It has been more than a year since I came back from the Great Northwest, and my memory of everything I encountered there is gradually blurred, and I always want to write a travel note about this trip. I don't know how to write travel notes, and I never think that this is a travel note about waves. This is the little pen and ink left after I met the Northwest.
Every time I travel, I leave the familiar place and go to a strange environment. Those new things that I have never seen will bring me physical and mental pleasure. There are infinite possibilities on the road waiting for me to meet, meet shocking scenery, and meet like-minded people. people, met delicious food, met a lot of...
At the beginning, I chose the general direction in the northwest where I wanted to go.
Because there are the colorful Danxia I want to see, the Jiayuguan Great Wall I want to climb, the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, the Tianchi Lake in Tianshan, the Flame Mountain, the Grape Valley in Turpan, and Kana. Si Lake, Sailimu Lake and Wucai Lake, as well as Khorgos Port and Guomen, as well as the beautiful Bayinbulak and Nalati Grasslands, several routes have been formulated. After many revisions, a route was finally left, and some places were deleted. I feel a little regretful. Thinking about it now, regret is almost accompanied by every time I go out. The so-called regret may be the reason for the next departure.
It is my habit to make all-round preparations in advance before traveling.
Plan detailed itinerary routes and transportation methods. The most important thing to do is to budget how much money you can spend, because I don’t have much money and I am very poor.
However, there are too many places I want to go, so I can only save my money. I also want to be willful, but there is not enough money for me to be willful.
Calculate the time and buy a ticket for the whole route. Avoid being unable to buy tickets or wasting time in queues in other places. Facts have proved that these preparations are the guarantee for smooth and smooth waves.
Choosing a romantic destination is not based on hype advertisements, nor because of other people's relish, but because of the deep yearning and urgency to see. I choose a mode of transportation. I think there are people who walk on the road, and I also have a ticket to experience the beauty of the flow.
In short, give yourself a more cost-effective way to wave within your ability. (In the full text, I call travel and travel waves, because I always feel that travel is for the elderly, travel is for middle-aged people, and waves just describe us dolls).
Depart from Xianyang, go all the way in the northwest direction, pass through some parts of the Hexi Corridor, and then end in Xining. In 12 days, the journey is more than 8,200 kilometers.
This is my longest line so far. Walking here, you will find that everything you see feels so far away in your life. Walking this road has gained not only scenery, but also a belief.
Train K131, from Xianyang to Lanzhou at night, is the first train of the itinerary. I can finally go, the joy is beyond words
I set off in a green leather car. I was happy that there were not many people on this car, and there was no one in the seat next to me, so the hard seat I bought became a hard sleeper, haha.
Arrived in Lanzhou the next morning, Lanzhou is the second largest city in Northwest China and the only provincial capital city surrounded by the Yellow River.
Listening to the lecturer at the Gansu Museum, I learned that after Qin Shihuang unified China, the area around Lanzhou belonged to Longxi County.
During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Jincheng officially changed its name to Lanzhou. The famous sheepskin raft crossing the Yellow River is said to be here, and many sheepskin rafts have been seen on the banks of the Yellow River. By the way, I can talk about the origin of Gansu here. It is Ganzhou (now Zhangye City, where I will go on the third day) and Suzhou (now Jiuquan City, where I will go on the fourth day) in the Western Wei and Tang Dynasties. Place), the first word synthesis, referred to as Gan. Because most of the province's territory is in the west of Longshan Mountain (that is, Liupan Mountain), it is also called Longxi or Long for short. It turns out that the Guanlong area refers to Shaanxi and Gansu. Oh, I understood a lot when I heard it.
In the Gansu Museum, I saw the horse-treading swallow that appeared in history textbooks, a national treasure, and it is really exquisite.
Walking all the way in Ganbo, Waterwheel Garden, Baita Mountain, Yellow River, and Waterwheel Garden on the bank of the Yellow River, I noticed that I was standing in the center of the motherland
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I went to Lanzhou Yellow River Iron Bridge, also known as Zhongshan Bridge, is one of the most important landmarks in Lanzhou.
Walking on the iron bridge, below is the quietly flowing Yellow River, and the scenery on both sides is also very good.
Today's iron bridge has become a national key cultural relic protection unit. Vehicles are not allowed to pass on the bridge, and only tourists are required to visit. The Yellow River Iron Bridge is not only an ancient bridge with a long history in Lanzhou, but also the first real bridge on the Yellow River with more than 5,000 kilometers, so it is called "the first bridge on the Yellow River in the world".
The bustling level is comparable to the Bund in Shanghai. It is a must-see place for many people to visit in Lanzhou. The popularity of Lanzhou attractions ranks first.
Go to Zhangye next, and see the colorful Danxia in Zhangye.
I can't help admiring the uncanny workmanship of nature. Such a peculiar topography developed from the pre-Jurassic to the Tertiary period. Large areas of thick ink are scattered all over the mountains. The visual shock triggers the throbbing of the soul.
Different geological ages use different colors to show their respective characteristics and charms, and you can see through the long history and ancient past at a glance.
After viewing the Danxia landform, you have to sigh at the uncanny craftsmanship of nature and bow down at the feet of nature. This spectacular spectacle still makes me feel very nostalgic. Nature's use of color is really clever.
Accustomed to seeing the feasting and feasting of the city, it is really a kind of baptism for the eyes to take a look at the masterpieces of nature.
I like to feel the natural beauty, the magnificence, and the power of nature, so I like to look at all beings on the top of the mountain, welcome the wind with open arms by the lake, feel the warmth of stepping on the soft sand in the desert, and even pick flowers in the rapeseed field. Put rapeseed flowers in your mouth to feel the sweetness, climb the Great Wall, see the Danxia landform, and go to the Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon.
This is the meaning of my coming out!
After finishing Zhangye, the third stop is the Populus euphratica forest in Jiuquan. This Populus euphratica forest is very beautiful, with golden leaves, which contrast with the lake water, quiet and beautiful.
Populus euphratica is a kind of spiritual baptism. In arid land and saline-alkali land, it does not change its charming demeanor, let the wind blow, let the sand bury it, and stand tenaciously in the world. It has been a dream for thousands of years, and it is admirable to stick to the original intention. .
The fourth stop is Jiayuguan.
Jiayuguan can not let go of the Great Wall. This is the first 5A encountered this time. The Jiayuguan Great Wall is the first pass at the west end of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the starting point of the west end of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty.
After coming out of Guancheng, I went to the Cantilever Great Wall and the first pier with my travel friends.
On the cantilevered Great Wall, I boarded the Great Wall, and on the wall, I can see in all directions, and the endless Gobi Desert is my eyes.
The vicissitudes of life, the scenery we see today, what will it look like tomorrow? A suspension bridge connects the two sides of the canyon, walking on it and swaying step by step. The filming location of "New Dragon Gate Inn" faces the antique barracks across the bank. On one side is a rich and full martial arts style, and on the other side is strict discipline, which can foresee bloody and cruel wars Documentary.
After coming out of Jiayuguan, I went to the first pier of the Great Wall, and I still had a lot of expectations on the way.
I originally thought that the first pier should be tall, majestic, majestic, but I don't know that in the long river of time, there are too many things that have been transformed by people and nature.
Next to the first pier is the Grand Canyon of the Koolai River. The snow water of Qilian Mountains melts and flows into the Koolai River. On both sides of the river, there are 90° cliffs, which seem to be cut out by one knife. The side walls are all piled up by stones of different sizes. Tell the story of the seabed here hundreds of millions of years ago.
The so-called "No. 1 Pier in the World" used to be a remaining pass on the Jiayuguan Great Wall and the starting point of the western section of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty. Now it is just a huge mound, which has long been eroded by the years and is completely different from it. Due to the erosion of wind and sand, the continuous residual wall is shrinking in size. Although it still looks magnificent now, it may not escape the fate of being smoothed after all.
Let the time go back to 2016. I remember that on the summer vacation, I squeezed the subway from Xuanwumen to Deshengmen, and took a bus from Deshengmen to Badaling along the Beijing-Tibet Expressway for an hour. After passing through Juyongguan along the way, I arrived at Badaling. At the eastern end of the Great Wall, I was very excited when I stood on the Great Wall for the first time. From the moment I saw the Great Wall in books when I was a child, I thought to myself when I could stand on the Great Wall, how wonderful it would be., about ten years later, my childhood dream is being realized step by step.
Now, two years later, I am standing at Jiayuguan, the westernmost end of the Great Wall. Two years later, I am standing at the east and west ends of the Great Wall. I still have the same pair of eyes looking out at the world. They were once as clear as water, with an undisguised passion. Frivolous and flamboyant; now, it is full of vicissitudes of life.
On the eastern section of the Great Wall I believed life was perfect; and when the western section of the Great Wall was in Jiayuguan, I had already accepted its grayness and incompleteness. In the East, I believed that as long as I worked hard, I could do anything. When I was in the west section, I already understood that there are some things that even if I spend my whole life, I can't do anything about them.
In the East, I held on to what I dreamed of having. When I was in the west, I didn't want it anymore, and I had already learned to compromise and give up.
In the east section, I laughed because I was happy, and I cried because I was sad; in the west section, my sorrow, joy, and crying and laughing are no longer related, life has taught me to endure and cover up...in the wilderness of time On the road, what was left was eternal sadness. After returning from the Great Wall, I happily left my handwriting on the message wall of the youth hostel.
I thought I was a bit of a slut, but after carefully reading the message wall, I found that someone is even more slutty, at least from the message, I can see that the courage is commendable, I admire...
After leaving Jiayuguan, continue north to Urumqi, Xinjiang.
After getting off the train, I went to the hotel to put my luggage. After dinner, I went to Tianshan Mountain to play. The bus took the high-speed along Midongnan Road. I saw the scenery of the Gobi Desert along the way. It was already ten o’clock in the morning on the way to Tianchi, and the sun here It just rose, because there is a two-hour time difference with the mainland.
The sixth stop is to play in Turpan, the traffic is not good, and the scenic spots I want to go are scattered, so I report to the group to start. The tour guide took a total of six places. I only remember the Flame Mountain, Karez and Grape Valley. I don’t seem to remember anything exciting about the others. The tour guide is a Kazakh guy. At the first stop, we visited Karez, one of the three major civilization projects of mankind.
Next, we went to Huoyan Mountain. According to the tour guide, Huoyanshan is the hottest place in the country. As soon as we entered Huoyanshan, the heat wave hit our face. Although I felt the scorching heat when I entered the Turpan Basin, it was nothing compared to the heat wave when I entered the Huoyan Mountain. I also looked at the weather with great interest. The air temperature is about 40 degrees, and the surface thermometer next to it is already 60 degrees. The tour guide said that these days are the coolest weather in Turpan..
The last stop went to the famous Grape Valley, Grape Valley, but the place I most yearned for when I was young, I always dreamed that one day I could eat grapes here and couldn’t walk, hahaha.
After entering, I realized that Grape Valley is actually a village.
The Uighurs call the Grape Valley Buyiluke, which means many and good grape fields.
Nearly 100 kinds of grapes are planted in the grape ditch, such as Seedless White, Horse Milk, Baijiagan, Red Rose, and Soso. Soso is the smallest grape in the world.
After a day in Turpan, I returned to Urumqi, and the next day I went to Qinghai. Woke up very early the next morning, after breakfast, checked out of the hotel and went to the high-speed rail station to Turpan Airport. After checking in at the airport, I started to board the plane. I sat on the seat nervously and fastened my seat belt. The seat next to me was empty, so I put my backpack on the seat and fastened my seat belt. The flight attendant passing by saw me give me a thumbs up, haha.
The plane took off, and the moment I've been waiting for is finally here! The turbine of the plane rotated rapidly, the engine started at high speed, and the plane taxied forward rapidly. Three, two, one, at that moment, the plane, like a giant bird, left the ground, pierced through the clouds, and flew high in the vast blue sky. The two-and-a-half-hour air tour has officially begun!
Looking at the unpredictable and beautiful cloudscape, I was intoxicated by it, and all the previous fear and anxiety were thrown away. I couldn't help but took out my phone and took a few photos in succession.
About two hours later, I flew over Xining, a city in a canyon.
It was still early after dinner, so I went to Qinghai Dongguan Grand Mosque again
The next day is Qinghai Lake. Starting from Bayi Road Passenger Station, it takes more than two hours to arrive at Qinghai Lake. The car goes around all the way and finally goes deep into the hinterland of Qilian. People are addicted to it.
Although it is the end of the flowering period, the golden yellow scattered among the turquoise is faintly visible.
Written by the Qinghai Lake, some people say that dreams are horses that can live anywhere; what is your dream? Today, I am wandering from nine to five. Standing on this sapphire Qinghai Lake on the plateau, it seems that all the dust has drifted away. It is the sanctity of the soul of nature, listening to the waves of the lake.
The next day I went to Kumbum Monastery, Qinghai Museum and Qinghai Art Museum. When looking at the murals in Qinghai Museum, the guide said that one look at the murals is one less. At that moment, I felt my heart skip a beat, thinking that I should go to Mogao Grottoes to take a look, haha. I even forgot where I was, just worrying about the art that may never exist again after many years.
I remember reading the book of the writer Bi Shumin. In her opinion, no matter how tired you are, you have to live, and no matter how poor you are, you have to go surfing. Either you read or surf, one of your body and your soul are always on the road. Go out to wander, be a traveler, and reach every corner of the world. Although on the road, there may be travel fatigue, and there may be a few nights of loneliness.
Waves, is to change a way of life, to find the original beauty of the world. Some people may say that there is nothing to waste without money, but I want to say that in life, "tired" and "poor" seem to be stages that must be passed through. I want to say that no matter how tired you are, you have to live, and no matter how poor you are, you have to spend time. If you're poor, you're poor, that's how I'm made.
Because every wave, there will be something to gain. When preparing for the wave, you who may be a little loose in your life become serious. Check guides, book train tickets, book hotels and find hotels, etc... There is a lot to prepare.
Go out a few more times, you can improve your ability to plan things, from the hectic at the beginning to the handy at the end, you will gradually enjoy it.
Everyone should have a fresh memory of their first trip. When you go farther and farther, you will find that the road is always the happiest time. Until now, I still remember the memory of going to Beijing alone. In those days, I found that I didn't like the step-by-step life in my heart, and I started to have the idea of walking everywhere. Whenever I recalled the places where I walked, there were too many interesting things that happened, and there was always a happy smile on the corner of my mouth..
I always think that to go to some places, you must be alone, listen to your inner voice, and return to the source of life, and Northwest is one of them.The book says that only when a person travels alone can he hear his inner voice. It will tell you that the world is wider than you imagined, your life will not be without an exit, and you will find that you have a pair of wings, and you can fly without anyone's consent.
As long as you are walking, you will see unexpected people and things. Even if you don’t, you can feel the freedom without entanglements most clearly. Therefore, be a brave person and face the possibility that you need to be responsible by yourself. Everything, I feel great
Love waves, what is the meaning of waves, not hiding, not escaping, not getting, not just passing by, but meeting another self in a strange environment. In short, the 12-day trip to the Northwest has come to an end. If it is not for writing this travel note, many memories will gradually fade away.
This is the end of the writing. When I think back to all this, fortunately, I like to play and can go where I want to go according to my own plan. Life can also follow my heart for the time being. I hope I can always love me in the future Love. After all, life cannot be limited to the present, but also has a distant place and dreams.
After all, the world is so big, and I am looking forward to seeing it.
Every journey is a practice in the world, and I can face it, let go, be at ease and be happy. I hope that in the future, while living a good daily life, I have the urge and ability to travel far away.
