Luntai County is located in the west of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, and the northern edge of the Tarim Basin. In addition to the poplar forest scenery that has survived for 65 million years in the world, Luntai is also adjacent to the world's largest mobile desert, the Taklamakan Desert, which attracts tens of thousands of tourists from home and abroad every autumn. In addition, there is the world's longest desert road, China's longest inland river - Tarim Mother River, many historical monuments and rich ethnic customs, is a good place for tourism.
Tarim Poplar Forest National Forest Park
Tarim Poplar Forest National Forest Park integrates the natural landscape of Tahe River, poplar landscape and desert landscape, and is the oldest, largest, most complete and most primitive poplar forest reserve in the world. Populus is a remnant of the ancient tree species in the third century AD, a plant transformed by desertification, its degree of preciousness is the same as that of ginkgo, with strong vitality, known as a living fossil.
Walking through the Tarim Poplar Forest Park, you will find that there are about 220 curves, which is the most curved scenic road in the world. Both sides of the road are full of vicissitudes, and the tall and stout body of the poplar is either bent and falling, or roaring up to the sky, or silent, or full of arrogance. Tourists here, in addition to admiration, singing, or silence, there is also the infinite admiration for life.
If you choose to visit here in four seasons, I wonder how you will feel. In spring, the poplar spits out green buds slightly, and there is a prosperous scene; In midsummer, poplars are covered in green shade and fall in color; In autumn, the beautiful style or reflection of the poplar in the water, or standing in the desert, shows the splendid splendor of life; In the windy and snowy winter, the unyielding figure of Hu Yang is dressed in silver, which makes people marvel at the heroes of the desert in this vast sea of sand... This scene inevitably makes people sigh: if you don't reach the wheel, you don't know the magnificence of Hu Yang, you don't look at Hu Yang, you don't know the glory of life.
Located in the middle reaches of the Tarim River, Lunan Town of Luntai County and Xiaotang Town of Weili County have attracted the attention of relevant domestic departments in the past few years due to large-scale deforestation and large-scale deforestation and large-scale death of poplar forests. In 2001, I went to the site of the Korla Evening News with a reporter from the Korla Evening News to conduct on-the-spot interviews. At that time, deforestation and land reclamation was implemented as a "investment promotion" project of the local government, and each destroyed forest land was generally hundreds or even thousands of acres.
When we stood on the Tarim Highway Bridge to photograph the Tarim River, we did not expect that under the bridge was a pool of stagnant water that did not flow, and less than 1 km from the Tahe Bridge is the Tarim River is the largest inland river in China, with a total length of 2,179 kilometers, it is formed by the confluence of the Yarkand River, the Hotan River, the Aksu River, etc., the Tarim River winds from west to east in the northern Tarim Basin, disappearing in the Taklamakan Desert, known as "wild horses without reins, if not on the scene, I can't believe it." , the longest inland river on the mainland, the mother river that has fed the Tarim Basin for thousands of years, will actually stop flowing in the middle of the river.
Known as the "wild horse without reins", the Tarim River, due to excessive water withdrawal by humans, lost its stubborn wildness in the upper and middle reaches and became a "river of death" prematurely. On the beach where the flow breaks, two high-power pumping machines are placed to drill wells on the dry riverbed to draw water, which can be regarded as a major wonder of the Tarim River.
Luntai Grass Lake Water Town
This magical water town was originally the location of Caohu Township in Luntai County, with an area of 1,900 square kilometers and a width of 40 kilometers from north to south.
Entering the grass lake, you can see the scenery of "sunset and solitary cranes flying together, autumn water and the sky is the same" and "the sky is pale, wild, and the wind blows the grass and sees cattle and sheep" everywhere. It is a classic brand of desert poplar culture and is the best ecotourism destination.
Hetian Grass Lake is located 8 kilometers northeast of the county seat, just northwest of Ruokeya Township, the 315 National Highway passes diagonally through it, the grass lake is green and shiny, the waterhole is crystal clear, the sheep are white and fat, and the shepherds whip and sing, what a quiet and warm pastoral scenery!
There are several shepherds' cottages scattered in the middle of the grass lake, with enthusiastic hosts, delicious milk, mellow roasted meat, and the melodious melody of "Rewafu", followed by beautiful and amorous Uyghur girls dancing, and you will unconsciously integrate your beautiful state of mind with the natural beauty of nature.