It was two years ago that I took the Northwest Great Ring Road. I had already given up sorting it out. A few friends were going to drive by themselves during the Dragon Boat Festival. Let’s write a code for future travel guys. It’s not a big problem.

It is impossible to memorize in my head, in case I have to code something someday, so I have always had the habit of recording my journey.

It's very interesting that when you open it again, those times you thought you had forgotten will slip out from the tiny corners and take you back.

If you like to travel or have questions about this itinerary, you can also directly add your personal V letter: ailsaliup.

Travel reference:

The total cost of the trip: about 5000

Shanghai-Lanzhou round-trip ticket: around 1200

Chartered car fee: about 1400

 

Qingming is a 3-day long holiday. As the old rules, please spend 3 days and 8 days. I can’t remember the details of the cost, but I can only recall a general idea. We booked a 7-seater car, including 5 drivers.

Route itinerary:

Day1: Shanghai - Lanzhou

Day2: Lanzhou - Xining - Kumbum Monastery - Qinghai Lake - Black Horse River

Day3: Sunrise at Heima River - Chaka Salt Lake - Delingha - Dachaidan

Day4: Dachaidan - Water Yardang Devil City - Dunhuang

Day5: Dunhuang - Mingsha Mountain / Crescent Lake - Mogao Grottoes

Day6: Dunhuang-Jiayuguan-Zhangye Danxia Geological Park

Day7: Zhangye - Qilian Prairie - Xining

Day8: Xining - Lanzhou

Day9: Lanzhou - Shanghai

A few thoughts before leaving:

There were 4 girls in the whole itinerary + Kong Ge, the chartered car master. There was also a little brother from Beijing who was rejected because of overtime work. I originally planned to pick up another person to drive with 6 people, but finally changed to a chartered car and a snake service.

My best friend and I were in a group. Before the trip, I picked up Zhu Zhu and Yueyue, two girls who work in the museum. They set off at the same coordinates in Shanghai. Before the trip, the four star dads got together once, got to know the teammates, and made a general itinerary. 

Zhu Zhu and I are responsible for the photography of the whole trip. We hit it off and we hit it off. There is nothing that cannot be solved by taking pictures during the trip.

What they repeated the most during the journey was "this one looks good" and "that one I want to shoot".

(I really like her picture, wow, cute)

Yueyue is a very quiet girl who likes history. She can watch for a long time in a formation hall of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

I managed to get the title of "Six Master" on the way, and I also want to be a weak little girl, but my strength doesn't allow it, huh.

Day1: Shanghai - Lanzhou Airport - Lanzhou Railway Station

My best friend and I dragged our luggage to the airport directly after get off work. We met a super enthusiastic uncle on the plane. He heard that we were going to play in the Northwest. Amway ate food along the way. He said that he could find a noodle shop at random, and the taste was very good. His demeanor It can only be described in two words: pride.

Rush from the airport to the train station, stay overnight in a hotel near the train station, and a small restaurant next to the hotel. The first meal was well received.

Day2: Lanzhou - Xining - Kumbum Monastery - Qinghai Lake - Black Horse River

The train departs for Xining in the morning, and the backlight when it enters the station makes me feel beautiful. The morning light is a magical thing, as long as I see it, I will be inexplicably happy, and it will be another day full of energy.

The big troops gathered in Xining and officially started our loop tour.

As a competent motion sickness party, dimenhydrinate tea tablets are necessary for traveling, which is a good medicine for motion sickness dogs. Take one tablet every day, and you will feel refreshed and refreshed.

First stop, Kumbum Monastery.

The White Tower landmark that many people clocked in on the Raiders, waited for a long time and finally took a photo of this visit.

In the Tibetan area, the deepest feeling when entering a Buddhist temple is the piety of the worshipers. Many places do not allow photography, so there is no photo record.

Turning around the prayer wheel three times will bring good luck, and the four of them spun three times around different prayer wheels one after another.

Because I don’t have any religious beliefs, I don’t usually make wishes when I enter a Buddhist temple. If I make a wish, it’s probably about the prosperity of the country, the people’s safety, world peace, etc. Anyway, it sounds a bit silly.

Red brick and tile walls, murals in Buddhist halls, butter flower sculptures, and random concave shapes where you can take pictures are all easy.

all the way west.

On the way to the unknown small pagoda temple, perhaps every piece of prayer flag carries the small wishes of the people who passed by. In this boundless mountain, if it is blown by the wind, it must be realized.

Qinghai Lake in April is a vast expanse of white, which is especially suitable for making dumplings on the lake. What does that mean?

The lake was covered with ice that was neither thin nor thick, and many of the dead brothers walked to the lake a little further away, duang duang duang on it.

Then gloriously fell into the water, and there was a burst of cheers and laughter all around. This is probably the unbearable lightness in life, spread your hands.

The boundless sky is my love. At this moment, I must shake off one of the aunt's silk scarves.

The result of being too rampant is that the jumping is a little hypoxic, oh, high reflexes.

How do self-driving friends get into this place? Let's go, turn right somewhere on the main road? Or see if there is a fixed point for navigation, because it is a chartered car, so there is no management of the route.

Be careful not to bump into the sheep bleat and moo that appear at any time. 

By the way, sheep baa baa is really delicious, Zhu Zhu said, it would be perfect if it had yogurt.

It was really cold at night, so I stayed overnight in Heimahe Town. 

Day3: Sunrise at Heima River - Chaka Salt Lake - Delingha - Dachaidan

Waking up early in the morning to wait for the sunrise, it’s a rare day to get up early to watch the sunrise, anyway, it’s freezing cold, so let’s pretend to wait for the sunrise.

Chaka Salt Lake, most of the articles described in magazine articles are one of the 10 places a person will go to in his life, paradise on earth, etc., and the sky of other people’s homes.

In the salt lake of our family, the lumbar disc is concave and protruding, and this is the only way to go.

Even the picture above is someone else's. The weather is beautiful, it is cloudy, and the sky does not exist. Our group of 4 is red and purple.

A group of people shivered and posed in human poses for a long time on the dark and dark lake. They were all here, and the momentum could not be lost. It was my turn to play with the big silk scarf.

After the concave, leave.

Entering Delingha is basically coming to the Gobi from the snow-capped mountains. The speed of 160 yards per hour is not empty, and it is so empty that there is not even an ant.

However, the air is so dry that it explodes. I used to wear a mask every other day, and then I have to hydrate like crazy every day, just like a few small fishes walking.

Brother Kong was very enthusiastic. When he saw a couple parked on the side of the road in no man's land, he stopped and asked, what's the matter?

The uncle said that there was no signal after following the navigation, and he didn’t know where to go. Brother Kong told them the general direction, saying that this generation is no man’s land, and it’s normal to have no signal, blah blah blah.

Overnight in Dachaidan, the four of us went to eat an unauthentic buffet hot pot at night, um, it really wasn't delicious.

Day4: Dachaidan - Water Yardang Devil City - Dunhuang

Passing the most beautiful road, I originally wanted to find the section of the road in the picture, but it turns out that this is absolutely p, so that we ran back and forth several times, but couldn't find it.

In fact, it is almost reddish purple. Although it is not as exaggerated as the picture above, it is also a good-looking level of hin.

(Well, my jumping ability is really good...)

It's just that the pictures can't capture one-tenth of the beauty of the real thing.

(Burst a beautiful photo of our Zhu Zhu)

Yadan Devil City on the water, I want to blow it up, really.

Here you can see the perfect combination of deserts, lakes, and hills in a harmonious way that you can't imagine.

On one side is the desert, on the other side are large and small hills and lakes.

Find a view of God, is it super like the Sphinx.

Please ignore the autumn clothes that I frequently appear in the photo. When I went there, it was basically in its original state. I saw a lot of buildings under construction, and there were no tickets.

It is estimated that after the commercialization is formed later, it will start to charge.

When listening to the workers chatting, some of them had accents like their hometown, and they chatted a few words casually. They were really fellows and kind.

Water Yardang Devil City, many people will miss it because they are in a hurry, because if they want to take the big ring road, it will take at least 500 kilometers to go back and forth to Devil City (if I remember correctly).

But if there is time, promise me, you must go, it is worth it.

In the afternoon, I arrived at Dunhuang, the place I miss the most. Before I entered the urban area, I was attracted by the large peach blossom forest.

Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms Alas, standing row after row on the edge of the desert, this piece of yellow sand is also alive, and finally has the breath of spring.

Strolling around the city, "playing the backhand plucked strings freely, the rhyme of the prosperous Tang Dynasty has been flowing for thousands of years", playing the pipa flying in the sky, isn't it beautiful?

I encountered a very cute episode at dinner at night. I found a delicious hin noodle restaurant on the Internet. The owner is also very nice. This is the one.

Usually when I meet interesting or interesting people during the trip, I will take a picture of them as a souvenir, so I said during the meal:

"Boss, I want to take a picture with you."

"Sorry, I'm already married."

? ? ? ? ? ? I? ? ? ? ?

"I also have a boyfriend..." (I did at the time, um)

The group of 4 laughed wildly before explaining, "I mean, I want to take a photo for you and recommend it to you later."

This stalk really feels like it can be laughed for a year, boss, we are all decent girls. I don’t know if the proprietress is here, will she be moved after seeing it, hahaha.

Day5: Dunhuang - Mingsha Mountain / Crescent Lake - Mogao Grottoes

Dunhuang, the most in the Northwest, my favorite place, the desert is solitary and the smoke is straight, the long river is setting the sun, it is really beautiful.

Mingsha Mountain, the same place as the painting, I still remember that when I just arrived at the gate of Mingsha Mountain, I happily played a video for my mother, saying, Mom, look, the Dunhuang desert is so beautiful.

Buy tickets, make red shoe covers, enter the door, and ride a camel.

Oh my god, the camel is too cute, arrogant and laughing.

(Camel n continuous shooting, I really like it)

The uncle who led the camel saw us and took a quick shot, saying that he was used to seeing us. Children from the countryside have never seen the world.

Things like sandstorms come and go, but it's not a big problem, and it doesn't affect our fun.

In fact, the whole person has been poured with a lot of sand.

Because of the sandstorm, it was not clear when I took pictures of Crescent Lake from the top of the mountain.

The red dress is borrowed from Ms. Zhu Zhu, with a grateful heart, the desert matches the red dress, oh my, it looks good in any photo. 

It's time to present my red gauze scarf series, Taobao hits, you deserve it. . . .

Speaking of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, I think of a joke on the Internet.

 

Two people quarrel:

"You are from Dunhuang, right?"

"how?"

"There are so many murals (beeps)"

(It’s not unreasonable that silk scarves can become aunt’s photo weapon)

The murals of Mogao Grottoes are really shocking. I can’t help but sigh the wisdom and craftsmanship of the ancients. I won’t introduce more about this part of the content. If I introduce it in detail, I have to go to Baidu.

In short, there are both admiration and regret. I hope that these histories can be preserved for a longer period of time. When countries have conflicts, these millennium-old civilizations will not be harmed.

Each stone gate leads to one or more grottoes with murals, each with its own story and color.

The more we are busy appreciating the historical traces, Zhu Zhu and I are busy recording the beauty.

Pretending to look back inadvertently, pretending to be artistically spinning and jumping, in fact, they were NG many times, and the photos came out as they were made.

Mogao Grottoes, the highest in the world, we have a chance to meet again. 

Day6: Dunhuang - Jiayuguan - Zhangye

Jiayuguan is also known as "the first pass in the world".

It is mainly the Great Wall, forts, shooting ranges, etc. It is said to be the traffic fortress of the ancient "Silk Road", a place that is more militarized.

Just post some pictures, for a human being who doesn't know much about history, the only thing left to visit the ancient city is to look at the scenery.

Everyone pay more attention to historical knowledge, at least you can talk about it when visiting historical sites.

Not like me, that's all.

so.

That's it.

Overnight in Zhangye.

Day7: Zhangye - Qilian Mountains - Zhuoer Mountain - Xining

Departure to Zhangye Geopark early in the morning, "Colorful Zhangye" is not called for nothing.

I checked on the Internet and said that the reason why Danxia has such a colorful landform is that its red sandy conglomerate was formed by long-term weathering, stripping and water erosion. Tertiary.

The ancient civilization gave birth to a simple and simple people.

When we went, Brother Kong said that it wasn’t the best time when you came, and it was cloudy, so you couldn’t take the shocking effect.

On the road, I was given a routine by a "northern lone wolf". When it saw something in your hand, it ran after you.

Leading the way is fun, the thief will act like a baby, play with us all the way, give it the food, and then tell it that you can't see it.

Turn around and leave, leave, leave without looking back. . .

When I went down, I saw it acting coquettishly and cutely with others, my old swan, just to make a living, are you going to betray our feelings like this?

This is when it wags its tail at the other aunts, no, I'm an emotionless beggar killer.

My friend said, if I meet this dog this time, I will say hello to him for you. . . I hope I can see you again this time, and see you gain weight.

After visiting all the observation decks, I set off directly back to Xining. I planned to stay overnight in Qilian Mountains for a day, but because there were no rape flowers to see, I went straight to Xining. I took a look at the prairie along the road. The sky is too high to move.

Day8: Xining - Lanzhou

I picked a literary and artistic youth hostel to settle down.

It started a day of shopping and eating in Xining, a group of four.

Along the way, Zhu Zhu kept saying that there was no yogurt, and he wanted to eat yogurt, so Kong Ge gave us a box of yogurt after the trip, and each of us shared 3 boxes.

Day9: Lanzhou - Shanghai

Pay attention to the bug. When I went to the airport, I was stopped by the security check. They said yogurt, no, refused to enter, you go eat it.

 So a group of people ate yogurt at the airport on an empty stomach in the morning. I made this cup of yogurt, and you can do whatever you want.

After eating a box, I couldn't chew it anymore, so I gave it to the old aunt next to the seat.

"Don't don't", explained for a long time before I changed from a little girl selling yogurt to oh, it turned out to be for us, so I accepted it.

Even the planes are Dunhuang Flying Dance, which is beautiful.

After staying up for several nights, I finally finished coding. I stayed up the latest night and wrote the longest travel note.

There are a lot of memories, and the stories that I thought were very short became long after being coded. I relive the time I have passed, and I hope that everyone will remember each other after many years.

 

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—Recorded on the night of May 23, 2019