After finishing the 101 Provincial Highway, Anjihai Grand Canyon, Tangbula Grassland (Baili Gallery) and Sailimu Lake, on the morning of July 22, we came to Zhaosu Tianma Cultural Park.
Back then Corps soldiers, former horse herders.
Close contact, man's closest friend.
Horses have spirituality and are very gentle in contact with people.
Talk quietly: "Hello horse, I am also a horse, and I belong to the horse".
Tianmayuan Large Stables
Ready-to-race horses and owners
Yili Zhaosu Western Regions Tianma Cultural Park is currently the best, most standardized and most internationally standardized grassland ecological racecourse in Xinjiang. There are professional equestrian sports, training and competitions, world famous horse exhibitions, and it is known as the hometown of Chinese Tianma. "Tianma" is a Yili horse with a strong body, light and flexible, and fast running.
The contestants are standing on their horses in balance. Look carefully, the horses are galloping! Look carefully, there is a female man on the horseback! (The host introduced the female contestants)
Haha, before the game started, I had a lot of fun on the podium.
(The ticket price of Tianma Cultural Park: 40 yuan, including 20 yuan for the bus ticket and 20 yuan for watching the equestrian show.)
A national historical and cultural city well-known both at home and abroad, Turks Bagua City.
Arrive in Turks on the afternoon of July 22. Turks is a magical gossip city. There are no traffic lights in the city. The streets extend in all directions and the criss-cross alleys will not cause traffic jams due to no traffic lights.
Standing in the center of Bagua City Street, you can see that there is a big stone with different shapes at the intersection of each street, engraved with the name of the street determined by Bagua. Looking at the connected roads and the continuous flow of vehicles, I am really amazed. What a feat it was for the ancestors to build the world-famous Bagua City according to the special geographical location and terrain of Turks. We were on a hurry, so we only visited the museum and the Bagua Park that introduced Turks. It was a pity that we couldn't experience it in the streets of Bagua City. Some people also say that it doesn't matter if you don't experience it, it's our first time here, haha, what if we can't get out of it!
On July 23, I went to the West Tianshan Scenic Area. As early as April 2000, the West Tianshan Mountain was identified as a national nature reserve.
West Tianshan is also called Kurdening Scenic Area.
The Kurdenin forest is lush, and the green grass is full of vitality. The fresh air is refreshing, just like the forest oxygen bar deep in the Tianshan Mountains. Everyone was elated, let go of their throats and shouted Shan!
In the scenic area, the plants are dense, the grass is fertile, and the horses are tall and strong.
Although there are many small flowers in bloom, the soft green and otherworldly natural landscape cannot be taken away.
Compared with many east-west valleys, Kurdenin is north-south, which means "horizontal valley" in Kazakh. At a glance, the mountains are green and the forests are green, and the streams are winding.
Haha, how cooperative are the dog "glasses" in the scenic spot! "Glasses" is the nickname we gave it. (It is gray with thick taupe fur around the eyes, looks like it wears glasses) We love "Glasses" and feed him food. Before leaving, I want it to be included in our photos. The owner called it over, and the baby obediently lay on its side at the feet of the owner.
In front of the towering ancient tree, I took a photo with Xinjiang Uighur friends. Ali Mujiang, a brilliant student who studied at Beijing University for Nationalities in the 1980s, felt deja vu when he met him!
Nalati's regret...
Maybe our trip was a month late, after the best view of Nalati, maybe we just went to Kurdening,
When they arrived at Nalati on July 24, Nalati was much inferior to Kurdenin. On the contrary, this bronze sculpture "Love of Licking the Calf" is full of voice and emotion, which is moving!
All the grasses are the same color, but I am the only one who is a little red. (Tickets for Nalati: included in Katong, scenic spot transportation fee: 60 yuan round trip)
Haha, the couple who often sprinkle dog food...
On the afternoon of July 24, we went to the Qiaoerma Monument and drove on the Duku Highway.
Dukuyan Road
While the vehicle is moving, overlooking the beautiful scenery of Duku
During the construction of the Duku Highway, 168 road-building engineering soldiers were sacrificed. Ninety-five percent of the soldiers were only about 22 years old, and some of them were 18 years old. If they were alive, they would be about the same age as our generation. Many parents shed tears and were unable to come to the Duku Highway in Tianshan Mountain to see their son's cemetery. Due to special circumstances when we went, we were unable to stay at the Martyrs Cemetery, but we resolutely returned to Qiaoerma again and bowed in front of the Martyrs Monument! Without the blood and lives of these soldiers in those days, there would be no most beautiful and picturesque highway today.
Heart of gratitude, pay tribute to heroes!
The Heroic Spirits on the Duku Highway
The touching story of Chen Jungui, the watchman on Tianshan Road who touched China, and his boundless love, was explained on the spot, and everyone shed tears for it.
Watch the Road to Tianshan
On the Qiaoerma section of the Duku Highway, heavy fog suddenly appeared, or it was said to be falling clouds, surrounded by clouds and fog, and it was the first time to taste the feeling of flying through the clouds.
On July 25, the beautiful scenery along the road in Bayinbulak was like a green blanket from the sky.
The Bayinbulak Grassland in midsummer is emerald green, the most primitive color of nature.
Due to the time of the itinerary, we did not enter the Bayinbulak scenic spot, and the outside of the scenic spot is still winding and connected.
working sheepdog
The road encounters a herd of cattle, sheep and horses in summer, and the transition is not only the migration of animals to live in water and grass. Some cars were honking to drive away, but we waited quietly or walked slowly, trying not to disturb them.
The beauty of the Nalati section of the Duku Highway on July 25
The grass is green and the trees are luxuriant, the mist is lingering, and the flowing water is a fairyland on earth. This is a chance encounter while traveling.
The creek along the road of Duku meanders.
In the back garden of the lunch shop along Duku Road, sporadic lavender can be seen faintly.
The southern section of Duku Highway - Dalongchi
Duku Highway, a road that makes you unable to walk, a road that you don't want to leave wherever you go.
On this road, the car basically couldn't drive, it stopped and went, and couldn't bear to let go of every scenery. Just because after leaving here, what I looked at were paintings. And when you are on the scene, all you see are the scenery.
The combination of human and landscape is more beautiful
The southern section of Duku Highway—Xiaolongchi
Arrive at the Tianshan Grand Canyon, also known as the Kuqa Grand Canyon, at 4:30 p.m. on July 25
Tickets for Kuqa Grand Canyon: Included in Kaka tickets, round-trip walking.
The winding paths in the canyon lead to secluded places, and the small gravel path occasionally has a rustling mountain spring flowing
On the cliffs, nature has left scars after weathering and erosion.
The stone walls that complement each other are in various poses and with different expressions, and the towering and steep peaks go straight into the sky.
In the canyon, use your mobile phone to take a reverse shot of the clouds and sky in the crevice of the canyon, and imagine the cute look of the cat.
The Kuqa Grand Canyon has a total length of about 3 kilometers, and it takes 2.5 hours to go back and forth on foot. The canyons are sometimes deep and narrow, and sometimes open to the sky. The entire canyon is formed by nature's wind, rain, and mountain torrents for hundreds of millions of years. The canyon is mostly reddish-brown rocks, so it is also called Kyzylya Grand Canyon (Uighur, red cliff).
The same is the Grand Canyon, we appreciate the difference between him and the Anjihai Grand Canyon. A valley peak soars into the sky, and a valley bottoms into an abyss. The different scenes are very shocking.
Daily compulsory course - good melons also have good people who eat melons.
The whole process is self-made - tomato with sugar, cucumber with sauce and radish are the best cold dishes every day.
On the night of July 25, stay at the Kuqa Hotel.
So far, our group of two cars and eight people, which lasted 12 days, arrived at the small town of Kuqa perfectly after passing through Provincial Highway 101, Yizhao Highway, Provincial Highway 315 and Duku Highway, and two of them arrived at Qiaoerma.
Depart at 8 am on July 26, and the next destination is Kashgar, a small border town. Due to a sudden sandstorm on the road, I stopped and walked at irregular times, and finally arrived in Kashgar after 8 o'clock in the evening. It took 12 hours.
It was the first time I witnessed a sandstorm, the wind was blowing in the distance, and the dust and sand were rolling in.
From July 22 to 26, we visited Zhaosu Tianma Cultural Park - Tekes Bagua City - Gongliu County - Kurdening - Nalati - Qiaoerma - Bayinbulak - Duku Along the road - Kuqa Grand Canyon - stay in Kashgar.
During the 5 days, nearly half of the time was spent on the Duku Highway. Duku is a north-south road running through the Tianshan Mountains from Dushanzi to Kuqa. It is worthy of being the most beautiful road in China. From 1974 to 1984, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers fought for nearly 10 years, of which 168 road construction officers and soldiers gave their young and precious lives. Its construction has shortened the distance of more than 1,000 kilometers in the north and south by nearly half. Along the way, the Nalati, Bayinbulak Grassland, Qiaoerma, Kurdening Scenic Spots, and Kuqa Grand Canyon are beautiful and moving. Among them, the "big and small dragon pools" in the southern section are like two crystal "emeralds", inlaid on the Duku Road deep in the Tianshan Mountains.
