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On a hot afternoon, Da Yining. Yining a long history and is now being hidden very deep, walking on the street, in fact, the general feeling and modern cities in the Mainland is no different. Yining called Beyond the Great Yangtze River, is the most abundant water, place in Xinjiang. We went to Yining also see water, water sunset.
Dinner only think of Ili Bridge sunset, when the city is not looking forward to the sun, and ride rush luck, close to the bridge, the road began to crowded together, an orange circle on like a tape from the city's House base slowly to fall, the sunset to the city covered with a layer of the veil golden.
Approaching the bridge, the road traffic congestion, car is almost it does not really move, while the setting sun had been blocked in a high-rise behind the reinforced concrete from the forest to see the cracks where it looks into the horizon, we must not, we hasten to get off, ran up the bridge . Excellent vision on the bridge, the sky is hung-tung on the river in the most remote, the pan shot on the horizon to the gentle light to the sky and river are the red-Hwan Choi, scenery beautiful. We are actually quite saw the Ili sunset one last time.
Another was a little disappointed with a somewhat fortunate that the mood in a hurry watching the sunset, when the ear came a melodious accordion sound, looked back a lot of people in the wedding, new pairs of dress, surrounded by friends and family opposite the beautiful sunset photography, take pictures, receive blessings, and some friends also brought musical instruments, play music add to the fun side. The original bridge on the evening of Yili's wedding has been holding such a local customs and traditions. The crowds here are not all tourists. I am very satisfied with the bridge to see the scene in the Ili, where I really feel that what the Western Regions, what national conditions and customs, then, I suspect I was walking in a foreign country.
At dusk, we walked down the bridge and walk onto a floodplain, to踩踩those gravel, the river up close.
Two
The next day to go narat. Car all the way to the depths of the Tianshan open, go there Pilates is more than 16:00. With the car arrived, several groups of people travel. Dinner in a shop and the same car to reach a young teacher in Xiamen husband and wife talk, decided to swim five individual packages a summer pasture and then go to Santana Bayinbuluke, bargain to two hundred. That is a bargain, Xiamen, master teacher, and his peers really fortunate. Summer pasture called the local ranch, in fact, like a mountain on a basin grasslands, monastery is surrounded by sights, the surrounding mountains surrounded by grassland weeds a lot of height and knee-chai, no visitors, the entrance of a little dirty, garbage debris is not less. We are here to stay a short time. Ranch last summer to go through a tourist area known as Prairie narat Resorts door, we did not enter inside. Before going to hear many times that narat grassland resort, in the end that there, until I come back from where it is not clear.
Out narat, ran into road construction. A large mound the road was divided into two sides, never let the car through. At this time the arrival of a brand of team defense hung with what I say by experience that the team can be sure that the road through, and indeed when we hard from the fields around a big circle back on the road again, when behind do not know from where rapidly emerge so that a bulldozer pushed the team through the mound. Xinjiang is a large scale road construction, and in Xinjiang, especially in Central encounter those days, many roads, cars often have to open the dusty roadbed, and sometimes even better than a long-pass open fields at the roadside or river beds .
After a section of road, doing better and better. Car had been driving along the shallow river of kunas, Tianshan clear snow and ice to integrate the river bottom, a flood is a gravel front, the shore occasional 12 old trees, small dendrites, leaving only her side, and a vicissitudes of life. River on both sides of view very different from the south bank of the mountain spruce plots pen-Song, north slopes are covered with green grass, like reaching the sky covered with a large green blanket, the grass is high, with yellow flowers above long on the slopes are also occasionally long with 12 trees, solitary, as if to distance overlooks do not know who is waiting for.
The car off a mountain pass south line along a ravine began to climb mountains, and here Valley Youlin deep, densely rare and reminds me of hiking. Half way we really have hit a cyclist travelers. If there is no time to time the car rolled through the dust, there really is a good place for hiking.
On the mountain, towering mountains are under a car, looking ahead, everywhere the Tianshan Mountain, near the one we had to climb over a rolling green hill, distant mountains towering tall and straight a line, mountain ridges and white snow and ice never been stopped, do not know it was not the main vein of Tianshan. In the top of the hill, we have seen snow up close.
Jumped over the mountains into the Bayinbuluke prairie. Grassland scenery with the mountains north is completely different grass Didi De shop only at the surface, green in the yellowing, but no tree. Although there are hills, but flat, vast grasslands, broad vision.
Deep in the Tianshan Mountains, cars speeding in the grasslands of the dirt road with a group from tobacco and will run into a car for a long time. Street a crowd relaxed sheep, said that more than a thousand heads, in fact, own the property where the value of pastoralists from the run, is very rich. The sheep here are mostly black sheep, the first black body white, and exotic lovely. Looking around us, the distance the sheep on the hillside on the piece of white clouds. In the evening, cars right side of the peaks in the grasslands pull down a long shadow, the flat grassland mottled light and shadow, variable levels of wealth. Sunset at last we have a look back down the mountain, Shen, I already can not remember their own period of time in Xinjiang, how many times have seen the sunset, how many times sunset, we are still in time for the forward side of the road.
Dusk, car grassland smooth, quiet highway flew in front of the emergence of a small piece of housing, which is a small town. Across the road from the middle of another side street to catch a highway, forming a T-junction, around this T-shaped street, surrounded by small shops and some hotel restaurants, it is almost Bayinbuluke town of all, I am strongly reminded of the film the scene inside the western United States, Qi resemble.
Three
When out to dinner that night, accompanied by almost 2 mm even quarrel. They could have been classmates of my peers on the Internet together to find a playmate. In which Y could actually not suitable for self-help tourism is pulled by her classmates came, and she always says something along the way unacceptable words and suggestions, funny it makes one feel disappointed, she was one to say that a ghost Bayinbuluke place not at all is not fun, to get out of. Is almost isolated place which is what I like. Y listened to a meal here, business presentations, adhere to the so-called specialty here to eat fish without scales and wild mushrooms, her classmates H was firmly opposed to what would have to eat the local specialty is also good, but I think this is two dishes expensive, businessmen are suspected of slaughtering tourists, do not bother to say anything. Two were deadlocked, later broke up, Y itself gone, H after a lot of ill will tell her. I hope that two people are not in the kind of playmate.
Back to the hotel, can not find the Y, in such a place, for there is no self-service travel experience a little bit worried about her I really do! Later she came back, saying that preparations for tomorrow morning and that husband and wife to read in Xiamen Swan Lake back on in advance, and do not want to go on with us. This, to me it is good news, and she does travel with people who let me suffer feelings. My original plan was to read here, the most beautiful Swan Lake in Kaidu 9 18 Bay sunset and then walk, because we wanted to accommodate her the next morning I would like to see it and then leave the afternoon. Maybe I can be a comfort to see the sunset.
That is a very dramatic couple Xiamen colorful characters, them from Fujian Province to Sichuan, but also to Tibet, and then down to Qinghai, Gansu and Xinjiang, and the use of summer vacation has already traveled more than half of western China. That night we stayed with a hotel, he found the line we asked to Kashgar, when they actually only two people involved dozens of pieces of money, even the car out of Bayinbuluke are not enough, the couple thought the other side who have the money it! And in this remote even in a pristine little town, they brought the credit card is simply no effect. He gave me that he thought of two kinds of solution: pack a car to the nearest town from here and static county, leaving a person in the car above, a person paying the money to pick up the driver; ride shuttle bus to go and static or Kuqa , Xie noted with the driver to see if he does not agree with them to collect the money and so on to make up to buy tickets; and Y with walking through her money to buy votes, to the destination Zaiqu to collect the money to also. Later, Y, and with them traveled to Swan Lake, also borrowed some money to give them an emergency. Y people are still good, is this tour does not suit her.
We narat night and pull the driver over a room, middle of the night were awakened several times. The first is a dream to hear him shouting to say nonsense, to the early morning someone to knock on the door again, the original is that they are looking for the driver to go to Swan Lake wrong time, say, OK 6:30, 5:30, he would come to Later, the driver is a living, and his alarm clock rang several times and out of the room sound, and then later continued to launch a car ignition sound.
However, in the morning or sleep on the Lanjue Bayinbuluke, and this is my deepest impression of Xinjiang travel one of the things, in the long-distance travel thousands of miles outside of Xinjiang, there are still up late chance in a cold morning, In the Tianshan Mountains and even the depths of a quiet town of primitive sleep the sun shone on him, like when the up-up and when it is before I start to imagine how hard of reach. Prairie is a very cold morning and evening, and I looked out the window the sun shines wrapped in a blanket, not inclined to get up, get up after lying in bed oblique diary. Because the afternoon before going to Swan Lake, morning leisure time.
The morning when I woke up a little bit surprised to see that the driver still. He would have been willing to offer lower prices pull us Bayinbuluke that want to pull us to Swan Lake, making two-way fare. He said the well to pull us to the lowest here, Xiamen people at this time demonstrated his ruthless haggling skills, let me ashamed. He asked a local driver, said that a good 150 yuan to Swan Lake, but came back to tell narat drivers say that their minimum price is 120 yuan, narat can be separated from the driver, taking into account two groups of customers that we pull , so I agreed. But the next morning, that the local or the driver has come, the night before the original Xiamen later called him to say no, he did catch a late train again soliciting outside do not know. A result, he came and very angry, thought it was a deliberate mix of drivers narat, originally reluctant but agreed to 120 yuan to Swan Lake, while the narat the driver of that car has broken that morning Dabu Zhao fire, so that eventually the local drivers to go. At noon, he came back Shihai residual gas disappeared, said the bottom line here is that Heaven ehu chartered 150. 120 him to pull the afternoon we went to, he does not want to do. The driver of the second day that narat very lost and depressed, but also asked me to help him cart ignition, nine more left, the afternoon that we do not want to do business. In fact, very good to others, is a nice and simple young man.
Y from Swan Lake, said after coming back and we still have to go with Dunhuang, eating lunch Ru Yuan H let her eat the so-called specialty, in fact, that the fishes in a long time, is not new. The fish looks a bit like the Qinghai Lake, the fish without scales, or the same kind of bar.
As early as Xinjiang, many heard that is not allowed when the local train, passengers do not take things too hard to open when the less. Am the next morning go out to buy a ticket to go and static county noon meal turned out really matter since everybody heard car is a human being becomes only open, but when there is a bus stop at the station entrance, can it wait until that time not open as early train? Also heard that many people will be more open at noon, when a bus. I am worried and static too late to sit on the same day to leave the train in Xinjiang, but also chartered to hear is not very expensive, so I ask a restaurant owner's husband, women (in uniform wearing a large cap of the people) to help us to refund in preparation for the first 2 days to see how to get the situation to be determined. Swan Lake at night we came back with him to listen to Y that refund, and selling of votes to say no retreat, where they should be chartered to go through the formalities, tickets can be when the money is really a bit confused. Later, about, in fact, is not chartered and that we begin to hear the price.
Out of a restaurant when their chartered tour met a woman in Xinjiang, H say, take the ride on her to Swan Lake (Hangzhou, prior to the past would like to take a tour of the car, were I to stop). In fact, I do not want to take their car, do not want to a little cheaper, saving you some money, have lost the freedom of movement, in particular I am determined to wait to see the sunset, although they also said that want to see, but not necessarily have patience and not be half-way change their minds. If you want to go so far can not see to see, that left regrets on the larger. However, H has been said OK, no way. The man is also a Xiamen, 30-year-old age, with a more than 10-year-old boy, they really do not see what is the relationship, they also say a very mysterious look. To explain why she did not go with colleagues, said that so far the place to go, if we together must accommodate each other and can not play according to their own wishes, it's too painful, and it grew more and more sense then.
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When to see a swan I have some doubts that we are headed in the wrong way. That driver is to Urumqi, and he took us first observation deck of the Swan, and then from there into the Swan Lake. I have heard that morning to see the roadside Y swans, and we can only telescope difficult to "capture" to the naked eye, seem a distant 12 points became the White Swan. Swan Lake is a piece of prairie wetlands, the above water into the pond, watercourse vertical and horizontal. Some water is still hidden. Look inside all the way to go, we must keep jumping and the Bypass, but still inevitable step on the foot mud. Some grass is a flexible, hard-top is dry grass, and the following is ooze, a very strange feeling to walk on, fearing too much force will be Xianxia Qu. Heard that last year was a drought, very little water and grass than in previous years did a lot, or else people can go riding. Swan did not see the mosquitoes again Cheetos, where we did not stay too long.
By viewing Kaidu 9 18 Bay hill and found that we have come too early. Xinjiang is almost six o'clock the sun still in transit, but I want to watch the sunset, until the sun sets and even more than nine hours.
Swan Lake on the water merged into a river, stream, under the hill like a flutter of ribbons, symmetrical bent forward, looking down at the mountains, grassland boundless, shining river, the water birds played out, the river riding Shepherd just like in Phantom of the Opera, illusory plausibility.
Riding companions went. Sky clouds gathered, the sun can not see, and the grasslands flickering in some places in the bright sun, in some places in the dark shadow. Hill upwind large number of mosquitoes, a little cold, peer into the foot of the mountain shelter from the wind Xiamen, said that the weather is not very good might not see the sunset, we must go first. I am worried that things can indeed happen, but I have to other peers in the hilltop grounds of a very patient waiting for, just to that moment.
While a black cloud rains east of the distant misty change up, it is in the rain. Erected a saw rather than the usual tiling of thin Didi De flew to the side of the hill, like a veil, but also as one drapes while flying side of the thinning, I think it was a rain clouds, it flew over the place must have been raining, but fortunately, did not fly to my head on the dispersed.
A few hours of waiting finally the sun brighten the evening, flying clouds, the sunset in our eyes. Xiamen originally thought it was two to go, and we are looking for another bandwagon, for a ride back, but fortunately, they play cards in the following, but also another point of view with the sunset. Has always insisted to stay until sunset to see the people not the few.
Sunset 9 18 bend of the river shining golden red, white ribbons are dyed red, in fact, the entire film gives the impression that the moment of grassland are all golden. May be the relationship between season, when the sun does not fall 9 18 bent axis line, a bit less.
Back when the days have been all black, and I know at that time in the open grasslands is very easy to get lost, because the prairie there is no road, but ruts criss-cross, but after dark can not see far away, there is no reference to material. We sat for a while to open a car from the right direction, then turn it back.
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To get up early the next day to go riding the early bus and static county seat, many people, so car is basically open on time, but fortunately, we have time to buy a ticket Y in order to come along. We left the Bayinbuluke, but also embarked on a leave of Xinjiang Return Journey. The road will also go home mentality of a warm, but, I dare not look back, leaving the pace was actually less of a hurry, I do not know the road must be taken, the city's lights so people are scared.
Looking back on the road in Xinjiang, desolation of the Gobi, crystal of the snow-capped mountains, blue lake, no time to smile, I will live an unforgettable, but in Xinjiang, beautiful, magnificent, fantastic, I feel much more deeply about how much it? Perhaps, after one day, I will return.
And static way to the poor, mostly very broken asphalt road, along the way on both sides are mostly desolate land. By noon, and static, but found that trains have to be after midnight, the day the afternoon and evening schedule is rather tough again wasted.
Author: cgn12
