rich how to spend what the? Who can be clear.
Mo Guicheng Karamay City, 100 kilometers away from the place, also known as "Windy City", is a Yardang Landform. About Qiqianwannian to more than 100 million years ago, here is a huge fresh water lake, Lake with lush plants, lake habitat for breeding the Urho sword dragon, plesiosaur, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and other ancient biological Junggar It is an aquarium gathered a "paradise." Later, after two major changes in the earth's crust movements, the lake disappeared, lakes into fender rocks sandwiched between sandstone and desert land.
Of course the devil is not a ghost town, but here the size of the wind to be blown to 300 a year on many occasions, whenever the wind blew, yellow sand crowded in upon the wind in the "City" Lane roundabout, the stimulation, "pavilion", mournful call sign as Guikulanghao, as if to this gathering of numerous demons. Dozens of kilometers radius of the city are ranging from a few meters or tens of meters high and low, irregular scattered small hills, twists and turns of the valley, exposed rock layers have been wind sculpted grotesque, strange things belong to eternal mystery spectacular masterpiece, it is Fuxiang United Pina. Rain wind stripping the delicate cliffs, strange, no crowds, no streams, no biological, giving them untold tight.
Accompanied by our tour ghost towns of the instructors is a Mongolian girl, she told us that come here to view the sunrise and sunset are particularly spectacular, do not have some flavor. Many photographers often live in yurts Mo Guicheng side Inn, tertiary, etc., when the most beautiful day the sun take pictures.
Day Four: Urumqi city, the city of Urumqi Grand Bazaar Grand Bazaar, is a group with a strong Islamic characteristics of commercial buildings, has just completed in June 2003. Shops are the minority here, there are many feature-rich arts and crafts, beautiful wool shawls, handmade vases, musical instruments and so on. The general asking price of wool shawl over 200 yuan, 80 yuan will be able to buy it. Many different kinds of raisins and buy the time we must counter-offer, asking price 38 yuan a kilogram of raisins, with 22 yuan price. Selling dry goods of the Uygur people are very interesting, a counter-offer him up and shake your hand, patting your shoulder with the blunt Mandarin, said: "price is the price, saying it is called." The point that is being called on to never be less This despite the assured.
Big Bazaar is also particularly rich in ethnic snacks, open-air plaza on the smoke-filled barbecue stalls, I am also concerned about these beautiful buildings will soon be smoke dirty.
Day Five: Salt Lake, Dabancheng Dabancheng in the way to go, I could not help but want to sing the old song, "Dabancheng girl," because the song well-known songs, making Dabancheng known in the world, the next high-speed to reach Sakaki way to go trying to fix it is difficult to walk a lonely roadside cottage that read, "Wang Luobin house," I do not know Mr. Wang Luobin is not really live here, around the house is a barren desert, only a small stone and camel grass. Car away for a while, roads are cut off, sounded a bit, if the detour to go very far, but not in a good walk, we went directly to Salt Lake. Dabancheng in my mind was still just the songs impression: Dabancheng rock hard and flat ah, big and sweet watermelon ah, Dabancheng a long queue of girls Yeah, pretty eyes ... ...
Salt Lake is located in Urumqi, 72 km Department Dabancheng valley, we went to the day of no wind, the lake is calm, because it is not the weekend, the entire surface of the lake only a few of us were floating. Salt Lake next to a big salt, a number of rectangular pool house is full of shining white of the salt pond flat base with half-human, how high the salt pile. Salt Lake for a swimsuit to go under, people who can not swim do not worry, in this lake, people can lie flat on the water, floating head Dianzhao pillow, what else would not have, it floats on the water on the whole. Heard that Salt Lake can also be beauty in the mud, water rich in mineral content, for a variety of skin has a good effect. Here are preparing for the construction of scenic tourist attractions in Salt Lake City planning area is 54.7 square kilometers, scenic areas are mainly salt Heritage Museum, the Salt Lake bath Le City, Salt Lake Ecological Park, aquaculture Park nine projects. Soon after the tour Salt Lake, was a different story had.
You had to eat after Salt Lake Tai Panji, the Taipan Ji Chaiwopu to do the best, but we have to catch the evening plane in Salt Lake looking for a restaurant to eat Taipan Ji. In Xi'an has not eaten such a delicious crispy grilled Nang Da Panji well, write here, faster flow of saliva, and ashamed. Ate Xinjiang Taipan Ji, Xian Da Panji shop again in the future may be not to go.
Unfortunately, this is the trip in Xinjiang did not go into Kashgar and Kanas. I think that if you want to have thoroughly enjoyed themselves Tour in Xinjiang, then at least more than 20 days time, next time you come back in Xinjiang, perhaps I would place a special trip to these two. One argument is Kanas is the world's last piece of pure land, there may be some exaggeration, but Kanas is indeed a fascinating place where a lot of tourists.
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