In response to the appointment of the 31-year alumni reunion of the sixth class of Shaanxi Post Power Supply, the location is Xinjiang.

Although the time has been postponed many times, after the final decision, book a ticket to go.


We traveled westward along the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway, following the footsteps of Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, Huo Qubing's expedition, Tang Xuanzang's Buddhist scriptures, and Zuo Zongtang's recovery of Xinjiang.


On the 0th day, great gods from Shanxi, Hebei, Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and other places (alumni of Shanxi Post and Telecommunications No. 6 and No. 7) met in Urumqi.



The first day Urumqi----Shanshan Kumtag Desert-------Flame Mountain------Turpan


Departing from Urumqi to Turpan Expressway, looking at the Tianshan Snow Mountain in the car

Car photography, changeable weather on the side of the road, the wind and sand here are like children's tears, come as soon as you say it.

Arrive at Shanshan at noon. Shanshan is the ancient country of Shanshan in "Journey to the West", one of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, and an important town on the ancient Silk Road. It is located at the southeastern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, with Dunhuang in the east and the mysterious ancient Loulan in the south.



Snapshots of the streets of Shanshan, wide roads, clean street scenes, and the congestion of big cities that may have never been seen here.


The Kumtag Desert is the eighth largest desert in China. According to records, this place is "eight hundred miles long, with no birds in sight, no animals under it, and no aquatic plants."


According to the driver's master, it is relatively hot today, and the surface temperature of the desert must be at least 70 degrees.


A dry heat like never before

After getting off the car, the hot ground almost made our feet dare not touch the ground. In this high temperature, none of us dared to take off our coats to avoid burns and exposure to the sun.

The photography is quite professional, this is Master Wang from our group.


Looking into the distance, the Tianshan Mountains.



The sky is big and the earth is big, Kumtag is vast, in its embrace, we are so small.




At the top of the sand mountain, is it still far from the sky? ?

Let me fly between heaven and earth, a little regret, it would be great if the shooting position was lower.


Desert Wave Valley, I heard that every year off-road people hold a valley-turning competition here, it is a paradise for off-road vehicle enthusiasts.

Our handsome pot is not good at words, but he is also a poet.

mirage

There are dots in front of it that look like a city, but in fact there is nothing.


According to the local people, the dry and high temperature of the desert has a unique curative effect on rheumatism. The patient is buried in the sand for a few hours at a time, and heals after a week. This is NB's sand bath therapy.


The Flaming Mountain, we knew about it like a treasure when we were children. Monkey King borrowed the plantain fan from the Iron Fan Princess three times. . . . .


According to the driver, in Turpan, in the hottest season of the year, new cars developed by China and even the world have to undergo high-temperature tests in Turpan, so Turpan locals can be the first to see new cars or concept cars that are not on the market.

No matter how powerful Sun Wukong is, he can't escape the palm of the Tathagata Buddha.

If you don’t believe that the surface temperature in the Kumtag Desert is more than 70 degrees, here are sand nest eggs, probably much higher than 70 degrees, right? Take it out of the sand and eat it directly, but it is more expensive, five yuan each, and it really tastes different from the boiled one at home.

The Turpan Basin is surrounded by mountains, and the lowest part of the Aiding Lake, which is adjacent to the southern foothills of the basin, is 154 meters below the sea level, making it the lowest depression in China.


Turpan If a city or region has a soul, I think the soul of Turpan must be grapes. There are as many as 500 kinds of grapes in Turpan, and the total output accounts for more than half of the whole Xinjiang. There are more than 20 kinds of seedless grapes alone, with a sugar content of up to 24%.

It's a pity that we came too early, the grapes are not yet ripe.


"The grapes in Turpan are ripe, and Anar Khan's heart is drunk..." The grapes are not yet ripe, and Anar Khan's heart is not drunk, but our senior brother's heart is drunk ahead of time.


The meaning of Karez Well Point is a special irrigation system in the desert. The Karez well here comes from the melting of snow in the Tianshan Mountains and sneaks into the Gobi Desert. The wise working people cleverly use the underground undercurrent to avoid the large amount of evaporation caused by heat and wind. To achieve stable flow, in order to facilitate farmland irrigation and domestic water. In Karez in Turpan, there are more than 1,000 wells with a length of more than 5,000 kilometers.

If we talk about the greatest water conservancy project in China, in my humble opinion, it is Dujiangyan, the Grand Canal and Karez.



Tianshan Snow Water Underground Drainage

How was the karez for underground drainage dug? ? According to reports, candles were lit in the underground ditch, and a few candles were used as a reference for the channel lines to be excavated manually.

The raisin drying room in the scenic area is much more beautiful than the one on the roadside.



The beautiful Uyghur tour guide who is an intern during the summer vacation does not speak Mandarin very fluently, but she speaks it quite well.


Our commander-in-chief, regiment commander and our regiment.

The raisin drying room on the side of the road is generally built on a higher ground and ventilated on all sides to facilitate air drying.

Think about how the raisins are made in the drying room.


Casual old Uighurs

What are these folk instruments called? ? ? ?


Turpan was so strange that he put the bed outside.

After dinner, the street scenes in the city were taken along with the old Uighur man driving a horse-drawn carriage with folk music playing, full of regional characteristics.


Take pictures on the window sill on the seventh floor of the hotel, good night, Turpan! !



The next day Turpan---------Huoyun Ancient Valley-------Shihezi-------Kuitun


After breakfast, leave Turpan and continue the journey.

It may be the Folk Custom Garden, with strong regional style street scenes, ethnic characteristic streets, and car photography.

Flash shot, leave.

Temporarily let go of the memory of leaving Turpan, and look forward to the next stop --- Fire Cloud Valley


The gate, this is a scenic spot under development, and there are few tourists.

This scenic spot is named Huoyun Valley. It is said that its origin is related to Honghaier (the son of the Bull Demon King and Princess Iron Fan) in "Journey to the West". Anyway, it is not far from the Flame Mountain. Such a legend seems to be plausible. As for the specific origin, who knows pursue?


The uncanny workmanship of nature has created thousands of shapes and thousands of walls.

Looks like Arhat King Kong from a distance

What catches the eye is a beautiful Danxia landform, which is quite different from Zhangye.

The peaks are full of battles, the cliffs and sword walls point to the sky

Scenic spots under development and construction

Under the initiative of the head of the group, collective appearance

Leaving Huoyun Valley, head west all the way as planned, and the beautiful scenery of Tianshan Mountain can be seen on the roadside at any time.

The Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway, which is about to be put into operation, proves what is called "China speed" in its unique way.


The signboard of the expressway "Safe Harbor" confuses me. After asking the master, I realized that there are often mountain passes in the Xinjiang section of the Lianhuo Expressway. There are safe havens in the low-lying places near the tuyere. Stand up.


When it comes to Xinjiang’s famous food, you can’t bypass spicy chicken, which is just like going west to Urumqi and you can’t bypass Chaiwopu. The spicy chicken street in Chaiwopu Town. Meal = spicy chicken + deadly big Wusu beer, huh, huh.

Go westward along the Lianhuo Expressway, the main artery of the "Belt and Road"

thriving

The car came to Shihezi, got off the expressway, and the old classmates who had been waiting at the exit of the expressway were waiting for us.

Shihezi street shooting

Shihezi, a famous military reclamation city in China. This is a new chapter in the human miracle of turning desert into oasis written by the Xinjiang Construction Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.


In the Military Reclamation Museum, we stared at the statue of the older generation of revolutionaries, General Wang Zhen, remembering the past of the 359 brigade to Nanniwan, the liberation of Xinjiang, and the development of Xinjiang. We paid tribute to the old general and praised this Gobi pearl.

casual street shooting

Old classmates who have graduated for many years reunite, and brothers and sisters reunite after years of absence. There are always endless classmates and colleagues, and endless love for Fufeng-Shaanxi Post.


The third day Kuitun----Salimu Lake-----Guozigou


Sayram Lake is the mountain lake with the highest altitude, the largest area, and beautiful scenery in Xinjiang. It is also the place where the warm and humid Atlantic air flow lasts, so there is a saying of "the last tear of the Atlantic Ocean". But how did it become tears? ? ? ?

Sailimu Lake, known as "Clean Sea" in ancient times, is located in the North Tianshan Mountains in Bole City, Bortala Prefecture, Xinjiang

Sailimu Lake used to have no fish. In 1998, cold-water fish such as whitefish and whitefish were introduced from Russia for breeding. Now it has become an important cold-water fish production base in Xinjiang. In order to keep the freshness of the white salmon here, it must be transported to the tables of high-end restaurants in big cities such as Beijing for 12 hours, which is expensive.

The Sailimu Lake Scenic Area is divided into 6 functional areas including the scenic area around the lake, the grassland nomadic customs area, the ecological landscape conservation area, the swan and other rare bird habitat protection area, the tourism comprehensive service area, and the original ecological environment preservation area. .

This is a paradise for friends ----- strange and familiar encounters and reunions

Here is a paradise for lovers to express their heartfelt feelings and accompany her (him) to watch the sea

The vows here are sure to work

Let him (her) accompany you forever ----- forever


Guozigou


Guozigou is the natural gateway of the Ili area, and it is a famous canyon channel that goes north to Sailimu Lake and goes south to the Ili River Valley.



Because of its pleasant scenery, it is known as "the first scene in Yili" and "a wonderful wonderland". The ancients wrote poems and praised it as "the strangeness of mountains and rivers is comparable to that of Guilin, and the strangeness of cliffs and rocks is better than that of Yanyan".

The yurt in the distance of the canyon is our residence.


The terrain of Guozigou is dangerous and it is an important section of the Wuyi Highway.


Guozigou Bridge is the first highway steel truss cable-stayed bridge in China and the highest bridge in Xinjiang


The bridge and the natural scenery of Guozigou are ingeniously integrated, becoming a model of harmonious integration of engineering buildings and natural scenery, and a beautiful scenery on the way from Sailimu Lake to Yining.

The enthusiastic Kazakh elder sister who is good at singing and dancing invited me to dance with them. I was so scared and clumsy that I quickly dodged...

After arranging accommodation in a large yurt, I took a few sketches. What are these plants called? ? ? ? ? ? ?


Enthusiasm is everywhere. The young junior who works locally sent a few high white salmon, a special product of Sailimu Lake, and a meal of binge drinking is indispensable. I came to the place where the wine was full Outside the yurt, listen to the trickling stream and look up at the starry sky. . . . .

The star track, the track is a little short

Milky Way, the long-lost Milky Way



Day 4 Lavender Manor------Ili------Zhaosu

A new day begins with romance and lavender.

Viewing location: Liucaogou, Balian, Sixty-five Regiments, unfortunately, I missed the first flowering period (two flowering periods per year)


Yili, Xinjiang is the largest lavender production base in the country and enjoys the title of Eastern Provence.


It accounts for more than 95% of the country's total output; together with France's Provence, Japan's Hokkaido, and Russia's Caucasus region, it has become the world's four major lavender producing areas.


Watch how the blossoming purple elves dance on the branches, watch how the tiny flowers turn into fragrant essential oils, and look for the legendary love bred in the romantic purple...


For travel enthusiasts, there are three roads that must be taken in Xinjiang. If you don’t take the Duku Highway, you don’t count as having been to Xinjiang, if you don’t take the Yizhao Highway, you don’t count as having been to Yili, and if you don’t take the Desert Highway, you don’t count as having been to Southern Xinjiang.

Yizhao Highway

When I passed Yili, I thought of Lin Zexu, who was ostracized by the imperial court after the Opium War. The greatness of Lin Zexu lies in the fact that he has done a great event and a great small event. The major event is the well-known boycott of opium and the sale of cigarettes in Humen, and the minor event is the chance to recommend Zuo Zongtang and give him a map of Xinjiang, which made Zuo Zongtang great in regaining Xinjiang (purely personal opinion). Group activities, too late to go to Lin Memorial Hall, goodbye, Yili.

Yili River Valley under the bridge


Yizhao Highway No more grinding, above picture

Yizhao Highway Peak----Baishi Peak

Zhaosu County is located in the southwest of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, a high intermountain basin surrounded by mountains in the hinterland of Central Asia. Located on the border, the west borders with Kazakhstan, and the border is as long as 220 kilometers.

Zhaosu Racecourse


Zhaosuma, also known as Zhaosu Tianma, has a handsome appearance, a tall and burly body, and a sturdy body. According to legend, Genghis Khan collected a large number of Zhaosu Tianma to conquer West Asia. In addition, in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Lu Bu's Chitu Horse is said to have originated from this.


Day 5: Zhaosu ----- Turks --- Kala Jun Grassland ----- Turks


roadside scenery

This horse is estimated to be worth a lot, check its account.

It is too common for sheep to rule, and they are the masters of their territory.


Tekes County belongs to Ili, and the Tekes River runs through the whole territory from west to east.


Tekes County is the only Bagua city with complete and formal buildings in China, and it is also a famous historical and cultural city.

Tekes County in Xinjiang is famous for its Bagua layout. There are no traffic lights on the road, so Bagua City has become a city without traffic lights.

Legend has it that Tekes Bagua City was first laid out by Qiu Chuji, one of the Seven Masters of Quanzhen Taoism in the Southern Song Dynasty (mentioned in many martial arts novels). At that time, Qiu Chuji, a real person from Changchun, went to the Western Regions at the invitation of Genghis Khan. When he passed the Tekes River Valley, he was moved by the mountains and rivers here, so he arranged this Bagua City. Bagua City is radially circular, and the street layout is like a magical maze, with roads interlinked and streets connected.

The taxi in Tekes County is the cheapest in China, as long as you don’t leave the county, the taxi will be three yuan. so cheap I can hardly believe it

It's a pity that if you use a drone, you can take a full picture.


Kala Jun Grassland


The grass is luxuriant and green, like a stretched blue carpet


"Kara Jun" is a Kazakh language. "Kara" means dark, rich and vast, and "Jun" describes the dense appearance. Literally, "Kara Jun Prairie" can be translated as a vast grassland .

It's cold, poor unlined clothes I'm still wearing...


The grassland is located in Tekes County in the Ili River Valley of Xinjiang, and belongs to the transition zone from the West Tianshan Mountains to the Ili River Valley

The grassland is like a green ocean, and the snow peaks of the Tianshan Mountains are misty behind the grassland.

The legendary human grassland, I don’t know which great god gave this name----inexplicable

Shanshui Ferry


The scenery is very good, but the sky is not beautiful and the visibility is too low


Day 6 Turks via Nalati on the Duku Highway ------ Swan Lake ------Bayinbulak


Turks set off and passed Nalati. The driver said that it was similar to Kalajun. The commander-in-chief and the head of the regiment agreed that they would not go to Nalati again. The whole regiment supported it.

After Gongliu, the roadside fruit stand, the price is cheap, the fruit is fresh, buy it. . .

Binge eating, different places and environments, different moods, will definitely give you different feelings. . . . .

Coming soon to Duku Highway mark

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The Xinjiang black-headed sheep in the Bayinbulak prairie can walk freely in the snow and have strong resistance to cold and disease.


Enter the Duku Highway, cross the Tianshan Mountains, and enter the flat area. What you see is a large area of ​​sheep, echoing the white clouds in the sky.

The commander-in-chief said that the Bayinbulak black-headed sheep ate a hundred flavors of traditional Chinese medicine, and what they pulled out was Liuwei Dihuangwang. Therefore, the price of black goat meat is also very expensive.

Enter Bayinbulak Town

Bayinbulak Grassland is located in Bayinbulak District in the northwest of Bayingoleng Mongol Autonomous Prefecture and Jing County. It is in the alpine basin in the middle of Tianshan Mountains, surrounded by snow-capped mountains.



There is not only a paradise surrounded by snow-capped mountains, the Kaidu River with "nine bends and eighteen bends", but also the elegant and charming Swan Lake.

After purchasing the ticket, transfer to the scenic bus and arrive at Swan Lake first

Then to the grassland in the hinterland of Bayinbulak


Remember this one called Money River, like? ?

Nine bends and eighteen bends, when the sunset is approaching, the viewing platform is too crowded, and everyone wants to take such a beautiful scenery home

In fact, the sunset position is northerly this season, and the best time to shoot (appreciate) the sunset has been missed.

In the evening gathering, Dian Jiu's younger brother was waiting here. A miracle happened. The roommates who used to share the same dormitory met by chance 29 years later. They called each other by their first names, hugged each other, and cried. . . booze. . . .

At about two or three o'clock in the morning, the senior brother who was drunk was still excited, came to my room and knocked on the door, and asked me to teach him how to take pictures of star trails. After I helped him set up the camera, the senior brother's work was better than mine.

After getting up early, we will start the trip to northern Xinjiang along the Duku Highway, the next part will be continued.

Tips for the main scenic spots in the next article: Duku Highway, Bee Town, Qiaoerma, Karamay Devil City, Baisha Lake, Colorful Beach, Hemu, Kanas, Beitun