On April 4th, Xinjiang classmate Qiu Zong was kindly invited, and our group of three people took a flight from Xiangyang to Urumqi, Xinjiang at 8:00 p.m., and met with Qiu at 12.30. On April 5th, we drove to enjoy the snowy scenery of Tianchi in the Tianshan Mountains, passed by the Kazakh Ethnic Culture Village to watch the Kazakh uncles, boys, and girls dancing happily, saw the grapes of Kanerjing and Turpan, tasted Xinjiang's roast lamb and red wine, and stayed overnight in Turpan. On April 6th, in the morning, I rushed to the Flame Mountain and met the Iron Fan Princess. Then we look at the largest freshwater lake in Xinjiang, Bosten Lake.
Bosten Lake
Bosten, uyghur for "oasis", is located in bohu county in the southeast of the Yanqi Basin, and is the largest inland freshwater swallowing lake in China, with a water area of 1646 square kilometers.
Bosten Lake grilled fish is very famous, friends highly recommend, I have also been coveted for a long time. Brother Li, a friend in Xinjiang, waited for us early at the intersection of Yanqi Expressway and made an appointment to eat grilled fish. Brother Li is a friend of the classmate Boss Qiu, once before coming to Xiangyang, a bold and enthusiastic brother who talks about feelings, this trip to Xinjiang, the whole process is paying attention to and taking care of us, adding a lot of trouble to Brother Li, thank you Brother Li!
Unfortunately, the Bosten Lake Scenic Area maintenance is not open, unfortunately did not taste the authentic Dr. Teng Lake grilled fish, only the next time to taste. At noon in a humble restaurant by Bosten Lake, we ate boiled fish that is said to be eaten by the host of CCTV, which has been reported many times by CCTV, and we don't know whether it is true or not.
< H1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > visit Brother Li's business</h1>
Brother Li's enterprise is not far from the highway intersection in Yanqi County, and it is necessary to visit and study.
A corner of The Lee Ge factory
Feel Brother Li's office. Ha ha
Rushing back to the home of his classmates in Luntai County in the evening, Zhou Zong, a local classmate, and his friends Sun Brother and Brother Li were all reunited, and the friends were extremely affectionate when they met.
Taste Xinjiang special pit meat, roast lamb, delicious ah, there is a chance that everyone must taste in Xinjiang!
Pit meat Roast lamb
Friends persuade each other, and they are full of wine and food
< h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > march into the Taklamakan Desert</h1>
On April 7, the Taklamakan Desert saw poplars and got up close and personal with the desert. Because Qiu had to deal with the business in the factory, he was accompanied by Zhou.
Breakfast, buns and tofu brain
Like us in Xiangyang, the only difference is that there is not only sweet tofu brain here, but also salted tofu brain, Xinjiang's salted tofu brain method and taste feel is our Xiangyang sour soup, sweet tofu brain is still the same.
The Taklamakan Desert, located in the center of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, is the largest desert in China and the tenth largest desert in the world, with a length of about 1,000 kilometers, a width of about 400 kilometers, and an area of 330,000 square kilometers. The average annual rainfall does not exceed 100 mm.
Luntai County is located on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, we start from Luntai County, take the desert road, walk through the 0+000 starting point of the West-to-East Gas Transmission, and enter the hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert. On the TaHe Bridge, 100 kilometers away, I saw a public notice board made by the tarim river.
Implement the river chief system to play a national chess game to protect the ecological environment.
The Tarim River, a big river in the Taklamakan Desert, could not have imagined such a large river in the desert.
Tarim river
Tarim River Bridge
At noon we ate at a gathering point next to the Tarim River Bridge, forgetting what the name was.
Enthusiastic Zhou classmates, so many lamb kebabs, I finish eating ah.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > pilaf</h1>
I originally wanted to experience the feeling of eating pilaf with my hands, but I was afraid of other people's jokes.
Xinjiang hand pilaf is like our Xiangyang fried rice, except that there is a piece of lamb or bone steamed in the rice, and the aroma of the lamb completely enters the rice, not greasy, fragrant, especially fragrant.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > huge lamb skewers, very Xinjiang</h1>
Lamb skewers, especially large pieces of lamb, are grilled with red willow branches in the desert, fat and not greasy and full of fragrance, and three or two skewers are full.
After eating, we continued deep into the Taklamakan Desert, where the poplar trees gradually increased. In early spring, the poplar trees in the desert have not yet sprouted, the thick trunk, the curve is vigorous, and some of them are still stubbornly struggling upwards despite broken limbs and broken bones, creeping to the ground.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > millennia poplar forest</h1>
Poplar forest by desert highways
There is a sense of vicissitudes, not knowing how many thousands of years have existed!
There is a kind of existence called the Millennium Does Not Fall!
Luntai County Poplar Forest Park
At 150 kilometers of the desert road, we stopped and walked down the road to get close to the desert.
< h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > the Taklamakan Desert</h1>
The sand was clean and delicate, a golden brown
The desert is really fun and don't want to go
In the endless desert, so vast, the heavens and the earth are the same, and there is no end in sight. So much sand, if in Xiangyang, do not know the value of more than a hundred million? I want to transport the sand back to Xiangyang, the old earns money, haha.
The sand of the Taklamakan Desert has returned to Xiangyang
Don't dare to get too far away from the desert road, afraid of getting lost. In the great desert, we are so small, like a grain of sand, here, feel the fear. Back in Luntai County, it was already 7 o'clock in the evening.
Classmate Qiu always said that there was still time, called us to go to the Gobi Desert to see the yellow sheep, and came to the vast Gobi Desert 20 kilometers away from the county seat, and the Distant Looming Was the Tianshan Mountain.
Mr. Qiu said that usually there are groups of yellow sheep in the air, but we didn't see it until 8 o'clock, and we wanted to continue to wait, but Brother Li urged us to go back early in the hotel. Lovely yellow sheep, only next time to see you!
Brothers drink together
Respect for the two sisters-in-law and Qiu Zong's wife Wang Zong
Young Master Qiu
Brother and sister-in-law, thank you!
Thanks to Brother Li and Brother Sun for their hospitality, the enthusiasm of friends is as high as the temperature of the Flame Mountain, can't stand it, the national cellar 1573 is coming!
(To be continued) Pay attention to me Take you to see Xinjiang in the eyes of Xiangyang people.