Five Days Travel Notes of Northern Xinjiang

After the end of the eight-day trip to southern Xinjiang, the five-day trip to northern Xinjiang began. It is still the journey selected on Ctrip.com: Xinjiang Urumqi + Tianshan Tianchi + Kanas + Turpan on the 6th and 5th tour with the group tour. It is also the same as the travel agency on the 8th tour of southern Xinjiang. I lived in Urumqi two days ago and visited Turpan and Tianchi every morning in the form of a group of individual visitors. On the third night, I took a train to Kanas on the next morning in Beibei, stayed in Kanas for one night, and then returned to Urumqi by train on the fifth day. The whole process of tourism is now recorded as follows.

On Thursday, June 14, Urumqi is sunny, the first day of the trip is also the last day of the trip to southern Xinjiang. In the morning, I went to the city attractions to visit the Barkol Mosque, the International Grand Bazaar, the Eighth Route Army Memorial Office in Wuwu Office and the Autonomous Region Museum (see the "Southern Eight-Day Travel Notes" for details of the tour). At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, we moved from the Grand Mercure Hotel Urumqi Hualing to the Haotian Guotai Hotel in Xinjiang. The distance is not far, but the grades of the hotel are quite different.

On Friday, June 15, Urumqi was sunny, the second day of the trip. Today is the trip to Turpan. It will take you to the meeting point of Zhungeer Hotel at 7:00 in the morning. Although the distance from Haotian Guotai Hotel to Zhungeer Hotel is less than 1 km, the travel agency still sends a car. Pick-up, more considerate, but the driver of the drip car is not familiar with the road, the car time is longer than walking. Zhungeer Hotel is a gathering place for individual tourists. There are many tourist buses on the side of Beijing South Road, and there are also big passengers and CMB. I got through the tour guide that the travel agency told me last night. I found a tour guide when I found the ringtone. It was a young woman surnamed Wang. The vehicle was a light passenger bus V80 of SAIC Chase. Although it was a small group of 15 people, there were 6 The seat is to take the train to Turpan and then get on the bus. The seat of 9 people sitting on 15 people is still relatively loose. Departing at 7:30 in the morning, about 190 kilometers from Urumqi to Turpan, the whole journey is high speed, and the driving time is about 2 hours. The vehicle travels southeast along the G30 Lianhuo Expressway, and passes through the Salt Lake Scenic Area shortly after exiting the Urumqi city. The tour guide introduces the Xinjiang Salt Lake as the “China Dead Sea”. The salt content of the lake is seven times that of the sea water. Shen, you can easily rest on the water, read a book, and even drink. The area of ​​the lake is only 4 square kilometers. From the far side of the car, the lake is blue, and the lake is surrounded by tall white salt mountains. Going forward to the garbage city, there are dense wind turbines erected on both sides of the expressway. It looks like a toy windmill from afar. It doesn't look so tall. It is only a close observation that each windmill has more than ten floors. high. Parking in the Xiaocao Lake service area, this is a 30-mile wind zone. After getting off the train, the wind is particularly large. The door is automatically closed by the wind and almost hits the person who got off the bus. In 2014, there was a catastrophic accident in which 13 trains derailed and 13 people died due to 13 winds. For this reason, a concrete windshield was built on the north side of the railway. In 2016, hundreds of car windows were again A 12-level wind smashed stone smashed accident.

After arriving at the Jiaohe Tourist Center in Turpan at 9:30, the tour guide will go to the ticket and we will take a photo. Jiaohe River is one of the major stations in ancient Xinjiang. Whether the original site has not been verified, the current building is newly built, made into a castle shape, painted in earthy yellow, and there are many "驿" characters on the wall, in the hot sun. It has faded under the illumination and has fallen languidly. The visitor center is also an attraction, but it has not yet been opened to the public. Visitors can only take pictures.

After completing the formalities, go to Kanerjing Paradise. This attraction is not on our itinerary, but there are other tourists, so we bought the tickets ourselves. Kaner Well, Uighur language called Kaner, originally intended for underground waterways. Kanerjing is one of the three ancient humanities projects comparable to the Great Wall and the Grand Canal. It is known as the three major water conservancy projects in ancient China, along with Dujiangyan in Sichuan and Lingqu in Guangxi. It is the crystallization of the labor wisdom of the ancient Turpan people. It consists of four parts: shaft, culvert, open channel and dam (reservoir). At the edge of the basin, several wells are drilled from high to low, and then the vertical wells are successively excavated from the ground into a string, and the water is led out from the ground. The Kaner well in Xinjiang is mainly in the Turpan Basin, Hami and Mulei areas, especially in the Turpan area, with more than a thousand. If it is connected for more than 5,000 kilometers, it is called the underground canal. At present, there are only 614 Kaner wells in Xinjiang, and the Turpan area has 404. The annual water output is 231 million cubic meters. It is still the main source of irrigation, drinking water and ecological maintenance in some villages. There are three Kaner wells in Kanerjing Park. The main Kanchan well culvert is selected in the downstream part of the most typical 800-year-old Miyaki Ajikaner well. Visitors can enjoy the original appearance of the Kaner well culvert and shaft in a dozen meters underground.

The ticket office of Kanerjing Park is decorated with ancient trees. Tickets are 40 yuan/person. After entering the park, you will enter the park after a long shopping route. The first visit is the grape drying room. It is a flat-topped rectangular building with walls made of adobe and many square flower holes for easy ventilation and direct sunlight. There is a “hanging rack” on the raft in the drying room to hang the grapes.

Go forward to a slope and go underground. The first arrival is the circular middle hall. Through the middle hall, you enter the Kanerjing sightseeing area. The passage is about 100 meters long and about 2 meters wide. There are many ramps. The tour guide led us into a ramp with a horizontal Kaner well culvert covered with glass, with steps down to the side of the canal, reaching out into the water, feeling cold and biting. This water is the melting snow of the Tianshan mountain. water. In another ramp, there is a shaft leading to the ground. This is the work shaft. The height of the culvert is only about 1.5 meters and the width is only 0.7 meters. Normal people can't stretch their waists. How difficult is it to dig more than 5,000 kilometers of Kaner Well, how much money and resources people in Xinjiang have spent! I remember the historical material that was seen in the Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou last year: Wen Zhonggong was found to be in Xinjiang after he was sent to Xinjiang. He found that the way of water diversion irrigation in Kaner Well was a good way to solve the drought problem in Xinjiang, so he strongly encouraged local residents to build Kaner Well. In 1845--1877, under the impetus of Lin Zexu, more than 300 new wells were drilled in Turpan, Shanshan and Toksun. According to the records of the "Tangshan Township", Lin Zexu, Lan Po Huang, who was born with the water Following this, Kanjing has been infinitely prosperous. There are more than 60 Kaner wells in Qishan Qiketai Township. According to the research, most of them were newly excavated after Lin Zexu came to Turpan. In order to commemorate Lin Zexu’s merits, the local people called the Kaner Well Lin Gongjing. Kanerjing Paradise covers an area of ​​about 7 acres. The park is full of water, forests and towering trees. There are long grape corridors and flat lawns. Under the scorching sun, visitors can take a nap in the grape promenade or at the Kanerjing Mingqu Dam. Playing in the water, there is a group of aunts who take care of the sun and take a photo in front of the stone carvings of Kaner Well.

The second attraction is to visit the Uyghur family, also known as the "home visit", which is a gift from the travel agency and a must-see for the Turpan City Government to promote harmony between the nations. Unity. The family we went to should be a well-off family with a business mind. There are more than ten acres of vineyards in the home, with grape porch and wooden beds with blankets for tourists to sit cross-legged. The male master's Chinese is very proficient. He calls the male tourist "Master Bayi" to be on the stage, while the female tourist is the wife of Bayi. He sits in the lower seat and waits for the Lord Bayi, and then goes on food such as watermelon and clams. The daughter in Uighur costume danced for us with music.

After the dance performance, she changed her hostess's appearance. She is more talkative and funny. She said that the government that they run the home visit is for the salary. I want everyone to be happy. Otherwise, I will see that the tourists are not happy to deduct the salary. Now her child does not spend money to go to school and the government subsidizes it. It is a subsidy for bilingual teaching. Then I went to the topic and introduced the raisins of Turpan. She asked everyone to surround the stalls and introduced the varieties and production methods of the raisins. The deeper memory is the method of making the raisins. She told us that there are sulphur-smelted raisins and dry use. The raisins of the raisins, the raisins dried in the drying room, and the raisins that are naturally dried on the vines, and then the sulphur-smelling chickens are not eaten. The desiccant should be given to people who are not good to you, and the clothes are dried. Give it to your friends, and let yourself eat naturally. She also said that these raisins were planted by the farmers themselves in the village. She also helped the villagers get rid of poverty and get rich. I hope that everyone can also help the poor. The price is not too expensive, the raisins that are naturally dried are 150 yuan / kg, and the purchase of 3 kg is only 400 yuan, so everyone tasted and bought a lot of raisins.

The third attraction is Kumutage Desert Park. It is about 90 kilometers away from the "Desert City" in the east of Turpan. It takes about 2 hours to travel.

Kumtag, Uighur is the meaning of "shashan", located at the junction of western Gansu and southeastern Xinjiang, with an area of ​​about 22,000 square kilometers, and distributed 53% of the area in Xinjiang. The end is the Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang. The Kumtag Desert has typical types of sand dunes such as wind erosion landforms such as Yadan, wind ribs and wind erosion pits, and lattice dunes, crescent-shaped sand dunes, honeycomb dunes, pyramidal sand dunes, star-shaped dunes and linear dunes. It is also the only desert in the world that is connected to the city. It is known as the “desert in the city”. The town of Shanshan has been adjacent to it for hundreds of years. The desert has been facing the oasis for many years, creating “the sand is not entering, the green is not retreating, people The miracle of the world that does not move.

Kumutag Desert Park is a national 4A level scenic spot. The scenic gate is built into a camel shape. When we arrive at noon, the sun is hot and there is nowhere to hide. Everyone can use umbrella or sun protection clothing. Wrapped tightly, from the scenic gate to the desert, there are nearly 3 kilometers away. Fortunately, there are vehicles in the scenic spot, although the charge is 30 yuan / person, but everyone is still on the bus.

The sands of the Kumutage Desert are golden yellow, unlike the white sands of Taklimakan, which are more eye-catching.

But it is hotter than Taklimakan, and the heat waves are nowhere to escape, as if burning flames are everywhere. When you get here, you will feel what is hot and hot, and in a flash you will sweat and heat around, giving you the feeling of steaming in the sauna. In the desert park, there are surf rides, camel rides, etc., and you can walk to the Shafeng on foot, but you need to rent a sand-proof shoe cover, otherwise the sole may be burnt. I wanted to walk up the sand hill, just walked to the foot of the mountain, and the sand was poured into the shoes. I looked at the small figure of the climber on the high sand dune, and the white sun on the top of the head, the meaning of retreat, and returned Sitting in the awning, rest and drink water to eat dry food. Some couples have boarded the Shafeng, and when they return, the girl’s white face is tanned like a mature apple, and it may have been burned by the sun.

According to the tour guide, there is a clear and clear river on the northern edge of the desert park. The torrential water flows to the west of the sand hill. On both sides of the river, the willow poplars stand upright and are twisted and knotted like a dragon. If you are in this green area, listening to the flowing water, let the cool breeze blowing, the temperature can plummet a dozen degrees is refreshing, this is also a rare spectacle.

The fourth attraction is the Flame Mountain National Geological Park, about 60 kilometers from the town of Shanshan, and the driving time is about 1.5 hours.

Flame Mountain, Uighur language called "Kyzyl Taga", meaning "Red Mountain", the mountain is more than 100 kilometers long, the widest point is 10 kilometers, the average elevation is about 500 meters, the main peak is 831.7 meters above sea level. . The flaming mountains are barren hills, and the grass is not born, and the birds are hard to come by. In the midsummer, the russet mountain is illuminated by the scorching sun. The sandstone seems to be burning and the hot air is rolling and rising. It is like a flaming flame, and the flames are so bright, hence the name Flame Mountain. It is the hottest place in China. The temperature in summer is as high as 47.8 degrees Celsius, the surface temperature is above 70 degrees Celsius, the days above 35°C are more than 100 days, and the hot weather above 38°C is also 38 days. The name is "China's hot pole." The Flame Mountain National Geological Park is a comprehensive geological park featuring the natural landscape and geological relics of the Flame Mountain, supplemented by diverse ecological and human landscapes. In the scenic area, there are scenic spots and attractions such as the Flame Mountain Landscape, the Dream Tunnel Sightseeing Train, the Geological Museum, the Dragon Palace, the Shenquan, and the Huanhuao Mountain Scenic Spot. Among them, the Dream Tunnel is 1.22 kilometers long and the ring road of the Ring of Flame Mountain is 18 kilometers. With the theme of “Fantasy Westward Journey”, the scenic spot presents the story of “Flame Mountain” in “Journey to the West” in the form of “panoramic fashion” and “dream experience”, which makes visitors visible, touchable, sensible, playable and rewardable. It is a brand new travel experience model.

We arrived at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the hot sun was headed, the temperature rose to 42 degrees, and people who stayed outside for five minutes will definitely have heat stroke. We walked along the Dream Tunnel from the underground tourist center. The tunnel was long and dark, but from time to time there were flashing colored lights, like dreams, especially the photos were very fantastic, according to the tour guide. The 1.22 km tunnel cost hundreds of millions.

When you reached the end of the tunnel, you went to the surface. A heat wave came to you. You should have taken a long walk to visit the Journey to the West, but everyone shook his head and refused to go. So the tour guide led us to watch the fan-shaped thermometer of the banana and the stone carving brand of the Flame Mountain National Geological Park, and then hurried back to the room.

There was a small donkey on the side of the road pulling the station under the scorching sun. The owner only covered a small piece of felt on the tiny and thin body drive to block the sunlight. It stood there quietly, chewing in the mouth. There is no sign of heat stroke at all.

The fifth attraction is the grape ditch, just in a canyon on the west side of the Flame Mountain, not far from the car, about 15 minutes by car.

The grape ditch, the Uighur language is "Bruukuk", meaning a lot of good grapes. It is about 8 kilometers long from north to south and about 2 kilometers wide from east to west. The west bank of the valley is steep and steep like a barrier; the stream is surrounded by streams and the water is pure; the sides of the stream are covered with grape vines, and the green vines are stacked. It is lush. The scenic grape ditch, famous for its high-quality grapes, is planted with nearly 100 kinds of grapes such as nuclear white, horse milk, white dry, red rose and sasso, making it a natural grape museum.

The new grape promenade, which entered the grapevine ditch, caught our attention. It was only a few kilometers long that the promenade could not be seen at the side. It was very spectacular. The vines of the promenade are covered with green leaves and vines hanging green grapes. Unfortunately, the season we came to is not right, the grapes have just been hung, and the green grape bunches are hanging on the vine like jasper, crystal clear.

We crossed the stream of water, passed through the shaded grape promenade, and marched under the tall and tall poplar trees. The red flowers and green grass were dotted among the trees. The farmhouse on the roadside was scattered and the scenery was indeed Nice.

We walked into a courtyard at random. It was the home of Avanti. There was a cartoon statue of Avanti and Mao in the courtyard. An old man was wearing a national costume and sat in the yard waiting for a photo with the tourists.

Then go to the gorge cliff and take a photo on the stone with three bright red characters in the grape ditch, ending the tour of the grape ditch.

From the grape ditch to the Turpan North Station, the travel agency arranged to take the train back to Urumqi, saving nearly 2 hours. After arriving at the train station to pick up the ticket, I found that the ticket was booked from Wushan Station to Urumqi. I need to refund the ticket and buy the ticket again. So everyone is lined up at the ticket office under the guidance of the tour guide. Turpan is a small station and only one ticket is opened. Window, we are lucky, bought the D55 train ticket departing at 19:56, and many group members can only buy a later ticket, and the travel agency has to bear the loss of the refund fee. This is actually related to the arrangement of the tour guide. It is the last trip to the Kumutage Desert. The travel agency is a ticket based on the itinerary. The tour guide arranges to go to the desert first and does not communicate with the travel agency. This also explains the individual passengers. Disadvantages in the tourism system. It took 9:00 pm to get to Urumqi South Station. It took a long time to take a taxi. After waiting for half an hour, the car was willing to take us to the Guotai Hotel. .