从喀什座上到和田的火车，历经约5个小时，我们到达了著名的世界玉都、丝路名城、地毯之都和瓜果之乡的和田。
As soon as you get off the train, you can feel the characteristics of an arid desert climate, and the smell of sand fills the air. 尽管境内有大小河流36条，正是融雪季节，卡拉喀什河和玉龙喀什河河水丰沛，但干燥的气候还是觉得城市风沙有点大，皮肤有些干，街头天鹅雕塑蒙着沙尘。
I went to my room to rest for a while, and at 4 o'clock I ate Balikunye mushroom soup and slices downstairs. The afternoon is mainly closed, and there are no activities arranged, so I am ready for the night market in the evening.
Hotan City is located between the Karakoram Mountains and the Taklamakan Desert, the territory is high in the south and low in the north, wide in the north and narrow in the south, inclined from south to north, is the alluvial plain of the Karakash River and the Yulong Kashi River, the altitude is between 1300-1450 meters, the north is the Taklamakan Desert, and the south is the Kunlun Mountains.
It has a total area of 248,100 square kilometers and a permanent population of more than 2.5 million. A Hotan area is 1.5 times the size of Henan, and the population is only 1/40 of Henan.
Under the introduction of local friends, our group agreed to see several special attractions in Hetian, Hotan Night Market, Qianli Grape Corridor, Walnut King Park, Fig King Tree Park, Karakash River Head, Jade Market.
Hetian Night Market
At 9 p.m., accompanied by local friends, I experienced the Hotan Night Market, which gathers Xinjiang's delicious food.
In addition to the traditional kebabs, you can see Hetian baked eggs, grilled pumpkin, grilled dogfish, grilled sheep intestines, red willow barbecue, grilled buns, roasted lamb's hooves, grilled fish, grilled rabbits, etc.
I feel that there is no ingredient that cannot be grilled in Xinjiang. While visiting the night market, I stopped to watch the Xinjiang ethnic characteristic song and dance performance, where I not only feasted my mouths but also feasted my eyes.
Thousand miles of grape promenade
第二天早饭后第一站看了闻名国内外的千里葡萄长廊，这是当地农民为节省耕地，利用农田道路，将葡萄种在道路边上，枝蔓架在道路上方，人流车辆在结满葡萄的葡萄架下通过。 We drove through the grape gallery and felt like we were swimming in a painting.
这个充分利用太阳光照节省土地的创举，经济效益和观赏价值双丰收。 Expanding year by year for more than 40 years, the grape corridor is now connected to more than 1,500 kilometers and is still increasing every year, equivalent to the distance between Beijing and Changsha, creating a miracle in the history of viticulture.
Walnut Tree King
核桃树王距今有1300多年的树龄，占地约一亩，树高近17米，树冠直径20多米，树干需要五人才能合抱，虽然历经沧桑，主树干已空，形成了一个上下联通的大树洞，洞底可容纳四人站立，但核桃树王仍以其高大伟岸，枝繁叶茂，苍劲挺拔的雄姿展现于游客面前，尤其可贵的是，它每年能结大约6000个核桃，一棵树上的核桃差不多It can be sold for 2,000 yuan.
King Fig Tree
This nearly 500-year-old fig tree has no vicissitudes of age, and is still flourishing and fruitful. The canopy is like a jungle, covering an area of nearly 2 acres, and new branches and roots are emitted every year around it, spreading to the surroundings.
Although the fig tree king is old, it still bears more than 20,000 fruits a year, and you can eat fresh fruits from July to October. A stall selling figs next to the tree, huge figs sold for 10 yuan each.
Reluctant to buy figs for 10 yuan a piece, I bought walnuts at the door of the fig tree king, a large quality, cheap, 15 yuan per kilogram.
Head of the Karrakech Canal
The Karakash River is the upper reaches of the Hotan River (its eastern branch is the Yulong Kashi River), which mainly originates in the Karakoram Mountains in the southern part of the Hotan region, and is a typical alpine snowmelt replenishment river.
We mainly looked at the head of the Karakash River 27 kilometers southwest of Hotan City, which is the hottest snowmelt season of the year.
一下车，浓浓的泥土味扑鼻而来，看不明白，这喀喇昆仑山的雪水河可与黄河水有一拼，不一样的颜色，有同样的浓度，泥巴汁一样的河水，应该是富有营养的河水，浇灌到农田里是不是可以不用施肥了呢？
The canal head project shoulders the tasks of irrigation, flood discharge and diversion in some counties and townships in Hotan area, and also plays an important role in transporting ecological water to the Tarim River every year.
Jade Market
接近中午到了玉石市场，一行几人都没有买玉石的意愿，但到了玉石之乡，不到玉石交市场看看似乎没有达到来和田的目的，就在露天市场走马观花随意看看。
I met a fellow villager who has been doing jade business here in Nanyang, Henan Province for almost 20 years, and chatted a little, he thought that Zhenping, Henan is the largest Hetian jade wholesale market in China, and it is the largest jade wholesale distribution center in the country with the most complete jade varieties.
In Zhenping Stone Buddhist Temple, every household is doing jade-related business, attracting jade merchants from all over the world, and more and more Xinjiang people run there with Hetian jade to do business, and slowly formed the largest Hetian jade market! It is recommended that if we want to go back to Henan to see or buy Hetian jade, we may wish to go to the jade wholesale market of Zhenping Stone Buddhist Temple.
来和田旅游可以领略世界玉都的风采，欣赏千年核桃树王的雄风，一站式品尝新疆的美食，能亲眼目睹雪山融化形成大河的壮观景象。 如果有需要和田的大枣、核桃、无花果，更是直接在产地购买，物美价廉。
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