Depart from Xinqihami and march towards Ejina Banner City. First get on the Lianhuo Expressway, transfer to the Beijing New Expressway, all the way to the east, pass through the three border checkpoints in Xinyi, Gansu and Inner Mongolia, drive hundreds of kilometers long-distance, and finally find a service station that can be entered, Saihan Tao to the service area, stop and rest, go inside to see, decorated with national characteristics, but so disappointed, except for the toilet open, there is not even boiling water, let alone lunch. Only eat some fruit for lunch. Finish. I can only admire the drivers of large and small cars driving on this road.
Finally, after an 8-hour drive, we arrived at Ejina Banner, a city in the northwest of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region famous for its poplar forests. There are national poplar forest reserves, Juyanhai, Heishui Ancient City, poplar forest scenic spots and other tourist areas.
Located at the confluence of the Altai Mountains and the Mongolian Plateau, Ejina is a transliteration of the Western Xia Dang dialect "Yijinai", meaning black water. In the eighteenth year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1753), the Ejina Old Turkute Special Banner was set up, and after several turns, it is now under the jurisdiction of the Alxa League of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Looking at the temperature, it is also high, this is the north of the motherland, and the high temperature this summer is not divided between north and south.
From Hami to Ejinazi, all the way to the Gobi Desert, just look at this car window.
Staying in Ejinaqi City Hotel, the environment is good, the conditions are good, the parking in the courtyard is convenient, and there are large yurts.
I went to the city to find a local lamb restaurant, and I ate hand-fingered lamb beautifully.
When I woke up in the morning, it was 8 o'clock, I hurriedly washed up, went to the breakfast department of the hotel and then drove to the largest poplar forest scenic spot in Ejinaqi, a national poplar forest nature reserve, a 5A scenic spot.
The scenic visitor center is fully equipped, because in the off-season, tourists are rare, the staff is also small, the wife is free of charge, here under the age of 65 get a full ticket, I buy a full ticket, no sightseeing bus, the service staff told us that due to drought, there is no water in the lake, can not see the reflection of poplar trees, and only a few tourist areas are open, and you have to drive to it.
The weather is very hot, it is going to rain, let's fall, just leave some water for this dry land, it doesn't matter, I secretly pray for rain from my heart. We decided to visit the main core area first.
Understand the knowledge of poplar forest, the harvest is not small,
Get in close contact with the poplar forest and feel the wind and rain of thousands of years.
Poplar forests on the dunes grow tenaciously.
The Mongolian Lele car let me sit on it and rest for a while.
Driving to Erdaoqiao, the first thing that catches your eye is the red willow, which is a sand-fixing plant, a right wood, because the root has precious Chinese medicine meat from the rong and is seriously stolen, is now a national second-class wild protected plant.
Entering the poplar forest scenic area and meeting the sheep that were stocked here, it was a real surprise, and I cried "Meh..." and the sheep answered neatly, which was very fun.
There are two yurts in the scenic area, but without staff, drinking milk tea is impossible, so let's take a look with the strange poplar trees.
Continue to drive forward, is the Hero Forest, where the poplar trees are all burned by thousands of years of wind, frost, rain and snow, thunder and electricity. But he stood tall between heaven and earth. I can't help but want to recite aloud the phrase from Shi Xingguang's "Poplar Salute": Poplar tree is a heroic tree. It has "born for a thousand years and does not die, after death for a thousand years does not fall, and falls down for a thousand years." ”
The last stop is a desert tour in the hinterland of the northern edge of the Badain Jaran Desert and a group of sand sculptures to pay homage to the heroes of the East. The heroes of the return to the East refer to the heroes who emerged from the 17th century during the journey of the Turks to the motherland from Tsarist Russia, and are recorded in the "Legend of the Heroes of the Return to the East". The Turkuts, who have lived in Tsarist Russia for more than 140 years, have paid blood, tears and hardships in order to return to the motherland, and the soldiers fought heroically and can sing and cry.
The Badain Jaran Desert is nowhere to be seen. Standing on the dunes, there are still sand dunes in the distance.
Precisely:
Hu Yang soul standing for a thousand years,
The Gobi dunes are flattened.
God bless the earth,
The hometown of the soldiers returning to the east.