Yalun's trip entered Xinjiang, and after staying in Hami for 2 days, he continued to go west, heading towards Shanshan and Turpan. As the province with the largest land area in my country, the distances between cities in Xinjiang are always very far, and it is not uncommon for them to be separated by hundreds or thousands of kilometers!
This time, from Hami to Shanshan, it takes 5 hours to choose the high speed for a total of 330 kilometers. There is no city on the way. What is this concept? In Hainan, it is only 300 kilometers from the northernmost city of Haikou to the southernmost city of Sanya! Since it is going at high speed, why does it take 5 hours to walk 330 kilometers? The reason is that when I first left Hami, I walked a section of high speed and was in the state of repair.
Walking this section of the road, you can experience two high speeds at the same time! They are Jingxin Expressway and Lianhuo Expressway. Why do you say that? In fact, it is because the Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway is on the same line as Lianhuo in Hami. Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway, in the vast world, a jade-belt-like celestial road, winds from the desert frontier and barren mountains and Gobi to Beijing, the capital of the motherland. It is currently the longest expressway in the world that passes through the desert!
This is a road full of the sweat of countless workers, with a total length of 2,540 kilometers. It took 6 years to turn the Gobi into a thoroughfare. It is praised by many travelers as a high-speed road "comparable to US Route 66", and it is a road full of adventurous self-driving tour.
Our car is moving forward in this vast Gobi, and most of the time it is a single-car challenge. Sitting in the car, I have been greedily looking at the magical landforms on both sides. The endless Gobi, the continuous mountain peaks, and the stone walls clinging to the high-speed... always remind me that I am in the vast northwest of the motherland.
High-speed toll stations have caring services. The high speed built in the desert is very straight, crossing no-man's land, driving for a long time may cause the driver to have double thinking both visually and physically. In addition, there is no urban area along the way, and the supply may not be timely, so here The high-speed toll station can also provide the following 4 kinds of services.
Free drinking water, free emergency simple maintenance tools, emergency bandage medicines, and traffic consulting services are the caring services that high-speed toll stations can provide for passing vehicles. I still feel very intimate when I see such words on a long journey.
The road from Hami to Shanshan County will pass through a large windmill area. It takes a long time to walk on the high speed to pass. The experience of being surrounded by countless rotating windmills is so good. Sitting in the car, I can't help but move my eyes with the fan blades like a child.
I thought that this journey would only be the Gobi Desert with dim colors. However, when I arrived in Shanshan, the painting style changed completely. A gray-yellow world instantly transformed into a green melon and fruit planting area. Such a contrast It came too suddenly in Xinjiang, without warning, and full of surprises.
After 5 hours and more than 300 kilometers, Zhong finally saw the "long-lost" urban area, and his mood changed subtly. The reason why I don't go directly to the urban area of Turpan is because I want to pass through Shanshan County and go to the desert closest to the city in the world - the Kumtag Desert! It is the only desert in the world connected to a city! What is so unique about this city known as the "desert in the city"? Looking forward to the next share!
