desert road - China Travel

02/03 2023

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The Tarim Desert Highway is currently the largest highway built in the mobile desert in the world. The Tarim Desert Highway starts in the north from National Highway 314 in the east of Luntai County, passes through Lunnan Oilfield, Tarim River, Xiaotang, Tazhong 4 Oilfields and the Taklamakan Desert, and connects to Chahan in Minfeng County in the south, connecting with National Highway 315. It runs through the Tarim Basin from north to south. 522 kilometers, of which 446 kilometers are crossing the mobile desert. The construction of the highway started in March 1993 and was completed in September 1995.

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努力的三号

The desert road is very suitable for driving up, and the requirements for vehicles are not particularly high. You may also go here for a ride, and the price is not expensive. It is still a good place.

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老挝彭于晏

How is this place worth coming to see, and the top is more beautiful, and there are still many special situations here, the thing to pay attention to here is safety, other things are fine.

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一天到晚旅游的村长

The endless desert, a straight road piercing the sky

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天边小城

Don't stand at the gate of the desert highway and talk about what's inside, walk the whole journey even halfway, feel the real Taklamakan Desert, and then make comments, hoping not to mislead travelers who are away from home.

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宁静致远-qd

A miracle on earth, a place worth visiting! The total length of the Tarim Desert Highway is 522 kilometers, of which 446 kilometers are crossing the mobile desert. It is currently the longest road built in the mobile desert in the world. For tourists who are eager to cross the desert and crazy riders who experience self-driving in the desert, the Tarim Desert Highway undoubtedly provides the best conditions. It will take about 5 hours to drive through the entire Tarim Desert by self-driving, and you can see strange scenery along the way. Desert landscape and Populus euphratica. Different from the conventional road crossing the desert, we crossed from southwest to northeast, passing Minfeng, Taklamakan Desert, Tazhong, Luntai Populus euphratica Forest, Tarim River, Lunnan, and arrived at Luntai. At the starting point of Minfeng Desert, there is a giant stone "Tarim Desert Highway", and the car will soon enter the desert green belt. The total length of the Tarim Desert Highway green belt is 436 kilometers, and the width is 72 to 78 meters. The water booster station is managed by forest rangers all the year round, the total annual water consumption does not exceed 6 million cubic meters, and the total number of seedlings planted reaches nearly 20 million. It is known as the world's first "desert green corridor". Both sides of the road are covered by sandy plants such as tamarisk, safflower, reeds, etc. What flashes past the car window is no longer the endless yellow sand but the continuous green bushes. The magnificent sand sea is blocked by nearly 10 meters away. There are a total of 108 well houses along the entire desert highway, and each well house is guarded by a couple. Every day, they have to take good care of the water protection station where they are located, and at the same time walk several kilometers of roads under their jurisdiction, take care of the fragile vegetation on the roadside, and confirm the integrity of the drip irrigation pipeline; living conditions, fighting against the flowing sand. In the boundless desert, they endured unbearable loneliness, repeated boring work day after day, and insisted on guarding this green passage. The Desert Highway runs through the heart of the Taklamakan Desert from southwest to northeast, passing through three aeolian landform units in sequence along the way. 1. The complex sand ridge area. The sand dunes here look like countless yellow dragons swimming in the sea from a distance. The scales shine brightly in the sun. From a close look, they look like countless honeycombs built on the sand sea. The outline is clear and the contrast between light and dark is obvious. , giving people unlimited leisure time. 2. The mobile desert area generally has a northwest-southeast trend, and the dunes are distributed in discontinuous groups, interspersed with sand ridges of different heights and barchan dune chains. The surface of the dune chain is covered with distinct crest-shaped dunes. 3. Shrub dune area, in the area along the Tarim River, the dunes here are fixed or semi-fixed, with different heights. There are many red willows and Populus euphratica growing on the surface. There are large areas of strange shapes on both sides of the road, which are dead due to water shortage. Populus euphratica forest. The Tarim Desert Highway gives you an unparalleled driving experience. The endless desert hinterland is uninhabited, the wind is howling, and the sand dunes are flying backwards like lightning, making people think that they have come to another planet! Let your heart be fascinated by the wonders of God's creation! Let you be moved by the spirit and feat of human beings transforming nature! Let you truly understand that life in the desert can not be desolate!

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欲飞的鸟

[Desert Highway] The Taklimakan Desert Highway, also known as the Tarim Desert Highway, starts from the east of Luntai County, passes through the Tazhong Petroleum Development Zone, and ends at the east of Minfeng County, connecting with National Highway 315, with a total length of 566 kilometers. Construction of the Tarim Desert Highway started in March 1993, and on September 30, 1995, the entire Tarim Desert Highway was completed. Its completion has shortened the distance from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, to Hotan by 500 kilometers, and is called "Happy Road" by Hotan people. In addition to this road, there is no road at home and abroad that crosses the mobile desert for more than 100 kilometers. There is no doubt that this highway is currently the longest grade highway running through a fluid desert in the world. On September 29, 1999, the Tarim Desert Highway, which had been built for four years, won the Guinness World Records certificate frequently issued by the Guinness Headquarters of Shanghai Great World.

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