10 / 9 clear -17:00 Turpan Urumqi 8:20-11:00 Shanshan 18:35-1:02 liuyuan daban Sugong Tower City Windmill Jiaohegucheng Karez Huoyanshan Bozi Creek Cave from 1000 fu Urumqi to Turpan on the road, there is a fame of the town. It's fame, not for its beautiful natural scenery, nor is it from the intoxicating ethnic customs; it is not astonishing monuments, there is no special story. It's known, simply because a beautiful melody and a simple humorous lyrics. It is this: Dabancheng. Here is no long queue of girls, no big sweet watermelon. Only sand is a frequent visitor here, but added a stone round and round. The Gobi desert covered with windmills, I heard here, is the largest wind power plant.
Open the door Yi Gu heat wave rushing toward us, stoves: Turpan is true to this name. A row on a variety of taxis outside the bus station to pick the cars, "Toyota" van, according to what we mean swim five spots, it will send us to Shanshan railway station, when the car was soon found out did not air-conditioned cars, we immediately proposed to transfer, or else air-conditioning costs 50 yuan on the button, the driver is a small group Uighur people quite warm-hearted person, that is, Chinese general, but with each staff member spots are quite familiar with, first of all to Jiaohegucheng on saving tickets for us each subsequent attraction tickets are also for us to save money. So no change of cars, but also so that we fully feel the taste of grill stove, especially in midday temperatures of up to 40 degrees Huoyanshan way above the surface of the skin burning, but no sweat, except leaned there, a short while on the wetness 1. We can see that in air is dry. Due to evaporation of large, fresh grapes Otherwise a few days into the dry. I had to keep additional water, to say also Guaidao Shanshan (90 kilometers away from Turpan) are not so hot of.
Jiaohegucheng is located about 13 kilometers west of Turpan city, the jars are Tsutomu ditch. Xinjiang's largest ancient city ruins. Therefore, in a city construction from north to south and 30 meters of exposed earth, water diversion and before, four weeks without walls, Yaan stand erect, such as cutting, the barriers are natural, length 1650 meters, 300 meters at its widest point. Jiaohegucheng existing sites, typical of the Tang Dynasty architectural features, mostly for digging into the homes, dig holes into the room, rammed earth walls, mostly two-story building along the street not see doors and windows, clothing, see Lane side door. Today, visitors to this point, can still be street to street, reached a higher level, quite fun. In 1961, the Jiaohegucheng was listed as key national heritage conservation units.
Karez, as early as in the "Historical Records" have records, said, "Well Drainage." Karez and the Great Wall, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and known as the three major projects in ancient China. Turpan Karez the existing, mostly built since the Qing Dynasty after another. The total number of nearly a thousand, full-length 500O km. Today, still irrigate large tracts of fertile oasis. Karez structure is determined by shaft, underground channels, ground channel and "logging dam" (small tanks) 4 parts. Turpan basin, north and west of Bogda Mountain, a mountain of Kala Wu, spring and summer there are a lot of snow and rain water flow down the valley, from sneaking into the Gobi Desert the next. People use mountain slope, skillfully created Karez, as quoted in underground irrigation undercurrent . Kaner is not due to hot winds Ershi heavy evaporation, and thus flow stability, and ensure the gravity irrigation. Underground water cool and sweet refreshing.
Sugong Tower, also known as the amount of Minta, is located 2 km Turpan city, eastern suburb of wood Irimura, Sugong tower is the biggest ancient pagoda existing in Xinjiang, all with blue gray brick. 44 meters high, tower base diameter of 10 meters, under the big tower on the small, cone-shaped garden was. Tower with spiral stairs leading to the top 72. In different directions around the tower and height, with 14 windows. Tower puzzle out the surface of layered triangular pattern, four patterns, water ripples, Link Check, etc. 15 kinds of geometric patterns, with a strong Islamic architectural style. Was built in 1777 and has more than 200 years of history.
Huoyanshan has its unique natural landscape, coupled with a famous ancient Chinese novel "Journey to the West", the Huoyanshan with the monk Tang Monkey King, Princess Iron Fan, cattle devil linked to Huoyanshan covered with a layer of magical color, has become a the world is strange mountain, it has become a yearning to visit. Huoyanshan from the red sandstone, the shape of a red dragon, east Shanshan, west Turpan, lying in the Turpan basin, total length 98 km, 9 km from north to south, the general height of 500 meters or so, the peak in the Turpan-Shanshan Yugou near 831.7 meters above sea level. Flaming Mountains on the blade of grass, mountains green red Sihuo, here are the hottest parts of the country, summer surface maximum temperature above 70 degrees Celsius, shawo where eggs can be baked. Huoyanshan on the high temperature and drought, "birds a thousand miles can not come." But the mountains but is a natural underground reservoir dam. As the crustal movement faults and river cutting, hillside left many valleys, mainly Sinopodophyllum groove, wood ditch, Tu Yugou, and even wood Qin trenches, suburban ditch. Valley in which it blocks out the sun shade, scenic beauty, water gurgling, fruits fragrance.
Bozi 1000 brush creek valley holes in the wood ditch Turpan Flaming Mountains, about 48 km away from the urban area. Caves have been numbered 77, including the surviving remnants of more than 40 pieces of paintings, frescoes over a total area of about 1,200 square meters, is the Turpan region of existing cave the most, while the construction takes many forms, one of the richest mural content in the Caves of the earliest cave The cave is about time Jushi Gaochang was built after the Song dynasty to the Yuan dynasty until the 13th century, there has been the Holy Land of Buddhism in Turpan region, the Uighurs were here for the king's royal temple, the existing cave was mostly expansion or renovated. Today, you can still remnants of the Buddhist murals from here, we see the ancient Uighur king and queen and all levels of people's different forms and ancient part of the life of the Uighur people, the ancient Uighur, Chinese, Paramita text and other questions in mind for the study of various nationalities in Xinjiang , especially the Uygur language and history of providing valuable information. The remnants of the posterior wall of Cave No. 33, "disciples mourning map" and the "monks mourning map", showing the character's inner feelings, vivid and full of personality, for the rare art of high quality goods. Cave No. 16 of "Kuregaku map" in the ancient musical instruments, "Little suddenly Ray" image, as well as the 17th cave in the "Hell" of the mural, are rarely seen in China in the cave. In 1982, there was listed as national key cultural relics protection units. Attractions entrance can be lit by camel Yan Shan, and the camel here, dressed up very beautiful, and just smelling.
As the plan to arrive around 17:00 pm Shanshan train station, we can actually sit in air-conditioned throughout buy tickets. Lose no time to eat, bring some fruit, this is our trip in Xinjiang, the last leg of six and a half hours by train we will go to Gansu province. Unconsciously spent 16 days in Xinjiang, will it really big! There are no many places to go, the beautiful scenery in Xinjiang have been deeply etched in my mind. Even though it is not a paradise, but also one of the most suitable place to travel.
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