Sometimes I want to travel to a place because I saw a video on the Internet and was attracted by the scenery inside. Xinjiang has always been a place I am looking forward to, but because the distance is too far and the area is too large, it has not been considered. During the epidemic, I can’t go out. I can only watch the beautiful scenery everywhere on the Internet. Once I saw a video of a fairy lake. , The beauty is like a scene that appeared in a dream, and then I started to check other scenic spots in Xinjiang, and was attracted by the scenery of Nalatikanas. Because last year’s annual leave was not finished due to the epidemic, and this year’s annual leave will take about half a month, so I decided to wait for my husband and children to go to Xinjiang together for the summer vacation.
Doing a strategy is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, but if you want to play freely and don't want to sign up for a group, you can only do it yourself, and you don't feel troublesome about the things you are interested in. After reading countless travel notes combined with Xinjiang maps, I have a specific understanding of Xinjiang. Then I started to plan transportation and accommodation. Because of the peak summer season, the budget needs to be a lot more. The one-way air ticket has increased from 700 to 800 in the off-season to more than 2000. Because I have plenty of time, I chose the sleeper train, and I can also see the changes in the scenery along the way. After arriving in Urumqi, rent a car. The roads between various scenic spots in Xinjiang are easy to walk, so there is no need to rent an SUV. The 1.4T Sagitar is completely sufficient, because the price rises to 300 per day during the peak season.
Day 1, July 24 - Departure
Departure on the morning of July 24th, departing from Beijing West Railway Station, it was hard to get a 31-hour sleeper ticket during the summer vacation, and only bought the middle and upper berths. The child likes the sleeper berth very much, eats and drinks along the way, plays and sleeps for a while arrive.
The next day, July 25th, arrived in Urumqi
Arrive in Urumqi at about five o'clock in the afternoon, pick up the car directly from the underground parking lot to the pre-booked homestay.
Because it is two time zones away from Beijing, the current sunset here is about 10:00 Beijing time, so it feels strange at first, and it is very suitable for people like us who sleep late and wake up late.
Compared with standardized hotels, I prefer unique homestays. From various recommendations, I chose a homestay with Uighur characteristics in Urumqi—Mujie’s Homestay. It is said that it was rebuilt from an old building, and the decoration and atmosphere are very good. special.
For dinner, I found a barbecue restaurant near the homestay, ate red willow barbecue, and drank Dawusu and kvass.
The third day, July 26, Urumqi-Fuyun County
On the morning of July 26, I basically slept until I woke up naturally. The hotel prepared breakfast, which was quantitative and exquisite. There was also a lazy cat in the store.
Today I wanted to go to the International Grand Bazaar in Urumqi before heading to Fuyun County, but parking in the urban area is too difficult. Since the parking spaces are full, the Grand Bazaar is not a must-go place, so I decided to give up and go directly to Fuyun county seat. The journey is nearly 500 kilometers, and it takes 6 hours. The whole journey is basically high-speed, and there are deserts on both sides of the high-speed road. Occasionally, you can see wild animals such as donkeys, horses, camels, and antelopes. Looking at the blue sky and white clouds above your head, you can feel the words written in the song Feel free like the wind.
Arriving in Fuyun County feels like entering a large oasis from the desert. Trees and rivers slowly appear. The county seat is not very big, but the streets are very clean and tidy. I booked a hotel in the pedestrian street, and there is a lot of food when I go out. Because There are too many delicious foods. After eating the barbecue at the food stall, I saved some stomach and went to another store to eat haggis. Go to the supermarket to buy something to eat tomorrow, go back to the hotel to rest and prepare to go to Keketuohai tomorrow.
The fourth day, July 27, Keketuohai - Burqin
I got up at 9:00 am on July 27 to pack my luggage. These days, the place of accommodation is different every day, so I have to pack my luggage and two suitcases every day. This is the most troublesome thing to get up early every day. After having breakfast in an outside store, we set off to the Keketuo Seaview Scenic Area. The journey took more than two hours. We booked tickets on Ctrip. The price was 116, including the scenic shuttle bus.
A song on the Spring Festival Gala this year let more people know about this place. The reviews I saw on the Internet were mixed. Because the distance was far away, I wanted to give up this scenic spot, but when I saw the Irtysh River, I felt that today must not be the same. Fake this trip. Arrive at the entrance of the scenic spot at noon, and you can enter the park directly by swiping your ID card. The drive takes about 40 minutes, and you drive along the river bank. On the way, you will see two husband and wife trees growing side by side. The artistic conception of the birch trees turning yellow in autumn is very beautiful.
After getting off the bus, there is a shoal full of rocks. The children are reluctant to leave after playing here for a long time, probably because this is the upper reaches of the Irtysh River. . All the way along the river is Shizhong Mountain. The color of the river below is really emerald green, flowing in the canyon. About halfway there is a shuttle bus for sightseeing, 10 yuan per person, and the end point is a small waterfall, because it belongs to the border management area, you can't go any further.
Because I still have to rush to Burqin today, I didn’t stay too long at the end and returned the same way. The weather is very good today, and the scenery against the blue sky and white clouds is really like adding a filter.
At about six o'clock, I started to rush from Keketuohai to Burqin. Most of the way was a desert road, and occasionally I could see a few camels. All the way to the west, chasing the sunset on the endless desert road, the unique scenery on this road is also very beautiful. I saw a group of camels on National Highway 216 just got off the car to take a rest, and took a photo with the camels in the sunset.
I arrived at Burqin County at about twelve o'clock at night. The road at night was still a bit scary. After all, there were relatively few people, but fortunately I arrived safely. It seems that the schedule today is a bit tight.
Burqin is a Russian-style town, and we live next to the Sino-Russian Old Wharf Street. Because the sunset is relatively late, the barbecue stalls are still open at 12 o'clock at night, so I randomly found a restaurant and ordered a pilaf, a skewer of lamb soup, and the taste was average. After dinner, we walked around the riverside and Fengqing Street before returning to the hotel.
Tomorrow I plan to go to Kanas from Burqin. The initial plan is to start in the morning, but today I am too tired from the journey and I don’t want to have such a tight schedule, so I want to sleep until I wake up naturally tomorrow, and then start in the afternoon after lunch. Traveling is to be comfortable and comfortable. This is the benefit of free travel, the itinerary can be changed at any time according to your preferences and physical conditions.
The fifth day, July 28, Burqin-Kanas
On July 28th, I woke up naturally and packed my luggage and checked out. It was already twelve o'clock. We walked and looked for a place to eat, and went to a food street. The normal time for lunch here should be around two o'clock. Some stores were not ready to open at this time, so we just found a store and started to go to Kanas after dinner.
To go to the Kanas scenic spot, you need to navigate to Jiadengyu first. It takes three hours to drive from Burqin, and you have to go through a section of the winding mountain road, so you can't drive too fast.
Arrive at Jiadengyu at about five o'clock, you need to check the ticket from here, and then take an hour's shuttle bus to get to the scenic spot. When you come to Kanas, you can live in Jiadengyu. There are many hotels here, which are cheaper than the scenic spots, but I think it is more convenient to live in the scenic spots, so today I plan to live in a small wooden house in the old village of Kanas. I took my luggage and sat down. We got on the shuttle bus and arrived at the transfer center in an hour. There are many bus lines from here, and we can go to different scenic spots. We took Line 1 to the old village for two stops. The owner of the hotel contacted us in advance and came to the station Pick us up. Although the cabin is small, it has all the necessary facilities, but the price is a bit more expensive in peak season. The boss said that the security here is very good, and you don't need to lock the door when you go out.
The nearest scenic spot to the old village is Kanas Lake, which can be reached in a few minutes by bus. We took a short rest and went to Kanas Lake at about 6:30. We started to walk back, and we waited for the rain to stop by the lake with umbrellas, and the temperature was getting lower and lower. The rain stopped after a while, but the sun came and went. We walked along the lake to the pier, and we couldn't see the water monster, we could only look at the statue of the water monster. The lake is beautiful, and it will be even more beautiful if it is sunny.
I took a car from the lake back to the exchange center. I had heard that the food and beverages in the scenic area were relatively expensive. I felt that there was nothing to eat, so I planned to go back to eat self-heating hot pot. The sun came out again at about nine o’clock. We walked to a small river next to the old village. The grassland and woods were extraordinarily fresh after the rain. Looking at the small wooden house in Kanas after the rain, I really liked the scenery.
Day 6, July 29, Kanas
On July 29th, although it was midsummer, Kanas was very cold in the morning. When I opened the cabin, a chill came in. I didn't go out until the sun rose at ten o'clock. Today I plan to go to Guanyutai and Sanwan, so I will store my luggage at the hotel first. Buy a ticket for Line 3 at the transfer center to go to Guanyutai, where you can overlook Kanas Lake from a high place, and you have to climb 1068 steps in total. Because the new plank road is being built and there are so many tourists, the road up the mountain is not easy to walk. At the highest point of the Guanyu Pavilion, you can see the entire Kanas Lake, and you can also see the pier you visited yesterday. The lake water is like a large green gem. After squeezing into the crowd to take pictures, you went down the mountain, and returned by car. Change to center.
At about 1:30 in the afternoon, take Line 2 from Changcheng Center to Sanwan. The first stop is Shenxianwan. If you are lucky in the morning, you can see the morning fog, like a fairyland. Walk along the wooden plank road for a while. Beside the plank road is an endless wooden fence, plus unknown wild flowers on the grass, forming a beautiful scenery.
Continue to take the bus to the second stop, Moon Bay. The river bends like a crescent moon. This scenery can only be overlooked from a high place. So it didn't stay long. Continue to take the car to the third bay, Wolong Bay. The small island in the middle is shaped like a dinosaur, which is very vivid. There is a section of plank road from Moon Bay to Wolong Bay, which can be walked along the river, but this section of plank road is being rebuilt, and the staff said that there is no way to go. We saw people coming from the Moon Bay plank road, so we decided to try it out. There was no one inside. We regretted it a bit, but we walked back to Moon Bay smoothly.
Take the car back directly from Moon Bay and go back to Changcheng Center, go to the old village to pick up your luggage and take Line 2 back to Jiadengyu. The hotel booked today is next to the Jiadengyu parking lot. Because the weather was too cold, we were too lazy to go out to eat, so we started to rest after eating some instant noodles.
The seventh day, July 30, Jiadengyu - Urumqi
When I was sleeping soundly in the morning, I heard someone knocking on the door. It was the hotel attendant who was telling each room to pack up and leave as soon as possible. Because of the recent outbreak of the epidemic in many parts of the country, Xinjiang’s epidemic prevention is relatively strict. I am afraid that tourists from the affected provinces will The entire hotel was closed, so we had to leave as soon as possible, because we planned to go to Hemu today, and the hotel was booked a long time in advance, so please contact Hemu immediately to see if the hotel can be received. The staff said that the policy should be the same, but you have to read the notice later , let's wait a bit. I dragged my luggage out and didn’t know where to go. I drove to the intersection to Hemu and waited for news. The result was as expected. As long as people from eight provinces including Beijing were not accepted, the hotel had no choice. Hope was shattered. I happily canceled the order and refunded the room fee.
The previous plan was to go to Sailimu Lake, Ili, and Nalati via Kuitun after visiting Kanas Hemu, and then take the Duku Highway back. Now I can only look at the policies of other scenic spots, because the policies of each state are different. , but Yili should be stricter. As expected, all scenic spots are closed, so I gave up and started to think about where to stay tonight. Back to the hotel before Burqin, the front desk said that there are now eight provinces who have to travel back, so there is no way to stay. I ate a large plate of chicken in Burqin at noon, and discussed that I could only drive back to Urumqi, so there was no delay, and I drove to Urumqi without much rest. I drove more than 800 kilometers that day.
The scenery is the same as the mood, gray and lost its color.
It was almost dark when we arrived in Urumqi, and we were stopped at a checkpoint. Anyone with problems with the itinerary had to register, and the time and method of going home were determined. It was not the detaining of the driving license for going back that night. We had to go to the observation point for inspection. Nucleic acid amplification testing. I waited until about twelve o'clock at night, and the police car followed hundreds of cars to a gymnasium, queued up for registration and then did the nucleic acid test. After all the tossing, it was about four o'clock at night. There is no need to stay in a hotel anymore, I just make do with the car for a few hours.
Day 8, July 31, Urumqi-Lanzhou
Returned the rental car at 9 am. It is definitely impossible to get a plane ticket back to Beijing, and there are no direct train tickets, so I have to take the bullet train to Lanzhou for a transit. I took the high-speed train to Lanzhou at 10 o'clock, and arrived in Lanzhou at about 10 o'clock at night. The hotel I booked happened to be in a night market street. I drank the local Yellow River beer, milk egg fermented glutinous rice, and the skewers tasted even better than those in Xinjiang. . After dinner, I went back to the hotel and fell asleep. I haven't had a good night's sleep for two days.
Day 9, August 1, Lanzhou
We booked the high-speed train back to Beijing on August 2, so we can stay in Lanzhou for a day. After sleeping until we woke up naturally, we went to eat Lanzhou ramen. Finding any one is very authentic and affordable. The Gansu Museum is near the hotel. We strolled to the museum after dinner and made an appointment on the official account one day in advance. Show the health code and enter the museum directly. There are many exhibition areas inside, and the must-see is the precious bronze galloping horse in the town hall, which has been seen in history books before. I also ate special ice cream, drank coffee with cultural relic pattern garland, and ate ice cream with copper galloping horse pattern.
After coming out of the museum, I took a taxi to the statue of the mother of the Yellow River on the bank of the Yellow River. Lanzhou is located between two mountains and a river, and the city is built along the banks of the Yellow River. Walking along the bank of the Yellow River to the Zhongshan Bridge, it was getting dark, and the bridge The lights on the street and the Baitashan Park in the distance are all lit up, and the night view is very beautiful.
Followed the navigation to the Zhengning Road Night Market Snack Street, searched for more distinctive snacks on the Internet, and drank Fangha sweet milk tea with oatmeal and yak yogurt. After eating and drinking, take a taxi to the hotel and prepare to return to Beijing the next day.
Day 10, August 2, Lanzhou-Beijing
Returning to Beijing by train at 10:00 in the morning, the whole journey takes about 9 hours, and arrives in Beijing at 7:00 pm. I finally feel at ease when I get home. I have seen many people who have experienced the same experience as me on the Internet in the past few days. After planning for so long, it is true that I did not complete the journey. It's a pity. I regret that I didn't start the trip a week earlier, but I will definitely come to Xinjiang again and continue the unfinished itinerary. And if I have a chance, I will come to see Kanas and Keketuohai in autumn, and feel the autumn fairy tale.
Anyway, I didn’t regret coming to Xinjiang, and I felt its vastness, diversity and changeable scenery. It changed the inherent impression of Xinjiang. Others think that Xinjiang will feel remote and unstable. But in recent years, the public security has been very good, everywhere Security check point. Although some counties are remote, the streets are clean and tidy, and life is very comfortable. Whether it is a scenic spot, a hotel or a checkpoint, the attitude of the staff is also very good. I hope that the epidemic will end soon, and no matter where you travel in the future, you will have no worries .
