In early summer, the "Camel Brother" of Camel Bay took five tourists and rode a six-headed camel towards Coco Siri. Tourists had traveled thousands of miles to Coco Xili to enjoy the scenery of the desert, but they never expected that they would almost be buried in a sudden sandstorm. If it weren't for the five-peaked wild camels guiding them out of the sandstorm area, they would have disappeared from this world without a trace!
★ Coco Siri, Tibetan "beautiful green mountain", Mongolian "beautiful girl"
On the back of the camel, the "camel brother" fingered the empty Gobi Desert and said: Coco Xili is located in the northwest of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, sandwiched between the Tanggula Mountain and the Kunlun Mountain, and is one of the main source areas of the Yangtze River. It borders Tibet to the west and Xinjiang to the northwest, covering an area of more than 80,000 square kilometers.
Don't think that Coco Siri is a desolate desert, a sea of death, its Tibetan meaning is "beautiful green mountains", Mongolian is "beautiful girl". Friends, don't think that the Aoyama Maiden is just a legend. The winds of change. Many years ago, this was the veins of green mountains, green grasslands, and the beautiful shepherd girl raised her whip and gently "hit you"!
"Brother Camel" said, humming the song of Wang Luobin: In that distant place, there is a good girl, people walk through her accounting room, they all have to look back and look nostalgic. ...... I would like to be a lamb to follow her, and I want her to take a thin leather whip and keep gently hitting me...
★ Coco Ciri, "The Forbidden Zone for Mankind"
Coco Xili is empty and vast, full of lonely desert Gobi, full of undulating sand dunes and sand seas. Sometimes birds are rarely seen in the sky and animals are rarely seen on the ground. Life seems to be a lone ghost here.
"Camel Brother" suddenly asked a terrible question: When you break into Coco Cili alone, do you still feel that it is beautiful and spectacular? Everyone looked around dazedly, put themselves in their place, and immediately changed their faces in fright.
"Brother Camel" introduced: The Coco Xili No Man's Land is the third largest uninhabited area in the world, and it is also the largest and last natural land in China in its original state. It has a steep terrain, an average altitude of more than 5000 meters, a cold climate, strong winds all year round, the fastest wind speed can reach 20 meters per second - 28 meters, the wind is a strong wind, and the sand is quicksand. The average annual temperature is below -4 °C.
Donkey asks: What is the coldest temperature? It can reach more than 40 degrees below zero. What about the maximum temperature? 50 degrees above zero. Eggs will be fried on aluminum lunch boxes, and rubber shoes will be deformed by hot sand.
"Brother Camel" said that although it is early summer, we have not entered no man's land, but the time of day and night, it is still for you to experience the climate test of the four seasons of the year.
How terrifying is Coco Ciri? "Brother Camel" said that there is no one who can cross Coco Ciri alone without special training. Symptoms such as headaches, tinnitus, dizziness, and chest tightness can be ghostly and attach to your body from the first step you take there.
A person is not as good as a fish thrown on the beach, the fish will have 6 seconds of memory, and the memory of the person will be lost in an instant. Looking at the empty and lonely Gobi Desert, you will soon go into a state of madness and then die unconsciously. Even if you have great concentration, you may not see the sun of tomorrow when you sleep in a tent.
★ The camel is the "soul of the desert" in Coco Ciri
Six camels roamed the camel beach in Coco Xili, and the sound of camel bells echoed in the empty world with laughter. Brother Camel said that although Coco Ciri called it the "Sea of Death" and the "Forbidden Zone of Life", it was for people.
There are many animals that can adapt to the natural state of the horrible no-man's land of Coco Siri. According to relevant departments, Coco Xili is currently one of the areas with rich animal resources in China, with more than 230 kinds of wild animals living in the field, of which there are more than 20 species of first- and second-class wild animals under national key protection.
Coco Xili is not only the main protector of the "highland spirit" Tibetan antelope, but also the frontier of wild wolves. There is also the Tibetan horse bear that dominates the Great Northwest, which can make the overbearing northwest wolves daunted.
If you camp at night, the hordes of wolves will first sigh and howl around your tent, and then gradually approach your tent in a vain attempt to get into a close contact with your donkey friends.
The Tibetan horse bear is not so polite, it is an uninvited overlord of the wasteland. The aroma of the meal would make its nose, which was six or seven times more sensitive than that of a wild wolf, smell it so far away, and it knew that only humans could make it so delicious, so it was an uninvited guest.
The Tibetan bear will lick the residue of the food outside the tent while you are sleeping, the soup and water, and then will unceremoniously break into your tent, open your car door, and search for delicious delicacies...
But the real "soul of the desert" is the wild camel. The harsh living environment of the desert Gobi for generations has created their special body structure and survival skills. They have double eyelashes that are not afraid of sand entering the eyes, and their nostrils can be closed without fear of fine sand entering the lungs. Their large, flapped hooves are not afraid to fall into quicksand. Their special physiological skills allow them not to eat grass for ten days, and not drink water for twenty days...
★ Desert smoke is not only a "beacon", but also a tornado
Brother Camel's profound knowledge about the Gobi Desert made the donkey friends overjoyed. "Brother Camel" said that Wang Wei's "desert is lonely and straight" is the most magnificent scenery of the Northwest Gobi Desert. What is Lone Smoke? It's wolf smoke.
In ancient times, the northwest border pass built a lot of beacon towers, and once the sentries on the beacon found the Xiongnu invading, they would light wolf dung during the day. The burning wolf dung, in a thick white smoke, soared into the sky so that officers and soldiers from afar could see it in order to prepare for battle. This is "wolf smoke". The fire of firewood lit at night has a strong penetrating force, which is called "beacon fire".
"Brother Camel" said that when wang Wei, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, went to the Anxi Capital Protectorate to protect the army, he saw the wolf smoke rising from the Gobi Desert rushing straight into jiuxiao, and he chanted such a good sentence as "the desert is lonely and straight", which has been passed down to this day. Think about it, under the blue sky and white clouds, above the desert Gobi, suddenly see a white pillar of smoke straight into the clouds, is it very spectacular, very poetic?
"Brother Camel" said that in ancient times, some people also proposed that "lonely smoke straight" also refers to tornadoes. I agree with that. Because the chance of a tornado in the desert is much higher than the chance of lighting a "wolf smoke".
★ Sandstorms come and go
What is a tornado? Tornadoes in the Gobi Desert are a swirling stream of air between heaven and earth. The swirling air currents roll up the sand and dust on the ground until they are high in the air, and people in the distance will see a dust pillar that stands on top of the sky and swim vigorously, like a giant dragon.
In Coco Cili, the temperature difference between day and night in spring and summer is large, and the probability of forming a tornado is high, and sometimes the tornado will form a sandstorm.
Suddenly, a donkey friend pointed to the distance and exclaimed: The desert is lonely, it is a tornado!
Everyone looked up, and sure enough, it was a tornado, but the tornado became thicker and thicker, and soon it became a large sandstorm, rolling towards the camel beach like a raging tide.
"Brother Camel" shouted: Lie on the saddle of the camel, do not get off the ground. The camels would take us to a safe spot.
You have never experienced the sandstorm that comes from the Gobi Desert. The momentum was truly thrilling.
★ Five wild camels came against the wind and brought the tourists of the "Brother Camel" out of the Yan Luo Temple
Sandstorms came quickly and violently. If they are not firmly lying on the saddle bridge of the camel, if they are not firmly grasping the handle of the saddle bridge, the tourist will be blown off the camel by the strong wind and blown away with the wind.
At this moment, the sandstorm turned into a wall of sand, and the pillars were in the sky, and the five fingers could not be seen. Grains of sand hit the face and hurt like needles. If it were not for the reins of the six-headed camels firmly connected to the saddle bridge one by one, even the camels would have been blown apart by sandstorms.
"Brother Camel" was also scared. He could only rely on the head camel he rode to lead everyone to lie down. He wanted to shout, but he couldn't open his mouth. None of the donkey friends had ever experienced this kind of formation, as if the end of the world had arrived, and the next moment it would go to hell.
Taking advantage of the gap between the storms, five wild camels suddenly ran from the sandstorm. One of the most robust wild camels is the little wild camel that "Brother Camel" once saved. It swooped down on "Brother Camel", arched its head over "Brother Camel", and then roared twice.
The six-headed camel of "Brother Camel" immediately got up and ran into the distance with the five wild camels, running for more than half an hour before running out of the center of the sandstorm. Looking back, the place where Fang Cai stopped was the center of the sandstorm.
At this moment, the Five Peaks Wild Camel roared a few times and ran away into the distance.
"Brother Camel" excitedly shouted at the distant wild camel: Thank you, wild camel brothers!
The five donkey friends spent the rest of their lives shouting excitedly at the place where the wild camel had disappeared: Thank you, wild camel brothers! (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, senior journalist and writer, has published 42 monographs such as novels, written more than 200 TV series, created dozens of special TV films such as history, culture, scenery, and documentary, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles.) ）
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