Gurbantunggut Desert - China Travel

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The Gurbantunggut Desert is located in the Junggar Basin, east of the Manas River and south of the Ulungu River, with an area of 48,800 square kilometers, an altitude of 300-600 meters, and many water sources. It consists of 4 deserts: the Sobgulbuglei Desert in the west, the Huojingnerisin Desert in the east, the Dezosoten Erisong Desert in the middle, and the Kuobu North-Akkum Desert in the north. .

At this time, the desert is full of green grass and flowers, blooming like brocades, decorating the desert with vitality, and the scenery is full of poetic and picturesque. "The ephemeral plant communities that bloom in spring are eye-catching. The snow scene in winter, the flowers in spring, and the green shrubs in summer all have their own characteristics. "

The Gurbantunggut Desert is very suitable for mass sightseeing and adventure travel. Only by walking into it can you understand and understand her.

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伊尔库茨克

When we took the bus from Urumqi to Altay Kanas via Turpan, we passed the Gurbantunggut Desert, the third largest desert in Xinjiang. It looks like a mirror glowing with white light ~ that is, reflecting the sun...

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天鹅湖的青蛙

Looking down on the earth from above, a golden leaf stretches for more than ten kilometers. These veins are actually sand dragons with a height of more than ten meters and a length of several kilometers. Unlike mobile deserts, the southern part of the Gurbantunggut Desert is mainly composed of fixed and semi-fixed dunes. Affected by the wind direction, it extends in a north-south direction. From a height, it looks like a branch stretching out.

当地向导江南游子

Crossing the Junggar Basin, from Qitai to Burqin, the journey is more than 700 kilometers. The Junggar Basin is the second largest inland basin in China. It is located between the Altai Mountains and the Tianshan Mountains. The terrain of the basin slopes westward, with the north slightly higher than the south. There are several gaps such as the Irtysh River Valley on the west side of the basin. Entering from the gap on the west side, it brings precipitation to the basin and surrounding mountains. The Gurbantunggut Desert in the Junggar Basin is the second largest desert in China and the largest fixed and semi-fixed desert in China. Although the Gurbantunggut Desert is called a desert, it is completely different from the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin. We can hardly see the tall and undulating sand hills, and there are some low fixed and semi-fixed sand dunes as far as the eye can see. Compared with the desert with dunes in the traditional impression, this fixed and semi-fixed desert has a small amount of plant cover, so it is an excellent winter pasture. Haloxylon, spinach, wormwood, white wormwood, hops...these low plants dotted among the dunes make the Gurbantunggut Desert vibrant and unique. Even in places where there is no vegetation, the soil and rocks of the Gobi desert hills are colorful, like a natural picture scroll, showing people the five elements of "water grows wood", "wood restrains soil", "soil generates gold" and "gold generates water".

华-Rainbow

It’s such a big desert, you can’t see the edge at a glance, only a few plants grow here tenaciously, and a few camels are leisurely looking for food in the desert

宁静致远-qd

The Gurbantunggut Desert, located in the center of the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, is the second largest desert in China and the largest fixed and semi-fixed desert in China, with an area of about 48,800 square kilometers, an altitude of 300-600 meters, and many water sources . The Gurbantunggut Desert is different from the Taklimakan Desert in that it is not the kind of mobile sand hill that does not grow any grass, but fixed and semi-fixed sand dunes. Haloxylon, red willow and Populus euphratica grow on the sand dunes, and there are rich oil resources under the desert. . Cainan Oilfield is the first million-ton automated desert package oilfield put into development in my country. The vast desert oasis not only has various wonders and wonders, but also retains a large number of precious cultural relics of the ancient "Silk Road". Including: Beiting Duhufu Site (South of Hongqi Farm), Tudunzi Grand Mosque, Beacon Tower, Maqiao Ancient City, Xiquan Smelting Site, 103rd Regiment Changxinquchengzi Ruins, 105th Regiment Changtoudaogou Ancient City Ruins and more.

The alpine belt of the Junggar Basin is covered with snow all year round, and glaciers stand tall; the middle and low mountain belts have abundant precipitation, seasonal snow cover is deep, the forests and meadows grow lush, and the vegetation coverage is high; the precipitation in the hills and piedmont plains decreases sharply, and desertification is obvious; The Gurbantunggut Desert in the center has very little annual precipitation, but due to seasonal snow cover and permafrost, good psammophytes grow and develop in the desert. The Gurbantunggut Desert is located in the south-central part of the Junggar Basin, with a longest length of about 412 kilometers from east to west, a width of about 220 kilometers from north to south, and an area of about 48,800 square kilometers. It is the second largest desert in my country and the largest in the Junggar Basin. of a block.