Depart from the hotel at 7:40 on September 24, go to the Haba River to apply for the border permit and eat Chinese food, then go to the Baisha Lake of the 185th regiment. The total distance is 334 kilometers, arriving at the scenic spot at 14:30

Enjoy the morning glow on the Gobi Desert on the way.

Get off the expressway from Bayintuohai at 8:30 and turn into G217

Windmills on the Gobi Desert

Stopped on the way to buy the last cantaloupe, the taste is still good

Entering the territory of Habahe County, the scenery on the way is full of autumn

Every plant and every tree is colored

Passing through Haba River Birch Forest Scenic Area

Farther north than northwest, farther than distant. This may be a place that local people in Xinjiang know little about, but it is here that the 185 Tourist Scenic Area in the north of the Northwest has stories that move China and amazing border scenery.


"My family lives at the end of the road, the boundary marker is right behind the house, crops are grown by the boundary river, and sheep and cattle are herded by the border." Among the grassroots companies of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the first company is the one closest to the border. Since the five army soldiers settled here in the early 1960s, more than 500 members of the Corps have been buried in the land on the Chinese side of the Sino-Kazakh border in just a few kilometers. The dead finally flowed their lives into the meandering and peaceful Arakbek boundary river, while the latecomers continued to cultivate and work under the watchful eyes of the Kazakh border guards... Their bodies are living boundary markers! It turns out that the gate of the country can be so specific and vivid.

In 1988, the Alakbek border river, which has always been mild, suddenly flooded. The flood surged rapidly and rushed towards the Chinese land. According to the international practice of taking the central line of the border river as the boundary, once the river diverts to our territory, the border between China and Kazakhstan will be re-demarcated... For this reason, all the staff and families of the 185th Regiment fought hard for eight days and nights, and finally forced the river back. The land of 55.5 square kilometers was preserved. Ten years later, China and Kazakhstan re-examined the border, and the 55.5 square kilometers of disputed land was permanently assigned to China. There are touching stories of defending the territory of the motherland here. This is the birthplace of the legend of frontier defense, and naturally it is also the place where the stories of pride grow.

Red leaves in Kazakhstan

Baisha Lake is about 800 meters long from north to north and 600 meters wide from east to west. It is shaped like a pea pod, concave in the east and bulging in the west. Baisha Lake is the only pool of deep water in the desert. The source and cause of its formation have attracted the attention of scientific researchers. The extremely contrasting climate in the center of the lake, the shore of the lake, and the growth around the lake, as well as the various vegetation and semi-arid shrub vegetation in the ecological environment, are also puzzling and thought-provoking. Around Baisha Lake, there are dense clusters of reeds, calamus and other aquatic plants as high as 1-4 meters, and there are wild lotus living alone in the lake; within 50 meters around the lake, there are tall and dense silver gray poplars, white poplars and white birches. On the sand dunes 50 meters away from the lake, there are plants such as poplar, hawthorn, poplar, and spirea.

Baisha Lake has a light rain today, but it still can't hide the suffocating autumn scenery that she only has more than 10 days a year...

Walking on the trail around Baisha Lake

The following are the autumn scenery pictures of Baisha Lake

After the tour of Baisha Lake, return to Haba River and check into the hotel. The whole journey is 106 kilometers, which lasted more than 2 hours