Shuttle bus ride from Korla to the round of Taiwan, and then chartered (small van) to the desert highway tower fork in the road (400 million) is about 5 hours. The way in the Tarim River Bridge, the desert highway to stay at 0 kilometers photography.
On both sides of the Tarim River Bridge and the nearby P. euphratica to 11 months before most of the yellowing.
The fork in the road at night living in the tower. There are guest houses and restaurants, but the environment in general, 20 yuan / bed. Ate: noodles 10 per hour.
The next day the tower in the fork in the road waiting for a train, as long as the direction to the tower in the oil field vehicles (private cars to go out), you Yangshou, ie parking, free of charge contained in a way you are. (Already one of the default rule) is often of vehicles is to tower in oil refineries. Going to drilling if the mouth is also a cut-off Shun vehicle (car less).
In the tower you can see a lot of giant oil fields (the wheels have two personal high) desert vehicles and transport drilling equipment, vehicles, were foreign luxury car (CAT, Mercedes-Benz, etc.), models strange, a little cartoon like before the deformation of King Kong in the Mainland is absolutely not be able to see. You can climb up to the camera.
To solve the problem for free lunch at noon like the best idea is to tower in oil refineries, where workers rarely saw the arrival of foreign tourists, so it is warm hospitality you, you can feel oil workers for free lunch, you can also let them take you visit the refinery. (Preferably in the round table and bought a few watermelon brought so as to thank the workers)
Around the refinery is a vast expanse of the desert, you can easily walk and passed as long as the refineries come back will not be lost. Finished playing a day later, the same tower block in the fork in the road crossing the car back.
Tower in the fork in the road there is only desert highway gas stations, so the car will be here between stops, refueling. You eat dinner at the Tower in the fork in the road, after holding a backpack on the bus bar at the gas station sitting and so on.
Usually Wada - Korla direction the car is around 6 pm after 8 o'clock, Korla - Wada direction of the car is 2:00 ~ 4:00 over.
You are bored waiting for a train station, you can help gas station refueling Uygur uncle, and his feel for that time, he will help you with the driver Uygur haggling. If the cold at night, you can into the gas station's office, there are heating and Kara OK. Uygur uncle who was very friendly with him pull a good relationship, can help you solve a lot of Han Chinese and Uygur driver conflicts.
Tower in the fork in the road - Hotan, fare is usually 70 yuan / person, if Uncle Uygur open (almost all drivers have met him), can be cheaper, and there will be a good location, good treatment (my classmate Zuoshang Che and a half hours later, found that cell phone falls gas stations, one with the driver said, the driver immediately apply the brake U-turn, and made the entire vehicle were puzzled, startle).
Now desert highway from tower has been connected to the Ruoqiang, has been opened for a long time, but usually the official publication of the maps are not marked, only up to standard into the tower. If want to go to Ruoqiang, you can fork tower and other shuttle.
Desert Highway Luntai - Tower fork in the road along the scenic It is true that the Tarim desert highway 0 kilometers monument, Populus euphratica, debris-resistant barrier and so on, should be chartered to stay photography. Tower in the fork in the road - Minfeng scenery relatively homogeneous shuttle can do to avoid spending too much.
Author: pumice
