Six
At 24 km west of Burzin there is a small attraction , Colorful Beach. At nine o'clock to the entrance of the scenic spot, we became the first people to enter the park that day.
A few poorly dressed, gray-headed staff members shouted loudly, like early birds seeing insects, a little overexcited. Nowadays, the attractions are visited online by appointment. Originally, the tour guide had gone to the window to change into a paper ticket, and everyone had a ticket and entered in turn. They shouted: Come over 60 years old!
More than 60 is a half ticket, 22 yuan. Most of the people in the group were around 40, and there were only two men who had just turned 60. And 60 is a dividing line for dividing the population. In an oriental culture that celebrates youth, no one wants to reveal their age in front of strangers. But the staff made this disturbance, and the two "post-60s" had to heroically walk out of the crowd. It is said that one of them told his companions that he had just turned 58.
The crowd laughed. Since then, this road has added another stem: "Come over 60 years old!" ”
The Irtysh River flows quietly like a piece of blue glass. The opposite shore is open and flat, covered with lush green trees. Beneath his feet were huge rocks with undulating waves, like a flock of fat seals huddled around the shore, their backs glowing red. It is called the Yadan landform, or colored hills, which are formed by wind erosion. When the wind passes, the rocks make all sorts of strange sounds.
After taking a few photos, quickly find a shady place to hide.
Colorful beach
The wave is as flat as a mirror
The back of the sea lion
One river and two heavens
Overlooking
Rust-colored
Colorful beach
There are more than 500 kilometers from Wucaitan to Urumqi, and the road conditions are very good. But the driver is steady, and the speed is not fast. Along the way, big cars and small cars are overtaking us. After traveling more than 100 kilometers, the car stopped on the side of the road for a short rest.
As soon as I got out of the car, I was shocked by the sight in front of me!
A blue sea of lake water appears in front of you, vast and boundless. Walking down the dirt ditch between the steep cliffs, the lake is actually a sandy beach, scattered with weeds and dead wood that has been whitened by water soaking. The water of the lake is constantly lapping at the shore like an ocean wave.
Like the sea
sand beach
Dead wood
Bald Mountain
Capture
It is called Ulungu Lake, with an area of nearly 900 square kilometers, and is one of the top ten freshwater lakes in China. It also has a name called Dahaizi, which is vast and magnificent, and fully deserves the title of "sea".
I was bewildered by this beauty, but unexpectedly experienced a thrilling scene.
Back at the cliff, I was looking out over the lake when a demonic wind blew the hat off my head and landed on the edge of the cliff. There was sand and scattered weeds under his feet, and it was slippery to step on. The cliff is more than ten meters high, and once it slides down, even if it does not cause death, it is inevitable to hurt the bones. This black round hat is not valuable, but it is very shady.
The hat was more than a meter away from me, swaying slightly in the wind. If the wind blew it a little farther, I gave up. But it seemed to deliberately challenge my courage to see if I dared to act. I squatted down, carefully moving closer, and almost crawled on the ground. Only to hear someone next to you shout: Be careful!
Thankfully, it was eventually captured.
Path Fu hai, solve lunch. In front of me, a red-lacquered gate with a red roof and red pillar appeared, and the three golden characters of "Gao Laozhuang" were written on it. At the entrance is a large garden, green vines, hidden grapes, pumpkins, eggplant, tomatoes, peaches, apples and dates, etc., full of vitality, called a hundred orchards. Just a patch of cyan, not yet mature.
Home of the Eight Precepts of the Pig
Garden
grape
pumpkin
eggplant
tomato
peach
plum
apple
pear
The restaurant is big and the dishes are good. Compared with Sichuan cuisine, Xinjiang cuisine is very light, less oil, less spicy, less pork, very healthy.
shrimp
bun
egg
Beef
turntable
During the long drive, the tour guide became the only protagonist. On the day's trip to Urumqi, Chen Dao did not say anything else, but tirelessly and flipped around introducing the jade. In a word, the store he introduced is genuine, never deceitful, begging everyone to buy it tomorrow.
In fact, everyone knows that the tour guide relies on this to earn extra money. It is said that the same is true of foreign tour guides, who do not know whether they are true or false. In order to compete for the source of customers, domestic travel agencies dare not set too high the tour fee, and the profit is naturally less, and the distribution to the tour guide is even less. Bringing tourists into the store to consume commissions has become the main source of income for tour guides.
Of course, it is difficult to stimulate people's desire to buy just because it is genuine, and it must also be mysterious. Director Chen told many stories of wearing jade to see miraculous effects. For example, he once brought a group of a funeral home in Tianjin, which was yin and forested. After one of the leaders bought and wore jade, life became smooth sailing, and he was invited to dinner to show his gratitude. Although the Chinese people do not believe in religion, there are always superstitions. It's just that Chen Dao's force is too strong, which is inevitably annoying.
I put on my headphones, looked out the window at the desert and grassland, and began to listen to Daolang's songs, listening to all the songs he sang on my phone, and searching for all the songs I could think of about Xinjiang. Although most of northern Xinjiang is in the chicken tail of China's territory, it is not as eye-catching as the chicken heart Beijing, nor is it as dazzling as the chicken breast Shanghai, and it is not as rich as the chicken leg Guangdong, but when it comes to music, it is far beyond the northeast of the chicken head dominated by the two people, which is the real song and dance town.
Just two singers.
A little farther away, there is Wang Luobing, his "The Girl of Dabancheng City", "Youth Dance", "Half Moon Climb Up", "In That Distant Place", "Lift Up Your Hijab" and so on, everyone will hum a few words.
The most recent is Daolang, who has contributed to the spread of Xinjiang folk songs, or Xinjiang music styles. This small man from Sichuan has a voice full of vicissitudes, like the wind and sand blowing in the desert. In 2004, a song "The First Snow of 2002" was popular all over the country. The old Songs of Xinjiang that he sang, after his reinterpretation, are even more charming. Although "Lover" and "Impulsive Punishment" do not directly sing Xinjiang, they have a strong national custom.
In the songs about Xinjiang, many place names are included, such as Turpan, Kokdala, Dabancheng, Delingha and so on. Not long ago, the popular "Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea" has brought about the cocoto sea tourism fever.
In the desolate Tarim Basin, listening to the same desolate Daolang, indulging in it, it was difficult to extricate himself for a while.
Avenue to Jane
yellow
green
Cang
Snowy mountains
At 8:00 p.m., greet the sunset on the horizon and arrive in Urumqi. Go straight to a so-called internet celebrity restaurant, Hotan Grill. Going up to the fourth floor, I saw dozens of tables of people eating, all tourists, and the scene was very large. We waited for forty or fifty minutes before we finally served.
There is an empty space next to it, a man and a woman dressed in national costumes danced a dance, which is the "song and dance dinner" written on the itinerary.
meal
dance