Walking on foot Saishiteng
Gansu-Qinghai Highway (215 State Road) by Ax the south, was a straight-line slopes up to 20 km altitude by more than 1000 meters up to about 4,000 meters, we can see the large gradient. It is said that this is the longest section of straight road on steep slopes. Highway separated by some distance the sand piled up high to prepare for vehicles not brake down with the car crash. Thereafter, the highway that runs through dangjin mouth, into the Qaidam Basin Basin. When the King of Shandong pull Qilian Mountains, western Altun pull together to form the northern margin of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau over 2000 kilometers long a haul.
Auto difficult to walk through the valley. The atmosphere inside dull again. Towering peaks. Took a dramatic turn a few degrees later, when I finally sudden Jinshan eyes now.
Jimuyuantiao, meandering Saishiteng Xiongjun of the black mountains, as the flames dance. Yamashita is the endless expanses of green grass, one lake like a mirror-like inlay on the grass with blue sky echo the colors of the Man-xia. "Cloudless blue sky," a phrase used in the scenery on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the most apt of. If the U.S. is also a shocking, then, my soul is feeling a kind never before shocking. Like the beauty of nature, like love, often can be encountered, but not impossible to. Somewhere at a certain time, when such beauty and you bump into, you seem to experiencing a spiritual baptism. This US henceforth engraved in your memory, with your life. This may be a "Departed" search for meaning lies.
Serteng Dry Lake Mountain is located in Su Hai basin between the basin and the west, cold-Town, 15 kilometers east of the east valley Ao labor. Length 90 km, 20-30 km wide and in general, more peaks in the 3500-4000 meters above sea level. The upper part of the steep slope a distance, such as roasted general, Coke was black. Saishiteng Mountains and the Altun Mountains, between the Qilian Mountains to form a narrow corridor, the western corridor is well-known huahaizi wetlands, grasslands haltang the east. Size haltang river buffalo from the distant ridge of hills and mountains to the west spit Er Kenda torrents from Osaka, but also mysteriously into the spring to form a dry lake and the Palestinian Cannes Yike Su Su dry lake. Hunan and Hubei provinces a salty one light, about 20 kilometers away.
Haltang River is the freshwater pointed River, early in the development of Cold Lake oil field, when there had been cited the idea of stream diversion West. With the gradual depletion of Cold Lake oil field, the idea subsequently shelved. Now Dunhuang were also eagerly looking forward to "drawing and Kazakhstan to join the party" project building. However, by then, huahaizi grasslands will continue to exist? Was once the largest inland lake in the northwest of the Juyan sea has dried up the memory of history, the growth in Sri Lanka's Mongolian herdsmen Torghut tribes have also become ecological refugees. Far away in the Loess Plateau and North China Plain, the havoc caused by sandstorms have become increasingly frequent over human nature, will one day obtain a passive double pay?
Yike Su dry lake of about 100 square kilometers, Pakistan Hom Su dry lake area is relatively smaller. Hunan and Hubei depth of 3-4 meters, the lake is a large number of plankton food of birds. Here, there are even more cold-west near Lake Gaskule Lake in Qaidam Basin, northwest corner of the ideal paradise of birds. In the Soviet Union dry lake geese habitat, often as many as 300-500. The rest of the plateau's unique Bar-headed Goose, mallards, anti-billed Sandpiper, egrets and other Ci.
Grasslands spread with many legends on the Su-dry lake. One version is that Su-dry lake is the embodiment of two sisters, they are waiting for young people struggling with the devil hero Altyn. Sister that the Altyn Tagh will never come back the day, shed a bitter tears; sister believed that her lover will come back and married her heart, full of sweet hope, which turned into a lake of sweet. Another version is that Su-stem is the name of a pair of twin brothers, they were banished to the Genghis Khan Saishiteng foot of the mountain, fine horses of their shepherd. Two brothers after death, into two springs, the formation of the size of Soviet dry lake.
In fact, many place names in the Qaidam Basin are derived from the Mongolian. "Eek" and "Pakistan Cannes" in Mongolian in the Department of "big and small" was intended. Taijnar can be Luke, toson, Ga Sri Lanka, translated is: princes, snowy Bletilla striata Beach, butter, naturally. The middle of the seventeenth century, and Khoshut Gushi Khan, the Department of resettlement, animal husbandry, Qinghai, brave decisions based on the Mongols as far away as before the Han Chinese nomadic grazing. Qaidam the plants and trees have already dissolved in the blood of the Mongols. Today in most parts of the Qaidam Basin, the administrative jurisdiction of naturalization Haixi Mongolian-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Out dangjin mouth, the road along the huahaizi, fish cards Tai Qaidam, and then shunt leading to Xining and Golmud. Open the map of China, only appeared to be a blank area of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Even if the sparsely dotted with place names which are in fact not a village, let alone the amount of town, just a place of identity. In huahaizi also saw traces of people lived, while in the fish card is nothing. From the Ax to Da Qaidam, 280 km of road sections, in fact, a no man's land.
OK to fish cards, clear, translucent fish Neckar River from tergun Daban Mountain torrents from the west into the case of Hai Lake. Because the bridge plus to repair the bridge on both sides gathered hundreds of cars. However, since entering the Gobi this rare landscape. Even more unexpected is that in this met a push tricycle tour the country's old man on foot. Said the old man, in fact, the upper and lower age is about 50, bearded, and a look that is a weather-beaten face. Old on a tricycle with red flags stuck in one that reads, "walking tour of China, to promote the Beijing Olympics" will be displayed. I do not know he was a publicity stunt on the Olympic Games through travel or through the "Olympic" to travel, perhaps a combination of bar. Starting from Dunhuang, he has gone through many days. In any case, he may be regarded as a true monk, and my generation of the cursory and can only be regarded as a forever live up to for this great rivers and mountains that passer-by ear.
I reluctantly looked away Saishiteng Hill figure, suddenly saw in front of dozens of camels blocking the road. Driver-Ming played a siren, which was then opened Duo leisurely pace, slowly into the depths of the bushes. The wild camel is not a bar, you know, in the Aksai region, the number of wild camels half of the total of the world does. Wild camels are a world-class treasure to protect animals, in today to see them, really Sanshengyouxing ah.
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