D12 Ching 30. Sept. 03 Korla - Rob were village - Korla
8:20 get up, 9:00 breakfast, incredibly poor, will look啦. Then two-pronged, while solution No. 3 train from Korla to Turpan, on the other side to find hotel tonight for a hotel, in order to stay inside there is a split issue. Altun was found a hotel, two-star, very clean.
11:00 departure.
Rob people within the village is located in Yuli County, Rob Uighur people are a branch of the former living in the Lop Nur inside, liberation, due to Lop Nor in the construction of reservoirs upstream are vigorously production, leading to downstream stop, land desertification, Rob people gradually to where to migrate, then Premier Zhou Enlai personally instructed in the yuli the designation of an area for Rob, they settled in here.
Last year, the State Department in order to maintain ecological balance, treating the desert, does not allow construction of upstream reservoirs to ensure there is enough water downstream, and now we see Rob who village, patches of Populus euphratica reflected in the river, autumn wind swept vast reed sea, road through in the middle. Has failed to implement policies, this was still a desert, today, the vegetation has begun to recover in the near future will certainly return to the previous shape. Most happy that the herders, there is water, and lush pastures with cows and sheep fat.
Rob is now the village is only three people who long to live, and the rest are grazing to go, and we visited one, the so-called home is very simple, exterior walls with dried grass and red willow reeds woven fenced, the roof is the same sand large, they can through the "wall" blow came in Rob people living in this environment. When we go in, there's a woman being WO Rob surface, the dough is a container of wood dug into a large basin, bedroom with red willow framework, setting out with the mud paste into a wall, the bed is piled with mud, and above, a few blankets casually stood in the room there is a stove, a bit like Europe's fireplace in winter, light a fire inside, the whole house was warm.
The reception in the village, sitting a Uygur grandparents, gray beard, his face is filled with traces of the years, I am happily with his photography, At the end, he held up two fingers: "5 per person 5! "Heavens! Will really make money, how now people are so spots guides say, this is a village of longevity for the elderly, has more than 100 years old, because the longevity, it became a living landscape scenic area, and his pictures of the need to pay 5 yuan This is the grandfather of personal income, but also be scenic to support him, no wonder he was so happy, was a little uncomfortable. Looking back just entered the village, when a pair of rushing on the road met a donkey cart of the old couple, not only promised to take pictures, also gave a melon to us, free of charge, a sharp contrast.
1:30 in the village to eat salty too terrible, even the tea are the same, is due to the long-term drought, land has become saline-alkali soil, so plants are salty, and thus yuli sheep is the most delicious, even the State Council, the sheep eat here by air from their past, today's dinner is that it is the most famous Kaoquan Yang.
After lunch, we walked to the desert, the tall sand dunes, set foot on the warm sand, along the traces left by the years towards the depths of the desert. Climbed the Hill Top, where the sight is a boundless side of yellow sand, irregular curves extend infinitely. Not far away there is a small lake, the lake with a long-Populus euphratica, leaves just some yellow, and another 10 days will become golden. Populus euphratica vitality is very strong here, so spread the words: "Health and the Millennium die, die for a thousand years does not fall, down to the Millennium immortal." Carefully look at the leaves of Populus euphratica have different shapes, some like a willow, and some like Maple Leaf, and some like birch leaves, which is euphratica order to adapt to harsh environments created by mutation. Groups of goats graze, they are very afraid of strangers, I want to get close they do not OK, and the more known as the more run. I have a few laps around the edge of the desert and enjoy the desert scenery of Populus euphratica.
On the return trip, two goats were left holding the local people, "Baa Baa ..." in the desert air haunted desolate sounds of despair, and their peers blankly watched it was taken away, there are indifferent to self-care bow eating grass, and in less than an hour, it will be food on the table, which is their proper fate? When you see it is slight at the reception corridor, I could not help touching it went back, thin only the spine, so how can bear it? Watched it helpless eyes, silent, because I have to eat it tonight companions.
5:00, to yuli dinner, passing a Apocynum, master give us such a plant, dried leaves of Apocynum, and you can drink tea, you can lower blood pressure, stem but after a lower surface of the fiber can be allocated can be used as raw material for linen. 50 years, forestry workers handed over 10 yuan per month additional cost, many people are in the allocation of Apocynum, a few cents per kilogram can be sold for money to set aside more than 20 kilograms in order to sell a 10 per hour. This place also produces licorice, there are a lot of people digging licorice, bitter days will be enough.
Master said I have an unforgettable words: "life is always colorful," You Diansuan heart.
To move forward into a piece of cotton is, the workers are busy picking cotton, cotton must be finished in time for the frost before the close, or not worth啦. White cotton balls in the sun glare in particular, I have carried out for a full bloom of cotton, and brought a bud's for pictures.
Master said that from the cotton fields where collected containing cottonseed may sell 4.50 / kg, de-seed without seed cotton after the call, can be sold at 6.00 / kg, medicine, cotton would also need to skim the rest can be used directly, and cotton use is wide, such as textiles, gunpowder, tires and so on. There are many types of cotton, like the Corps, such big enterprises are growing long-staple cotton, and after decades of research, has cultivated a military Cotton No. 1 has now improved to No. 5 in cotton.
In a seemingly local food stalls to eat the famous Kaoquan Yang, next to a big stove, is lamb it! On the waiting came out, we herd phenomenon, by robbing the two, a little slower Jiuji people away. Eat Kaoquan Yang was hand because as big chunks of meat, and sprinkle with salt and spices, I really fragrant! 1:00 smell of urine smell has not, Weili sheep really nice! Also think of Rob who had Bleater the village! Hey! No way!
Belly full of! Good tired ah! Do not want to eat in! Sure fat!
Korla region is a major cotton producing and one of pear and grapes are also a major specialty sugar were high. Back to the hotel, I tasted the well-known long-Korla fragrant pear, really, and we are not the same as eating in Guangzhou.
Tonight we should and Xia Bin, Liu Jie parted ways, and have to bid farewell to our cars often master, and the remaining five of the group sit Chef Wang's 4500 Toyota, go to the Kuqa. A little heart can not help but to accept defeat, after all, with "live" for 12 days, and mean that the entire journey approaching an end, a little melancholy, time really flies, saying the Guangzhou dialect is called: "Happy I do not know over time."
D13 Qing 1. Sept. 03 Korla - Populus euphratica Park - Wheel sets
Five cars packed with luggage quickly make, and Wang Bo was "consciously" sitting position on luggage plus the heap, with his body type is very hard to endure.
After a saline-alkali land, we saw vast expanse of whiteness of a, but also thought it was snow, there are horses everywhere Huangcao, can be refined horse Flavin, is refined ice prime raw materials. The right side of the road is the West-East natural gas pipeline project, commenced last year, next year you can ever supply of Shanghai. However, after the development of Xinjiang, a local natural gas prices has gone up. West-East is a key project of developing the western region, Xinjiang has an abundance of natural gas resources, of course, oil is now poured into the exploration of oil reserves is the country's most abundant, along the way can see a one of the wells were ulterior motives in a spray the red flames of the "chimney", a small burn a day, Santana, the big ones, burn a Buick, showing that the resources are so rich.
On the roadside food stalls resolved lunch, the master took us to see the desert highway, the desert road from Luntai started across the Taklamakan desert, until the Hotan, southern Xinjiang, is the world's longest desert highway. Greeted with only a simple yellow, desert trees are the same color of yellow, dirty yellow, the sky is yellow, street full of reeds woven "net", the entire road is being such a "network "protect, but also have to do once a year, desert sand large temperature difference between day and night was great, the road each year to re-shop once, therefore, that this desert highway is to use money to shop together.
The afternoon round of station sites are Populus euphratica park, but this area has no yellow leaves of Populus euphratica, suppose is not very pretty, and sure enough, that autumn had not, so I was disappointed.
D14 sunny cloudy 2. Oct. 03 Luntai - Kuqa - Kuqa Grand Canyon - Caves - Kuqa
Walk for three hours of the Grand Canyon, there is no way to go, climbed up and down, and wading in water, pick up a pocket of stone, scenic guided tours but also taxes, it broke the stone but also money, is not a bar.
Western Thousand-Buddha Grottoes, more than 200 caves, the general opening up the nine caves, complete no, fragmented, and the painters rough. Excavated in the 5th century AD, and later the decline of Buddhism, the Islamic invasion, to dig up the Buddha's eyes are.
Here are all the Buddha Cave murals, mountains are sandy in the paste surface layer of sandy mud, in the above painting, using natural mineral pigments are the time on the oxidation of a long time, and paintings are religious stories .
The Grand Canyon on the way to go through are Yardang Landform, gods, strange.
D15 clear 3. Oct. 03 Kuqa - Korla - Turpan
To get up early, today is the Kuqa's bazaar, and we go to the bazaar at ten o'clock on the way, people have put away in the street on both sides of goods, selling what are, figs, grapes, basically ethnic minorities, the wrong , we are the minority. Baja on the growing excitement, the elderly Uygur rushing donkey cart loaded with goods, go to the market came. Everywhere was filled with passion, the murder of a lot of film.
After rounds of the South back to Korla, five people live in a car, the really tired, and fell asleep.
Strongly urge the teacher took us to eat pear orchards to see grapes, a master agreed. Turned into a village, in a side of fruit trees to stop, let us go on picking pears, oh ~ dear, that we were to become a thief, and uneasy to find, in the trees were all bad, and finally to an Zhai well, the really sweet ah. Pear watched the original male and female, but then the master taught us how to choose, usually the mother picked pears.
Go straight ahead along the path, into another Liyuan, a Uygur old man is being Zhai pears, all over the floor, and shook hands with him warmly: "eat, eat lightly, Kill them to eat!" Oh, developed啦! As if a group of E Lang threw himself go, I do not remember how many pear to eat. Of course, the consequence is diarrhea, and had to eat more fruit will cause diarrhea in. Now bring pear, grapes, melon, are vomiting of.
Well fed, to go when the old man is preparing tea Uygur something, busy teacher told him that we go, do not get, and the old man said: "come from afar, what do not eat? Band Point pear bar! "It's really too warm, and can we really eat too much, almost as fear.
Lunch in the Korla to eat, go shopping, and also bought a lot of things, figs, Apocynum tea, licorice pieces. Night and often the master, king master dinner, we will take the night train to Turpan, and luggage really more weight was a butt to sit on the floor, the Uygur children happy.
22:30, smooth Take a train, bid farewell to Korla.
D16 sunny 4, Oct. 03 Turpan - Urumqi
6:30 am to Turpan station, not yet dawn, carrying two big bags, braving starry, and taxis outside the station to talk about the price, there have been differences of opinion, about half an hour no The results, or into the city to say it, the station has more than 50 KM away from the urban areas, ah, we finally boarded Bus last five seats, it be considered stabilized. The next step in how to go, do not know.
Very difficult to walk, I really do not understand, such a tourist city, the hardware Gaode so bad, and then walk more than an hour before the urban area, luggage storage well then, I had a taxi straight Jiaohegucheng, the driver was a Uighur boy, called iron wood children, 38-year-old, fat, wearing a flower hat, very cute.
Turpan tour began, and today we have to play with only three spots: Jiaohegucheng, Tu Yugou and Sugong tower, and did not go to regular tours to the Grape Valley, Flaming Mountains, the Kaner or something. Along the way we have seen too many, and these spots are too many tourists, too commercialized.
Jiaohegucheng may car division before the country location, Old City is located in a valley, surrounded by river, where buildings were dug in loess, although now only Duanqiang can also see on the horizon when the scale of . Morning alterations, static, footsteps echo in the old city, the sun playing through the old wall in today's land, whether by the year 2000 what happened?
The north and east of the city to build a Buddhist temple 2, there is a distance pagoda, which is building one of the better preserved, dimly seen busy year, in this place then considered to be barbarians, and now only sigh . Weathering is very serious, and some houses are already facing the risk of collapse a few decades may have nothing.
Walked Zaiqu Tu Yugou roadside houses are Uighurs, a house relatively low, there is a small courtyard, chatting up grape trellis.
Entrance to the village there are pieces mazar (the ancestor's graves)
The ancient village is very quiet, and we broke into a mosque, the primitive, but not hinder the pious believers.
Uygur sounded the bongo, boy dance, invited us to dance together, the original village wedding.
Sit in Urumqi bus, journey is about to end.
Dabancheng passing, and the countless windmills turning spectacular ah!
D17 5. Oct. 03 clear Urumqi
Holstein chat last night and drinking, to 2 points Caishui, sleeping big Lanjue, was up 9 points, and the black and white ate a breakfast, at noon he was sitting in the aircraft back to Xiamen, when the bar for his farewell.
Parting is always sad, to live through this memorable happy holiday, and my heart somehow uncomfortable.
10:30, Eva's friends came looking for us to go out shopping to buy things. KK, bought many souvenirs, and Tian (to himself), the nesting dolls, copper wire, dried fruit.
Went to the dried fruit wholesale market, Wow! A lot of dried fruit, and cheap, 10.00/kg raisins.
D18 6. Oct. 03 clear Urumqi - Guangzhou
Went back to sleep a large Lanjue, 10:00 up watching TV, nothing to do, but also teach you out of.
12:00, food, noodles, and does not taste (fast food), but also 10, and mutton is nothing incense, drinking a mushroom soup, Zaiqu erdaoqiao, is already the fourth, and then sweep a lot of goods, KK.
Urumqi's friends is very polite, the grapes had presented cases to us, dear, how much luggage to take ah!
Autumn Xinjiang trip to the only end, the aircraft landed Baiyun Airport in the moment, there is not even a little feel at home.
Travels up to April 2004 to collate completed, I was lazy then. Back again, like to go there one back, Xinjiang, I will return.
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