Qinghai Gansu Northwest Great Ring Road Self-driving Tour
3. Tourists: 2 adults + 1 child
4. Flights:
(1) To: 2016-08-13 06:45-09:30 Capital (T2 Terminal)-Caojiabao (T2 Terminal) Xiamen Airlines MF8297 738 2h45m economy class;
(2) Return: 2016-08-21 22:10-00:35 +1 Caojiabao (T2 Terminal)-Capital (T2 Terminal) Xiamen Airlines MF8298 738 2h25m Economy Class.
5. Itinerary: Xining - Black Horse River - Delingha - Dunhuang - Jiayuguan - Zhangye - Xining, the driving mileage is about 2600 kilometers.
Six, the main cost: about 20,000 yuan
(1) Add wine to Ctrip machine: 8686 yuan. (I am afraid that the itinerary will change and I will not be able to make it by self-driving, so I only booked the first and second nights of accommodation)
The first night at 8.13: Gonghe Heimahe Business Hotel, the conditions are acceptable, the best in the local area, and the parking is convenient;
The second night at 8.14: Delingha Blue Sky Baiyun Hotel, very good, with convenient parking.
(2) Accommodation fee for the third to eighth nights: 2,590 yuan. (Both are booked on Ctrip one day in advance)
1. The third and fourth nights are 8.15-8.16: Dunhuang Yuntian International Hotel 458*2=916, very good, parking is in the backyard, and there are few parking spaces. On the first day, let’s park in the parking lot of a nearby hotel. The fee seems to be 10 Yuan per night.
2. The fifth night at 8.17: Room 425 of Jiayuguan Hotel, good, big bathroom, convenient parking.
3. The sixth and seventh nights 8.18-8.19: Zhangye Northwest Folklore Inn 398*2=796, the best in the itinerary, newly opened in 2016, if you go and stay again, the parking is convenient.
4. Eighth night at 8.20: Xining New Silk Road International Hotel 453, very good but hot without air conditioning, newly opened in 2016, large parking lot.
(3) Shenzhou car rental: Chevrolet Cruze sedan 1.6 automatic transmission for 9 days: 3969 yuan (vehicle rental and store service fee 397*9=3574; basic insurance fee is mandatory 40*9=360; handling fee 35) pick up the car 39990 kilometers , return 42522 kilometers
(4) The toll fee is about 600 yuan, and the refueling fee is 1,000 yuan
The toll fee is relatively cheap and the road conditions are very good. The car is more fuel-efficient. It costs 300 to refuel in Delingha, 200 to refuel in Dunhuang, 300 to refuel in Zhangye, and 200 to refuel in Xining.
(5) Tickets for meals, shopping, etc. are unknown, about 5,000, tickets for Crescent Moon Spring 120/person, camels 100/person; Jiayuguan 120/person, colorful Danxia tickets 40/person, sightseeing cars 20/person, Binggou Danxia tickets 40 /person, sightseeing car 20/person; Chaka Salt Lake 50/person, etc...
7. Main records
Look at the travel strategy of the Northwest Great Ring Road
On July 31, Ctrip.com made reservations for Beijing-Xining, staying in Heimahe and Delingha;
On August 1, the Shenzhou car rental network will book a car rental
(1) On 8.13, Shenzhou sent the plane to the airport in the early morning, flew to Xining on time at 9:30, picked up the luggage, and left the terminal building to the airport parking lot before 10 o'clock. Shenzhou Car Rental handled business in the parking lot. The queue was slow, nearly 11 After completing the formalities, get the car, navigate to Xining to eat at Yixin Mutton Restaurant (Huayuan North Street store), and find a supermarket to buy food on the waterway. The Yixin Mutton House tastes very good. There is a queue. There are a few parking spaces at the entrance. Those who go there are already there. There is a large paid parking lot nearby. Buy water and food at Jinsong Tiancheng Life Supermarket and load them into cars. This supermarket is on the Jingla Line. It has a large scale and a full range of things. After getting ready, we set off to see the scenery along Qinghai Lake and go to stay in Heima River. We entered the toll booth along the expressway near Daotanghe Town, and went down the G6 expressway all the way. We went around dozens of kilometers to Heimahe Township. River direction, so that you can walk along Qinghai Lake. According to people from Heimahe Hotel, there is no expressway along Qinghai Lake, and there are frequent traffic jams. Although it is closer, it is not fast. Now that I have walked through the rubber mountain pass twice at an altitude of 3817 meters, some people will have altitude sickness, dizziness and brain swelling, and it is hard to tell whether it is a plateau or motion sickness. But the scenery in this area is very good! 274 kilometers today.
(2) 8.14, departure at 8:00 am, destination Delingha. Originally, watching the sunrise at Heima River and Qinghai Lake was recommended by the Raiders, but the weather forecast was cloudy, and the first day was exhausted, so I didn’t get up early. It is true that today is also cloudy. First, go to Qinghai Lake, which is about 3 kilometers away, on a map. I went around the place called Shenghu people's house. The scenery is good, the temperature is low, and I wear long clothes. Leave at 9:00 to go to Chaka Salt Lake, and arrive at about 10:30. Chaka Salt Lake is a must-see attraction and needs sun protection. There were a lot of tourists on that day, and the small train lined up and walked in directly. It is about 8 kilometers from the gate car park to the lake and back. At 14:30, we left Salt Lake and went to Delingha, where we are stationed today, about 200 kilometers away. 17:30 to the Blue Sky Baiyun Hotel, there is a Sinopec gas station before entering Delingha City, fill up the gas, 300 yuan. Delingha City is very clean, with good greenery, and Lao Yan’s roasted lamb is delicious, especially the kang lamb chops. 293 kilometers today.
(3) 8.15, departure at 8:00 am, destination Dunhuang. It's about 50 kilometers, 50 minutes by car, and a circle around Keluke Lake. Tickets are 20 and the scenery is good. After about 8 kilometers, there is an alien ruins on the road. Stop for a while to take pictures, and then cross the majestic Qaidam Basin to Dunhuang. There are few cars in the basin, the road condition is good, and the distance between up and down is 100 meters wide? All the way to the Gobi, all the way to desolation, the scenery is very good. Passing Dangjin Mountain is a very long mountain road, out of the basin, there is a checkpoint at Dangjin Mountain Pass, traffic jam for 1 hour, and then enter Aksai to catch up with road repairs, take a temporary road, full of dirt, and a big truck in front, it is difficult Overtaking, because the visibility is only a few meters because of the dusty, if you overtake, you can’t see the opposite direction at all. After walking for a few kilometers, you finally return to the asphalt road, mountain road, traffic jam, road repair, driving tired, no photo. Aksai is a small town, clean and few people, no stop to continue on the road, out of Aksai is a desert landform. At around 19:00, we finally arrived at Dunhuang Yuntian International Hotel. Today we basically drove, but the scenery on the road was still very good, and we arrived at Dunhuang. 564 kilometers today.
(4) 8.16, 7:00, Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring today. It must be in the morning, it is said that it is very sunny, but we caught up with the cloudy day again, and it rained halfway. The hotel is about 5 kilometers away from Mingsha Mountain, and we will arrive soon. Considering hygiene, we bought sand boots online in advance, and did not rent them. . It takes about an hour to ride a camel around the door, 100 yuan/person, a team of five camels, connected in sequence by ropes, gather five tourists, and set off by one person. Children can be held by adults, and a larger camel will be selected. 20 yuan will be given on the way, and the person who leads the camel will take a photo. I used to think that riding a camel was to go to Mingsha Mountain and see the Crescent Moon Spring, but actually it has nothing to do with the Crescent Moon Spring on Mingsha Mountain. Get off the camel and walk to the vicinity of Crescent Lake, and then start to climb Mingsha Mountain. The height is acceptable to most people, because it is cloudy to climb to the top of the mountain without feeling tired. As the height increases, the Crescent Lake becomes smaller and smaller, and the desert is still very spectacular from the top of the mountain. of. I played here for four hours today, and then went back to the hotel to rest, with no mileage.
(5) 8.17, 8:00, according to the guide, I wanted to go to Devil City, which is more than 100 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang City. It was raining and I drove for more than an hour. It takes more than 3 hours to drive to Devil City, because I have to rush to Jiayuguan to stay tonight, so I gave up Devil City. There are very few tourists at Yumen Pass, and it is very empty and quiet in front of the Great Wall of Han Dynasty. Looking at the remains of the Great Wall, especially the petrified salaries, it feels very close to the present 2,000 years ago. You can also see grass sticks in the accumulated salary, which are used to light cigarettes on the beacon tower. After visiting the original road, return to Dunhuang City, after lunch, leave for Jiayuguan at nearly 13:00, take a rest in the Guazhou service area, and buy a few melons (I ate at Jiayuguan Hotel later, the feeling is average). There is no scenery along the way, and there are heavy rains. I feel very tired. When I enter Jiayuguan at a distance of tens of kilometers, I almost fall asleep uncontrollably! Arrived in Jiayuguan City at about 19:00 in the evening, had dinner and checked in for accommodation. Today (including about ten kilometers to and from Mingsha Mountain the day before) is 592 kilometers.
(6) 8.18, 9:00, visit Jiayuguan today, and then go to Zhangye. When you arrive at Jiayuguan, you still have to go to Chengguan to see it. It is very majestic. The local specialty is a kind of candy smashed with a wooden hammer. After swimming for about 2 hours, after lunch, we set off for Zhangye before 14:00, and the whole journey was at high speed. Arrived in Zhangye after 17:00, stayed at the Northwest Folklore Inn, made a reservation the day before, felt super good after checking in, very satisfied, told the front desk to stay another day. 246 kilometers today.
(7) 8.19, 9:00, Binggou Danxia, Colorful Danxia. Because I decided to stay in Zhangye for two nights, I had a relatively abundant day today, so I decided to go to both Binggou and Qicai. The two scenic spots are on the way, and I will go to Binggou Danxia, which is a little farther away, to catch the rain and not delay seeing the scenery. The tourist bus in the scenic spot runs about 15 minutes, and stops at each scenic spot. The landforms here are mainly similar in shape, and they are lifelike. There are many steps up and down on foot, and it takes about 2 hours. On the way back to Colorful Danxia, there are buses in the scenic spot, and the cars at the east gate and west gate each take their own route. The order of the five viewing platforms is different, because cloudy days save energy, we went to 4 of them, it is worth it where to come. 120 kilometers traveled today.
(8) 8.20, 9:30, take the legendary most American road G227 today, there are not many cars on the national road, the road condition is relatively good, but it is not a closed road, one-way single lane, speed is limited, especially crossing the Qilian Mountains takes up a lot of travel Proportionally, the vertical ups and downs of the mountain road are obvious, and there are many detours. From time to time, there are agricultural vehicles and large vehicles driving at a slow speed, and they have to use the road to overtake. The scenery on the road is beautiful and it is worth driving by yourself, but the rapeseed flowers are gone in mid-to-late August. Dinner was at Xining Baituo Tuigu Beef Tea Restaurant. It was delicious. I found that it was only 1 km away from the Jinsongtiancheng Life Supermarket that I purchased on the first day! Traveled about 400 kilometers today.
(9) 8.21, wandering around Xining today. I didn't get up early in the morning. After breakfast, I watched the Olympic women's volleyball final at the hotel. I beat Serbia 3:1 to win the Olympic championship. I was infected by the victorious atmosphere of the competition. Checked out after 11:00, went to Jinsong Tiancheng Life Supermarket to buy some food, parked the car and walked to the White Camel Tui Bone Beef Tea Restaurant for lunch. After the meal, there was still a long time before take-off. The scenic spot of Yanquan is actually a small park in the urban area of Xining, because today is Sunday, many locals set up tents here and have a picnic. Return the car to the airport in the evening. Traveled about 50 kilometers today.
