Departure, the city where the Yellow River flows
As a person who basically travels all year round, when encountering big holidays like the 11th, I usually hide at home and watch live broadcasts of holiday life on Moments. But there are some exceptions this year. A buddy sent me a WeChat message asking me if I want to try a new car with him. I thought in my heart that if I tried a new car, I would drive it at the door of my house, so I readily agreed. But unexpectedly, Ya told me that I was going to Alxa, and drove his brand new Haval H9 to the Heroes Club for sand washing.
In line with the life principle of "a man who spits and nails every man", I quickly bought a plane ticket and went straight to Yinchuan!
While waiting for the plane to fly to Yinchuan, I saw people in the circle of friends constantly posting "Alxa Heroes will start again, set a flag, I will definitely go next year"
"I'm so envious of my friends who can go to the Alxa Heroes Association, I really want to go", but they don't know that I, who admired me as soon as I left, decided to go two days ago, and now I'm on my way. As a pseudo-off-road enthusiast, I also want to see what this annual feast of off-road people looks like.
When I arrived in Yinchuan, my friend had already driven to the airport to pick me up. We decided to stay in Yinchuan for one night first and leave for Alxa early tomorrow morning, because I decided to go to see the Yellow River first. Every time I come to Ningxia, I always go to Zhongwei, Shapotou and other tourist attractions. I have never wanted to see Yinchuan, a city where the Yellow River flows through the city. It only takes 20 minutes to drive from the urban area to the Yellow River. If you find the right road, you can drive all the way to the edge of the Yellow River. However, the roads are not paved, and the requirements for the car are very high. It is not recommended for ordinary cars to drive off the road. It is easy Underpinning.
The Yellow River here is somewhat different from the ones I have seen in other places. The vegetation on the edge of the Yellow River here is rich. There are actually many gulls flying around. The river water is not so yellow. In fact, there is a Yellow River not far from where I took pictures. The ferry, because I don't really want to visit the scenic spots, I didn't drive there. Interested students can go and have a look. It is said that there are sheepskin rafts to experience.
As the sun went down, I decided to stay here and wait until night to shoot the starry sky, but it turns out that although it is far away from the urban area, the light pollution in Yinchuan city is still quite serious. Long exposure will affect the starlight by light pollution, and the people of Yinchuan may like night fishing. , There was a car coming in to fish at night, which seriously affected the shooting of the starry sky, and the mosquitoes here were very strong. It is roughly estimated that I was bitten by no less than a hundred bags that night. I waited until ten o'clock in the evening, but I still couldn't see any hope. I had to take two photos and left here, and went back to the hotel to wait for tomorrow's trip to Alxa. It is worth mentioning that the road to leave is quite difficult. There is no street light on this road, and the road is very narrow. If you are not careful, you will easily fall into the ditch and get stuck in the car. If you drive an ordinary car, I really don’t care Must have had the guts to stay here so late.
Arrival, a paradise for off-road enthusiasts - Alxa Heroes Club
The road to the Alxa Heroes Club is longer than anyone else’s, because on the Yinchuan-Alxa Zuoqi expressway, our car had a series of car accidents. The car turned sharply and hit our car on the roadway. Fortunately, everyone was fine, but the side of the driver's door and the left front wheel were damaged, the left airbag popped up, and the steering wheel was locked. The car could not continue to drive. After two hours of exposure to the sun on the highway, I waited for the traffic police and the tow truck, and was finally pulled by the tow truck to the scrapyard in Zuoqi, where I stayed until evening. I was not idle when I was in the scrap yard, and I kept comforting my buddies: collisions are inevitable, as long as people are fine, and you see what happened to other cars, I think the airbags have recovered in your new car, There is nothing wrong with repairing the door.
Until the evening, the brothers from Hongjiu Cheyouhui came to support and drove us into the hero club. At this time, the Heroes Club has been closed due to too many participating vehicles, and even after it was released, it was still blocked by vehicles waiting to enter the venue for several kilometers at the entrance of the Heroes Club. If I were to describe to you how many cars were blocked, let me put it this way, when I was far away, I thought there were street lights at the entrance, but when I got closer, I could see clearly that the street lights I thought were all vehicles waiting in line to enter.
N hours later, we finally entered the meeting place of the Heroes Club. It was already late at night. Fortunately, the brothers left us a space to pitch our tents in the camp. After setting up the tent, I lay down in the tent, and my nerves, which had been stretched all day, finally had a moment of relief.
The next morning, I woke up from the cold. The summer tent brought by my friend leaked wind and sand. The temperature in the desert dropped sharply in the middle of the night. I climbed out of the tent and flew a drone to check the entire venue. If I arrived too late last night and I didn’t see the scale of the Heroes Club, I got it today. From the aerial photography, I felt that all the off-road vehicles from all over the country gathered here. At first I couldn’t figure out why everyone was here, until I saw a joke at night: A buddy invited a girl to the Alxa Heroes Club, and traveled all the way. When he arrived at the Heroes Club, the girl thought that the buddy would plot against her, but it turned out that the buddy only cared about driving to the beach every day until he left the girl. I didn't even think about why I had to drive thousands of kilometers to this place just to play with the sand.
Of course, the fun of off-roading can only be understood by those who love off-roading. I leaned on my legs in the hero meeting and watched them crazily cross-country in the sand. I was very excited, thinking that if our car There was no car accident, and I should be here at the moment, too. However, students who have no experience in sand flushing should choose carefully. After a while, I saw several buddies stuck in cars shoveling sand with shovels.
Of course, if you are not interested in sand cross-country, there are music festivals and other activities waiting for you in Alxa, but the tickets for the music festival are as high as 400 yuan, so I will give up after thinking about it. This price is much more expensive than the strawberry midi. No one else's big names.
There are a lot of people participating in the hero meeting. The result is that some people with low quality litter everywhere or bury the garbage in the desert. I think this is very shameful. This kind of behavior that destroys nature will only harm It is human beings themselves. I hope that future Alxa heroes can strengthen management.
The desert during the day is really hard, the sun is in the sky, standing outside the tent is dying of the sun, and getting into the tent is stuffy and sweating. I don’t know how other riders resist the heat. Anyway, I was sitting on pins and needles until the sun set. I climbed out of the tent and wandered on the road of the Heroes’ Association. I don’t know if it’s the custom of the Heroes’ Association or it coincides with the National Day. Almost every car is hung with a high red flag. From a distance, it looks like countless moving red elves. At this time, I remembered what I said on the Internet, "Students of the Alxa Heroes Association should not crush the Haloxylon tree planted in my ant forest." I can tell you responsibly that no car should hit the Haloxylon tree, because I am also Haloxylon trees were planted in the ant forest, but after searching here for a long time, they could not find the location of Haloxylon trees.
There are more and more people on the road, some are looking for food, some are preparing to participate in the music festival, and some are waiting for the fireworks show at night.
As the night falls, the hero will become more and more lively. The light show dances with the blaring music, and the fireworks that bloom from time to time set off cheers one after another. The car owners who just entered at this time blocked the entire main road. Strictly speaking, everyone is not in a hurry, it seems that it feels good to be blocked while enjoying the fireworks.
I also visited the Haval camp. Since I drove a Haval H9 this time, I paid special attention to Haval. Although I have not paid much attention to the domestic car market, I still have a fresh memory of the Haval footage that appeared in "The Expendables 3".
The 2020 Haval H9 launched this year, the biggest highlight of the new car is the addition of an Eaton-style electronically controlled differential lock on the front axle, which cooperates with the differential lock on the rear axle and the central two-speed TOD differential (with locking function). It has become a hard-core off-road model equipped with "three locks in one" which is rare in this class. It is really conscientious to equip a car with three locks at this price. The owner of the car who drove us into the Hero Club also said that it was still thinking about trying the 20 H9 for sand washing, but we also crashed.
Sufficient power is a mandatory requirement for a desert like the Hero Club, but too much power will also cause the car to get stuck. At the end of the day, I saw a lot of off-road vehicles stuck in the sand. When the three differential locks of the new Haval H9 face such a stuck situation, you only need to switch the gear to the low-speed four-wheel drive, and open the front and rear differential locks, and the vehicle will lock the wheels by itself. The anti-skid plate needs to be lightly placed under the wheel, and the vehicle will step on the anti-skid plate to get out of trouble by locking the wheels on both sides of the rear. And in terms of structure, the automatic locking gear structure equipped with this car is also far simpler than the mechanical differential lock, and it can also be easily operated by novices.
After sleeping in the tent of the Heroes Club for one night, I really couldn’t bear the experience of being covered in sand, so I decided to go back to Alxa Left Banner with my friends to stay overnight. However, due to the Heroes Club, the prices of hotels in Zuoqi were extremely high. , It’s outrageously high, and it’s very broken. It’s like a small hotel with the conditions of a guest house decades ago. It costs 500 a night. We finally found a pedicure shop and booked a room for 4 people. Although the conditions are not very good, only There are four massage single beds, but it is better than eating sand in the desert. Farewell to the Hero Club, I hope I can experience the fun of sand flushing as an off-road vehicle owner when I come next time.
Postscript, in fact, Yinchuan also has a literary side
After leaving the Hero Club, I thought about finding some interesting places before going home. When I searched online, I found this Yinchuan local art gallery. This art gallery is located on the west bank of the Yellow River, in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Huaxia Hetu Yinchuan Art Town is the largest single contemporary art museum in Northwest China. Forgive my ignorance, I only found out that this art gallery is very beautiful when I arrived. It may be because it is far away from Yinchuan City. Even if it is the National Day holiday, there are still not many tourists. The ticket of 20 yuan is very conscientious.
The design of this art museum is also very interesting. At the beginning of the construction, people always thought that Yinchuan really needed an art museum? After all, Yinchuan is just a city with little sense of existence in the northwest of China (don’t criticize me), and it seems that it is rarely mentioned by the art circle. But Yinchuan also has a lot of artistic atmosphere, and art full of national sense is also its unique wealth. When the designer designed this art museum, the appearance felt like the extrusion of a river bed, echoing the fact that this is a city where the mother river of the Yellow River flows through.
Because the design of the art gallery is too prominent, I even pay more attention to the art gallery itself than the exhibits in the art gallery. I went back and forth and took a lot of photos without disturbing other people.
Stopping in front of the open space of the art museum, I took a photo of the interior. The interior of the new H9 is basically the same as the old model. The interior materials still maintain a high standard. The interior color of Reese brown, this design may be a bit old-fashioned for young people, but off-road people will prefer it, but I somehow feel that this interior is a bit nice, is it because I am older. The LCD screen has been upgraded from 8 inches to 9 inches. Compared with the old model, the 2020 Haval H9 seats have also been upgraded. The seat cushion and backrest adopt a diamond-shaped grid design, and the visual effect is more classy. The five-seater version of the vehicle is also equipped with a 5-inch touch screen in the rear row, which allows rear passengers to control multimedia, sunroof and other functions.
In addition to the art gallery, the surrounding International Artist Village is also very suitable for taking pictures, and no tickets are required. There are even fewer tourists here, and there are almost no open shops inside. I took my camera and my friends and walked around inside.
In fact, the buildings in the entire art village are very distinctive. At that time, I wanted to take aerial photos to see what it looked like, but it turned out that this place is in a no-fly zone, so I had to give up this idea.
After leaving the Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, we drove to see the Chinese Homecoming Cultural Park, known as "100 Scenes in Northwest China". The Chinese Homecoming Cultural Park is located on the north side of the Najiahu Great Mosque in Yongning County, Yinchuan City, close to the Yongning Exit of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway. The pictures seen on the Internet are very similar to the Taj Mahal, which attracted us to go there. However, due to the long time spent in the art gallery, the Chinese Homecoming Cultural Park was close to closing, so we had to hurry up and take pictures outside.
I didn’t go into the Cultural Park, and I also found some extras. Behind the Cultural Park, there is an antique building complex. I don’t know if it has not been built or it has been run down. Anyway, there are almost no people to see. I can take pictures of empty people on the National Day. It is also rare.
Easter eggs, visit ruins in the desert
At that time, on the way from Yinchuan to Alxa Zuoqi, we decided to drive down the slope to play drifting, but after turning over the slope, we accidentally found a complex of buildings, which should be an abandoned film and television city. This made us feel like a treasure to take pictures in this abandoned complex.
There is no information on the Internet or on the map of this abandoned film and television city. It is impossible to guess what kind of movies or TV series were filmed here, but this dilapidated depression is very tasteful. It strongly attracts my curiosity, but these buildings themselves are used for shooting TV, so they are not strong at all. I don't recommend everyone to go in and play, and there are still great safety hazards. Moreover, there are many abandoned props and exposed nails on the roads in the city. You must be careful when driving, and you cannot call a tow truck here.
And although this place is very good for taking pictures, because it has been abandoned for a long time, there are still a lot of human and animal feces in the corner, which has some smell. After taking some pictures, I ran back to the car and relied on the air purification system of the H9 to continue my life.
When I entered here at the time, I thought that if I shot the starry sky here at night, it would be very popular. The surrounding light pollution must be very small. The only thing is that there are graveyards around this abandoned film and television city. This is a test of courage. . So we decided to go to the slope first and then study whether we should take pictures of the starry sky here at night.
The slope here is still very steep, and our trunk is still full of luggage, but thinking that the new Haval H9 has the blessing of three locks, we dared to try it, except that we were supported by a big ditch when we started, and we were in the same car. The little friend screamed again and again and rushed up the slope very smoothly. This can be seen in the video. The exciting feeling is really something that I don’t have when I am used to driving a car in the city. I began to understand why there are so many cars traveling thousands of miles every year. I drove all the way to Alxa to flush the sand.
The open space next to it also allowed us to experience the fun of drifting. Later, we decided to go to Alxa to see if there was a chance to go back here to take pictures of the stars. As a result, the car accident mentioned above happened, but I still didn’t forget this place when I was in Alxa, so I went from Alxa When Shan came out, I asked my friend to borrow another car, and we drove all the way back here to watch the stars.
But when we came here again, the weather was very bad. The cloud layer was thick and scary from the afternoon. We did not give up and waited in this ruin until it was dark. While waiting for the starry sky here, a very strange thing happened: When we drove into the ruins, we just stopped and found two young women walking out of a ruined house and then walked back quickly. We thought they might have come to take pictures, but there were no other parked cars around the ruins. It was not easy to walk. After I took pictures around, I couldn’t find any traces of these two women. I even flew a drone to look around and there were no traces of any people or vehicles. Even so, we still decided to shoot the starry sky here.
As night fell, the clouds were still very thick. In the long exposure, I could only get a little bit of starlight from the clouds, but this proved my idea that if the sky is sunny here, the starry sky must be beautiful.
In order to fill in the light for the ruins, I asked my friend to drive into the ruins with the headlights on. Another friend and I climbed up the hill and took n pictures to get this one. Only after taking this picture did we realize that the hill we are on is completely It's a grave bag. . .
After waiting for a while, we felt that the cloud would not dissipate, so we could only save our regrets for the next time. We hope that we will have the opportunity to come back here next time to take a picture of a perfect ruined starry sky. So far, my trip to Alxa in Yinchuan has come to an end. Although there have been many unexpected accidents along the way, it is still a very good travel experience on the whole. At least let me, a person who drives a city SUV, experience this off-road person I have to say that the H9 newly mentioned by my buddy is really good. First of all, I have to blow up its safety after sitting in it and experiencing an unscathed car accident. I didn't dare to think about it at all. I was afraid that the car would get stuck and I wouldn't be able to find someone to push it, but as long as I don't mess around with this car, I can basically go sand and slopes. I used to think that this kind of hard-core off-road should be driven in the city by rich and leisurely middle-aged people with successful careers, but the price of the H9 of more than 200,000 yuan is really good. An off-road vehicle is not too much." Well, the hero will meet you next time I will drive my off-road vehicle!
