Preface | Ili, Xinjiang, Kalajun scenery on the summer grassland
Xinjiang is a very attractive place. This time I came to Yili, starting from Jiangbulake, to feel the grassland; and in Kalajun Scenic Area, as a typical "alpine five-flower meadow" grassland, it is summer every year , like a suspended meadow, with gentle slopes and boundless, this is a wonderful blue carpet, at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, walking in it, as if in a painting.
Every year since late April, colorful flowers all over the mountains and plains are quietly hidden in the grass, red, yellow, purple, pink... smiling faces, full of vitality, cattle and sheep and animals inhabiting the grassland , making this place a perfect picture, too beautiful to behold.
schedule
Day 1: Arrive, check into Jangbulak.
Day 2: Participate in Jiangbulak China Tourism Day activities
Day 3: Arrive in Kalajun, stay at Kalajun Tianlu Hotel
Day 4: Drop off
Raiders | Preparation before departure
[Flights] Xinjiang is indeed a large area, so flying is the main mode of transportation. There are currently more than a dozen airports in Xinjiang, including Urumqi Diwopu Airport, Altay Airport, Hotan Airport, Hami Airport, Kashi Airport, Karamay Airport, and Yining Airport. Airports, but Urumqi Diwopu Airport is the main way to enter and leave Xinjiang.
[Traffic] Urumqi Airport is used as a transfer station, along the way to Yili, where Kalajun needs to take a shuttle bus after arriving in Yining, and the time is about 3 hours. Tips, it is best to arrive at the security check site in advance by plane, especially if you carry more electronic devices, you need to reserve more time.
【Photographic Equipment】Canon 5D Mark IV, EF 16-35mm f/2.8L III USM, EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM Stabilizer: Feiyu, Sports Camera: GoPro HERO 5 Black, dedicated to video. Drones: DJI Mavic
Tips: Regarding the charging of equipment, because you carry too much, you need a lot of sockets at night, so you must bring sockets with more sockets yourself, so as not to borrow them everywhere in the hotel, and some hotels may not have them.
Post-production: Linghroom imovie
Chapter 1: The tulips in Jiangbulake are blooming, and you will find that Xinjiang also has a European style
Jiangbulake is located in Xinjiang. It is located in Banjiegou Town, Qitai County, Xinjiang, 45 kilometers away from the county seat. The unique geographical location endows her with beautiful and colorful natural scenery.
Jiangbulake in May is already full of fragrance. There is a tulip garden in Jiangbulake scenic area, most of which are still in bud at the moment, but in Xinjiang at this moment, there are different changes every day, so the daily scenery Differences happen here and there. In stark contrast to the Tianshan Mountains in the distance, the flowers on the ground are in full bloom, while the tops of the snow-capped mountains in the distance are covered with snow. This kind of strange landscape may never be seen in the south, but it has become common here.
The tulips planted on the ground also show different appearances with different slope heights. Different areas show different colors, which makes the already rich sense of layering more layered, no matter where it is from. From the angle of view, you all have different feelings.
Along the two sides of the tulips, a wooden road spreads along the way. The artistic conception is far away, and the feeling of leisurely descending the southern mountain will actually happen in Jiangbulake, Xinjiang, which is far away. Perhaps this is something no one has ever thought of.
Different from the skies in the south, the sky in Xinjiang is so clear and clear. My colleagues and photography teachers said that after staying in Xinjiang for a long time, when I return to any city in the mainland, I feel that the color of the sky is blurred.
Although the words are absolute, but there are indeed strong ultraviolet rays, maybe you will understand that what you say seems to make sense.
Judging from the layout and design of Jiangbulak Tulip Garden, in a trance, you think you have come to Europe to experience this original ecology and natural feeling together.
If the weather is fine, you will have the opportunity to take off from the sky in a hot air balloon, see the snow-capped mountains in the distance, and the flowers on the ground, presenting the unparalleled natural beauty of nature on the green land.
The main venue of the Xinjiang sub-venue of "5.19 China Tourism Day" - Jiangbulake. The appearance of more than 50 "flash mob" performers "ignited" the atmosphere of the scene instantly, with both the melody of Xinjiang style and passionate passion.
Many people don't know about Jiangbulak. In fact, "Jianbulak" means "the source of holy water" in Kazakh. The scenic spot is located in Banjiegou Town, Qitai County, Xinjiang, with a total area of 48 square kilometers. It is one of the important scenic spots of the ancient Silk North Road.
On China Tourism Day, because the scenic spot was open for free, it attracted the attention of many people around, including some self-driving tourists and foreign tourists around Xinjiang, who came to experience the most beautiful scenery in spring and summer.
And this passionate flash mob is undoubtedly a surprise. Many people imagined that Xinjiang should be vast and vast, with mountains and deserts, but now it suddenly turned around.
This is a different era, where the young frontier youths use their dancing to show a vibrant youthful era.
The beautiful Jiangbulake, the beautiful and charming, the poetic and dreamlike Huahaizi, the quiet and quiet Heilaoba, the world's most strange slopes of Tianshan Mountain, and the idyllic scenery of criss-crossing fields, these natural beauties match with the youthful vitality and just form the It created a dynamic moment and added another atmosphere to this beautiful landscape.
Chapter 2: Walk into the beautiful Xinjiang and experience the beautiful moments of harmonious coexistence between man and nature on the Kalajun Grassland
Karaka is the transition zone from the West Tianshan Mountains to the Ili River Valley. Few people know it here, but they cannot resist the superior natural environment here. It has abundant precipitation, cool climate, and thick soil, which is very suitable for the growth of grass. There are hundreds of High-quality pasture grass was recognized by the United Nations as a World Heritage Site in 2013.
Along the way from the Tianshan Mountains, the undulating Kalajun Grassland exudes a unique charm in this spring and summer, with different distances and distances. Under the breeze, there are bursts of soil mixed with the fragrance of green grass.
It is too big here, and you can get different results from different angles. If you change the direction, you will find that you have really come to a small town in Europe, on the green grassland, dotted around, and the huts from different distances make this place full. Alien feeling.
When spring comes, the flowers on the prairie have different colors almost every day. At this moment, the blue and yellow flowers alternate, which makes the monotonous prairie monotonous, rendered with a different taste, fully reflecting the beauty of the original solution .
The beautiful girl from Kalajun, dressed in costumes, walks on this youthful grassland, showing a different kind of difference. If it is not because of the arrival of spring and the blooming mountain flowers, it will not be able to show the beauty so properly at this time.
Just like the different colors of flowers on this meadow every day, in Kala Jun in summer, a gust of wind can make people feel like spring breeze, cool and fresh. This purity from Xinjiang, close to the warmth of nature, makes people intoxicated. , sleepless and unable to extricate themselves.
When you come to Kalajun, walk up the wooden plank road and you can see the five-flower meadow. From a distance, it looks like a young girl in youth. Together they form a wonderful blue carpet, which has been spread to the snow-capped At the foot of Tianshan Mountain.
This kind of Kalajun is a typical "alpine five-flowered meadow" grassland. It is a high platform landform that slopes southward. It is like a suspended grassland. The slope is gentle and endless. very small.
No matter who it is, from April to May every year, whenever the grass here is lush and emerald, the earth is covered with green carpets, and when you look around, it is a boundless color. When you come here, you will have a glimpse of this peach garden. What kind of nature is the world outside, and how harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Continue to drive forward, all the way to the scenic spot of Falcon Terrace, which is a traditional place for Kazakhs to train eagles. Kazakh falconers are known as the last falcon hunters in the world. They are good at hunting wild animals and birds with various raptors
You can ride a horse to the end, and you will be able to see the Kurdish Forest Canyon.
The Kurdai Forest Canyon under the drone looks very majestic and magnificent. The Kurdai River flows continuously all year round and pours into the Kara Jun Lake. Walking into the Grand Canyon, the mountains on both sides are high and steep, with undulating peaks and snowy spruces all over the place. From spring to early autumn, the canyon is covered with green clouds and lush, leaving people with unlimited imagination.
The river water of the Kuokesu Grand Canyon comes from the snow peaks on the southern slope of the Tianshan Mountains. The snow water carries a large amount of calcium carbonate rock powder rushing down. Along the mountains on both sides, it can be seen that they show different colors.
From another angle, use God's vision to experience another style of the Grand Canyon.
Due to the long-term accumulation of sand, stones and mountains, Crocodile Bay eventually formed a coral shaped like a crocodile head. Calcium carbonate in the river water precipitated, and the water quality became clear. In addition, the mineral-rich water refracted with the sky and mountains, resulting in color changes. The water in "Crocodile Bay" presents three colors of milky white, emerald green and emerald green, and has "three-color wonders".
The Kuokesu River twists and turns at the bottom of the canyon, like a dragon passing through the border, and the whole process has nine twists and eighteen bends.
The mountains overlap, the rivers in the valleys are gentle and rippling, the vegetation on the river banks is lush, the smoke from cooking and the light fog in the forest, the yurts of the herdsmen are dotted in between, and the soft lines of the mountains are looming in the morning light and sunset, which is a beautiful artistic conception.
The rafting distance on the Kurdai River is about 6 kilometers, passing through 4 dangerous shoals, and the whole rafting takes about 35 minutes. During the rafting, the scenery on both sides of the bank is beautiful, with cliffs standing on the cliffs; the dense-leaved poplar, sea buckthorn and wild apricot are like green pearls strung into necklaces by the river, which is too beautiful to behold.
The rafting season generally starts in mid-May and ends in mid-October every year, lasting as long as half a year.
The melted ice and snow water of Tianshan Mountain rushes down the Kurdai River and floats in the splashing river valley, giving people the joy of primitiveness, excitement, adventure and tranquility.
Kalajun Tourist Area is located in Tekes County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. It is located at the northern foot of Biyike Mountain in the middle of the Tianshan Mountains. To Kafu Salang Village, the total area is 2848 square kilometers.
This is the northern route of the ancient Silk Road in China. It is a cultural sanctuary that combines history, culture and natural science. Since the 7th century BC, there have been Cypriots, Yuezhi, Wusun, Huns, Turks, Uighurs, and Mongols. This thrives.
Today, it still retains extremely rich historical and cultural relics, and the Qiongkushitai National Historic and Cultural Village still retains the traditional production and lifestyle of the Kazakh nation.
This is also the location of Wusun Kingdom, the largest ancient nomadic country in the Western Regions of China, and the largest horse racing field in ancient China, the "Khan Grassland". And because of the location of Tai Chi City, it has also become the westernmost place where Chinese Taoist culture spreads; as the only place in the world where Chinese I Ching culture and grassland nomadic culture blend, it is displayed here one by one.
The grasslands here are vast, with majestic snow-capped peaks, seas of colorful flowers surging like tides, and meadows rolling like waves. Here, there is a long history of domestication of military horses. Every season, thousands of horses gallop like lightning. .
When we came here in this season, we discovered that Kala Jun is so beautiful at this moment, especially these horses on the grassland, when they bow their heads to eat grass, or run up.
According to records, in the second century BC, Wusun State, which is now Yili, often paid tribute to the Han Dynasty with good horses. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty liked the excellent quality of Wusun horse very much, and named it "Tianma" in his own hand. According to "Hanshu. "Wusun Biography" records: "The heavenly horses come from the west pole" and "there are many horses in the country, and the rich have four or five thousand horses", which shows the scale of Ili's horse herding industry at that time.
Yili horses have a small and smart head, big eyes and bright eyes. Their coat colors are mainly lizard hair, millet hair and black hair. There are often white patches called "white badges" on their limbs and forehead. It has become the main horse breed of military horses in the past dynasties.
Chapter 3: Aerial photography of China, come to Yili, Xinjiang to see the largest and most complete Bagua city in the world
After experiencing the beautiful scenery and culture of Kalajun, I came to Tekes County, which is a very magical city. This city located on the border of China was awarded "the largest Bagua City in the world" by the Shanghai Guinness Headquarters. City.
The earliest historical records of Tekes came from the Han Dynasty. According to the book "Historical Records Dawan Biography" written by Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty, there are records about the Wusun Kingdom, and the Wusun Kingdom at that time is also the current Tekes County. .
At present, it is the only complete and formal Bagua City in China. Looking at it with a drone, the layout of the entire street is like a magical maze. The roads are connected and the streets are connected. The feeling of extending in all directions is very surprising.
Legend has it that during the Southern Song Dynasty, Qiu Chuji, one of the Seven Sons of Quanzhen Taoism, was invited by Genghis Khan to go to the Western Regions to teach the way of immortality.
When traveling in the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions, passing through the Tekes River Valley, I was moved by the mountains and rivers here, so I built a city in the shape of the Eight Diagrams here. This is the earliest and most primitive prototype of the Eight Diagrams City.
More than 700 years later, in 1936, Qiu Zongjun, the commander of reclamation and part-time security, was transferred to Yili. Qiu Zongjun, who was proficient in Yi learning, discovered the prototype of the Bagua City during the field survey in Tekes, and then personally designed and perfected the Bagua City. The current appearance of Bagua City is also the appearance of Qiu Zongjun after it was perfected.
The whole city is designed according to the azimuth of the gossip "Houtian map" in "Book of Changes", which is completely integrated with 64 hexagrams and 384 yao Yijing numbers. The streets and roads are interlinked and criss-crossed. "Book of Changes".
The street layout of the city, according to the directions of the gossip, the Hui mosque in Ganjie, the Mongolian Lama Temple in Kanjie, the Uygur mosque in Kunjie, the Kazakh mosque in Genjie, the ancient residence of Bahejimati in Kunjie, etc. , each with a different content category.
Such an exquisite design, for a county town, there will be no traffic jams and road jams, and vehicles and pedestrians can reach their destination no matter how they go. It used to be a city without traffic lights, so when you come to Xinjiang, do you want to experience it?
Tekes Lijie, Lijie is one of the eight streets of "Qiankun Zhenxun Kanli Gendui" in Tekes.
From the street, the existing residential courtyards are preserved to the greatest extent, and on the basis of the residential function and neighborhood structure unchanged, a leisure block integrating homestays, gourmet food and national characteristic products has been formed, forming a collection of Wusun culture, Silk Road culture, and grassland culture. The multi-ethnic cultural style block integrating Yijing and Yijing culture has become a beautiful landscape in Tekes County.
The cultural wall is a major feature of Lijie. Combining with the local cultural characteristics, the architectural style of Lijie fully integrates the frontier culture, and everyone who comes here has a different experience.
Chapter 4: Go to Xinjiang to be an energetic teenager, and go to Yili Old Street to take a carriage
Kazanqi Folk Custom Tourist Area in Yining City is the only large-scale original ecological cultural scenic spot in northern Xinjiang with Uyghur ethnic customs as the main body. The unique customs and customs of the nation.
Yili has always been a gathering place of ethnic minorities, where multi-ethnic cultures blend together. The Kazanqi Folklore Tourist Area in Yining City, the capital of Yili Prefecture, is a microcosm. Uyghur folk customs are displayed in the scenic area, and you can experience the simple and strong "Xinjiang flavor".
Walking here, you will deeply feel the strong ethnic customs. At the same time, compared with all modern buildings, the original ecology and simple taste here are more friendly.
Walking on the street, you can clearly see that the roofs and walls of local residents’ houses are mainly made of solid wood. The courtyards are large or small. Most of the homes are planted with flowers, vegetables, and grape trellises. The layout is full of highlights.
"Kazanqi" in Uighur means "a person who makes pots for a living", and Yili, a place dubbed "Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall", has attracted all of us invisibly. Today, I decided to embrace the form of a teenager. , Walking into this place, I want to find a simple and strong "Xinjiang taste".
For tourists from all over the world, perhaps only Kazanqi is enough to satisfy their desire to "run around the city in a horse-drawn carriage". They travel around the city all day long, but they can't see a horse-drawn carriage, so they find a horse-drawn carriage and sit on it to experience it. .
In Kazanqi, these two static and dynamic sand paintings fully demonstrate the history of Kazanqi. In this old town of Yining City, Xinjiang, most of the people living in it are craftsmen. They make pots, make shoes, make Copper pots are now mainly used for tourism reception.
This area still retains many traditional handicraft products, such as saddles, iron art, wood carvings, etc. In Yining City, many ethnic minority composers, writers and celebrities were born in Kazanqi.
Chapter Five: Xinjiang Cuisine, Yili’s Food Experience
Located on the banks of the beautiful Kurdai River, the Kurdai River Customs Park highly integrates the typical Kazakh regional culture and ecological environment characteristics. It is a comprehensive park integrating ecology, appreciation, entertainment, knowledge and participation type reception.
We experienced a whole roast whole lamb here.
In addition to experiencing the original Kazakh customs, you can not only taste the whole sheep mat, but also experience the Kazakh yurt.
If you talk about traveling in Xinjiang, many people will think of Dapanji in a blink of an eye, but when you arrive in Gansu, you can’t help but think of Lanzhou Ramen. In fact, it is not the case. Among the specialties in many places, there are always some niche and unique eating methods. In most cases it is rare.
For example, this delicious meal in Xinjiang is one of them.
The delicacies in the Northwest region are mostly meat and pasta, and these two are the most authentic. The taste, color, and eating method are very unique, which has become the main reason why many people like it after they come.
There are a few green vegetables. Although the logistics are well developed, compared with many production areas in the south, vegetables in Xinjiang are still very precious in winter. Therefore, when traveling in Xinjiang, eating vegetables is sometimes more expensive than meat.
And today's highlight is the ox head feast. Because it is a ox head feast, this dish has become the core of the whole table.
Half a cow's head is placed on the dining table, which looks very spectacular. Although compared to many people, this way of eating looks a bit rough, but in reality, isn't it an innovation of dishes?
But it's just for looking at it like this. In fact, when you really want to eat it, you still need to cut it into small pieces and eat it slowly.
In addition, on the beautiful grassland of Kalajun, we also tasted other local delicacies. After careful cooking, we specially cold-dressed the tripe according to the local method, which is also a more nutritious cold dish in summer. .
The cold beef ear looks very delicate. After dipping in the vinegar sauce, the taste changes immediately and makes people feel more comfortable.
All in all, whether it is local cold dishes or beef and mutton, it has become a representative of Xinjiang cuisine. It looks ordinary, but through a unique way, it makes guests from afar feel enthusiastic.
