Serialized all the way to the west (expanded on the axis of time)
Golmud
6Ddy Mangya Huatugou --- Golmud 450 kilometers After a night's rest, we set off again. Along the Kunlun Mountains
, galloping on the highway leading to Golmud, the speed of 180 yards per hour is not too easy. The telephone poles on both sides of the road are shaped like cats, and some are like antelopes. They are standing guard in earnest, stretching for dozens of kilometers. In the northwest of August, there is no snow on the Kunlun Mountains
, but tornadoes are not uncommon at all. You can see large and small wind rolls on the yellow land next to the road at any time, and sometimes they will cross the road and float to the opposite side...
The expressway leading to Golmud City, I dare say, is the "unique" expressway in the country.
The isolation belts on both sides of the road have no hard isolation, and weeds or untrimmed green plants in the middle and on both sides grow vigorously and wildly on the side of the road as isolation. What's even more weird is that an exit will pop out of the grass inadvertently,
(It seems that it is easy to allow vehicles to enter and exit. Fortunately, the northwest is sparsely populated and there are not many vehicles).
Sleepy bugs (oil extraction machines) on both sides of the road can be seen everywhere
, we know that we will arrive in Golmud soon. "Golmud" is a place where Mongolian rivers are dense. Golmud is a strategic fortress connecting Tibet, Xinjiang, and Gansu in Qinghai and a transportation hub in western China. The three main highways of Qinghai-Tibet, Qingxin, and Dunge intersect here; the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been fully opened to traffic; the source of the Yangtze River...
Golmud is rich in natural resources. There are more than 50 kinds of mineral resources such as oil, natural gas, potassium, sodium, magnesium, lithium, boron, strontium, antimony, gold, and gemstones. More than 30 kinds of mineral resources rank among the top 10 in the country, among which potassium, sodium The total reserves of , magnesium and lithium rank first in the country. The Golmud Oil Refinery located here is currently the only oil refinery on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with an annual crude oil processing capacity of 1.5 million tons. It is the base camp for the supply of gasoline and diesel products in Qinghai and Tibet.
When you come to Golmud, you always have to taste its "fresh" drops. Filling up a tank of gasoline that has just left the factory here, I feel that I can travel thousands of miles a day, which is more powerful than the gasoline at ordinary gas stations.
Golmud is not only rich in minerals, but also wild plants on the plateau are also very famous. Among them, the nutrition of seabuckthorn, red and black wolfberry is well known to the world.
. Along the way, there are artificially cultivated goji berries on both sides of the road, and occasionally there will be "red apricots out of the wall" goji berries that pass through the barbed wire and stick out for passers-by to pick. Is it wild)
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Dairy products that are abundant on the plateau can also be seen here: dried milk, cheese, milk skin, pure milk, smooth and greasy, which are good products for nourishing the body.
Arrive in Golmud City in the afternoon. The hotel I stayed in was far away from the Kunlun Mountains. After night fell, the unexpected northwest wind began to visit. The whistling sound of the wind squeezed into the room through the gaps, raising the heavy curtains high. They were allowed to pass through the corridors of the hotel recklessly, making the doors and windows slap. On the street, people quickly wrapped their clothes and necklines tightly and disappeared into the street. I feel that if I slow down, I will be blown away by the wind, or hit by falling objects... According to the locals, it is summer, and the scene we saw is a small cass. In other seasons, hurricanes and tornadoes come to greet them almost at will, so the winter in the Northwest is particularly long and difficult.
