Get up at 8:00 the next morning, wash up and leave your luggage on the bar. When I went out, I saw that the breakfast shop was not open. Buy some ready-to-eat food in a small shop and take a taxi to Jiaohe Ancient City (19). We can’t talk about public transportation here, and the map of Gaode has lost its temper.
Go out at the ticket station of Jiaohe Ancient City (70), and there is a 10 yuan shuttle bus to take. I thought it was the one for another one kilometer, so I didn’t buy a ticket, and forced me to go back and forth for five kilometers. In the old city, you can intuitively experience a special term in architecture: earth building. The ancient city of Jiaohe is located on a boat-shaped loess platform washed out by the river for tens of millions of years. The earliest Cheshi people came here, used local materials, and dug roads directly from the raw soil. room. The whole city was built entirely in raw soil, and the ruins and buildings preserved to this day are all raw soil buildings. The latecomers continued to dig down on the site of the original residence to form a larger-scale residence. There is a unique phenomenon in the Jiaohe Ancient City. The uppermost architectural ruins are the earliest, and the lower you go, the closer you are to modern times. It is the largest and oldest native city site in the world, so it was selected as the site of China's Silk Road. Standing on the mountains on both sides of the old city, it looks like an aircraft carrier. And Jiaohe also means that the river flows around the city.
At the exit, I couldn’t wait for a car. Under the guidance of the police at the gate, I walked more than 500 meters and waited for a taxi at an intersection (15) to go to Karez Folk Custom Garden (40).
The annual precipitation in Turpan is 30 mm, and the annual evaporation is 3000 mm. No matter how sweet the grapes are, they must be irrigated with proper water. Where does the water come from? It comes from the Tianshan Snow Mountain, and the way it passes is Karez. It is a unique water conservancy irrigation project in Xinjiang, known as the "underground canal". Consisting of shafts, underground canals and dams, each underground canal extends tens of kilometers underground. It is this unique structure that ensures irrigation and domestic water in arid areas. There are more than 1,000 Karezes in the Turpan area. The composition of the name of the Uighur people is: add the father's name after the name, usually the first name and the last name. But if the surname is "Aji", it is different, that is to worship in Mecca. For example, the Karez named after "Miyimu Aji", said that he was responsible for paying for the excavation of this Karez, and he also went to Mecca to worship.
It is much more convenient to take a taxi out of here. I first went to Bezeklik Road and ate a plate of assorted pilaf, which is known as one of the four treasures of Turpan cuisine (the other three treasures are large plate game chicken, potted meat, and Doudou noodles). How can rice grains be so translucent and chewy, much better than the rice we usually eat.
I can only say one question to the Uyghur taxi driver. For example, I asked him where the bus station in Dashizi is, and how far is the bus station from the train station? He would ask you whether you were going to Dashizi, the passenger station or the train station, and finally left me in Dashizi. Then I walked for more than 1 kilometer to the passenger terminal.
Tips: Xinjiang is really big. There are two railway stations in Turpan, one is North Railway Station and the other is Turpan Railway Station (in Daheyan Town). The distance between the two railway stations is 50 kilometers. I arrived by carpooling (25 yuan per person) at the passenger terminal for nearly an hour.
I got the ticket at 7:00 pm, and the sleeper to Kashgar is really cheap, only 147.5 yuan, 22 hours. It was only 5 o'clock when I arrived at the train station, and I bought some temporary food at the canteen next to it. I found that the raisins tasted delicious when eaten with naan.
In the waiting room, I chatted with an old man who participated in the "Fujian Sunset Red" tour group for an hour, and it was time for the departure.
