Departure

"The desert is lonely and straight, and the long river sets the yen." This is the majestic Ningxia standing in the vast desert.

"Orchard under Helan Mountain is completed, and the south of Saibei River is famous in the old days", which is a fertile land winding on both sides of the Yellow River in Ningxia.

For thousands of years, the Yellow River and the yellow sand have collided with each other, stirring up a magical land that combines rigidity with softness. The ancient Yellow River culture, majestic desert scenery, majestic Great Wall culture, charming Jiangnan scenery, mysterious ancient rhyme of Xixia, rich hometown customs, distant Silk Road ... 66,400 square kilometers, mountains, Gobi, deserts, lakes, grasslands and other tourism resources are concentrated. , known as "China tourism miniature bonsai".

Ningxia has been an important node of the ancient Silk Road since ancient times. Today, Ningxia is closely connected with the world by building a modern three-dimensional transportation system that goes east to the sea and develops west. Ningxia has also become the second provincial-level global tourism demonstration zone in China after Hainan.

0 1 silk road station special train

Wuzhong Yinchuan

Key words: mutton in Yanchitan, Shuidonggou, Xixia Wangling

"Only when you arrive in Ningxia can you travel all over the world." At Yinchuan Railway Station, many tourists will notice such a slogan. When you get on the train full of Silk Road style, you crash, the pictures of sand sea, lake and Gobi ruins flash by one after another outside the window, and you hear mysterious and distant legends in your ears, just like crossing is just a tour, carving out your own travel memories.

In recent years, lanzhou railway administration Yinchuan Passenger Transport Section has launched special tourist trains such as Ningxia, Hu Sha and Shapotou, so that passengers can slowly feel the charm of magical Ningxia through the window.

From Yinchuan Railway Station, you can take a bus to the site of Xixia Mausoleum.

Xixia Mausoleum is the imperial mausoleum and royal mausoleum of Xixia in past dynasties. It is one of the royal cemeteries with the most complete ground site and the largest Xixia cultural site in China.

Xixia Mausoleum was built in 1 1 from the beginning of the century to the beginning of the 3rd century. The scenic spot is about 5 kilometers long from east to west and 10 kilometers long from north to south. Within the scope of more than 50 square kilometers, with the natural ups and downs of hills and ridges, there are nine emperors' tombs and more than 200 tombs where Wang Heqi is buried. The scale is grand and the layout is neat.

After seeing the site of Xixia Mausoleum, we embarked on the South Z275 "Ningxia" train, and the next stop was Lingwu County.

Driving from Lingwu Railway Station to Shuidonggou, the clock was set back to 30,000 years ago. Shuidonggou Tourist Attraction is known as "the birthplace of prehistoric archaeology in China" and "the historical witness of cultural exchange between China and the West", and it is listed as one of the "most significant 100 archaeological discoveries for Chinese civilization" by the state, and it is the earliest paleolithic cultural site discovered in China.

Shuidonggou, the Paleolithic site of ancient human culture, was first discovered in China.

Shuidonggou is also a museum of the Ming Dynasty ancient Great Wall, beacon towers, castles, gullies, docks and other military defense buildings in northern China. In the nature reserve, the Great Wall winding eastward, the piers standing on the high platform, the quaint and mysterious castles and the deep and tortuous ravines are dizzying, which can not help but remind people of the heroic scene of "soldiers attacking the base with spears and generals drawing their swords to chase Hu Bing".

Take the "Ningxia" train, and the next stop is Yanchi County.

Yanchi County is an important gateway to the old revolutionary base areas in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, a famous production area of Tan sheep in Ningxia, and the best preserved place of the Great Wall Group. Yanchi is famous for producing "salty salt, fur and sweet licorice". Yanchi Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Park is one of the classic red tourist attractions in China 100.

You must try the beach mutton when you come to Yanchi. The local water quality in Yanchi is good and rich in minerals. At the same time, most of the local sheep feed on forage such as licorice and Artemisia. The raised beach mutton not only has no bad smell, but also has a natural meat flavor.

02 1 10 national highway

Shizuishan City, Yinchuan City

Keywords: Shahe Bird Island West Cinema Helanshan Forest Park Winery

The national highway 1 10 starts from Beijing and ends in Yinchuan, Ningxia, with a total length of 1357 km and a length of 9 1 km in Ningxia, which is an important scenic tourist route in Ningxia.

"On the Pearl", "DreamWorks", Xixia Mausoleum, Helanshan National Forest Park ... galloped in Ningxia section of 1 10 national highway, as if on a journey through the Millennium.

Starting from Shizuishan, the first stop is Hu Sha Eco-tourism Zone in Pingluo County.

The scenic spot takes the natural landscape as the main body, and organically combines the five landscapes of sand, water, reed, birds and mountains to form a unique and beautiful landscape, which has both the grandeur of the desert Gobi and the beauty of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. It is a "pearl on the plug" that combines the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan and the magnificent scenery beyond the Great Wall.

Hu Sha Bird Island is the home of 178 kinds of birds, which is not only a popular science base for birds, but also a bird rescue station and the largest breeding ground for herons in Ningxia.

Western studio.

Walking out of the quiet and beautiful time of nature, along the national road 1 10, it only takes more than an hour to reach the western theater of Zhenbeibao.

1980, Jun-Zhao Zheng, director of Guangxi Film Studio, came to Ningxia to shoot One and Eight, and screenwriter Zhang Xianliang introduced Zhenbeibao to the film crew. Since then, Zhenbeibao Castle has changed from ruins to "Western Hollywood".

Walk out of Zhenbeibao Studios, drive northwest along Su Zhen Road 15 minutes, and you will arrive at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain.

Helanshan National Forest Park is located in Helanshan National Nature Reserve, covering an area of 9,300 hectares, with a vegetation coverage rate of 70% and more than 800 kinds of wildlife resources.

There is also the cliff plank road with the largest and longest drop in China, with a total length of 5.3km and a vertical height difference of1.040m.. The plank road rotates with the mountain from Songtao Mountain Resort, such as Panshan Youlong, and extends to the highest peak of the scenic spot, Helan Jinding.

There are many vineyards under Helan Mountain, and the wine is overflowing.

Airbus 03

Guyuan City, zhongwei

Keywords: Guyuan Museum Pengyang Terrace Shapotou Scenic Area

It sounds "far", but it's actually "near". As early as 20 14, Ningxia civil aviation has achieved "provincial capital connectivity", forming a civil airport pattern with Yinchuan Hedong International Airport as the core and Guyuan Liupanshan Airport and Zhongwei Shapotou Airport as the "two wings". Visitors can take the Airbus to visit the treasures, terraces and wonders of the desert in northwest China.

If you have just walked out of Liupanshan Airport in Guyuan and are not familiar with this magical land, you may wish to go to Guyuan Museum first. This is the first comprehensive museum in Ningxia that is listed as a national first-class museum. The museum is divided into two parts: the basic exhibition of Guyuan historical relics and the special exhibition of Guyuan Silk Road. More than 0/000 exhibits/kloc-are displayed in the museum, which reproduces the historical and cultural origins of early ancestors in Guyuan.

From the naming of Shapotou Airport in Zhongwei, it is not difficult to see Shapotou's position in the hearts of local people.

Shapotou is famous for its achievements in sand control. Baotou-lanzhou railway crossed the desert in Zhongwei six times, of which Shapotou had the steepest slope and the most violent sandstorm. In order to ensure the smooth flow of the railway and avoid the tracks being buried by sand, since the 1950s, wind-proof and sand-fixing projects have been built on both sides of the railway. The grass squares on both sides of the railway are covered with sand plants, just like the golden sand sea turning up green waves, and the railway has been running safely for decades.

Shapotou

Shapotou Tourist Attraction is located at the junction of Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and Gansu provinces, and it is the only way for the Eurasian Grand Passage and the ancient Silk Road.

It is adjacent to Xiangshan Mountain in Qilian Mountain in the south and Tengger Desert in Wan Li in the north. Rushing down, rushing thousands of miles of the Yellow River, passing through the middle. The incompatible contradiction between sand and river is skillfully combined by nature at Shapotou.

The sand embankment is towering, and the river flows. Sand is the bone of the river, and the river is the soul of sand. They are interdependent and live in harmony, just like lyric poetry, picturesque.

Author | Mei Ningsheng Li Hui

Edit | Chen Xuefei