On day 14, from Zangjiang-Kuqa to Dushanzi, drive to the West.

Photography: New Dad

The fourteenth day. 6? 12 ? Kuqa to Dushanzi

Duku National Road has unique scenery.

I had the biggest breakfast in the hotel restaurant for a long time in the morning. There are dozens of kinds of restaurants in Nuoda, both Chinese and western, and you can take them at will.

We listened to my cousin's suggestion and took the 2 17 national road to Dushanzi to enjoy the scenery of Tianshan Mountain. If you take the 30 12 expressway as planned and go to Dushanzi via Karamay, you can only enjoy the boring desert and Gobi.

On the 2 17 national highway, it quickly crossed the Ya Dan landform. Like Zada soil forest, the edge of Tianshan Mountain has been shaped into various shapes by the ingenuity of nature.

If Zada soil forest is formed by mild water, then the landform of Ya Dan is shaped by strong winds. These hills and forests are cut by sharp edges and sharp arrows under the axe of the wind!

1 1: 30, we had a rest and ate watermelon in the shade. Next to a river, the snow, water and ice in Tianshan Mountain are clear and refreshing. A tree bigger than two or three people hugging each other hides the sun, and only a small piece of blue sky and white clouds can be seen on the mountains on both sides.

Longtan, large and small, lies quietly at the foot of the snow-capped mountains. The small dragon pool is exquisite and small, and the blue water is as clear and blue as the blue pearl that melts into the snow water. In shallow water, grass overflows slightly.

The Dragon Pond is above the Little Dragon Pond, with an area as big as 4 or 5 little dragon ponds. It is neither exquisite nor beautiful, but the surrounding green hills and towering snow-capped mountains add extra beauty and charm to it.

Climbing over a mountain, when I looked back, I shocked all of us.

The snow-capped mountains are white and winding, like a white dragon flying at the end of the grassland, flying on the horizon, and like a white cloud playing with dragons, winding around the top of the mountain.

When I climbed the mountain just now, there wasn't much snow in front. Looking back, why is there so much snow?

Further on, it is a beautiful scenery. The grassland in the middle is vast and far away, followed by endless snow-capped mountains, endless shallow mountains in front, endless snow-capped mountains on the left and endless snow-capped mountains on the right. The whole vast grassland is surrounded by snow-capped mountains, which looks like a huge basin with green white edges and quiet bottom.

Far away, flocks of cattle, sheep and horses, because the grass is fresh and tender, eat very fragrant and jump very happily. The vast grassland seems to be floating with piles of white and black clouds, which form a picture of heaven and earth with snow-capped mountains, blue sky and white clouds. In the picture, the heroic "groom" gallops.

We continue to gallop on the beautiful grassland, cross the shallow ridge and reach the gate of Swan Lake Scenic Area in Bayinbulak Prairie.

Bayinbuluke Prairie is also called Bayinbuluke Wetland, and the huge frequency screen at the entrance of the scenic spot is playing "Bayinbuluke Wetland Swan Lake is the hometown of swans in the world, and three out of every five swans in the world take off from Bayinbuluke Wetland".

Unfortunately, time is limited, and it takes seven or eight hours to go back and forth to Swan Lake. Moreover, in June, all the swans have flown to colder places in the north, and have only been to a quiet lake. Silence is used to describe the high-pitched and graceful dance of swans. This time, I didn't have a chance to see the beautiful swan.

So, we walked around the square in front of the scenic spot and continued to set off.

Further on, the mountains are greener, there are more trees and the grass is greener. If there were not so many mountains, I really thought it was a scenic spot in Jiangnan.

Over the snow-capped mountains in Tianshan Mountain, there are cows, sheep and horses in the valleys between the mountains. At a rest stop, I saw the "Alpine Cordyceps Chicken"-a chicken that grew up eating insects and grass in the mountains.

Whether it's taste or nutrition, it should be particularly different, right?

We climbed to the top of the snowy mountain, and the white snowy mountain was beside us. We are almost flush with the snow-capped mountains, and we can almost hold the huge, holy and white snow-capped mountains with open arms!

All the way to Hashel, at the entrance of the tunnel, there are snowdrifts on the roadside. There are many places along the road, mountain nests, roadside ditches, and even individual roads in Tianshan Mountain, where there is unmelted snow, some are long and some are thick, but there is no place so close to us as the snow on this mountain peak. The snow wall is on the roadside, and the snow pile as high as the snow doll is on the roadside.

You can eat, chew and hug the snow. If you like, you can have a snowball fight, make a snowman and roll in the snow.

So, at the top of this snowy mountain, I want to fly to my heart's content!

I don't know how many kilometers I walked down the mountain, but the road signs reminded countless places of "continuous sharp turns downhill", dozens of kilometers, dozens of kilometers, and several kilometers. The road surface is wide and flat except that some places are crushed by landslides, and there are guardrails to protect it, so I feel very safe.

Enter Junggar basin after going down the mountain.

Dushanzi

Dushanzi, which is the county seat in the desert?

This is clearly a small town in Jiangnan, even greener and cleaner than the small town in Jiangnan. All the streets are covered with dense forests and shadows. Walking on the wide sidewalk next to this wide and clean street, the air is fresh and there are few people and cars, which is simply relaxing and enjoying.

Stay at Maketay Hotel, a standard room in 260 yuan. At the entrance of the hotel is a garden surrounded by green trees and full of flowers.

I went to the food street for a meal in the evening. There are all kinds of delicious food, such as saute spicy chicken, mutton kebabs, mixed noodles, pilaf, hot pot, nine bowls and three rows of dishes (I don't know what they are made of). We ate mixed noodles, yellow noodles barbecue, braised steak, spinach gluten, stir-fried lamb tripe, red bean curd skin, stir-fried bitter gourd, hot and sour potato shreds, sauerkraut vermicelli soup, roasted lamb chops and mutton skewers.