Photographs: Xin Dad
Day 14. 6?12 ? Kuqa to Dushanzi
Dokuoku National Highway scenery is unique
In the morning, at the hotel restaurant ate a meal for so long since the most sumptuous breakfast, No big restaurant dozens of varieties, Chinese, Western style everything, take it at will.
We take the cousin opinion, take the 217 national highway to Dushanzi, enjoy the Tianshan Mountain scenery. If the original plan to take the 3012 highway, through the Karamay to Dushanzi, and can only enjoy the boring desert and the Gobi.
Soon on the 217 National Highway, we passed the Yadan landforms, like the Zada Tulin, where nature's ingenuity molded the edge of the Tianshan Mountains into various shapes.
If the Zada Tulin is the gentle formation of water, then the Yadan landform is the strong wind molding, these small mountain packs, small mountains in the wind under the knife and axe chopping, was sharpened to a sharp angle, arrowheads standing!
11:30 we rested in the shade of a tree to eat watermelon. Next to a river, Tianshan snow water icy clear refreshing bone, rushing. The trees are bigger than two or three people hugging each other, and only a small piece of blue sky and white clouds can be seen above the mountains on either side.
The big and small dragon pool lying at the foot of the snowy mountains. The small dragon pool exquisite small, blue pool water, like blue pearl melted into the snow like clear blue, shallow water, grass slightly rippling.
The big dragon pool in the small dragon pool above, the area has a small dragon pool 4, 5 so big, it does not have a small dragon pool of exquisite, there is no small dragon pool of beautiful, but around the ring of green mountains and towering snowy mountains for it to add extra beauty and charm.
Over a column of mountains, the occasional glance back shocked us all.
Rolling snowy mountains, white and winding, like a white dragon flying at the end of the grassland, flying in the sky, a white cloud seems to play with the flying dragon, dazzling mountain tops.
Just over the peak of the front to see not much snow at all, back to see how so much it?
Further ahead, it is a beautiful scene. In the middle of the grassland is vast and far away, behind the endless snowy mountains, in front of a long, shallow snow has not much of the mountains, the left side is a continuous snowy mountains, the right side is a continuous snowy mountains, the entire vast grassland is surrounded by snowy mountains, but also like a huge basin, the edge of the basin is snowy, the bottom of the turquoise and secluded.
Far away, a group of cattle, sheep, horses, because of the freshness and fatness of the grass, eating extra sweet, jumping extra happy. The large grassland, as if floating a bunch of a bunch of white, black clouds, and snowy mountains, and the blue sky, and white clouds seem to constitute a picture of heaven and earth. In the picture scroll, galloped the tough and heroic "set of horses of the Hanzi".
We continue to ride in the beautiful grasslands, over the shallow beams, to the Bayinbruk Prairie Swan Lake attractions door.
The Bayinbruk Prairie is also called Bayinbruk Wetland, and the huge screen at the entrance of the attraction is playing "Bayinbruk Wetland Swan Lake is the home of the world's swans, and for every five swans in the world, three take off from the Bayinbruk Wetland".
Unfortunately, time is limited to the swan lake back and forth seven or eight hours, and in June the swans have all flown to the north of the colder places, to go to only a quiet lake, a wordless description of the swan's high-pitched song and beautiful dance, this time there is no chance to see the beautiful swans.
So, we only in the attractions of the square in front of the turn and continue to go.
Further on, the mountains are greener, the trees are more, the grass is also more green, if not so many big mountains, really think it is to the south of the river.
Over a snowy mountain range of the Tianshan Mountains, high mountains and low valleys have cattle, sheep and horses, but also in a rest stop to see the open-raised "alpine wormwood chicken" - eat alpine worms and alpine grass grown chickens.
I think it's very different in terms of flavor and nutrition, right?
We went up to the top of the snowy mountain, the white snowy mountain is in front of us, we are almost flush with the snowy mountain, almost stretch out our arms to hold the huge, holy, snowy white snowy mountain around us!
Up to the Hashil with the tunnel entrance, snow piles on the side of the road, this way there are a lot of places on the side of the road in the mountain nests, roadside ditches, and even in the Tianshan Mountain on the individual roads have not melted snow, some very long, some very thick, but not as close as the snow on the peaks of this mountain so close to us, the wall of snow right on the side of the road, a person high as snow dolls like a snowdrift right on the side of the road.
You can eat the snow, you can chew the snow, you can hold the snow, and if you want to, you can have a snowball fight, pile up the snowman, and roll in the snow pile.
So, at the top of this snowy mountain, I want to fly to my heart's content!
I don't know how many kilometers down the mountain, the road signs remind countless places "continuous sharp turns downhill", dozens of kilometers, dozens of kilometers, a few kilometers of all. The road surface is wide and flat except for a few places that have been crushed by landslides, and there are guardrails to protect them, so they feel very safe in their hearts.
After descending the mountain, we entered the Junggar Basin.
Dushanzi
Dushanzi, which is a county in the desert?
It is a small city in the south of the Yangtze River, even greener and cleaner than a small city in the south of the Yangtze River, all the streets are green and shaded. Walking on the wide sidewalks along the wide, clean and airy streets with few people and few cars is simply relaxing and enjoyable.
Stay at the Marktayi Hotel, 260 yuan a standard room. The hotel entrance is a garden, surrounded by green trees, full of flowers.
In the evening, we went to the food street to have a meal. All kinds of food, big dish chicken, kebabs, noodles, rice, hot pot, nine bowls of three rows of children (did not eat that, I do not know what to do). We ate bibimbap, roast pork with yellow noodles, braised steak, spinach gluten, stir-fried tripe, red oil tofu skin, stir-fried bitter melon, hot and sour shredded potatoes, pickled cabbage and vermicelli soup, grilled lamb chops, grilled lamb kebabs.